conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Cunning and intrepid rum-runners dodge the Coast Guard, mobster empires, and the mind-shattering horrors of ancient terror in order to deliver a well-deserved drink to the thirsty souls living in Prohibition-era Miskatonic Valley.
  
  
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  A comedic thriller inspired by "The Untouchables," "Boardwalk Empire," and H.P. Lovecraft.
  
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  Seeking 2-4 creative, cooperative and positive player-writers interested in doing some genre-bending. I'm primarily interested in (a) a good experience for collaborators, (b) story, and ( c) world-building. I view this as a cooperative story-telling exercise, not a "player vs. GM" role-playing game.
  
  I'm intending this as a beginner's game of relatively short duration (15-2o total scenes). Interesting characters with their sanity intact may be invited back for future adventures in the same milieu.
  
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  Source deck heavily modified / essentially replaced.
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: XXX
  
  You’ve stalked or been stalked by the most dangerous game. Time for a new challenge.
conversations.prefix: Hunt Something New:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've got the hottest car in Arkham: a 1926 Ford Model T Coupe with a 177 cubic-inch inline four that produces a mind-blowing 20-horsepower. Who *doesn't* want to hire you?
conversations.prefix: Wheelman (or woman):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone you love is dying. There's an experimental treatment, but the doctor says that it's too soon for a human subject. You can sense the doctor *wants* to be persuaded otherwise... but how?
conversations.prefix: Experimental Cure:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: XXX
  
  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: human
conversations.value: XXX
  
  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: Wise-cracking, gum-snapping, and dedicated to the truth. The only reason you haven't got a Pulitzer is that you haven't found a big-enough story -- yet.
conversations.prefix: Ace Reporter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tough guy. 
conversations.prefix: Buttonman:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Well-protected from storms and with a wide cobblestone beach, this cove has been a favorite with smugglers for hundreds of years.
conversations.prefix: Smuggler's Cove:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Diamond Jake's right-hand man. Nowadays mostly farms out the dirtiest work, but just one look tells you not to mess with him.
conversations.prefix: Walter Corrigan:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Clean-cut leader of the "Unsinkables," an elite Coast Guard interdiction unit.
conversations.prefix: Carl Elliott:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 3 miles from shore, on the border to international waters, supply ships filled with contraband liquor wallow in the fog, ready to rendezvous with speedy inshore boats.
conversations.prefix: The Rum Line:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: All dark hardwoods and plush chairs with a penthouse view.
conversations.prefix: Jefferson's Study:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Diamond Jake is the most successful "importer/exporter" in southern New England. Now he's moving North. 
conversations.prefix: "Diamond" Jake Jefferson:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A circle of sunlight through the charnel shaft above reveals a vast industrial space...
conversations.prefix: Far Beneath the Rendering Mill:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A locally renowned jazz musician and expert on folklore of the Miskatonic Valley.
conversations.prefix: Leonard Crenshaw:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The *Miranda* is either a folly or a masterpiece: gilt, brightwork, and mahogany over a frame fit for a gunboat. 
conversations.prefix: Aboard Jefferson's Yacht:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You stand at the forefront of breakthroughs that undermine all that has come before.
  
  Mathematics: the key to a new world!
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.prefix: Mathematics Professor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crowbars, flashlights, sledgehammers, and lockpicks suitable for brute strength or finesse.
conversations.prefix: Burglary Equipment:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A young local rum-runner. He knows about the Marsh family and their myriad business and religious interests.
conversations.prefix: George Quinlan:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Defeat modern ennui by coming face-to-face with sanity-melting eternal verities.
conversations.prefix: Connect with Miskatonic's colorful past:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make yourself a player in America: business, politics, power. Clean or dirty: money talks.
conversations.prefix: Land of Opportunity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's hard making ends meet, but you aren't scared of hard work. You blend local knowledge, natural history, and general mechanical competence.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.prefix: Fisherman / Rumrunner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're fun, smart, and flirtatious -- a great catch. And it's like your grandma always said: "It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich person as a poor one."
conversations.prefix: Golddigger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can drive anything fast: a boat, a car, even an ornithopter. You don't mind a little -- or a lot -- of risk if it makes you a tidy profit and a little fun.
conversations.prefix: Runner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You like to live fast, play hard, and laugh off danger. After all, Daddy's always bailed you out when you got into trouble before. 
  
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dissolute Playboy/girl:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The hottest car in Arkham: a 1926 Ford Model T Coupe with a 177 cubic-inch inline four that produces a mind-blowing 20-horsepower. 
conversations.prefix: Ford Model T Coupe:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the fastest boats in New England. Even loaded up with a dozen cases of liquor it can outrun almost anything the Feds have. 
conversations.prefix: Runabout:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're tough, street-wise, and can twirl a mean baton. People look up to you, even though there's an air about you that says that being on the other side of the law was your other option.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.prefix: Beat Cop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The decent, hard-working folk of the Miskatonic Valley deserve better than the scum that seek to prey on them. 
conversations.prefix: Wash the Gutters:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get your name and picture splashed across the top of the newspapers! That'll show 'em! 
conversations.prefix: Top of the World, Ma!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The widow and heir to  Iron Mike Aveline, rival to Diamond Jake. She wants revenge.
conversations.prefix: Diane Aveline:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Perhaps you're a crewmember, perhaps you've been invited, perhaps not. But you *don't* want to miss the *Miranda*'s cruise from Beverly  to Arkham. Get on board, make some friends, and let's get underway! 
conversations.prefix: To the sea, to the sea...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rotting wood, the smell of dead fish and diesel oil, nets and pots drying, the docks are alive before dawn and after dusk.
conversations.prefix: The Docks:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone's watching over you. Lose them to gain 5 minutes access to a private location.
conversations.prefix: Me and My Shadow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You like to live fast, play hard, and laugh off danger. After all, Daddy's always bailed you out when you got into trouble before. 
  
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re well equipped with quality tools, society contacts, and funds.
conversations.prefix: Resources:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You want to experience everything life has to offer. Every pleasure, every thrill, and you don’t intend to wait around for them to come to you. 
  
  You want to act first and think about it later maybe.
conversations.prefix: Hedonist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Human morals are a human construction which the fearful use to console themselves while they hide from the world. 
  
  Experience of everything life has to offer  is more valuable.
  
  Get out there, live fast, try everything!
conversations.prefix: Nothing Is Forbidden:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's hard making ends meet, but you aren't scared of hard work. You blend local knowledge, natural history, and general mechanical competence.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.prefix: Rumrunner:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A member of the armed forces, trained and experienced in war, at home on the water (or in it) and good at taking orders.
conversations.prefix: Martial Training:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Defeat modern ennui by coming face-to-face with sanity-melting eternal verities.
conversations.prefix: Connect with Miskatonic's colorful past:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're strongly driven by your devotion to your work, and you'll let little stand in the way if it means you'll have the opportunity to further your studies.
conversations.prefix: In The Name Of Progress: