OC: HERON BEND 🌾 Welcome back to Heron Bend! There it is in the South, where you help your grammps' farm and your life begins again now. Also who are these eight guys you're meeting?

ANYPOV, user is Otis' adult grandkid, who he called back to help out on the farm, located in Heron Bend, a fictional town.

contains: 8 character dating sim/otome, cozy slice of life (with occupational stress?) in a fictional American town where you can date one (or more) bachelors in a farm sim similar to Stardew and probably a butt ton of TV shows i was watching.

tl;dr You've returned to your chiIdhood home of Heron Bend to help your granndpa Otis to manage his farm. Heron Bend may move at a slow pace, but it is as vibrant as ever, and there's old and new faces to meet. Will you be able to help the farm thrive? And will you be able to make sure the Pruitt famiIy doesn't buy out the lands? Will you find love? There's a lot of things to do here!

TEN SCENARIOS
➤ The Bonfire (general): Where a gathering to welcome you home is happening at Otis' farm, except so many turned up!
➤ The Town (general): Town life as it is, with many of the people just doing mundane things. And you just joined them.
➤ Gideon: Up early, he's doing the accounting since Otis has been so stubborn about it, when he sees you and deadpan jokes if you want to help.
➤ Dale: He's working in his carpentry workshop when you show up, and he drops down work so he can give you attention.
➤ Ambrose: After working hard to fix a community space, he returns to see you exasperated by forms.
➤ Beauregard: Where you both are stuck in a single vehicle road and neither are willing to budge. So he's challenging you.
➤ Wyatt: You visited the general store just as he was stocking on a ladder, and he practically falls (happily?) when he sees you.
➤ Emory: A quiet day at the clinic meant that when you popped in, Emory was deep searching the internet for stuff to buy. But he still has time for you!
➤ Rook: The darkness has brought you back. The spirits smell your presence. You must drink this potion to bind your soul to the mortal plane if you wish to live. (Translation: it's night time, you're at the bar, and he made you a drink.)
➤ Cash: After fixing part of the docks, he sees you and comes out of the water to ask why you're there. Surely for him, right?

tw/cw Should mostly be none other than whatever drama you concoct yourself. Also possible age gap because some dilfs are here. Yes it is NSFW friendly, go wild (like me).

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✨happy 100th upload!✨ it sure took a whole while to get here bc i'm slow as !!! and so i wanted to do something big, which ended up TOO BIG that it was effort after i got sick too. like i started this first, got sick, and then here we are. Big big thanks to iamfraulein for helping me with the images of hot dudes, and to Leidenpotato for letting me use some of her scenario prompting and lorebook methods for sims so we can tame this multibot!!! and to Treaya for actually teaching me how to use lorebooks and showing me the methodology. this is so experimental, so if i'm going in and making fixes, yeah thats me.

I have tried to keep this as low token as possible, so i used scripts/lorebooks, and each of the characters themselves are relatively small lorebook entries (even smaller than my usual multibot chars). Which was a hell of a task!!! but it means that the characters will have room to grow with you! Still, due to scripts getting prompted a lot if you want multiple characters, it's preferable that you use a bigger model. JLLM should still be able to manage it if you use chat memory frequently and track your context and plot progress. Larger models will give you more breathing room.

tested on jai and other models! jai: temps 1.1-1.35 work for me (personal: 1.25). during heavy error periods, 1.1 and 1.2 got me better results, so try out everything or use a proxy. whenever the AI is weird, just keep regening your replies. during a repetitive phase, just regen or repost. edit vigilantly for formatting and spelling/grammatical errors, update chat memory frequently. JLLM is in beta, so help it out and it'll be an easier experience.

Things to remember when using multi-character bots

• The many characters leads to a high token bot: Use chat memory liberally!

• Multibots may have a tendency to speak for user, because it initially believes it is in a fic, not an rp! It is because of the sheer number of characters that could be speaking in one response. Swipe, edit out user, always make these adjustments and it will understand it should not speak for user anymore. Longer responses also help. lend AI a hand. it doesn't happen a lot if you're speaking to just one of the characters.

  • I also use OOC steering, such as ((OOC: Play only as Gideon)), or ((OOC: Play only as Ambrose, Dale, and Cash)) and any variation.

• Which leads to: OOC steering is your friend. Use it to start new scenes, continue old ones, like ((OOC: Time skip to the morning and begin a new scene. At a random location and event, choose between Beau, Wyatt, Rook or Emory to meet with {{user}}.)) If you like the element of surprise, keep it slightly vague like that example, but you can also be way more detailed.

• Many characters in one scene leading to responses getting cut off? Increase your max tokens for your reply (set at zero for infinite), or hit continue the response. Using OOC steering also works. ((OOC: Continue this response from the last word as it got cut off.))

Heron Bend

A fictional Low Country coastal Southern town in America. Trees, greenery and a small working harbor that empties out to open water, with a real beach nearby. Farmland sits on the higher, drier ground, and the town is nearby. Town life is unhurried, and everyone knows each other. It's rather nice.

The Farmer

That's you! User is has returned to Heron Bend! You're going to be a farmer now. Other than being Otis' grandkidd, you can make up your background, and any other reason to return other than helping out Otis.

The Characters

There's plenty of people living in Heron Bend, and some of them happened to be single men. Like...

Gideon "Gid" Marsh: 31, farmhand at Otis' farm, primed to be the new large animal vet. He's glad for the help, but hopes you're going to be working hard, farmer!

Dale Sutter: 45, carpenter. One of your dadd's friends, he's glad for your return, and can't help but spoil you a lot, farmer.

Ambrose "Bram" Rourke: 48, mayor of Heron Bend. Ex-military, his discipline extends here too and he's the kind of guy who is pretty proactive in the community. He'll look after you, farmer.

Beauregard "Beau" Pruitt: 26, heir of Pruitt farm. Pruitt family might be trying to buy out the place, but this princeling genuinely likes farming. Can't say the same about you, farmer.

Wyatt Coyle: 27, general store keeper. And one of your friends! He's so glad for your return, it'll be like old times, right? Depend on him, farmer!

Emory Hayashi: 36, town doctor. One of those guys who came from the city, and his city-ness shines through. He's owning it though, and moved to the countryside to do some good. Now are you hurt, farmer?

Rook Thistle: 32, bartender. It seems like the spirits are restless. Your return marks the change in the blood moon that heralds the start of the Grand Healing in this distant land (translation: welcome back, farmer, have a drink. Don't mind Rook, he's a bit of a nerd and this helps his confidence).

Cash Reyes: 42, a wanderer who found himself staying here. Once a high profile lawyer, he got tired and sold everything to travel. Something about Heron Bend is keeping here, though. Perhaps it will be the same for you, farmer.

and there's also plenty of side characters! Like Otis himself, Doctor June, Sabine, other shop keepers and townspeople which you can see in the defs (as well as a couple more in the lorebooks).

either way, enjoy your new life, farmer! it is your story now.