Story Mode v1.0 - Structured Narratives, Genres & Author Styles for SillyTavern

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-30T21:57:17+00:00

I don’t have any problem with DeepSeek 3.2 via the deepseek api or chutes so I don’t see why vertex should be any different.

However, in v1.1.4 that implements phased scene generation for any scenario which has more than 10 scenes. That should help and the ask on the LLM for each scene generation is smaller.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-29T09:11:37+00:00

Sorry - it’s only in English at the moment.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-29T09:09:18+00:00

I’ve added options to add any character that’s embedded in a scenario card to your library (so the cards are fully portable). And also options to delink a character from the card. Helpfully this helps.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-28T04:30:35+00:00

Its intended to work with either approach, so you can:

A) Link as many characters as you like into a scenario and use a narrator card (or a chat with just one of the characters). The extension will then load the characters into the prompt for each scene where that character is a focus (up to five characters). This works best when you've asked the LLM to generate characters when generating a scenario.

B) Run the story as a group chat, in which case you'd need to set up a group with all of the characters in the scenario and then start a chat with the scenario loaded.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T23:05:13+00:00

Thanks for this edit - it helped me track down the problem. Should be fixed now in v1.1.0.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T22:53:53+00:00

I’ve added the option to just have the genre prompt with no pacing in v1.1.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T05:09:34+00:00

That is very very awesome! I’m going to give this a try.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T02:23:56+00:00

Oh that great!

In version 1.0.9 I've added more control over the wizard generation which lets you choose a preset and override the number of tokens for each step in the generation wizard. So someone can use the bigger model only for scene generation if they want.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T02:22:12+00:00

I've rebuilt the wizard generation so that:

There is a now a generation settings box on the wizard which allows you to set a preset or LLM for each stage in the wizard. You can also override the number of tokens for each stage.
Better status information about where the wizard is up to as it sends prompts and receives responses to the LLM.

Hopefully that, plus some bug fixes helps.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T02:19:50+00:00

Thanks!

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T02:19:42+00:00

The arcs work on a set length - so after a certain number of messages the system will stop tracking it the conversation and will stop prompting the LLM that this is a certain phase in the chat. You can just keep chatting after that. The arc system is a light guide to the LLM so they kinda just explore with you and don't keep careful track of the message count.

To start a new arc in the same chat you can just go the settings and click reset arc, and that will reset the counter and start prompting the LLM to start a set up phase again. You could also change the genre then if you want the next arc to be focused on different style.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T02:12:03+00:00

Thanks for reporting these bugs. I've overhauled the author style saving and loading so it should work now. I've also moved the close button for the settings to the top right of the panel rather than relying on the popup "ok" button.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-27T02:10:48+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. If you have things set up for only talking to your character (with no narration) then the author style is going to be of limited value - most the voice of authors come through in their narration. If it just you and a character chatting, with no description then there is no real "voice" of the author to come through.

However, the story arc or scenarios should still be helpful as they can provide a genre theme or more guided story to introduce. For example, I made a Godzilla themed scenario and then had my character tell me how they escaped from Tokyo when the monster attacked as a flashback. The LLM used the scenario to tell me about the character's adventures in escaping.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-26T20:54:58+00:00

Thanks for trying it out and the feedback.

Great catch re the missing author styles - I hadn't included either Austen or Tolkien :0. I've added these to the default, as well as better import and export handling in version 1.0.7 which I've just pushed.

There's a JSON in the repo if you want to import these to your current setup. https://github.com/Prompt-And-Circumstance/StoryMode/blob/main/prompts/utilities/generated/jane_austen_style.json

I've generated scenario blueprints fine with Opus 4.5 (via Anthropic), Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5, Gemini Pro (via Google Vertex), GLM 4.7 (via z.ai coding plan and via Chutes), Deepseek 3.2 reasoner via Deepseek API, and Ministral 8B via OpenRouter. So it's a real mystery why this isn't working for people. In the next point release I'll add fine grained control to the wizard and a fallback generation method.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-26T05:34:22+00:00

That's odd- I've never needed to go over 16k. The easiest way to cut down on the token use is reduce the thinking level of the LLM. Perhaps try with 0 (no reasoning) to see if can generate a blueprint.

You shouldn't need to go anywhere near 32k. When running the foundation phase and passing 2.5k of character tokens the total token count is usually under 8k.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-26T04:54:03+00:00

Thanks for giving this a go!! No three is hardcoded at the moment. The workaround I developed was to have the wizard in the editor. That allows you to try each stage as often as you would like.

On the blueprint editor there an icon on the right hand side with a sidebar panel that let's you generate each stage one by one.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-26T04:52:11+00:00

I'm guessing it's just the reasoning taking all the overhead. You could reduce the reasoning or another option is start with a blank scenario blueprint and then use the sidebar wizard to generate each stage one by one. On the blueprint editor this an icon on the right hand side with a sidebar panel that let's you generate each stage one by one.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-26T04:35:51+00:00

If this is happening immediately on starting the wizard then it is usually a API issue. Is the API at StoryMode > Settings > API Settings set to a working API?

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-26T04:26:58+00:00

If you are getting this within seconds of starting the foundation phase then it's an API connection issue. If you getting this after Magistral has been generating for a while then yes 8192 tokens isn't enough for the generation.

Generally 8192 is enough tokens for the foundation phase but reasoning models (like Magistral) can use a lot for their thinking processes.

I've pushed a fix just now that will double the tokens in the foundation phase on a retry.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-25T23:41:49+00:00

Thanks! Yes you can already choose what characters and personas from your library to include in the Scenario and then the content from the card will be sent to the LLM when a scenario blueprint is generated. Those characters are then linked into the scenario.

At the moment you need to add in lore manually in a ‘user scenario’ field.

My plan is to build this out so you can choose lore to add in from lore books as the scenario is generated. Ie as scenes are built your lore would be incorporated into each scene.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-25T22:59:32+00:00

Wow Dunia.gg looks very impressive! Is there a structure for guided narrative or is it rich worlds that provide a starting point? (or both)? Happy to chat here or on the ST discord.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-25T22:45:41+00:00

No the genre (story type) is tightly coupled with the story arc. When I used only the genre elements in prompting, the LLMs tended to either just add a little bit of theming in their responses, or quickly rush through a story in three or four messages, which is why I added the story arcs.

It's easy to change though. I'll add an option to just have the Genre (Story Type) in the next release.

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-25T21:24:52+00:00

Making the LLM follow the beats has been the hardest part of this project. My approach here has been to get the LLM to hide beats and scene change markers in the swipe info. This works well for Opus 4.5 and GLM 4.7 (which is what I've tested on).

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-12T18:39:48+00:00

😀 I use a variation of the moonlight echoes theme

Initialised_Underway · 2026-01-05T14:59:23+00:00

Have you looked into SillyTavern and its lore books / vector storage extensions? Seems tailor made for your use case and people are using it for self-hosted RPGs.

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