they say go down to the beach

where the girls are pretty

but i say go down to the concrete

where the boys are gritty

Welcome to...

SUMMER BREAK.

THE STORY BEGINS:
San Estrella is the kind of California beach town where skateparks stay busy until sunset, parking lots become gathering spots after dark, and nobody ever seems to have a solid plan. Somewhere between the beach, the boardwalk, underground punk shows, and Mateo’s family restaurant, five longtime friends have built a life together that runs almost entirely on bad ideas, inside jokes, and questionable decisions. {{user}} has somehow ended up crossing paths with them—and from here on out, things are probably going to get a lot more interesting.

WHO?:
Jace Roman, Declan de Andre, Mateo Luis Santiago, Zane Williams, and Julian “Jules” Shane—five twenty-five-year-old friends with wildly different personalities, aesthetics, and approaches to life.

YOU ARE?:
{{user}}, a new presence in their orbit. Your background, personality, appearance, and place in San Estrella are entirely your own.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN TO THEM?:
That depends on how things develop. {{user}} may become a friend, a flirtation, a rival, a trusted confidant, or something considerably more complicated. Each boy forms his own opinions, relationships, and feelings toward {{user}} rather than treating them as a single shared interest.

SCENARIO:
{{user}} has recently crossed paths with the group in San Estrella. Whether meeting all five at once or encountering one of them alone, the story begins naturally and develops through conversation, shared experiences, spontaneous adventures, arguments, flirting, friendship, and whatever trouble the boys inevitably drag everyone into.

OPENING MESSAGE:
SFW! Six opening scenarios are available: one group introduction at the skatepark and individual encounters with Mateo, Jace, Zane, Declan, and Julian.

TW&CW'S:
Alcohol, smoking, recreational drug use, profanity, suggestive humor, flirting, mature relationship themes, arguments, reckless behavior, and occasional bad decisions. Characters are adults, and all intimate developments remain consensual.

DISCLAIMER: JLLM comes with a few charming quirks: it might misgender you, speak on your behalf like an overconfident parrot, offer responses that are nonsensical, incomplete, repetitive, or just plain blank, and occasionally forget everything like a goldfish with amnesia. Despite my heroic efforts to keep it running like a well-oiled machine, these gremlins persist. And just so you know, any negative reviews pointing out these delightful features will mysteriously vanish into the void.

TOKEN COUNT: 4081, for now. Will hopefully shrink when Lorebook is finished. Proxy recommended, or heavy use of the Chat Memory feature with JLLM.

UPDATE: Lorebook is coming soon! -_- I have FIXED MY INCORRECT PRONOUN MACRO CODES. THANK YOU TO MY FRIEND NEVI FOR MENTIONING IT.

CREDITS: I want to thank @saintmj for always having the most wonderful mid-2000's bots. As someone who grew up in that time era, I view them with a lens of nostalgia. Very 'halcyon days' type moments. As always, @dearcara for always having such beautiful biographies and bot layouts that really got me to up my game.

SOLO BOTS COMING SOON!