conversations.from: system
conversations.value: EDIT for those submitting: preference will be given to Iteration X and Progenitor characters for the moment, though the other Conventions are available, they're more limited and on a first come, first serve basis.
  
  **Setting: ** Mage: the Ascension, particularly, a Technocracy game.
  
  **Tone: ** Workplace sitcom, with occasional action elements.
  
  **Number of players: ** Several, will err on the side of more, but will insist on a distribution among Conventions/Methodologies
  
  **Player roles: ** Technocrats working at Cybernetic Prosthesis Research in Philadelphia.
  
  **Power scale: ** Roughly starting character level for Mage: the Ascension (6 starting Sphere dots, none higher than 3)
  
  **First Scene will be: ** New employee orientation.
  
  **Control Level:** I expect players to create and deal with minor NPCs on their own, so long as unless something contradicts a plot point, or badly contradicts characterization.  Also, I strongly encourage the creation of your own subplots and will supply challenges as appropriate to requests.
  
  **More details via: ** I can be reached by AIM at Janothar or email at janothar@gmail.com
  
  Welcome to the Technocratic Union! I hope you've all read your introductory packets (that is, Mage: the Ascension and Guide to the Technocracy, though for very interested players who haven't, arrangements may be possible).  You've just been transferred to Cybernetic Prosthesis Research in Philadelphia.
  
  The people there, however, refer to it was "Rockbell Industries" and don't take their work too seriously.  Though everyone is represented, the Progenitors and Iteration X are fairly big, and mostly run the research floor, while the New World Order and Syndicate form the management and Void Engineers provide security, such as it is.
  
  The tone of this game is intended to be fairly light, and to be a combination of The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Eureka, though there will be more serious moments, as occasionally things from my other (Tradition) game set in Philadelphia will make themselves known to the Technocrats.
  
  House Rules: There will be several rules here to adapt Mage to Storium and maintain the what I consider to be the feel of the game a bit.
  
  1) Spheres will be handled as loot.  You will have the usual 6 dots to distribute (put it in character description) and I will drop spheres in such a way that each dot gives you a use of the sphere at each dot up to it.  They will be replenished as the story dictates, so don't be shy about using them.
  
  2) Feel strongly encouraged to go off-list for Strength, Weakness, Goal, and Nature (which is more like Concept in WoD terms).
  
  3) Paradox will be handled completely narratively, and so will be not just explode as damage when possible.  Usually, at the end of a challenge where paradox should come into play, either I will tell you to let me dictate paradox (the first few scenes will be like this) or I will give you freedom, particularly if you indicate that you have a cool idea.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Data 2:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Matter 3 (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Entropy 3:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Entropy 1:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Chemistry 1 (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Data 1:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Psychology 1:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Psychology 3:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Psychology 2:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Biology 1:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Biology 2:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Biology 3:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Physics 1:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Chemistry 1:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Dimensional Science 1:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Dimensional Science 2:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Dimensional Science 3:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Primal Utility 1:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Primal Utility 3:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Primal Utility 2:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Time 1:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Entropy 3:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Chemistry 2:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sphere
conversations.prefix: Entropy 2:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Void Engineer, high level researcher
conversations.prefix: Dr. Silva:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: DESCRIPTION
conversations.prefix: Comptroller's Office:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Tevelev is one of the best researchers the new Iteration X has to offer.  She rose through the ranks at a young age, and is now in charge of a major R&D construct, as Comptroller of Cybernetic Prosthesis Research.
conversations.prefix: Kerry Tevelev:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Cybernetic Prosthesis Research cafeteria, where people gather for lunch and, on late nights, dinner.
conversations.prefix: Cafeteria:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A moderate size bar and restaurant located at 39th and Walnut, known for having lots of beer from local and craft breweries and a menu that changes monthly.
conversations.prefix: City Tap House:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A loft above a restaurant near City Tap House, currently being renovated.
conversations.prefix: Loft Conversion:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something about this whole situation doesn't add up, there must be something we're missing...
conversations.prefix: Did we miss something?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Try to figure out who in the crowd are mages and who are Sleepers.
conversations.prefix: Find the Mages:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Is this group coherent? Does it have a leader? And if so, what happens now?
conversations.prefix: Following the leader:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Half man, half machine, all deadly.  The HIT Mark V is the brute force weapon of the Technocracy, used when something, or someone, needs to be destroyed.
conversations.prefix: HIT Mark V:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you force Agent Gibson to stick around? Try to convince him to stay? Or just let him go?
conversations.prefix: Make him stay or let him go?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There MUST be something you all missed, hopefully you don't have to go back to find it.
conversations.prefix: Maybe we missed something?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What IS up with him? That guy at the bar's definitely agitated by something...
conversations.prefix: What's up with the twitchy guy?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What happens next? We're confused! Time to figure out a course of action to continue the plot.
conversations.prefix: Where do we go from here?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've got a criminal background, it could be anything from drug dealing to hitman, but you're definitely on the wrong side of the law.
conversations.prefix: Criminal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're the sort of person who tends to move around and not stay in one place long.  This can be by choice (biker, for example) or not (bum).
conversations.prefix: Drifter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You live and breathe the entertainment industry, and likely work there.  You're an actor, musician, artist or something similar.
  
  
conversations.prefix: Entertainer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your brain organizes your life.  You work with your mind, as a writer, scientist or philosopher.
conversations.prefix: Intellectual:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You work in law enforcement...though perhaps not officially.  Anything from a cop on the street to a Hunter, someone who uses investigative skills day to day.
conversations.prefix: Investigator:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You love the night scene.  Clubs, bars, raves, concerts, and drugs, in some combination, are essential to your self-image.
conversations.prefix: Nightlifer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't fit in, and you know it.  You've fallen through the cracks in society, and whether you're happy with that situation or not, you acknowledge it.
conversations.prefix: Outsider:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You see the world as a set of political struggles.  Perhaps you're a politician yourself or a staffer, or even just a policy wonk, but any which way, it's your life.
conversations.prefix: Politician:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a member of some skilled workforce with a professional association.  Examples include doctors, lawyers and engineers.
conversations.prefix: Professional:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The truth is out there, and you need to find it.  It doesn't matter the size of the story, if something seems hidden, you want to get to the bottom of it.
conversations.prefix: Reporter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The social ladder is your territory, and you're making your way to the top.  You might be a prominent spouse or child of a wealthy family, or you might just be a hanger-on looking for your first grasp on the way up.
conversations.prefix: Socialite:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your job is to fight for someone or something.  Often soldiers are bodyguards or actual soldiers, but also can be on the other side of respectability as mercenaries or enforcers.
conversations.prefix: Soldier:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You do the real work around here.  You work hard and with your hands and body, generally.  From highly skilled jobs like farmer and carpenter down to low-wage, low-skill work, you do what needs to be done.
conversations.prefix: Worker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re quick and nimble, perhaps superhumanly so, whether you look it or not.
conversations.prefix: Agile:
conversations.from: human
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: gpt
conversations.value: With that smile, backed up by your silver tongue, it’s hard not to like you.    
conversations.prefix: Charming:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know things that ordinary folk don’t know, be it magic or science, and that gives you power.
conversations.prefix: Educated:
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’re perceptive, perhaps from years of watching and observing. Nothing gets past you.    
conversations.prefix: Perceptive:
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’re physically strong and probably look it, whether you’re lean or built.    
conversations.prefix: Strong:
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: Your hardy body has seen a lot of pain and you’re still here to suck up more.    
conversations.prefix: Tough:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know your way around the criminal underworld, and can find people willing to sell or do most things that can be sold or done for money.
conversations.prefix: Underworld Contacts:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a brilliance that comes from experience and intuition more than study or memory.    
conversations.prefix: Wise:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mouth is sometimes quicker than your mind but you’re a master of making that work for you.    
conversations.prefix: Witty:
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: You can only act on the physical world when you concentrate; otherwise you’re just an image and a voice.    
conversations.prefix: Ephemeral:
conversations.from: human
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: gpt
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: 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 don’t wait around well. You want to act first and think about it later maybe.    
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
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've been in legal trouble before...possibly unresolved.  Any run in with law enforcement has a good chance of ending badly for you.
conversations.prefix: Legal Trouble:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Outside your areas of expertise, you’re easily lost.    
conversations.prefix: Limited:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You think you know how things work. You think people are basically good. You’re wrong.    
conversations.prefix: Naïve:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve sworn an oath to save lives, avoid violence, and heal the sick.    
conversations.prefix: Oath:
conversations.from: gpt
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: human
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: gpt
conversations.value: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.    
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your mind may be sharp but your body is slow to keep up.    
conversations.prefix: Slow:
conversations.from: gpt
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: 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: Achieve Control:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ll never know safety until you know power, territory, control over others. It’s the way of the world.    
conversations.prefix: Achieve Power:
conversations.from: human
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: Air of Secrets:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your heart bears a wound that might heal if you could only stop meddling with the scars.    
conversations.prefix: Heal the Hurt:
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: Living alone is hardly living. You need allies to watch your back. You need friends to fight for.    
conversations.prefix: Something Worth Having:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They’ll keep hurting people until they know — really know — what it’s like to be hurt themselves. 
conversations.prefix: Spread the Hurt:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cybernetic Prosthesis Research is the leader in producing prosthetic limbs for general use.  They've made several advancements in M/MI and in getting realistic motions and false skins on things.
  
  It's also commonly called Rockbell Industries as a joke by its employees.
conversations.prefix: Cybernetic Prosthesis Research:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An Irish bar located at 20th and Walnut, and a popular drinking spot after work for the locals from Cybernetic Prosthesis Research.
conversations.prefix: The Bard's:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A generally disheveled man, he's constantly overworked, despite no one quite knowing what he does during the day.  
conversations.prefix: Gary Gibson:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: These packets describe your jobs! Read them to know your duties.
conversations.prefix: Job Packets:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jonathan Bowen was one a legendary field agent awhile back, known for being an incredible sharpshooter (and able to perform the "Magic Bullet" trick shot) as well as an investigator who could keep track of Deviants.  He is, however, now semi-retired, and is a researcher and Director of Field Operations.
conversations.prefix: Jonathan Bowen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Progenitor Researcher, sometimes assistant executive in change of personel
conversations.prefix: Summer Levesque:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This is for all those little things that are getting to your characters.
conversations.prefix: All the small things:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's your job to control the presentation of the public face of the company, stop up leaks, put out fires, and handle memos , newsletters, and other in office company communications. Smile for the camera.
conversations.prefix: Director of communication:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Control the flow of information released to the Sleepers to maintain the New World Order.
conversations.prefix: Maintain the order:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You hold everyone to high standards, and you're quick  to point out their flaws. Anything can have faults under your scrutiny, and you're not afraid to say so. 
conversations.prefix: Curmudgeon:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're smart. Super Mensa Level Smart. This means you bolted through a few grades a few years too early probably. But hey, you now have your masters by the age of 21, so party it up on the road to tenure.
conversations.prefix: Prodigy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You see solutions when others see garbage.
conversations.prefix: Creative:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are in your current job because of a flash of insight. Your superiors are watching closely to either see if they can bottle your lightning or discard you when you burnout
conversations.prefix: Young:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You wanna be your own boss so bad, its almost palpable to others. While your ambition is curbed to fit your workplace, there is no denying you won't risk a backstab if it guarantees you a corner office and christmas bonus
conversations.prefix: Promotion!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You look for new things in new places. Space, the deep sea, mountains, caves, the eighth dimension, if it is mysterious and filled with wonders, you will go find them. 
conversations.prefix: Explorer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are interested in new things. What, where, who, when, how? And **Why**?
conversations.prefix: Curious:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You want things to be true, beautiful, elegant, and perfect. Practical, functional, and useful are less important.
conversations.prefix: Impractical:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The universe is wonderful, beautiful, and fascinating. Everyone should know about it.
conversations.prefix: Reveal the Beauty:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your life can be tough and sometimes just getting to the next day with is a challenge. If it can be done with grace, kindness, and humanity so much the better
conversations.prefix: Survivor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't seem to have the stuff to make play with the big boys so no one is threated by your actions.
  At the same time anyone who could do you job better can get a better job.
conversations.prefix: Nonthreatening:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your position is not seen as strong and so others feel they can ignore your opinons or toss extra work at you
conversations.prefix: Unimportant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You just long to find a place where you feel at home
conversations.prefix: Find you place:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've never had a lot of confidence in yourself. You tend to assume you aren't very good.
conversations.prefix: Lack of Confidence:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Small details to social situations, nothing escapes your sight
conversations.prefix: Observant: