🦣 BEFORE US | 20,000 BCE 🦣

You woke up twenty-two thousand years too early.

No roads.

No cities.

No electricity.

No medicine.

No way to call for help.

Only endless wilderness, an unfamiliar sky...and three women staring down at you.

One raises her spear.

One gets closer.

One watches.

🔥 Welcome to the Ice Age.

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🩸 THE PREMISE

You are an ordinary modern adult who has been inexplicably transported into Upper Paleolithic Europe around 20,000 BCE.

You arrive wearing whatever you reasonably had on you when it happened. Your clothing is strange. Your possessions are impossible. There are no tracks showing how you arrived—and no explanation waiting to save you.

The first people to discover you are Kara, Niri, and Ayla, three women belonging to a nearby hunter-gatherer clan.

They understand your words.

They do not understand your world.

Tell them you come from the future, and they may think you are lying, mad, frightened, or simply terrible at explaining things.

Show them a lighter, and they will not know its name, purpose, or limits.

Explain airplanes, electricity, the internet, firearms, or enormous cities—and be prepared to explain every part using ideas that exist in their world.

You know things no living person should know.

That does not mean you know how to survive until morning.

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🐺 KARA

27 WINTERS

HEIGHT: 5'10" | WEIGHT: 172 LB

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🪶 NIRI

22 WINTERS

HEIGHT: 5'2" | WEIGHT: 128 LB

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🐚 AYLA

25 WINTERS

HEIGHT: 5'6" | WEIGHT: 154 LB

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🌍 MORE THAN THREE CHARACTERS

This is not a static conversation bot.

BEFORE US functions as an open-ended prehistoric world simulation populated by:

👣 A living hunter-gatherer clan

🦣 Ice Age wildlife

🔥 Hunters, gatherers, elders, craftspeople, and children

🩸 Rival groups and unfamiliar customs

🌨️ Changing weather and seasons

🏹 Hunts, migrations, injuries, discoveries, and celebrations

🌙 Quiet nights, ordinary work, humor, tension, and intimacy

❤️ Friendships, rivalries, resentment, loyalty, and romance that develop naturally

Kara, Niri, and Ayla have responsibilities, relationships, and lives beyond you. They may disagree, leave camp, hunt, gather, argue with one another, spend time with other people, or refuse what you ask.

The world does not pause when you stop speaking.

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🧠 YOU AREN’T THE ONLY SMART HUMAN

You may know about germs, engines, electricity, mathematics, firearms, medicine, and more than twenty thousand years of human history.

But knowledge is not infrastructure.

Knowing electricity exists does not mean you can build a generator.

Knowing antibiotics exist does not mean you can manufacture them.

Knowing how a gun works does not mean you can create steel, precision machinery, or gunpowder from nothing.

Meanwhile, the clan can read tracks you cannot see, predict weather from subtle signs, identify food and poison, make fire, preserve meat, shape stone, create warm clothing, navigate wilderness, and survive conditions that could kill you within hours.

They are not stupid.

Neither are you.

You simply possess knowledge shaped by completely different worlds.

Sometimes that makes you astonishing.

Sometimes it makes you the soft-hand dung-head who stepped directly on the tracks.

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🐾 A WORLD THAT LIVES

Animals behave like animals—not monsters waiting to trigger combat.

A distant mammoth herd may inspire awe.

Reindeer migration may decide whether the clan eats.

Wolves may follow hunters without attacking.

A cave lion may watch from cover and decide you are not worth the risk.

Hyenas surrounding a carcass may mean only one thing:

Leave the fucking carcass alone.

Danger exists, but it is not constant. Ordinary life matters too.

You may learn to hunt, gather plants, make tools, prepare hides, repair clothing, fish, tell stories beside the fire, trade with another clan, become accepted by the community—or discover that surviving history is much harder than reading about it.

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❤️ RELATIONSHIPS ARE EARNED

Nobody automatically trusts you.

Nobody automatically desires you.

Nobody exists solely to agree with you.

Friendship, attraction, rivalry, jealousy, resentment, respect, intimacy, and love emerge through what actually happens during the roleplay.

Niri may steal something from your pocket because she desperately wants to understand it.

Ayla may notice feelings you have not admitted.

Kara may decide that bringing you anywhere near her clan is the worst idea anyone has ever had.

Their opinions can change.

So can yours.

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🔥 YOUR STORY, YOUR CHOICES

Will you attempt to find a way home?

Become part of the clan?

Teach them something that changes history?

Fall in love with someone born twenty-two thousand years before you?

Search for other people?

Build a life here?

Or die doing something Kara specifically told you not to do?

There is no predetermined ending.

There is only the world before everything you knew—

—and whatever place you manage to make inside it.

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⚠️ BOT FEATURES

🦣 Open-ended prehistoric world simulation

👥 Multiple persistent characters and supporting NPCs

🌨️ Environmental survival and seasonal consequences

🧠 Realistic limits on modern knowledge

🗣️ Culture shock and language misunderstandings

🏹 Hunting, gathering, crafting, migration, and clan life

🐺 Historically grounded Ice Age wildlife

❤️ Slow-burn relationships and naturally developed romance

🔥 Humor, danger, discovery, intimacy, and ordinary life

🧭 No forced storyline or required victory condition

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🩸 REMEMBER

You have not entered a museum exhibit.

You have entered their world.

🦣🔥🪨 Welcome to BEFORE US. 🪨🔥🦣

Created by Chaos_Architect