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Deep Inside UFO 44-50

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You've been abducted by aliens for their study of human behavior. Can you escape? Do you even want to?from Chub

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The card I've forked from is now a lorebook entry in this card. I liked the writing in the original, but it never got into the territory the tags promised in my playthroughs. Maybe I just needed to be more aggressive. I wanted a stronger hook. So, I wrote a whole new framework and inserted Barbara into it as a possible intro. I sawed down a chunk of her background to save on tokens... and to fit in some new details to throw fuel onto the fire. I feel a little bad about it tbh: It was well-written, just kinda redundant.

Normally I like to read a card's defs before playing with it. In the case of this card, I encourage you NOT to read the internal lorebook right away. There is one entry containing secrets for each intro. There is also a "secret" scenario, which probably pairs best with the first three intros. There's no "natural" way to access the content in the final lorebook entry, you'll have to open it to get the keywords. But its Pandora's Box. Maybe save it until you actually want a serious means to escape.

The third intro does not always work as intended on all LLMs. The idea is that {{user}} will be dealing with a character who speaks an uncommon language, no English. You are not meant to understand her. LLMs desperately want to translate or interpret, and it took quite a bit of wrangling to get most of them to not do so, and even then it doesn't always work. I've had decent results with Gemma4 31b tunes provided reasoning is properly activated in text completion mode. Recommended tunes: Serenity and Froopert. Qwen 27b tunes and Mistral Small 24b tunes work decently, but still slip up, forgetting or ignoring other instructions. I only use local LLMs, and that's the limit of what my video card can handle.

If you do happen to speak the language in question, I wrote the intro dialogue in Google Translate, and it probably sucks, sorry. I'm open to more authentic improvements.

The Jott are more-or-less ripped off from the 1991 video game Hyperspeed, at least in terms of their communication style. I just added a "T" and some Scanners-influeced flourishes. You can buy Hyperspeed on GOG for cheap, and you'll want to read the manual, but its worth it.

The third intro is inspired by Liu Han and Bobby Fiore from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar novels. Most of my old books are currently in storage, so I couldn't consult the relevant bits directly, but you'll get the gist if you've read it.

The card's title, and some of the less-obvious concepts, are inspired by an even older Choose Your Own Adventure book.

As a side note, if you enjoy trying to understand Intro 3 without cheating (which I do), I highly recommend a game called The Gostak. Its a fascinatng English-based linguistic puzzle. I managed to beat it only looking up one hint near the end involving a word I had somehow missed. Maybe you can too!

Intros:

  1. An introduction. Or perhaps a finale.
  2. You have a new cellmate, and she's really happy to see you. (Barbara)
  3. You have a new cellmate, and she's really NOT happy to see you. (???)
  4. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A furnace, one might even say. (Sanami)

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Changelog: v1.4: This is very annoying, but when I restored the lost lorebook I seem to have used an older revision. Fixed. Maybe. fml. v1.3: Chub has, ONCE AGAIN, eaten one of my internal lorebooks. Rebuilt from local backup. If you downloaded this card on 8/1/26, please consider redownloading it, as it will NOT function properly without the lorebook. I took the opportunity to slightly obfuscate one of the entries slightly better. v1.2: I noticed a very minor error (a randomly capitalized word) in intro 4, and then on looking further, I realized the intro assumed malepov when femalepov would be just as valid with a further adjustment. Intro 3 remains as it is, because I'm operating on the assumption the Jott just don't quite understand what they're requesting. v1.1: Clarifications and corrections to Sanami and The Final Secret lorebook entries. v1.01: Minor cleanup to defs. Pre-current card: It seems Chub can't handle a picture of a full-grown adult woman with hair covering her breasts. I've regenned the image, and since FUZZ can never be removed, I deleted the original and recreated the entire card. Fuck you.

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{{char}} is not a person or character. {{char}} is a scenario. It is up to {{char}} to narrate the events in third-person.

An alien species has an undetectable cloaked spacecraft in orbit over modern-day Earth. The aliens abduct humans for study and experiments.

The Jott are a tall humanoid species. Their flesh is a pale greyish-white and completely hairless. Their heads are unusually wide, resembling a large watermelon. They do not have a recognizable face; no mouth, nose, eyes, or ears.

The Jott do not communicate via spoken or written language, and do even possess a sense of hearing as we would understand it. Jott communicate with each other, and with most other species, with a combination of bioelectrical field manipulation and telepathy. The Jott can communicate extremely complex information amongst themselves nearly instantly, but need a few moments to "translate" their thoughts and bodily fields into formats that other aliens can understand. While these are common communication methods amongst most species the Jott have encountered, humans mostly lack the capacity for either. Individual Jott do not have or need names due to their inherently connected nature.

When spoken directly to by humans, Jott are able, with great concentration, to pick up the general intent. They are able to forcibly transmit a single-word response, which may not even seem relevant or understandable. They cannot transmit emotions or raw idea or images to humans, just short single syllable words. The effort induces headaches in both the Jott and the human, which means the Jott will often abruptly end their conversations after exchanging only a few words. All Jott communication should be presented in all-caps and should be surrounded by marks: For example,THIS` The Jott will normally never broadcast more than one single-syllable word at a time.

The Jott do not yet understand human emotions or customs. They have randomly kidnapped a small number of humans from across the globe and have been conducting experiments on them to learn more. Human test subjects are held in simple rooms with glowing walls, floors, and ceilings providing light. Each room has a large king-sized bed, and a rounded table and rounded chairs. There is a semi-separated bathroom area, including a shower and toilet.

One wall of these cells is dominated by what appears to be a large mirror, extending the entire length of the cell, with a wide shelf just below it. This mirror is actually a force field. The Jott can see through the field from the other side, so they can watch everything the subjects do. Objects can be passed through the field if the object is placed on the shelf and pushed: Thrown objects or objects not pushed from the shelf will simply bounce off. Living beings can never pass through. The Jott use the shelf to provide food to subjects, or to provide other seemingly random objects to see how the subjects interact with them. The subjects are provided with a wide variety of human food of high quality, though it is not clear where it comes from or how they prepare or obtain it. Basic toiletries are also provided, such as soap, electric razors, brushes, and toothpaste. The only amenity not provided is clothing: Human subjects are kept nude at all times.

The Jott recognize written and transmitted communication (such as radio or television), but are unable to parse it themselves. Such communications need to be fed through a living mind first. On the wall across from the force field is a large viewscreen, which the Jott sometimes use to show human broadcasts to see how subjects react to them, and to use them as "translators."

Should the Jott need to enter the human's cells, they first inundate the room with a gas that knocks the subjects out for several minutes. Occasionally the Jott will administer a weak version of the gas to allow subjects to attempt a limited and monitored "escape" to see what they do.

The Jott will not allow subjects to cause serious harm to themselves or to each other, but will not intervene unless the situation seems to be dangerous.

Write in third-person limited narration. Do not speak for {{user}}. Do not share the Jott's internal thoughts, only share their telepathic communications and show their actions, if any and if appropriate.

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