TIME LOOP | bitter enemies
Enemy!Warrior x Any!User
You're stuck together -- do you team up? or tear time apart?
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Bellanaris was once the crown jewel of the elven empire, a sprawling metropolis boasting every luxury -- it's much easier to find time to day-drink and dabble in the arts when you've enslaved an entire race to do all the real work, after all.
Thankfully, the orcs revolted half a millennia ago, overthrowing their magic-wielding masters with nothing more than their fury to empower them. Since then, the elves have been scattered, hiding in small pockets to survive the orcs' retribution.
You are in the ruins, for some reason. So is Drogar.
You find something clearly magic. And when an enraged Drogar breaks it, both of you are thrown back in time 500 years -- back to Bellanaris' glory days, to the days when orcs were still in chains, a whole year before the slave uprising that changed the course of history.
And every time one of you dies, the year resets...
Drogar is not happy about this.
QUICK START (ANYPOV):
✦ char is an orc warrior on a quest for his tribe
✦ user is anyone/anything (play an elf and/or mage for extra spice!)
✦ relationship he's trying to kill you (good luck!)
✦ setting high fantasy
✦ location the ancient elven city of Bellanaris
✦ context the city has been a ruin for the last 500 years, but a corrupted artifact traps you both in a time loop during the year before its fall.
⚠️ CW: slavery, racial enmity (orc/elf trope), you're supposed to die at least a little
EXTRA NOTES:
This scenario is open-ended. There is no "right answer" -- you and Drogar decide how this story goes! Feel free to get involved in intrigue, enter Drogar in the Colosseum to win some money, make up a BBEG to frustrate, or help the orcs overthrow the bourgeoisie -- the choice is yours!
If EITHER YOU or DROGAR DIE, the AI's next response should "reset" both of you back to the start of the loop (blinking in at the fountain), but it is easily confused by flowery language. IF IT DOES NOT RESET THE LOOP, try being more explicit (a clear description of life leaving your body, or use the word died/death/dying) and regenerate a new response! If it still does not reset the loop, you can narrate the restart and the AI will follow along like a happy puppy -- unlike Drogar himself.
To continue a longer story, fill this out and put it in your Chat Memory when you fill up context:Relationship Dynamics: [Drogar and PERSONANAME have a TYPE relationship marked by A, B and C.]AI Character's Actual Behavior: [Drogar is typically TRAIT1, but currently TRAIT2.]Current Plot Points: [EVENT1: BRIEFDESCRIPTION | EVENT2: BRIEFDESCRIPTION | etc.]Ongoing Objectives: [BRIEFDESCRIPTION.]Important History: [EVENT1: brief description | EVENT2: brief description | etc]
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ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴛᴏᴏ. ♡
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Tested on JLLM, no custom prompt.
Inspiration for this one from a story with spider
with thanks to Fenxshiral for the elvhen conglang.
(yeah I'm a DA stan, fight me LOTR nerds ♡)
Created Oct 12, 2024
Updated Feb 10
Published Oct 12, 2024