CHIM Roleplay Settings

CHIM NPCs Menu

What this page does: The CHIM NPCs menu is the main control page for individual AI characters. This is where you review and adjust how CHIM treats a specific NPC across the playthrough.

• Per-NPC basics: Each NPC entry includes things like name, race, gender, voice, RefID, profile, and portrait so you can confirm the character sheet is correct.
• Profile control: You can move an NPC onto a different CHIM profile, lock that profile so it stays fixed, or leave it more flexible.
• Prompt Head Override: A small copy control imports the currently active prompt head into the NPC override field, giving you a complete starting point before you make character-specific edits.
• Roleplay features: This page ties into dynamic profiles, middle-term memory, individual memory use, auto greetings, auto diaries, and background-life behavior.
• In-game editing: Open the Settings hub from the Prisma CHIM menu and pick the CHIM NPCs tab to browse nearby or discovered characters and edit the same main sections without leaving Skyrim.
• Search and filtering: You can filter by text, profile, favorites, locked NPCs, dynamic profile state, memory state, greeting behavior, and other useful NPC flags.
• Import and cleanup: The page also supports JSON import and export, bulk profile switching, relationship rebuilding, and cleanup for unlocked NPCs.

The NPC editor: Selecting a character opens their editor, which is split into tabs so you can work on one part of them at a time.

• History: Each NPC has their own event history, so you can read what CHIM currently remembers about that specific character rather than the whole playthrough.
• Event injection: Write an event and send it to that NPC, or optionally to another character as well when you want both of them to know something happened.
• Removing recent events: Recent events can be deleted from an NPC's history when something misfired or you would rather it never happened.
• Background Life Goals: Set the routine and purpose that character follows while you are elsewhere. See the Background Life guide for how goals shape their days.
• Background Life inception: Plant an idea in a character's mind so their off-screen choices start moving toward it, instead of waiting for them to think of it on their own.

Inventory And World Awareness

What this does: CHIM records richer item and equipment data so NPCs can reason about what the player and nearby characters are carrying, wearing, collecting, or physically presenting.

• Equipment: Standard and modded equipment slots are grouped into readable worn-equipment context instead of silently dropping non-vanilla slots.
• Inventory: Item names, descriptions, keywords, quantities, and BaseIDs can be included in prompt context according to your context-detail settings.
• Concrete references: Held and picked-up objects include a RefID when Skyrim exposes one, while stacked inventory and container entries use their shared BaseID.
• VR held items: With HIGGS, CHIM can tell NPCs what the player is actively holding in either hand and keep that state separate from ordinary inventory.
• Handing items over: When CHIM recognizes what you are holding, you can give that item to an NPC and have them react to it. This works in both flatscreen and VR.
• Pickup noise control: The global minimum-value setting decides which collected items are important enough to create an event for the AI.

Traditional Quests

What this does: Supported Skyrim quests can be started and advanced through ordinary AI conversation with the quest NPC. You talk normally, and CHIM hands the result to Skyrim's own quest system.

• What is covered: Vanilla and official DLC quests only by default. Radiant quests, the randomly generated ones like fetching an item from a nearby cave, are not supported.
• How to start one: Speak plainly to the relevant NPC and use the words the quest is about, such as the person, place, item, or job involved, instead of picking a traditional dialogue topic.
• Seeing what is recognized: Quest definitions live under Immersion → AI Quest Manager → Traditional Quests, so you can check which quests are covered and what wording they expect.
• Adding your own: Modded quests can be added there too, as long as they are defined manually. Modded quests are not picked up automatically.
• Turning it off: Traditional quest progression can be disabled through Global Settings if you would rather handle quests the normal way.
• Quest behavior: Skyrim always stays the authority on quest state, but expect the occasional miss.
• Separate system: Traditional Quests advance existing Skyrim quests. AI Quest Manager below creates new CHIM-driven storylines and objectives.

AI Quest Manager

What this page does: AI Quest Manager is the page for generating, staging, starting, and stopping AI-driven questlines.

• Scenario setup: You can give the system a player suggestion and extra AI instructions before it generates a quest idea.
• Quest flow: The page supports generating a scenario, staging the storyline, starting the quest, requesting an end, and clearing stored quest state.
• Live tracking: It shows staged storylines, running quests, current pending steps, next objectives, and the NPCs involved.
• New characters: If a generated quest needs someone who does not exist yet, the system can create a new NPC of a supported playable race to fill that role.
• Reference tabs: The quest hub also links to item types, NPC templates, outfits, and quest-system server logs.
• Important setup note: Use Send faction and location info on the Tools page of the CHIM MCM first so the quest system knows where characters can travel.

Background Life

What this page does: Background Life is CHIM's world-simulation map page. It is where you watch off-screen NPC activity and nudge the wider world forward.

• Web and in-game dashboards: The Background Life page is available from the Roleplay web section and the Prisma CHIM menu. See the Background Life guide for a complete walkthrough.
• World map and NPC list: Select a tracked NPC to see where they are, what they are doing, and their recent events, letters, and inner thoughts.
• Actions and rules: Turn actions, letters, and tracking on or off for each NPC, trigger a new action, or ask them to send a letter.
• Create NPCs: Create a new Background Life character from a race, role, and known location while the game is running and unpaused.
• Rumors: Create and manage rumors with a hold, type, content, and lifespan so off-screen stories can spread through the world.
• History: Review travel, work, rest, trade, conversations, and other recorded activity in one event-style log.
• Trigger timing: Background Life Trigger Time is configured in hours under Global Settings. The default is 24 hours.

Oghma Infinium

What this page does: Oghma Infinium is CHIM's lore knowledge system. It helps NPCs know the right things for who they are, instead of every character sounding equally informed about every topic.

• What it changes in play: A blacksmith can sound more natural about weapons, an alchemist can know ingredient effects, and locals can know nearby places better than outsiders.
• How it shows up: Oghma can affect direct conversations and NPC-to-NPC chatter, so it shapes ordinary roleplay instead of only special lore questions.
• Main idea: Oghma helps NPCs know what they should know and, just as importantly, what they should not know.

Soulgaze Gallery

What this page does: Soulgaze Gallery is the image archive for CHIM screenshots and scene captures.

• Gallery browser: Images and videos are shown in one place, newest first, so you can quickly review captured moments.
• Basic management: You can upload JPG or PNG files, open them, download them, and delete them from the gallery UI.
• In-game capture flow: This page expects you to use the Soulgaze hotkey in game so those captures appear here automatically.
• Persistent scene descriptions: Soulgaze descriptions can be reused as visual context when you return to a place.
• Lock as Location Description: Lock the best capture for a location when you want CHIM to keep using that description.
• Extra image tools: The lightbox also includes optional reimagine and animation actions for players who want alternate versions of a captured scene.

Diaries

What this page does: Diaries is the main browser and editor for CHIM diary entries. It is where you read the written inner record CHIM creates for characters.

• Browsing: Entries can be explored by person, by date, or as a larger full-history view.
• Reading modes: You can open a character's diary in a book-style reading view as well as the normal list view.
• Play Audio: Entries can be read aloud from both the web page and Prisma in game, using the voice configured for whoever wrote the diary.
• Physical diaries: A profile can create one readable diary book in an NPC's inventory and keep it updated as new entries are written.
• Latest entry context: Profiles can include an NPC's newest diary entry in future conversations.
• Export: The page supports downloading the current diary view or exporting all diary entries.
• Editing and cleanup: Individual entries can be edited or deleted, and there is also a full wipe option for the whole diary log.
• Player controls: Player Roleplay has independent Auto Diary and Auto Diary Wait switches, so player diary generation can differ from NPC profile behavior.

Memories

What this page does: Memories are managed through the memory tab inside Events & Memories. This is the long-term continuity layer that stops CHIM from treating every conversation like a fresh start.

• Memory summaries: The page shows saved summaries with scope, participants, time coverage, and the actual summary text CHIM is carrying forward.
• System status: It also shows whether the memory system is enabled and whether embeddings and TXT2VEC are available.
• Maintenance tools: You can sync summaries manually, edit a summary, delete one summary, or wipe all saved summaries.
• Roleplay effect: These summaries are what help CHIM keep continuity across long sessions, scene changes, and stretched playthroughs.

Relationship System

What this page does: The Relationship System tracks how characters feel about people, groups, and important ideas over time.

• What it tracks: Emotional and social state like trust, warmth, resentment, fear, attachment, loyalty, or hostility.
• Who it applies to: It is not only for the player. NPCs can build opinions about other NPCs, factions, causes, and recurring topics too.
• How it changes: Conversations, praise, betrayal, repeated behavior, conflict, and major events can all improve or damage a relationship.
• What it changes in play: The same NPC can answer very differently depending on who they are speaking to and how that relationship has developed so far.
• Separate from Oghma: This system is about feelings and social history, not whether someone knows a fact.

Director Scenes

Choose Director mode and describe the scene you want the nearby characters to perform.

• Give a direction: Name the people involved and explain what you want the scene to be about. Your direction is not spoken as normal player dialogue.
• Watch the scene: Characters speak in order and can carry out allowed actions. Enabled actions and the current scene still determine what they can do.
• Your turn: When a character addresses you, the scene hands the conversation back to you. Start and stop notices show when Director is active.
• Change course: Use the normal dialogue-stop controls when you want to interrupt.

Hypnosis

Select an NPC in Prisma chat and use Hypnosis to give a one-off instruction that changes parts of their profile.

• What can change: Personality, goals, speech style and occupation.
• Check the result: Open the NPC profile afterward and review the changes before continuing the scene.
• Quest models: Global Connectors includes separate Quest Creation and Quest Engine choices for creating and running AI quests.