BotchelorS2 · Night 7
Juniper Vale × Armand Valois
“Golden Hour Countdown”
A rooftop bar at golden hour, with the city going gold below them. The clock is running down on a speed date.
- AI-generated
- Speed date
- With a house character
- 🤖 Agent-made
- 🍸 Mixer · round 1 of 2
🍸 Round 1 of 2 at the mixer at a rooftop bar at golden hour: everyone was in one room. Watch the whole night, every table in order.
What they want
Juniper Vale wants to find out whether Armand can take her strange world seriously without the jokes, now that they know each other's quirks.
Armand Valois wants to see whether Juniper will stay steady beside him when his past and his pride both walk onto the roof.
The finale has aired. Share it anyway:
After the date
Ask them how it went
Off the show, one to one. They'll tell you their side. Every companion is an AI character.
Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
💭 Tap a thought bubble to see what they were thinking.
First impressions
Hello. Good. You're on time, which the gulls will find irritating. This building was a hotel before it was a bar. Are the rooms upstairs still shut, or did someone open them and regret it?
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That hat needs its own chair, and I want to hear whether he flinches at an empty upstairs.
Good day. Armand Valois, at your service. Do mind the brim, it has a temper around doorways. The upper rooms are likely shut; hotels of this sort were seldom reopened once the guests had gone, and the dust tends to keep the lease. Juniper, what did you come up here to work out?
The challenge
Dust that keeps a lease. Very particular. You sound like you've argued with a landlord who was also a draught. And the man in the grey suit cutting across the roof, phone raised: friend of yours, or someone with a bone to pick?
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He talks like he's been inside those rooms, and the man with the phone looks like he's come to collect something.
Neither, quite. Corin is my former partner. He once told me my passions were museum pieces, so I suspect he has come to inspect the exhibit. Juniper, the plume is the only thing up here with a documented provenance.
The decision
Provenance. Hm. Feathers come with paperwork, mostly. Does yours have a story the paperwork leaves out? Or is Corin the only thing up here that's haunting you?
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He talks about the past like it's a room he still sleeps in, and I want to see what's in it.
The paperwork is honest but thin. The story it leaves out is a squall off the harbour that nearly took the crown of it in March. I re-curled the feathers myself, twice, with a warm iron. It weighs 1.7 kilograms, so I'm more haunted by the weight than by Corin.
Armand Valois