conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Dellu, a planet of endless desert. Your home.
  
  Some live a life here among the oasis cities, ground under the boot-heel of the water lords that rule them. Some survive in the open dunes, a sand-pirate or a dew-farmer, maybe even a trader running both. Some even work and live in the shadow of the great elevator that leads to the glittering space port upon high, whose rare visitors scatter strange technology upon the markets.
  
  For reasons that are your own, you have signed onto a sand-barge as crew or passenger. The Captain is moving some expensive cargo from the space port to Ghin, a minor oasis city, where the  cargo is to be delivered as a gift to it's water lord.
  
  The story opens a short time into the trip, where something has gone wrong on board, and trouble has found all of you.
  
   - Story details
  
  This is a short length story, nominally six scenes with some scope for extension depending on player choices. Ideally open to four to six players, I'm hoping to run through it over four weeks, with three to five posts a week (slightly less each with more players). 
  
  See the rules for more details, and please message me with questions. I have added some starter natures, strength's and weaknesses, but I encourage you to add your own. The aim is to begin around 12th February or before.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson
conversations.prefix: BRAVE:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
   - Homer
conversations.prefix: CHARITABLE:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
   - Oscar Wilde
conversations.prefix: CHARMING:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
   - Joan Crawford
conversations.prefix: INDEPENDENT:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
   - Henry David Thoreau
conversations.prefix: INSIGHTFUL:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
   - Helen Keller
conversations.prefix: OPTIMISTIC:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
   - John Quincy Adams
conversations.prefix: PERSEVERANT:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: My motto is: if its cold outside wear whatever you need to keep warm
   - Michael Primi
conversations.prefix: PRACTICAL:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best band in the world.
   - Noel Gallagher
conversations.prefix: ARROGANT:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: …I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
   - Gene Tunney
conversations.prefix: BELLIGERENT:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
   - Gordon Gekko
conversations.prefix: GREEDY:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
   - Carl von Clausewitz
conversations.prefix: IMPULSIVE:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
   - Milan Kundera
conversations.prefix: LAZY:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive … We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.
   - Freddy Fender
conversations.prefix: SENSITIVE:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: I have opinions on everything. I’m a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
   - Mika
conversations.prefix: STUBBORN:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
   - William S. Burroughs
conversations.prefix: SUSPICIOUS:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve committed a serious crime, and seek either redemption or escape.
conversations.prefix: CRIME:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You feel called to the world at large. Wanderlust or a higher calling propel you.
conversations.prefix: DESTINY:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve learnt everything you can, but still there is more. Finding knowledge and the truth drives you.
conversations.prefix: DISCOVERY:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Failure follows in your wake, perhaps this time things will be different, but probably not.
conversations.prefix: FAILURE:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your family has a legacy you must live up to, make them proud, or at least don’t let them down.
conversations.prefix: FAMILY:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Power comes to those who grasp it, and your hands are ready.
conversations.prefix: POWER:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are dedicated to protecting someone or something, prepared to so whatever it takes.
conversations.prefix: PROTECTION:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're always on the lookout for something to help them survive, or at the least, keep yourself one step ahead.
conversations.prefix: SURVIVAL:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're new to the smuggling game, apprenticed to a barge owner who is showing you the ropes.
conversations.prefix: Young smuggler:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A skilled pilot with quick reflexes, you pilot barges for whoever can pay or asks the least number of questions about your gambling debts.
conversations.prefix: Barge Jockey:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You find and sell the location of new water sources. Usually it's to a water lord, but your sympathies lie with free water groups and you work for them in secret.
conversations.prefix: Water scout:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You worship an old god of the desert, and spread the word where you can. The water lords dislike you, but the common folk welcome you for your rituals and songs.
conversations.prefix: Desert Priest:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You worked yourself free of a water lord, and now freelance protecting barges. You don't come cheap, but you have a good reputation and a long memory.
conversations.prefix: Droid Guard:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The land is flat and rocky in all directions from the space elevator, before eventually giving way to rocky ranges and open desert after a day's travel. 
conversations.prefix: The Flatlands:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The water lord of Ghin's hired muscle, now turned betrayer. Powerfully built and armed with a well-maintained Needler.
conversations.prefix: Feule:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An off-world technician who serves Feule, you don't recognize the race, but the pupil-less yellow eyes unnerve you.
conversations.prefix: K'Rall:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Captain's rounds have hit something they shouldn't have. Can you repair the damage, is it not that bad, or is it worse?
conversations.prefix: Damaged Skiff:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The outside of the pod has started to form strange patterns, almost mesmeric, were it not for the bone-piercing wail of alarm it is also emitting.
conversations.prefix: Mysterious Pod:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The hover bike is ridden by a single pilot armed with a makeshift slug-rifle. The bike seems poorly maintained by bandit standards.
conversations.prefix: Desert Bike Scout:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The hover bike is ridden by a single pilot armed with a makeshift slug-rifle. The bike seems poorly maintained by bandit standards.
conversations.prefix: Desert Bike Scout:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A fearsome native beast ridden by an equally terrifying rider. The rider is urging the creature to swoop and tear at the barge, in pursuit of the pod, or it's destruction.
conversations.prefix: Sand Wraith:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The open desert starts to give way to rocky outcroppings and loose stone. You can see the tall winding rocks of the badlands far in the distance.
conversations.prefix: Broken lands:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Will fire a flare, hopefully, though it looks old and a bit rusty.
conversations.prefix: Flare gun:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Give Captain Biloh a proper burial when the situation allows for it.
conversations.prefix: Bury Captain Biloh:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Barge is damaged from the first encounter, you should spend some time repairing it when the situation allows.
conversations.prefix: Keep the barge running:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cargo is stacked on deck, and below deck all over the hover barge. Perhaps there is something that could be put to use. Weapons, armour, parts, anything.
conversations.prefix: Cargo:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Using navigation maps and past experiences, you should decide a good course to take through the badlands. Direct, fast, stealthy, are some options among many.
conversations.prefix: Chart a course:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Perhaps you can use this to pass the time or make a friend.
conversations.prefix: Deck of cards:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Untouched by dust, this rifle is probably from off-world, or has been expensively refurbished. There isn't many power packs, but hopefully enough to go around.
conversations.prefix: Laser Rifle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An android of unknown origin with a mission to complete in Ghin. "Her" voice is human, not robotic, and feminine in pitch.
conversations.prefix: Tielle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Travelling in the darkness is too risky (especially with only one pilot remaining on board). You should find somewhere to rest (and repair) for the night.
conversations.prefix: Rest and Repair:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The androids identity should be concealed, if she is to be delivered safely.
conversations.prefix: Disguise:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You should learn something of Tielle's mission to find the prisoner. Perhaps knowing who the prisoner is would help.
conversations.prefix: Tielle's Mission:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The herbivorous rock eater makes it's lair inside burrows it claws from rock and heavy sand. Usually territorial when it has young nearby, it rarely harms people unless it perceives them as a threat.
conversations.prefix: Rock-Eater:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Black smoke rises in the distance. It seems to be from a hidden free-trader oasis you had planned to stop at for supplies. Perhaps it is not so hidden anymore.
conversations.prefix: Black smoke on the wind:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The crew must make a difficult decision.
conversations.prefix: A course of action!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some of the oasis folk are injured and dying, along with a handful of raiders. They all look like they need whatever help you can offer.
conversations.prefix: Help the wounded:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A captured raider faces execution, but something about his face looks familiar...
conversations.prefix: Captured Raider:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The only mechanic in the oasis, also doubles as the scrap dealer. He looks weary from fighting, but his garage looks as well kept as his off-world exo-arm.
conversations.prefix: Mocja:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Oasis-folk gather to bury the few dead. Perhaps you could bury the captain or reflect on other losses?
conversations.prefix: Town burial:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: My motto is: if its cold outside wear whatever you need to keep warm.
  
  -Michael Primi
conversations.prefix: PRACTICAL:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
  
  ― Hunter S. Thompson
conversations.prefix: WANTED:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You feel called to the world at large. A higher calling propels you.
conversations.prefix: DESTINY:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You keep things moving with what ever you have on hand. It's usually not pretty, but it gets the job done. More or less.
conversations.prefix: Grease Monkey:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
  
    -John Quincy Adams
conversations.prefix: PERSEVERANT:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Failure follows in your wake, perhaps this time things will be different, but probably not.    
conversations.prefix: Failure:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best band in the world.
  
  -Noel Gallagher
conversations.prefix: Arrogant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You didn't sign on for this - you were forced, kept for your knowledge of folk medicine and your healing abilities.
conversations.prefix: Captive Healer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You wish to be free to live your own life again and go where you will...but here on the barge, at least, there is safety. You are valued, so you are protected. But...freedom is worth danger, right?
conversations.prefix: Freedom Vs. Safety:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
  
  -Joyce Meyer
conversations.prefix: PATIENT:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: “If you are 'wondering' about a second layer to his callousness; there probably isn't one.” 
  
  ― Akanksha
conversations.prefix: Callous:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
  
  Nelson Mandela
conversations.prefix: COMMUNICATIVE:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
  
  Nelson Mandela
conversations.prefix: COMMUNICATIVE:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
  
  Nelson Mandela
conversations.prefix: COMMUNICATIVE:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
  
  Larry Wall
conversations.prefix: TECH SAAVY :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Leylze doesn't like to fight, or to hurt anyone. He's been raised to believe all life is to be treasured and preserved...so when he does have to fight, he's slow to act and tends toward too much restraint.
conversations.prefix: Life is Precious:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Quickness is the essence of the war."
  
  -Sun Tzu
conversations.prefix: Reflexes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: My motto is: if its cold outside wear whatever you need to keep warm.
  -Michael Primi    
conversations.prefix: PRACTICAL:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A man without humour in an environment such as this will surely go mad. Oftentimes, laughter is the only medicine to sooth the ailments of the desert wanderer.
conversations.prefix: Jovial:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Leylze's second father (the human he actually *thinks* of as a father) taught him the ways of a village healer. He knows quite a bit about the various herbs and other medicinal materials that can be found in the wild, and is adept at locating them, growing them himself, and making useful mixtures from them--even, sometimes, quite unusual things.
conversations.prefix: Herbalist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes there is a thin line between bravery and stupidity - and you have a bad habit of crossing that line. 
  Being reckless is taking action without consideration for the consequences.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're not too excitable, and tend to be able to think clearly even when things are on fire. Definitely a plus in your line of work.
conversations.prefix: Level-Headed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection. 
  
  Henry B. Eyring
  
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Neutral men are the devil's allies. 
  
  -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
conversations.prefix: NEUTRAL:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Though still more a rumor than a known fact, the Linsverti possess psionic abilities, an ability normally turned towards *causing* injuries. Leylze has learned to use his to gain a better understanding of the conditions of his patients, and to encourage their healing.
conversations.prefix: Psionic Healer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Linsverti are known for their combat prowess, barbaric violence, and a supposed total lack of civility and culture. Leylze doesn't fit the mold, but he never seems to be able to get away from those stereotypes.
conversations.prefix: Linsverti Reputation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them. 
  -Robbie Coltrane
  
conversations.prefix: INTRUSIVE:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've tried to fit in, but you're just not like them, and sometimes it gets thrown back in your face.
conversations.prefix: Stranger in a Strange Land: