conversations.from: system
conversations.value: *Here comes your favourite comedy troupe, the Soda Jerks, in the hottest new film of 1932! Watch their crazy, slapstick antics and try to keep up with their zany, fast-talking gags! You'll laugh so hard you'll spit popcorn on the back of the neck of the woman in front of you! Sorry, ma'am!*
  
  This game will be in the style of a Marx Brothers movie: a crazy plot held together by slapstick sight-gags and rapid fire, humourous dialogue. Each scene will set up another awkward situation that the cast have gotten mixed up in: they'll then be challenged to get out of it in one piece, with maybe a few bucks earned or kisses stolen on the side.
  
  **Protagonists**
  
  Each of the characters gets equal billing in the movie, because this is a *Soda Jerks* movie and the protagonists are each played by a different member of the *Soda Jerks*: even if not all the characters are on the same side all the time, there's always something they can agree on and unite against.
  
  **Schticks**
  
  Strengths & Weaknesses use the same cards in this story: each character has one or two Schticks they use, because that's the Schtick of the *Soda Jerk* who's playing that part. So you might be have "Fast Talk" as both your Strength *and* your Weakness, because your character always does that, even though it doesn't always work well. Your Strength and Weakness can be different though, if there's one thing your character is good at and one thing they're not so good at.
  
  **Supporting Cast**
  
  There are other bit part actors that always appear in the films the *Soda Jerks* make and these are represented by Subplots: they are the minor characters who pop up as adversaries, romantic interests or merely comic foils for your antics.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Run rings around your opponent verbally until they don't know what they're agreeing to.
conversations.prefix: Fast Talk (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pick a lock, pick a pocket or pull a swift con on someone.
conversations.prefix: Petty Crime:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You owe them money and they aren't going to go away until they get paid.
conversations.prefix: Angry Creditor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "I'm a private investigator"
  
  "What does that mean?"
  
  "I can't tell you, it's private."
conversations.prefix: Gumshoe:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "I charge my clients by the hour for legal advice and representation; so far, reading this has cost you a nickel."
conversations.prefix: Shyster:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "My rich father supports me, on one condition."
  
  "What's that?"
  
  "That I stop telling people he's my father."
conversations.prefix: Wastrel:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Take this and call me in the morning."
  
  "What is it?"
  
  "My phone number!"
conversations.prefix: Quack:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Can you loan me a buck until later?"
  
  "What happens later?"
  
  "I'll ask you for another buck."
conversations.prefix: Bum:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Run rings around your opponent verbally until they don't know what they're agreeing to.
conversations.prefix: Fast Talk:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "This vacuum cleaner is so quiet, you won't even know when it's *-click-* SWITCHED ON!!!"
conversations.prefix: Salesperson:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dive, dodge and duck to get around all sorts of trouble.
conversations.prefix: Runaround:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pretend to be someone you're not in order to get away with whatever you're up to.
conversations.prefix: Impersonate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your pockets are loaded with joy buzzers, squirting flowers, mouse traps and the other tools of a true horse's ass.
conversations.prefix: Practical Joke:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Run rings around your opponent verbally until they don't know what they're agreeing to.
conversations.prefix: Fast Talk:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dive, dodge and duck to get around all sorts of trouble.  
conversations.prefix: Runaround:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pretend to be someone you're not in order to get away with whatever you're up to.
conversations.prefix: Impersonate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your pockets are loaded with joy buzzers, squirting flowers, mouse traps and the other tools of a true horse's ass.
conversations.prefix: Practical Joke:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "I've been told I sing like a bird."
  
  "Sing louder then, I just saw some duck hunters coming this way."
conversations.prefix: Artiste:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "I can fix that with one little tap of the hammer... *crunch*... wait, I'll get it this time... *SMASH*... one more try... **KA-BOOM!**"
conversations.prefix: Bodger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "We've got our own way of doing things out here in the country."
  
  "Yes, I've just trodden in one of them."
conversations.prefix: Yokel:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Fetch me a coffee."
  
  "Would you like me to roll over and play dead too?"
conversations.prefix: Menial:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Distract or delay your target by tripping them, slapping them, kicking them in the ass or pulling their hat down over their eyes.
conversations.prefix: Fight Dirty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A wealthy, widowed patron of the arts, in search of romance and companionship.
conversations.prefix: Amorous Dowager:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Distract or delay your target by tripping them, slapping them, kicking them in the ass or pulling their hat down over their eyes.
conversations.prefix: Fight Dirty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: She hasn't got the service she expected and she's pretty darn upset about it.
conversations.prefix: Disgruntled Customer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone find this kids parents and make sure they don't have any more!
conversations.prefix: Wiseass Kid:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No matter how hard he tries to look menacing, he always end up being the butt of the joke.
conversations.prefix: Bumbling Hoodlum:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: He's just trying to do his job but somehow he just can't make any headway on this case.
conversations.prefix: Persistent Cop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Smooth over a difficult issue by making a bribe or taking one.
conversations.prefix: Money Talks:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Smooth over a difficult issue by making a bribe or taking one.
conversations.prefix: Money Talks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pick a lock, pick a pocket or pull a swift con on someone.
conversations.prefix: Petty Crime:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hide from pursuers or creep past anyone trying to stop you getting by.
conversations.prefix: Sneak:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hide from pursuers or creep past anyone trying to stop you getting by.
conversations.prefix: Sneak:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sing, dance, play instruments or find some other entertaining way of holding an audience's attention.
conversations.prefix: Busk:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sing, dance, play instruments or find some other entertaining way of holding an audience's attention.
conversations.prefix: Busk:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Use whatever skill or talent is inherent to your Nature.
conversations.prefix: Do What You Do Best:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Use whatever skill or talent is inherent to your Nature. 
conversations.prefix: Do What You Do Best:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They are convinced that the two of you were meant for each other, so they'll follow you anywhere.
conversations.prefix: Unwanted Suitor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A rich snob who just wants all these riff-raff removed at once!
conversations.prefix: Snooty Tycoon:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: He doesn't know what's going on here, but this is supposed to be a place of business, not a circus!
conversations.prefix: Flustered Manager:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Why does it keep following you? And how does it always know where you are?!
conversations.prefix: That Darn Cat!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This crumbling, sprawling old estate has been home to generations of Colby's, in the same way that a garbage heap is home to generations of rats.
conversations.prefix: The Colby Estate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The bacon is on fire! Do something!
conversations.prefix: Save Your Bacon!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If the Mertons are coming, there are things you'd rather they didn't find lying  about the house...
conversations.prefix: Get Rid of the Evidence:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keep the sport-mad Felicity happy but beware of becoming enthralled in the Merton's scheme to marry her off.
conversations.prefix: Entertaining Felicity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A valuable necklace worth thousands of dollars! Mrs. Merton will be very unhappy if it goes missing.
conversations.prefix: Get that Necklace!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You treat the world as an amusement park that exists just for your benefit. You often stun opponents with your complete lack of understanding, leaving them thinking it'll be much easier to just let you have your way.
conversations.prefix: Oblivious Attitude:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A rich snob who just wants all these riff-raff removed at once! And who can't seem to shut up about the "great investment opportunity" he's trying to get you to back.
conversations.prefix: Snooty Tycoon:
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: Talking way, way, way (way) too much. About anything and everything. All the time.
conversations.prefix: Loud Mouth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are a master of self-deception and can make any serious problem seem like a mere trifle.
conversations.prefix: Ignore It and It Will Go Away: