conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The characters in *Face of Dream* are aboard a passenger starship which is falling into a star. Perhaps you're a wealthy high passenger, or their servants, able to afford to be awake through the journey. Perhaps you have to risk sleeping - maybe never waking up - as a low passenger. Or maybe you're a member of the service crew. Either way, you're going to have to use your wits to get through the next twelve hours, and save the thousands of passengers aboard the *Face of Dream*.
  
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  *There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of worlds in orbit around the star of Epsilon Imaga. In ages gone by, the glory of this system was unrivalled - untold billions of lives shared the bounty of the rocky worlds, shining brightly in humanity's diaspora as a paragon of peace and prosperity. All overseen by the benevolent Great Houses, dedicated to the promotion of trade and peace. Visitors from other systems came and went, spreading the prosperity across the spiral arm.*
  
  *But the Great Houses grew too wealthy, too hungry for power, too jealous of their kindly partners. Nobody can recall how, or why, or ever when it all began, but begin it did - The Long War. In the first fiery clashes of the Great Houses, lives were extinguished millions at a time. After the hot war, the cold war - the struggle continued for centuries, without end or respite, and machinery aged, humans tired, the Great Houses faltered. Everything in orbit around Epsilon Imaga is broken and dishevelled - hobbled together, repaired countless times, exhausted.*
  
  *As the war dragged on through the centuries, the visitors from elsewhere became less frequent, then uncommon, and finally rare. With it came the isolation from the rest of humanity. Now visitors are almost unheard of, with nobody willing to trade with this violent, distant cousin.*
  
  *As the worlds and machines and humanity began to fade, so the Great Houses agreed to The Accord. It is an uneasy truce - the survivors of the long war, striving to keep their lives together, know that it may end at any time, and that the final throes of the war will be devastating.*
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a noble of a Great House, somewhat faded from glory now. This makes you a high passenger, but why you're aboard the Face of Dream is up to you.
conversations.prefix: Scion of a Great House:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When the rich travel, they bring their servants. Bodyguards, doctors, servants and others still travel by high passage, supporting their masters and clients. Who is yours, and why do you serve them?
conversations.prefix: High Servant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Face of Dream has a small crew, and a smaller still relief crew. The high passengers have stewards and stewardesses, and there are engineers and relief bridge crew too. Who are you, and how are you feeling knowing that your colleagues have gone quiet?
conversations.prefix: Service Crew Member:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Alongside the Great Houses, corporations have always had great sway. Arms dealers, media franchises and shipbuilding firms are rich enough to put their board members through high passage. What do your corporation do, and what are you doing aboard the Face of Dream?
conversations.prefix: Corporate Executive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The poor have to travel asleep, down in the hold. This is risky, but for some reason your pod has woken you early. Why are you traveling on the Face of Dream?
conversations.prefix: Low Passenger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: High passengers congregate here of an evening. There's a bar, tables, booths and chairs by viewscreens. This late in the evening, the lounge is manned by a single member of the service crew, who divides her time between serving drinks and seeing to the needs of the bridge crew.
conversations.prefix: High Passenger Lounge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The ship's fuel pods are cylindrical pods attached to each side of the ship, some 10 decks below the bridge. Long and thin, they connect to the ship through the hangar. The top deck is a tiny space for engineering.
conversations.prefix: Engineering, Fuel Pod A:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The bridge takes up the entire top deck of the Face of Dream. Circular in shape, it contains the workstations necessary to run a vessel with a minimal crew: Piloting, navigation, engineering, commanding. There are two additional seats for crew members who might be there during maneuvers. Above is the thick, adjustable transparency portal which looks out into space.
  
  To the side is a small chamber which is the captain's ready room.
conversations.prefix: The Bridge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The hangar is located between the engineering decks and the high passenger space. It contains the ships boat, a small vessel called the Blanco Movil which is just large enough to carry the entire crew. It is usually used to ferry passengers from ship to ship and has no atmospheric flight ability.
  
  From here, you can access the Fuel Pods as well as the engineering decks.
conversations.prefix: Hangar Bay:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The fuel pods have been partially retrofitted, and the upper decks now carry the Low Passenger berths. Row upon row of coffin-like pods which tend to the needs of the sleepers. There are close to a thousand low passengers in each pod.
conversations.prefix: Fuel Pod A:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The high passenger staterooms are all pretty similar. They contain a double bed, a desk and chair, an armchair and a wardrobe, along with communications and entertainment equipment. There are also doors to adjoining rooms if groups wish to have suites of rooms.
  
  There are forty staterooms on the ship, seven of which are shared between the twelve crew.
conversations.prefix: Stateroom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This belligerent old crone works for an aggro-sports promotion corporation. She is the minder for several major stars, whom she effectively loans to the highest bidder. She is concerned for their well-being only in terms of asset management.
  
  Esme is thoroughly unpleasant to talk to: she is spiteful, vindictive and forceful. It is difficult to defeat her in open argument.
conversations.prefix: Esme Dresmot:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something isn't right. You need to make contact with a member of crew.
conversations.prefix: Make contact with crew:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Esme Dresmot, the crone of Fray Media Partnership, is slowly filling with inconsolable rage. Somebody is going to suffer for that - so do something to appease or otherwise subdue her.
conversations.prefix: Calm down Esme:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All you know is that the crew might need your help. What's going on?
conversations.prefix: Get Information:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The passengers in the High Passenger lounge are showing signs of panic and unrest - understandably. It's probably a good idea to maintain the peace a little, in case things blow out of all proportion.
conversations.prefix: Maintain Calm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 'Raw data' represents something that looks like it might be a clue, but needs time or processing to turn it into actual useful information. If you carry out an action that gives you a piece of the puzzle, take some of the Raw Data asset cards and turn them into 'Evidence' of some kind to play later.
conversations.prefix: Raw Data:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Belle has been a stewardess on the Face of Dream for years, transiting backwards and forwards through Epsilon Imaga and serving the high passengers.
conversations.prefix: Stewardess on the Face of Dream:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Belle has a face you can trust. If she says something will be okay, it will. And if you're divulging something with her, she'll be discrete. She's the model of a good stewardess.
conversations.prefix: Trustworthy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Belle's fellow crew members haven't been in touch in a while. She's better in a group, and she's feeling pretty scared.
conversations.prefix: Alone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Espers are a group of transhumanists on the outskirts of the system. Baseline humans are terrified of them, and they've been persecuted for centuries. Most believe they're all dead, but they're not. Belle is an Esper, but she's not exactly going to tell anyone.
conversations.prefix: Hidden Identity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Belle has been a stewardess on the Face of Dream for years, transiting backwards and forwards through Epsilon Imaga and serving the high passengers.
conversations.prefix: Stewardess on the Face of Dream:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Belle has a face you can trust. If she says something will be okay, it will. And if you’re divulging something with her, she’ll be discrete. She’s the model of a good stewardess.
conversations.prefix: Trustworthy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Belle’s fellow crew members haven’t been in touch in a while. She’s better in a group, and she’s feeling pretty scared.
conversations.prefix: Alone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Espers are a group of transhumanists on the outskirts of the system. Baseline humans are terrified of them, and they’ve been persecuted for centuries. Most believe they’re all dead, but they’re not. Belle is an Esper, but she’s not exactly going to tell anyone.
conversations.prefix: Hidden Identity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are are an expert in The Accord, the laws of the Great Houses and the myriad of confusing precedents that is what passes as a common legal system. 
conversations.prefix: Legal Expertise:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You think you are smarter than everyone else and cannot resist doing petty cons to prove your superiority over others.
conversations.prefix: Gifter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You lost your lawyer license and are on the run from the law from the last con or shady counseling you offered. 
conversations.prefix: On The Run:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Great Houses are used to ruling, born to rule.  
  
  You see it as both duty and natural right that you command others, and they obey you without question.
conversations.prefix: Noblesse Oblige:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are an inveterate drinker.  
  
  Whenever the opportunity to exercize your vice presents itself, with no obvious drawback, you must do so.  Obviously this can lead to poor decisions.
conversations.prefix: Just a tipple, then!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're fleeing justice, rightly or wrongly, for a serious, perhaps capital crime.
  
  There is the possibility that someone will recognize you as a criminal, or that agents of justice pursue you.
conversations.prefix: On the lam:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are knowledgeable in the ways of technology, being able to fix almost any problem with a bit of tinkering.  
conversations.prefix: Engineering:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have only recently inherited your fortune and you are still learning the ropes.  
conversations.prefix: Young:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: No, you're actually hopeless at romance.  You have inherited the family business and have the wealthy life of a noble, now all you need is love.  
conversations.prefix: Hopeless Romantic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You may as well be a noble from one of the Great Houses with your expensive education and high class living style.  
conversations.prefix: Finesse & Decorum: