conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Act I: Digging for a Dead God
  
  In May of 1939, somewhere in the jungles of 
  Africa, a small band of soldiers have stumbled 
  across something ancient. Something terrible. 
  And they are about to suffer the consequences.
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 standard issue SS rifle.
conversations.prefix: Rifle (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The standard issue sidearm.
conversations.prefix: Pistol (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Anthropologist
conversations.prefix: Gregor Hochmut:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sergeant
conversations.prefix: Johann Grimm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lieutenant
conversations.prefix: Rambert Missgunst:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Read words that have gone unread for generations.
conversations.prefix: Deciphering (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lieutenant
conversations.prefix: Bernhard Begierde:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Allied Spy
conversations.prefix: Soren Faulheit:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Captain
conversations.prefix: Kort Habsucht:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The official officer's garb.
conversations.prefix: Uniforms:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dangerous in the wrong hands.
conversations.prefix: Grenade:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the mine from harm.
conversations.prefix: Protect the Mine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The standard issue SS rifle.
conversations.prefix: Rifle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The standard issue sidearm.
conversations.prefix: Pistol:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: With plenty of oil.
conversations.prefix: Oil Lamps:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Knowledge from
  a forgotten time.
conversations.prefix: Touching the Cylinders:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you stare at it for too long you can feel your mind start to slip away.
conversations.prefix: Gazing upon the Sigil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The door is heavy and hard to move... but can it be blasted open?
conversations.prefix: Opening the Door:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're an angry, hateful man. You served in WWI and spent time in prison. You hate the English, the French, the Jews, Freemasons, Homosexuals... everyone who ruined Germany.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Sergeant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The statue is completely shattered, but it may
  be re-assembled.
conversations.prefix: Restoring the Statue:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Atop the podium is an indentation for a hand… but not a human hand. The fingers are too long. Six of them. The thumb is on the wrong side.
conversations.prefix: Finding the Hand:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Flashbacks to memories, not all of which are your own.
conversations.prefix: Seeing the Past:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nobody knows that you're a homosexual. You have solid judgement, a cool temper, and a vast understanding of military history and tactics. Yet, if someone were to find out your secret it would all be for nothing.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Homosexual:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One of the six healthy German men remaining. A Private who's green enough that it's not even worth learning his name.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Soldier:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The natives—all twenty of them—are crammed into a twenty-by-twenty cage standing twenty feet tall and covered with mesh and barbed wire. They have a bucket for a toilet, no water and little food. If they complain (in their native tongue, of course), they get beaten or shot. Twenty of them with only ten feet each. There used to be thirty, so at least they are getting a little more room.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Cage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The officers sleep in separate tents. Each tent is approximately ten feet by ten feet, has a foot locker, a cot, re-loads for their rifles, grenades and other necessities.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Quarters:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If one of the natives gets out of line, there’s a small box—only five-by-five—where he gets thrown in. He stays there for a few hours, maybe a day, until he figures out he shouldn’t complain so much.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Hotbox:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Temple is one room large enough that a small group of men may take as much as an hour exploring it. There are no internal lights and the air is bad.
conversations.prefix: The Temple:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This is a large place. You can hear the echoes of your voices against a wall far into the darkness.
conversations.prefix: The Temple: Entryway:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A large freestanding tent with poles and pegs covered in mosquito netting. The tent is twenty feet long and ten feet wide. Inside can be found an assortment of crates and supplies.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Supply Tent:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A large freestanding tent with poles and pegs covered in mosquito netting. The tent is twenty feet long and ten feet wide. Inside is a long table for the six men to eat, drink and smoke. Currently, the mess is cramped with sick soldiers. Six of the sergeant’s twelve regulars have come down with something resembling malaria. None of the officers have any medical training (other than the sergeant’s basic first aid skills), so the soldiers just have to suffer.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Mess:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You feel the air chilling here. Perhaps a hole somewhere to the surface? As you step further in, you feel the sting of static electricity from your uniform to your skin. Your feet feel something… vibrating. What’s that? A soft hum. Your lights peer about the room. Circular. Angular. In the center stands a tall, thin podium—standing ten feet tall.
conversations.prefix: The Temple: Gate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To keep the natives in line—and warn of any approaching complications—the soldiers keep two dogs. Well-trained and very mean. Only one of the soldiers has they key to their cage.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Kennel:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sitting at the bottom of a small mountain, the mine is a series of long shafts reaching downwards into the Earth. The hole is tight—only allowing one man at a time. It reaches approximately fifty feet down.
conversations.prefix: The Camp: Mine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Robes, jewels, and gold crumble under touch... But what of the dagger?
conversations.prefix: Seaching the Corpse:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The hands—all twelve fingers—reach
  out toward the door.
conversations.prefix: Viewing the Statue:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've
  seen the pattern somewhere before... somewhere in a
  dream… a horrible, horrible dream…
conversations.prefix: Dreaming the Horrible Dream:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Metal cylinders cover the floor. You must wade through them to make any progress at all.
conversations.prefix: The Temple: Scrolls:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The ceiling here is too tall to reach. Nearly thirty yards high. The ceiling is curved and angled. You’ve seen the pattern somewhere before... somewhere in a dream… a horrible, horrible dream… Stone and other debris litters the floor between you and a stone altar at the end of the room. Among the wreckage, you see the glint of gold scattered among skeletons in rotting robes, circled by black stains on the floor.
conversations.prefix: The Temple: Altar:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The natives’ village is a circle of squalid huts. All the able bodied men are digging for the Nazis so the women and children are suffering. The Nazis have been digging for a week and the price is beginning to show. No food, no protection. The village consists of eight mothers and seventeen children. They look terrible. They are terrified of the Nazis. They are more terrified of the mountain. They say its cursed. They say an evil spirit lives under the mountain. They say anyone who sleeps under the shadow of the mountain will go mad from wicked dreams.
conversations.prefix: The Village:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Avhril th’llala yvtona yvtona th’lalla Avhril
  futona.Avhril th’llala yvtona yvtona th’lalla Avhril
  futona.Avhril th’llala yvtona yvtona th’lalla Avhril
  futona.
conversations.prefix: Avhril:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unwashed Heathens. Conscripted by the SS to help clear diamonds from the mines. None of them speak German, but they understand violence well enough.
conversations.prefix: Natives:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who
  doesn't want to get their hands on a solid gold
  symbol so large and heavy that no one man can
  carry it?
conversations.prefix: Removing the Symbol:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The first gust is stale but the second is ice-cold, and smells like rotting flesh.
conversations.prefix: Breathing the Air:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The black stain on the floor is still thick and
  oozing—not at all like human blood.
conversations.prefix: Touching the Stain:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The man in black is at your ear...
conversations.prefix: Hearing the Whispers:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are the only one who knows what this small band of soldiers is really doing here.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Anthropologist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You were born in Germany, lived in Berlin, then moved to England at 14. You joined British Intelligence and have served as a spy since WWI.
conversations.prefix: Allied Spy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have risen quickly through the ranks of the SS. There has even been talks of bringing you in to the Thule Society. Another distinction that will further your career.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Captain:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've always been overlooked. Your family was once German nobility but they were ruined by the Great War. Now, all you have is your cunning, ability, and skills.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Lieutenant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bandages and such.
conversations.prefix: First Aid Supplies:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Remember: Desertion is treason.
conversations.prefix: Jeep:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Enough for two weeks
conversations.prefix: Food:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fifty feet below the surface, your workers have found something remarkable. It looks to be some kind of door, still half-covered in debris and soil. The doors are carved from stone, marked with symbols you do not recognize. In the center of the two doors is a symbol that appears to be made of solid gold. The symbol is embedded in the stone. A man, reaching out with both hands, could not touch either side of the symbol. It looks too large and too heavy for a single man to carry.
conversations.prefix: The Temple: Door:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your mission is to figure out uses for anything found in the expedition.
conversations.prefix: Nazi Scientist:
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: The Man in Black has chosen me. I am his servant. And I will do his bidding in exchange for his blessings.
conversations.prefix: Chosen by Darkness:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know when things are better left unsaid, and how to keep a secret from even the closest observer.
  
  Portrait of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1941, by Yousuf Karsh.
conversations.prefix: Discretion:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This character is extremely eager to receive praise from his superior officers.
conversations.prefix: Keener:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes things just don't feel right, and when those feelings crawl up your back, it's best to trust them.
conversations.prefix: Trust your instincts: