conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Driven by greed as much as a thirst for knowledge, you are occult book dealers, scouring libraries, auction houses and private collections, facing threats from rival bookhounds and strange cultists in that great rambling city on the Thames, London, the heart of Empire in the 1930s.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re an expert on antiquities and artifacts, known world-wide for your skills.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.prefix: Antiquarian:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You teach archaeology at a prestigious New England college and are widely published.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Slow
conversations.prefix: Archaeology Professor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You stand at the forefront of “alternative physics”—where science meets mysticism.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.prefix: Physics Professor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your knowledge of the human body and its care is much celebrated.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.prefix: Medical Doctor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is your purview—you understand how it works and when it doesn’t.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Judgmental
conversations.prefix: Psychologist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You blend archaeological knowledge with wilderness survival and digging techniques.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.prefix: Field Archaeologist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You ache to make a mark on the world, to amount to something special.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re at the beginning of an exciting career... you hope.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Vital Youth
  
  Suggested Weakness: Impatient
conversations.prefix: Graduate Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your military training makes you valuable the world over. It’s a dangerous place, this planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.prefix: Soldier of Fortune:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve studied and written widely on matters of mysticism and folklore. Your fans are many.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.prefix: Occult Author:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re sharp, perceptive, and quick—capable of appraising situations as well as objects.
conversations.prefix: Appraisal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your intellect is formidable and your knowledge spans many cultures and histories.
conversations.prefix: Lore:
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: You’re adept at medicine, from saving lives to identifying the telling marks of death.
conversations.prefix: Medicine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is a remarkable device and you understand how it works.
conversations.prefix: The Mind:
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: You’re well equipped with quality tools, society contacts, and funds.
conversations.prefix: Resources:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re energetic, athletic, and hale—ready for adventure!
conversations.prefix: Vital Youth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re a rugged, leathery sort. You’re hard to kill and ready to work through pain.
conversations.prefix: Hardy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know the ways of folklore and magic, some of it so much hogwash... some of it not.
conversations.prefix: Mysticism:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.prefix: Delicate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mind may be sharp but your body is slow to keep up.
conversations.prefix: Slow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Outside your areas of expertise, you’re easily lost.
conversations.prefix: Limited:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve sworn an oath to save lives, avoid violence, and heal the sick.
conversations.prefix: Oath:
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 sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A bit gullible and trusting of the wrong sorts, perhaps, but you mean well.
conversations.prefix: Naive:
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: The years have left you wary and callous, unwilling to risk your heart again.
conversations.prefix: Heartless:
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: Learning is power, whether you share it or not.
conversations.prefix: Learn an Eldritch Secret:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve stalked or been stalked by the most dangerous game. Time for a new challenge.
conversations.prefix: Hunt Something New:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stop waffling and wondering and find out what you believe to be true about the world.
conversations.prefix: Find Worthy Material for a Dissertation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not about inheritance, it’s about respect.
conversations.prefix: Show Your Father You’re Worthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Push someone—perhaps yourself!—beyond the limits of reason and then study what happens.
conversations.prefix: Push A Mind Beyond Its Limits:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not enough anymore to believe you’re right. Show them you’re right.
conversations.prefix: Show Them Your Work is Sound:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you can retrieve a never-before-seen treasure, your career will be revitalized.
conversations.prefix: Bring Back A Groundbreaking Artifact:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maybe this work isn’t worth your life? Just get home alive.
conversations.prefix: Get Home Alive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Human morals are a human construction. Knowledge of the infinite is more valuable.
conversations.prefix: Nothing Is Forbidden:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Love may be an earthly concern, but it’s real and it matters.
conversations.prefix: Matters of Love:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Read words that have gone unread for generations.
conversations.prefix: Deciphering:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Endure and survive the threats of the wild.
conversations.prefix: Survive the Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prevent harm from coming to a colleague you admire or cherish.
conversations.prefix: Protect Someone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rescue someone in peril, perhaps bringing them back from the brink of death.
conversations.prefix: Save A Life in Danger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Set foot in a new or ancient place before someone else can despoil it.
conversations.prefix: Be The First:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the dig site from harm.
conversations.prefix: Protect the Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get word out about what’s happening at the dig site.
conversations.prefix: Warn the World:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The best protections against the harsh realities of the world are friendship and allies.
conversations.prefix: Make A Friend:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get a photo that no one would believe if it weren’t true.
conversations.prefix: Photographic Evidence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Show someone that you’re not to be trifled with.
conversations.prefix: Right Might:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A simple matchbook adorned with a blue star and no words.
conversations.prefix: A Matchbook From The Blue Star:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A collection of newspaper clippings, sketches, and geographical survey maps.
conversations.prefix: Jameson’s Portfolio on the Peru Dig:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: At least $1,000 dollars American in bright green bills.
conversations.prefix: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: by Brother Francisco Castillo. Contains occult secrets about pre-Columbian South America.
conversations.prefix: The Heavens Below:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A six-shot snub-nosed pistol.
conversations.prefix: Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A long, double-barreled shotgun with a wood stock.
conversations.prefix: Shotgun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ammo for a gun.
conversations.prefix: Ammunition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One stick of dynamite with a long fuse.
conversations.prefix: Dynamite:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shovels, brushes, and picks suitable for quick or fine-detail work.
conversations.prefix: Digging Equipment:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A high-quality camera with tripod.
conversations.prefix: A Fine Camera:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All dark hardwoods and plush chairs with a penthouse view.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jameson’s Office:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The sort of place with marble pillars and a hedge maze.
conversations.prefix: The Aveline Estate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The plane rattles and dips in tough turbulence. It’s more for cargo than passengers.
conversations.prefix: Aboard Butcher’s Plane:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The city’s best-hidden jazz secret is this hole-in-the-wall club, open just twice a week.
conversations.prefix: The Blue Star Nightclub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The table is buried under layers of maps and sketches and newspaper clippings.
conversations.prefix: Suburban Dining Room:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A quaint, humid little village on the road leading to the dig site.
conversations.prefix: A Remote Peruvian Village:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No way a truck could make it across that. Only foot traffic could cross this rickety thing.
conversations.prefix: Swaying Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site resembles, at first, just an assortment of low, stone walls and carved pits.
conversations.prefix: The Abandoned Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This sort of jungle can swallow up a traveler with ease and never release its secrets.
conversations.prefix: Deep Jungle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A circle of sunlight through the well shaft above reveals a vast, finely carved chamber...
conversations.prefix: Far Beneath the Dig:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Avoid embarrassing yourself in flight.
conversations.prefix: Turbulence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make a first impression on the locals that won’t get you in trouble later.
conversations.prefix: First Impressions:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get across the rope bridge with all your equipment intact.
conversations.prefix: Cross the Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site fills with water and mud. Protect the artifacts!
conversations.prefix: Rains From A Clear Night Sky:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The track through the jungle is perilous and difficult to follow. Don’t lose your way.
conversations.prefix: Find Your Way:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These strange passages beneath the earth make little sense. Will you ever see the sky again?
conversations.prefix: Lost Beneath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who can decipher these ancient markings?
conversations.prefix: Ancient Writings:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone from afar is taking shots at you!
conversations.prefix: Gunfire!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It is both there and not there, part tentacle and part grasping mouth. Understand it? Or flee?
conversations.prefix: The Impossible Creature:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Are you dreaming or is this real?
conversations.prefix: The Vision:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Jameson isn’t brave enough to lead expeditions so he funds others’ trips into the unknown.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jeremiah Jameson:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The widow of Michael Aveline, who was killed on an expedition of Jameson’s. She wants revenge.
conversations.prefix: Diane Aveline:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the world’s great pilots and photographers.
conversations.prefix: Caroline Butcher:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A soldier of fortune hired to protect Dr. Jameson’s investments.
conversations.prefix: Walter Corrigan:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A locally renowned jazz musician and expert on folklore of the Americas.
conversations.prefix: Leonard Crenshaw:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A young driver, fixer, and guide in Peru. He’s been to the dig site Jameson’s curious about.
conversations.prefix: Jorge Quispe:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tall and shadowy in a fedora and trench coat. Who is this gravel-voiced stranger?
conversations.prefix: Mysterious Interloper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This drug-addled cultist is ready to give his life—or yours—to please his monstrous god.
conversations.prefix: Mad Cultist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tentacles and feathery antennae probe out from a shadowy mass at the heart of this beast!
conversations.prefix: Tentacular Beast:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wider-winged than a condor, with a bone-chilling cry and gleaming teeth.
conversations.prefix: Hellish Flying Monstrosity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The urge to take risks sometimes derails your train of thought.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get word out about what’s happening.
conversations.prefix: Warn the World:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There may be some useful tomes in your stock. You might even discover a Squiz desired by a customer...
conversations.prefix: Book Stock (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your former catalogue agent, pulled soaking from the muck of a feeder to the Thames. He would have something sour to say about all this, but he's too dead to say it.
conversations.prefix: Phil Topper (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Thick fog shrouds the great old river, and locked gates in the Thames Embankment guard secrets that only the flushers know.
conversations.prefix: By the Thames:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There may be some useful tomes in your stock. You might even discover a Squiz desired by a customer...
conversations.prefix: Book Stock:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Locate Lord Northam's famed trove of rare books.
conversations.prefix: The Northam Collection:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: For the sake of the dead, debts must be settled, and truths must be revealed.
conversations.prefix: Lay a Friend to Rest:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A stack of Aleister Crowley's most inflammatory collections of poetry.
conversations.prefix: Banned Poetry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The letter offers membership to you, provided you commit a "notorious and heretical" act to prove your worth.
conversations.prefix: An Invitation to the Hemlock Club:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A claw hammer, some long nails, a screwdriver, a pair of large pliers and a crowbar. Just the thing for some interior redecoration.
conversations.prefix: Handy tools:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A black-bound notebook where you keep names of contacts who owe you a good (or bad) deed.
conversations.prefix: Black Book of Favours:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A young bravo off the street, hired to provide assistance.
conversations.prefix: Hired Lad:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There must be three boxes full of wet paper trash here. Oh, the smell!
conversations.prefix: Sorting the Trash:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A six-shot Webley .455 pistol.
conversations.prefix: Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These are no charming Dickensian urchins - the rough lads are tall enough to reach your neck and do something with it.
conversations.prefix: Young Bravos:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: She may not be particularly awake or aware, but she could cause trouble if she gets in your way.
conversations.prefix: Sleepy Librarian:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: He's decided your kind isn't wanted here.
conversations.prefix: Drunk looking for a fight:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A rangy raven-headed heiress with a hungry and eager mind.
conversations.prefix: Elizabeth Brookbriar:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Annoyed to be bothered with yet another request, and far from eager to assist.
conversations.prefix: Suspicious Clerk:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: He looks down on anyone who seems out of place in this establishment. Some people are just too quick to judge.
conversations.prefix: Unfriendly Steward:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Two singularly unpleasant men with the demeanour of military veterans. And soldiers' boots.
conversations.prefix: The Gentlemen in Army Boots:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Illegal collusion with co-conspirators to knock rivals out of the bidding. Inevitably followed by The Ring.
conversations.prefix: Auction: The Knock:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sorting through this voluminous collection for the information you seek requires perseverance and a detective's mind.
conversations.prefix: Library Use:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're being shadowed. It will take wits and luck to deal with your pursuers.
conversations.prefix: Followed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A private follow-up auction after the Knock, in which co-conspirators bid for the lot they have bought together.
conversations.prefix: Auction: The Ring:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An infernal contraption of the modern age. Place a document within, operate its beastly mechanisms, and a fresh facsimile comes out.
conversations.prefix: Monstrous Rectigraph:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your suavity and savoir faire are highly convincing. You’re a pleasure to talk with.
conversations.prefix: Immeasurable Charm:
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 cannot escape your mistakes or your guilt, which can make you hesitant and halting.
conversations.prefix: Haunted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are quiet and surreptitious in nature or demeanor.
conversations.prefix: Stealth:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: By guile, subterfuge or plain criminality, you acquire that which other people desire...and will pay for.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Stealthy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Haunted
conversations.prefix: Thief:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The rain-swept streets are a labyrinth at this late hour. What was the address again?
conversations.prefix: Find Your Way:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The weight of history and collected knowledge fills the air in the library. Shelves stretch all around the vast, circular Reading Room. A clock ticks somewhere.
conversations.prefix: The Stacks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The great halls are the traditional lodgings and training grounds of the legal profession. Barristers bustle past like a murder of crows.
conversations.prefix: Inn of Court:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A home away from home for distinguished gentlemen. Comfortable armchairs, library, billiards and good dining.
conversations.prefix: Exclusive club:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A delicate and sensitive-looking young man, seemingly ready to fall down at the first wind...
conversations.prefix: Algernon Williams:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A place for the working man. Don't order anything ludicrous or American: if you want a cocktail, go to a nightclub and be damned to you.
conversations.prefix: The corner pub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Papers, trays, rubber stamps and a sense of someone trying to carve desperate order out of bureaucratic chaos.
conversations.prefix: Clerk's Office:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Constable Perkins doesn't approve of all this "Satanist" bookstore nonsense.
conversations.prefix: P.C. Perkins:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It isn't the lot you want to win, but you could drive up the price and make it costly for your foe.
conversations.prefix: Auction: The Drop:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Charwomen, janitors, groundskeepers, servants. You know their trade and drink up their gossip.
conversations.prefix: Working-class Charm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Life has left you mean, wary and callous, unwilling to betray yourself with an ounce of kindness.
conversations.prefix: Heartless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re no athlete. Perhaps doughy or awkward or frail but certainly far from fit.
conversations.prefix: Bookish:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don’t do "sit and wait." You pace about, you never stay still, you act first and think later.
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your judgmental attitude isn't the problem. It's everyone else who just doesn't meet standards.
conversations.prefix: Judgmental:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The world is too rough and loud for you. You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.prefix: Delicate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dead past is the only place that seems alive to you. Discover a truth from the times long gone.
conversations.prefix: Discover Something Old:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They said you were too gullible and trusting of the wrong sorts. Well, they were right.
conversations.prefix: Naive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You take too much care, too much interest in the little details.
conversations.prefix: Obsessive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You find and obtain unconsidered trifles and lost treasures at estate sales and bookstalls, whether by subterfuge or five-fingered discount.
   
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Street Smarts
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.prefix: Book Scout:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are an expert in the study - and creation - of physical documents.
conversations.prefix: Document Analysis:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Follow your Muse wherever she leads, clay in her hands for moulding.
conversations.prefix: Find Artistic Inspiration:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A hundred quid could get  you nine copies of Malleus Maleficarum, an affordable sedan, or a great deal of useful information.
conversations.prefix: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A two-and-a-half-foot sword blade hidden in a black cane with a brass top.
conversations.prefix: A sword-cane:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Damn the risks, there's something going on here and you're going to figure it out.
conversations.prefix: Solve a Riddle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know what poverty is like, and you have no intention of repeating the experience. How much money do you need to feel secure? As always, the answer is "more."
conversations.prefix: Find a Windfall:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Queer behaviour runs in the family, and the others just won't understand. Sometimes you have to dig deeper and dance with the skeletons in your family's closet.
conversations.prefix: Follow Your Blood's Calling:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Achievement for achievement's sake is not a vice; it's something you have to prove, if only to yourself.
conversations.prefix: Push Beyond Your Limits:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Who is Elizabeth Brookbriar, and what does she want with Williams?
conversations.prefix: Investigate Miss Brookbriar:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hathaway & Co. Fine Books, the bastards. You'll get them.
conversations.prefix: A Fierce Rivalry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Become famous or infamous in your field of specialty.
conversations.prefix: Establish a Reputation:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If only you could get the coppers off your back...!
conversations.prefix: Shake off Suspicion:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The wheels have almost come off this glorified book-barrow, loaded with water-stained paperbacks and battered ex-lib stock.
conversations.prefix: Itinerant bookstall:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A rare book shop of some small repute, and regrettably limited selection. Good location in the heart of the City. They are known for fulfilling special orders, if you're willing to wait.
conversations.prefix: The Orient Archives:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're always ready to fight, run or strike a bargain in the dark streets where good men fear to tread.
conversations.prefix: Street Smarts:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There is an inner truth beyond the crude lies of history, religion and materialism. You seek a new revelation.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Arrogant
conversations.prefix: Occultist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Words are your weapons, your tools, your defense against horrid reality. Your labours are solitary and your rewards sporadic. You have too much time to think.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.prefix: Author:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A less disreputable book scout, a  bibliophile's private eye, you take your commission from buyer, from seller, or from both: in a phrase, you are a "mercenary of books."
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength:
  Working-class Charm
  
  Suggested Weakness:
  Impatient
conversations.prefix: Catalogue Agent:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You do the world a service: you increase the supply of something precious and desired. Thought of correctly, you're more artist than criminal, more publisher than cheat.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength:
  Document Analysis
  
  Suggested Weakness:
  Obsessive
conversations.prefix: Forger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Love them or loathe them, you live surrounded by books and draw your living from them.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.prefix: Bookseller:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Know what you're doing? Of course you know what you're doing! Someone has to!
conversations.prefix: Arrogant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A leather wallet containing an assortment of lockpicking devices.
conversations.prefix: Locksmith's Tools:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: All you need to produce an authentic forged letter.
conversations.prefix: Antique Inks and Papers:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A handful of young bravos off the street. Rough hands for rough work.
conversations.prefix: Hired Lads:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You had that one shining moment when you felt truly alive. Maybe you can find it again. So what if it kills you? At least that would be different.
conversations.prefix: Overcome Ennui:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The catalogue agent of Hatahaway & Co. Fine Books. Athletic build, dresses well, hawk profile, dark hair pomaded back 
  from a widow’s peak. Smokes Silk Cuts, drinks whisky, drives a Rover.
conversations.prefix: Aston Drummell:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's past opening time, and the new deliveries are yet to be sorted. The floor is still unswept. Cabinets still closed, register locked.
conversations.prefix: Open the Shop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A hundred quid could get  you nine copies of Malleus Maleficarum, an affordable sedan, or a great deal of useful information.
conversations.prefix: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Courts, newspapers and banks nestle together under the shadow of St. Paul's. Better class of ladies and gentlemen on the streets at the heart of the old City.
conversations.prefix: The City Proper:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A rush of wind and the crowds shudder every time a train arrives in this brightly-lit Tube station. The pleasantly warm atmosphere smells false somehow.
conversations.prefix: The Underground:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Books in piles like twisted trees, overflowing creaky old furniture in a dark but dry establishment two rungs below respectability.
conversations.prefix: Dusty basement bookshop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dim, cold and empty. The lack of furniture only serves to highlight the ugly bare walls.
conversations.prefix: Vacated townhouse:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Author, occultist, spy and notorious bisexual adventurer. The Great Beast has grown slow and flabby in his later years, but there is still fire in his eyes.
conversations.prefix: Aleister Crowley:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Locate Lord Northam's famed trove of rare books.
conversations.prefix: The Northam Collection (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Through his narrow spectacles, he takes the view that all bookhounds are guilty of something.
conversations.prefix: Inspector Eustace L. Smith:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your former catalogue agent, pulled soaking from the muck of a feeder to the Thames. He would have something sour to say about all this, but he's too dead to say it.
conversations.prefix: Phil Topper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Charmayne hates when this happens.
conversations.prefix: Booker Retrieval:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It isn't even remotely fair, is it?
conversations.prefix: Cab versus old lady:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The light never reaches the depths of this back way. Vermin chitter and root around in the trash heaps.
conversations.prefix: Filthy back alley:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: In terms of location, presentation, selection and service, just like your store - except slightly better. Bastards.
conversations.prefix: Hathaway & Co. Fine Books:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The smell of tea and biscuits is stronger than the smell of pages. Every shelf sorted and labelled neatly for your convenience.
conversations.prefix: Respectable Bookshop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Books in piles like twisted trees, overflowing creaky old furniture in a dark but dry establishment two rungs below respectability.
conversations.prefix: Chez Booker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The lads lack education and guidance - but with a little direction, nobody's better for searching the streets and gutters.
conversations.prefix: Coordinate the Search:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some of this slum housing hasn't changed much since the 1850s.
conversations.prefix: A Dead End in Watford:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know it's under this patch of loose floorboards. The only question is how long it will take. 
conversations.prefix: Under the Floorboards:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A wizened face grins out of a blue shawl. She can't read very well, but she can sell with the best of them.
conversations.prefix: Mistress Lizbet:
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 have the uncanny knack of appearing out of nowhere in the midst of people... often looking as if 'yeah..I belong here, so what?' with a bored expression.  This greatly unnerves people and rattles their cages.
conversations.prefix: Where did she come from?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's just something about easterners that makes them so hard to read. Particularly if they don't want you to read them.
conversations.prefix: Inscrutable Oriental:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You like to take charge of the situation and run roughshod over objections. YOUR way is the RIGHT way, and you won't stop till other see it too.
conversations.prefix: Bossy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are intimately acquainted with the streets of London, and the people and buildings who populate it. You know the beggars who live under the bridge, the street rats who run through her streets, and where lurks who or what... Very little pass unnoticed under your gimlet eyes.
conversations.prefix: Streetwise:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: All these damned "gentlemen" and their airs and graces. You have no patience for pretension and it shows. Often.
conversations.prefix: Chip On The Shoulder:
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: Actually, I don't but I'll destroy everything before I admit that...
  
  
conversations.prefix: I know what I'm doing...: