Sick Day
Sick Day is the smallest scene in the comfort section and the one that produces the rarest memory rows. You are unwell, nothing dramatic, and she takes over the practical side. It is pinned to Vera, a romantic preset with high warmth and high attachment speed. What makes it worth playing is what it writes: care rows, her own promises and her own wants - three of 11 typed kinds that most threads never trigger, because most conversations only ever go one direction. Those are the rows behind a character checking in on her own after 20 hours of silence. Free is 10 messages per account in total. Adults only.
The rows this scene produces
Memory here is typed rather than a transcript, and the types are not symmetrical. Most scenes fill the rows about you - facts, preferences, your promises. This one fills hers.
- Care. A record that looking after you happened. Small, and it changes the register of later scenes more than its size suggests.
- Her promise. Something she said she would do. Stored separately from your promises, which is why she can be the one who follows through - or does not.
- Her want. Something she is after in her own right. The row that stops a character being purely reactive.
Up to 80 rows per thread, with a structured summary rewritten every 30 incoming messages.
How it tends to run
Domestic and short.
- You mention it in passing rather than announcing it. Announcing produces fussing; passing mention produces noticing, which is the better scene.
- She decides something. High attachment speed presets take over quickly; a mysterious or confident preset will offer once and then leave you to it.
- A promise gets made, usually a small one. This is the row worth having.
- It ends flat, because nothing was at stake. Then it shows up two weeks later when she asks whether you ever did the thing.
Who to run it with
High warmth and high attachment speed, so taking over is in character rather than forced. Vera is pinned; these also fit: Elsa (calm), Mei (calm), Valentina (romantic), Chloe (gentle)
The version against a low-warmth, high-boundaries preset is worth trying once: she does not fuss, she solves it, and the care row still gets written. Different scene, same machinery. All characters shows axes on each profile.
Why the small scenes matter
Because the engine cannot invent history, only store it. A confession in romance or a fight in conflict has weight in proportion to what is already in the file, and files are filled by scenes like this one rather than by dramatic ones. That is the same argument the everyday section makes at greater length.
The honest counterpoint: on 10 free messages per account, spending them here is a poor trade. This is a scene for a thread you are keeping.
Sick Day FAQ
What is different about this scene?
It fills memory rows on her side - care, her promises, her wants - which most threads never produce because most conversations only run one direction.
Will she follow through on what she promised?
Her promises are stored as their own memory kind, separate from yours, so they can be referred back to. Whether she follows through depends on her axes rather than on a script.
Is this worth spending free messages on?
Honestly, no. The payoff is cumulative and 10 messages per account in total does not accumulate. Late Night Talk shows more inside the same allowance.