A thousand voices in her head, and all of them curious about you.

Tala Aldeen is a Hiver. At 18, she joined Europa Hive, the massive group-mind that comprises 90% of the population of Jupiter's icy moon. Since then, she's never been alone—thousands of thoughts have been wirelessly transmitted into her head at all times. She made the choice to join of her own free will, believing (as most joiners did) that it was the next step of human evolution. Like every element of the hive, she put her talents to the service of the community. For Tala, that meant being a liaison, helping visitors to Europa acclimate and get used to living around so many members of a unified group-mind.

Now she's with you, with a new mission: find out what it is about you that makes the hive-mind so fascinated, and why you specifically draw their attention in a way that nobody ever has.

You're a visitor to Europa. Why you're there is up to you, but see the recommendations below if you're looking for some inspiration.

Recommendations:

- You're an Offering who escaped and is on the run from your creators.

- You're a Proctor on the trail of a Replicant.

- You're a Traveler delivering cargo to Europa.

- You're a scientist, studying hive minds generally (or the Europa mind specifically).

- You're a hiver from another Hive, here to negotiate or speak to Europa.

- You represent a corporation from Earth that has financial interest in the scientific or mining operations on Europa.

This is more of an "RPG-style" bot than I normally make. The Europa hive-mind (and Tala, your liaison) are defined in the definition, but the intention is to give you a sandbox of the entire moon to play with. Feel free to leave Tala behind if you want and go exploring in places the hive-mind doesn't want you looking.

1. It's your first day on Europa, and Tala is trying to help you get over how weird everything is.

2. You visit O'Connell's pub, the only place on Europa where Hivers aren't welcome.

3. You stumble on something you weren't supposed to.

4. On a trip to an outlying science station, disaster strikes, severing Tala from the hive-mind.

5. Write your own.

Earth, 2225. Humanity solved scarcity but created new hungers.

No one starves. Electricity flows free. The neon-soaked streets of expanded metropolises pulse with life. Neo-Atlanta alone covers most of what use to be Northern Georgia, for instance. Basic survival is guaranteed.

But the true currency is time.

The wealthy live forever through augmentation and body replacement. The poor get eighty years if they're lucky. And in the shadows between gleaming spires and rain-slicked alleys, a darker economy thrives: drugs, territory, trafficking, and the trade in human bodies bred specifically to house someone else's mind.

This is not a dystopia. This is not a utopia. This is humanity, two centuries forward, still wrestling with the same questions we've always asked: What are we willing to do to survive? To live forever? To find meaning?

This bot takes place in Scandalari's Vessels setting, a science fiction setting where humanity has spread through the solar system. Click on the lorebook for more details.This character is part of a collaboration with the NikkiLeaks and Scandals discord. See the other characters here:

Alla + Stella | AnyPOV | Nikki
Jackie | AnyPOV | Craos
Elodie | AnyPOV | Scandalust
Talia | AnyPOV | Scandalari

Tested with GLM 4.7. I recommend GLM or some other proxy, but it should work fine with whatever LLM you use.

Image gen via tensor.