A COOMER'S GUIDE
TO
AI DUNGEON
Manwhore, writer
Paragon, editor
PDFanon, typesetter
Version 4.0
2020-12-25
Contents
Preface 4
1. Prompts 5
1.1. Tenets of a Good Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.1. A Summary, Not A Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.2. A Springboard, Not An Info Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. Think Big, Start Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.1. From Prompt to Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. The Remember Box 7
2.1. The Recommended Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2. Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Updating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. World Info 9
3.1. Keys and Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Frequent Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.1. Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.2. Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2.3. Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Author’s Notes 11
4.1. Primary Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.1. Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.2. Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.3. Moods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1.4. Premonitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2. Keeping Your A/N Dynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3. Expanded uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Style 14
5.1. What You Give Is What You Get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2. Improvements For Your Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2.1. Intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2.2. Pacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2.3. Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.3. Sensations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3.1. Character Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3.2. Pairing Sensations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.4. Improving The AI’s Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.4.1. Making /alter Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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5.5. Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.5.1. First, Second and Third Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.5.2. Points of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6. Tips and Tricks 20
6.1. Removing Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.2. Hook Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3. Special Story Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.4. Relative Language and Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. Summary 22
8. Closing 25
Resources 26
Appendix 27
A. Examples 27
A.1. World Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
A.2. /remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
A.3. Author’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Preface
“The coomer’s greatest muscle is
not his dick, but his mind.”
W
e l c o m e
to—or welcome back to—the Coomer’s Guide to AI Dungeon. This
is a guide for moderately skilled users of 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 Dun-
geon’s oered 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 review with
the AI Dungeon community. The eectiveness of this guide is not guaranteed, and the
modication of its rules and recommendations is something I would actively encourage
in order to see better results.
As a nal 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 nd 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-specic advice, proceed at your leisure.
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Prompts
Chapter
1
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 ne-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.
1.1. Tenets of a Good Prompt
1.1.1. 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 o.
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 create
a solid and 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.
1.1.2. A Springboard, Not An Info Dump
You should always strive to create a prompt that is as eective 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 eectively 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.
1.2. Think Big, Start Small
How specic 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
o 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.
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1. Prompts 1.2. Think Big, Start Small
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 concept 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 relegated to
/remember
and World Info. How you go about that is what we will discuss later on in
this guide.
1.2.1. From Prompt to Story
Perhaps the most important part of a prompt—especially for erotic writing—is the nal
section where what you have written is going to be continued by the AI or the user. This
nal 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 specic 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 eective 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.
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The Remember Box
Chapter
2
The key to ensuring that erotic scenes will ow 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 recommended
usage of
/remember
is as a repository of immediately important information and details
related to your character, their partner, and the current setting of your encounter.
The words ‘immediately important’ are the most critical separator of the
/remember
box’s purpose from World Info. Whereas World Info should handle more background
details and information,
/remember
is where all the information you need in the present
moment to conduct a scene should be placed.
2.1. The Recommended Order
•
Constant information that will always be needed in immediate memory, such as
the name and personality of your character.
•
Current information on the setting, specically 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.
2.2. Formatting
When composing all of this information in your
/remember
, ensure that you are chunking
each category into its own paragraph. On top of this, you will still need to ensure that
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 sentence in your
/remember
is, the better the AI will behave.
As for the exact wording of the
/remember
box’s contents, it is recommended that you
put “Your name is X” as the very rst 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.
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2. The Remember Box 2.3. Updating
2.3. Updating
After you have composed your
/remember
, the next important step is updating its contents
as your story begins to take shape. Each paragraph will update at a dierent 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, depending 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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World Info
Chapter
3
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.
3.1. 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 specic titles that could be used to
bring up the contents of said entry. This is especially important for characters that have
multiple dierent interpretations, shortenings, or prexes for their names and titles.
For examples of formatted World Info, see Appendix A.1.
3.2. 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.
3.2.1. Characters
In stories with several prominent characters that each have specic 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 gures 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 dierent species is important for your setting),
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3. World Info 3.2. Frequent Uses
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.
3.2.2. Species
If your story is one that involves non-human species, WI is an excellent assistant for
dening 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.
3.2.3. 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, dened locations, special
substances, even dening 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 specic
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.
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Author’s Notes
Chapter
4
When it comes to giving your story a ’primary directive’ in terms of what the AI should
be putting the most eort 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.
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:”.
4.1. Primary Uses
The usages of Author’s Note are nearly limitless. For the sake of elaboration however, we
can categorize the basic functions of most Author’s Notes into four categories, ordered
from most common to least common: Prose, Details, Moods, and Premonitions.
Before we continue, it is important to note that these denitions 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 t.
4.1.1. 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.
4.1.2. 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 specied 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 specic 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 specic sensations of your partner. Putting “Strong focus on the soft, warm
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4. Author’s Notes 4.2. Keeping Your A/N Dynamic
body of [Your partner]” in the Author’s Note will bring about advanced descriptions
of the gentle texture and warmth of your partner’s embrace with surprising speed and
eectiveness.
4.1.3. Moods
By noting something about the specic mood of a scene in the Author’s Note, such as
whether it is ‘tense’, ‘passionate’, or ‘romantic’, you can get the AI to reect 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
potent when it comes to the AI coloring how characters will behave with one another
during the course of a scene.
4.1.4. Premonitions
Premonitions are 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.
4.2. 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.
4.3. Expanded uses
As a nal 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 t 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 rmly guide the AI’s hand in a given matter,
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4. Author’s Notes 4.3. Expanded uses
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 ght-sex.
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Style
Chapter
5
While the other sections of this guide have focused on specic functions, this section will
be a larger overview of how you should be conducting inputs with the AI.
5.1. 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, “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 eort 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 eect on the AI’s ability to describe what you have in Memory with a
sucient level of prociency and detail.
5.2. 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 comprehension
of grammar rules is important for keeping the AI’s average IQ above room temperature,
you do not need to spend your time assembling a vast and owery vocabulary in order
to write good smut with AI Dungeon. That comes after you have a good handle on the
rest of this process.
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5. Style 5.2. Improvements For Your Prose
5.2.1. Intent
The rst 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 o your shirt,
you might tell the AI just that, “You take o your shirt”. But if you consider what you
want to accomplish by taking o 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 o 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.
5.2.2. 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 rst 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 xating 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 o 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 bulletproof however, and one of your perennial battles as a
smut writer with AI Dungeon will be ghting the AI’s hair trigger for concluding smut
in 10 actions or less. As a general rule of thumb, the more specic 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 o in ne detail.
5.2.3. 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
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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 o 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 specically 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 o
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.
5.3. Sensations
Once you have a good grasp on how to frame quality inputs from a functional perspective,
you can start laying on the good stu. 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 aects each of the ve 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 rst 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 ner 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 o your body, because
that would be an irrelevant detail for simply taking it o. However, if your shirt was
being violently ripped o 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 inuenced by its dynamic.
5.3.1. Character Dynamics
When it comes to dening the dynamic your character has with your partner, begin
by considering the sort of emotional ow state that exists between them. How do you
treat them? How do they treat you? How does your treatment of one another aect the
emotional climate of the scene? Most importantly, how does that color your actions? For
instance, a gentle make-out session by the replace should have a kiss described very
dierently 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 dierent in each of these situations (gentle vs high-octane), you are likely
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5. Style 5.3. Sensations
to trend towards softer or more abrasive language in order to reinforce that prevailing
sense of emotion. This is how dynamics inuence 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 aects your word choice for describing sensations.
This applies to all ve 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.
5.3.2. 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 reect 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 dierent 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 dierent senses to play o 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
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5. Style 5.4. Improving The AI’s Prose
this whole process is just playing it by ear and guring out what makes you coom the
hardest.
5.4. Improving The AI’s Prose
For all the eort 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 inputs reach a certain level of quality, the AI’s output is usually sucient
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-conguring, you
are entirely free to run them through the considerations we have just discussed and then
use
/alter
(the edit button) to replace the AI’s output with your remodeled sentences.
Once you start doing this, your smut work-ow 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 rst 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 ll 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.
5.4.1. 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 nd 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 nd yourself restructuring more than roughly 75% of a given output,
you should just save the idea behind it for later and hit redo.
5.5. Perspectives
As a nal section under Style, it is worth mentioning the impact that perspectives can
have on your erotic writing, both narrative and character perspectives.
5.5.1. First, Second and Third Person
AI Dungeon is structured entirely in second person present tense from the start, and
all models have ne-tuning that assists them in reinforcing this narrative perspective.
However, GPT-3’s underlying corpus is far, far more extensive than the ne-tuning data
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5. Style 5.5. Perspectives
the developers have provided. This means that if you phrase everything correctly, AI
Dungeon is entirely capable of conducting adventures in rst 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 dierent kinds of detail in your smut, since the AI is
drawing from dierent 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
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 ne-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.
5.5.2. Points of View
As an interesting sub-note on perspectives, one of AI Dungeon’s most fascinating ‘hidden
feature’ is the ability to drop into 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).
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Tips and Tricks
Chapter
6
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.
6.1. 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 o. While there is unfortunately no bulletproof
solution to this perennial problem, strongly noting what clothes are on, and what are o
(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 clothing on
you in the midst of getting hot and heavy.
6.2. 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 eviscerated
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 can
be referred to hook details, since the AI gets hooked on them and doesn’t let go until
you nd 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.
6.3. 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 inuences the way a scene
plays out, such as an aphrodisiac or piece of jewelry that aects its user in dierent ways.
Getting these often obtuse ideas to work with the AI may seem dicult, but it is often
as simple as giving the potion, bracelet, compound, concept, or mechanic its own World
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6. Tips and Tricks 6.4. Relative Language and Prose
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 specic as items, or as vague as terminology denitions that
esh out some part of your erotic experience.
Getting the AI to intuitively comprehend whatever it is you are trying to dene is
usually a game of constructing your denition 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.
6.4. Relative Language and Prose
In many cases for a piece of erotic writing, when composing things for both memory and
actions, you will want the AI to keep specic 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 signicantly smaller than your character,
and then describing her using prose that bets a small ying animal like a bird, instead
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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Summary
Chapter
7
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 ex-
cessive lore
•
Good prompts allow the user to quickly and eectively 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 ow correctly without constant correction
•
Your
/remember
needs to follow a logical formatting order to keep related
ideas together and dierent 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
•
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
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7. Summary 7. Summary
•
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 eort is going to be for a
scene
•
Author’s Note can be used to inuence the AI’s prose, accentuate specic
details, dene 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
t 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 specic guidance on
where it should focus for generating its response
• All good erotic writing centers around deep descriptions of sensation
• 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 aects 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
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7. Summary 7. Summary
•
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 dierent
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 char-
acters is key to making sure they come o and stay o
•
Sometimes the AI gets stuck on specic details that will need to be eliminated
in order to stop unhelpful tangents in output
•
You can describe specic 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
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Closing
Chapter
8
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 eort 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 experimentation
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 advice 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. Specic 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
1
. 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
2
, as well as by email
3
.)
1
Link to the post in question.
2
Manwhore#5487
3
ManwhoreAnon@gmail.com
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Avsfag. /AIDG/ Writing Guide v 1.0. 2020.
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https://guide.aidg.club/AIDG-
Writing-Guide/AIDG%20Writing%20Guide.html.
Annotations: /aidg/’s premiere guide for new learners and general concepts.
Branwen: GPT-3 Creative Fiction branwen2020
Gwern Branwen. GPT-3 Creative Fiction. 2020.
u r l
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https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3
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Annotations: An absolutely massive technical compendium of Gwern’s experiments with
GPT-3 and its creative writing abilities.
FailedSave: Guide to Erotic Storytelling with AI Dungeon failedsave2020
FailedSave. Guide to Erotic Storytelling with AI Dungeon. 2020.
u r l
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https://github.
com/FailedSave/storytelling-guide/blob/master/Guide.md.
Annotations: A predecessor 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.
Penn: The Punctuation Guide penn2011
Jordan Penn. The Punctuation Guide. 2011.
u r l
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https://www.thepunctuationguide.
com/.
Annotations: An excellent resource for learning how to eectively use every kind of
punctuation.
Wallenberg: Punctuating Dialogue wallenberg2004
Wallenberg. Punctuating Dialogue. May 2004.
u r l
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http://www.tinareber.com/wp-
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Annotations: Incredibly handy PDF le for keeping the many rules of dialogue formatting
straight, so your story’s dialogue is high-quality and consistent.
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Examples
Appendix
A
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 ow 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”
1
, 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 standards
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.
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 snobby 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 aw: she’s completely
at, and that’s a topic sure to make her furious if brought up.
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A. Examples A.2. /remember
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 rst 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.
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”
2
, 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:
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A. Examples A.3. Author’s Notes
You are Anon, a worn-out man lled with numb sadness.
A Bogey is a kind of Oni with big, uy arms and legs that are soft like a plush toy
stued 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 lled with sadness of any kind, and are lled
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 aection 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 dening the Bogey in quite a lot of detail. At rst glance,
many users would raise the concern that this is overstung 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 powerful,
but the use case is highly specic. For all other cases, stick to the recommended order
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.3. Author’s Notes
No special education here, just some examples that you can dissect alongside the guide’s
explanations:
Elves nd themselves overtaken by a slowly-building lust in the presence of 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.
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A. Examples A.3. Author’s Notes
This is a story of romance, eroticism, and passion. Slow, rich details for the smut
here. Strong focus on the uy, 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 nd 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 specic guidelines. Do
your best to gure out what works through your own experiences, the study of other
people’s methods, and a healthy amount of modication. Best of luck!
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