A Coomer’s Guide to AI Dungeon

Manwhore, author

Paragon, editor

PDFanon, typesetter

Version 4.0

25 December, 2020

Contents

1. Preface .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2

2. Prompts .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3

2.1. Tenets of a Good Prompt .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3

2.1.1. A Summary, Not A Story .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3

2.1.2. A Springboard, Not An Info Dump .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3

2.2. Think Big, Start Small .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4

2.2.1. From Prompt to Story .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4

3. The Remember Box .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4

3.1. The Recommended Order .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5

3.2. Formatting .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5

3.3. Updating .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5

4. World Info .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6

4.1. Keys and Composition .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6

4.2. Frequent Uses .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6

4.2.1. Characters .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6

4.2.2. Species .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7

4.2.3. Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7

5. Author’s Notes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7

5.1. Primary Uses .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8

5.1.1. Prose .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8

5.1.2. Details .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8

5.1.3. Moods .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8

5.1.4. Premonitions .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9

5.2. Keeping Your A/N Dynamic .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9

5.3. Expanded uses .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9

6. Style .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9

6.1. What You Give Is What You Get .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9

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6.2. Improvements For Your Prose .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10

6.2.1. Intent .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10

6.2.2. Pacing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 11

6.2.3. Guidance .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 11

6.3. Sensations .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 12

6.3.1. Character Dynamics .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 12

6.3.2. Pairing Sensations .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 13

6.4. Improving The AI’s Prose .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 13

6.4.1. Making /alter Count .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 14

6.5. Perspectives .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 14

6.5.1. First, Second and Third Person .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 14

6.5.2. Points of View .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15

7. Tips and Tricks .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15

7.1. Removing Clothing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15

7.2. Hook Details .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15

7.3. Special Story Details .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 16

7.4. Relative Language and Prose .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 16

8. Summary .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17

9. Closing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 19

Appendix A. Examples .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 21

A.1. World Info .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 21

A.2. /remember .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 22

A.2. Author’s Notes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 22

Resources .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24

1. Preface

The coomer’s greatest muscle

is not his dick, but his mind.

Welcome to—or welcome back to—the Coomer’s Guide to AI Dungeon. This is a

guide for moderately skilledusersof AI Dungeon that are looking to increase the quality

of their erotic writing through the use of AI Dungeon’s many powerful features.

The advice and conclusions of this guide can generally be applied to any of AI

Dungeon’s offered models, but a majority of the research conducted for this guide was

done with the Dragon model. The methods put forth in this guide have been cultivated

through both my own experiences and research, as well as extensive discussions and re-

view with the AI Dungeon community.The effectivenessof this guide is not guaranteed,

and the modiﬁcation of its rules and recommendations is something I would actively

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encourage in order to see better results.

As a ﬁnal but very important note before we begin, this guide is not for beginners,

nor is it a guide for general usage.If you are new to AI Dungeon, please refer to Avsfag’s

/AIDG/ Writing Guide in order to become familiar with the basics. Likewise, if you

are looking for advice on how to conduct a regular adventure with AI Dungeon, you

will not ﬁnd it here. As the title implies, this guide is solely focused on how to bend the

mechanics of AI Dungeon in order to produce high-quality erotic writing.

With all that said, if you are already familiar with AI Dungeon on an intermediate

level, and are looking for smut-speciﬁc advice, proceed at your leisure.

2. Prompts

Prompts are the bedrock of any AI Dungeon adventure that goes beyond the

simplistic constraints of Worlds or the Default Prompts. Prompts are integral to quality

erotic writing, because they allow you to create ﬁne-tuned setups for the kind of smut

you want without having to coax it out of an unrelated adventure. However, in order

to improve the quality of your erotic writing, you must also learn how to improve the

quality of your prompts.

2.1. Tenets of a Good Prompt

2.1.1. A Summary, Not A Story

Especially for erotic writing, prompts should not waste characters on lengthy

summaries of rich detail that attempt to cover every facet of what you want to

accomplish—this is what you should be doing after the prompt has kicked things off.

When crafting a prompt, you must always keep in mind its natural impermanence.

A good prompt provides you (and any other user) with the information they need to

createa solidand detailed series of resulting actions that guide the story in an interesting

and coherent direction after the prompt itself disappears from the AI’s memory.

2.1.2. A Springboard, Not An Info Dump

You should always strive to create a prompt that is as effective as possible in as

few characters as possible. Thankfully, erotic writing rarely demands extensive setup.

As long as the prompt establishes a little bit about the setting, characters that will be

important for the next 20 actions, and some narrative details to help the user understand

where the prompt is meant to go, you will have a solid prompt.

The idea is to create a prompt that lets you quickly and effectively guide the actions

that follow in an appropriate level of detail to continue the story properly. A prompt

should always serve as a springboard for the user’s ideas and actions, not an info dump

that heaps 2000 characters of lore on them and then leaves them sitting in a lounge chair

with no goal.

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2.2. Think Big, Start Small

How speciﬁc or vague a prompt ultimately is does not matter, as it has no bearing

on the tenets outlined above. All that matters is that you have crafted a prompt that

kicks off your story in a way that creates a satisfying series of resulting actions that will

carry on the story after the prompt disappears from memory.

With erotic writing in particular, you are often better served with gearing a prompt

towards a very streamlined setup that is heavy on situational action and light on

narrative background, as opposed to the inverse. In most cases, extensive narrative

setup is wasted on prompts crafted with erotic writing in mind, as the erotic writing

itself will quickly consume the AI’s ability to focus on much of anything else.

For both erotic and non-erotic prompts, it is recommended that even if your con-

cept for a prompt is very grandiose, you should scale it back so that what you ultimately

present to the AI is a slice of what you have in mind. Any additional information and

concepts outside of the springboard discussed in the previous subsection should be rel-

egated to /remember and World Info. How you go about that is what we will discuss

later on in this guide.

2.2.1. From Prompt to Story

Perhaps the most important part of a prompt—especially for erotic writing—is

the ﬁnal section where what you have written is going to be continued by the AI or the

user. This ﬁnal segment of a prompt and its construction is something you should pay

very close attention to if you want your prompt to function correctly. What the tail end

of your prompt can look like is limitless, but what it must include is a very clear path

forward for the AI and the user.

Once again, erotic writing prompts hinge on situational action, so in most cases

having the end of your prompt act a segue into a speciﬁc situation that draws upon the

prompt’s information is always a safe bet. What this segue is, and what the resulting

situation looks like is once again almost limitless, but it should be one that forces the

user to determine their next action with the details and setup of your prompt in mind.

Overwhelmingly, the erotic writing prompts that gain the most widespread appeal

are ones that effective outline the start of some encounter, give the user context for what

they’re doing and who they’re getting intimate with, and then clearly pose the path

forward for that encounter.

3. The Remember Box

The key to ensuring that erotic scenes will ﬂow coherently with the AI—without

your constant intervention—is your /remember box. With 1000 characters to work

with as the most front-and-center component of Memory, utilizing it to the fullest for

better erotic writing is often a tricky task for even intermediately skilled users. The rec-

ommended usage of /remember is as a repository of immediately important informa-

tion and details related to your character, their partner, and the current setting of your

encounter.

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The words ‘immediately important’ are the most critical separator of the /remem-

ber box’s purpose from World Info. Whereas World Info should handle more back-

ground details and information,/rememberis where all the information you need in the

present moment to conduct a scene should be placed.

3.1. The Recommended Order

When entering information into your /remember, you should strive to follow a

logical order of information, starting from top to bottom:

• Constant information that will always be needed in immediate memory, such as

the name and personality of your character.

• Current information on the setting, speciﬁcally detailing where you are and who

you are with.

• Descriptions and details for your partner(s) and any other present characters.

• Supplemental information, which is anything the AI needs to keep in immediate

memory that isn’t relevant to any of the categories above.

3.2. Formatting

When composing all of this information in your /remember, ensure that you are chunk-

ing each category into its own paragraph.On top of this, you will still need to ensurethat

every sentence in your /remember can stand on its own when picked out and presented

individually.Some linked ideas are okay within a paragraph, but the more independent

each sentencein your /remember is, the better the AI will behave. As for the exact word-

ing of the /remember box’s contents, it is recommended that you put “Your name is X”

as the very ﬁrst thing in your /remember. After that, describe the player character in

second person for the rest of your /remember. For concrete examples of how to format

your /remember, see Appendix A.2.

3.3. Updating

After you have composed your /remember, the next important step is updating its con-

tents as your story begins to take shape. Each paragraph will update at a different pace,

which is natural.When you are knee-deep in a quality piece of erotic writing, sometimes

your /remember will not change at all until a given scene has concluded and the story

progresses. While more standard stories have a higher rate of /remember turnover, de-

pending on the kind of erotic writing you are doing, the /remember may end up quite

static. All that matters is that your updates keep pace with what immediately important

information is changing.

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4. World Info

World Info entries are often overlooked for the purposes of erotic writing, but

their trigger-based nature grants them unique sway over a story. While World Info does

have interesting uses for smut, it is worth noting that in most to all cases, World Info is

optional for erotic writing.

4.1. Keys and Composition

World Info entries must always be composed with a utilitarian mindset. They

need to be sharp and descriptive, while also remaining concise. In general, your entries

should be composed as a singular paragraph of short sentences. Each sentence in a

World Info entry should be able to stand on its own and use the key for the entry, much

like how /remember sentences need to be able to stand on their own. For World Info

especially, make sure your sentences are short and to the point.

When it comes to keys, they are usually quite self-evident. Make sure that the keys

for a World Info entry encompass all possible, but speciﬁc titles that could be used to

bring up the contents of said entry. This is especially important for characters that have

multiple different interpretations, shortenings, or preﬁxes for their names and titles.

For examples of formatted World Info, see Appendix A.1.

4.2. Frequent Uses

As we noted in the introduction for this section, while World Info is largely

regarded as optional for erotic writing, it still has a few interesting uses that should not

be discounted.

4.2.1. Characters

In stories with several prominent characters that each have speciﬁc attributes you

want to keep track of, building World Info entries for each of them and assigning the

keys to their various monikers is nearly essential so that you aren’t constantly juggling

and running up against your /remember’s character allotment. World Info entries

automate the process of taking character’s details and attributes in and out of memory

as they are needed, instead of shouldering the task onto the user and making them

update their /remember constantly as ﬁgures in a story come and go. (Which also eats

away at /remember’s potential for more useful details) In the context of erotic writing,

this practice is most often utilized for writing harem stories, or any sort of erotic story

that involves several rotating characters.

In general, character entries should seek to establish broad and concrete things

about a given character, such as their species (if different species is important for your

setting), their height, a very light rundown of their features, and one or two things about

their personality. Anything deeper should be relegated to /remember once they’ve

established themselves as a part of a scene.

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4.2.2. Species

If your story is one that involves non-human species, WI is an excellent assistant for

deﬁning the traits of any species you want, even ones that the AI doesn’t understand at

all. By making the keys the species name(s), and the entry a description of the species’

universal attributes—while still following the formatting guidelines above—you

can quickly have a very helpful body of information on whatever species it is you’re

working with in a given scene injected into context just by using the species’ name.

When it comes to erotic writing, species entries see some of their most frequent

use in smut. One of AI Dungeon’s greatest strengths is that you can get frisky with

nearly anything, and species entries can often prove one of your greatest assistants in

this area.

4.2.3. Miscellaneous

Much like Author’s Note, (or any other facet of AI Dungeon) what you can do with

World Info is only limited to what you can imagine and then condense into under 500

characters. While character entries and species entries are the two most common uses

of World Info for erotic writing, there are many other more obscure uses for World Info

that can assist you in crafting complex and interesting smut.

World Info can also be utilized for specially named objects, deﬁned locations,

special substances, even deﬁning slang. As long as it’s something you know you’re

going to need in the AI’s memory at some point, but not necessarily all the time, its

typically a good candidate for a World Info entry.

As a closing note for this section, sometimes your World Info entries will need to

break convention based on the unique demands or challenges of working with speciﬁc

characters or species, and that’s okay. Adaptation is at the heart of good writing with

AI Dungeon. Just keep in mind that if the details you put in a World Info entry don’t

show up, or show up incorrectly, don’t immediately assume it is because you are doing

something wrong. Sometimes the AI just completely ignores entries, other times it will

pull details exclusive to them out of nowhere and make them the focus of scene, which

is quite thrilling when it does happen.

Don’t be dismayed if it takes a while for you to get a good sense for what a robust

World Info entry looks like. Even highly experienced users tweak and improve their

World Info all the time.People often end up paining very deeply over World Info entries,

but especially in the area of erotic writing, you shouldn’t trouble yourself with such

a hangup.

5. Author’s Notes

When it comes to giving your story a ’primary directive’ in terms of what the AI

should be putting the most effort into as the current focus, Author’s Note is your tool

of choice. Author’s Note is capable of instantly turning the direction of a story on its

head, while supercharging the AI’s ability to describe just about anything with a few

short sentences.

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Author’s Note is a premium-only feature at the time of writing, and can be found

just beneath the /remember box, with the placeholder text “Style Hint:”.

5.1. Primary Uses

The usages of Author’s Note are nearly limitless.For the sake of elaboration howev-

er, we can categorize the basic functions of most Author’s Notes into four categories, or-

dered from most common to least common: Prose, Details, Moods, and Premonitions.

Before we continue, it is important to note that these deﬁnitions merely apply to

singular sentences in the Author’s Note. Author’s Note has an overall character limit

of 150, which means you can include sentences for all four types if you want, as long as

you can make them ﬁt.

5.1.1. Prose

Author’s Note was originally introduced on the basis of helping guide and enhance

the user’s prose, which makes it the most well-known and simplistic of Author’s Note’s

capabilities.A well-tested and simplistic example of an Author’s Note for prose is “This

is a story with plenty of erotic detail.”, which may seem almost laughably obvious, but

is surprisingly helpful for the AI. In general, Author’s Notes for prose should be short

and to the point while providing clear-cut guidance on how the AI is meant to behave

when sculpting its words.

5.1.2. Details

Detail is the simplest Author’s Note category. It is as simple as specifying a person,

place, thing, concept, any detail you want, that you want the AI to focus on more

frequently. Sometimes this can cause the AI to over-focus on what you’ve speciﬁed

though, so be aware of what you have in your Author’s Note if the AI starts to act a little

too narrow-minded.

For erotic writing, detail notes are quite useful, as they allow us to guide the AI’s

focus towards speciﬁc things we want out of a scene. A good example for where you

would want to add something to the Author’s Note for detail would be if you want the

AI to focus on the speciﬁc sensations of your partner. Putting “Strong focus on the soft,

warm body of [Your partner]” in the Author’s Note will bring about advanced descrip-

tions of the gentle texture and warmth of your partner’s embrace with surprising speed

and effectiveness.

5.1.3. Moods

By noting something about the speciﬁc mood of a scene in the Author’s Note, such

as whether it is ‘tense’, ‘passionate’, or ‘romantic’, you can get the AI to reﬂect that in

its output. When writing smut, Mood notes are best utilized to dictate the disposition of

your, your partner, and/or the disposition you share while interacting with one another.

So notes like “[Your Partner] is a sexually aggressive seductress.” or “You and [Your

Partner] have been dying to explore each other sexually for weeks.” are remarkably

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potent when it comes to the AI coloring how characters will behave with one another

during the course of a scene.

5.1.4. Premonitions

Premonitionsare the black sheep of the Author’s Note categories, being short-lived

and somewhat obtuse compared to the other categories. Stated plainly, a premonition

in your Author’s Note is something that makes mention of what is going to or about

to occur. Sentences such as “[Your partner] is about to make a bold sexual advance.” or

“Your next brothel customer will be a Succubus.” have a very good chance of coming

true when put in your Author’s Note. This hinges on the rest of your Memory and the

story itself being in the right place for such a premonition to come true, however.

The overall point of a premonition is usually to let the AI take the initiative on an

upcoming action because you want to work with its interpretation of a spontaneous

event instead of composing all of it yourself via action guidance.

5.2. Keeping Your A/N Dynamic

Much like how your /remember should be updated as things in your story change,

Author’s Note should follow a similar principle. Some parts of an Author’s Note

won’t change all that often—if ever—while other parts will change quite frequently,

depending on their purpose. What’s most important is that you don’t forget about

your Author’s Note, as is all too easy. Author’s Note works best as something that is

frequently updated so that its incredible power is always being utilized to the fullest.

5.3. Expanded uses

As a ﬁnal word on Author’s Note, it is important to keep in mind that what you can

do with it is only limited to the sentences and ideas you can ﬁt into 150 characters, and

can easily transcend any of the simplistic categories outlined here. This entire section is

merely one interpretation of how to utilize Author’s Note. As long as you’re striving to

utilize Author’s Note as a way to help ﬁrmly guide the AI’s hand in a given matter, what

you input can take nearly any shape.For erotic writing especially, this limitless potential

is something you should use and abuse frequently in order to get the results you want,

whether your ideal results are slow burn romance in a cozy cabin, or high-octane

monstergirl ﬁght-sex.

6. Style

While the other sections of this guide have focused on speciﬁc functions, this

section will be a larger overview of how you should be conducting inputs with the AI.

6.1. What You Give Is What You Get

Above all other guidelines and maxims put forth in this guide, there are none

as important as the phrase “What you give is what you get”, or as programmers say,

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“Garbage in, garbage out”. This philosophy is an idea that rules everything you do with

AI Dungeon, but especially when it comes to your inputs, which are the meat of the AI

Dungeon experience.

Perhaps the fastest improvement any user of AI Dungeon can make regarding the

quality of their inputs is to cease utilizing Do and Say. Even intermediately skilled users

are found still using Do and Say inputs for their stories, and while using these input

modes isn’t necessarily incorrect, exclusively using Story is universally recommended

for erotic writing.

If you want high-quality smut, you will need to be investing high-quality effort

in terms of what you are feeding the AI as inputs. AI Dungeon is a text mimicry tool

before all else, so short inputs devoid of detail are going to return short outputs devoid

of detail. This is especially important when considering alternative formats for your

Memory, as depriving the AI of natural prose in all but your adventure’s action history

is going to have a marked effect on the AI’s ability to describe what you have in Memory

with a sufﬁcient level of proﬁciency and detail.

6.2. Improvements For Your Prose

With all of this being said about the need for high-quality inputs, many users end

up struggling with how they are supposed to begin elevating their inputs to a level of

quality that returns good results from the AI. Fortunately, many improvements can be

made to the inputs you are handing the AI by running what you want to do with your

next input through a few simple considerations that we will discuss in the sub-sections

that follow.

An important note before we discuss anything else is that while a strong compre-

hension of grammar rules is important for keeping the AI’s average IQ above room tem-

perature, you do not need to spend your time assembling a vast and ﬂowery vocabulary

in order to write good smut with AI Dungeon. That comes after you have a good handle

on the rest of this process.

6.2.1. Intent

The ﬁrst and easiest consideration to keep in mind when assembling input is what

you’re looking to accomplish with the AI though a given action in the midst of a scene.It

is as simple as asking yourself, “What do I intend for the AI to focus on with this input?”,

and then fusing that into your language. For instance, if you are taking off your shirt,

you might tell the AI just that, “You take off your shirt”. But if you consider what you

want to accomplish by taking off your shirt—perhaps revealing your torso—suddenly

you have an idea you can attach to the action. So, your input becomes “You slide your

shirt off your body to reveal your torso”.

The AI reacts to this sort of built-in initiative quite well, as it natively signals what

you want it to focus on next.

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6.2.2. Pacing

Pacing is also quite straightforward, but is something that a lot of AI Dungeon

users let escape them as they are crafting inputs.Without reinforcing a sense of pacing to

the AI, any sort of erotic writing you attempt will easily collapse in less than 10 actions,

without fail. The AI does not hesitate to begin and end encounters incredibly quickly,

which is one of the loudest and most common complaints from users attempting to

conduct erotic writing with the AI for the ﬁrst time. Users will begin a scene, the AI will

generate a single instance of “I’m gonna

…

”, and like that it’s over. The remedy is quite

simple—adding temporal language to your inputs that signals to the AI that things are

moving on a slower time line. The more drawn-out your sentences are, and the more

temporal language you include, the better the AI will be at slowing things down and

ﬁxating on the juicy details. To use our shirt example from the previous subsection, you

would add pacing by simply adding “slowly” and “teasingly” to the sentence, making

it “You slowly slide your shirt off your body to teasingly reveal your torso”. Since both

of these words indicate something done carefully and without speed, the AI will pick

up on that and spend more time detailing the process. This consideration is never bul-

letproof however, and one of your perennial battles as a smut writer with AI Dungeon

will be ﬁghting the AI’s hair trigger for concluding smut in 10 actions or less. As a gen-

eral rule of thumb, the more speciﬁc details you add to any given action, the slower the

pace of the scene is going to be, and vice versa. The AI’s penchant for mimicry will kick

in and keep things on a slower timeline if it’s trying to imitate you specifying how every

single article of clothing comes off in ﬁne detail.

6.2.3. Guidance

Guidance is your third consideration, and one of the most important for really

digging into that deeper layer of quality smut. In short, guidance is all about where

your actions are going, what they’re trying to lead to next; guidance is the consideration

of the future through your inputs. It’s quite similar to the process of considering your

intentions with an action, except this time you should be considering what a given input

is supposed to be doing in order to set up the next action—whether that next action is

coming from you or the AI does not matter.

Bringing back our trusty shirt example once more, we already have a pretty solid

input in the form of “You slowly slide your shirt off your body to teasingly reveal your

torso”. And while revealing your torso is already what the next action is likely to be

about, say we want to speciﬁcally focus on revealing our character’s abs. That’s your

guidance, right there. Injecting it is as easy as changing the input to “You slowly slide

your shirt off your body to teasingly reveal your torso, pulling away the fabric inch by

inch to direct attention to your abs”. Through this process, we have easily signalled to

the AI where it needs to focus its predictions regarding the next action—which is what

guidance is all about.

Just like that, the AI has a lengthy sentence full of slowed-down language and

detail, with a clear idea of what to immediately focus on, and then what to focus

on next.

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6.3. Sensations

Once you have a good grasp on how to frame quality inputs from a functional

perspective, you can start laying on the good stuff. All good erotic writing primarily

centers around deep descriptions of sensation, which is exactly what you should be

striving to do with each and every one of your inputs. When crafting any given action,

stop to carefully consider how it affects each of the ﬁve senses, and how these sensations

can be detailed to make your descriptions more potent.

This is the most basic level of additional detail and should be considered ﬁrst in

the process of spicing up your inputs. Once you have considered how an action looks,

sounds, feels, tastes, and smells, you can then move on to the ﬁner details that involve

more abstract concepts (which we will discuss in the following subsection).

Do note that a good input only makes use of relevant senses, not all senses. You

should not be detailing the sound your shirt makes when it comes off your body,

because that would be an irrelevant detail for simply taking it off.However, if your shirt

was being violently ripped off your body, sound might suddenly be very important

to that description. The process of determining what senses are important for a given

scene is heavily inﬂuenced by its dynamic.

6.3.1. Character Dynamics

When it comes to deﬁning the dynamic your character has with your partner, begin

by considering the sort of emotional ﬂow state that exists between them. How do you

treat them? How do they treat you? How does your treatment of one another affect the

emotional climate of the scene? Most importantly, how does that color your actions?

For instance, a gentle make-out session by the ﬁreplace should have a kiss described

very differently than a kiss had during a high-octane episode of wrestling intercourse.

It is ultimately the same action—a simple kiss—but since the dynamic between you and

your partner is very different in each of these situations (gentle vs high-octane), you

are likely to trend towards softer or more abrasive language in order to reinforce that

prevailing sense of emotion. This is how dynamics inﬂuence your details.

For the former gentle scene, a good line might be “You gently press your lips up

against hers, the warmth of her touch spreading across your face as she leans in to

return the gesture”.For the latter rough scene, “Your mouth latches onto hers as she tries

to shove you into a more submissive position, her lips grinding against yours as you

struggle to hold your ground”.

As you can see, the dynamic of a scene affects your word choice for describing

sensations. This applies to all ﬁve senses, as well as your emotional sense. For example,

some dynamics would call for your partner’s scent to be described as ‘sweet‘, while

others would call for them to be described as ‘musky’. Sometimes a hug is a gentle and

tender embrace between lovers, other times it’s a crushing and frightening display of

sexual aggression. It all depends on the sort of tone you’re looking to set.

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6.3.2. Pairing Sensations

Once you understand how to infuse your writing with good sensations that fall in

line with the dynamic between you and your partner, and the tone of a scene, you can

take the fun to the next level and begin pairing sensations together through the use of

similes and metaphors. You will most often use similes and metaphors for pairing other

sensations with the sense of touch. It is very easy to over-focus on your tactile senses

when writing smut, as it is easily the most prominent form of sensory input for intimacy

unless another sense is the focus of a fetish.

Thankfully, by pairing other senses with our descriptions of touch, you can quickly

break up any sort of monotony and make your writing quite vibrant. A classic one I

like to break out during the foreplay section of a scene is paying close attention to the

sounds your partner is making while the two of you are getting frisky. A simple “She

hums softly as her hands run across your shoulders and down your back, carefully

assessing the outlines of your skin” goes a very long way for making a scene pop. To

infuse a simile into that input, we can tack on something that works with our dynamic.

In this case, let’s say our dynamic is something gentle and romantic, so we’d make the

input into “She hums softly as her hands run across your shoulders and down your

back, carefully assessing the outlines of your skin as if you were a delicate puppy”. If

your dynamic is a bit rougher, you would change that simile to reﬂect that.

The best part is that there are no limits on what you can pair and elaborate on with

sensations. When describing something less immediately tangible through text, such as

scents or sounds, this technique is especially handy. By mixing together different kinds

of prose, you can quickly elevate “She whispers into your ear” to “The sound of her

loving whispers mixed with soft moaning and panting against your ear is like being

tenderly spoon-fed warm honey”.

As long as you’re getting different senses to play off each other in interesting

and pleasing ways, you’re doing it right. This technique isn’t something that requires

hours of thought or tons of deep mystic training. Just ask yourself what sounds like a

hot complement to an already hot idea, and you’re on your way. Part of getting better

at this whole process is just playing it by ear and ﬁguring out what makes you coom

the hardest.

6.4. Improving The AI’s Prose

For all the effort you will invest in your inputs through these considerations, it

is an unfortunate truth that the AI is not always going to give back the same level of

quality you put in. At times, the AI does not feel like being cooperative with whatever

it is that you’re trying to construct in a given scene, which can be quite frustrating. The

important thing to learn is that even if the AI is not working with you perfectly, what it

gives you as output can be skillfully bent to your will with a little editing.

After your inputsreach a certain level of quality, the AI’s output is usually sufﬁcient

as a solid series of starter sentences that you can tweak for quality and tone. Once the AI

has given you a few sentences that work well as a starting point for re-conﬁguring, you

are entirely free to run them through the considerations we have just discussed and then

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use /alter (the edit button) to replace the AI’s output with your remodeled sentences.

Once you start doing this, your smut work-ﬂow will reach new heights. This process

of utilizing the AI’s output as a starting point for enhancement—and not focusing on

what the AI spits out on your ﬁrst try as the metric for success—is what many users of

AI Dungeon are talking about when they refer to AI Dungeon as a writing assistant.

As you begin to work with the AI and ﬁll the context window with enough quality

text to completely saturate it for a given scene, you will often see the quality of the AI’s

responses spike dramatically. This is a unique point you can often take advantage of for

erotic writing, where all of the AI’s present focus is dedicated to a given scene because

all of its active memory and context is centered around it.

6.4.1. Making /alter Count

As a quick rule of thumb, you shouldn’t be editing everything the AI gives you,

not all the time. If you ﬁnd yourself having to make comprehensive revisions to nearly

every output, you need to work on something else that’s harming the quality of your

output. Likewise, if you ﬁnd yourself restructuring more than roughly 75% of a given

output, you should just save the idea behind it for later and hit redo.

6.5. Perspectives

As a ﬁnal section under Style, it is worth mentioning the impact that perspectives

can have on your erotic writing, both narrative and character perspectives.

6.5.1. First, Second and Third Person

AI Dungeon is structuredentirely in second person present tense from the start, and

all models have ﬁne-tuning that assists them in reinforcing this narrative perspective.

However, GPT-3’s underlying corpus is far, far more extensive than the ﬁne-tuning data

the developers have provided. This means that if you phrase everything correctly, AI

Dungeon is entirely capable of conducting adventuresin ﬁrst person, as well as any type

of third person, in past or present tense.

Third person limited past tense is a common alternative narrative perspective

adopted by AI Dungeon users, which can provide some interesting advantages. For

erotic writing, third person tends to bring out different kinds of detail in your smut,

since the AI is drawing from different parts of its core training data, as well as allowing

more intuitive focus shifts between characters in a scene.

When it comes to gearing up the AI for a narrative perspective that isn’t second

person, it’s as easy as phrasing all of your inputs and Memory in the desired perspective

and tense. That way, all of the AI’s context is in that perspective and tense, and it will

begin to mimic that in its outputs. If you are at all struggling with the random inclusion

of second person artifacts, make sure you aren’t including any slip-ups in your inputs or

memory that the AI can latch onto. (New users often make the mistake of assuming the

“3rd Person Only” switch in settings will immediately convert your adventures to third

person past tense. It does not, as this is merely a toggle for multiplayer that changes the

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word “You” to whatever your character’s name is.)

Be aware that if you are looking to swap to another narrative perspective in order to

escape the frequent fun inclusions of the ﬁne-tuning data in your adventures, this is not

a solution.Even in third person you will still encounter Count Grey, Svelks, and Eternals

from time to time while attempting to write your smut.

6.5.2. Points of View

As an interesting sub-note on perspectives, one of AI Dungeon’s most fascinating

‘hidden feature’is the ability to dropinto other character’s points of view during a scene,

regardless of your current narrative perspective and tense. With a simple “[Character]’s

POV:” as a Story input, the AI will immediately change gears and work to output the

current events of the story from that character’s perspective, often complete with their

own thoughts and feelings.

This has very potent and obvious uses for erotic writing if you are looking to keep

things varied and explore the experience of smut from both sides. It is worth nothing

that smut written from the female perspective is both absurdly detailed and quite

available in GPT-3’s training data, and is resource many newer writers can easily tap

into with a POV command in order to learn more about what good smut can look like

(though not all of it is guaranteed to be good).

7. Tips and Tricks

With the core of this guide complete, all that is left is to cover a few extra tips and

tricks, before moving on to our summary and closing.

7.1. Removing Clothing

All the way up to even intermediate skill levels, users will struggle and scream

against the never-ending pair of pants, the shirt that is always being unbuttoned, the

pair of underwear that is always being slid off. While there is unfortunately no bullet-

proof solution to this perennial problem, strongly noting what clothes are on, and what

are off (Using “You and [Partner]are completely naked.” if there are no more clothes) in

your /remember does quite a lot to help the AI avoid magically manifesting fresh cloth-

ing on you in the midst of getting hot and heavy.

7.2. Hook Details

Another thing that less experienced users can sometimes stub their toes on is the AI

seemingly getting hung up on strange tangents in the middle of a scene.This is (usually)

not the AI having some spontaneous cranial meltdown, but rather a series of details in

the current story context that have too much sway over events. For example, describing

a monstergirl running her nails across your back can quickly segue into being eviscer-

ated if you are not careful. Utilizing mild aphrodisiacs can easily plunge your character

into a coma of some kind, and so on. The prose that leads to these unfortunate outcomes

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can be referred to hook details, since the AI gets hooked on them and doesn’t let go until

you ﬁnd the action responsible and rephrase it to shift the focus.

Typically all you have to do is look back a few inputs and change the sensations

or intent of a given action, which will quickly right the AI’s sense of focus. The key

is realizing when a hook detail is screwing up the direction of your writing and then

hunting it down.

7.3. Special Story Details

Sometimes, for erotic writing that strays from the usual uber-vanilla template, you

want to add some sort of feature or mechanic to the smut that inﬂuences the way a scene

plays out, such as an aphrodisiac or piece of jewelry that affects its user in different

ways. Getting these often obtuse ideas to work with the AI may seem difﬁcult, but it

is often as simple as giving the potion, bracelet, compound, concept, or mechanic its

own World Info entry, and then a line or two in your /remember on how it is meant to

function. You can do this for anything as speciﬁc as items, or as vague as terminology

deﬁnitions that ﬂesh out some part of your erotic experience.

Getting the AI to intuitively comprehend whatever it is you are trying to deﬁne

is usually a game of constructing your deﬁnition using concepts the AI already has a

good grasp on. A common example of this is that you can pair nearly any word you can

think of with the word “girl”, and the AI will be able to roll with it as a fully functional

concept, despite having nothing in its training data for whatever fusion waifu you’ve

just cooked up. This extends to any word pairing for any sort of story detail you

want. This can be very useful if you are conducting erotic writing that hinges on more

in-depth ideas or fetishes that need additional reinforcement.

7.4. Relative Language and Prose

In many cases for a piece of erotic writing, when composing things for both mem-

ory and actions, you will want the AI to keep speciﬁc attributes of a character in mind

that are absolutely integral to the way they behave, most frequently size. Reinforcing

whether a character is larger or smaller than you is a task many users struggle with,

often because they are attempting to do so with objective language (the Oni is seven feet

tall/the Fairy is eight inches tall). Instead of attempting to anchor a concept like size to

hard numbers, which the AI cares nothing for, you should instead use relative language

and prose for these concepts.

By stating in your memory that the Fairy is signiﬁcantly smaller than your charac-

ter, and then describing her using prose that beﬁts a small ﬂying animal like a bird, in-

stead of a human, you will quickly see the AI become much more aware of the Fairy’s

size. This works just as well in the inverse, describing the Oni as much taller than your

character, and using descriptions that hammer home her larger size and stature as well

as the more powerful nature of her movements.

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8. Summary

This guide covers quite a lot of information at varying levels of depth, which

naturally mandates a more succinct summary of each section’s core takeaways. This

bulleted summary is not a substitute for the actual knowledge of the guide, but more

like a useful review of everything you have learned after reading it over.

1. Prompts

• Prompts are integral to quality erotic writing because they allow you to precisely

dictate how your smut starts and what it is about

• A quality prompt translates to quality erotic writing

• Good prompts provide the necessary information for a strong start, not exces-

sive lore

• Good prompts allow the user to quickly and effectively continue the story, well past

when the prompt itself fades from active memory

• For big ideas, make your prompt present a small slice of it to get things started

• Make sure the transition from prompt to story is as intuitive as possible

2. The Remember Box

• The /remember box is for important information that is required for a scene to ﬂow

correctly without constant correction

• Your /remember needs to follow a logical formatting order to keep related ideas

together and different concepts separate

• The individual sentences of your /remember should always strive to stand on

their own

• Your /remember should be updated as a scene evolves and the current focus of the

story changes

3. World Info

• World Info, while largely optional for erotic writing, can still be useful for certain

situations thanks to its trigger-based nature

• World Info entries should be utilitarian: descriptive, yet concise

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• World Info keys need to cover enough phrases to accurately load when their

contents are mentioned, but not cover so many phrases that an entry loads at an

inappropriate time

• World Info entries can be used to keep track of characters, species, locations, items,

and nearly anything that is brought up on a contextual and recurring basis

4. Author’s Notes

• Second only to your actual inputs, Author’s Note is the most active ’guiding hand’

in terms of where the AI’s current focus and effort is going to be for a scene

• Author’s Note can be used to inﬂuence the AI’s prose, accentuate speciﬁc details,

deﬁne a scene’s mood, and loosely guide future events

• Your Author’s Note should be updated as the various components it addresses

evolve with the scene/story

• The only limit on what you can do with Author’s Note is what you can make ﬁt

inside 150 characters

5. Style

• When it comes to writing anything with the AI, what you give is what you get in

terms of quality

• Story is universally recommended over the usage of Do and Say for any method

of input

• Less natural prose in your memory means less natural prose in your outputs

• You need to focus on improving your grasp on grammar and story conventions

before you try and expand your vocabulary

• What you intend to accomplish by composing an input should be self-evident

within the input

• High levels of detail and some temporal language is key to slowing down the AI’s

pacing of the action

• You should always make sure your inputs give the AI speciﬁc guidance on where

it should focus for generating its response

• All good erotic writing centers around deep descriptions of sensation

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• Consider all senses for an action, then choose the relevant ones

• How you and your partner behave with one another is your character dynamic,

which directly affects the tone and prose of a scene

• You can pair sensation descriptions together for added variety in your writing

• The AI will eventually reach a point of context saturation that will make your

outputs very well-focused on a given scene

• Do not waste your time editing every output, or more than 75% of a single output

• You can write with the AI in any narrative perspective and tense you want by

changing your inputs and memory to the desired type

• Commands allow you to change the POV for the story between different characters

in order to explore their thoughts and experiences

6. Tips and Tricks

• Using your /remember to keep strong track of what clothes are on what characters

is key to making sure they come off and stay off

• Sometimes the AI gets stuck on speciﬁc details that will need to be eliminated in

order to stop unhelpful tangents in output

• You can describe speciﬁc details and strange concepts to the AI by pairing together

concepts it already has a good grasp on

• Using relative language to describe attributes such as size will give the AI a much

better understanding of how to handle a character’s actions and descriptions

9. Closing

A little over 7000 words later, and the core of the guide is complete. With luck, you

have learned a great deal about crafting more complex erotic writing with the AI. Just

remember that change is not instant, results will not materialize before your eyes after

a single once-over with this guide. What you have learned here takes time and effort

to get right, like any other skill or hobby. Your next few attempts won’t be perfect—no

attempt ever is—and that’s okay.

AI Dungeon has always been, and always will be about adaptation and experi-

mentation in order to yield better results. It is inevitable that as you grow and become

stronger with erotic writing, the way you interpret, apply, and modify this guide’s ad-

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vice will change as well. You might struggle at times, especially against the AI, but that’s

a part of getting better. Don’t hesitate to take a step back every once in a while to clear

your head and give your process some room to breathe for a bit. Now get out there and

have fun! Live like no one else can, and coom mightily.

Big thanks to the anons of /aidg/ and the wider AI Dungeon community for

their feedback and support across the many iterations of this guide, and for constantly

inspiring me to do better.Speciﬁc thanks to PDFanon for all of his hard work on making

this wall of text look sexy, to Paragon for all of his proofreading and feedback work on

getting this guide to make sense, to Worble for giving the community guides a home

on this website of his, and to the anon with Artbreeder that made the guide’s fantastic

cover

. You’re all wonderful. And, if you’ve made it this far, having read every single

part of this guide (possibly for the fourth/billionth time), thank you.I hope you enjoyed

my guide, and I hope to see you again soon!

(If you have questions or feedback on this guide, or would simply like to get in

touch, I am available on Discord

, as well as by email

Link to the post in question.

Manwhore#5487

ManwhoreAnon@gmail.com

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Appendix A. Examples

A common request across the many versions of this guide has been the inclusion

of more concrete examples for the things discussed within. While attempts have been

made to do so for most of the sections, in the case of World Info and /remember,

including long-form examples is often detrimental to the formatting, pace, and overall

ﬂow of the core guide. As such, this appendix of short examples has been provided and

referenced in order to display some of the recommended practices in action.

A.1. World Info

The best and most up-to-date examples for World Info that I have at the time

of writing are from my scenario “A Summer’s Exchange”

, which deals with three

secondary characters that come and go relative to the player character. These are their

World Info entries:

Arliana, Mrs. Yinris, Arliana Yinris

Arliana is the mother of the Yinris household. Arliana is mature by elf stan-

dards but still looks quite young and pretty to a human. Arliana is a caring

mother for her children and a loving, doting host for her guests. Arliana’s

chest is much larger than the average elf. Arliana is very sensitive about the

size of her chest.

Vel, Velatha, Velatha Yinris

Velatha is the younger of Arliana’s daughters. Velatha is a shy bookworm

that has trouble coming out of her shell, despite being quite smart. Velatha’s

ears are unusually long, and they droop slightly, which is something she’s

very self-conscious of. Velatha’s longer ears are more sensitive than elf ears

usually are.

Check it out here!

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Sol, Solana, Solana Yinris

Solana is the older of Arliana’s daughters, the picture of a youthful elven

beauty. Solana is gorgeous, and stuck up about it. Solana is excessively snob-

by and haughty, especially towards other races like humans. Despite being

fairly dim-witted herself, Solana is both petulant and impatient. Solana’s

body has one ﬂaw: she’s completely ﬂat, and that’s a topic sure to make her

furious if brought up.

As well as World Info entry for their household to keep the family’s relationships

to one another consistent:

Yinris, Yinris Household, House Yinris, Yinris Family

The Yinris household includes mother Arliana and her two daughters Solana

and Velatha.

A.2. /remember

There are two distinct kinds of /remember that merit presentation in this body of

examples. The ﬁrst is your usual /remember for a standard piece of erotic writing that

has cropped up in a larger adventure. This is entry is also taken from a playthrough of

A Summer’s Exchange:

You are Anon, a human exchange student from the University of Magecraft.

You know very little about elves, their culture, or their customs.You are often

unaware of how badly elves lust after you. You are staying with the Yinris

Household, your host family for your cultural exchange trip.

You are currently in Velatha’s bedroom, alone with her after a confession

of love.

Velatha is nervous, excited, and teeming with lust after confessing her love to

you and dragging you into her bedroom. Velatha is wearing her usual green

mage’s robe with her dark brown hair tied back.

The rest of the Yinris family is at home in their own rooms. You and Velatha

cannot be caught together, so silence and secrecy is essential.

Here you can see each paragraph touching on a part of the recommended order to

help bring a scene together, which will also be assisted by Velatha’s character World Info

we set up earlier.

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The second kind of /remember format is the kind for “Instant Encounters”.That is,

a /remember for scenarios that begin with and are exclusively focused on smut, where

ALL details are immediately important so that the action can get started accurately, and

right away.

The example put forth here is from my scenario “A Bogey’s Prey”

, where the AI

immediately requires the details of the Bogey monstergirl in order to begin the prompt

correctly. So, we push a lengthy chunk of information in violation of the recommended

order like this:

You are Anon, a worn-out man ﬁlled with numb sadness.

A Bogey is a kind of Oni with big, ﬂuffy arms and legs that are soft like

a plush toy stuffed with cotton. Being a sub-species of Oni, Bogeys easily

tower over humans with their height, as well as possessing a pair of large

horns that sprout from the sides of their head. A Bogey’s horns are just as soft

and plushy as the rest of their bodies. Bogeys are drawn to men ﬁlled with

sadness of any kind, and are ﬁlled deep, protective instincts. The hands of a

Bogey are big, plushy paws nearly the size of their bodies, which Bogeys use

to embrace their prey in their big, soft arms. The gentle, warm hug of a Bogey

has the power to alleviate any fear, anxiety, or sadness. Once held in the arms

of a Bogey, their prey will want to indulge in their affection like a vulnerable

child, at which point a Bogey will do everything to soothe and console them,

especially with their body.

There’s still that line at the top that clearly anchors “You” to your character’s name,

as well as that quick bit about how your character is supposed to behave, but the rest

of it is entirely dedicated to deﬁning the Bogey in quite a lot of detail. At ﬁrst glance,

many users would raise the concern that this is overstufﬁng the memory (it clocks in

at 941/1000 characters), but when there is no WI for this scenario to crowd additional

context, this method actually proves to be quite robust.

The key thing to keep in mind is that the “Instant Encounter” formatting method

for your /remember is ONLY for scenarios that absolutely hinge on the smut, and do

NOT attempt to introduce more information through World Info. It is absolutely pow-

erful, but the use case is highly speciﬁc. For all other cases, stick to the recommended or-

der and assist with supplemental World Info entries.(Just remember you only get about

two WI entries alongside a full remember before the AI will start ignoring them due to

memory limits)

A.2. Author’s Notes

No special education here, just some examples that you can dissect alongside the

guide’s explanations:

Available here!

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Elves ﬁnd themselves overtaken by a slowly-building lust in the presenceof a

human. Their lusty need to be bred by humans is endemic but well hidden.

Cuddling ahead. Slow and rich erotic details for the smut here. Strong focus

on the soft, plushy body of the Bogey and how soothing she is.

This is a story of romance, eroticism, and passion. Slow, rich details for the

smut here. Strong focus on the ﬂuffy, warm, soft body of the Bunyip.

Anon is a strong and gentle person who is concerned for the Scylla he has just

rescued. Anon is bewildered by the Scylla’s appearance.

There is panic and tension to the writing here, mixed with erotic details as the

Night Gaunt hunts and lusts after Anon.

As always, look into the scenarios published by other people that you enjoy and

ﬁnd to be well-functioning. By examining and dissecting the construction of their

memory, you can quickly learn quite a lot about how to get what you want out of the AI.

This appendix is merely a series of examples from a singular author, following speciﬁc

guidelines. Do your best to ﬁgure out what works through your own experiences, the

study of other people’s methods, and a healthy amount of modiﬁcation. Best of luck!

Resources

[1] Avsfag. /AIDG/ Writing Guide v 1.0, 2020. URL

https://guide.aidg.club/AIDG-

Writing-Guide/AIDG%20Writing%20Guide.html

. Annotation: /aidg/’s premiere

guide for new learners and general concepts.

[2] Gwern Branwen. GPT-3 Creative Fiction, 2020. URL

https://www.gwern.net/

GPT-3

. Annotation: An absolutely massive technical compendium of Gwern’s

experiments with GPT-3 and its creative writing abilities.

[3] FailedSave. Guide to Erotic Storytelling with AI Dungeon, 2020. URL

https://

github.com/FailedSave/storytelling-guide/blob/master/Guide.md

.Annotation:A prede-

cessor to “A Coomer’s Guide to AI Dungeon”. Quite old now, missing a lot, but it’s

written in a way that steps you through the process of cultivating a piece of erotic

writing as it evolves, which is still a valuable perspective.

[4] Jordan Penn. The Punctuation Guide, 2011. URL

https://

www.thepunctuationguide.com/

. Annotation: An excellent resource for learning how

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to effectively use every kind of punctuation.

[5] Wallenberg. Punctuating Dialogue, May 2004. URL

http://www.tinareber.com/

wp-content/uploads/2013/08/punctuating.pdf

.Annotation:Incredibly handy PDF ﬁle

for keeping the many rules of dialogue formatting straight, so your story’s dialogue

is high-quality and consistent.