conversations.from: system
conversations.value: **TL;DR**
  An isolated fantasy city in a renaissance setting.  A lot of leeway in creating characters.  Potentially some dark/adult themes.  Think masquerades, intrigue, social an political maneuvering.  All in an environment where some shape reality with their conscious or subconcious mind.
  
  **The Longer Version**
  The City is a small-ish city in the style of renaissance Venice (with a bit of Vienna mixed in). It is, though, not part of world as such but rather is constantly surrounded by mists. Few who enter the mists ever return and those that do never seem to remember what occurred and are often rather unhinged.
  
  New arrivals to the city step out of the mists, often somewhat confused as to how they might have got there and only having dim memories of thick fog descending upon them during their travels.
  
  The residents of the city fall into one of three categories:
  
  **Latents:**
  Of those who transition to The City from outside, these are by far the most common. Creatures (mostly human) who find that their subconscious warps the environment around them. The effect varies greatly from one individual to another. A relatively weak Latent might find that colours brighten a little around them if they remain in one location for long enough. A very strong Latent might find servants and lackeys approaching them to help where none had previously existed.
  
  Of course - not everyone’s subconscious is kind to them.
  
  **Sorcerers:**
  Unlike Latents, sorcerers are consciously aware and in control of their abilities - able to shape reality around them. For many both their power and the extent of their control is limited. One sorcerer might find that they can form living autometa from clockwork and imbue them with personality to their taste but be entirely unable to shape reality other than that (at least consciously) whilst another might be able to transform one living creature into another. There is a wide range of talent and power at play.
  
  **Chimera:**
  These are the creatures that are created by the Sorcerers and Latents. It is arguable as to how ‘real’ they are. They act as if they are real, though, and usually have personality and will. To all intents and purposes they are as real as anyone else here and many have no idea that they were created by some other being.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Latents shape reality around them subconciosly but have no conscious control of their magical power.
  
  Some are weakly talented enough that noone will ever notice.  Others can have profound effects on their environment.
conversations.prefix: Latent:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sorcerers have some concious control over their magic.  
  
  Each has their own paradigm of magic and their powers are usually themeatically limited.
conversations.prefix: Sorcerer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a created being.  The result of a Latent or Sorcerer forming you with their conscious or subconcious will.
  
  Whether you know that or not is another matter.
conversations.prefix: Chimera:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: My advice - try and keep it general and widely applicable to different scenarios.
conversations.prefix: Make your own...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: My advice - try and keep it general and widely applicable to different scenarios.
conversations.prefix: Make your own...:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: My advice here is to target some goal personal to your character that is focused on the mid-term.
  
  Not something that will be resolved quickly but not something that will take the whole story.
conversations.prefix: Make your own...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not surprisingly, where The Widow resides.  It is an opulent townhouse that befits one of the wealthiest residents of The City. 
  
  It is completely dominated by the grand hall.
conversations.prefix: The Widow's Hall:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: She has a wicked tongue at times but is willing to compliment as well, under the right circumstances.
  
  
conversations.prefix: The Herald:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the trickier social contracts in which to find the right balance of avarice, desire and prudence.
  
  If you don't want to appear naive - make sure to fill it just enough...
conversations.prefix: The Dance Card:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Antonio can definitely be a very dangerous man for chimera.  However, he is known to be obsessed and in that obsession to make the sort of mistakes that can be profitable if turned in the right direction.
conversations.prefix: The Gaze of Antonio:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mask and gown of midnight blue, make-up chosen to match.  All over impossibly alabaster-white skin.
  
  There's something strange about this woman but noone seems to be able to put their finger on it.
conversations.prefix: Carlotta:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something of a choice.  Accept and you could be putting yourself in to a complicated and dangerous situation.  Refuse and you might miss a very profitable opportunity.
conversations.prefix: A Propostion:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: These sorts of events are often the best places to find something new, exotic, entertaining.
  
  Maybe...
conversations.prefix: Something New:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There's definitely something unusual about this event.  The statue indicates that quiet clearly.
  
  However - are there other off-key elements?  More subtle ones?
conversations.prefix: Something Amiss?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: That damnable servant is still circulating with the tray of dark dew cherries but never seems to come close enough to you for you to take any.  Is he avoiding you?
conversations.prefix: Dark Dew Cherries:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There is something seriously ephemeral about the statue and it's hard to discern quite what that might be.  Maybe it would be possible to capture it on canvas?
conversations.prefix: The Statue (for Lily):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This man seems awfully concerned about the presence of the von List brother.  
  
  Maybe his interest could be teased out?  Information on the von Lists was definitely a spare commodity.
conversations.prefix: The Fox (for Mademoiselle de Etape):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A mysterious figure that has appeared at The Widow's ball.  
  
  Tall, elegant and swathed in shadows.  She speaks with a clear, crisp voice and moves with an unnerving grace.
conversations.prefix: Queen of Shadows:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Noone is quite sure what the limites of The Widow's powers are but they are pretty sure that she uses them to bring in the Teas and Spices that are her trademark.
conversations.prefix: Sorcerer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Widow is the epitomy of the social butterfly.
  
  Her salons and Masques are **the** events to be seen at if you want to have any hope of climbing the social ladder.
conversations.prefix: Polite Society:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Widow is **never** seen without her masque and never outside of her townhouse.
  
  Everything she knows of the wider city is what is reported by her red-and-gold liveried servants.
conversations.prefix: Recluse:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Widow seems to want nothing but to migle with the social elites.
  
  Is her trade in Tea and Spices merely to support this or do her agents have other tasks?
conversations.prefix: Trade in Tea and Spices:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
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conversations.prefix: Dragon:
conversations.from: gpt
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conversations.prefix: xx:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: xx
conversations.prefix: xx:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: xx
conversations.prefix: xx:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Years of watching for threats and fighting off attempts on your life have left both your body and your skill with a blade to absolute perfection.
conversations.prefix: Combat Master:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You see threats in every shadow, lies in every word, poison in every cup. To trust, to not doubt, is to die.
conversations.prefix: Paranoia:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A feint, a veiled threat, a back alley ambush, these are the tools you use to get what you desire.
conversations.prefix: Subtle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not quite envy, not quite desire, but a little of both with a touch of kleptomania. 
  
  You're strongly drawn to the possessions (be they material, emotional or chimerical) of others and you'll do almost anything to obtain what you covet.
conversations.prefix: Covetous:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Happiness bought by wine, lovers and trinkets, always seems to fade. 
  
  There's a thrill in the acquisition but it never outlasts the hint of a new conquest. 
  
  You need to find a reason to be, allies to watch your back, friends to fight for.
  
  Maybe then you can find peace.   
conversations.prefix: A reason to be:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You desire power, connections, anything you can use as a wall between yourself and your malefactors.
conversations.prefix: Amass Power:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Green Girl can always be relied on to brighten a location.
conversations.prefix: Walk in Beauty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nature can be as cruel as it can loving.
conversations.prefix: The Dark Side of Life:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If you found a way to return to the mundane world- would you take it?
conversations.prefix: Choose your Path:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Smiling Man is many things. Intriguing. Captivating. Mesmerizing. Beyond all, he is charming.
conversations.prefix: Endless Charm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Smiling Man relies on the force of his personality to solve his problems. When that fails, he has few other solutions.
conversations.prefix: Man of Words:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What's the point in living if one doesn't enjoy oneself?
conversations.prefix: The Joy of Life:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ability to become shadow.  In places with low light you are able to disappear into shadows and move around as if one of them.  A strong light source will make you whole again, and you can only transform your physical body.
conversations.prefix: Sorcerer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some would compare you to a spider: you excel at catching things in your web of machinations and shady activities. People, things, ideas, the list goes on.
conversations.prefix: Webwork:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Since leaving the orphanage you've found out that you're quite skilled at getting your way.  It doesn't work with everyone, or all the time, but certainly often enough.
conversations.prefix: Temptress:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You two finally found each other, knowing all along that you had been missing something.  Now you wish for a big score, a client with deep pockets, something that can set the two of you for at least a while.
conversations.prefix: Sister's Keeper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your keen senses allow you to make note of little details that most eyes simply gloss over without a thought.
conversations.prefix: Perceptive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A pillar of the community, perhaps, but who will call you a hero? And yet, is it sometimes that your shadow forks and twists? A trick of the light? Yes. It must be.
conversations.prefix: Black & White:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been marked by events in your past and remain haunted by them. You can't forget what has happened to you. Until you make peace with that, happiness is an illusion.
conversations.prefix: Prisoner of the Past:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You wish you could be more like your sister, but life has made you bitter, now you have a difficult time seeing others--who aren't your sister--as something more than a means to an end.
conversations.prefix: Black Widow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You follow without hesitation. Even when they are gone, their wishes linger, commanding and pulling at your strings like a puppeteer.
conversations.prefix: Blind Devotion:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have been separated from someone you care about for some time, but that will not deter you from finding them.
conversations.prefix: Reunion:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Too smart to be any good. Though it doesn't matter, you can be as intelligent as a scholar, but it's all hinged on what you choose to do with it.
conversations.prefix: Cunning:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You lie, you scheme, you manipulate, and you don't care who gets hurt. And because of your status, no one suspects a thing.
conversations.prefix: Tricky:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don't remember who created you, but that doesn't matter since they're probably dead now. Either way, you're going to be your own master now, and people will respect that whether they want too or not.
conversations.prefix: Achieve Control:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Be it the training grounds of guardsmen, grand estates, beer halls or the stage, you move from one to the other as if you were born there.  It is as if you wear a thousand masks.  
conversations.prefix: A Thousand Masks:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes it is as if you are one of your characters, stepped off the Stage instead of a person.  You're emotions and reactions can reach operatic proportions.
conversations.prefix: Life imitating Art:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The audience loves you now, but only now.  You must find or create a new show for them or becomes yesterday's billing.
conversations.prefix: The Next Show!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a deep, burning rage inside, a rage against your captivity and the people who have done this to you. It fuels your determination and will, and allows you to push yourself to ever greater heights...
conversations.prefix: Rage:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You often act or speak without fully thinking things through, letting your emotions and goals guide you rather than the situation at hand.
conversations.prefix: It's Leap Before You Look, Right?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are captive, a beast to put on display, to be shown off to gain praise for your "master." You will not allow this to stand.
conversations.prefix: Gain Your Freedom:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sorcerers have some concious control over their magic.
  
  Each has their own paradigm of magic and their powers are usually themeatically limited
conversations.prefix: Sorcerer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Socially, physically, emotionally and magically, you have the ability to blend in during any situation or stand out as well.  You move gracefully in social circles or battle, picking your spots and not being around for the fallout.
conversations.prefix: Chameleon:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You distract easily and move from one fancy to the other as a butterfly moves among the many beautiful flowers in a garden, never stopping overlong on any one of them.
conversations.prefix: Butterfly:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If my sister and I could just land that one big performance, that one big con, we could have enough that we could have our own place and actually have a home that didn’t travel on wheels!  Oh how grand it would be.
conversations.prefix: The Big Score:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can play troubles and cares away, or you can incite riots.  When you play, people are drawn to you and you can influence their thoughts and actions.
conversations.prefix: Mesmerizing:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have power over people through your music and, though you know it's not right, you enjoy exercising that power.
conversations.prefix: Controlling:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
  --Thomas Carlyle
  
  Every time you play, you hope to understand your gift and leave a legacy of beauty.
  
conversations.prefix: Create Beauty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The world is a fascinating place, and you want to see, experience and understand everything it has to offer.
conversations.prefix: Curiosity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've not known enough of people to be wise to the ways of the world. Plenty of people are willing to exploit wide eyed innocence of someone new to society.
conversations.prefix: Isolated:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some would see being alone in the world as a disadvantage, but it means you are the absolute master of your fate. Take the reins and make yourself.
conversations.prefix: Make yourself:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Having been created to be the ideal paramour of a sorceress, Claudio can be quite engaging in social situations-- especially those involving the opposite sex.
conversations.prefix: Prince Charming:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Claudio has unrealistically high expectations for the respect that should be paid to his (generally female) companions.  Sometimes this leads him to imagine slights and insults where none were intended-- and to react accordingly.
conversations.prefix: For Love and Honor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Claudio was created to serve an amorous purpose that no longer exists.  He must find a genuine life-goal of his own or risk fading away from the world.
conversations.prefix: A Real Boy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a created being. You are reminded of that fact every time you must open yourself to wind your own clockwork heart.
conversations.prefix: Chimera:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your body is a precision instrument, and your constant and conscious awareness of every part of it makes you a virtuoso.
conversations.prefix: Deft:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You started life as a toy, and sometimes it shows: You're not without your own will, but it's just so much *easier* to go along with what's expected of you.
conversations.prefix: Compliant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have never before been unhappy in your nest, but how can it be enough now that you've seen the sky? Maybe it's time to become your own person.
conversations.prefix: Spread Your Wings:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ability to become shadow. In places with low light you are able to disappear into shadows and move around as if one of them. A strong light source will make you whole again, and you can only transform your physical body.
conversations.prefix: Sorcerer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Since leaving the orphanage you’ve found out that you’re quite skilled at getting your way. It doesn’t work with everyone, or all the time, but certainly often enough.
conversations.prefix: Temptress:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You wish you could be more like your sister, but life has made you bitter, now you have a difficult time seeing others—who aren’t your sister—as something more than a means to an end.
conversations.prefix: Black Widow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You two finally found each other, knowing all along that you had been missing something. Now you wish for a big score, a client with deep pockets, something that can set the two of you for at least a while.
conversations.prefix: Sister's Keeper:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sure, you are well known in high society, that doesn't mean that your *profession* doesn't still carry a certain stigma.
conversations.prefix: Ill Repute:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You make a living by your accomplishments, be glad they are something to be marvelled at.
conversations.prefix: Talented:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's true- you really don't quite fit in.
  
  On the upside, you know it, so you're not usually surprised when people give you those funny glances...
conversations.prefix: Square peg, round hole:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: For those who don't understand what you do and why, you resemble a bug or a bottom feeder.
conversations.prefix: No Better Than a Bug:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ... or you might as well have been, for all you know about the ways of the world--and for all the world knows of you.
conversations.prefix: Born Yesterday:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Antonio collects rare and exotic chimera.  His collection is renown throughout The City and he has all manner of 'exhibits' that he can call upon to display at social occasions or for other purposes.
  
  Of course - not everyone approves of his collection
conversations.prefix: Collector:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Antonio is obsessive about his collection.  It seems to be the purpose of his life and his only true joy.  He loves collecting and displaying his collection more than anything else.
conversations.prefix: Obsessive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Some adore Antonio's collection and the fact that he seems to be able to tame the wildest of chimera.
  
  Others believe that collecting what may well be sentient beings is... distasteful to say the least.
conversations.prefix: Society's View:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You like to think you are above it, the call of shiny rocks, soft fabrics, hard coin.  The things you won't do.
conversations.prefix: Greed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Had you been raised in society you might have a little more tact in delicate situations.
conversations.prefix: Honest to a fault :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't like to let it show, but you want to be swept off your feet in a whirlwind romance.  You thought you had buried this notion, but clearly it is not something you have locked away yet.
conversations.prefix: Romantic at Heart:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Power attracts many sorts of attention- not all of it friendly.
conversations.prefix: Haunted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not merely sought after for her looks, people gravitate to her, wanting to be seen by her and seen with her.   After all, if they are on your arm, they step through the opened doors as well.   
conversations.prefix: Desired:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have many, but have learned to use them, and that of others, to your advantage.
conversations.prefix: Vices: