conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The early years of the 20th century were a time of great change as the science of humanity finally began to peirce the veil that had kept so much from us for so long. The third Antarctic Expedition returned from the ancient cities of the Elder Things with proof of the ancient race that once dwelt there; and with grave warnings of their Shoggoth servants who still roamed the ancient streets. Archaeologists discovered ancient cities of prehistory, the lost civilizations of mankind that forged vast empires millennia before Greek civilization even existed. They also discovered their downfall, in blood and war and dark sorcery. Ghouls living beneath our cities were captured and studied, to the anger of their families below. Innsmouth was raided, the Order of Dagon largely destroyed, and war was made against their ancient cities beneath the waves.
  
  The marvels of one age, so shocking at the time, become the facts of a second age, accepted as simply the order of things. Today in elementary school children memorize the names of the first team to make contact with the Mi-go and begin open trading with them for the rare minerals they require. Specialized universities teach Sorcery, a combination of math, occult knowledge, and mind bending physics. Book reports are done on Obed Marsh, and ghouls and Deep One hybrids today have their full rights as citizens. 
  
  But where there are people there is crime. In New York CIty crimes of an occult nature are handled by the Department of Occult Control (DOC). you are one of these detectives, assigned to a precinct in Brooklyn. A member of a small team that handles crimes committed through sorcerous means, reports of unnatural phenomenon and beasts, and the activities of cults and worshippers of forbidden gods. 
  
  Notes to players!
  
  -This is a modern day setting in H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu universe. The events of Lovecraft’s stories are considered to be canon and largely known by the public, though not everything is. As such basic familiarity with the works of Lovecraft is required. You don’t have to have read everything he’s written, but you should know a Mi-go from a Deep One. Familiary with Lovecraftian inspired roleplaying such as Call of Cthulhu rpg and Trail of Cthulhu rpg are a plus.
  -I’m looking for four players, my apologies in advance if I get more applicants than that and don’t pick you.
  -Character portraits are required.
  -A note on magic and sanity. Magic is dangerous and time consuming. Rituals take time and require bizarre and esoteric components, casting a spell will be a challenge in and of itself. For sanity, if your character witnesses mindrending things or casts certain spells you might have to pick up some madness cards to reflect the trauma to your mind.
  -Characters are police officers and as such everyone has some combat training.
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: There is some broken glass on the floor, and a safe in the back that has been cracked. It looks like the work of professionals. 
conversations.prefix: Investigate the Scene:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your badge, showing that you are a member of the DOC. It should get any law abiding citizens to assist you, that is, if you can find any law abiding citizens around here. 
conversations.prefix: Your Badge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your service pistol, the only gun you are allowed to own and shoot. Well made, accurate, and with stopping power. Each bullet fired from it has a unique mark from the gun. 
conversations.prefix: Service Pistol:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Det. Greenwood has been around and seen almost everything. She doesn't like having to help rookies out, but she will. Sometimes.
conversations.prefix: Detective Greenwood:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There are hours and hours of tapes here, you'll need snacks, coffee, and lots of patience.
conversations.prefix: Review the Tapes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Inside the shop, drawn on the floor in chalk is a magic circle. It either was part of the security system, or part of the break in. Either way it should tell you something.
conversations.prefix: Examine the Circle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can calculate the position of the moon and stars and know what effect it will have on a binding circle. You've studied the advanced math and secret history and know your way around rituals.
conversations.prefix: Sorcery:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re adept at forensic investigation, you can dust for prints, identify a cause of death, and perform basic first aid.
conversations.prefix: Forensic Investigation:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone doesn't think you belong here, prove them wrong. 
conversations.prefix: Show Them You’re Worthy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been on the force for decades now, working your way up from a beat cop to serving as a detective in the DOC. You've seen things that could drive a normal man insane and know things your aren't strictly supposed to based on your clearance.
conversations.prefix: Old Hand:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a wunderkid. You just graduated from the police academy with top marks and due to your high level of potential have been sent to the DOC right away, a prestigious posting for a rookie.
conversations.prefix: Straight from the academy :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: After you finished school you went into the army, did a tour in the old bases in Germany, fought in the Third Deep One Uprising, and saw the world. You've seen the world and you've come back to NYC to serve in the DOC.
conversations.prefix: Veteran :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've graduated with a PhD in Sorcery from one of the various programs in the country. A combination of mathematics, anthropology, history, philosophy, and very peculiar physics you've joined the DOC to serve as an expert in rituals, translocations, and esoterica.
conversations.prefix: Sorcerers Academy Grad:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've gone to to the police academy and then additional training in CSI techniques, both mundande and magical. You can recognize blunt force trauma, strangulation, curses, and poisoning and tell a deep one mauling from a dog attack.
conversations.prefix: Crime Scene Investigator :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've studied psychology, especially the abnormal kind. Exposure to the Mythos tends to cause paranoia, narcissism, and depression so you also serve as team therapist.
conversations.prefix: Criminal Profiler:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's not that you're not smart, you just never really applied yourself. Why would you need to though, when your uncle is a deputy commissioner and your mother is a city councilwoman. You have the connections and the money, and even if you haven't earned your way onto the DOC you will prove your worth. 
conversations.prefix: Good Old Boy (or girl):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometime in the past you were hurt, or maybe a friend or family member was. You are going to put it right though.
conversations.prefix: Right a Wrong:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Big Damn Hero. That is what you are going to be. Serving in the DOC is your way of giving back to your community, of protecting the world.
conversations.prefix: Protect the Innocent:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Where your desk, lockers, humorous comics attached to the office refrigerator, and office refrigerator are. 
conversations.prefix: Precinct House:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The security guard has been struck mute and refuses to write or sign. The doctors at the hospital will be able to cure him sooner or later, but finding out what he knows now would be better.
conversations.prefix: Can't Talk!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This position here, while prestigious, is only temporary. You are on your way to bigger and better things. Your sights are on a higher office, either on the force or in political office you need to make big arrests and get your name out there. 
conversations.prefix: Stepping Stone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The bookstore manager. She closed shop the night before the robbery. 
conversations.prefix: Catherine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Security Guard from across the bank across the street. He might have seen something last night.
conversations.prefix: Security Guard:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A local book store licensed to sell occult tomes and other registered items. Also the location of a recent break in that you have been called to investigate.
conversations.prefix: Zed's Tomes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There is some broken glass on the floor, and a safe in the back that has been cracked. It looks like the work of professionals.    
  
conversations.prefix: Investigate the Scene:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The registered address of Cindy. Also one giant mess.
conversations.prefix: Cindy's Apartment:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The building that Cindy, your possible sorceress, lives in. 
conversations.prefix: Cindy's Apartment Building:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mrs. Sabrowski is Cindy's's landlady. She lived directly beneath him and seems a bit of a snoop. With a little coaxing she'll look at your pictures. 
conversations.prefix: Cindy's Landlady:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A notebook, presumably Cindy's, written in a cipher of some sort.
conversations.prefix: Cindy's Notebook:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A pile of recipes, from various places around town. It looks like she rarely went to the same place once but maybe you can find a connection.
conversations.prefix: Pile of Reciepts:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whoever he is he is making a run for it now.
conversations.prefix: Chase:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Brooklyn streets, where you live and patrol. 
conversations.prefix: The Street Outside:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The ghoul who ran away from you. His wallet has his ID identifying him as Jim.
conversations.prefix: Jim the Ghoul:
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: Not a whole lot passes by your trained eye without you noticing.
conversations.prefix: Observant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can turn on the charm when the need arises. 
conversations.prefix: Charm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Even when the Eldritch is involved, police work involves a lot of paperwork and drudgery. 
conversations.prefix: Diligent:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prone to overthinking a problem, you often miss the more obvious solution. 
conversations.prefix: Overanalytical:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You find that you don't have a tolerance for slow and steady work.
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Jim does not think much of anyone or anything not human. 
conversations.prefix: Anthropocentrism: