conversations.from: system
conversations.value: It is 1937, in a world much like our own the British Empire is at it's peak and the Nazi menace is beginning to threaten Europe.
  
  There are threats to the Empire far darker than mortal men however, no matter how evil their hearts might be.
  
  The Ministry of Paranormal Research and Defence was formed to oppose such evils in 1932.  An action spurred by the discovery  that the declining health of King George V was due to some manner of Curse.
  
  It is a strange organisation, cobbled together from a variety of different, and sometimes competing, parts.  The MPRD includes the areas of the British Government which held mandates relating to the Occult when it formed (primarily the British Army Arcane Warfare Division and the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9), members of occult secret societies from throughout the Empire and civilian experts of every kind.
  
  It stands as the Empire's first, and last,  line of defence against those things that lurk in the darkness. 
  
  When the need arises, the MPRD also opposes occult threats outside the borders of the Empire; when they gain strength in nations less able to defend themselves.
  
  Which, in the view of the Minister, is all of them.
  
  ++++
  
  Equal parts occult horror and pulp action.
  
  Aiming for a theme and tone somewhere between Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Indiana Jones and Hellboy with a touch of Cthulhu for good measure.
  
  Characterisation and storytelling important.
  
  Historical accuracy and depiction of the period less so, this is explicitly not our Earth.
  
  I'm planning on handing out some assets to start so please provide details of three things your character owns which are important to them (weapons, tools, vehicles, artefacts, spell-books, money, property) in your background and I'll hand out some assets. 
  
  I've got exams coming up so the game probably won't start until after 16 June 2014 (Though who knows, I might get tempted).
  
  Feel free to stick your email in the comments (not your background) if you want to discuss anything before we start.
  
  I'm in GMT+10.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re an expert on antiquities and artifacts, known world-wide for your skills.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.prefix: Antiquarian:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You teach archaeology at a prestigious New England college and are widely published.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Slow
conversations.prefix: Archaeology Professor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You stand at the forefront of “alternative physics”—where science meets mysticism.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.prefix: Physics Professor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your knowledge of the human body and its care is much celebrated.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.prefix: Medical Doctor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is your purview—you understand how it works and when it doesn’t.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Judgmental
conversations.prefix: Psychologist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You blend archaeological knowledge with wilderness survival and digging techniques.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.prefix: Field Archaeologist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You ache to make a mark on the world, to amount to something special.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re at the beginning of an exciting career... you hope.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Vital Youth
  
  Suggested Weakness: Impatient
conversations.prefix: Graduate Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your military training makes you valuable the world over. It’s a dangerous place, this planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.prefix: Soldier of Fortune:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve studied and written widely on matters of mysticism and folklore. Your fans are many.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.prefix: Occult Author:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re sharp, perceptive, and quick—capable of appraising situations as well as objects.
conversations.prefix: Appraisal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your intellect is formidable and your knowledge spans many cultures and histories.
conversations.prefix: Lore:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a calculating mind that prizes reason and calm precision above all.
conversations.prefix: Sciences:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re adept at medicine, from saving lives to identifying the telling marks of death.
conversations.prefix: Medicine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is a remarkable device and you understand how it works.
conversations.prefix: The Mind:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve survived the wilderness, bandits, and wolves in your search for ancient treasures.
conversations.prefix: Survival:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re well equipped with quality tools, society contacts, and funds.
conversations.prefix: Resources:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re energetic, athletic, and hale—ready for adventure!
conversations.prefix: Vital Youth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re a rugged, leathery sort. You’re hard to kill and ready to work through pain.
conversations.prefix: Hardy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know the ways of folklore and magic, some of it so much hogwash... some of it not.
conversations.prefix: Mysticism:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.prefix: Delicate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mind may be sharp but your body is slow to keep up.
conversations.prefix: Slow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Outside your areas of expertise, you’re easily lost.
conversations.prefix: Limited:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve sworn an oath to save lives, avoid violence, and heal the sick.
conversations.prefix: Oath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your judgmental attitude causes you troubles. If only others would try harder to measure up.
conversations.prefix: Judgmental:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A bit gullible and trusting of the wrong sorts, perhaps, but you mean well.
conversations.prefix: Naive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don’t wait around well. You want to act first and think about it later maybe.
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The years have left you wary and callous, unwilling to risk your heart again.
conversations.prefix: Heartless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re no athlete. Maybe you’re doughy or awkward or frail but you’re sure no athlete.
conversations.prefix: Bookish:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Learning is power, whether you share it or not.
conversations.prefix: Learn an Eldritch Secret:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve stalked or been stalked by the most dangerous game. Time for a new challenge.
conversations.prefix: Hunt Something New:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stop waffling and wondering and find out what you believe to be true about the world.
conversations.prefix: Find Worthy Material for a Dissertation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not about inheritance, it’s about respect.
conversations.prefix: Show Your Father You’re Worthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Push someone—perhaps yourself!—beyond the limits of reason and then study what happens.
conversations.prefix: Push A Mind Beyond Its Limits:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not enough anymore to believe you’re right. Show them you’re right.
conversations.prefix: Show Them Your Work is Sound:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you can retrieve a never-before-seen treasure, your career will be revitalized.
conversations.prefix: Bring Back A Groundbreaking Artifact:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maybe this work isn’t worth your life? Just get home alive.
conversations.prefix: Get Home Alive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Human morals are a human construction. Knowledge of the infinite is more valuable.
conversations.prefix: Nothing Is Forbidden:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Love may be an earthly concern, but it’s real and it matters.
conversations.prefix: Matters of Love:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Read words that have gone unread for generations.
conversations.prefix: Deciphering:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Endure and survive the threats of the wild.
conversations.prefix: Survive the Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prevent harm from coming to a colleague you admire or cherish.
conversations.prefix: Protect Someone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rescue someone in peril, perhaps bringing them back from the brink of death.
conversations.prefix: Save A Life in Danger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Set foot in a new or ancient place before someone else can despoil it.
conversations.prefix: Be The First:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the dig site from harm.
conversations.prefix: Protect the Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get word out about what’s happening at the dig site.
conversations.prefix: Warn the World:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The best protections against the harsh realities of the world are friendship and allies.
conversations.prefix: Make A Friend:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get a photo that no one would believe if it weren’t true.
conversations.prefix: Photographic Evidence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Show someone that you’re not to be trifled with.
conversations.prefix: Right Might:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A simple matchbook adorned with a blue star and no words.
conversations.prefix: A Matchbook From The Blue Star:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A collection of newspaper clippings, sketches, and geographical survey maps.
conversations.prefix: Jameson’s Portfolio on the Peru Dig:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: At least $1,000 dollars American in bright green bills.
conversations.prefix: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: by Brother Francisco Castillo. Contains occult secrets about pre-Columbian South America.
conversations.prefix: The Heavens Below:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A six-shot snub-nosed pistol.
conversations.prefix: Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A long, double-barreled shotgun with a wood stock.
conversations.prefix: Shotgun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ammo for a gun.
conversations.prefix: Ammunition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One stick of dynamite with a long fuse.
conversations.prefix: Dynamite:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shovels, brushes, and picks suitable for quick or fine-detail work.
conversations.prefix: Digging Equipment:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A high-quality camera with tripod.
conversations.prefix: A Fine Camera:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All dark hardwoods and plush chairs with a penthouse view.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jameson’s Office:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The sort of place with marble pillars and a hedge maze.
conversations.prefix: The Aveline Estate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The plane rattles and dips in tough turbulence. It’s more for cargo than passengers.
conversations.prefix: Aboard Butcher’s Plane:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The city’s best-hidden jazz secret is this hole-in-the-wall club, open just twice a week.
conversations.prefix: The Blue Star Nightclub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The table is buried under layers of maps and sketches and newspaper clippings.
conversations.prefix: Suburban Dining Room:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A quaint, humid little village on the road leading to the dig site.
conversations.prefix: A Remote Peruvian Village:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No way a truck could make it across that. Only foot traffic could cross this rickety thing.
conversations.prefix: Swaying Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site resembles, at first, just an assortment of low, stone walls and carved pits.
conversations.prefix: The Abandoned Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This sort of jungle can swallow up a traveler with ease and never release its secrets.
conversations.prefix: Deep Jungle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A circle of sunlight through the well shaft above reveals a vast, finely carved chamber...
conversations.prefix: Far Beneath the Dig:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Avoid embarrassing yourself in flight.
conversations.prefix: Turbulence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make a first impression on the locals that won’t get you in trouble later.
conversations.prefix: First Impressions:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get across the rope bridge with all your equipment intact.
conversations.prefix: Cross the Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site fills with water and mud. Protect the artifacts!
conversations.prefix: Rains From A Clear Night Sky:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The track through the jungle is perilous and difficult to follow. Don’t lose your way.
conversations.prefix: Find Your Way:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These strange passages beneath the earth make little sense. Will you ever see the sky again?
conversations.prefix: Lost Beneath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who can decipher these ancient markings?
conversations.prefix: Ancient Writings:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone from afar is taking shots at you!
conversations.prefix: Gunfire!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It is both there and not there, part tentacle and part grasping mouth. Understand it? Or flee?
conversations.prefix: The Impossible Creature:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Are you dreaming or is this real?
conversations.prefix: The Vision:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Jameson isn’t brave enough to lead expeditions so he funds others’ trips into the unknown.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jeremiah Jameson:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The widow of Michael Aveline, who was killed on an expedition of Jameson’s. She wants revenge.
conversations.prefix: Diane Aveline:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the world’s great pilots and photographers.
conversations.prefix: Caroline Butcher:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A soldier of fortune hired to protect Dr. Jameson’s investments.
conversations.prefix: Walter Corrigan:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A locally renowned jazz musician and expert on folklore of the Americas.
conversations.prefix: Leonard Crenshaw:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A young driver, fixer, and guide in Peru. He’s been to the dig site Jameson’s curious about.
conversations.prefix: Jorge Quispe:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tall and shadowy in a fedora and trench coat. Who is this gravel-voiced stranger?
conversations.prefix: Mysterious Interloper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This drug-addled cultist is ready to give his life—or yours—to please his monstrous god.
conversations.prefix: Mad Cultist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tentacles and feathery antennae probe out from a shadowy mass at the heart of this beast!
conversations.prefix: Tentacular Beast:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wider-winged than a condor, with a bone-chilling cry and gleaming teeth.
conversations.prefix: Hellish Flying Monstrosity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Karna's Aum pendant casts a bright light when invoked to burn away shadows and cut through glamour.
conversations.prefix: Karna's Aum Pendant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A long, lightweight thrusting knife with a continuously tapering, acutely pointed blade and crossguard.
  
  This one appears to date to renaissance Italy.
conversations.prefix: Poignard:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A snub-nosed Enfield No 2 Mk I revolver. 
  
  Isabelle's has a gunmetal finish and mother of pearl inlay on the handle.  Despite this it's still dangerous looking. Easy to conceal.    
conversations.prefix: Isabelle's Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Constable Jones is a Metropolitan Police Officer armed with a billy club.
  
  He'll do his best to make sure you don't come to any harm.
conversations.prefix: Police Escort:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: At least £1,000 in worn bills.
conversations.prefix: A Stack of Cold, Hard Currency:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Colt M1911 is the standard sidearm of the US Army.  
  
  This one has a black finish. While it looks a little the worse for wear from Ambrose's travels it's clearly well maintained and functional.  
conversations.prefix: Ambrose's Colt M1911:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've travelled all over the world and all manner of people owe you favours.
  
  Which favour are you choosing to call in? Who owes you and why?
conversations.prefix: Favours:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You aren't sure what danger it represents. 
  
  Still, probably best to get it back before those cultists get up to some mischief with it.
conversations.prefix: Recover the Canopic jar.:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A silver Corithian tetradrachm depicting Athena and an owl. 
  
  Kept close by it's supposed to bring its owner good luck.
conversations.prefix: Good Luck Charm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Webley Mk IV revolver passed to Minerva by her uncle who used it in the Boer War and the Great War.
  
  It's extensively used but still reliable.
conversations.prefix: Minerva's Webley:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A silver bracelet from Persia, created during the Achaemenid period.
  
  It's supposed to keep its wearer safe from harm.
conversations.prefix: Silver Bracelet:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This black leather bound book sealed with a red ribbon contains the writings of Giordano Bruno; a 17th Century Sicilian cleric who was ultimately burned at the stake for Heresy.
  
  Bruno theorised that the soul was made up of some heretofore unknown energy. His diary details his attempts to measure, capture and transfer this energy.
conversations.prefix: Diary of Giordano Bruno:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A leather bound field journal filled with page after page of detailed notes in a neat hand.
  
  It details all of the Adler family's archaeological expeditions.
conversations.prefix: Isabelle's Journal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shovels, brushes, and picks suitable for quick or fine-detail work.
conversations.prefix: Archaeology Field Kit:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Lee-Enfield Rifle carved with Indra’s thunderbolt, the bullets fly with force enough to penetrate thick hide or armoured scales.
conversations.prefix: Karna's Lee-Enfield:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Kukri etched with a mantra to Agni, which burns with sacred fire when battling monsters.
conversations.prefix: Karna's Kukri:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The crew of the Aten are clearly expecting trouble, there are a couple of guards by the gangplank and patrols on the deck.
  
  Get on board without raising an alarm. 
conversations.prefix: Sneak on board :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Etherial, incorporeal, prone to expressing itself through pungent odours and harrowing screams.
conversations.prefix: A spectral presence:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A former sailor turned harbour master. 
  
  It's said he knows every ship moored in the Royal Albert Dock.
  
  Hopefully his reputation is not exaggerated.
conversations.prefix: Capt William Tinney:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Peaked roofs, wet slates, broken and loose tiles. It's a long way down.
conversations.prefix: Rooftop Chase:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gordon Square and the streets around the Institute of Archaeology are awash with a sea of student protestors. They're chanting a mixture of anti-government and pro-communist slogans.
  
  The crowd’s starting to get surly, angry. It's going to be difficult to get through to the institute in one piece.
conversations.prefix: Student Protest:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Institute of Archaeology building is currently locked and University Security are aggressively keeping the protesters away from the facade.
conversations.prefix: The Institute of Archaeology Security:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The crowd’s getting surly, angry. Show them their place or slip out before things get ugly. 
conversations.prefix: Throng:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tripwires, alarm bells, scything blades and poison darts. Get around them if you can.    
conversations.prefix: Traps:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The river is fast flowing and full of rocks.  Drowning is a definite possibility.
conversations.prefix: White Water:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You may scoff, but there is still a place in this world for alchemy, after all one of the greatest chemists of history, Isaac Newton was also an alchemist.
conversations.prefix: Alchemist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is your purview—you understand how it works and when it doesn’t.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Judgmental
conversations.prefix: Alienist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re an expert on antiquities and artifacts, known world-wide for your skills.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.prefix: Antiquarian:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A quaint, humid little village on the road leading to the dig site.
conversations.prefix: A Remote Peruvian Village:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This old Victorian cemetery is a dangerous place.  Bodies are frequently discovered here and rumours of ghosts and other nocturnal predators persist.
conversations.prefix: Abney Park Cemetery:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The plane rattles and dips in tough turbulence. It’s more for cargo than passengers.
conversations.prefix: Aboard Butcher’s Plane:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
conversations.prefix: British Museum:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This sort of jungle can swallow up a traveler with ease and never release its secrets.
conversations.prefix: Deep Jungle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In the old foundations of the city, deeper than parts of the Underground, is an old private wizard’s club.
conversations.prefix: Deep Underneath The Black Horse:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All dark hardwoods and plush chairs with a penthouse view.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jameson’s Office:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Like a mourning part of the city, these identical terraces are thick with despair. Suicides and violence are common  and the whole street seems to be straining to hold onto the world with both hands. Don’t go alone.  
conversations.prefix: Dyer Street Terrace Houses:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A circle of sunlight through the well shaft above reveals a vast, finely carved chamber...
conversations.prefix: Far Beneath the Dig:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Institute building is a large brown brick tower located on the north side of Gordon Square. 
  
  At the moment Gordon Square is a sea of angry students chanting and waving banners and the streets around it don't seem much better.  
conversations.prefix: Gordon Square and the Institute (Protest):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This blues club opened near Newgate and caters to the living - and the act of living. It won’t last long.
conversations.prefix: Hideaway:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's said they used to hang cultists and drown witches at Newgate prison. Whether that's true or not occult rumours say the crossroads at Newgate and Old Bailey is the best in London for a summoning.
conversations.prefix: Newgate and Old Bailey:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Served by both the London Underground and London Overground this station is a  favorite dead-drop spot for spies and monster hunters alike.
conversations.prefix: North Wembley Station:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Part of the University College London it contains over 80,000 objects, the second most significant  collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material outside of Egypt. Only The British Museum and the Museum of Cairo compare.
conversations.prefix: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A ruined castle by the sea in the wilds of Scotland.  Locals report mysterious disappearances and strange lights so maybe it's not as abandoned as it first appears.
conversations.prefix: Ruined Castle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The home of the Metropolitan Police Service and the heart of policing in the greater London area.  Even the innocent find the place daunting.
conversations.prefix: Scotland Yard:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: St Paul's Cathedral is  the seat of the Bishop of London and mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City. 
  
  The present church, dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. Its construction, completed within Wren's lifetime, was part of a major rebuilding programme which took place in the city after the Great Fire of London.
  
  It's rumoured to be the base for a group of church sponsored monster hunters.
conversations.prefix: St Paul's Cathedral:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The desk is buried under layers of maps and sketches and newspaper clippings.
conversations.prefix: Suburban Study:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No way a truck could make it across that. Only foot traffic could cross this rickety thing.
conversations.prefix: Swaying Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site resembles, at first, just an assortment of low, stone walls and carved pits.
conversations.prefix: The Abandoned Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The sort of place with marble pillars and a hedge maze.
conversations.prefix: The Aveline Estate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The city’s best-hidden jazz secret is this hole-in-the-wall club, open just twice a week.
conversations.prefix: The Blue Star Nightclub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Institute of Archaeology at University College London was formed earlier this year.
  
  The Institute building is a large brown brick tower located on the north side of Gordon Square. 
conversations.prefix: The Institute of Arcaheology:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The human mind is a remarkable device and you understand how it works.
conversations.prefix: The Mind:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Arguably the third oldest university in England and certainly the current leader when it comes to psychology and papyrology.  The student body at UCL are also a rumoured to hold many pro-communist groups.
conversations.prefix: University College London:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An elderly arabic man wearing a fez, he's clearly in charge here. If anyone knows something he does.
conversations.prefix: Cult leader:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Supposedly Edgar was expelled from the Golden Dawn and now works cases for monsters to pay the rent.
conversations.prefix: Edgar Crease, Private Detective:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Farrows were a famous hunting family in the 1870s. Jean’s the toughest of a new generation.
conversations.prefix: Jean Farrow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: These drug-addled cultists are ready to give their lives—or yours—to please their monstrous god.
conversations.prefix: Mad Cultists:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A pair of metropolitan policemen has been assigned to the police box on the corner of Gordon Street. At the moment the protestors are giving them a wide berth however that seems about to change.
  
  Perhaps they can be persuaded to join you?
conversations.prefix: Pair of Bobbies:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Professor Jeremiah Gordon is an Archaeologist employed by the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.  He's a short rotund man with thinning grey hair and glasses.
  
  He's also the great-grandson of Harold Gordon, whom Gordon Square is named after.
conversations.prefix: Professor Gordon:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This part of town’s a warren of rotten allies and broken cobblestones. Watch your step.
conversations.prefix: A Chase Down Dead Streets:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Poltergeists don’t just crack headstones and throw rocks. They bend flesh and break bones.   
conversations.prefix: Angry Ghosts:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Avoid? Dispel? Or trigger them and try to dodge whatever goes off? Is that even possible?
conversations.prefix: Arcane Wards:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Try to act like a normal person, like you belong, and get lost in this crowd.
conversations.prefix: Blend In:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One of the streets you need to take is blocked by a burning car. Perhaps there's some way around it, otherwise you may need to head back the way you came.
conversations.prefix: Burning Car:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Perhaps it's a poorly thrown Molotov, perhaps the cultist drops one when he is lighting it.
  
  Either way, part of the grand hall is on fire and it threatens to spread to the rest of the building.
conversations.prefix: Fire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The whole block’s on fire. The populace burns hot, flipping cars. They’d grab pitchforks if they could find them.
conversations.prefix: Fires:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re being followed. You're not sure by who, or how many of them there are. But they watch where you go and they’ll remember. Get rid of them.    
conversations.prefix: Lose a tail:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Like all of the buildings on campus the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is locked up to keep the protestors out.
  
  UCL security is nowhere to be seen however.
conversations.prefix: Petrie Museum Security:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The cultists are don't seem to care what they damage in the fire fight. Some of these artefacts are priceless.
conversations.prefix: Protect the Artefacts:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You teach archaeology at University College London and are widely published.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Slow
conversations.prefix: Archaeology Professor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a politician or member of the British Government who's works at the ministry.  Did you request this position or was it a career move? Did you know what you were getting into?
conversations.prefix: Bureaucrat :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You ache to make a mark on the world, to amount to something special.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You blend archaeological knowledge with wilderness survival and digging techniques.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.prefix: Field Archaeologist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re at the beginning of an exciting career... you hope.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Vital Youth
  
  Suggested Weakness: Impatient
conversations.prefix: Graduate Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your knowledge of the human body and its care is much celebrated.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.prefix: Medical Doctor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve studied and written widely on matters of mysticism and folklore. Your fans are many.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.prefix: Occult Author:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You stand at the forefront of “alternative physics”—where science meets mysticism.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.prefix: Physics Professor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A member of the British Army assigned to the Arcane Warfare Division.  What experience or ability led to such an unusual post?
conversations.prefix: Soldier:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your military training makes you valuable the world over. It’s a dangerous place, this planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.prefix: Soldier of Fortune:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An agent of MI9 - the section of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence responsible for gathering intelligence on foreign occult assets, programs and research.  They are also tasked with ensuring artifacts do not fall into enemy hands.
conversations.prefix: Spy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are able to adjust to difficult and usual circumstances and learn the “rules of the game” wherever you are.
conversations.prefix: Adaptable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don’t have to say anything. It’s in that smile, in the way you move. It’s almost hypnotic.
conversations.prefix: Alluring:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re sharp, perceptive, and quick—capable of appraising situations as well as objects.
conversations.prefix: Appraisal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're strong, fast and physically competent. You probably look it too.
conversations.prefix: Athletic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: With that smile, backed up by your silver tongue, it’s hard not to like you.
conversations.prefix: Charming:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re a rugged, leathery sort. You’re hard to kill and ready to work through pain.
conversations.prefix: Hardy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your intellect is formidable and your knowledge spans many cultures and histories.
conversations.prefix: Lore:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re adept at medicine, from saving lives to identifying the telling marks of death.
conversations.prefix: Medicine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know the ways of folklore and magic, some of it hogwash... some of it not so much.
conversations.prefix: Mysticism:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re well equipped with quality tools, society contacts, and funds.
conversations.prefix: Resources:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a calculating mind that prizes reason and calm precision above all.
conversations.prefix: Sciences:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Subtle and sneaky. People don’t often notice you until you want to be noticed.
conversations.prefix: Stealthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve survived the wilderness, bandits, and wolves in your search for ancient treasures.
conversations.prefix: Survival:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re energetic, athletic, and hale—ready for adventure!
conversations.prefix: Vital Youth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your blood sears your veins and when you lose control, you lash out.   
conversations.prefix: Angry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re no athlete. Maybe you’re doughy or awkward or frail but you’re sure no athlete.
conversations.prefix: Bookish:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re blunt, rude, or even gross sometimes. Maybe you don’t care what others think, maybe you don’t know better.    
conversations.prefix: Crass:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.prefix: Delicate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your abilities are sometimes diminished and dampened by your greatest enemy: yourself.   
conversations.prefix: Doubting:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something you did gnaws at your heart and screams nightmares at you when you sleep. It’s holding you back.    
conversations.prefix: Guilty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone broke your heart and you’re not willing to heal, not yet, because the pain’s what you have left.
conversations.prefix: Heartbroken:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The years have left you wary and callous, unwilling to risk yourself for others.
conversations.prefix: Heartless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don’t wait around well. You want to act first and think about it later maybe.
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your judgmental attitude causes you troubles. If only others would try harder to measure up.
conversations.prefix: Judgmental:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Outside your areas of expertise, you’re easily lost.
conversations.prefix: Limited:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something in your past caused irreparable damage to your mind. Was it an encounter with horrors, a psychic attack, or something more mundane?
conversations.prefix: Mad:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You think you know how things work. You think everyone is basically good. You’re wrong.
conversations.prefix: Naïve:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve sworn an oath to save lives, avoid violence, and heal the sick.
conversations.prefix: Oath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When you get an idea, a mission, or a fear in your mind, you can’t just let it go. 
conversations.prefix: Obsessed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve come too far, done too much, worked too hard to put up with this shit from people like this. 
conversations.prefix: Proud:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mind may be sharp but your body is slow to keep up.
conversations.prefix: Slow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Are you sure you’re right or are you just unwilling to admit when you’re wrong? Either way: stubborn.
conversations.prefix: Stubborn:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Plenty of people are a little superstitious but you take it to a whole new level.
  
  You'll go out of your way to avoid crossing the path of a black cat, walking under a ladder or otherwise courting bad omens.  
  
  In the presence of lucky items or phenomena you're prone to gambling, both with currency and your safety.
  
  You definitely carry a rabbit's foot or other good luck charm.
conversations.prefix: Superstitious:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you can retrieve a never-before-seen treasure, your career will be revitalized.
conversations.prefix: Bring Back A Groundbreaking Artifact:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know that the world is in dire straights and needs a path out, you want to find that path and inspire others to follow it as well.
conversations.prefix: Champion a Cause:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It’s not love, it’s infatuation. It’ll go away. It’ll go away because it’s not love, it’s infatuation. 
conversations.prefix: Deny Your Love:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Even if you think you don’t know anything good, act like you do. Secrets are why they keep you alive.  
conversations.prefix: Display Hidden Knowledge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stop waffling and wondering and find out what you believe to be true about the world.
conversations.prefix: Find Worthy Material for a Dissertation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're seeking your beloved.
  
  Perhaps it's someone you loved and lost, perhaps you're yet to meet.
  
  Either way you'll do anything to find them and win them over.
conversations.prefix: Find your Beloved:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Maybe this work isn’t worth your life? Just get home alive.
conversations.prefix: Get Home Alive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve stalked or been stalked by the most dangerous game. Time for a new challenge.
conversations.prefix: Hunt Something New:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Learning is power, whether you share it or not.
conversations.prefix: Learn an Eldritch Secret:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Human morals are a human construction. Knowledge of the infinite is more valuable.
conversations.prefix: Nothing Is Forbidden:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ll never know safety until you know power. The power you're seeking might be political, physical or mystical. Regardless, you'll stop at nothing to get it.
conversations.prefix: Obtain Power:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Push someone—perhaps yourself!—beyond the limits of reason and then study what happens.
conversations.prefix: Push A Mind Beyond Its Limits:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It’s not enough anymore to believe you’re right. Show them you’re right.
conversations.prefix: Show Them Your Work is Sound:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not about inheritance, it’s about respect.
conversations.prefix: Show Your Father You’re Worthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Control is its own reward. You deserve it. They deny you out of fear, out of jealousy. Don’t stand for that.
conversations.prefix: Take Control:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A photo of youngsters in love, circa 1910. Written on the back it says “Hank Farrow and Edith.”   
conversations.prefix: A Photo of Young Lovers:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A few handfuls of bullets for some kind of firearm.
conversations.prefix: Ammunition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A long, double-barreled shotgun with exposed hammers and a wood stock.
  
  It shows all of the signs of being some well to do gentleman's fowling piece.
conversations.prefix: Antique Shotgun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They say this candle is made from the fat from a murdered wife and that its smoke will summon a ghost or spirit you invoke.    
conversations.prefix: Black Candle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle has been used by the US Army since the Great War.
  
  This one is fitted with a bipod and has clearly seen extensive use.
conversations.prefix: Browning Automatic Rifle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This single-action, semi-automatic .45 calibre pistol is the standard sidearm of the US army and is a common sight throughout the pacific.
conversations.prefix: Colt M1911:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One stick of dynamite with a long fuse.
conversations.prefix: Dynamite:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: She gave it to Barnes before she left London to pursue an acting career in the states. It still bears the scent of her lily perfume.
conversations.prefix: Elise Remington's Handkerchief :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A handy tip picked up from his instructors: no-one can bear ill-feeling towards one who offers the courtesy of a cigarette.
conversations.prefix: Gold Cigarette Lighter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A small vial of holy water collected from the font at St Paul's.
conversations.prefix: Holy Water:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An unadorned ring of keys.
conversations.prefix: Keys:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Webley Mark VI .455 service revolver. A very reliable and hardy weapon, well suited to the mud and adverse conditions of trench warfare.
  
  This one has a black finish and wood grips.
conversations.prefix: Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With this monocle you can name a target and conjure a spying eye in their presence. Hope they don’t notice.
conversations.prefix: Scrying Monocle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A compact double barrelled shotgun.
  
  Between the short barrels and the pistol grip it practically screams "bank robbery".
conversations.prefix: Short Barrelled Shotgun:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Stephens 520 pump action 12 gauge shotgun.
  
  This one probably saw action in the trenches of the Great War.
conversations.prefix: Shotgun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Big, blunt bullets, wrought in silver. You know what they’re for.
conversations.prefix: Silver Bullets:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A modern short-sword designed for close quarter fighting.
conversations.prefix: Smatchet:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A snub-nosed Enfield No 2 Mk I revolver. 
  
  Dangerous looking and easy to conceal.
conversations.prefix: Snub-Nosed Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shiny and sharp.  
conversations.prefix: Straight Razor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The so-called Damned Diary captures thirteen confessions a year, out of the air, and records them in old script. 
conversations.prefix: The Damned Diary:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: by Brother Francisco Castillo. Contains occult secrets about pre-Columbian South America.
conversations.prefix: The Heavens Below:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A blank moleskin journal. Barnes intends, in his free time, to make entries on his travel to foreign lands (all classified information redacted of course).
conversations.prefix: Travel Journal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone thinks this trench knife is magical - that it grants protection and harms what can't be cut. Maybe they’re right.   
conversations.prefix: Trench Knife Inscribed with Symbols:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Angular, sharpened, and ready for work.
conversations.prefix: Wooden Stake:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Edgar Crease, the Private Investigator, knows things it would be good to know.    
conversations.prefix: See Edgar's Files:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What’s the secret behind the photo of Hank Farrow, Jean Farrow's father?
conversations.prefix: The Secret of Hank Farrow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Univesity Guards are responding to the protest with savage and indiscriminate violence.
  
  They've arrived to break the wills and skulls of the communists who are protesting on the campus and they aren't too discriminate about who they single out for a beating.
conversations.prefix: University Guards:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Officially 55 Broadway is the home of the  Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
  
  Unoficially the top half of the building is the home to the MPRD.
conversations.prefix: 55 Broadway:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: East of older Royal Victoria Docks the Royal Albert Docks has 3 miles of quay, and an entrance to the Thames far down river at Gallions Reach. 
  
  To the south at the western end are two dry docks and machine shops used for ship repairs.
conversations.prefix: Royal Albert Docks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sure they're mostly foul language and lewd suggestions but perhaps there's some truth to what they're saying. 
conversations.prefix: Dockers:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Search the docks and see if you can lay eyes on the scoundrel.
conversations.prefix: Search the docks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The bow says "Runa" but the paint is clearly fresh and it the ship is an exact match for the description you have of the Aten.
conversations.prefix: The Aten:
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.prefix: Wild:
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.value: You have faced situations that would make a normal man faint, and you have done it with aplomb and verve. Danger is something to be overcome, something to be defeated. You have faced this foe, looked it straight in the eye, and you have not flinched.
conversations.prefix: Cool Under Pressure:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know how to take advantage of what's around you.
conversations.prefix: Resourceful:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes, the violence endemic to battle can overcome the soldier. His systems shut down, often accompanied by a 1,000 yard stare and a fugue state. 
conversations.prefix: Shell Shock:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: While gadding about the world as a young man, Ignatius had earned passage by working as a sailor and subsequently had a couple of tattoos.
conversations.prefix: Sailors Spirit:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You will bear up under any hardship and succeed.  Your will is as iron.
conversations.prefix: Determined:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild: