conversations.from: system
conversations.value: You are an ordinary high school student in Japan. Well, you were, before summer vacation. On April 1st you started your first year of high school. Classes, clubs, cram school, the usual.
  
  But over the summer strange things started happening. You started hearing people's thoughts, or having visions, or things moved when you weren't touching them. Eventually you realized that you were *causing* these things to happen, and that you could control it. Sort of.
  
  Now school is starting up again. A number of students are missing, and many others are acting oddly. Maybe you aren't the only one this happened to.
  
  oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  
  **Setting: ** This is an anime-style supernatural adventure romantic comedy like *The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzmiya*, *Rosario + Vampire*, *My HiME*, etc. 
  
  **Tone: ** Light but not silly, with frequent crunchy bits of drama. 
  
  **Number of players: ** 5-10 
  
  ** Rating: ** Setting is PG-13, like broadcast anime.
  
  **Player roles: ** High school students newly endowed with psionic powers.
  
  **Power scale: ** Low, your psionic powers are new, weak, and poorly trained. 
  
  **First Scene will be: **Nightmare at the end of summer vacation. 
  
  **Second scene: ** School the first day back.
  
  **More details via: ** cbgaming@cox.net 
  
  
  Characters are first year students at a Japanese high school, (15-16 years old normally). Standard anime character types are welcome.
  
  It is September, the second trimester of the school year, so PCs likely know each other by sight at least, you were in the same school Apr-Jul. Unless you are a mysterious transfer student...
  
  Note: Your psionic powers are new, weak, and poorly trained. 
  
  Telepaths can read surface thoughts, not plumb the innermost depths of people's minds. 
  
  Teeks can do about what they could do with their hands, only without touching things.  
  
  Clairvoyants can see the past, or distant places, but not exactly what they want. Visions of the future show what *might* happen, not what **must** happen.
  
  Pyrokinetics can simulate a cigarette lighter easily, a torch is very hard.
  
  Etc.
  
  Simple uses of powers can be done in dialog, difficult ones with cards in challenges.
  
  Modifying or writing new appropriate Natures, Strengths, etc is encouraged.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lunchtime!
conversations.prefix: The Cafeteria (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lunchtime!
conversations.prefix: The Cafeteria:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are scornful and dismissive of the unworthy, which is most everyone. You flatly deny having softer feelings for anyone.
conversations.prefix: Tsundere:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Devastating remarks make clear what an idiot your target is. They wither under your scorn.
conversations.prefix: Harsh Tongue:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Several coarse teenage boys grab any likely looking girl and pull her into an alley. "Hey sweetie, you wanna go karaoke with us?"
conversations.prefix: Lecherous Thugs:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can read people's surface thoughts.
conversations.prefix: Telepath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can see the future, the past, things far away.
conversations.prefix: Visions:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You aren't just not a psi. You can interfere with other psis' powers.
conversations.prefix: Psi Blocker (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can change people's feelings. For a while.
conversations.prefix: Sway Emotions:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can get past the mundane surface of reality to deeper truths.
conversations.prefix: Sense the Unseen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The school nurse insists that you stay here and tell her what happened in a calm and orderly manner.
conversations.prefix: Yogohoken no Sensei:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wakes you up every morning. But can you *stay* awake?
conversations.prefix: Alarm Clock:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a dream about school. They says if you die in a dream you die in reality. Who told them that?
conversations.prefix: Make it through the Night:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a dream about school. They says if you die in a dream you die in reality. Who told them that?
conversations.prefix: Make it through the Night (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A sparkling gem that will amplify your powers. 
  
conversations.prefix: Psi Crystal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A sparkling gem that will amplify your powers.
conversations.prefix: Psi Crystal:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You like **ME**!
  
  You don't like **HER**!
  
  Stop thinking about *her* like that!
  
  ** *I* ** like you!
  
conversations.prefix: Yusuke Okimasa:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lunchtime!
conversations.prefix: The Cafeteria:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Math teacher
conversations.prefix: Oosumi-sensei:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: English Teacher and counselor
conversations.prefix: Inoue-sensei:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: School Principal
conversations.prefix: Nakamura-sensei:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Japanese and Literature teacher.
conversations.prefix: Abe-sensei:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are crude and tactless. Who cares?
conversations.prefix: Crass:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Foreign assistant English teacher.
conversations.prefix: Arisu Jonson-sensei:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are good at confusing and obfuscating things. The Goddess of Disorder approves.
conversations.prefix: Eristic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your powers must be good for something. Use them to get what you want.
conversations.prefix: Reap the Rewards:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nature, tamed.
conversations.prefix: The Park:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nature, untamed.
conversations.prefix: The Forest:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Study, Study, Study! Or bonk-bonk, bad kid!
conversations.prefix: The Classroom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Chain link fences 3 meters high line the edges. Officially forbidden, but often used to eat lunch, meet for romance, or just get away from people.
conversations.prefix: School Roof:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Under the bridge over the river, a wide strip of grass between the water and the steep concrete banks. A place to hang out without having to spend money or follow rules.
conversations.prefix: Under the bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A traditional shrine, where people came to honor or placate the gods and spirits. No people have done so lately. How do the gods and spirits feel about that?
conversations.prefix: Abandoned Shrine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You suck the emotional energy out of people. Or worse.
conversations.prefix: Psychic Vampire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ai won't let hitting Kichirou go unaddressed. 
  
  But you have to catch her first.
conversations.prefix: Yusuke Okimasa:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The school nurse checks your eyes and pulse. 
  
  She asks you simple questions, watching carefully. 
conversations.prefix: Kichirou's Condition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can move things without touching them. Like you have invisible hands not connected to your body.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Dexterous, Mobile
  
  Suggested Weakness: Backlash, Exhausted, Obvious Psi
conversations.prefix: Teek:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can read peoples' surface thoughts. Sometimes when you don't want to. Or you can send them your own.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Perceptive, Persuasive 
  
  Suggested Weakness: Telebabble, Oversensitive, Painful Memories 
conversations.prefix: Telepath:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You get visions of the past, the future, or things far away. But are they real?
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Painful Memories, Exhausted
conversations.prefix: Clairvoyant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You experience terrible things from your past. Or your future. Or someone else's.
conversations.prefix: Painful Memories:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can read other people's feelings. The trick is keeping them out. Or you can send them your own
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Expressive, Friendly
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oversensitive, Psychic Vampire 
conversations.prefix: Empath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You aren't just not a psi. You can interfere with other psis' powers.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Erisitc
  
  Suggested Weakness: Exhausted, Unreliable
conversations.prefix: Psi Blocker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can blink from place to place. Sometimes your clothes even come with you.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mobile
  
  Suggested Weakness: Exhausted, Obvious Psi, Unreliable
conversations.prefix: Teleporter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes you can't keep peoples' thoughts out of your head. Ugly thoughts are upsetting. A cacophony of thoughts is maddening.
conversations.prefix: Telebabble:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can get people to think and do what you want. Unless you go too far, and they rebel.
conversations.prefix: Persuasive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are good at expressing yourself, letting others know how you feel. And how you want them to feel.
conversations.prefix: Expressive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You notice things others miss. Especially unusual aspects of what seems ordinary.
conversations.prefix: Perceptive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You feel things too much.
conversations.prefix: Oversensitive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You get tired. You aren't good for much for a while.
conversations.prefix: Exhausted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes things go wrong and bites back.
conversations.prefix: Backlash:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are good at handling things, even without hands. 
conversations.prefix: Dexterous:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can control heat and cold. Your coffee is never cold and your soda is never warm.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Tsundere
  
  Suggested Weakness: Backlash, Obvious Psi, Runaway Power
conversations.prefix: Pyrokinetic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can be hot-tempered. Or cold as ice. Robert Frost and Foreigner quotations optional.
conversations.prefix: Tsundere:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your power gets away from you sometimes, and goes up to 11.
conversations.prefix: Runaway Power:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can talk to the animals and they like you. You can talk plants too, but they rarely say much back.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Friendly, Persuasive 
  
  Suggested Weakness: Timid and Shy, Backlash, Unreliable 
conversations.prefix: Nature's Friend:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Motion is your thing. Start here, go there.
conversations.prefix: Mobile:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can help injured and sick people. But it might not be easy. Or safe.
conversations.prefix: First Aid:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can't always get things to work they way you want them to.
conversations.prefix: Unreliable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: People can tell when you use your power. Even normals know *something* odd is going on.
conversations.prefix: Obvious Psi:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You did something very bad with your powers early on. How can you make up for it?
conversations.prefix: Atonement:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With great power comes great responsibility. You've got the power, use it to help people.
conversations.prefix: Use Your Powers for Good:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've always been lucky. Things go your way, most of the time.
conversations.prefix: Lucky:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Where do psi powers come from? Why did you get them? How do they work?
conversations.prefix: Understand Psi:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The road goes along the side of a hill, a rock wall on one side, the sea on the other.
conversations.prefix: The Coast Road:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don't get any breaks. The universe hates you.
conversations.prefix: Bad Luck:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're a freak. If the normals find out they will enslave you or burn you as a witch. Keep it all secret. Not just that you are a psi, but that psis exist at all.
conversations.prefix: Cover It Up:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can't be the only one. You can't face this alone.
conversations.prefix: Find Other Psis:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have an acid tongue. You can tell people just how awful they are.
conversations.prefix: Harsh Voice:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can't remember, umm ... you know, stuff.
conversations.prefix: Amnesia:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are scared of dealing with people. What if you do something wrong? What if they hate you forever?
conversations.prefix: Timid and Shy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protects you mind from interference. Disguised as a hat, hairnet, jewelry, etc. 
conversations.prefix: Mind Shield:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can heal people. By making yourself sick.
  
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: First Aid
  
  Suggested Weakness: Psychic Vampire, Exhausted, Runaway Power
conversations.prefix: Psi Healer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Physical education teacher. Usually wearing a track suit and carrying a shinai. Also serves as school disciplinarian.
conversations.prefix: Sato-sensei:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can sense things beyond the usual 5 senses. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Exhausted, Unreliable
conversations.prefix: Esper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You like people, and animals. They usually like you back.
conversations.prefix: Friendly:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can change the odds. Make the dice come up 7, the guy chasing you trip, the light turn green before you get there.
  
  
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lucky
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bad Luck, Runaway Power
conversations.prefix: Probability Hacker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: People have been mean to you all your life. Payback time.
conversations.prefix: Get Revenge:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This is a large town or a small city at the mouth of a river about halfway down Honshu on the west coast, facing the Sea of Japan. There are farms further up the valley and lots of mountains and forests on either side.
conversations.prefix: The town:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dream version of Sakurazaka High School. Who knows what strange things dwell there? Better check now to make sure you aren't naked.
conversations.prefix: Dream School:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who is behind these unnatural beasts?
conversations.prefix: Animal Mastermind:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Outside sinks between the athletic fields and the school buildings. Keep yourself clean!
conversations.prefix: Athletic Field Sinks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They have to be out there. It can't just be you and your friends, can it?
conversations.prefix: Other Psis:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Several boys perch precariously on top of the sinks. None look seriously hurt yet, but that could change quickly if one of them falls or the animals get more organized. 
  *Organized?*
conversations.prefix: Beleaguered Boys:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cats, dogs, birds, squirrels, what, no bears? There'll be a bloodbath if the boys start connecting with their bags, or worse, they turn on each other the way they should have done already.
conversations.prefix: Herd of Cats:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: He chuckles, unperturbed. “Well done. Track team? But aren't you worried the girl you abandoned to be eaten by dogs? Or was it cats?”
conversations.prefix: Snarky Boy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A typical Japanese high school, full of ordinary high school students. On the north side of town.
conversations.prefix: Sakurazaka High School:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: (Akimoto) School nurse. Known to be a soft touch for getting out of phys-ed for a headache or something.
conversations.prefix: Yogohoken no Sensei:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've already figured out for some of your friends, but are there more? And who are they?
conversations.prefix: Find the Psis:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A aching void desperate to be filled with psionic energy.
conversations.prefix: Drained Psi Crystal:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who is running this? It is run through text messages and not immediately obvious.
conversations.prefix: Who is running the pool?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Who are the victims? Are the lists always right? What do they have in common? How is he doing this?
conversations.prefix: How is this done?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can talk to the animals and they like you. You can talk plants too, but they rarely say much back.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Friendly, Persuasive 
  
  Suggested Weakness: Timid and Shy, Backlash, Unreliable 
conversations.prefix: Nature's Friend:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're never without some smart ass remark. What could be a better super power than that? Really.
conversations.prefix: Snarking :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've let your power go to your head, and tend to behave arrogantly towards others.
conversations.prefix: Arrogant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You aren't just not a psi. You can interfere with other psis' powers.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Erisitc
  
  Suggested Weakness: Exhausted, Unreliable
conversations.prefix: Psi Blocker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are good at confusing and obfuscating things. The Goddess of Disorder approves.
conversations.prefix: Eristic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are removed from the outside world and sometimes have difficulty connecting with it or others.
conversations.prefix: Closed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your have an advantage over your fellow gifted, but you are still apart from normal society. The only logical course is to  lead your own kind against those who would exploit or destroy you.
conversations.prefix: Psi-Sciety:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can move things without touching them. Like you have invisible hands not connected to your body.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mobile
  
  Suggested Weakness: Backlash, Exhausted, Obvious Psi
conversations.prefix: Teek:
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.value: You like people, and animals. They usually like you back.
conversations.prefix: Friendly:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't get any breaks. The universe hates you.
conversations.prefix: Bad Luck:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: With great power comes great responsibility. You've got the power, use it to help people.
conversations.prefix: Use Your Powers for Good:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know that if your power goes wrong, things will get very ugly. And that scares the hell out of you.
conversations.prefix: Power Phobic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't want this power, despite the benefits it could bring. There must be a way to be normal again.
conversations.prefix: Find a Cure:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can alter your own body. Make yourself stronger, faster, better.
conversations.prefix: Physical Augmentation:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Running, jumping, swimming, you always seem to be in motion.
conversations.prefix: Physically active:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Thinking things through is not your way. Once a thought enters your mind, it's the course of action you take.
conversations.prefix: Impulsive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes, people need help. You will be there for them, always.
conversations.prefix: Protect Your Friends:
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: You hate cats -- it's almost like they can SMELL the fear on you. And to them you may as well smell like catnip.  
conversations.prefix: Pussy Magnet:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re quick to detect social cues and physical clues. Your ability to sense the feelings of others only adds to this boon. 
  
conversations.prefix: Highly Perceptive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Intense training means quick, effective analysis of dangerous situations.
conversations.prefix: Situational Awareness:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are scrappy and resourceful, making use of your surroundings and context to get out of tight situations.
conversations.prefix: A Natural Improviser:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Things that are obvious to many have a tendency to slip by you.
conversations.prefix: Oblivious:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your judgmental attitude causes you troubles. If only others would try harder to measure up.
conversations.prefix: Judgemental:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can have a bit of a temper at times...
conversations.prefix: Hot Headed: