conversations.from: system
conversations.value: in the city of Beskyttelse bio-engineering is nearing a singularity. not only have scientists learned how to stop ageing, regrow limbs, and drastically modify human beings with little to no ill effects. but they are on the verge of designing wholly new creatures from scratch. no blueprints from other creatures or limits on what they can achieve other than those of the natural world. this advancement started 900 years ago when a genius named Arich Durren, finding himself in the midst of apocalyptic circumstances, engineered a genetically mutable organism that saved the civilization in which he lived. taking the form of a fleshy dome, the organism (later known as Arich's cradle) spread and encased the continent. since then there has been general prosperity and beauty created under the peach colored sky inside the cradle. our story begins before a festival centered around one of the cradle's last influences on the population of the sprawl city Beskyttelse. massive high frequency vibrations that run through it's entirety, the denizens of the cradle are no longer disturbed by this as it has been a regular occurrence for centuries. every 2 years since the death of Arich Durren the exact date of which is still up for debate. 
  
  the shift to reliance on the cradle resulted in a period of several years in which all of humanity, aside from a small group dedicated to the cradle project, was thrown into a new dark age. when civilization returned it came quickly, due to Arich's forethought. but it was only fully established after he was no longer available to help guide humanity. he is now heralded as humanity's savior. patron saint of life in the new catholic church and similar things in most other religions. the festival we open on is a 7 day affair. a slow build of good will, sharing of  life, and profit (for those less savory types still among humanity) all ending on the seventh day at noon. the event known as the quiver by most, the tremor Durren by the more traditionally minded, heaven shock, the purr of paradise, and so many other things through the years will once again occur.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: in the city of Beskyttelse bio-engineering is nearing a singularity. not only have scientists learned how to stop ageing, regrow limbs, and drastically modify human beings with little to no ill effects. but they are on the verge of designing wholly new creatures from scratch. no blueprints from other creatures or limits on what they can achieve other than those of the natural world. this advancement started 300 years ago when a genius named Arich Durren, finding himself in the midst of apocalyptic circumstances, engineered a genetically mutable organism that saved the civilization in which he lived. taking the form of a fleshy dome, the organism (later known as Arich's cradle) spread and encased the continent. since then there has been general prosperity and beauty created under the peach colored sky inside the cradle. our story begins before a festival centered around one of the cradle's last influences on the population of the sprawl city Beskyttelse. massive high frequency vibrations that run through it's entirety, the denizens of the cradle are no longer disturbed by this as it has been a regular occurrence for centuries. every 2 years since the death of Arich Durren the exact date of which is still up for debate. the shift to reliance on the cradle resulted a period of several years in which all of humanity, aside from a small group dedicated to the cradle project, was thrown into a new dark age. when civilization returned it came quickly. due to Arich's forethought. but it was only fully established after he was no longer available to help guide humanity. he is now heralded as humanity's savior. patron saint of life in the new catholic church and similar things in most other religions. the festival we open on is a 7 day affair. a slow build of good will, sharing of  life, and profit (for those less savory types still among humanity) all ending on the seventh day at noon. the event known as the quiver by most, the tremor Durren by the more traditionally minded, heaven shock, the purr of paradise, and so many other things through the years will once again occur. but lets not get ahead of ourselves. the festival's just begun.
conversations.prefix: history lesson:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Caenis is tired of running.
conversations.prefix: THEY are the prey:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: sally isn't going to save herself
conversations.prefix: playing god:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: it hasn't happened. the quiver is missing. 
conversations.prefix: it doesn't:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: locally dubbed "square mile" this is a large center of commerce where the majority of the official festivities take place
conversations.prefix: city square:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: a product of the bio-tech singularity, you're an unknown.
conversations.prefix: New Thing:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: you've been hurt enough. you're predisposed to avoid letting that happen again.
conversations.prefix: untrusting:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: what's this black stuff? it's in your clothes. in your hair. and. what's that?? it's not moving! please say it isn't moving!
conversations.prefix: black stuff:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: excitable, Peppy, and ever so slightly annoying to the less socially inclined. he's been a staple on square mile for years, advertising the latest in human modification from Jotun Cell. though you question whether the label human really applies to him anymore.
conversations.prefix: Dirk Tel:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you work on the cutting edge of the least appreciated sector of modern science. everyone else can do what you can do, but with twice the effectiveness and 10 times the flair. it doesn't make much money, but if you're really learning things about the world then it's a truer science. right?
conversations.prefix: Cyberware Engineer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a professional guinea pig. you were bred into this life. and it has a few perks. you can change genes like a pair of jeans. a pair of jeans you have to fill out several sheets of paperwork just to put on. but also a pair of genes that lets you alternatively lift 400 pounds with one arm or attract nearly any mate you could like. it's an easy life. but somebody's got to live it.
conversations.prefix: Model:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you have a way with most things living. you can't exactly get people to do what you want. but you find it unnervingly easy to get them to let you do whatever you want.
conversations.prefix: suave:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: one of a small number of cyber tech labs. these are generally underfunded and scoffed at for outputting unmarketable and less effective products than it's bio-tech counterparts.
conversations.prefix: Arkus lab:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: your body has adopted genes, possibly recessive, that seem to keep you astoundingly well put together (physically speaking) you've never broken a bone or strained a muscle/tendon. you're nearly convinced that your internal foundation might fair better than it's volume in coiled steal wire under most conditions.
conversations.prefix: physical continuity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: you've had a lot done to you. maybe it doesn't show as much as other people, or maybe you're an egg bearing lizard man. but whatever you look like, it's taken it's tole. you get sick easily. your life expectancy without genetic maintenance is a few years too short for your liking. and if you ever use a regen syrum (like those used to speed up limb replacement or just whenever some gene therapy is taking too long) there are invariably unexpected results.
conversations.prefix: genetically unstable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you were born with money. it's always been a comfort to you and you've never been in want of it. but you still want a lot of it. the power it gives you over people means you don't have to worry about people leaving or hurting you. they all depend on you. and you can destroy them if they don't treat you well. in the future this may translate into something other than money.
conversations.prefix: money-rich:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ok so it's not actually big. but it sure can carry its weight. and then some. you have inherited a small talent with telekinesis. there are many people more skilled and with more mental muscle. but you're one of the few who even has the gift whose life isn't dominated by the entertainment company Hind Mind
conversations.prefix: big brain:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you've only recently arrived in the city and don't know the customs. you've spent most of your life in the feudal wastelands on the outskirts of the city. 25 years ago it's borders were opened and it's draconian system of government was abolished. but news takes a while to travel in the outworld.
conversations.prefix: Outworlder:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: assistant technician at Arkus labs. she's exactly as malleable as any great ego would want their assistant to be. not too great in an emergency though.
conversations.prefix: Erris Filipi:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you live in a small hidden anarchist village. you steal for a living and avoid integrating into the system as much as possible.
conversations.prefix: Modern Hoovervillian:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: your people have been living in relative darkness for hundreds of years. occasionally making war with each other, but typically keeping a feudal society relatively intact. you live in the largest center of civilization in the outworld, a castle village built in an enormous cave that was once a peninsula. you've been sent from your home to discover why the walls of the cradle have begun to move in on your home. darkening, showing veins, and scabbing over.
conversations.prefix: outworld  peninsula:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: traumatic events can set you off. whether it be putting you into a catatonic state or throwing you into a berserk rage.
conversations.prefix: Mentally Unstable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the rich are all corrupt bastards who deserve to be taken down a peg. and if you happen to join their ranks in your quest for justice, that just means you have more options for bringing them down.
conversations.prefix: money-poor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: something happened. and now you control a cloud of microscopic machines.
conversations.prefix: nanotech:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: something happened. and now you can change yourself. it takes time and you learn that there are rules. but this is signifficant
conversations.prefix: Mutability:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: this black stuff is confusing. and those monsters were pretty crazy. you should try and figure out what's going on.
conversations.prefix: learn about the black stuff:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: you have trouble caring about other people. when others notice, they tend to avoid or mistrust you.
conversations.prefix: cold hearted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you don't seem to work the same way other people do. few people make sense to you. and you feel like an outcast everywhere you go
conversations.prefix: alien nature:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: your chrysalis problem has gotten out of hand and you need to solve it somehow.
conversations.prefix: Chrysalis debockle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you're body is constantly changing. and not in the adolescent sense. you regularly undergo a process in which your body cocoons itself and you reconstitute as what looks like a younger version of yourself. this results in higher longevity and an almost eternal youth. but also significant mental instability
conversations.prefix: chrysalis syndrome:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: you've been around a while and seen a lot of shit. you have a gift for seeing trouble coming.
conversations.prefix: street smart:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you've done some horrible things in the past. those memories haunt you regularly
conversations.prefix: guilt:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: something's inside of you. it's been helping so far. but you don't get the impression it's just along for the ride.
conversations.prefix: spores:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you've been an engineer for  Fastgøre Cell most of your adult life. recently the point of some of your work has been questionable. and though you're a near prodigy in the field, more and more new projects have been classified above your pay grade. you question whether this relates to your status as a conscientious objector in the few corporate espionage stings the company has set up in the past.
conversations.prefix: bio-engineer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: this new body isn't yours. and it definitely has a mind of it's own. but it knows it benefits from your input. 
conversations.prefix: parasite:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: this creature that you've cared for, for so long. you can't let it die. and after the merging you know it feels the same. it will serve as a companion for as long as you can keep it around.
conversations.prefix: symbiosis:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: you understand what the black stuff's intentions are. you aren't afraid of it. and your acceptance has net you some interesting rewards.
conversations.prefix: one with the black:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: you're psychic. like full blown psychic. but not all the time. the rules of this gift are still unfolding.
conversations.prefix: psy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: once you've set your mind to something it's going to get done. you have enough control to purposefully set the dial for what you're willing to deal with in order to achieve your goal.
conversations.prefix: determination:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: a sprawling city. thousands of miles in diameter. teaming with prosperity and life. 
conversations.prefix: Beskyttelse:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the face man for fastgore cell, he's all about profit, teamwork, and manipulating the hell out of his staff.
conversations.prefix: Ardas Kin:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: the home of most of the city's artificial xenobiological projects.
conversations.prefix: Fastgore cell laboratory:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the disgusting (morally and physically) sphincters where the last centuries draconian punishments took place.
conversations.prefix: the tubes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: damnit Fastgore has a strong hold on it's employees
conversations.prefix: diligence!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: some aspect of you makes you hard to see on devices that look for neuro-electrical patterns at a distance.
conversations.prefix: Shielded Neuro:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Experienced looking leader of a mercenary troop, apparently hired for their natural skill in more traditional hunting methods. 
conversations.prefix: Merc Leader:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tark crew is a group of 6 illegal mercenaries, disconnected from the nexus. they're skilled in methods that don't require sanctioned bio-engineering. typically using simple tools, but occasionally opting for cyber-tech in spite of it's relative unreliability. 
  
  2 of the mercs stand out. one's head is encased in a multifaceted metal spheroid. with circular bits of glass inlaid across it's surface. another is unnaturally bulky underneath it's large overcoat. 
conversations.prefix: Tark Merc Crew:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: the average, well off, citizen of beskytelse. typically complacent and will try to avoid any conflict. 
conversations.prefix: average wealthy citizen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: your character is stuck. disabled until they get help or time moves forward a bit. 
conversations.prefix: captive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: your character is stuck. disabled until they get help or time moves forward a bit. however, they can think. or wax poetic or try to gain information. things like that
conversations.prefix: Captive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: a product of the bio-tech singularity, you're an unknown.
conversations.prefix: New Thing:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cats. Agile, stealthy, and deadly. I don't know where my abilities came from, but I can move just like them, even see in the dark. 
conversations.prefix: Catlike:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can't help it. Danger, competition, sex...what every gets the heart pumping. What ever makes you feel **alive**
conversations.prefix: Adrenaline Junkie:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: I don't know if I like playing with people because of my cat like nature or because it was already who I am, but sometimes those I toy with ask me why I do what I do..and I reply simply. "Because it amuses me"
conversations.prefix: Trickster:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The daughters of St Michael were formed after the New Holy See was beset by looters and ideological opposition militia during the second dark age. The order consisted entirely of women who were at the time barred from participating in the leadership of the church, but refused to confine themselves to the shelters. When peace settled on society they shifted from their traditional role of military to managing and protecting the ancient technological assets that survived in the archives recovered from the old Holy See.
conversations.prefix: Filiae Sancti Michaelis:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A lifetime of study in the history of and technology of the ancestors lost to the second dark age has left you with a significant wealth of knowledge of artifacts and powerful technologies which remain mere peculiarities to others.
conversations.prefix: Magister:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You were born (hand waving) different. Your social capabilities suffer significantly from your inability to properly handle the implied signals sent during interpersonal interactions. This can be very problematic.
conversations.prefix: Autistic Features:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Due to prolonged exposure to ancient memory storage technology you are tormented by the memories and at times uncomfortably foreboding knowledge of the long dead. This can be both disorienting and confusing to others.
conversations.prefix: Memories Of The Lost:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You were headed to the top of the New Catholic Church, approaching sainthood in some eyes... until they discovered your illicit activities. You weren't exactly excommunicated, no one could come against you through official channels, but suddenly ever door was closed to you, every window locked. You traveled to the outskirts on a "long-term mission", and after several decades, most have written you off as insignificant, or long dead.
conversations.prefix: Shunned Priest:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've sipped fine spirits with The Counsel and slammed greasy swill with shantytown mayors. You can get along with pretty much anyone, and seamlessly slip into the slang and dialects of any district.
conversations.prefix: Socially Adaptable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You grew up in the city, have had all of your injections and batteries of bio-modifications, but it's been a while. Your bicentennial just passed, and being away from treatment makes it show. Your reflexes are slower, your muscles thinner, and you fatigue more quickly than your genetically up-to-date peers. The only thing keeping you keeping up are ad-hoc surgeries and several new organs with mysterious origins.
conversations.prefix: Past your Prime:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You may have left those old circles behind decades ago, but with people living for centuries, it grants little solace. There are a number of ways you could be recognized, and you're looking to change that, by any means necessary.
conversations.prefix: Old Enemies:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your origins are not well documented, probably because the orphanage didn't keep good records. You lack a familial safety net but have some extra support from social services (paid education) and a few acquaintances in government.
conversations.prefix: Child of the System:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild: