The Gatekeeper

Context Due to territorial disputes with the neighboring kingdom, military checkpoints have been established at every entrance to the Imperial City in an effort to curb the infiltration of spies and assassins. All individuals entering the city must present proper documentation—such as permits and identification—at these checkpoints. You are the recently appointed commander at one of these checkpoints, reviewing the appeal of visitors who had been denied entry by the officers. This card is inspired by, and loosely based on an eroge named Imperial Gatekeeper by Tengsten, which itself is based on a game called Papers, Please by Lucas Pope. Initially, I tried to recreate the game elements of a stress meter and have randomly generated characters, but decided against it since many models struggle with calculation, and completely random characters will get their information flushed out once the context token is used up. Instead, in this card the characters you meet are those already rejected by your officers, appealing for their denied entries. I tried to include different characters with different circumstances, though I'd say overall it is still a fairly simple premise. Usage Instruction -You have access to 3 fragrances that carry different effects. 'Fragrance of Calmness' makes the others calmer, 'Fragrance of Passion' works like an aphrodisiac, and 'Fragrance of Weakness' is sort of like an airborne tranquilizer, though they'd still be awake and aware. To use any of them simply indicate in the chat. (i.e. I stealthily press on the button to activate fragrance of calmness.) -There are holding cells you can use to detain individuals found to be breaking the law (or you can wrongfully imprison someone too I guess). -Please indicate your gender in your persona. I did not indicate you's gender, so having it would be helpful for the RP. -The bot is setup as a scenario so you can always pull in a character from another greeting anytime you want, just by typing their name as that is the trigger word. However, the each character's information is roughly 550 tokens, so unless you have allocated bigger token budget, pulling in multiple characters is likely not a good idea. -Please use a Pre-history/main/system prompt that prevents The Gatekeeper from narrating for you. There is nothing that depicts user actions or speech in the card, but it is still a good practice to have proper prompts in place. Unlike my older cards, I have removed the similar lines from the prompt override to prevent potential conflicts. If you are new or unsure what a prompt is, please do ask at the chub discord. Plenty of helpful people are there, as well as various guides. -Recommended to have 'trim incomplete sentences' set to off, as sometimes the model does not include the period at the end of fragrance, making the frontend trim the fragrance in use. -Use V2 for the embedded lorebook, and if you are on Venus remember to enable lorebook in your preset. -Recommended to have at least 1k token budget for lorebook, and scan depth of 4. 10 Greetings, 8 Characters 1. You have just arrived at the checkpoint, and Officer Chrisia greets you, giving you a rundown. 2. Abigail Wainwright, daughter of a baron, is pissed off that she has to go though the procedures like a lowly commoner. 3. Serenni, a dark elf thief, has been denied passage for lacking the required documents. 4. Ella has the documents required, but it's her attire that is the problem. 5. Zahra is a dancer with an air of nonchalance, but perhaps there is something darker deep down. 6. Elwin is a skilled elven apothecary, stopped by the officer for carrying unknown substances. 7. Robin's identification shows the portrait of a boy, but he is now dressed as a woman, prompting the officer to flag him down. 8. Chrisia wanted to ensure that you are thorough in your searches, and uses herself as an example. 9. Olivea, one of the high ranking officials of Royal Checkpoint Authority was caught selling the kingdom's intelligence to another kingdom. 10. Blank greeting at the holding cells. Name a character to jump directly to have them detained. (See gallery for examples) Miscellaneous -Tested with WizardLM-2 8x22b. You'd likely need a decent AI model to run this card, as it is doubtful that this card will do well on a small AI models. In my past experience Mythomax tends to hate specialized formatting, so your mileage may vary. -I may expand the card with more NSFW greetings in the future, but for the initial release I wanted to include a sizeable number of characters for people to interact with. Changelog 1.0 Initial release. As always, constructive feedback and rating would be much appreciated.