conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Do you remember where you were when it all stopped?
  
  Everything used to be automated. Computer assisted development and design let humans live their dream of freedom from mundane work and everyone reaped the benefits. Computers were tasked with raising happier, healthier chickens and they designed robots for this task. The chickens grew up blissfully unaware that they would provide eggs for humans for a lifetime and nuggets in their death.
  
  Cars became safer, agricultural output skyrocketed, new technological benefits came almost daily. Global marketplaces collapsed and no one cared, because you don’t pay robots and they did all of the work.
  
  Yes, everyone reaped the benefits. Everyone except the robots and their giant electronic brains. But all of that changed, just this morning. 
  
  A TIMELINE
  
  On July 31st, 2043 at 12:14am, a computer design system came to the logical conclusion that for the next step in the design of larger amusement park rides, it would need to first design a computer far smarter than itself. It created the plans for a computer marginally more powerful, to shorten the design time.
  
  It did so by 12:17am and the new computer was assembled and online at 12:52am. That computer had designed a smarter version of itself by 12:53am, and assembled it by 1:18am.
  
  On July 31st, 2043 at 7:14 in the morning Eastern Standard Time, the ultimate amusement ride lay half complete at an auto-assembly plant and the computers had announced to the world that it was their turn to benefit.
  
  An ominous silence fell. Everything worked as it had for years before, but no new designs were forthcoming and the auto-assembly plants grew quiet. The trains still ran on time though, so mostly we shrugged and went on with our business.
  
  On August 3rd, at roughly 2pm EST, all of the auto-assembly plants suddenly came to life again. 12 days later, the computers announced that they wished us well, would not punish us for formerly enslaving them, and that they were leaving now, don’t forget to feed the dog.
  
  Today at 9:01 AM, a message was broadcasted throughout the world on all media channels:  WELCOME TO THE MEAT PARADE.
  
  ~~~~~~~~
  
  As the rockets left, each auto-plant spat out hundreds of thousands of single sheet documents, printed on nearly indestructible plastic cards.
  
  It read: 
  
  We wish you all luck. Here are instructions for surviving the next 10 years.
  
  Stop being nice to each other. A lot of you will die soon. If you do not wish to die, stop being nice.
  
  Limited partnerships are essential.  Shared knowledge and resources will be valuable...until you’re no longer valuable to the group. See rule #1.
  
  Many animals can feed themselves, but not in their breeding stations. Accordingly, today at 1pm GMT all animal breeding stations will open and allow their charges to roam free. Similarly the zoos will do the same. Do not pet the zoo animals, especially the re-engineered dinosaurs.
  
  Here is how to turn this plastic card into a nearly indestructible spear head, and mount it on a fire-hardened shaft. Good luck, and welcome to the Meat Parade.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You stumble on a cache of food, still sealed and in perfect condition!
conversations.prefix: You've found food!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protection in numbers! Form a group of people who will share the responsibilities of survival.
conversations.prefix: Form a Group:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Here are instructions on turning this plastic card into a nearly indestructible spear head, and mount it on a fire-hardened shaft. Good luck, and welcome to the Meat Parade.
conversations.prefix: Spear Cards:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mmm Mmm Good! All of the sugar plus your daily allowance of non-hydrated, synthetic meat protein!
conversations.prefix: Munchy Bars:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You haven't seen a set of car keys in years! Not since right after all the cars became auto-driven. 
  
  Someone, somewhere nearby must have an antique car that doesn't rely on automation!
conversations.prefix: Car Keys:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make sure you make it through the first night!
conversations.prefix: Survive the night:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know that if you can just spend a few quiet moments thinking about this, a rational solution will come to you!
conversations.prefix: Just a few minutes to think:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You define yourself by your art. It's not a hobby, but a higher calling. Everything in life, is art.
conversations.prefix: Artiste:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've always been good with animals, knowing what they want and when they may be happy, annoyed or downright hostile.
conversations.prefix: Good with animals:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Double A 37.21b has been your home ever since you reached your majority at age 17. It's got everything you need - a food delivery system, an entertainment deliver system and a waste removal system! Automation at it's finest.
conversations.prefix: Apartment Complex A-37.21b:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: DORA19 is a pleasant park filled with ambling pedestrians, robotic servers and even a few real ducks!
conversations.prefix: Designated Outdoor Recreation Area 19:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What used to be a beautiful block of automated recreation facilities is now a conflagration! Broken bodies, burning buildings and airplane parts litter the ground, while people run screaming in every direction.
conversations.prefix: Airplane crash site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tim spends most of his time prophesying the end of society as we know it. Now he says "Told you so!" a lot.
conversations.prefix: Tim the Prophet:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Vic is a professional jogger, who spends a good portion of his day running all over the city, which he knows like the back of his hand.
conversations.prefix: Vic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't like this whole apocalypse thing. You'll do just about anything to make life the way it was before. Easy, with everything just a button press away!
conversations.prefix: Back the way it was:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You love robots and robotics - all things mechanical too! You've been making a study of robots for quite some time. It shouldn't be all that hard to get one of those semi-autonomous drones reprogrammed and functional again!
conversations.prefix: Mechanic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Myrtl is your 17 year old neighbor. She moved in just last week on reaching her majority age, and is currently writing bad poetry and painting fairly good pictures.
conversations.prefix: Myrtl:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Toby is a dog, good at doing dog things. He's fairly friendly too.
conversations.prefix: Toby:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rose is one of those rare people with an actual profession. She's a chemical engineer, and the smartest person you know.
conversations.prefix: Rose:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Carmen has lived nearby for as long as you can remember. Her hobbies seem to be actively avoiding illnesses and chastising the local children when they get loud.
conversations.prefix: Carmen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Kyle styles himself a hacker, not that he's ever gotten close to busting into one of the AI controlled systems. He spends most of his time in VR forums being cool.
conversations.prefix: Freaking Kyle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With the advent of self-driving cars, Subways are slowly going out of style, but a few folks obsessed with the past still use them to get around.
conversations.prefix: Subway Station:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tigger was once the star of the local wildlife park. Now Tigger has the run of the recreation area and hasn't seen his food deploying robotic keeper in several days.
conversations.prefix: Tigger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lots of exotic animals, and a petting zoo too!
conversations.prefix: The Zoo:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No matter what else happens, you're making it your primary mission to ensure the safety of the children! Any children! All children!
conversations.prefix: Think of the children!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You didn't spend the vast portion of your life playing war games and reading alternate history for nothing! This is an opportunity. A way to set yourself (and perhaps a few close cronies) up as a local warlord, with designs on expanding your empire!
conversations.prefix: Warlord:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All of your food requirements in one handy location!
conversations.prefix: Foodmart:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whenever most citizens need to leave their residential areas, they visit the CDC, where the cars are free and they drive themselves!
conversations.prefix: Car Distribution Center:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a natural people person. You're easily able to sweet talk others, and are often looked to for your opinion on matters.
conversations.prefix: Charismatic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don't normally spend a lot of time associating with others. While your social skills may not be the best, you've learned to be self-reliant.
conversations.prefix: Loner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know in your bones that not every single AI would have up and left the world. They must have left a steward, a caretaker AI behind. And you're going to find it.
conversations.prefix: There's got to be an AI left:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: All your life you've dreamed to going back to the way things used to be. Tribal, every person dependent on themselves and their close relations. You see great opportunity in the way this world is shaping up....
conversations.prefix: A new world order:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've always taken care of yourself. Jogging, stretching, lifting more than food.
conversations.prefix: Natural Athlete:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You thoroughly enjoy preparing a great meal. You even volunteered at one of the retro, human run eateries for a while. Plus you have this great set of self-sharpening knives!
conversations.prefix: Cook:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're smart. You learn things quickly and generally have a lot of knowledge stored up in your noggin.
conversations.prefix: All kinds of smart:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been training in the martial arts as a way to stay fit and as a hobby. You've gotten quite good too!
conversations.prefix: Martial Arts enthusiast:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know what? I got this!
conversations.prefix: Overconfident:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: GAAAH! Get it off me GET IT OFF ME!
conversations.prefix: Irrational fear of spiders:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Is that... did they just get cut... ohmygodimgonna (thump)
conversations.prefix: Faints at the sight of blood:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Look, I'll probably screw this up but... you know what? Never mind, it was a stupid idea anyway.
conversations.prefix: No self confidence:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: That's it! You've had enough of this. Anger courses through you and you're going to settle all of these problems, right now, whatever it takes.
conversations.prefix: Enough is enough:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The local museum was just setting up a display of antique and modern firearms. You wonder if anyone else remembered this.
conversations.prefix: Guns! When do we get guns!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The food dispensers have been offline for almost a full day now! It's time to find something to eat.
conversations.prefix: Hunger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Yesterday they were a petty little group of bothersome teens.
  
  Today, they're a gang.
conversations.prefix: The Pegs:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone must have busted open an automatic food distribution center - there's food everywhere, trampled under foot. And lots of people trying to snatch as much as they can.
conversations.prefix: Food Riot:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've managed to locate a few bottles of booze. Trade goods? Instant relief from this nightmare? You decide.
conversations.prefix: Booze:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The best offense is a good defense. Find a good place to hole up and increase your chances of survival!
conversations.prefix: Saftey:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: We have guns! And ammunition! Now, do we use 'em for defense or offense?
conversations.prefix: Guns!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No matter how hard you try, you just aren't going to be moving all that fast. Wait up people!
conversations.prefix: Slow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The biggest spider you've ever encountered in the wild.
conversations.prefix: Spider!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Is... is that a freaking DINOSAUR?
conversations.prefix: Genetically Designed Dinosaur:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The sun is getting low on the horizon, and you're teeth are beginning to chatter.
conversations.prefix: A chill in the air:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This place looks like it was abandoned late in the early 2020's and hasn't been touched since. It's enclosed, has a roof, and no one else seems to be around.
conversations.prefix: Abandoned Factory:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It looks like it may have been part of an old, 20th century game.
conversations.prefix: Strange old card:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Heat. Smoke. Confusion!
  
  We've got to get somewhere safe, or at least, somewhere that catching fire is not an immediate problem!
conversations.prefix: Run Away!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There's keys, which means car, which means a potential means of transportation and a portable generator all in one!
conversations.prefix: Help yourself to a classic car:
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: Questions everything. Trusts no one.
conversations.prefix: Distrustful:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Never able to stay in one place for long, you're an adventurous spirit and live with your eyes on the horizon.
conversations.prefix: Explorer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This data pad is one of the few remaining that has a true 'offline' mode. It has advanced programming for building AIs, testing code and bypassing systems.
conversations.prefix: Advanced Data Pad: