conversations.from: system
conversations.value: March 1979.  Sid Vicious is dead.  The Talking Heads still share a cramped loft in the Bowery, but three weeks ago millions of Americans watched them play Saturday Night Live.  Punk has hit the big time. Punk is dead. Punk is everywhere. Punk is what you see when you walk from Greenwich Avenue to St Marks Place - it's half-ripped flybills and garbage-stained kicker boots; it's the leather-jacketed junkies on the steps leading down to dark basement flats. This is the New York of strikes, blackouts, riots, and prostitutes working Times Square. 
  
  Punk isn't just the music anymore, it isn't just an aesthetic - it is the language of a generation with no future.
  
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  *East Village 1979* is meant to be a character-driven game for strong writers who want to collaboratively explore the punk and post-punk aesthetic in a realistic setting.  There's no need to be an expert, but some knowledge of the era is probably going to be useful, even if it's just in one particular area (music, culture, politics, etc).
  
  “Real” punk, the punk of the Sex Pistols and Sid Vicious, is over now at least musically, and post-punk is gaining cultural currency. The Cold War means that every child has been through a nuclear war drill, has seen what a mushroom cloud looks like and knows what an atomic bomb can do to a city. There is no internet, no mobile phones, no cable TV. There is only the midnight matinee, the fuzzy television set, the night.
  
  Things will happen. You will be there.
  
  Character types include musicians, journalists, students, poets, album collectors/groupies, part-time punks, and others.  Worth also saying that not everyone cares about the revolution. There’s room in this storium for squares as long as you’re prepared to be affected by art and anarchy.
  
  No magic, no urban fantasy. This should be so real, it hurts. For aesthetic, think: Radio On, Wim Wenders, Talking Heads, Television, Blondie, The Clash, Allan Moyle's Times Square, Jubilee, Pushead, irony, dark humour, dripping taps, peeling paint, garbage, drugs, filth, no future, punk rock!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: Album Collector:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: Music Journalist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: Where's the Disco?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: Post-Punk Musician:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: Part Time Punk:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: Hip Foreigner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: tbc
conversations.prefix: High School Daytripper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Punk threads, cheap prices.
conversations.prefix: Trash & Vaudeville:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Punk! You're a fan. You're *the biggest* fan. CBGBs? You go there every night, man. You have an autographed copy of *Marquee Moon* on the wall above your bed.
conversations.prefix: Groupie/Album Collector:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Opened in 1973 at 315 Bowery, CBGB was a famed venue of punk rock and new wave bands like the Ramones, Television, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Talking Heads. 
conversations.prefix: CBGB:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Est 1973-1975, the old converted Irish pub on East 6th Street  is known for its long history of raucous poetry slams, jam sessions and anything-goes open mikes.
conversations.prefix: Nuyorican Poets Café:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your punk pal.
conversations.prefix: Radio Reagan:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: owner of CBGB
conversations.prefix: Hilly Krystal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: That smell isn't the sewers, it's the trash rotting on the streets.
conversations.prefix: St Marks Place:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: don't use this card - make up your own.
conversations.prefix: Create Your Own Subplot.:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Punk is dead. You travel down new roads to musical freedom, although you appreciate and recognize that punk paved the way. ("New roads" usually involve synthesizers or maybe fiddles.)
conversations.prefix: Post-Punk Musician:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some people read your last article for the *The Village Voice*. Most people know you as someone who can actually pay for their coke habit.
conversations.prefix: Music Journalist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: So, you heard New York was throbbing with excitement, did you? Convinced your parents you could stay with a trusted local adult to "take in the sights", did you? 
conversations.prefix: High School Daytripper:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Apartment is a generous name for a warehouse squat, but it is rather homey for a place with a human to cockroach ratio of several thousand to one.
conversations.prefix: Radio's Apartment:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The NYPD don't like what you've been doing here.
conversations.prefix: The Fuzz:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: don't use this card - make up your own.
conversations.prefix: Add Your Own Strengths.:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: don't use this card - make up your own.
conversations.prefix: Add Your Own Weaknesses.:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You never really got this punk thing. Too weird. You were looking for a good disco or Chinese or something when you stumbled on this thing happening in the East Village.
conversations.prefix: Where's the Disco?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sure, your parents live on the Upper West Side (or upstate or somewhere yawn-inducingly suburban/middle-class), but punk is SO OUT THERE, SO RAW. And you can pogo! But just on the weekends.
conversations.prefix: Part-Time Punk:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're from London or somewhere where punk is faster and cooler. You think you're faster and cooler too. Other people probably dig your accent and/or can't understand anything you say.
conversations.prefix: Hip Foreigner:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You moved to New York to find some kind of future and found no future instead. Your college is kind of cool - a lot of weird looking people though.
conversations.prefix: Starving College Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You speak the truth. Your words are music in an asphalt age. You either bring grown men to tears... or write a lot of screechy verses about rats and STDs. 
conversations.prefix: Rebel Poet:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Anarchy is life. Punk will never die. The world may have gone to shite, but your three chord wonders are the hymns that keep the Church of Punk Rock alive.
conversations.prefix: Punk Musician:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Anarcho-fascist punks, itching for a fight.
conversations.prefix: Skinheads:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Radio is clearly feeling the gloom right now.
  
  You know Radio Conner, right?  Lead singer for The Blank? He never gives an interview, but if you could get one it probably would be worth something. He also seems to have an "in" at all of the greatest parties.  Wonder what his problem is today.
conversations.prefix: Console Radio.:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nikki seems to have dropped the entire contents of her purse on the cafe floor.
  
  That chick looks pretty familiar actually. Isn't that Nikki Napalm? She used to be in that all girl punk band Nikki and the Nukes for like five seconds two years ago but now she writes music reviews and culture articles for *The Village Voice*. Like, *every week*. What a cool job. Maybe you should get to know her.
conversations.prefix: Help Nikki.:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There's a book of matches on the counter of the bar.  You never know when they might come in handy.
conversations.prefix: Book of Matches:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's a discarded newspaper on one of the empty chairs near Radio. 
  
  Might come in handy someday.
conversations.prefix: Discarded Newspaper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone's broken a bottle of beer by the bar. Nobody's bothered to pick it up.
  
  Might come in handy someday?
conversations.prefix: Broken Bottle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Even if it's lame, maybe he'll agree to give you an interview or take his picture or something if he likes you. Or maybe you can become friends?
conversations.prefix: Get Radio to invite you along to wherever he's going today.:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Written in purple in on a ripped piece of notebook paper. The name NIKKI NAPALM is written in looping letters under the number. I guess you could call her sometime?
conversations.prefix: Nikki's Phone Number:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: a few smokes missing but still a decent pack left
conversations.prefix: Nearly Full Pack of Cigarettes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You live here.  It's home, at least for now.
conversations.prefix: Your Digs:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The cool kids might call it Marz, but who cares? The beer is cheap, and no posers.
conversations.prefix: Mars Bar:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've got street smarts AND book smarts.  Good for you.
conversations.prefix: Book Smarts:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: How can you be so self-obsessed when you're so weird and always holed up with your guitar and all those books? Don't you want to hang out?
conversations.prefix: Arrogant & Introverted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You want everyone in the art world to whisper your name with awe.
conversations.prefix: Veneration:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: New York is where all your heroes lived.  If you want to make it as a writer, you know you have to come here first.
conversations.prefix: Aspiring Writer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You made it to New York!  Success is just around the corner!  But first, there's so much to do!
conversations.prefix: Enthusiasm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know what you want to do.  You just have some trouble putting in the work required.
conversations.prefix: Undisciplined:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You want people to notice you.  It's a lot harder in the big city than you expected.
conversations.prefix: Recognition:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: In this age of anger, it's good to let it all out to someone. He'll listen and talk you through it all.
conversations.prefix: Hear You Out:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One second, he's there. Next second, he's gone.
  Houdini wouldn't have been able to vanish that quickly.
conversations.prefix: Ghostly Presence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Drugs, drink and distractions can't seem to cure him of his melancholy. Exit stage left.
conversations.prefix: Leave Quietly:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The truth is louder than any scream. He's become famous in the scene for the profundity of his lyrics.
conversations.prefix: Punk Plato:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Almost violently enthusiastic, you're the type of person that everything's a show of strength. The way you mosh, the way you don't take any shit, the way you get in everyone's face is your way of validating yourself.
conversations.prefix: Pusher:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes... home seems nice. But it's somewhere you can't be yourself and somewhere you're someone else.
conversations.prefix: Homesick:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not a wannabe here fellas! You really, genuinely want to be considered a part.
conversations.prefix: Prove Yourself:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: He looks like a twig but in a brawl he can take hits and come out of it just as crazy as he started.
conversations.prefix: Low Pain Sensitivity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Any money he does bring in goes straight out on drugs and other self entertaining pleasures. He borrows money and doesn't pay back and crashes at the homes of his mates.
conversations.prefix: Constantly Broke:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Looking for something that makes life less boring, mundane and meaningless.
conversations.prefix: Ultimate Thrill:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This person knows the perfect shot/story/history in the making when they see it.  Knows how to capture the moment whether it's on film or in print.
conversations.prefix: Artistic Eye:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Moderation is what your parents did, and look where it got them.  If a chance for a good time, a good buzz, a good party, a good ANYTHING comes up, take it!!
conversations.prefix: Hedonist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hey, if every &*%^$ with a heroin habit and a mike can get famous around here, why not you?  Your monographs, books, and articles are gonna be collectors' items, baby!  Now go make it happen.
conversations.prefix: Get Famous or Die Trying:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hey, being a part-time bartender and go-go girl teaches you some manners, even if nobody else in the room has any.  You've learned how to deal with gropey drunks, preppie assholes with more money than sense trying to cop a feel for a tip, and irate bouncers. You share your drugs, charms,  and tips when needed to move things along in your direction as needed.
conversations.prefix: Clubland Diplomat:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nobody needs to know about Layne from Seattle. Franz will stay in the closet for as long as possible.
conversations.prefix: Close the Door:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bet meets lots and lots of people in her line of work, and a lot of them are assholes.  She doesn't have time to deal with those more than once.  Make a bad first impression on her and she's likely to ignore you, unless she may need you for something.
conversations.prefix: Judgemental:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're not in tune with the people around you and miss out on a lot of clues.
conversations.prefix: Oblivious:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know a guy. Your friend knows a guy. Or you're friendly with the doorman. Sometimes  you even know the band! But somehow you always know where to go after the show.
conversations.prefix: After Partier:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know all the lyrics, the track lengths, the the album release orders,  who plays what on which song. You know it all by heart. Your calendar is record release dates. You are first in line. 
conversations.prefix: Obsessive :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don't want to go back.
conversations.prefix: Normalcy's Calling:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Renny is very confident and independent person, she drifts around the United Kingdom living on her own, managing handily despite her gender. Her swagger really accenuates this and she does come across as someone who knows the deal of the world.
conversations.prefix: Confident:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Renny has an extremely thick Irish accent which can come across hard to understand to most.
conversations.prefix: Incoherent:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Renny managed through life by not getting too attached or staying in one location for too long.
conversations.prefix: Get in, Get Out:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: My shirt?  Sure, you need it more than me.
conversations.prefix: Generous: