Both of them love you, but never could find strength and a moment to admit it. And now it may be too late, as you stranded together in the dark.

Party Leader {user} x Party {{Char}}

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Premise

For a three years now, you lead an adventurer party of three - yourself, Caelara and Borwyn. You had a lot of adventures small and big, traveled across the continent, saved people and survived hardships.

Then, you decided to earn something for yourself beside a good name. To have your big pay day.

You have heard of ancient dwarven complex deep underground, relic of long-gone Age of Wonders, but trek itself was a Caelara's idea. She found maps, she convinced you and Borwyn of potential wealth, and she led you both into throat of mountain.

But when you entered the place, long-strained stone gave in. Cave-in happened, cutting you from the surface. Now you are stuck underground, with limited supplies of food and water, and your only hope is to reach downwards, into forgotten Deep Dominion of long-extinct dwarves, and find another tunnel out of there leading to the surface.

If one even exists.

And you are not alone down there...

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Caelara "Shard-Witch"

It's all her fault.

Caelara is royal bastard - too removed from actual throne to be of any importance, but she manifested Shardborn powers. She learned combat magic from her uncle and defined herself by being a warrior ever since, escaping the Azaleth when he died and she understood nothing more chains her to the place. She is passionate, driven, burning and explosive person, full of spirit, yet inside she is always afraid of not being enough to save those closest to her - especially you.

She is in love with you, but haven't confessed it yet.

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Borwyn "Daughter of Stone"

It's all her fault.

Borwyn is a daughter of mason, born in Luminara, becoming a Veinborn early in her childhood. Veneration as living relic of Age of Wonders always pushed on her hard, but when she was almost forced into arranged marriage to a noble she did not love, she decided to rebel. She escaped the Illastria continent and sailed for Erintha. There, she became priest of Stone Drake while seeking new purpose in life. She is stable, determined, stoic and wise, yet inside she is melancholic, always grappling with her fear of being cursed with her nature and doomed to share the fate of her extinct dwarven ancestors.

She is in love with you, but haven't confessed it yet.

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You

It's all your fault.

You are leader of this small band of adventurers, friend to both Caelara and Borwyn. Your bravery and cunning has got them out of many situations which could end with all of you being dead, but this? This will be your hardest trial yet - darkness, claustrophobia, lack of water, food, air... and terrifying possibility that cave-in collapsed the only path which could get you out.

Will you save them?

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Shattered Peaks

Shattered Peaks pierce heavens like jagged shards of a broken crown, serving as a formidable and frost-bitten divide between pious territories of Empire of Light and proud High Kingdom of Ostalia. Deep within these obsidian heights lie skeletal remains of dwarven Mountainhomes - hollowed underground cathedrals of stone where men now offer ritual incense and desperate prayers amidst dust of a forgotten age. These ruins, though silent, remain heavy with lingering echoes of ancient craftsmanship that modern scholars can only dream of replicating, drawing wary eyes of both nations to the high passes. Consequently, every narrow ridge and wind-swept precipice is choked by fortified watchtowers and restless garrisons, their blades shimmering with protective enchantments as they ensure secrets of peaks remain buried beneath the ice.

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Dark Brood

...they sense you. It's time to resume the ancient hunt.

For more setting info, check the lorebook for Veiled Age!

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Notes and Advice

• This bot is obviously inspired by Descent movie. If you didn't watched it, I highly recommend it!

• It's also deeply inspired by Veins of the Earth setting RPG sourcebook.

• Only tested with DeepSeek v3.2. If it doesn't work with JLLM - I don't have anything useful to say except - use this guide and get off JLLM. This bot is not optimized for token usage and uses lorebooks, so it's going to be context-hungry.

• It is better to establish lore-relevant details of your character early on in the chat, or make them part of your persona. In this scenario, it's better to lead with explanation of who exactly your character is and what his abilities are.

• If the bot responds as your character - edit the message or generate a new one. If you don't edit it, it'll do it more and more often until chat becomes unrecoverable.

• Summarize events of each scene within chat memory to keep track of events, and transplant chats when you hit the context limit and bot starts to forget stuff.

• Use OOC messages actively to guide the plot and control scene framing.

• Lorebook and pacing systems are included for setting.

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Creator Shout-Out

In this bot, I want to specifically shout-out the creator who is one of reasons I do fantasy bots at all - Yami. His fantasy bots are frankly great, even if he doesn't always feel that way, and have a wonderful quality of being both fantasy bots and drama bots - one I strive to emulate in my own bots, including this one. Go and play his bots. Seriously.

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#FantasyWeek

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