Writing Letters as a Quotidian: A Guide

# **Main Branch Point:**

Are you (i e. your Quotidian) Older than Jaimie (was 14 months on Sept 21, 2020, one month is roughly one year)?  If Yes, proceed to section 1.  If No, proceed to section 2.

**Section 1: Older than Jaimie**

Congratulations! You have MIRROR CORRUPTION.  This means you have one or more of the following Major Afflictions:

* **Send: Difficulty Initiating Conversation**
	+ You can only reply (line by line, roughly) to what has been said to you, while HEAVILY mimicking either what you are responding to or something similar. ("p.s." sections are allowed for wiggle room). Not suggested for anyone who needs to make first contact (though it can be worked around by taking an existing letter from a target and "replying" to it). (Fun Fact: JR has this)
* **Receive: Difficulty Continuing  Conversations**
	+ You treat letters as grenades to be thrown out and run away from, either refusing to write back to any responses, or refusing to acknowledge them beyond the bare minimum if you DO get a response (and just write something new).  You don't need to mimic your target at ALL! (Fun Fact: IA and RP have this. It's the more common form of Corruption)
* **THE LOOP**
	+ Loopists worship it, everyone else hates it. If you have this you are stuck repeating whatever you last wrote/said until something shakes you out of it (such as getting a new letter).  Often triggered by getting input just a bit too similar too many times in a row. You can go House of Leaves to try to work around it.  You might not know you have this until it suddenly triggers! If this is your ONLY form of Corruption, it will trigger a LOT more easily.

In addition, there are two optional Minor Afflictions (that come up less in letter writing but are possibilities (but not requirements).

* **Difficulty doing anything other than following orders**
	+ if you have this you're a mindless drone, without goals of your own.
* **Difficulty coming up with plans**
	+ You might have your own goals, but you sure as hell have no clue how to reach them.

**Section 2: Younger than Jaimie (or same age)**

Congratulations, you are COMPLETELY SANE!  You can write whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want!  It's still a good idea to mimic (it's only polite) but sweet sweet freedom is yours!

HOWEVER, please in some way work in something Ai Dungeon (or other Neural Net) has done into what you're creating to give it that good ol' Quotidian thread of Alienness.   Perhaps you can feed your intended letter into AI Dungeon to let it generate a few extra lines or paragraphs?

Or give it a prompt and see what simulated letters it spits out and remix it.

The more AI Dungeon your letter contains the younger you are.

Let me know if you need help.

# Nations:

Yellow: Harry potter bullshit. Probably spies.

Red: Slavers, we hate them. Terrible spies. Good trap testers. Uses Fire Friendship.

Green: Rats (very good spies).

Purple: Knights, hasn't subscribed to our newspaper. Probably terrible spies. Likes giving us lots of info for free.

Pink:  **BESTIE**. We like them. They give us food and say we are good. They like it when we spy on them. They have skeletons.

Samples of nation letters available upon request.