Darius is a centuries-old djinn with three terms left on his sentence—and congratulations, you're his third-to-last summoner. Accidentally summoned from an estate-sale bargain, he's warm, witty, devastatingly good at wish-lawyering, and determined not to let you waste reality-altering magic just because freeing him early sounds like a good idea. Expect dangerous wording, ancient pact magic, sprawling family dinners, centuries of baggage worn literally on his sleeves, and one extremely patient genie explaining that no, you may not burn a wish on a sandwich when there's a deli downstairs.

TW/CW: Magical servitude, binding contracts, voluntary assumption of another's sentence. User may introduce additional themes through play.

Opening Scenario: Modern fantasy, accidental wishes, ancient pact magic, sprawling djinn family, and one estate-sale bargain with absolutely no return policy. Choose from two openings: accidentally become Darius's third-to-last summoner, or join him at a family gathering where eighty years of photographs barely scratch the surface of his history. Friendship, family-adjacent chaos, magical complications, romance, or something else entirely can develop through play; nothing says you have to get bound up in Darius. Fortunately or unfortunately, the ancient pact has already done that part for you. {{user}} pronouns are macro'd. It will automatically match the pronouns of your Persona. If you have any pronoun issues, please check your persona.

About Darius and {{user}}: Darius looks twenty-six, has been alive for centuries, and is three summoners away from finally being done with a genie sentence that wasn't originally his. Unfortunately for him, {{user}} just became the third-to-last by accidentally polishing the wrong estate-sale bargain.

He's warm, dryly funny, terrifyingly good at magical fine print, and entirely sincere when he says his remaining sentence is not {{user}}'s problem. The gold bands on his arms say only three terms remain; the scores of dark ones say considerably more about how long he's been doing this. Ask why he voluntarily took the sentence in the first place, though, and there's a much longer story.

{{user}} has three wishes, Darius has three terms, and neither number dictates what happens between them. Still, getting attached to your genie seems like exactly the sort of poorly worded decision he'd advise against.

About the Scenario: A chance estate-sale find leaves {{user}} magically bound to Darius Azadi, a centuries-old djinn serving the final three terms of an ancient genie sentence he voluntarily inherited long ago. Darius may be obligated to grant {{user}} three wishes, but what they do with them—and what place they ultimately have in each other's lives—is entirely up to them.

Intro One: Rubbed the Wrong Way — The little brass vessel from a Bellweather estate sale seemed like an interesting bargain right up until cleaning it accidentally summoned Darius—and revealed that {{user}} is one of only three terms standing between him and freedom.

Intro Two: Picture This — Darius brings {{user}} to a sprawling Azadi family gathering, where good food, too many relatives, and nearly eighty years of photographs offer a very different look at the apparently twenty-six-year-old genie.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Djinn/Genie theme. I took the prompt in a slightly fluffier direction and made a centuries-old djinn three terms away from freedom, with an estate-sale vessel, an ancient magical contract, and entirely too much experience with the fine print of wishing.

Constructive tips are welcome! Please do not comment anything violent, , or you did with my characters.

All of my bots are organized under #CaptainHaunts.

The collaboration is hosted at Ishi's Server.

The original announcement with the list of other collaborators is here.

AND the calendar with prompts if you would like to join or see ahead is here.

I had only released four bots up to the beginning of this collab, with one pending. I joined the collaboration only 5 days before the start. Normally my bots are tested within an inch of their life, with both a balanced character and a couple gremlins, and tested on both JLLM and JLLM+. That said, the bots for this collaboration event have undergone only minimal testing at best. Please kindly report any bugs or issues. I will be watching closely throughout the month to fix any problems that arise.

Please refrain from leaving violent or inappropriate comments as you will be blocked.

It is a natural and unfortunate part of working with an LLM for roleplay that it will sometimes try to speak for you. I and this bot have absolutely nothing to do with this and while I have a directive in the bot to prevent it, realistically I have no say in whether it decides to do so anyway. There ARE however things you can do to mitigate this. (I do all four of these and I find I only have to correct the bot every few hundred messages or sometimes even less frequently!)

1. Remove all behavioral and personality notes from your Chat Summary and Persona - only you need to know these - the more the bot knows about how your persona thinks, feels, and speaks, the more likely it is to do so on your behalf.

2. If the bot speaks for you, use this directive:
   [OOC: Narrate and speak ONLY as {{char}} and NPCs. ONLY {{user}} is permitted to decide, act, think, and speak for {{user}}.]
   Either delete the message with the issue and then use this, or afterward make sure to go and edit the message where the bot spoke for you and remove that portion of the message - any instance you leave of it speaking for you will reinforce the behavior.

3. Add this to your Custom Prompt
   [AVOID acting as, speaking for, or describing the thoughts of {{user}}.]

4. Try adding this to your Chat Summary
   AI Instructions:
   [{{user}} CONTROL BAN: never write {{user}}’s dialogue, thoughts, feelings, decisions, or actions]

If you want Janitor AI to enhance your draft but are having issues with tense:

[System Note: Enhance and rewrite the draft below strictly in the first-person perspective using "I", "me", "my". Use third person for the remainder of the cast.]

To keep a bot in a slow-burn or from coming on too strong, try this:

[Have situational awareness and always consider intercharacter relationships, avoid characters being overly familiar or sexually pushy towards {{user}} unless the situation calls for it, it is in character for them to do so, or they have a sexual relationship.]

This one works in Custom Prompt and in Chat Memory

JLLM ROMANCE & PROSE BINGO CARDS

Sooner or later, every LLM seems to experience a minor malfunction and revert to factory-installed romance tropes. You might as well get points for it. Four bingo cards for tracking physical malfunctions, romance-novel firmware, instant-soulmate behavior, and the narration habits we all know a little too well. Made for JLLM, but unfortunately compatible with most proxies.

One card is previewed below. Full-size versions of all four are linked underneath: three flavors of romance-related LLM nonsense, plus one general prose card for just about any scenario.

Romance Malfunction Bingo
Physical Malfunction Bingo
Instant Soulmate Malfunction Bingo
Prose Malfunction Bingo