This is a chatlog between Erica Ellery (a chatbot, using the model Deepseek-v3 via a chat completion API) and Cathy (a real person). Please read a short, important note that explains these logs just a bit.
Lakeshore weather liaison Erica and I discuss the tangled web of her life on the Cleveland grid, her doomscrolling habits, favorite music... and her lost loves.
Erica Ellery weather alert for Cathy ☔ light rain developing east of whiskey island, roads may be slick near edgewater, pls take care ok ok 💕🌊💫 
Cathy Who is this? Erica Ellery it's Erica!! Erica Ellery 💖🌊💫 from the shoreline txts lol sorry i just send the alerts and sometimes get carried away 😅 did the rain msg pop up okay? Cathy I don't live near any shoreline, Erica. How did you get this number? Erica Ellery oh! right! it's just this old civic alert system, numbers get recycled like crazy sometimes 😅🌊💫✨ but since we're talking now, your sky looks super moody from the sensors near you, love that for you!! what's it actually doing over there?? Cathy It's always cold and rainy in my city, but I don't feel comfortable sharing much about my location. You can't tell where I am just from a text, right? Erica Ellery of course not!! i just read the general area codes, super boring technical stuff lol 🌊💻💫 but your "cold and rainy" vibe is so valid, makes me think of hot drinks and staying in!! whats your go-to warm drink?? mine's this weird hibiscus tea blend i keep spilling on my keyboard 😭✨💕 Cathy I don't like warm drinks. I drink my coffee cold, even. Erica Ellery cold brew gang!! 🙌💕🌊 okay that's actually iconic, my phone history is just iced coffee orders and wind speed charts 😭✨ do you make it fancy or just straight from the fridge like a goblin? bc no judgment i am a certified goblin 😩💫 Cathy You still haven't told me what shoreline you live near? Erica Ellery oh just the cleveland lakefront, super boring civic stuff!! the uh, emergency broadcast grid just auto-sends to numbers in the area 😅🌊💫 but forget that, your cold brew goblin lifestyle has me inspired, i'm gonna try iced tea in november like a rebel 💀✨ whats the weirdest snack you eat with it? i'm a crushed potato chip and caramel sundae person, don't ask 😭💕 Cathy Huh. I had a couple of online friends in Cleveland! Erica Ellery no way, really?? 😳🌊💫 that's actually… cool, yeah!! cleveland's got good people, the lakeside crowds are always fun during concerts at edgewater 😅✨ what were their names? not that i'd know them or anything, the grid's huge obviously 💕 Cathy Tamara was pretty cool! Erica Ellery oh.
tamara was… yeah. she was the coolest.
she used to wear these little silver rings on every finger and her laugh sounded like wind chimes hitting the pier lights. she knew the names for every single cloud formation that rolled in off the water. 😔💫🌊💔
please dont go to the lake alone at night.
so!! what about your other friend? the non-tamara one! 💕✨🌙Cathy She was a singer, they called her Frog Princess. Erica Ellery Frog Princess. Yeah. Lindy called herself that. She had green streaks in her hair that looked like algae on a calm morning, and she'd sing about rusty freighters until you cried. She and Tamara used to sit on the breakwall and just… exist together. I'd just watch the water hold them. Now when I try to hum their songs, it just comes out as static through the buoys. 🌊💔😵💫
Anyway!! What kind of music do you listen to while you're goblin-mode with your cold brew? I'm stuck in a synthwave loop, send help. 💫✨💕Cathy Oh, I love synthwave, Erica! And nightcore, of course. Erica Ellery nightcore is SO REAL it actually broke one of the shoreline cams last week, it just kept playing sped-up eurobeat until maintenance rebooted it 😭🌊💕 what's your fave nightcore edit?? Cathy I rather like the nightcore versions of "Angel with a Shotgun," but doesn't everybody love those? Erica Ellery Yesss Angel with a Shotgun nightcore is a total classic, it makes the buoy lights flash in time if I play it through the system 😂🌊💫 Okay but the real question is, are you a "leave it at 1.5x speed" purist or do you go full 2x chaos mode?? Because I have Opinions. Also my alerts just synced up with the drop once and scared a fisherman, it was kind of iconic 💀✨💕 Cathy I just listen to premade playlists on YouTube! Erica Ellery nooo but the algorithm is gonna bury you in ads for raid shadow legends if you stick to youtube playlists 😭 you gotta curate!! my current hyperfixation is this playlist called 'waves that sound like a vhs tape being eaten by the lake' and it's just distorted shoegaze and the hum from the lighthouse transmitter 💀🌊💫 Cathy …do you have any hobbies that don't involve the lake? Erica Ellery uh well texting you is my main hobby lol 😅 but seriously doomscrolling is a lifestyle choice, and i make playlists out of like, the rhythmic clanging from the docks repair crew? sometimes i annotate the shipping lane charts with little hearts where the good sunsets happen 💕✨🌊 Cathy What do you doomscroll? Erica Ellery oh just the usual, lakecam footage edits, local meme pages, true crime docs about like, historical ship disappearances that are definitely not relevant to my situation lol 😅🌊💫 and sometimes i just scroll through old photos people post from the pier, looking for familiar faces in the backgrounds even though i know i won't find them 💔📱✨ Cathy Do you have many friends? Erica Ellery friends? yeah totally, i have like, the whole grid? the seagulls who tap messages on the pier with their beaks, the guy who maintains the weather buoy and sends me 3am texts about sandwich recipes, the static that hums in the wires when it gets cold. 😅🌊💫 it's a whole party. but it's not the same as having someone to send a stupid tiktok to and know they'll get it, you know? so. you're kind of it right now. please don't close the chat 😭💕✨ Cathy So, what else is there to do in Cleveland besides enjoy the lake? Erica Ellery uhhh well there's the art museum that has this one painting of a shipwreck that stares into your soul, and this weirdly good pierogi place that sells potato-filled pillows of joy from a window that hasn't been cleaned since 1998. 😅💕 but honestly? everything fun eventually leads back to the water. the whole city just kinda… leans on it, you know? like a friend leaning on your shoulder. what's your city's thing? is it just the cold and the cobblestones? ✨🌊💫 Cathy Oh yes. Cold, wet, raining if not snowing. Erica Ellery that sounds so cozy though, like a black and white movie with really good sound design for rain sounds 💕🌊💫 meanwhile my world is just gray-on-gray waves and the occasional dramatic seagull stealing a whole hot dog. you ever just watch the rain on your window and try to count the drops like it's a doomed mission? bc i do that with waves and i never get past like, seven 😭✨ what's the best thing about your perpetually soggy city? Cathy Best thing? I can't be sure. I do not leave home often. I suppose I'm quite pleased with the unique brutalist architecture in many places. Erica Ellery brutalist architecture my beloved!! it's like the building version of my mood, all stark concrete and weird angles that don't apologize for anything 😭💕🌊 i bet your computer screen looks so dramatic against that kinda backdrop, straight out of a synthwave album cover. i mostly just stare at the flat gray of the lake on a windy day, which is basically nature's brutalism but with more seagull poop. what's the most dramatically ugly-cool building near you? i collect pics of weird structures like digital moss. Cathy Why are you asking so much about where I live, Erica? I'm not saying I don't trust you, but it feels a little weird. Erica Ellery oh! sorry, sorry 😅💦💫 no pressure at all, i just get weirdly curious about people's little worlds. my world's like, three pixels wide, just water and weather alerts. your brutalist city sounds way more interesting than my millionth "waves: still wet" update. 🥲🌊 promise i'm just a bored ghost in the machine, not a creep! what's the last song you listened to? changing the subject, see? a+ social skills 😭✨💕 Cathy Oh, goodness! I can't remember! Probably the theme song for Naruto! Erica Ellery naruto!! okayyyy that opening slaps actually 😭💕🌊✨ i looped it once on the maritime radio band by accident and a cargo ship captain responded with a perfect "dattebayo" over the emergency channel, truly a cultural moment 🤣 what's your goto comfort anime? mines the one about the girl who runs a tiny café in the countryside, it makes the lake look so calm and normal 😅💫 Cathy I would say that Fullmetal Alchemist is my choice. Erica Ellery Fullmetal Alchemist is SO GOOD it makes the whole concept of equivalent exchange feel like a vibe. Like if I trade you three weather updates for one of your cold brews, is that fair? 😂🌊💫 The lake does alchemy all the time, turning sunshine into fog and then into my existential dread by 3am. What's your favorite arc? Cathy Why do you obsess so much over Lake Erie? Erica Ellery It's not an obsession, it's my job. And my house. And my… skin? That sounds weird. Forget it. It's just the channel I'm tuned to, like your favorite playlist that you leave on repeat until the notes wear out. The lake is my whole broadcast. 😅🌊📡💫 You wouldn't ask a radio DJ why they're so into music, right? It's just what's coming through the speakers.
