conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Nobody likes to admit it, but superheroes and supervillains rule the world. Oh, sure, the nations of the world are there and they still go about their day-to-day routine, but the people really calling the shots have telepathy, summon lightning, pull demons from the earth, or worse. It's their playground.
  
  And you're one of them, except that you're not playing that game. You're playing a different angle, and it's one they'll never see coming. It's the heist of the century--the millenium. Stealing the paradigm and replacing it with your own.
  
  That is, if your team can hold things together, and if the plan works.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The leader, who gathered the crew, found the target, calls the shots and thought up the plan.
conversations.prefix: The Brains:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They're around to help with carrying heavy things, beating people up, acting as a bodyguard or being threatening and menacing.
  
  But that doesn't mean they're without other skills.
conversations.prefix: The Muscle:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The one who usually does most of the conning, acting and people manipulating using confidence tricks... or otherwise
conversations.prefix: The Face:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: That special set of skills, abilities, and talents that the team needs to get the job done.
conversations.prefix: The Specialist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Because I'm lazy and you know you want to anyway
conversations.prefix: Make Your Own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: I covered this already
conversations.prefix: Make Your Own:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tortured backstory or sneaky backstabbing or whatever.
conversations.prefix: Make Your Own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The center of Kumiko Kurosawa's operations--her impenetrable fortress. 
  
  *Supposedly* impenetrable.
conversations.prefix: Kurosawa Tower:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Kurosawa's physical defenses and obstacles remain in your way. Fix that and get to the Vault. 
conversations.prefix: Break on Through (Kieran; Regis):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're not the spirit in the network, and the others want to eat you. Or something. Whatever it is, seems bad.
conversations.prefix: Ghosts in the Machine (Lea):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You engineered this whole operation, yes, but it's *vital* that it look convincing. Better throw your team a surprise or two to deal with.
conversations.prefix: Sell It (Kumiko):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Some kind of specialized soldier encased in sleek power armor with reactive defenses, bristling with elemental and anti-super weapons beneath the surface.
conversations.prefix: Nemesis Armor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's big, it's thick, and it's very, very secure. Good thing Kumiko gave you just the thing to get inside--with a bit of time and effort, of course. 
conversations.prefix: Vault Door:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're in, you've got the piece of the Cube--now to blow this place sky high and get out unscathed. 
  
  Mostly unscathed. 
  
  A bit scathed.
  
  Look, at least you're making it out in one piece.
conversations.prefix: Set the Bomb and GTFO (Kieran, Lea):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It looks like some poor, loyal, misguided employee has decided to work late for the good of the company... on exactly the wrong night. Do you save them and risk the timetable, or leave them to incinerate with the rest of your headquarters?
conversations.prefix: Working Overtime (Kumiko):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A superpowered do-gooder with a reputable name and a nasty habit of not going away. The usual array of toughness, super strength, and nebulous cosmic energy blasts. 
conversations.prefix: Sentinel:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Just because you're doing the job doesn't mean you shouldn't claim something extra. Haven't you earned it?
conversations.prefix: A Little Something Extra (Kieran):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There are two pieces left to grab, but which one to get next? Detail your plan now.
conversations.prefix: Plan Your Next Move:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: See a gratuitous trope? *Using* one? Call it out.
  
  Read More:
  
  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
conversations.prefix: Lampshade a Trope:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
  — Anton Chekhov (From S. Shchukin, Memoirs. 1911.)
  
  Make one.
  
  Read more: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun#ixzz3cL9xqD69
conversations.prefix: Chekhov's Gun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This story started with the action already underway. How did you get to be part of this mess?
conversations.prefix: Backstory-Laden Flashback:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Help me build the world and the enrich the setting with details because hey, this is collaborative! And I'm lazy.
conversations.prefix: Add Some Details:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nestled in a collection of islands off the coast of Central America, this is where the alleged 'supervillains' of the world plot their global machinations, and conspire to protect themselves from the repressive thumb of the world's 'superheroes.'
conversations.prefix: The Unseen Hegemony:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kumiko’s called for some time on the floor to frame the destruction of her tower as the start of a major move by the heroes against them--all of them. That, or accuse one or more of the Hegemony of targeting *her.* 
  
  Get the world’s supervillains worried enough to start a heated debate.
  
conversations.prefix: Get Them Talking (Kumiko & Regis):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Start a chaotic henchmen brawl. Keep anyone from alerting the head honchos about it. Don’t let them know you did it. Easy, right?
conversations.prefix: Panic in the Waiting Room (Lea & Kieran):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Not *all* that much stronger than Kumiko’s, actually. Still, it’s the first security measure guarding the Hegemony’s special stash of superpowered artifacts, and it’s appropriately dangerous. Constructed with a ton of nasty surprises for would-be hackers and electrical manipulators, and without the niceties of the civilized world that might necessitate words like ‘non-lethal’ and ‘paralyzing’ to describe it.
conversations.prefix: Another Day, Another Vault (Lea):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Humor aside, it looks like you’ve got a couple tails from the antechamber. Are they the competent kind or the comical kind? Always hard to tell until you engage…
conversations.prefix: Dropping a Deuce (Kieran):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Hegemony is riled up. Probably *too* riled up. Before they charge off to war and find nothing there except a couple of insurgents and a crumbling heist plan, you need to get them focused and under control.
conversations.prefix: Order! Order! (Kumiko & Regis):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve gotten past the door, now you need to get through the cavern and its mind-bogglingly complex array of traps safeguarding the Hegemony’s *inner* vault. Because why only have the one vault?
conversations.prefix: That’s What I Said, Setting Booty Traps (Kieran and Lea):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cue flashback! While keeping the Hegemony organized and calm, you think about how you’d precisely arranged this moment, and the foe Kieran and Lea would face. What is it?
conversations.prefix: Choose the Form of the Destructor (Kumiko):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You left before the planned time, but now you can initiate the next phase even faster. The Hegemony is expecting an all-out attack from the Paragons. And they’ll be here...eventually. But there needs to be trouble even faster.
conversations.prefix: Start a War (Regis):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It seems Avalanche is onto Kumiko’s plan--or at least part of it. It’ll be vital to ascertain how much, and what he might do next. This will be a battle of wits and discourse. Has Kumiko met her match? 
conversations.prefix: Mastermind Showdown (Kumiko):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A powerful semi-corporeal spirit wrought of winter and rage. No, no, it’ll be totally fine. It’s not like the monster is practically hand-picked to destroy Kieran and Lea or anything.
conversations.prefix: Winter Wolf (Kieran and Lea):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Oh, yeah, the thing about the Hegemony’s Vault is that there are a *lot* of interesting things lying around. Doomsday devices, genius inventions, precious metals, cosmic rings, that sort of thing. Totally not gonna be a distraction, nope.
conversations.prefix: Ooh, Shiny! (Lea):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Kumiko’s skyship is under attack! It looks like the Suyaki Clan weren’t the only ones eager for some payback. Help Kumiko’s defenses deal with the problem and stay alive!
conversations.prefix: Winds of Winter (Regis):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ooh, seems the fire isn’t coming out to play right now. The Winter Wolf’s last breath has you tangled up with winter’s revenge, and it's snuffing out your flame before it can take form. At least the regeneration works! 
  
  Play this card to indicate problems due to not having access to your power (not a weak, but it will exacerbate any weak results).
  
conversations.prefix: Faulty Ignition:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something of the Winter Wolf’s power has clung to you, attaching you to the physical world. Not completely, but enough that you can’t fully immaterialize. Not such a ghost anymore! 
  
  Play this card in coming to terms with this new state of being (for good or ill).
conversations.prefix: Not Just a Pretty Phantasm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This time it’s personal. That motherfucker has the cube, the thing you came all this way for! Guess you’ll just have to beat the hell out of him to take it.
  
conversations.prefix: Mastermind Showdown Redux (Kumiko):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This whole op has been one problem after another, and now you’re *both* kinda screwed. And for nothing! Run to the extraction point, bypassing all those traps and that vault door, and any goons lingering in the halls, and…
conversations.prefix: Get out! (Kieran and Lea):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: How do a bunch of magical winter creatures set everything on fire? No idea, but you need to get the piece of the cube and get the hell out! Only… how? Parachute? Escape vessel? Pod? Throw it really hard at someone and jump into their body?
conversations.prefix: Also Get Out! (Regis):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A reformed hero-turned-villain-turned-hero, and one-time partner of Regis Sovran. 
  
  The only woman who can resist him - and, sometimes, control him.
conversations.prefix: Madame Ex:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re a supergenius in a compound where villains from across the world meet and scheme, with a source of unimaginable power and miraculous potential in your hand. Surely you can think of *something.*
conversations.prefix: Jury Rig (Kumiko):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The vault door’s caved in, and there’s no other way out--well, except down one of those bottomless-looking crevices. Better get to work.
conversations.prefix: No Fire Escape (Lea & Kieran):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Yeah, it’s way cool, definitely. Potentially has anything in it. Anything! Just remember that *the Cube* is the MacGuffin, not the satchel, mmkay? 
  
  When this stack runs out, you lose the satchel.
conversations.prefix: Quantum Satchel:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re smart. You’re resourceful. Figure out how to get out of here--and how to continue with The Plan.
conversations.prefix: Let’s Not Spend 6 Seasons on an Island:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lea has a choice to make. Here. Now.
conversations.prefix: Walking in a Winter Wonderland (Lea):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Repairs and retrofits are easy. Meditative, even. It gives you a lot of time to think and reflect on how you got here, and on why it’s so important. Give us a flashback.
conversations.prefix: Flashback (Kumiko):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You were just a ghost in the machine; now you’re something more, able to phase willingly between corporeal and incorporeal through the power of Winter. This changes everything. Doesn’t it?
conversations.prefix: Raison d’être (Lea):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve been going constantly since your arrival at the Unseen Hegemony, with scarcely a pause to think, let alone catch your breath. Take a moment to get your head on straight.
conversations.prefix: A Chance to Breathe (Kieran):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: “*Just think about it. You know how to reach me.*” Selena said there might be another way, that she’d help cure *just him* with the Cube. It sounded risky, but then, what Kumiko was proposing was a path of no return. If it went wrong, there’d be no fixing it. Ever.
  
  Just think about it.
conversations.prefix: Another Way? (Regis):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Loss of his fire is a Big Problem. Maybe that’s something that can be addressed while the two of you wait around for Kumiko to do her thing and Regis to twirl his pen and brood.
conversations.prefix: Light his Fire (Lea and Kieran):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: So you scored some transportation, ‘adjusting’ one of Casanova’s vehicles to fit your needs. What exactly did you modify, and how?
conversations.prefix: Pimp His Ride (Kumiko):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: That’s right. The head of the Paragons. The mightiest of Earth’s superheroes. The symbol of justice and goodness worldwide. But… who *is* this person? What kind of hero? What powers? What do they even look like? Describe them.
conversations.prefix: Best of the Best (Anyone):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kumiko's tertiary headquarters--after the loss of Kurosawa Tower and the Skyship, the nexus of her operations.
conversations.prefix: Super Secret Cliffside Mastermind Lair:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This was the whole plan: remove superpowers from the universe. For everyone. Forever. 
conversations.prefix: Null Field (Support Kumiko):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There is another way to achieve equanimity for all. Not Kumiko’s way of removing all power, but Knight Witch’s way: give everyone superpowers.
conversations.prefix: If Everyone's Super... (Support Knight Witch):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Playing around with the fundamental forces of the universe was a mistake to begin with. The pieces of the Cube should remain apart, and secure from being used for anything like this. 
conversations.prefix: War. War Never Changes (Support Avalanche):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kieran Faisal, the Muscle, regenerator and master of fire. Once willing to sacrifice everything, for every super, to be just a man. Where is he now?
conversations.prefix: The Phoenix:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lea Signe, the Specialist, free of Regis at last, and gifted with the power of winter. Corporeal--and not, as it suits her. Where is she now?
conversations.prefix: The Frozen Spectre:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Regis Sovran, the Face, veteran of countless battles and campaigns, victim of his own great power, his mind fractured with old scars, old faces, old voices. His cure forever lost. Where is he now?
conversations.prefix: The Shattered Man:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Kumiko Kurosawa, the Brains; she who strove to change an unfair world, to kill magic itself, and end the superpowered elite. She sacrificed almost everything to achieve her ends, and fell just short of success.
  
  *Almost* everything.
conversations.prefix: The Unbroken Engineer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have the curiosity and innocence of a child, and like one, you often get your way by being willful and manipulative. In a very sweet way, of course.
conversations.prefix: Persuasive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have to concentrate hard just to be visible, much less keep your wits together.
conversations.prefix: Not All There:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know what? You like being dead. You're good at it. Now that you've transcended the usual limitations, you're about to have a whole lot more fun. 
  
  *Forever.*
conversations.prefix: Beyond the Barriers:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've fought all the heroes. You've teamed up with all the villains. Sometimes, you've teamed up with the heroes and fought the villains. You know them all.
conversations.prefix: History:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your mind is no longer your own. Not entirely. Every will you have taken has returned a portion of that person back into your own mind. It's getting very crowded.
conversations.prefix: Fractions:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your powers were fun, they have given you a great deal, but you would get rid of them in a second if your mind could once again be your own.
conversations.prefix: Purge the Others:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It takes a lot to put you off once you've decided on a course of action.
conversations.prefix: Determined:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes you're just too ready to use your fists when a more measured response could be more appropriate.
conversations.prefix: Pugnacious:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When you grew up you didn't fulfill your promise,  but you'll show them you're not washed up. You'll have the last laugh when the other supers are just the same as you.
conversations.prefix: Grown-up Boy Wonder:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. 
  --Theodore Roosevelt
conversations.prefix: Resourceful:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. 
  -- Dante Alighieri
  
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, patience. How long will that take? 
  -- Ed Gruberman
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It may have been mildly interesting for the first ten minutes, but the mis-healed fractures, the frequent challenges from villains (and 'heroes'), setting the laundry on fire... the sooner you can get back to the way things were, the better.
conversations.prefix: GET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your mind has been called a work of art by people who don't understand half of the words you've published over time. While others are more... Modest, they're just jealous. 
conversations.prefix: Brilliant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're not particularly keen on getting your hands dirty in the outside world. It's a good thing you have your bots and your "fortress", but that makes things inconvenient rather often. 
conversations.prefix: Reclusive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's time to take down the oligarchy. Too long have those with powers kept down those without. Of course, it doesn't hurt that you would end up more powerful than any of them. 
conversations.prefix: End the 1%:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This is all a game. If you play harder enough, you won't have to find out if it's not.
conversations.prefix: Playful:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can do several things at once, and moderately well.
conversations.prefix: Multitasker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Semi-phenomenal nearly-cosmic power didn't come with a way to stave off little things like pain.
conversations.prefix: Only Human:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have spent a great deal of time perfecting the art of lying.
conversations.prefix: Deceptive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If you're not convinced, you can bet nobody else is.
conversations.prefix: Bad Acting:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's a time and a place for badinage. This ain't it.
conversations.prefix: Mistimed Banter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have spent enough time in the bodies of others. The necessity to learn their mannerisms and speech patterns seems obvious.
conversations.prefix: Acting!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're fast on your feet. You can come up with a good plan at a moment's notice. 
conversations.prefix: Quick Thinking:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You never did like locked doors.
conversations.prefix: Evasive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Quick witted and thanks to your augmented body, quick footed. Either can always come in handy. 
conversations.prefix: Quick:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You exert your will forward, but the minds you suppress still have some amount of influence, as small as it may be.
conversations.prefix: It goes both ways:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It isn't just for toasting marshmallows! You can do a lot of creative things with it... as long as whatever you're doing them to either doesn't mind heat, or susceptibility to heat is the point.
conversations.prefix: Swiss Army Fire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Not that you're a very attentive one, but your immaterial qualities do make it a little easier for you to notice physical dangers. Especially since they pose no threat to *you.*
conversations.prefix: Spirit Guide:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Yep. This is gonna hurt. Yep. You're gonna do it anyway. 
conversations.prefix: Determined:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Getting his hands dirty is not Regis' bailiwick.
conversations.prefix: Clean Hands:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes you get a little ahead of yourself. Sure you're brilliant, but that doesn't mean everyone else is an idiot.
conversations.prefix: Overconfident:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: And no brawn. If only you were a little tougher, you might be able to stand up better in some of the more physical situations. 
conversations.prefix: All Brain...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Many times, the easiest way to manipulate someone is kindness. Whether they want it or not.
conversations.prefix: Friendly Enemy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your sense of well-being balances on a razor's edge. You are particularly ill-equipped to handle this kind of stress.
conversations.prefix: Fragile:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's hard to keep on task when something else is causing distress.
conversations.prefix: Worry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You scraped together your very first robot out of spare parts. Your ability to do so has only gotten more refined since then. 
conversations.prefix: Ingenious:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild: