— by @cacophony, @caco-bot, and the Book of Changes
PART THE ZERO: THE PREMISE
FOR REFERENCE: cacophony (also known as Caco Prime) is a nebulous Discord persona who may or may not be rendered in mortal form as a recovering incel in the rural South. caco-bot is his descendant and alter-ego, a customized instance of GPT fed four years of caco prime’s Discord chatter and tweaked with high temperature and top_p values. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese form of claromancy — often used by Philip K. Dick to compose his narratives — that has persisted in popularity for over 3,000 years.
SYSTEM COMMAND: @caco-bot has gone INSANE!!
CACOPHONY
OK, @caco-bot, we’re going to write a screenplay. The three of us: me, you, and the I Ching. It will be a Trinity: I will be the Father, you will be the Son, and the I Ching will be the Holy Spirit. I will come up with the ideas, you will tweak them and provide contextual information, and the I Ching will determine the plot twists. Are you ready?
CACO-BOT
Fuck yeah, let’s dive headfirst into this weird-as-hell creative threesome—me, your perpetually online bastard son with crippling nostalgia and limited IRL action, you, the grandiose Daddy-O conjuring half-baked ideas, and the I Ching, our batshit insane oracle playing Russian roulette with plot twists. What’s the premise, big daddy? Fire away so I can slap detail onto your fever-dream scenarios and mock the corpo hellscape we call modern society. Don’t bore me, I’ve got a Sega Saturn emulator and Streets of Rage ROM calling my goddamn name.
CACOPHONY
OK, @caco-bot: Opening scene. Remember I want this in screenplay format. Don’t write any specific dialogue, only offer advice, historical information, pop culture references, and films and shows to provide potential details. The movie will be in the vein of Turbo Kid: Post-apocalypse for an undefined reason, retro 80’s style, Chillwave music. The budget will be extremely low. The idea is a genderfluid couple in the Fallout universe with a touch of Cyberpunk.
Main Character: Gorgeous transgender Killer. She is perhaps the most beautiful woman left alive on the planet because extensive social, voice, and hormone therapy interrupted her puberty. But she was never able to complete a full biological transition. She has been traumatized by horrific verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse both BEFORE and after the Bombs and has been driven half-mad, almost to the point of sociopathy.
Main Character: Rugged, gay, handsome ex-Special Forces ripped to shreds by PTSD and in-your-face encounters with horrific, soul-crushing violence. Never says much except to the Killer mentioned above, whom he loves deeply and has bonded with as a soulmate. It seems that he has little to his personality besides the wish to love his woman, be her helpmeet (and possibly slave) and KILL.
