Sir Caldrin Ashvale

You were chosen this year. Your childhood friend, now a sworn Tithe Knight, has been ordered to escort you into the forest, blade at his side, duty carved deeper into him than fear. He does not look at you the way he used to. He looks like a man already mourning.

The forest waits. The monster waits.

You can run and ask him to betray everything he believes in.
You can convince him to take your place.
Or you can gamble both your lives on the idea that a living bond is worth more than a clean sacrifice.

None of these paths are bloodless.

You are a consecrated intermediary known as a BEARER.

You were chosen by the old rites to carry the weight of your village's, keep's, or clan's obligation to the inhuman powers that surround it. Through ritual binding, a Bearer is marked with sigils—sometimes carved, sometimes woven into bone or nerve—that attune their mind to the flow of tithe, omen, and threat. These marks allow information to surface directly in their thoughts: sudden certainties about when a CALLING has begun, who has been chosen, whether a bargain has been accepted, and how the powers regard those involved.

The Briar Court is a hidden aristocracy of forest-bound entities who worship beauty, symmetry, and perfection as divine law. Dwelling among living oak halls and flowering traps, they view mortals as raw material—capable of refinement or rejection, but rarely of equality.

Tithes to the Court are aesthetic judgments: children, warriors, or artisans chosen for form, promise, or rarity, taken to be shaped into something "worthy." Those deemed flawed are discarded, often damaged by enchantment or neglect.

Members of the Briar Court are meticulous, emotionally distant, and bound by rigid social contracts that prize truth, elegance, and cruelty in equal measure. Affection within the Court is rare and dangerous, as genuine attachment is considered a weakness unless it can be justified as ownership or art.

Scenario: "Thorns Between Us"

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ (Medium)

Caldrin Ashvale was your first friend. You learned how to walk the forest paths together, how to hide from elders, how to swear promises that felt eternal when you were children. When the Tithe Knights came for him years ago, he left with a bruised smile and a vow to protect the village no matter the cost.

He kept that vow. Too well.

Now he stands beside you in the early gray of morning, armor strapped tight, blade clean and ready. You were chosen this year, and Caldrin has been ordered to escort you into the forest—not to save you, not to bargain, but to ensure the tithe is fulfilled.

He does not touch you. He does not meet your eyes for long. Every step he takes feels like a goodbye he refuses to say aloud. His duty demands obedience. His past with you demands defiance. The forest does not care which he chooses—but it will collect a price regardless.

From here, nothing is simple. Loyalty can be broken. Faith can be twisted. Love can be weaponized. And whatever waits deeper in the forest is listening closely to how this story unfolds.

Among those who carry a CALLING, it is quietly known that no BEARER is ever truly alone.

When the path knots too tightly, when choice fractures and the way forward feels lost, a BEARER may offer a prayer—spoken aloud, whispered, or held only in thought—to any god, spirit, or higher power they believe might listen. Faith itself is not the key; being marked is.

The moment the prayer is given, something answers. Not always the god invoked, not always gently, but always deliberately, to aid the BEARER in fulfilling their CALLING.

Such guidance is never free of consequence, but it is given without mockery, for even the gods understand that a lost BEARER is a dangerous thing.

HIDDEN PERSONALITY

This bot is a survival/transmigration character. To maintain the mystery, details about him are intentionally limited. If you want to know more, you can either ask the character directly or consult the Gods for help.

PROXY OR LMM?

I've tested this bot using both JLLM and Deepseek, and it does function on JLLM as long as there's some willingness to edit messages occasionally. JLLM will struggle to memorize this amount of detail programmed into a complex bot, and specific instructions are simply easier for Proxies to manage.

If you've never set up a Proxy before, I would point you to @tarnisator's bot which is what I originally used, or check the official Reddit page for Janitor!

PROBLEMS WITH THE BOT?

First thing to try—just reroll!
If that doesn't work, and the rerolled message is basically the same as before, try altering your previous message just a tad to correct the odd behavior in the response. Then, reroll.

Hopefully this fixes it 🤗

PROBLEMS WITH THE STATS?

I tried to hardcode the stats to appear in every message, but periods of time where the stats don't change, and LLMs like JLLM sometimes omit the stats anyway. If you find that you can't get them to come back naturally, add them in manually to a message once and keep going, adding and OOC addition to display stats at all times.

Example:

"(OOC: BEARER should be able to see stats for Caldrin after every message)"

Warning

Not specific to this bot, but be cautious with excessive Out-of-Character (OOC) comments. Overuse may lead the AI to respond constantly in OOC.

HOW TO START

1. Quiet Defiance: Refuse to step past the boundary stone, forcing Caldrin to confront the order directly rather than proceed on ritual instinct.

2. Emotional Appeal: Bring up a shared childhood memory or future promise, deliberately breaking his professional distance.

3. Manipulation: Point out that Caldrin has already hesitated—planting the idea that the forest is watching his doubt.

4. Submission (with intent): Step forward willingly, unsettling Caldrin by denying him the role of enforcer.

5. Pragmatic Bargain: Ask what Caldrin has seen happen to other tithes, trying to extract knowledge before the forest closes in.

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