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I recommend you to check out the previous parts if you don’t know what this “neural narratives” thing is about. In short, I wrote in Python a system to have multi-character conversations with large language models (like Llama 3.1), in which the characters are isolated in terms of memories and bios, so no leakage to other participants. Here’s the GitHub repo, that now even features a proper readme.

We abandoned our heroes as they were about to approach an interdimensional rift, hoping to rescue a certain missing teenager.

Her comes a problem: although I had reworked the entire app to include an overarching Story Universe concept so that other worlds could be added, that doesn’t change the fact that the world on the other side of the rift isn’t connected to Earth, but to the Story Universe. I’m not sure how often this is going to happen in a story, so instead of programming the action of adding a new world, with its regions and areas, into the story universe, I just added that hierarchy manually in the JSON file that houses the map. As I use the app more, I’ll see if adding new worlds happens so often that it warrants programming it into the interface. What I did program was the simple notion of teleporting to another area from any area or location, as that could be useful from a storytelling perspective. A simple select to choose the area, then a button to teleport the player and his or her followers there.

The team dares to venture through an interdimensional rift, into somewhere else.

That’s all narrative-wise for today. Still twenty minutes of audio.

Being honest here, I wasn’t sure what the team might find inside the ruins. I wished I had implemented that Writers’ Room idea of mine, to rely on a little swarm of AI agents focused on aspects of storytelling so I could ask them questions about the story, and for them to elaborate on it. So I did, I programmed the Writers’ Room.

I have created a small team of AI agents. The user’s request first lands on the showrunner agent, that considers if he/she/it can handle it. If not, the showrunner delegates the task to more specialized agents, namely the story editor, the character development agent, the world-building agent, the continuity manager, the researcher, the theme agent, the plot development agent, and the pacing agent. The code provides each agent with data from other corners of the app; for example, the continuity agent receives the list of facts that one can introduce into the Story Hub to keep track of what’s going on, while the plot development agent receives all the goals, plot twists, and scenarios that have been generated in the Story Hub. It all works surprisingly well. Fun times!