conversations.from: system
conversations.value: *The management of **“Anatole’s”** deeply regret that - due to the sudden arrival of large numbers of super-enthusiastic new patrons, the fire code restricts us from admitting any new customers at the present time!*
  
  *However - if you would like to submit a character for a future round - please send our booking’s manager a direct message (@ceekayell) for consideration at a later date. Thank you for your interest!*
  
  
  *This is a **beginners** game*
  
  Across time and space, across dimensions and that misty interface between fiction and reality are scattered a hundred million white cubes. No-one knows where they came from, or how they got their special power. The cubes are made of purest, smoothest white marble, and - no bigger than the palm of a human hand - for the most part, they tend not to attract very much attention, dismissed as part of the environment. But every so often, by accident or design, a curious soul might pick one up for closer examination. 
  
  What happens next to the person who picks up a cube is the night of their lives. The cube is a portal to a point outside of time around which has been built an ineffably cool bar and nightspot called “*Anatole's*”. "*Anatole’s*" has been designed as a place where characters from all walks of life can stumble in, order any drink their heart desires and chew the fat with the other patrons, before returning to their everyday life. Where else might you exchange poetry with a cyborg assassin, arm-wrestle a dead president and fall in love with a sentient paramecium… all in one amazing night! “*Anatole's*” doesn’t accept money - drinks can be purchased for tall tales and inventive ideas. Once in a while, eponymous owner & barkeep Anatole will call "Time!", close the tab, and drinkers are expected to pay their bill by sharing stories of their lives.
   
  The bar caters for all languages and exists in a state of temporal grace - no weapons will fire (although that’s not to say the odd fight doesn’t break out - fists & cudgels still work just fine). And somehow the decor shifts to suit the current clientele. 
  
  Characters can arrive & leave of their own free will (or until Anatole throws them out!) There are no rules at "*Anatole's*" except civility… and an unspoken agreement not to upset Germ. No-one knows exactly who the hooded figure really is nor where she came from, except that she’s occupied the end stool for the bar for more than five millennia… 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Where you come in... and go out. 
conversations.prefix: Entrance Portal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The place to get a drink, start a tab, talk to barkeep & owner Anatole... and try not to get in the way of Germ.
conversations.prefix: The Bar:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The sub-basement houses the grooviest discotheque in all creation
conversations.prefix: Dance floor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The great thing about Anatole's is the variety of patrons. Here you can be whoever or *what*ever you want - let your hair down & have fun! 
conversations.prefix: Create your own!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A quiet place to sit & chat
conversations.prefix: The Lounge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Where gentlemen go for a personal moment.
conversations.prefix: Gentleman's Restrooms:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Where ladies go to powder their noses.
conversations.prefix: Ladies Restroom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What strength do you have as a character? Try to imagine something that would complement or contrast with the strengths of other characters. 
conversations.prefix: Create your own!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is your weakness, downfall or Achilles heel? Nobody is perfect, so what limitations do you have? (Remember that the best stories come from fallible characters)
conversations.prefix: Create your own! :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What drives your character on? Wherever and whenever they are in their personal timeline, what are they seeking at this point in their existence?
conversations.prefix: Create your own! :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You owe Anatole the sum of: One Story... in payment  for the consumption of comestibles on the premises of "Anatole's Bar".
conversations.prefix: Bar Tab x1:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You need cash. 
conversations.prefix: More Money:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You need influence
conversations.prefix: More Power:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A friend or lover?
conversations.prefix: More companionship:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's a hole in your life; what is it and how do you fill it?
conversations.prefix: Fill a gap:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The place to safely leave your coat, cloak, stole, robe, tunic, hat, headdress, umbrella, bag, sword... etc etc.
conversations.prefix: Cloakroom:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The fluid architecture of "*Anatole's*" mean that this basement restaurant area can be a bistro, fine dining, sushi bar or just a coffee-shop. 
conversations.prefix: The Restaurant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stacey is the greeter and coat check girl at "Anatole's". Bright, perky, organised and a master of ju jutsu. All of which her makes her perfect for her job!
conversations.prefix: Stacey Chou:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stacey is the greeter and coat check girl at "Anatole's". Bright, perky, organised and a master of ju jutsu. All of which her makes her perfect for her job!
conversations.prefix: Stacey Chou:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Owner, cocktail wizard, barkeep and counsellor of the Bar Outside of Time
conversations.prefix: Anatole:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Owner, cocktail wizard, barkeep and counsellor of the Bar Outside of Time
conversations.prefix: Anatole:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Owner, cocktail wizard, barkeep and counsellor of the Bar Outside of Time
conversations.prefix: Anatole:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The patrons get a round of drinks in... what's your poison?
conversations.prefix: A round of drinks:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You owe Anatole a story equivalent to one drink!
conversations.prefix: Bar Tab x 1 drink:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: In payment for a drink, tell your fellow patrons a bit about your life.
conversations.prefix: Share your story:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Choose your dancing partner and ask the DJ to pick a song to play for you. Who do you choose? What do you dance to? Do your bodies move in harmony, or is it all a bit of a dog's dinner?
conversations.prefix: Dance Competition:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Choose your dancing partner and ask the DJ to pick a song to play for you. Who do you choose? What do you dance to? Do your bodies move in harmony, or is it all a bit of a dog's dinner?
conversations.prefix: Dance Competition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Can you get Mr Gloorp to relinquish the mic?
conversations.prefix: Mr Gloorp:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pick your song and sing your heart out! 
conversations.prefix: Karaoke Night!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Yellow foamy plugs. Help blot out the noise...But not completely.
conversations.prefix: Ear plugs:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Bar is in total darkness. Who knows how long the beer will stay cold... What could be causing the blackout?
conversations.prefix: What caused the Blackout?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Here's your opportunity to creat a Non-Player Character that could show up in the story at a later date. Another patron, perhaps? Or a member of Anatole's staff? The choice is yours!
conversations.prefix: Create an NPC:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Here's your opportunity to creat a Non-Player Character that could show up in the story at a later date. Another patron, perhaps? Or a member of Anatole's staff? The choice is yours!
conversations.prefix: Create an NPC:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Here's your opportunity to creat a Non-Player Character that could show up in the story at a later date. Another patron, perhaps? Or a member of Anatole's staff? The choice is yours!
conversations.prefix: Create an NPC:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your chance to add to the "**Anatole's**" universe! Where *is* the bar, exactly? Where did if come from? What about the cubes? Who is your host? All this and less is up to your imagination!
conversations.prefix: World Build:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your chance to add to the "**Anatole's**" universe! Where *is* the bar, exactly? Where did if come from? What about the cubes? Who is your host? All this and less is up to your imagination!
conversations.prefix: World Build:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your chance to add to the "**Anatole's**" universe! Where *is* the bar, exactly? Where did if come from? What about the cubes? Who is your host? All this and less is up to your imagination!
conversations.prefix: World Build:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: How do you cope in the darkness? And if you're OK, how do you support the people around you who are struggling?
conversations.prefix: Cope with the Blackout:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What happened to the tone-deaf old blob of goop during the blackout? Time to investigate...
conversations.prefix: Who Killed Mr Gloorp?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There's a clue to Mr Gloorp's death! What is it?
conversations.prefix: A Clue!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's a clue to Mr Gloorp's death! What is it?
conversations.prefix: A Clue!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've barely moved your behind out of that bar stool for five millennia. You've seen and heard it all. 
conversations.prefix: Old Crone:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're almost infinitely old. You know nearly everything... but you don't share your wisdom & experience lightly. 
conversations.prefix: Wisdom of the Ages:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't suffer fools gladly. In fact you don't suffer fools at all. Crankiness ranges from a snarky remark to a full-on tongue-lashing. There are old tales of Germ being an impressively spry combatant when really riled... but no-one has seen her move for centuries to prove it. 
conversations.prefix: Cranky as all Heck:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No-one knows much about Germ, outside of whispered gossip & rumour. And that's the way she likes it. What will she do to maintain her air of mystery?
conversations.prefix: Mystery:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have the keys to your own ship and the crew to fly it.  You've journeyed from one end of the cosmos to the other, and it's all starting to blur together.
conversations.prefix: Starship Captain:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've seen a lot in your travels.  There isn't a situation you don't have a plan for, and back-ups for when those inevitably fail.
conversations.prefix: Experienced:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You still have abs.  They're just hidden behind the soft mound called a gut.  You used to be able to run a mile once, you swear!
conversations.prefix: Out of Shape:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You couldn't wait to explore every last square lightyear of the univese.  And then you did.  You've lost your sense of wonder, leaving a hole that you're itching to fill.
conversations.prefix: Fill a Gap:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are unable to resist a mystery. This has led you on many adventures in your youth, and now in your old age, as a consulting detective.
conversations.prefix: Curious Explorer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Over your many years you have developed keen observational skills and a quick mind. It has often gotten you out of trouble.
conversations.prefix: Sharp:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When something has captured your attention, you find it hard to focus on anything else. Pulling at those loose threads occasionally brings you unravelled.
conversations.prefix: Curiosity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Learning, discovery and exploration is the only way to satisfy the curiosity which drives you.
conversations.prefix: Thirst for Knowledge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Born on the agricultural planet of Mija and raised in an orphanage, you escaped at a young age and survived as a pickpocket. At the age of 12 you joined a traveling theatre company and learned many instruments, songs and dances. Your greatest desire is to travel beyond your world and learn the art of other civilisations.
conversations.prefix: Performing Artist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not only can you perform songs with great skill, but you are adept at creating verse and music to suit a situation. You carry your lute and pipes everywhere. 
conversations.prefix: Artistic Ability:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You tend to take things as an insult, whether intended or not and jump to conclusions that are rarely positive. 
conversations.prefix: Prickly Personality:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your desires are twofold - to learn more about your craft through travel and study, and to find out the identity of your parents. 
conversations.prefix: Seeking Knowledge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Once wanted to become a politician. Has been out of the game for a long time due to illness.
conversations.prefix: Former Political Aide:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Really good at getting people to believe in stuff she just made up.
conversations.prefix: Bluffing:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Has been out of the game for a long time; doesn't know what's up, or what she wants to do with herself.
conversations.prefix: Out of Touch:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Testing!
conversations.prefix: Hm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been in college for ten years now and have had six different majors. Learning is fun. Growing up ... not so much.
conversations.prefix: College Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Knows a little bit about everything. Everything academic, that is.
conversations.prefix: Jack of all knowledges:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have no idea how to function outside of a school setting.
conversations.prefix: Institutionalized:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: After a long life of (mainly) success as an opera diva, Bianca is perhaps not quite as alluring as she used to be. But she doesn't let that stop her from enjoying her life.
conversations.prefix: Famous singer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bianca knows how to read and manipulate the mood of a room, and has no qualms about doing so.
conversations.prefix: Playing to the crowd:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: She assumes she always deserves to be the centre of attention, and resents anyone else taking that place. This has led to amusing (or less so) misunderstandings in the past.
conversations.prefix: Vanity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An active traveler that travel across time and space and dimensions. Enjoying each of the world uniqueness and learning the way and culture and rule of the world for each of them
conversations.prefix: Travelers :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 
  Know many culture
conversations.prefix: Knowledgeable :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 
  Ignoring danger on surrounding  
  
conversations.prefix:  Curiosity kill the cat :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 
  Seeking a way not to get old
conversations.prefix: Seeking immortality:
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: A promising military career was cut short when a chemical bomb blew too close to his face and took out his left eye.  The medical discharge still stings, as he insists he can perform all of his former requirements.
conversations.prefix: Ex-Military:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nothing shakes this man.  After being in trouble so much in his youth, and rigorous military training, he feels prepared for anything.  His casual nature and blasé attitude are reassuring and calming to those around him.
conversations.prefix: Nonchalance:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With expertise in troubleshooting, even issues not pertaining to tech, Tom knows how to defuse a situation. This also gives him extensive knowledge in most technology and electronics, and exceptional communication skills.
conversations.prefix: Senior Technical Advisor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: After his accident, injury and discharge, he lost his sense of direction. His future discarded and self-identity put into question, he deals with low self-esteem, attempting to cover it with self-depreciating humor.
conversations.prefix: Lost:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sure, you've devoured a few sacrifices in your day, but a beast's gotta eat! Just because you're the biggest, scariest creature in the labyrinth doesn't make you a bad guy; you have a heart of gold under all that fur and caked blood.
conversations.prefix: Gentle Giant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dang, bro. Have you been lifting? You've totally been lifting.
conversations.prefix: Buff:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're a few Cokes short of a six-pack. A few apples shy of a bushel. The lights are on but you aren't home. The wheel is spinning but your hamster is long dead. There's no nice way to put this. Bless your heart.
conversations.prefix: None Too Bright:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's so good to be out of the labyrinth! Everything's so new and beautiful and exciting--you just can't help but compliment everything and everyone you see!
conversations.prefix: In Love With the World:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have never met another human being. You have never uttered a single word to another organic creature.
conversations.prefix: Shy Boy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Having been raised solely by synthetic humans, you view such lifeforms as being family.
conversations.prefix: Synthetics Kinship:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have never spoken with another organic creature. You feel a great unease around them, even if they are human like you.
conversations.prefix: Organic-Averse:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Humankind are your ancestors. You are the last of their number.
  
  Whether you know it or not, meeting one of your own kind will be a turning point in your life, however short it may turn out to be.
conversations.prefix: Roots:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your average teenage kid, lives in the San Fernando Valley.  Loves football (Go Rams!) and thinks this will be a totally wicked story to tell his little bro and his Mom when he wakes up. 
conversations.prefix: Teenage boy, like, duh:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  #1 This is a dream, so what's the worst that can happen? 
  
  #2 As Queen said, "Who wants to live forever, dude."
conversations.prefix: Fearless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When the stress gets too much, Lincoln...I mean Snake can go totally emotional and unpredictably intense. 
conversations.prefix: Wig out :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Another local bar, another skimpy bank deposit. Another Friday night with nothing to show for it but tired hands and no social life. Where did the dream go wrong?
conversations.prefix: Disgruntled Musician:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: People like you. Even the few people who have something against you can't bring themselves to really dislike you.
conversations.prefix: Charm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Although you prefer to think of yourself as "determined," in reality you have a tendency to doggedly pound away at tasks that you should have given up on a long time ago.
conversations.prefix: Stubborn:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Deep down, though you may not admit it to yourself, you worry about how well you function in unexpected situations. You know what your strengths are, and are loathe to wander outside them.
conversations.prefix: Need for Predictability:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Annali's smart, educated, and reasonably talented. So of course she can do ANYTHING, and do it well. Right?
  
  She's going to win or she's going to die trying.
conversations.prefix: Overconfident:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A dangerous killer working for a local crime coven. Using natural magical affinity rather than weapons to murder their targets, they are the enforcers of the Grand Witch's will.
conversations.prefix: Magical Hitwoman:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are good at making yourself fit in any situation, and when that situation turns rough you're good at making the best of it.
conversations.prefix: Adaptable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They have a chip on their shoulder, and are a little too eager to prove their worth. Perceived insults easily manipulate them into foolish actions and the need to prove the accusation wrong.
conversations.prefix: Wounded Pride:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your lust to see new things is only out shined by your dread of waking up one day to find you've put down roots. You may be running from something, but the years have instilled in you a genuine passion for discovery.  
conversations.prefix: Wanderer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: During your travels you've seen it all. You've seen stars go supernova, new life crawl from primordial oceans, communed with farmers and beings who sailed the stars with nothing but the wings on their back. A different person might have reasoned that life matters little in face of such scope. But you know that even tiniest creatures of the universe have something to offer.
conversations.prefix: Enlightened:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Often times you let reaching your goals define you. Even if it means a big sacrifice. Normally a warm person, even your closest friends might not recognize you when you zero in on something.
conversations.prefix: Tunnel Vision:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: While not actually a whale, you've been put on a quest for a near mystical realm that fastens nearly all universes together. Much like Anatole's, this place exists outside of time and space, between worlds. Your hunger to discover this place will surely consume you and lead to your untimely despise.
conversations.prefix: The White Whale:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's not easy to spend your days trapped in a sunless food desert deep below a castle. You may not be a genius, but you've picked up a few tricks for making life bearable along the way.
conversations.prefix: Survival Skills:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bianca has spent her life on the stage, observing and playing in performances of romances, tragedies, comedies and mysteries. She has a pretty good idea of human nature - at least, that part of human nature interesting enough to portray on stage
conversations.prefix: Knows stories:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can make connections that others brush over.
conversations.prefix: Logic: