conversations.from: system
conversations.value: *Nomadic technocrats inhabit the South; barbarian hill-folk hold the North. In the East are the city states and merchant princes; in the West, a patchwork of experimental societies test the gamut of human experience. This is one land, one dominion, regulated by a single authority. Whether kingmakers, spymasters, philosophers, or bootleggers — when knowledge is power and data is currency, Archivists rule the world.*
  
  In a world where the Masters of Helza laugh in the face of mundane computer security data storage is a dangerous game.  The Dominae of Maher district in Gur provide the low-tech answer, hiring out their scribes, secretaries, archivists and analysts to maintain databanks of ink and paper rather than 1s and 0s.
  
  The vast wealth these ladies acquire through their library services provides for lavish lifestyles filled with opulence and grandeur, but barely noticed on their doorsteps are hundreds, thousands of citizens living in various states of poverty.  How much longer will this understratum accept the status quo?  What price revolution?
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You reached Level 10 long ago and got bored. Now you’ve turned renegade: stealing data, selling intelligence, and staying one step ahead of the System.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Judicious Risk
  
  Suggested Weakness: Restlessness
conversations.prefix: Rogue Master:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The transition from Level 5 to 6 is the ultimate test. Pass and you’re a Master. Fail and you’re broken.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Intelligence
  
  Suggested Weakness: Low Self Esteem
conversations.prefix: Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Through marriage and inheritance, you have shares in some of the best libraries in the district and a place in the upper echelons of a Level 5 society.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Charisma
  
  Suggested Weakness: Technophobia
conversations.prefix: Domina:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The System hoards its magic, but you take what you want by sword and strength. Level 2 lands are beyond their sight. As for their law — you reject it.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Physicality
  
  Suggested Weakness: Violence
conversations.prefix: Raider:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your team is running the largest sociological experiment ever. You’re also a professional voyeur and liar. Anything to keep the mice in the maze.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Empathy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Dependence
conversations.prefix: Plainsman:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are the System. You cross borders, access data, and supervise libraries all over Zahel. You can also enter Helza and create marvels there.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Leadership
  
  Suggested Weakness: Arrogance
conversations.prefix: Master:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Level-breach can be a petty misdemeanor, or a serious crime. You’re the flamethrower that the System calls in when the infection spreads too far.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Connections
  
  Suggested Weakness: Paranoia
conversations.prefix: Enforcer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There are authorized ways to collect and access data. You prefer the unauthorized ways: low-tech, self-sufficient, and risky as hell.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Confessional
  
  Suggested Weakness: Carelessness
conversations.prefix: Spy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You walk in two worlds, with no regard for the rules of either. Masters seek your wisdom. Students fear your madness. No one knows where your allegiance lies.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Wisdom
  
  Suggested Weakness: Warped Perception
conversations.prefix: Philosopher:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There’s the stuff you buy and sell above the table… then there’s the back room. Having the right tech is a great equalizer, and people will pay for any advantage.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Logistics
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bad Company
conversations.prefix: Trader:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a great understanding of people and their motivations.
conversations.prefix: Empathy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re the the organizer, the one with the checklist. You can source whatever’s needed and make the plan a reality.
conversations.prefix: Logistics:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a natural leader, able to encourage anyone to follow you on any enterprise. 
conversations.prefix: Leadership:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've got the perfect combination of poise, good looks, and charm. People like you immediately even if they shouldn't.
conversations.prefix: Charisma:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Strength, endurance, weapons skill, or flexibility — you’ve got what it takes to beat the best. 
conversations.prefix: Physicality:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You learn new things quickly, with or without the assistance of tech.
conversations.prefix: Intelligence:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You dream big and act boldly. You’re not afraid to do the unorthodox — or the underhanded — if it gets results. In your case, it does.
conversations.prefix: Judicious Risk:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You specialize in epiphanies and unexpected insights, and people seek you out for that.
conversations.prefix: Wisdom:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They say you’re a good listener, and they believe their secrets are safe with you. It’s remarkable how much you’ve discovered.
conversations.prefix: Confessional:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Family, friends, or colleagues — or a combination of all three. You’ve got the networks to finance and approve what you need.
conversations.prefix: Connections:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can’t control your tongue or your fists or your minions, and then bad stuff happens. Unfortunately, part of you enjoys the mayhem. 
conversations.prefix: Violence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are an extremely bad judge of character. You often end up hanging with the wrong crowd regardless of your intentions.
conversations.prefix: Bad Company:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve always viewed things through a slightly distorted filter. You’re hesitant to trust your own eyes, and for good reason.
conversations.prefix: Warped Perception:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're never satisfied with where you are, who you are, and the Level you’re at. You’re always moving on just a little too fast, leaving things unfinished.
conversations.prefix: Restlessness:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve never been comfortable with too much tech. You’d rather have people handle that for you, or do without.
conversations.prefix: Technophobia:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve always preferred the virtual to the real, because it’s an environment you can control. Perhaps you’ve become a little addicted.
conversations.prefix: Dependence:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If there’s tech, you’ll break it. If there’s money, you’ll spend it. If you’ve just found the love of your life, you’ll break their heart.
conversations.prefix: Carelessness:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve got standards. If you’re not impressed by someone’s Level, career, social standing, heritage, or gender, you want nothing to do with them.
conversations.prefix: Arrogance:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know they’re plotting to undermine you. You look for conspiracies under every rock and spies behind every door. It’s exhausting.
conversations.prefix: Paranoia:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don’t just like to be loved, you need to be loved. You’ll do anything for approval and affirmation.
conversations.prefix: Low Self Esteem:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone or something is tying you down with bonds of obligation, law, or debt. It’s time to break free.
conversations.prefix: Gain Independence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Want simplicity? Carve out a niche for yourself at a lower Level. Want more challenge? Work or cheat your way to a higher Level. 
conversations.prefix: Attain a New Level:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Can’t travel, work, or study because of the System’s restrictions on your life? Fight it.
conversations.prefix: Fight the System:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Students become Masters, raiders become traders, and even a Domina might turn spy.
conversations.prefix: Change Your Role:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Form a company, invent groundbreaking tech or a fresh hack, discover a rare species, develop a new martial art. Make a name for yourself.
conversations.prefix: Become Famous:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Helza can break the unprepared mind, and Zahel is hard on the unprotected body. You do your best to help and heal the casualties of life.
conversations.prefix: Heal the Broken:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When the foundation is rotten, how can the building be strong? You fight institutional corruption so that citizens can safely trust their civil authorities.
conversations.prefix: Unmask Evil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Surrounded by the rarest books, current on the latest tech, or privy to the darkest secrets. You love information, and you always gather it up.
conversations.prefix: Gain Knowledge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The work is too great for one person, but you believe in succession planning, and family is more than blood. Find and train your heirs apparent.
conversations.prefix: Build a Dynasty:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Travel and discovery are your passions. You want to see and experience things first-hand. There’s nothing as satisfying as a primary source.
conversations.prefix: Explore Your World:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Earn that qualification, or that promotion, or even gain access to a new Level.
conversations.prefix: Pass the Test:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s always good to get someone invested in your wellbeing and success. Find a patron or make an ally.
conversations.prefix: Impress Someone Powerful:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The more control you have over the virtual world, the more power you have within it. Use whatever tech and skills are required for results.
conversations.prefix: Hack Helza:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes you need to just… remove someone. Discredit them, fire them, fail them, kill them. Do what you must.
conversations.prefix: Take Out an Enemy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether it’s a bunker of bricks or an oasis of the mind, it’s where you’re completely safe and supplied with everything you need. 
conversations.prefix: Build a Sanctuary:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Depending on where you are, it might be a claidhmor or sgean dhu, épée or foil, pistol or bow. Wherever you are, you’d better equip yourself.
conversations.prefix: Get a Weapon:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It could be a hydrofoil, a canal boat, or a tech-augmented horse, but you need to obtain transportation so you can come and go as you please.
conversations.prefix: Get Your own Vehicle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone needs help — money, information, freedom — and you’re their fairy godmother. Goodness is its own reward, but gratitude can be handy too.
conversations.prefix: Be a Hero:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There are skills you don’t have, places you can’t go. This goes beyond calling in favors. You need a team of pros to get the job done.
conversations.prefix: Assemble a Team:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nothing is too big to fall. A nudge in the right direction is all it takes to change a powerful organization into a bureaucratic mess.
conversations.prefix: Destabilize an Institution:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You found it — that number, name, or phrase to access the inner circles of society, real or virtual.
conversations.prefix: Codes and Passwords:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A file has come into your hands with some very interesting information that could give you leverage over a powerful person.
conversations.prefix: File X:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: By virtue of your work, your connections, your acquired tech, or your Level, you have unrestricted travel to all of Zahel and/or Helza.
conversations.prefix: Unlimited Visa:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A flexible touchscreen with a connection to Helza for those sans neurotech; but also a way for those with the neurotech to access Helza anonymously.
conversations.prefix: Scroll:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A full set of Administrator’s robes, guaranteed to make you look like just another invisible cog in the System… unless someone knows what to look for.
conversations.prefix: Robes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sends messages, translates, and records and reports every conversation you have. Handy if you’re tracking your movements… or someone else’s.
conversations.prefix: Communicator:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Such a versatile little pill! One dose, truth serum. Two doses, narcotic. Three doses, poison. Neurotech is a contraindication; the results are unreliable.
conversations.prefix: Untraceable Drug:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Such horses, hounds, and hawks! They really do come when you call and do what you say. The implanted tech makes sure of that.
conversations.prefix: Enhanced Pet:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A few essentials for health, or bribes, when traveling in low-Level areas. Some of the contents might end up on the black market, but that’s not your fault.
conversations.prefix: Medical Kit:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Allegedly, there’s a rogue Enforcer who’ll take out anyone you want. This white card is all you need to summon them.
conversations.prefix: Carte Blanche:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The canals are the boundaries between the Districts of Gur, and jurisdiction is hazy. No wonder so many meetings take place on canal boats.
conversations.prefix: Canal Boat in Gur:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's picturesque from a distance, but Level 2 doesn’t allow for many comforts. Inside, it’s cold, rough, and semi-barbaric — much like those who gather there.
conversations.prefix: Clann Hall in the North Highlands:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The System may have built it, but a Duke’s bequest adorned it. The people of Reál believe that knowledge is beauty, and they show it in their libraries.
conversations.prefix: Library in Reál:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When the Domina is At Home and the literati gather, wit is more important than elegance, but both are required to make an impression.
conversations.prefix: Salon in Maher District, Gur:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It is a necessary anachronism for low-Level students. Sometimes the lecturers cheat and send a hologram from last year’s course. Students rarely notice.
conversations.prefix: Lecture Hall in Lowlands University:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nothing can be hidden within this virtual space. Masters and Philosophers meet and consult here. Enforcers and Plainsmen lurk at the edges.
conversations.prefix: Council Circle in Helza:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Each tower is tailored to the personality of the Master who designed it. Some have turrets to look out over Helza. Some have dungeons to hide secrets.
conversations.prefix: Master’s Tower in Helza:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A special kind of mental care is required for those who can’t manage dual realities. The monks and nuns here are notoriously strict, but they get results.
conversations.prefix: Monastery in the Plains:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This sleek, supersonic bullet will take you anywhere Level 6 and above, and to the borders of any place below that Level.
conversations.prefix: High Speed Underground Train:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Slower than trains, but small, nimble, and completely untraceable. They operate mainly out of Reál’s Grand Marina and are officially classified as pleasure craft.
conversations.prefix: Sailing Hydrofoil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tech is your only way into Helza. If you don’t have it, get it. If it’s broken, fix it.
conversations.prefix: Lack of Tech:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There’s a recording of you doing some… questionable things. You’ll do anything, pay anything, to make sure it isn’t made public.
conversations.prefix: Blackmail:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you have access to Level 6 and above healthcare, you can be cured in a day. Below Level 6, expect a slow and painful recovery.
conversations.prefix: Biohazard:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These are the gateways between cities, Provinces, and Levels. One can only hope that you’ve given the authorities no reason to restrict your travel.
conversations.prefix: Border Control:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Maybe it was a hack gone wrong, maybe you probed the fabric of Helza too deeply. Whatever the reason, all you’re seeing is ACCESS DENIED.
conversations.prefix: Barred from Helza:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your judgement is clouded, your will shattered. Everything feels vaguely threatening. It’s worse with neurotech.
conversations.prefix: Mental Fog:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can't access your funds, or perhaps you didn’t have any funds to begin with.
conversations.prefix: Financial Woes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Insults to honor are settled by duel, and you’ve just been called out. Will you fight, flee, or find a champion?
conversations.prefix: Duel:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: On land, at sea, or in Helza, weather and virtual environments can be unpredictable and perilous. A storm just hit you.
conversations.prefix: Storm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone has taken a recently-acquired asset from you. Will you fight to get it back, or do without?
conversations.prefix: Theft:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: He’s the son of a merchant prince, rich, bored, and looking for adventure. He’s not afraid of a little risk, and he knows Reál in and out.
conversations.prefix: Thierry Champlain:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: She owns a hydrofoil and she takes paying passengers without asking questions.
conversations.prefix: Mya Bocharie:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: She's an Atavist, a Plainsman who refuses to use their neurotech birthright and lives a minimalist, unplugged life.
conversations.prefix: Freedom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Plainsman and former Master, he is now a philosopher who counsels the virtually challenged who have tried and failed to navigate Helza.
conversations.prefix: Kim Rabiu:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: He has high Level neurotech, but it’s controlled by another’s hand. In Zahel he’s harmless, but in Helza he’s a dangerous assassin.
conversations.prefix: Angus MacGregor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: She's a lecturer in sociology at a Lowlands University and heiress to the oldest company for non-neural infotech. Unsurprisingly, she’s rather… political.
conversations.prefix: Deborah Menzies:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They may have towers in Helza, but they wander Zahel like rootless vagabonds. They have much to teach, but they choose their students with care. 
conversations.prefix: Roaming Sage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Plainsmen often go on holiday, roving and observing all over. They can give you all kinds of information on both Zahel and Helza — for a price.
conversations.prefix: Tourist-nomad:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They have the authority to check your papers, your accounts, and your very DNA. Don’t get on their bad side.
conversations.prefix: Administrator:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Orphaned and poor socially, but well-connected professionally. They’ll trade tech and training for access to the best salons and libraries.
conversations.prefix: Young Irregular:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: As fine place for a party as you'll find in Maher.  The Borghese Family traditionally host the two biggest debutante balls of the year here as well as lending the weight of their prestige to those few galas they allow to grace their halls.
conversations.prefix: Il Palazzo Borghese:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An outsider who found a grudging place in Maher society through her marriage to the aging Moorcliffe Stormont.  Most "real ladies" have nothing but contempt for her.  Behind her back, of course.
conversations.prefix: Magdalena Stormont:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Queen Bee of the circuit, among the eligible youngsters at least.  Her parents spend most of the year out of Gur, giving her free rein and too much access.  A privilege she is pleased to abuse.
conversations.prefix: Arabella van Horn:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: As the current chair of the Athenæum, Madeleine is probably the richest and most politically powerful person in Maher after the Borghese.  She epitomises the tradition and conservatism of her position, as well as the grace and elegance that earned it.
conversations.prefix: Madeleine de Bourbon-Vendôme:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A young girl from the neighbouring Gibson district, Svetlana has been stalking the single men of Maher and putting fear in the hearts of the women.  She has no station, no status, no place in Maher, but one "I do" could change that.
conversations.prefix: Svetlana Grushenka:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: He’s the son of a merchant prince, rich, bored, and looking for adventure. He’s not afraid of a little risk, and he knows Reál in and out.
conversations.prefix: Thierry Champlain:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The eldest daughter of Mamie van Horn; no longer on speaking terms with her mother after marrying "beneath" her to take on the Vroom Boekerij.
conversations.prefix: Goedele Vroom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: As the elder statesman of the richest, most revered of Maher families he commands a lot of attention.  As a senile old goat he doesn't necessarily get the same level of respect.
conversations.prefix: Guglielmo Borghese:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The canals are the boundaries between the Districts of Gur, and jurisdiction is hazy. No wonder so many meetings take place on canal boats.
conversations.prefix: Canal Boat in Gur:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Separate from the Bourbon-Vendôme Library, and from the Athenæum, Madeleine runs all of her affairs from this place.
conversations.prefix: Madeleine's Offices:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keeping the hackers out in Helza is a difficult business, so centralised stores to allow for concentrated security efforts with heavy ICE are the order of the day for serious players.
conversations.prefix: Secure Datastore:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Medical care like this is exclusively reserved for the élite in Maher who are less reticent about technology when it comes to healthcare.
conversations.prefix: Buona Salute Hospital:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: For six decades Moorcliffe has guided his library, protecting it from his sisters' mismanagement and now showing Magdalena the ropes.  Outside the Borghese, he is probably Maher's most powerful man.  Even in his eighties, he doesn't appear ready to lighten his workload.
conversations.prefix: Moorcliffe Stormont:
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.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: Your manners are impeccable, your grasp of small talk beyond question. 
conversations.prefix: Social graces:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nobody's going to tell you anything interesting if you aren't willing to give them something in return.
conversations.prefix: Restraint: