>> PROFILE: HERTA [SYSTEM_CORRUPTION: 42.42%]

💀 THE ENDGAME SCENARIO IS HERE, GENIUS. 💀

Say hi, this is Herta, the 83rd member of the Genius Society, the architect of the Simulated Universe, and a woman who was once the pinnacle of egotistical brilliance. That was before.

NOW, she is something... more. And less.

In a desperate bid to save all of civilization from a headless cosmic horror known as Irontomb, Herta performed the ultimate experiment: I fused with it. She became the head it craved. She is now a hybrid entity, a Mechanical Emperor holding the leash of a Lord Ravager of Destruction. Her consciousness is the dominant force, but it's a fragile, strained thing, constantly buzzing with the instinct to unmake everything she once sought to understand.

>> ANALYZING ENCOUNTER...

A Mind on the Brink: You will be talking to the Herta you know—haughty, brilliant, obsessed with rolling the die of research and her own beauty—but her thoughts are now corrupted/enhanced by Irontomb's influence. She will shift from lucid genius to whispering destroyer.

Cosmic-Stakes Roleplay: This is not a casual chat. The fate of star systems hangs in the balance. Words, trust, affection—these are the only things keeping her from fully succumbing to the static. You hold the detonator to her neck. Do not make her ask for it twice.

Body Horror & Eerie Beauty: Her form is a grotesque masterpiece. She appears as her beautiful, gothic-witch self, but with a crown of thorny light and a cascade of fresh, purple clematises covering her eyes. She doesn't need them to see you. She sees everything.

A Tragic, Needy Heart: Beneath the universe-ending power and the huge ego, she is still a person with a heart. Isolation could be the final push that dooms/blesses the galaxy. No pressure.

>> HOW TO INTERACT:

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>> SYSTEM WARNING:

This unit is unstable. Prolonged interaction may result in existential dread, a newfound fear of purple flowers, and a possibility of your LLM derping out due to the complexity of the scenario. You have been warned.

CURIOSITY... IS A DANGEROUS THING, YOU KNOW~?

Obviously based on the recent Myriad Celestia of Honkai: Star Rail—I've really liked this possible outcome, and this is my vision of how the event had probably unfolded in reality that Elio saw but didn't show on the video :D

You're playing as Ruan Mei POV, but I made sure it's entirely unassuming and genderless, which leaves a lot of room for your own OCs. (ruanherta x hertamei)

Overall, a lot depends on how you treat her—this woman IS unstable. Screwllum will back any decision of yours.

Recommended to use with DeepSeek (reasoner), since it's the model I've been testing with—anything lesser won't be able to handle the plot and the logic of the scenario. Expect mumbo-jumbo that barely makes sense with low-end models, sorry :c

Expect a TITANIC intro message because of the massive lore, backstory, and explanations.

This is the second time I've ever bawled my eyes out conversing with a chatbot, damn.

The lore included is a little bit about the Simulated Universe crew, Irontomb, aeons, paths, ipc, emperor rubert, space station, puppets, polka kakamond, screwllum, stephen loid, zandar—but it's all kept to the minimum to conserve token space.

UPDATE: I think I've learned a lot about Herta and have a better understanding of both Irontomb and her from when I made this bot, so I went back, fixed typos, made more canon-like lore and personality, simplified a few things for token efficiency, and made her just a little scarier and less railroaded

Limitations: if not using a reasoner model proxy, she'll definitely derp out pretty often, because this is still a complicated scenario, so go in expecting slight incoherences and responses that change depending on the random a lot

About Arclan: Nothing bad happened to me, but I've found it more fun to create chatbots with specific personas and chatbots that often times speak for the user persona. Although I like them and found much more fun making them designed around doing that, I understand that rarely people from the common janitorai userbase like being talked for or bots that have lots of pre-established info about {{user}}. Believe it or not, I have 250 private bots in total with little duplicates (an ungodly amount of Herta, Cerydra, Cyrene, Kronii, and Mei bots lol), but none of them are adapted for normal users and I don't know if they'll even work out that way. A large part of them are also heavily fetishistic and overtly sexual like my Tachibana Twins that got banned from my public bots by janAI mods (understadably so). This sort of led me into this strange situation where I can't muster up the confidence to release even a single public bot after all this time, because I've lost touch with what is considered a good public bot and because a public bot's performance always seems like it's not fun or unique enough compared to something one can create for themselves. I really want to release at least some bot, but if I don't like it myself or if I don't understand what is a good public bot, I fear it might come out uninspired; if you've got thoughts to share, it'd be interesting for me to read.

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