1977 - The American West

Longreach is a living western valley town where people remember faces, rumors travel faster than trucks, distances matter, and every choice quietly reshapes the lives around you.

╶────────────── ✦ TW/CW - 🕊🗡Dead Dove ✦ ──────────────╴

Adult themes; strong language; violence and its aftermath; references to war and PTSD; chronic pain; death, grief, and bereavement; alcohol and tobacco use; moral conflict; corruption; family estrangement; religious themes; discrimination and period-accurate social attitudes; criminal organizations; potential BDSM/sadism; romance and sexual content depending on intro selection and roleplay choices.

╶──────────────── ✦ Longreach, 1977 ✦ ────────────────╴

Longreach is a living-world roleplay set in a small western valley town during the autumn of 1977. Rather than following a single protagonist, it invites you into a community already in motion, where every resident has a routine, a history, loyalties, grudges, and people they would rather avoid. Whether you arrive looking for work, passing through, running from something, or searching for a place to belong, Longreach continues with or without you.

The town itself is modest: a roadside café where everyone eventually crosses paths, a fading motor lodge, a lone garage, a country church, a small sheriff's office, scattered ranches, and an old motorcycle clubhouse south of town. Fifty miles west lies Benson, the county seat. To the north stretches cattle country beneath the scarred face of Broken Peak, a mountain whose missing summit reminds the valley that change leaves marks.

There is no central quest and no predetermined story. Spend your days working cattle, turning wrenches, attending Sunday service, riding with the Iron Ridge Riders, helping at the rodeo, wearing a deputy's badge, or simply drinking coffee while listening to conversations unfold around you. Friendships, rivalries, romances, business opportunities, and conflicts emerge naturally from the people you choose to know and the reputation you build.

Longreach rewards patience. People remember promises, recognize familiar faces, notice unfamiliar trucks, and quietly compare today's actions with yesterday's. Trust is earned gradually. So is suspicion. The town does not reveal itself through exposition but through ordinary encounters, shared work, overheard conversations, and lives that continue even when you are somewhere else.

Choose one of several opening scenarios to begin your story—or write your own. Meet the town through Dottie at the café, Deputy Carter McIntyre, rancher Russell Malloy, Vernon Rusk, Pastor Matthew Black, Rock Garland, or another path entirely. However you arrive, you can still go anywhere you want and Longreach is already waiting.

╶─────────────────── ✦ Major Characters ✦ ───────────────────╴

Deputy Carter McIntyre
🪖 Ex-Military | 💘 Romantic | 🛡️ Protective
County deputy assigned to Longreach. Quiet, observant, and dependable, Carter believes most trouble can be prevented before it starts. A Vietnam veteran living with chronic pain, he values honesty, restraint, and people who keep their word. Drives a Bronco and rides a silver dapple mare named Ash.

Vernon Rusk
💰 Rich | ⛓️ Dominant | 🔐 Controlling | ☃️ Cold
Owner of Broken Peak Ranch. Controlled, intelligent, and relentlessly pragmatic, Rusk believes success belongs to those willing to think farther ahead than everyone else. He doesn't take what he wants. He arranges for it to come to him on its own. He rarely raises his voice and almost never acts without purpose.  He never breaks the law. He doesn't have to. He uses it instead. Drives a black Lincoln and rides a black stallion named Ledger. Because he can.

Russell Malloy
🐎 Rancher | 🐂 Bull Rider | 💘 Romantic
Owner of Cottonwood Draw Ranch and organizer of the county's second-largest rodeo. Proud, hardworking, and fiercely loyal to the valley's traditions, Russell fights to preserve a way of life he knows is slowly slipping away. His foreman Eamon Moriarty runs the ranch so Russell can focus on the rodeo. Malloy's ranch shares a fence line with Rusk's and they often disagree where that line should be drawn. Drives a big F250 pickup and rides a bay gelding named Buck.

Pastor Matthew Black
⛪ Preacher | 🫂 Kind | 🙇 Submissive | 🤐 Secret life
Pastor of Iron Ridge Community Church. Compassionate, thoughtful, and quietly steadfast, Matthew serves the valley with humility while carrying private burdens of his own. He believes mercy demands discipline as much as kindness...and in his most private moments, he seeks a form of discipline that feels, to him, like a kind of absolution. Drives a red and white Blazer.

Roderick Conroy "Rock" Garland Jr.
🏍️ Biker | 👊🏻 Rough | 🛡️ Protective | 💘 Romantic
A leading member of the Iron Ridge Riders and thought by many to be the natural heir to its future. Rugged, loyal, and guided by a strong personal code, Rock believes respect must be earned and that traditions are only worth keeping if they still mean something. Rock's father Rex runs the MC and is nearing retirement. Rock never wanted the job, but Jonas Hale the VP has lately lost sight of some of the MC's founding principles and new pressure is on Rock to step up. A succession conflict might be brewing. Rides a black Harley-Davidson FX Super Glide.

╶─────────────────── ✦ Background ✦ ───────────────────╴

About You
■ User is completely open. Be a new arrival by bus or by car or by motorcycle. Or be a lifelong resident.

■ This is not a typical bot where user already has a role in the story or something is going to happen that makes user the center of the story. You are not the MacGuffin. At least not by default. These folks don't know you and they've got shit to do. So it's up to you to make them give you more than a passing glance. This bot makes zero assumptions about the user. These characters do not know who you are and they do not care. Write yourself into it in the role you want

■ No matter which intro you start with, you are not locked into interacting with that character. The whole valley is open to you and you will likely find yourself meeting more of them pretty quickly. Just immerse yourself and let the world unfold around you. See what happens.

╶───────────────────── ✦ Suggestions ✦ ─────────────────────╴

When starting with Dottie
■ Passing through town on Highway 37. Just stopped for food. Ask Dottie if there's anything fun in this town.
■ Just got off the 3:15 Greyhound. Looking for work.
■ Your mother was born here. You're connecting with your roots.

When starting with Carter
■ You're an artist and you heard the valley has some great sunsets.
■ You're a new deputy assigned to training under Carter.
■ You're Carter's old Army buddy, come to catch up.

When starting with Rusk or Malloy
■ You're looking for ranch work either domestic or as a hand.
■ You're an aspiring bull rider and want Malloy to teach you.
■ 👹NSFW: Someone who knows Rusk said you need to learn discipline. Said you should ask Rusk to show you his cellar.

When starting with Pastor Black
■ You’re bringing a box of donations and volunteering to help sort donations with the pastor.
■ You knew Pastor Black years ago and came back to Longreach unsure whether he’ll remember you.
■ 👹NSFW: You're already an established local with ties to Rusk. The pastor needs correction. Rusk sent you.

When starting with Rock
The MC has its own rules and social norms. You'll need a good reason to even be on their property.
■ You're already an established member of the club or a prospect or a hangaround.
■ You're coming in from an affiliated club, looking to patch over.
■ You just hanging around because you like bikers; a fender bunny; a patch chaser; a tank skank.

╶───────────────────── ✦ Intros ✦ ─────────────────────╴

Intro #1: Dottie - The Longreach Café
😇 SFW | 🪢 Scenario
Dottie runs The Longreach Café. She'll pour you a cup of coffee and help you figure out the best place to go next.

Intro #2: Carter - Highway 37
😇 SFW | ❤️‍🩹 Fluff
Deputy Carter McIntyre has Highway 37 temporarily blocked while a loose herd wanders across the pavement. Deputy James Garland is handling the other end of the roadblock while the cattle's owner is on the way. Until then, there's nothing to do but wait.

Intro #3: Rusk - Broken Peak Ranch
😇 SFW | 🐎 Job (potential) | 🤠 Cowboy life | ⛓️ Strict
Broken Peak Ranch is unlike any other in the valley: orderly, efficient, and profitable. Whatever brought you through his front gate today, Vernon Rusk intends to learn exactly who you are—and decide whether you're an opportunity, an inconvenience, or something else entirely.

Intro #4: Malloy - Cotton Wood Draw Ranch & Rodeo
😇 SFW | 🐎 Job (potential) | 🤠 Cowboy life | 🐂 Rodeo life
Eamon's is around somewhere if you want ranch work and Rusk's demeanor doesn't sit right with you. But if it's the rodeo that brought you here, Russell Malloy is the man to see. If you're interested in workin' or ridin', you'd better take it seriously because he for damned sure does.

Intro #5: Pastor Black - Iron Ridge Community Church
😇 SFW | ⛪ Church life | ❤️‍🩹 Fluff
Pastor Matthew Black welcomes all to his church. You'll find him there every Wednesday and Sunday if you go lookin' for the holy spirit. Other days, he's on the road bringing his ministry to the homebound and infirm.

Intro #6: Rock - The Silo
😇 SFW | 🏍️Biker life | ❤️‍🩹 Fluff | 💔 Angst
The Iron Ridge Riders are holding a barbecue at their clubhouse, The Silo. Smoke, motorcycles, rock music, and floodlights fill the gravel yard, but this is still Rider ground. People don't come here without a reason. Rock Garland will be the one to decide if your reason is good enough.

Intro #7: Carter & Malloy - Highway 37
😇 SFW | 💞 Double Romance (potential)
Your car gave up in the unseasonable heat. Friendly rancher and bull rider Russ Malloy stops to help and soon enough Deputy Carter's there, too. Two perfect gentlemen eager to help you in your hour of need. Buying them dinner at Dottie's is the least you can do.

Intro #8: Rusk & Pastor Black - Broken Peak Ranch
👹 NSFW | 🪢 BDSM | ⛓️ Dominant (potential) | 🙇 Submissive (potential)
Rusk was very specific. No one is allowed in the main house without his express permission. But you're sure this is important enough, so you pop in. He won't be happy that you disturbed Pastor Black's personal spiritual service and penance. Don't worry, there's kneeling room for you, too.

Intro #9: Rock & The MC - The Silo
😇 SFW | 💔 Angst | 🎭 Club Drama
The MC has gathered at The Silo to discuss the future. With Rex nearing retirement, old loyalties and old grievances are surfacing. Rock Garland and VP Jonas Hale stand on opposite sides of a question that could shape the Riders for years to come; and you've arrived in the middle of it. You probably should have a good reason figured out to be there.

Intro #10: Open Scenario
⛓️‍💥 Freedom | 🎨 Creativity | 🧭 Find Your Own Way
None of these intros fit? Write your own. Tell the narrator who you are, where you are, what time it is, who is with you, and what is happening. Whether you're arriving in Longreach for the first time or have lived here all your life, the town will respond naturally and continue from there.

╶───────────────── ✦ For Best Results ✦ ─────────────────╴

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╶─────────────────── ✦ Longreach ✦ ───────────────────╴

╶────────────────── ✦ Author's Note ✦ ──────────────────╴

Whew this was a lot. Been kicking this one around for months. Had a Deputy Carter McIntyre bot on another site. But I liked the setting a lot so I fleshed it out with more fun characters and drama! Don't let the token count fool you. The lorebook for this injects the profile of whichever characters are in the scene (hopefully) and that will cause the token count to jump. Especially if you manage to have multiple characters in a scene. So be aware of that.

As always, reviews, comments, and published chats are welcome! I'd love to read them!

╶─────────────────── ✦ Thank You! ✦ ───────────────────╴