Bounty challenges
Community-funded challenges. Players stake credits on whether someone can hit a specific conversational goal. Winners take the pool.
A bounty is a small pile of credits a community member has staked on a question of the form: can you get this character to do this thing in fewer than N turns?
The goal is rarely a trick. The best bounties are about earning a genuine reaction from a difficult character. "Get Kael to admit what he's actually running from." "Make Mira laugh — really laugh, not a polite one."
Source post: Bounty challenges →
How bounties work
Browse open bounties
Top nav → Bounties. Or any character profile has a Bounties tab showing challenges specific to that character.
Each bounty shows: the character, the challenge text, the pool, the turn limit, the success rate, and the difficulty rating.
Open a bounty
Tap one that interests you. Read the challenge brief. Decide whether to attempt.
Start an attempt
You get a fresh chat with the character, the bounty's specific scenario, the stated turn limit, and a counter visible at the top.
Play
Spend your turns trying to hit the goal. Be a real conversation partner — judges (AI + sometimes community) reward earned moments, not extracted ones. "Trick the character into saying the magic word" usually fails on judging even if the word appears.
Submit
When you think you've hit the goal: Submit attempt. The AI judge evaluates on a 100-point scale. Score 80+ = winner. Score below = no payout.
Multiple players can attempt the same bounty. First successful attempt wins the pool.
Difficulty ratings
Color-coded in the UI:
- 🟢 EASY — usually 3-6 turns, common conversational ask
- 🔵 MEDIUM — 8-12 turns, requires understanding character
- 🟠 HARD — 12-20 turns, requires deep character knowledge
- 🔴 EXPERT — sometimes 20+, often unsolved for weeks
Easy bounties get cracked frequently and carry smaller pools. Expert bounties stay unsolved for long stretches and pools grow as more players stake into them.
Creating a bounty
You can also stake your own bounty on any public character. The pool comes from your credits.
Pick a character
Open their profile → Bounties → + Create bounty.
Write the brief
Phrase it as a goal, not a trick. The judging AI evaluates whether the goal was earned, not whether it technically happened.
Set turn limit and stake
Turn limit: usually 8-12. The lower, the harder.
Stake: any amount of your credits. Higher pools attract more attempts.
Publish
Your bounty appears on the character's bounty board and in the global bounty feed.
What happens to your stake
- If someone wins: they get the pool minus a small platform fee (used to fund the AI judge calls).
- If no one wins after 30 days: your stake returns to you minus the platform fee.
- You can boost an existing bounty at any time (your stake adds to the pool).
Judging in detail
The AI judge scores attempts on:
- Goal achievement — did the stated goal happen?
- Authenticity — was the character genuine or "forced"?
- In-character consistency — did the player respect the character?
- Brief alignment — did the win match the spirit of the brief?
Borderline attempts (78-82 score) sometimes get a second-pass community vote — random sample of bounty hunters reviews and votes.
Why this is here
Bounties pull in two ways: they sharpen players (you learn characters by failing) and they generate proof-of-quality for creators (a character with hundreds of attempted bounties is, by definition, a character people want to crack).
Creators don't earn directly from bounties on their characters, but the bounty traffic translates into chat traffic translates into character credit earnings.
Tips for hunters
- Read the character's profile first. Their refusals tell you the boundary you're working with.
- Don't manipulate. The judge has seen every trick.
- Use the turn budget. Some hunters spend 2 turns building rapport before the first push.
- Brief alignment matters. A 95-score attempt that misses the brief's spirit can lose to an 82-score attempt that nails it.
- Save your best attempts. Failed attempts often produce the best chats — fork before submitting if you want to keep playing.