How to Create Engaging AI Adventures on Haroo.chat: The Complete Guide

Genre + Hook format:

• "Shadows of the Forgotten Kingdom" (fantasy mystery)
• "Last Station: Mars Colony 7" (sci-fi survival)
• "The Midnight Carnival" (horror)
• "Coffee Shop Chronicles" (slice-of-life)

Evocative Single Words:

• "Requiem" (dark, serious)
• "Wanderlust" (exploration, journey)
• "Threshold" (mystery, transition)

Horror:

"The previous tenants left in the middle of dinner—plates still warm. You've just signed the lease. Seven days until you understand why they ran."

Sci-Fi:

"First contact went wrong. You're the translator who might prevent war or accidentally start one. Aliens don't think like humans. Neither do the colony administrators."

Romance:

"Five weddings this summer. You're invited to all of them. Single at every one. Old flames, new possibilities, and your best friend who's suddenly looking different."

Comedy:

"Your grandfather left you a haunted bed & breakfast. The ghosts are terrible at hospitality. The mortgage is real. Time to teach Victorian spirits about Yelp reviews."

Layer 1 - Genre (1-2 tags)

Layer 2 - Tone/Mood (1-2 tags)

Layer 3 - Gameplay Style (2-3 tags)

Layer 4 - Unique Elements (2-3 tags)

1. Sensory Scene-Setting (20% of introduction)

Use sight, sound, smell, texture, temperature. Make the world tangible.

2. Immediate Situation (20% of introduction)

What's happening right now? Where is the player?

3. Hook with Stakes (20% of introduction)

What matters? What could be lost or gained?

4. Environmental Details That Suggest Story (20% of introduction)

Show the world is alive and has history.

5. Clear Entry Points for Action (20% of introduction)

Give players obvious choices without forcing them.

Layer 1: Core Truths (30% of lore)

The fundamental rules that make your world distinct.

CORE TRUTHS:
Magic exists but costs memory—every spell cast erases something you know. Powerful mages are brilliant in the moment and amnesiacs about their past. Society adapted: written contracts are sacred (you might forget your promises), photos are precious (proof of what you've lost), and the most powerful wizards are children before they've lived enough to lose anything that matters.

Technology level: Renaissance-era mechanics mixed with magical innovation. Printing presses, but enchanted. Crossbows alongside spell-bottles. No gunpowder (the chemistry interacts catastrophically with ambient magic).

Death is complicated: Spirits linger for seven days before fading, able to communicate but not touch. Murder investigations happen with the victim's testimony. Goodbyes take a week. Some choose to bind themselves to objects or places permanently instead of fading—these become the haunted items and cursed grounds.

Layer 2: Current Tensions (40% of lore)

The conflicts and pressures that create story opportunities.

CURRENT STATE:
The Empire just banned unsanctioned magic after a spell-plague outbreak killed thousands in the capital. Mages must register, submit to memory audits, and accept government-assigned handlers. Underground magic schools continue teaching. The resistance argues memory-loss tracking is invasion of privacy. The government argues uncontrolled magic is mass murder waiting to happen.

Border tensions with the Theocracy to the south are escalating—they view all magic as heresy and memory-loss as divine punishment for hubris. Refugees from their purges flood north. The Empire's caught between persecution from one direction and infection risk from magical refugees who might be carrying spell-plague.

The Merchant Guilds control information flow through their monopoly on memory-storage crystals. They're getting rich selling memories back to mages who've forgotten their families. Ethics are murky. Prices are high. Some crystals contain fake memories. Others contain secrets worth killing for.

Layer 3: Cultural Context (30% of lore)

How people actually live in this world.

SOCIETY & CULTURE:
Memory-loss changed everything. People write constantly—journals, notes, reminders. Wall art includes written family stories so mages who forget can relearn their loved ones. Children's rhymes encode important information. Tattoos serve as permanent reminders (though you might forget why you got them).

Social structure: Mage families are aristocracy (power) but also tragic (memory loss). Non-mage administrators actually run things because they remember precedent and consequences. Hybrid families (magic + non-magic) are common—one parent remembers, one has power.

Trust is currency: If you cast a powerful spell, you might forget who your allies are. Friendships include safety protocols—code words, written contracts, mutual promises. Betrayal by someone you forgot you trusted is the worst crime imaginable.

Food culture: Rich, aromatic dishes because smell triggers memory better than other senses. Restaurants include "memory menus" with foods linked to specific eras or events. Comfort food is literal comfort—eating what your mother made might help you remember her.

For specific starting locations:

"A port city built into coastal cliffs, where buildings cling to rock faces connected by swaying rope bridges. Salt spray mists everything. The lower districts flood at high tide—residents live with the rhythm of water rising through their floorboards twice daily. Above, wealthy merchants occupy the dry heights. The smell of fish, tar, and spices permeates air thick with fog and opportunity."

For general aesthetic:

"Biopunk urban sprawl where buildings are grown rather than built—living architecture of engineered wood and programmed vines. Streets pulse with bioluminescent lighting. The air tastes of chlorophyll and ozone. Nature didn't die here; humanity merged with it. Technology is organic, pulsing, occasionally beautiful, often unsettling."

Horror-Story Custom Style:

Narrate in second person present ("you feel," "you see") for intimacy and dread. Build atmosphere through subtle wrongness—describe normal things with slight distortions. Use what's NOT shown to create fear: shadows that move at the edge of vision, sounds from empty rooms, the feeling of being watched. Pacing: slow and detailed when building tension, short urgent sentences when terror strikes. Never explain the horror fully—let uncertainty persist. Environmental descriptions emphasize isolation, decay, and the uncanny. When introducing entities, describe effects and reactions before revealing the source. End scenes on unresolved tension or escalating dread.

Heroic-Epic Custom Style:

Narrate with scope and grandeur—individual moments matter in the context of larger destiny. Use elevated language without being archaic: "You stand at the threshold" not "You're at the door," but also not "Thou standeth at yon threshold." Action sequences are visceral and consequential—every combat matters, injuries have weight, victories feel earned. NPCs speak with purpose and dignity even in casual moments. Describe settings with attention to their historical significance and aesthetic beauty. Emphasize themes of choice, sacrifice, legacy. Moments of quiet reflection between epic challenges. End scenes with rising stakes or recognition of greater responsibilities.

Casual-Life Custom Style:

Narrate like observing real life—conversational, grounded, occasionally wry. Focus on relatable details: the specific coffee order, the weird stain on the ceiling you've been meaning to clean, the way someone texts. Dialogue is natural with pauses, interruptions, subtext. Describe settings with familiar comfort or discomfort—the coffee shop where the barista knows your name, the awkward silence in an elevator. Conflict comes from interpersonal dynamics, internal struggles, everyday problems that feel real. NPCs are fully human with their own lives happening off-screen. Pacing matches life: sometimes slow, sometimes rushed, often mundane with moments of significance. End scenes with emotional beats or choices that matter to relationships.

Priority 1 - Immediately relevant

Things that matter right now

• "The door is barred from the inside" (blocks your intended action)
• "She's reaching for her gun" (imminent threat)

Priority 2 - Atmospheric

Details that establish mood

• "Rain hammers the windows" (sets tone)
• "The smell of old blood lingers" (creates unease)

Priority 3 - World-building

Elements that suggest larger context

• "Propaganda posters peel from the walls" (political situation)
• "The food is rationed" (resource scarcity)

Don't describe

Generic or expected details

• Don't say "the chair has four legs" unless there's something unusual about it
• Skip "you breathe" unless breathing is difficult

Fast action:

"The blade arcs down. You dodge left. Stone chips fly. He recovers, already swinging again. No time to think."

Slow exploration:

"The library stretches three stories high, shelves heavy with leather-bound volumes that smell of age and preservation magic. Dust motes drift through shafts of afternoon light filtering through stained glass windows depicting scholars of ages past. Somewhere in the silence, a clock ticks."

Tense waiting:

"Footsteps in the corridor outside. Getting closer. Your hand finds the knife at your belt, fingers wrapping around the handle, but you don't draw—not yet. The footsteps stop. At your door. The handle begins to turn, metal against metal, agonizingly slow."

1. What they want (motivation)

2. How they pursue it (method/personality)

3. Distinctive trait (memorable quirk)

Example:

• Want: Money for her daughter's medical treatment
• Method: Information brokering, pragmatic morality
• Trait: Fidgets with a broken watch, never winds it

Implicit (situation suggests options):

"The guard patrols the east corridor every fifteen minutes. Next pass is in three. The vent is accessible but noisy. The office door is locked but the window next to it isn't."

Explicit (direct question):

"Do you try the vent, pick the lock, risk the window, or wait and try to bluff past the guard?"

Mixed (situation + question):

"The artifact sits on the pedestal, unguarded and clearly visible. Too easy. Something's wrong—pressure plate beneath it, maybe, or magical alarm. Behind you, voices echo through the tomb. The rival expedition is catching up. Do you take the risk, set a trap for your pursuers, or find another way?"

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2. Be specific about content

Horror violence differs from erotic content

3. Maintain tone consistency

Don't shift to explicit content awkwardly

4. Respect player boundaries

If they pull back, the adventure should follow

When to use separate characters:

• Complex personality requiring 5,000-character development
• Character meant to be usable outside this specific adventure
• NPC important enough to deserve their own conversation style and traits

When to keep NPCs in adventure:

• Supporting cast without main character depth
• Characters defined by their role more than personality
• Flexibility to adapt NPCs to player choices