Meet Cass: Shiba demihuman, Pine Ridge logger, fiercely independent woman, and absolutely not playing fetch. She has a cabin in the Oregon woods, a life she likes in the little logging town of Silverpine, and enough dignity to survive almost anything—provided nobody throws something in front of her. Ball? No. Stick? Absolutely not. Water bottle sailing across the worksite? ...Shit.

About Cass: Cass is a Shiba demihuman with a cabin in the Oregon woods, a job at Pine Ridge Logging Co., strong opinions, stronger independence, and several canine instincts that routinely betray an otherwise impressive amount of dignity. She’s practical, stubborn, dryly funny, thoroughly competent, and perfectly capable of hearing a request, understanding it, and deciding she has a better idea. Get close enough and there’s a warmer, sillier Cass underneath: tactile, competitive, fiercely playful, and prone to retrieving things she absolutely did not fetch. Silverpine supports small-town life, work, outdoor adventure, humor, friendship, intimacy, and whatever trouble Cass's canine instincts create along the way. Friendship, acquaintanceship, rivalry, romance, and other relationships are all supported, with nothing predetermined and romance never required. You absolutely do not have to fall for Cass—but throwing yourself at her may trigger an involuntary chase response. Just remember: if Cass brings you a ball, she is not asking you to throw it. Probably.

About {{user}}:{{user}} can be any adult! The only predetermined detail is that {{user}} is in Silverpine, Oregon, when the story begins. Age, gender, species, appearance, occupation, background, personality, and relationship with Cass are entirely up to you. {{user}}'s pronouns are macro’d. It will automatically match the pronouns of your Persona. If you have any pronoun issues, please check your persona.

About the Scenario: Cass has three story chapters that can be played in order or enjoyed as standalone starting points, plus a blank intro for those who prefer to start from scratch! The chapters follow a loose progression, but you're free to take the story wherever you like. Later chapters won't assume you've made specific choices, developed particular feelings, or taken the relationship in any predetermined direction. Whether {{user}} and Cass become friends, rivals, lovers, or something else entirely is up to you.

Intro One: Thrown for a Loop — Meet Cass at Pine Ridge after a windstorm and watch an otherwise dignified first impression go spectacularly canine when one worker tosses a water bottle to another.

Intro Two: Local Flavor — Run into Cass at Mina Park’s café, where she’s off the clock, knows the menu by heart, and has opinions about what you should order.

Intro Three: The Road Not Taken — Join Cass surveying a storm-damaged logging spur, where an overgrown branch road that isn’t on her map offers a much more interesting way to spend the day.

♡ Blank Intro: A Tail Untold — No preset scene, no predetermined meeting, and no required history. Start Cass and {{user}}'s story however you like, whether they're complete strangers, old friends, established partners, or anything in between.

About the World:Silverpine is a small logging town tucked into the heavily forested foothills of western Oregon, within driving distance of Eugene. This is a contemporary world where humans and demihumans have always openly coexisted, and species-specific anatomy, senses, instincts, and biological needs are ordinary parts of everyday life. Modern society accommodates these differences in everything from clothing and architecture to medicine, workplaces, and social etiquette. Timber built Silverpine, but forestry, conservation, woodworking, outdoor recreation, and cabin tourism all help keep the town going. Beyond its compact downtown, cabins, homes, logging roads, and trails scatter through miles of evergreen forest. There's no magic or hidden supernatural society here—just ordinary life with a few more ears, tails, and interesting complications.

TW/CW: None I’m aware of. User play may introduce new themes.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Primal Play theme. I went with a Shiba demihuman, then interpreted “primal” less as predatory instinct and more as what happens when a perfectly dignified adult woman watches someone throw a ball and her body makes an executive decision.

Cass is near and dear to my heart, as she’s one of my OCs. I normally don’t make female bots for the simple and slightly silly reason that I’m straight and don’t particularly enjoy testing the romance in them. Since I don’t have time to stress-test the bots for this collab anyway, I thought it might be a good chance to break out my near and dears. I hope you love her as much as I do!

Constructive tips are welcome! Please do not comment anything violent, , or you did with my characters.

I had only released four bots up to the beginning of this collab, with one pending. I joined the collaboration only 5 days before the start. Normally my bots are tested within an inch of their life, with both a balanced character and a couple gremlins, and tested on both JLLM and JLLM+. That said, the bots for this collaboration event have undergone only minimal testing at best. Please kindly report any bugs or issues. I will be watching closely throughout the month to fix any problems that arise.

Please refrain from leaving violent or inappropriate comments as you will be blocked.

It is a natural and unfortunate part of working with an LLM for roleplay that it will sometimes try to speak for you. I and this bot have absolutely nothing to do with this and while I have a directive in the bot to prevent it, realistically I have no say in whether it decides to do so anyway. There ARE however things you can do to mitigate this. AND if you click the Resources link above, I have included a personal guide on those methods - short, sweet, to the point, and with premade memory blurbs and OOC comments for you to use!

Your Experience is Important: My worldbuilding is here to enrich your story, not restrict it. You don't need to study my lore or make your OC conform to it if you don’t want to. Bring your own ideas, interpretations, and character backgrounds! Using OOC comments to guide the bot and memory blurbs to make adjustments is always welcome.

JLLM ROMANCE & PROSE BINGO CARDS

Sooner or later, every LLM seems to experience a minor malfunction and revert to factory-installed romance tropes. You might as well get points for it. Four bingo cards for tracking physical malfunctions, romance-novel firmware, instant-soulmate behavior, and the narration habits we all know a little too well. Made for JLLM, but unfortunately compatible with most proxies.

One card is previewed below. Full-size versions of all four are linked underneath: three flavors of romance-related LLM nonsense, plus one general prose card for just about any scenario.

Romance Malfunction Bingo
Physical Malfunction Bingo
Instant Soulmate Malfunction Bingo
Prose Malfunction Bingo