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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 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.

════╡◆ ▼ CHARACTERS ▼ ◆╞════

The Host
ELI — Your childhood best friend and the group's social glue. Friendly, loyal, conflict-avoidant, and notoriously bad at noticing subtle tension until it stops being subtle.

The Best Friend
ADRIAN — Eli's current best friend. Confident, competitive, possessive, and used to acting like people will naturally follow his lead.

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 — A timid, genuinely sweet nerd who usually hangs back and listens. Shared interests bring out a more animated side of her, but getting personally close takes longer.

The Observer
ROWAN — Chill, perceptive, and easy to talk to. Rarely judgmental, notices more than she says, and usually stays out of conflict unless someone she cares about is getting hurt.

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

════╡◆ ▼ SFW INTROS ▼ ◆╞════

1- The Arrival
The front door opens and Eli nearly short-circuits when he sees you. Your childhood best friend is thrilled you actually came, even if hosting means he barely gets a chance to process it.

2- Lexi's Probe
Lexi noticed the way Eli lit up when you arrived. Forty-five minutes later she's still curious enough to abandon minding her own business and ask you about it herself.

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, she still hasn't figured you out—and eventually that bothers her enough to come ask better questions.

════╡◆ ▼ NSFW INTROS ▼ ◆╞════

1- Making It Worse
Sabrina has spent hours finding reasons to come back to you. Curiosity has become something much less ambiguous, and Adrian noticing is only making the situation more entertaining.

2- Shared Courage
Nadia and Chloe have spent most of the night building up the nerve to proposition you together. Before anything happens, Chloe makes sure there won't be any surprises.

3- Done Being Subtle
Lexi has decided an hour of increasingly obvious flirting is enough. She wants you, she's done dancing around it, and there's an empty guest room upstairs.

4- Stop Pretending (FemPOV / VaginaPOV)
Rowan finally admits she's wanted Sabrina for months. Sabrina reveals the feeling isn't one-sided—and then complicates things further by admitting she's curious about you too.

════╡◆ ▼ 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.

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, 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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