conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Employed by Marigold Staffing and working at Browne Chronometric Engineering, Inc., you travel through the ages actualizing solutions for the anomalies and paradoxes that threaten all of existence. You are reality’s only line of defense in the war between the rigidity of causality and freewill. And your only reward is the hard earned satisfaction of a job well done (plus $11.50 an hour and a modest health package including comprehensive immunizations for history’s most prolific diseases).
  
  Join now and help make anachronism a thing of the past!
  
  Welcome to Brown Chronometric Engineering, Inc., the future of the past! BCE, Inc., is a fascinating company to work for, and we're pleased as punch to have you aboard. But before you become a member of our little family, there are a few ground rules we need to deal with first, so that we can all work together to this the best experience possible.
  
  
  
  Mission Statement:
  
  To police and protect the historical integrity of the temporal order against all anomalies, anachronisms, and other threats. 
  
  
  
  The Overriding Theory of the Fragile Immutability of Time
  
  Time is an infinite, placid lake. Each consciousness on it, each of us, is a boat. Upon this lake there's a gargantuan fleet of boats in a myriad of different sizes and tonnage, all traveling in the same direction.
  
  Each of these boats is cutting out its own wake on the glassy surface of time. We have the power to pluck a boat from its spot at the wake's apex, and gently lower it back into the lake where it starts carving a new wake.
  
  When this new wake crosses other wakes--the wakes of boats it crossed before, when it was elsewhere on the lake--trouble begins. The waters churn and we see eddies form. These eddies are anomalies, whirlpools in the fluid of time, tumultuous phenomenon that threaten the languorous flow of reality. All sorts of strangeness starts to occur: people age backwards, ancient reptiles are dragged forward in time; a single point in space, beneath a set of cellar stairs in Buenos Aires, becomes a window onto every other point in the world.
  
  But these eddies are not the worst of it. Charybdis lies in wait. A vast, all-consuming whirlpool eager to swallow all of the lake, all of time, all of reality. And all it needs is for this boat's new wake to cross its old one. For the time traveler to change history such that the time traveler would not change history. For a paradox.
  
  This is how time travel works.
  
  The larger your historical presence,t he larger your boat. The more impact you're having on the world, the heavier it sits int eh water. Important figures displace more of time's water, trailing wide, durable wakes that reach much further back into history. Less important figures glide through the lake, disturbing relatively less of the water. Insignificant figures--those who have little impact on anyone ese, who can be replace tomorrow by another nameless face and no one would question why--virtually bob on the surface, making little, if any, wake of their own.
  
  And this is why we here at Brown Chornometric Engineering, Inc., firmly believe that temp workers make the safest choice for anachronous agents. 
  
  
  
  #Making a Character#
  
  All characters are temp workers at BCE, Inc. Please select the card Temp Worker as your nature. This will allow you to change the name, face, and story of your character later, in case in the future you would rather play someone plucked from history rather than the immediate option of a modern person.
  
  The setting is modern day. Your temp worker's profile should be their resume, their work experience, volunteer experience, any education they've had, and maybe a couple hobbies and interests. Choose strengths and weaknesses accordingly.
  
  Writing above Copyright of Time & Temp table top rpg by Epidiah Ravenchol
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This document contains paradoxically sensitive material. Do not expose it to the public. Do not read without the proper training. Do not allow the information contained within to alter your course of action. 
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This document contains paradoxically sensitive material. Do not expose it to the public. Do not read without the proper training. Do not allow the information contained within to alter your course of action. 
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This document contains paradoxically sensitive material. Do not expose it to the public. Do not read without the proper training. Do not allow the information contained within to alter your course of action. 
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This document contains paradoxically sensitive material. Do not expose it to the public. Do not read without the proper training. Do not allow the information contained within to alter your course of action.    
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This document contains paradoxically sensitive material. Do not expose it to the public. Do not read without the proper training. Do not allow the information contained within to alter your course of action. 
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This document contains paradoxically sensitive material. Do not expose it to the public. Do not read without the proper training. Do not allow the information contained within to alter your course of action.  
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Choose something your temp worker does well. Preferably something almost useful.
conversations.prefix: Create Your Own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You flit from place to place, wherever Marigold Staffing sends you, never really known for more than being the temp worker.
conversations.prefix: Temp Worker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What's something you suck at that will come into play and be narratively interesting? 
conversations.prefix: Create Your Own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make your own subplot, something interesting, unique, and out there! Time Travel!
conversations.prefix: Something Interesting!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get 'er done, son.
conversations.prefix: Filing:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: So many columns
conversations.prefix: Data Entry:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone make some god damn coffee. NOW.
conversations.prefix: COFFEE!!!!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Buttons, knobs, a key slot, and a pull handle make this big boy extra hard to handle. Can you do it?
conversations.prefix: The Commodore:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Employees are required to read and sign this document before they are given access to chronometric devices and other paradoxically sensitive materials. 
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: She's your immediate supervisor and makes sure all the menial tasks of temp workers are done. She also keeps your summaries of every temporal event you partake in. 
conversations.prefix: Julie Lee:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: (for those who missed the opportunity to play on it.) Please sign and date the handbook.
conversations.prefix: Employee Handbook:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The tech isn't from now, and she didn't say when, but it's a little backwards and won't allow for error. Figure it out, new kid.
conversations.prefix: 2017 Data Entry:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Everywhere around you battle is raging. Pick up a sword, scream to the sky, and join the frenzy! Or run away. That works too.
conversations.prefix: Prove Thineself! :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Intense, well spoken, and a little aloof, Lancelot historically swayed the queen from loyalty to arthur (or was it the other way around?)
conversations.prefix: Sir Lancelot:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Of course! I all makes sense now! The universe has a connectivity that is undeniable, and I can see connections where those who are not "in the know" only see coincidences.
conversations.prefix: IT'S ALL CONNECTED!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There is so much to keep track of, is it any wonder some people just *snap*? Anger can case one to lose focus, but sometimes you just gotta let it out!
conversations.prefix: Quick to Anger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Everywhere entropy threatens the order of things. I must do my part to keep things stable, secure, and in it's place.
conversations.prefix: The Center MUST Hold:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Today is the first day, of the rest of your life! Yesterday you were just a bit unlucky, and let's not discuss last week. Can you smell change in the air?
conversations.prefix: Unflinching Optimism:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Once you’re done with something, you have to get to the next. You never stop. You never slow down. You’re exhausting to be with. 
conversations.prefix: Hyperactive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: All the people you've met were really awesome, but they've never stayed for long. Weird. Time to meet new ones!
conversations.prefix: Meet New People!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Working 10 hour days under the sun inside a heavy mascot costume while kids pushed and poked at you has made you one tough cookie.
conversations.prefix: Durable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't speak up when you should and often keep your thoughts to yourself. 
conversations.prefix: Woman of Few Words:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The amusement park went belly-up and you need a new job. Whether it's a dinosaur or your great-great-great-granddaughter from the future, you keep your head down and get the work done.
conversations.prefix: Paycheque:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: People like you and they want you to like them. Sometimes that's all it takes.
conversations.prefix: Charismatic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You were never an overachiever. Or, much of an achiever, really. "Coasting" was always more your style.
conversations.prefix: Slacker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's so much easier to get stuff done when you have other people willing to do the work for you.
conversations.prefix: Make Allies:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your steady demeanor is oddly effective at making others accept  your words and actions as truthful, or at least genuine. Which is totally, absolutely not the same as being good at lying. Honest. 
conversations.prefix: Sincerely Yours:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Confident in your ability to find solutions to problems, you don't always look forwards (or backwards) to fully consider all the (pre-)consequences. 
conversations.prefix: Short-Sighted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you're already paid to fix up time... shouldn't you do a little more to help fix the times you pass through? (In a 100% safe, chronologically contiguous manner, of course.)
conversations.prefix: Chrono Trigger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A lifetime of perfecting various vintage hairdos, collecting an array of antique attire and mastering classic makeup makes you a dab hand at disguise and at least *looking* like you belong.
conversations.prefix: Blending in:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There are just some things you can't do without: your phone, your feminism, your fact-based science and the convenience of modern plumbing. Authenticity is not exactly your middle name.
conversations.prefix: Leaving it all behind:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've never *really* fit in with modern life - it's just nowhere near as fun, glamorous or *real* as the olden days were. You're desperate to find the era you were born to live in.
conversations.prefix: Born at the wrong time...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hold on, folks! There's a better way to do this! Now, if we consider the effect of the wind speed on the main structure of the building, we can see that this would have a detrimental effect in the stability of the building as a whole, which (of course) would lead to instability of the the desk which I am currently seated at, lead to the possibility of inaccuracy in my paperwork. Therefore, may I humbly suggest the installation of additional joists and buttresses in the main structure of the building for stability, and through the ripple effect, increase my paperwork accuracy by.... Hold on, give me a minute to work it out. Now I know I put my TI-83 somewhere...
conversations.prefix: Overthinking:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A temp in your day job, an  awesome force of nature... in your own mind, maybe. But when it's time to put up or shut up, ego and determination can indeed propel you to step up and be as boss as you thought you always were.
conversations.prefix: Run the World:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Name a film, you've been an extra there. You can blend in in any surroundings... as long as you're not required to talk
conversations.prefix: Extra Extraordinaire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Well, at least you've focused on something in your life, even if it was due to vanity. 
conversations.prefix: Athletic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a long time practitioner of this Chinese martial art and strong in it's 5  elements: hand & weapons combat, meditation, awareness and self defence. 
conversations.prefix: Tai Chi: