conversations.from: system
conversations.value: *A ruin once hung, suspended, lazily sliding through the sky as the sun marched its tired path across the heavens. A ruin so strange, it may never have had a beginning; an eternal ending, held aloft by the audacity of its own cleverness. Always dying, never falling, the ruin one day met with a cruel fate, as gravity took its toll, long overdue.*
  
  A city drifts through the heavens, floating above an endless cloud-scape that stretches from horizon to horizon. Across it's surface sprawls a vast and intricate City, housing a multitude of denizens in houses and tower above and hang below the island. Deep within the rocky crags and stony cliffs, a massive, glowing, semi-sentient stone gives power to the city and keeps it aloft. It glimmers, even now, though it is constricted by tendrils and vines. Tethered to the central island is a trio of smaller islands: One a vast sprawl of farmlands, dotted by ruins jutting out of the earth; one a crowded, walled off fort with barely a soul to be found inside; the third a tiny outcrop of smog-wreathed towers and thick fog. Passage here is forbidden to all, and even how it came to be is obscured.
  
  After years of furious conquest and rapid technological advancement, the City is finally facing the backlash from its age of ambition. Isolationist policies have cut off the City from contact with other societies, culture is stagnating, new technologies are having unintended side-effects, and growing discontent among colonists threatens to break out into all out rebellion.
  
  Among the strife and turmoil, a group of individuals seeks to either profit off of this chaos, or aspires to put an end to it. Though they may struggle mightily against it, they must remember that inevitably, the City in the Sky will fall.
  
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  Character Creation: Natures are provided, but I am very open to creative alternatives. Strengths and weaknesses are also suggestions, and I encourage you to create your own. Artwork for these cards is optional, but I would like to require a picture for your character.
  
  **Currently looking for one brave soul to take up the role of The Speaker, a major player in this world who will frequently push the story forward.**
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The current holder of the office of the Speaker, this individual discerns the will of the City, its people, and its rulers and seeks to impose this will through their words and actions. 
  
  In times of crisis, Speakers are often given great authority, though what they do with this authority is entirely up to them.
  
  Choose your words wisely, for each carries a great weight.
conversations.prefix: The Speaker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Member of the City maintenance division, tasked with keeping Centris running smoothly. Tends to abbreviate terms. 
  
  You posses, among many things, an intimate knowledge of the City's inner workings, a formidable intellect, and some manner of mild psychosis.
conversations.prefix: Mender:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A major player in the petty turf-wars that run rampant in the lower tracts of Centris. Poor, rowdy, and out on the streets. 
  
  Your gang is likely comprised of orphans and runaways, but to you they are closer than family.
conversations.prefix: Gang Boss:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A knowledge-keeping, history-protecting, record-treasuring bookworm.
  
  Archivists find themselves in a city that no longer cares for history or art, and thus ties to do away with what bothers or scares them.
  
  Keep the Archives safe, no matter what happens.
conversations.prefix: Archivist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A citizen of Priat, the largest of the Central Island's colonies, and their main source of food and raw materials.
  
  Years of oppression and discrimination have pushed you over the brink, and you feel the only recourse is to fight back against the City.
  
  As with all Priatians, it will be difficult to gain access to Centris.
conversations.prefix: Priatian Rebel:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A citizen of Priat, the main prize of the military campaign of forty years ago.
  
  A keeper of the Old Ways, you carry a candle through a valley of shadows. Your culture is unraveling, your traditions are being forgotten, your values are being discarded.
  
  Violence will solve nothing, it will only sow more suffering.
conversations.prefix: Priatian Spiritual:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A traveler from another floating city, seeing Centris for the first time.
  
  Isolationist polices have barred visitors from entering, and thus you had to resort to illegal means to get within the city walls. 
  
  To risk such danger, you must be here for a good reason.
conversations.prefix: Tourist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One of the few remaining members of the Centris standing army, called the Cals.
  
  Your leader is growing senile, your job has been made obsolete by automated security, and your future in this position is unsure.
  
  There MUST be some way to serve the City.
conversations.prefix: Cal Trooper:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A member of the high-ranking administration, holder of a hereditary office.
  
  Your wealth and connections are enviable, but your authority is, as ever, unsure in the ever-shifting political landscape.
  
  You are within reach of the top, however.
conversations.prefix: Blueblood:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know the right people in the right way. Information can be easily obtained through your network of connections, and you can always call in a favor to get you out of a jam.
conversations.prefix: Friends of Friends:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An addict to the powerful, but subversive, technology known as Vyne. It is an extension of yourself, used to impose your will upon the city.
  
  With it, you are strong, though if you rely on it too much you may find yourself slaved to a consciousness you cannot understand.
conversations.prefix: Vyne Fiend:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An almost grim determination will pull you through most sticky situations.
  
  Your resolve is nearly tangible, and will be apparent to others.
conversations.prefix: Never Say Die:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clever, fluid, and resourceful. You have the smarts to survive in an increasingly volatile environment.
  
  Bend, do not break.
conversations.prefix: Adaptable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A cocktail of arrogance, confidence, and narcissism will get you in many-a bind if you do not manage yourself.
conversations.prefix: The Ego:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Be you criminal, outsider, or exile, it is clear you do not belong here. If authorities spot you, they will hunt you.
conversations.prefix: Marked:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fragile of body, you cannot stand up to much punishment, and your endurance will quickly flag.
  
  Not one for the long-haul.
conversations.prefix: Frail:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: City be damned, you want to far above the rising tide as the world around you sinks. There must be some haven out there, and you intend to find it.
conversations.prefix: High Ground:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You serve the City itself, and seek to protect her and her people from all harms.
  
  If you are to succeed, you will need titanic strength.
conversations.prefix: As the Heart wills:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The best thing about the growing crisis is the rapidly increasing amount of free stuff.
  
  Danger be damned, there's plenty out there that's ripe for the taking.
conversations.prefix: Plunder:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There are things worth preserving in this city, shards of history, scraps of art.
  
  The City has made great works in its time. Posterity deserves to appreciate them.
conversations.prefix: Rememberance:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your loyal hound. 
conversations.prefix: Tamm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A spear plunged into the earth, surrounded by blackened stone, hemmed in by dizzying edges.
  
  A morbid, tranquil place balanced on the edge of an abyss. A place commemorating the sacrifice of the previous Speaker, Helifax.
conversations.prefix: Helifax Memorial:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Duchess, high ranking member of City administration. With age she has only become more cunning and elegant.
  
  It was by her word that McKenzie became the current speaker.
conversations.prefix: Lytia Van Nirn:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A grizzled old ex-mercenary with a bad leg, currently occupying a guest room at Albine's shrine.
  
  Originally from a far away land, he became stranded on Priat following the Priatian uprising.
conversations.prefix: Riesh:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A mysterious figure appears in the warehouse in place of the Longarm's prey. Whoever they are will have to think  fast in order to evade capture...or execution.
conversations.prefix: Ambush:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A woman has come with some alien species of Vyne.
  
  A woman has something a young man lacks, but a queen will do no favors to the undeserving.
conversations.prefix: The Baron from Below:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A mysterious woman has foiled the Longarm trap.
  
  Whoever she is, she will need be swift if she is to evade capture or execution.
conversations.prefix: Ambush:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A paper abandoned by a harried Archivist, headed by an ornate, official-looking sigil of unknown origin.
  
  Long lists of seemingly meaningless symbols and numbers suggest it is a manifest or catalog of some sort, with constant reference made to one phrase: "Blue Bird".
conversations.prefix: Forgotten Document:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A patch-work district of metal and aluminum, kept together by the ingenuity of its residents.
  
  As much of it hangs out above the void, those with poor balance and acute vertigo should take heed.
conversations.prefix: Lower Centris:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A small swarm of oddities have recently sprung up in Centris, and a lot of people are looking for answers.
  
  Searching for truth may yield new paths, open new doors, or lead to an introduction or two.
conversations.prefix: Rumors and Truths:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes,things don't pan out the way you want due to forces out of your control.
  
  Chalk it up to the Heart playing tricks on you.
conversations.prefix: Luck of the Harpy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes, coincidences occur that seem far too far-fetched, but this one has saved your neck.
  
  Send a prayer to the heart for her favor on this day.
conversations.prefix: Luck of the Gryphon:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An Inquisitor of the Ludus, secretly in service to Calad Biewalf.
  
  For several years he was watched the city's inner workings churn furiously, and he has grown painfully aware of the sickness taking root therein.
conversations.prefix: Enoch Hub:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Once a Longarm, once a soldier, once an accomplished officer, once a decorated general. 
  
  Believed to be a senile old man wasting away in an empty fortress, Biewalf became the Calad ten years after the end of the Age of Ambition. Ruled during the Priatian Rebellion, and once a personal friend to the Speaker Helifax.
conversations.prefix: Calad Biewalf:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The cusp of Upper Centris holds some havens for shadier  elements. Here can be found a handful of small shops and dark corners.
conversations.prefix: Centris Backalleys:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: To beaccepted into the academy, you must prove you are truly worthy, doubly so for a Priatian. If you are to learn here, you must put your best possible foot forward.
conversations.prefix: Examen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This flighty Councilwoman seems to think you are a perfect tool for a task, or maybe an excellent partner in an endeavor. Discover her intentions, and see if her influence can work to your advantage.
conversations.prefix: Adesso e Fortuna:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pursuing the underground in search of way-ward citizens, the Speaker and his new comrade are drawn slowly down a path leading into darkness.
conversations.prefix: Rat's Nest Investigations:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Men and women of the City, their minds entirely consumed by Vyne, have become slaves to the pretty white weed.
  
  Once intelligent, emotional people, they are now little more than mindless thralls.
conversations.prefix: The Vyne-Taken Pilgrims:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are well read, and have a broad knowledge of many, many things.
conversations.prefix: I Once Read:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You drew the people of the Dredge together. The darkness was your guide, Vyne your mentor. But up here, the world is bright and full of terrors.
conversations.prefix: Queen Nothing:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A once proud military legacy reduced to stories in your youth.You seek to reestablish the old glories and relive the tales you were told of an indomitable military power.
  
  The undertaking of such a course of action will forever live your name in the chronicles of history. 
conversations.prefix: Honor thy Legacy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your friends are your family. Protective to a fault, you will not let harm come to your flock.
conversations.prefix: The Blind Shepherd:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your past is a stain on your conscience, an ever-present reminder of human depravity. You are a fiend turned friend.
conversations.prefix: Bloodied Hands:
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.value: Vyne is a terrifying tool, an awe-inspiring instrument through which life can be forged and obliterated. It is a helping hand and a malignant disease.
  
  It must be stopped.
conversations.prefix: The Hand That Feeds:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are a master strategist capable of the unimaginable. Deciphering your enemies strengths and weaknesses, creating a suitable strategy to bend them to your will and foreseeing their plethora of potential counter moves is all in a days work for you.
conversations.prefix: Strategic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your blood boils at the though of your enemies living another day. Your thirst for vengeance clouds your judgement and invades your dreams. You will watch them die an excruciating death at any price.
conversations.prefix: Bloodthristy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Many in the city have wronged you. They have killed the ones you love, deceived you and shattered your heart. They must not be allowed to live.
conversations.prefix: Kill Them All:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a major player in the petty turf-wars that run rampant in the lower tracts of Centris. Poor, rowdy, and out on the streets. Your gang is comprised of orphans and runaways, but to you they are family.
conversations.prefix: Gang Boss:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Redemption. You are self driven thus far, you are willing to carry the burden till the end despite the obstacles and doubts which inevitably come with one's journey. 
  
  Belief, not strength, has given you  purpose.
conversations.prefix: Carry On:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It takes one man to start a cause, but an army to deliver victory. You fear all you hold dear does not reside in the hearts of those around you. 
  
  At what cost is glory without those who can shoulder it.
conversations.prefix: Banner of One :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An addict to the powerful, but subversive, technology known as Vyne. It is an extension of yourself, used to impose your will upon the city.
  With it, you are strong, though if you rely on it too much you may find yourself slaved to a consciousness you cannot understand.
conversations.prefix: Vyne Fiend:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are resourceful and know how to manipulate other people. They are easy to bend and don't understand 
conversations.prefix: Crafty:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Be you criminal, outsider, or exile, it is clear you do not belong here. If authorities spot you, they will hunt you.
conversations.prefix: Marked:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've been sick and hunted for too long and you want to find a way to cure yourself and live life to the fullest. 
conversations.prefix: Live to See Another... Day:
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: You've seen enough injustice befall upon not only others, but yourself as well.
  You're done putting up with it, and the last straw was pulled yesterday.
conversations.prefix: Too Unfair:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Can remember almost everything...
conversations.prefix: Total Recall:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Can never remember faces. Or more correctly assign names to faces. As soon as he meets some one the name is gone
conversations.prefix: except faces:
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: One of a small, but justly dreaded cadre of elite enforcers operating under the direct auspices of the City's leaders.
  
  As the long arm of Centris's law, these grim men and women spearhead the most dangerous operations against the City's shadowy elements, acting as investigators, street judges - and executioners. 
  
  Their efficiency and dedication to duty is matched only by the warrior mystique woven around them by years of laurels and legend. 
conversations.prefix: Centris Longarm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: *I pledge one to defend*
  *and one to destroy.*
  *May my arms shatter* 
  *But my oath hold for ever.*
  
  Years in the twin crucibles of the Longarm ludus and the Centris underworld have tempered you into an implacable messenger of justice, girt with the skill and the will to surmount any challenge in service to the City. 
conversations.prefix: Strength of Arm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Feelings left from the assault against her home and lead to rash comments and actions.  
conversations.prefix: Spite :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Skilled with hands and in eye, your observation of details can bring to attention details that others miss
conversations.prefix: Craftsman :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: No steel is without flaw. With the wearing of the years, cracks may widen to gulfs, sure as love to hate - or doubts to fears.
  
  Where a paragon stood, the observer returning from long abroad may see only a pitted shadow of what once was. And when you are yourself that observer - what is left to do? What is left to believe?
conversations.prefix: Once a Knight:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The time is nigh when the light of legend shall clash with the growing dark of reality - and in between, a City twilit. Find your path in the swift-falling dusk, or be lost to the night.
conversations.prefix: Twilit:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: As part of the low-borne society, you provide for the city and keep it running. The floating metropolis Centril is in dire need of resources such as grain, meat and most of all - water. Without water, the city would have fallen before it got a chance to rise to the sky.
conversations.prefix: Water Merchant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Vyne has given you powers that allow people to go far beyond their normal expectations. These powers include telekinesis and others.
  
  ------
  
  As you use these abilities further and further - you start to notice your mind  and body deteriorating while something else takes control.
conversations.prefix: Vyne Enhancements:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: For all their good work, the mantle of a Longarm is a thankless one. For every God-fearing citizen who lauds their tireless efforts, there stand a dozen who heap only hate and fear on the heads of these esoteric warriors.
conversations.prefix: Double-edged Name:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Since a young age you preferred the intimacy of a blade as opposed to hiding behind a gun. Over the years you mastered knife fighting and was trained in Lingchi, the art of prolonging ones suffering. You know exactly where to slice and thrust to kill, incapacitate or place one in excruciating agony.
  
conversations.prefix: Death by a Thousand Cuts:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Enthusiasm is the key to triumph. Unyielding curiosity can open many doors.    
conversations.prefix: Flush:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The right word, at the right time, to the right audience.  It is your art, your science, your calling.
conversations.prefix: Rhetoric:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hard times call for hard hearts, but you, perhaps, take it too far.
conversations.prefix: Callous:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Heart of the City speaks to the Speaker as much as the Speaker communicates with it. It can give the Speaker a tremendous sense of intuition.
conversations.prefix: Speaker's Intuition:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Helifax was one step above a tyrant, and maybe mad. The Council refuses to trust the Speaker again. If the city is to be saved, the Speaker needs power again. You are not your predecessor. You can be trusted.
conversations.prefix: I Am Not Helifax:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: THE SPEAKERThe Speaker
  The current holder of the office of the Speaker, this individual discerns the will of the City, its people, and its rulers and seeks to impose this will through their words and actions.
  In times of crisis, Speakers are often given great authority, though what they do with this authority is entirely up to them.
  
  Choose your words wisely, for each carries a great weight. 
conversations.prefix: The Speaker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It is often said: "Crafts to the artisit, war to the soldier, and to the Speaker: words."
  Words are oft overlooked for bearing little in the trappings of power. Yet, that is a beguiling  falsity. For words burden much weight in depths of power. To you, this ill kept secret has been revealed and thusly your words are wielded with much precision. You know how to soothe the raging beast, inspire the downtrodden, and capture and audience with but a few words.
conversations.prefix: Silver Tongued :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "To fear is normal. To surrender to fear is cowardice. To struggle against the fear is courage. To lack fear is reckless."
  
  Oft there are moments in life which we despie fear. Oft there are moments in life which we understood our fear and reasoned with it. Oft there are times when we are overwhelmed by fear, yet theough determination and desire struggle against the fear conquering it.
  Then there is you: an individual who burdens no fear and oft find tourself in precarious situations.
conversations.prefix: Reckless :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: As the Heart wills
  You serve the City itself, and seek to protect her and her people from all harms.
  If you are to succeed, you will need titanic strength.    
conversations.prefix: As the Heart Wills:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have lived a life of self doubt. Ever since you became Speaker, you have been told by the Council all the things you are not allowed to do. You doubt every action you make.
conversations.prefix: Downtrodden:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A member of the high-ranking administration, holder of a hereditary office.
  Your wealth and connections are enviable, but your authority is, as ever, unsure in the ever-shifting political landscape.
  
  You are within reach of the top, however.
conversations.prefix: Blueblood:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Thy very words art a demonstration of thy earnest being: a measure of thy grace, thy wrath, and thy very soul all brought together in thy pronunciation of a mere syllable."
  -Duran Gil, Gentry of the Court
conversations.prefix: Silver Tounged:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Ne'er have I borne witness to such disregard for the particulars of life until I was introduced to you! Fear emparts us with humility and wisdom, yet when there is a lack of fear -as I have witnessed in your person- one must realize that individual must also be found lacking in humility and fear"
  
  Alhamdrin Whortly, Gentry of the Court
conversations.prefix: Recklessness:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "When did it become commonplace to be audience to the toils of the common man and consider this but the sweet chorus of life?"
  -Lady Alice Fortuna, Leader of the Rebellion.
conversations.prefix: Revolution:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Korhal has seen things you people would not believe. Pirate ships on fire off the cliffs of Vonnmark. Slipstreamers’ wings glittering in the night near the Kelnard Portal. Moments that should not be lost to time’s waterfall. Time to share…
conversations.prefix: Well Travelled:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You follow orders by their word, and are willing to follow through from those whom trust you. Garnering loyalty untarnished loyalty has its weakness though. The fanatics always harbor a secret doubt. 
conversations.prefix: Loyal Vassal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The world is not as simple or as nice as Silas hopes. This can get you into trouble when reality hits.
conversations.prefix: Naive: