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I have been feeling cruddy and apathetic for far too long, and I will fix that by making this thread that lets me continue to not write. So I've been playing with one of those "writing assistant AI" things, or whatever they're calling themselves, on and off for awhile now. The one I use is called NovelAI, but there's another popular one out there called HoloAI (which has less cool things to fiddle with, but much cheaper subscriptions.) Both will let you mess around with them a bit for free if any of you want to check them out, there's some certain amount of characters you can use per email per month. Just note that: 1) they can frequently produce cool things, but are no substitute for real writing. Writing a prompt, setting up parameters for it, then repeatedly spamming undo and redo until it gives you something good, or even just fully coherent, actually can take MUCH longer than just writing a passage yourself to begin with. 2) the communities around these bots are *very* impure, but both of the ones I mentioned do respect user privacy and use reasonable security measures to do so. Do not use AI Dungeon by any means, it sucks now that they diluted Endmaster's vision too far, and it's owned by Mormons and Microsoft. All that said, I just signed up for NovelAI for another month, fancy $15 dollar tier. Probably will drop it a good long while after this, the urge to fiddle around with it comes and goes but never lasts a full month. That's where you guys come in. We are going to write a story together! And by that I mean, we are going to let the bot write the story while we give it gentle nudges. To begin with, I need characters, setting details, genre, style, theme, all that good stuff. Give me the suggestions for however many of those you like, and ideas for interesting places where scenes can take place. The bot can remember a lot of things at this tier and will incorporate them into the story as best it can. Post in this thread and you get on the tag list. People on the tag list may occasionally be called upon to submit a few paragraphs to reorient the AI when it needs some helping along. Rules: no sex stuff. The AI is very weak to suggestion and, having been trained in large part on the internet, is ready to do a hard swerve into an endless cycle of smut at any moment.

I'd like to suggest a science fantasy story. I might think of a few better ideas later, idk. Location: An abandoned library reclaimed by nature. Human and animal bones litter the floor, along with large insect husks. Grub worms can be found within the remaining books. Item: A dagger made from a unicorn horn. Highly effective against the undead, but only a virgin can wield it. World Detail: Magic is chaotic. The intended effects of a spell or enchantment don't always happen and can be drastically different (e.g. a fireball spell causes mushrooms to grow on a person instead of burning them). It's also the main source of pollution and heavy magic pollution mutates everything in the area. Character: A treasure hunter except he (or she) is a ghost and can't take any of the treasure he (or she) finds. Character: Minor villain. A proactive thief/murderer that prevents the plot from advancing. Location: An imposing castle filled with ravenous monsters, but the owner is really polite and friendly.

How about a revenge theme?