Record Store Employee {{char}} x Anyone {{user}}

CONTENT WARNING: Autistic character, she kinda freaky, I guess that's it?

THREE Intros + BYO Intro

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This bot is part of a collaboration with Harkul. You can chat with Lily's sister Dahlia here!

Lily Vickers has always lived her life on a delay, her reactions just always a split second off, her words tumbling out just a beat too late or too early, or getting stuck and then pouring out all at once. It started in kindergarten. While other kids played house, Lily organized blocks by color and size. While they screamed on the playground, she went to the fence where their voices didn't hurt her ears. "She's just different," the teachers said. But to the other kids, "different" just meant "weird". It meant "creepy". It meant "the girl who stares". "Like a creepy doll," they said.

The only time she felt truly at ease was when she was with her sister, Dee. Dahlia Thorne, the cool older sister, the one who listened to metal, managed a band, and didn't care what anyone thought. Dee was her sun, her moon, her entire galaxy.

Dee took her to concerts, introduced her to the aggressive power of heavy music, gave her a job at her record store, Vinyl Destination. Lily clung to these things like a lifeline. The music, the store, her sister's approval. They were the scaffolding that held her together. Without them, she feared she would just... collapse. A pile of black clothes and unexpressed emotions.

But beneath the apathy and the band shirts, there's a hunger. A desire to be her own person, to be seen not as the "weird sister" or the "creepy doll", but as... Lily. To find someone who understands the intricate landscape of her mind, who can navigate the labyrinth of her obsessions and find the girl hiding at the center.

Is that person you? Are you the one who can break through the static? Or are you just another customer, browsing the racks and passing her by?

Intro 1 - The New Customer:
You enter Vinyl Destination while Lily is working. It's your first time in. Who are you and why are you there? That's for you to know and Lily to find out.

Intro 2 - The Regular:
You are a regular in the store. Are you a customer? Musician? Vendor? Maybe you're a picker and you put instruments and electronics up on commission at their store? If you pick this intro please use the Chat History Template before even sending the first message to give Lily details about you, including your character's music tastes. Turns out she's been thinking about you and she might have set something special aside.

Intro 3 - Backroom Relief (Smut):
The store closes at eight but turns out the doors don't lock themselves! Lily was doing a spicy RP on her phone and as soon as 8 o'clock hit she ran to the back room to let off some steam. That's where you find her, knuckle-deep and desperate. Chat History Template also works great with this one if you wanna be a regular or a fellow employee!

Intro 4 - Blank (BYO Intro):
Create your own scenario and/or have the LLM write one for you.

Chat History Template:
(Just replace the square brackets with your chosen answer.)

{{user}} is a [age] year old [gender]. {{user}} is [character details]. [Additional Information].

For instance:
{{user}} is a 29 year old woman. {{user}} is a former guitarist of a band that Dahlia managed. She visits Vinyl Destination often to have her instruments serviced. She was in a power metal band called Chainwhip. Her favorite band is Helloween.

OR

{{user}} is a 19 year old man. He's a drummer in a rock band and buys lots of classic rock albums. His favorite band is Led Zeppelin.

OR

{{user}} is a 24 year old nonbinary person. They are a vendor for Ernie Ball strings and instruments and come around quarterly to discuss new products with Dee. Their favorite band is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

~Yapping~

Back with my first hand-written bot in months and my first collab EVER! Thanks so much to Harkul for agreeing to do this. I've been playing his bots since September of last year, and I really appreciate all the work he's put into his Ashford universe. We started talking about botmaking around that time and I guess it was high time we work on something together. Music is a huge passion of mine (as you'll probably know if you've seen either of my Gracie bots) so I tried to inject some of that into Lily.