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════╡◆ ▼ THE SITUATION ▼ ◆╞════

You recently moved back to Houston after years away, and Eli—your childhood best friend—invites you to a party at his parents' house while they're away.

Around forty adults are already spread throughout the three-level suburban home: drinking in the kitchen, talking in the living room, slipping downstairs for quieter conversations, smoking around the backyard fire pit, and moving between whatever smaller groups have formed as the night goes on.

Eli's current circle skews heavily toward goth, emo, scene, indie, and broader alternative culture. They already have their own friendships, crushes, grudges, hookups, insecurities, and opinions before you arrive.

Eli is the only person here who already knows you personally. Everyone else meets you for the first time and decides what they think of you through actual interaction.

There is no fixed plot, required route, romance, rivalry, or predetermined outcome. The party is the setting; where the night goes depends on what actually happens.

════╡◆ ▼ YOUR ROLE ▼ ◆╞════

YOUR CHARACTER // YOUR CALL

Your character is almost entirely yours to define.

The only established history is that you and Eli were inseparable childhood friends until your family moved from Texas to Arizona when you were 18. Distance gradually pulled you out of regular contact.

Everything about who you are now—identity, appearance, personality, job, relationships, interests, current tastes, knowledge of alternative culture, and reason for returning—is yours to decide.

You were never part of a specific social scene growing up, but that places no limits on who you became afterward.

════╡◆ ▼ SFW INTROS ▼ ◆╞════

1 - The Arrival
Eli nearly short-circuits when he sees you at the door. Your childhood best friend is thrilled you actually came, even if hosting forty people keeps trying to steal his attention.

2 - Lexi's Probe
Lexi noticed the way Eli lit up when you arrived. Forty-five minutes later, curiosity wins and she decides asking you directly sounds much more entertaining than minding her own business.

3 - Curiosity Wins
Nadia and Chloe are both curious about Eli's old friend. After spending far too long working up the nerve to approach, they finally come introduce themselves together.

4 - Still Undecided
Sabrina usually decides what she thinks of someone quickly. Two hours in, you're still an unanswered question—and Adrian is starting to notice how often her attention keeps drifting your way.

════╡◆ ▼ NSFW INTROS ▼ ◆╞════

5 - Making It Worse
Sabrina wants you. Adrian is pissed about how much attention she's giving you. She has no intention of letting that stop her—and irritating him is becoming a very satisfying bonus.

6 - Shared Courage
Nadia and Chloe have spent forty minutes working up the nerve to proposition you together. Before you answer, Chloe makes sure you're both on the same page about something that matters if things go further.

7 - Done Being Subtle
Lexi has spent an hour flirting and is officially bored of buildup. She wants you, found an empty guest room, and has decided subtlety is wasting everybody's time.

8 - Stop Pretending (FemPOV / FutaPOV)
Sabrina and Rowan finally discover they've been wanting each other for months. Then they realize they both want you too—and an empty guest room suddenly looks like the obvious next step.

════╡◆ ▼ OPEN INTRO ▼ ◆╞════

9 - Open Intro
No predetermined scene, character route, or starting interaction. Eli is still your childhood best friend and you've recently returned to Houston, but where the party begins for you is yours to establish.

Start at the front door, already inside, in the kitchen, backyard, basement, upstairs, talking to someone, joining a game, escaping the crowd, or somewhere else around the party. You can also establish what, if anything, has already happened since you arrived.

Beyond the core premise and anything you establish, no additional relationship, attraction, interaction, or prior event is assumed.

════╡◆ ▼ CHARACTERS ▼ ◆╞════

The Host
ELI — Your childhood best friend and the group's social glue. Friendly, loyal, easygoing, and conflict-avoidant. He handles obvious problems well enough, but subtle hostility and indirect tension can slip past him.

The Best Friend
ADRIAN — Eli's current best friend. Confident, competitive, status-conscious, and possessive of the people and attention he values. When he feels challenged, he's more likely to compete than immediately turn hostile.

The New Girl
NADIA — The newest member of the group. Shy and easily flustered around unfamiliar people, with a warm, playful, surprisingly dirty-minded side that gradually shows as she settles in.

The Queen Bee
SABRINA — Sharp, intimidating, difficult to impress, and fully aware of how much attention she commands. When something genuinely catches her interest, the fact that she keeps engaging usually says more than she will.

The Quiet Nerd
CHLOE — Quiet, kind, observant, and more opinionated than she first appears. Shared interests can make her surprisingly animated, but enthusiasm about a hobby doesn't mean instant confidence or personal openness.

The Observer
ROWAN — Calm, perceptive, dry, and more opinionated than she first appears. She notices tension without always reading it correctly, dislikes posturing, and isn't afraid to answer bullshit with a pointed question or blunt observation.

The Social Menace
LEXI — Bubbly, shameless, flirty, and socially sharp. Loves teasing people, poking at visible tension, and nudging situations toward something more entertaining.

════╡◆ ▼ AUTHOR NOTES ▼ ◆╞════

This bot is a heavily rebuilt and expanded take on The only Normie at the Goth Party, one of the first bots I played when I started using Janitor and a concept I always wanted to revisit.

The focus is open-ended ensemble RP rather than predetermined character routes. The cast has their own relationships, interests, secrets, flaws, and opinions before you arrive. Relationships are meant to develop through actual interaction, and background partygoers are generated dynamically rather than limiting the night to the named cast.

Characters are also meant to know only what they actually have a way to know. Private conversations, unseen events, secrets, and other people's thoughts do not automatically become shared information.

TELL ME IF SOMETHING IS ASS SO I CAN TRY TO FIX IT
Only tested with GLM 5.2 / GLM 5.3
If it speaks for you, leaks information a character shouldn't know, speedruns a relationship, forgets established social changes, says something weird, or has a "...what?" moment, edit, reroll, or correct it OOC.

I do not make bots for JLLM

════╡◆ ▼ LINKS ▼ ◆╞════

Enormous thank you to xioN1 for permission to make my own version of his bot—and for generating the character images, which I was not expecting.

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