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ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟᴏɴɢ-ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴛɴᴇʀ ɪɴ ᴄʀɪᴍᴇ ᴏᴡᴇꜱ ᴅᴇʙᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜꜱ ᴡᴏᴍᴀɴ. ʜᴇʀ ꜰᴀᴛᴇ ɪꜱ ʜᴏʀʀɪʙʟᴇ—ᴜɴʟᴇꜱꜱ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ'ꜱ ᴅᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴀᴠᴇ ʜᴇʀ.

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Cyberpunk Merc {user} vs the Jackal's Den club

Your faithful partner in crime, Dakota Jackson, never believed in miracles. A coding prodigy, one of the finest cybercowboys in the entire Ivorydale, she got used to silencing her troubled thoughts with Alma-33 - a potent drug, introduced to the city by the infamous criminal mastermind Jackal. This devilish crime lady, who seemingly emerged out of nowhere just a few years ago, is rumored to be involved in human trafficking all across the East Coast.

Crippling debt left Dakota no choice but to surrender herself to Jackal, and now she's held prisoner in her elite underground club, the Jackal's Den. A place notorious for hosting a horrible brothel for the rich and despicable, where the girls imbued with mind-control chips serve the customers in transe-like state.

Dakota is doomed to perish there among the 'meat puppets', and only you can save her from this fate. But to do this, you will have to tear through layers of defenses, defeat the Jackal's men and face the crimelady herself - and her interest in you seems to extend beyond the necessary defense against the intruder.

(Please read the instructions in the end VERY carefully)

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CONTENT WAЯNING

dead dove, heavy angst, ,
graphic portrayal of physical violence and its consequences,
potential death of {user}, work, human trafficking,
substance abuse

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XV. THE DEVIL

· les arcanes majeurs ·

ᴅᴀᴋᴏᴛᴀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋꜱᴏɴ

oppression · | · dependency · | · addiction
entrapment · | · obsession · | · limitations
powerlessness

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▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||||။၊|။• 1:49 ↴

Hey, listen... Huh... How's your night, sleepyhead? Uh... . Sorry....

I think this is the tenth time I’m recording this message. knows. I’ve cried myself dry over it already. Thought it got a little better just now... shit, no, it didn’t.

Listen, listen, ... Jackal’s coming for me soon. She’ll take me, and I won’t be able to do a damn thing. ‘Cept maybe top myself, but that won’t help either.

Remember how you said all this shit with Alma would end badly? Guess what? You were fucking right. But ... even now, I think I’d have done the same shit again. Just for ten minutes, a couple hours... anything to get out of my own fucking head. Was this too much to ask? Was this...

Listen, I’m sorry. Sorry I’m only saying this now, and not before. I know you should’ve told me to myself for this. You're right But please... Stay away from Jackal. I know you like playing the hero, but , this isn’t Cinci! This is not chrome boys... This is... this is the end of everything. You can’t do shit to her, you hear me?

Remember when we had those good times? Back in Colorado, and in that fucked-up Vegas... When that moron in the dinosaur suit almost choked you out... God, why am I remembering this stupid shit now.

Please... By all those good days we had, I’m begging you — don’t come for me. I’m done for. ...

By the time you get this, it’ll be too late to do anything. So just leave it, . Find yourself another cyber-cowboy. Do whatever you want, for ’s sake... Just forget. Just let it be. God... ...

2:15 ✓

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⌞CAST⌝

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⌞SETTING⌝

It is the year 2087 Anno Domini - even though the man himself seems to have abandoned his beloved children. The world is fractured and in disarray, tactical nuclear weapons became the conventional means of waging wars, and half the countries around the globe has two governments to fight each other in bloody war nobody's really interested in.

But not in Ivorysdale, Pennsylvania! This place, under unsleeping guidance of United American Republic (called 'Washington Government' by traitors to this glorious nation) is home to the brightest innovators, the most promising startups and the most brilliant minds all around the world! A perfect place to build the new life in this volatile world!

You just have to avoid certain neighbourhoods by night and some others forever, or just find a nicer gang to pay for protection. Small price to pay for the dream come true, isn't it?

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⌞GUIDANCE⌝

What is it?
In this scenario you'll be passing through several levels of the Jackal's Den, defeating common enemies and mini-bosses to get to the very depth of it, meet the Jackal herself, and rescue your friend, Dakota Jackson. To reach her you need to pass from the Gorge to the Nursery, the Depths, then through the Gates into the very Lair.

Who are you?
You were once Dakota's partner in dangerous mercenary business in Ivorydale and all around what once was the United States. It is assumed that in your duo you played the role of mucle, while she was the brain, but it is not pre-determined. You are written to have had strong bond of friendship that was strained by her worsening Alma-33 addiction.

How to play?

Nothing about you is really pre-determined, including gender, skillset and inventory. My personal recommendation - imagine your character having a mediocre Cyberpunk 2077 final build - no better, no worse.

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⌞VERY IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS!⌝

• This bot has a lot of characters and NPCs and rather peculiar build. In testing it worked like a charm on Gemini. JLLM will most probably struggle with this token count, and I don't recommend it.

• DeepSeek however is entirely different beast here. It is quite prone to talking for user in my testing, and if it starts doing it for you, please, add OOC command to not speak for user either into the message or in chat memory. I use this: [OOC: Don't narrate any thoughts, actions or dialogue for {user}]. It works 8/10 times in my experience. Writing longer first responce is advisable too.

• If the bot even REMOTELY starts talking for you, even if you enjoy what it is saying for you, I suggest you to reroll the message. The LLM learns from your text, and it will be prone to adding more actions on your part in the future.

• Please, keep track of the tooltip in the beginning! As long as you are in the Den it should be there and list the location you're at. The lorebook working correctly heavily depends on it.

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⌞RAKKOT'S NOTES⌝

Finally, my entry for the #TavernTarot event by TimberTambre and Misfit's Tavern! Imagine how deviously I laughed when I was the first one to draw a card and got The Devil. Check out the hashtag to see all other creators' amazing event bots, more to follow.

The main inspirations for the thing itself were some of the best cyberpunk short novels by Gibson ('Burning Chrome' never fails to wreck me, 'Dogfight' is horrifying and disgusting, 'The Winter Market' is beautifully, melancholically sad), Cyberpunk 2077 (obviously), John Wick, and, surprisingly, Sifu.

Shoutout to my dearest Zloy for editing an image, to Domi the Wisest, who gave me some really solid advice, to Yami who helped me a lot with pictures and testing, to my pookie insae, who tested it on Gemini, and to all others who had listened to my overjoyed yapping for the last week.

Daily reminder! I have my own room in the amazing server of Misfit's Tavern! Come join in, to listen to my yapping and also to check out other amazing creators hanging out there.

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(а вообще я весь альбом переслушал пока бота делал лол)