conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The Investigators are called upon to look into the bizarre and gruesome Cleveland Torso Killings, after law enforcement has failed to bring the killer to justice. But is there something even more terrible and unfathomable behind the slayings?
  
  This is an adaptation of a scenario originally developed for the Trail of Cthulhu rpg.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: O'Donnel's office is hot, cramped, and poorly lit. Case files and old newspapers pile on every available surface. Every time the train passes outside, the lights flicker and dust falls from the ceiling rafters.
conversations.prefix: Sheriff O'Donnel's Office:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A dive bar in the middle of the Roaring Third. The place smells of sweat, unwashed sex, and stale beer. The clientele are desperate loners and hoboes.
conversations.prefix: Lester's Tavern:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A second-story rattrap in the Roaring Third, nothing but a cheap flop with loose bricks in the caving walls, a moth-eaten stained mattress, a rickety table and low stool.
conversations.prefix: Dolezal's Apartment:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A popular tattoo parlor in the Roaring Third, and a front for the Mexican drug gang, Los Caldores de Cabezas - The Headhunters.
conversations.prefix: Nadie's:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Mexican bar and gambling den, operating near the riverfront. 
conversations.prefix: La Sirena:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cleveland's finest institution of higher learning, located in Shaker Heights.
conversations.prefix: Western Reserve University:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A mighty relic of the steel boom of the late 19th century, this idyllic manse stands proud in bright Shaker Heights.
conversations.prefix: The van Schaen Mansion:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A prehistoric riverbed chocked with weeds and poison sumac, currently home to roughly 100,000 hoboes in a tight shanty town.
conversations.prefix: The Kingsbury Run:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The most corrupt precinct in the city, and perhaps all of America. A warren of slums and tenements.
conversations.prefix: The Roaring Third:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The most affluent district in Cleveland, built from steel fortunes. Grandiose mansions and churches ringed by massive stone walls and idyllic parks.
conversations.prefix: Shaker Heights:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a specialist in mental illness, psychoanalyst, or a neurologist who studies brain function.
conversations.prefix: Alienist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You value and immerse yourself in the past. You may be a resident scholar or an antiques dealer.
conversations.prefix: Antiquarian:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a trusted neighborhood priest, itinerant preacher, scholarly rabbi, or eager missionary.
conversations.prefix: Clergy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are self-supporting, perhaps living off a trust fund, or an inheritance, free from the toils of employment.
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You live on the other side of the law, a member of a secret world of desperation and often, degeneracy.
conversations.prefix: Criminal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are rational, clean, humane, and above all, selfless. Or, you at least appear to be....
conversations.prefix: Doctor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are merely one of millions out of work in this Depression. But, also, a breed apart - a king of the road. 
conversations.prefix: Hobo:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You may try to keep yourself separated from your story, especially if it is one of corruption, but how can you avoid your own words?
conversations.prefix: Journalist :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There are some things, cops won't do, or can't do. You accept money for either. 
conversations.prefix: Private Investigator:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You seek advancement of knowledge, and perhaps the acknowledgement of your colleagues....
conversations.prefix: Scientist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nothing gets you going like the promise of action, combat, and strange, new experiences.
conversations.prefix: Adventurous:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dead past is the only place you feel truly alive.
conversations.prefix: Antiquarianism:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your ultimate success is it's own justification, and it is sure to come to you, for you have the resolve t grasp it.
conversations.prefix: Arrogance:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are already aware of the numinous and supernatural  - it is what you seek to capture, in art, or music, or science.
conversations.prefix: Sensitive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can't help but press on, peak a little further behind the veil of mystery, poke what's in the dark.
conversations.prefix: Curiousity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone's got to do it, and if you don't, goddamnit, who will? Enough talk.
conversations.prefix: Duty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've tried everything else, and nothing else matters than capturing that high of discovery, that thrill of being beyond normal.
conversations.prefix: Ennui:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This actually was not your idea. None of it. But, it's not your role to question it.
conversations.prefix: Follower:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Queer behavior and interests run in the family, and drive you to discover that which rests beyond. 
conversations.prefix: Blooded:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone, or something, hurt you, or someone you care about more than yourself. Whatever the cost, you will bring it down.
conversations.prefix: Revenge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Uncovering the truth is all that matters. The truth will right every wrong. 
conversations.prefix: Scholarship:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something ripped the scrim from the world, and you can't go back to believing what you've been told. 
conversations.prefix: Shock:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are physically weak, either a result of an illness, accident, or lack of physical regimen.
conversations.prefix: Frailty:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You deal with withdrawal symptoms from infrequent substance use, a result from trying to quit.
conversations.prefix: Dependency:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An outside faction has some controlling influence on you, causing you to occasionally work against the team.
conversations.prefix: Compromised:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are emotional, prone to fear and panic when confronted with highly stressful situations.
conversations.prefix: Instable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a hard streak, that often leads you to turn your back on others, or inflict unnecessary violence.
conversations.prefix: Cruel:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes, bad things just happen when you're around.
conversations.prefix: Bad Luck:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your faith in your own abilities is often misplaced, much to your own detriment.
conversations.prefix: Overconfidence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When forced to act or make a decision, you sometimes freeze up.
conversations.prefix: Indecisive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An event from your past tortures you emotionally.
conversations.prefix: Damaged:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You ignore the awful things happening around you.
conversations.prefix: Denial:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You lack knowledge and practical experience of how the world works.
conversations.prefix: Inexperienced:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've already been touched by what's beyond - and it is looking for you.
conversations.prefix: Marked:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Are Eliot Ness and the Republicans intentionally undermining the Sheriff's office? If so, why?
conversations.prefix: The Party Machine:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These murders are targeting the homeless and indigent more than any other group. Who is looking after their well-being?
conversations.prefix: Hooverville:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Moe Dalitz and his gang of racketeers holds this city in an iron grip. Who will stand against them?
conversations.prefix: The Dalitz Mob:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These horrible murders have the city on edge. Many blame the foreigners in the Roaring Thirty. If something isn't done soon, there may be another race riot.
conversations.prefix: A City on the Brink:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cleveland City Police are on the take, and the city has no one to turn to for help. Will you bring the corruption to light?
conversations.prefix: Corrupt Cops:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This city's fallen into depravity and corruption. Who will help restore it to it's former glory?
conversations.prefix: The Shaker Heights Crowd:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: He strikes you as tired, at the end of his rope. You may be his last hope.
conversations.prefix: Sheriff Martin O'Donnell:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gunmetal, with a hard plastic grip. 
conversations.prefix: Police-issued .38 pistol:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Heavy, and durable.
conversations.prefix: Heavy-Duty Flashlight:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Everyone seems on edge, suspicious. What's going on around here, anyway?
conversations.prefix: Earn the Sheriff Dept's Trust:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A solid lead learned at Lester's, meet Frank Dolezal
conversations.prefix: Meet Frank:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cheep swill, left unattended
conversations.prefix: Jug of Rotgut:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A suspect in the killings
conversations.prefix: Frank Dolezal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A suspect. Upon sighting you, he flees!
conversations.prefix: One-Armed Willie:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: He seems to be reaching into his overcoat for something...
conversations.prefix: The Greek:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can't happen to notice, but he looks exactly what a Hollywood detective would look like
conversations.prefix: Detective Merylo:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Interview and gather clues about the three identified victims - Edward Andrassy, Flo Polillo, and Rose Wallace
conversations.prefix: Canvass the Bar for Leads:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Earn their trust as possible future contacts
conversations.prefix: Engage the Drunks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The bartender might know something relevant
conversations.prefix: Speak to Lester:
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: You are a well known person, with a highly regarded reputation in the community.
conversations.prefix: Reputable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A half-used pack of Lucky Strike cigararettes
conversations.prefix: Pack of Smokes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Relatable Demeanor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A strong group with a variety of talents aids ones weaknesses. 
conversations.prefix: Friends like these:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You follow the leads, where ever they lead.
conversations.prefix: Dogged: