conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Around now-ish the planet is hit with several massive pulses of... something from space that basically act as a multi-burst EMP, shutting down all microprocessors functioning on Earth. It doesn't destroy any other hardware, and anything that was shut off at the time was fine, but it still caused a MASSIVE problem as cities and countries are plunged into chaos as infrastructure crumbles and electronics fail and die. 
  
  From there things go downhill - first world countries are hardest hit, there's massive population die-off, revolutions and collapses and all that good stuff. 
  
  Fast forward maybe 150, 200 years and several generations and things have stabilised - the population is a fraction of what it was, the largest settlements are small cities, and though there's still tech and the ability to generate electricity around most people eschew it in favour of more reliable sources of power, like steam.
  
  Towns are connected by rail lines; people travel by steam engine, handcar, stagecoach/carriage, etc. Agriculture is quite big and most people contribute to it in some way (kids help harvest in the summer, there are celebrations after planting, etc). Think Victorian/western mashup in terms of technology, sensibility, aesthetic. 
  
  One other side effect from the strange pulse - people are sometimes born with strange abilities that manifest in their late childhood/adolescence, things like sensing emotion, being able to communicate without words, etc. Though they were initially viewed with much hostility that has started to fade, provided they don't get up to anything too hinky.
  
  NPC List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H1sgrynm3PPmPLFvx7ZVcn_Ds6Bv0rf7P3CNO4d8Rks/edit
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The ability to affect water in all its states. 
conversations.prefix: Hydrokinesis:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sensing other's emotions, and, with proximity, the reasons for them. 
conversations.prefix: Empathy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The ability to sense memories from inanimate objects by touch.
conversations.prefix: Psychometry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A bunch of no-good hoodlums.
conversations.prefix: Gang:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: create your own
conversations.prefix: create your own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: create your own
conversations.prefix: create your own:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: create your own
conversations.prefix: create your own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The highway that stretches between Aurora and Chicago. Run-down and badly maintained in places, but still traversable. 
conversations.prefix: Interstate 88:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: create your own
conversations.prefix: create your own:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The main strip and associated buildings and businesses - many homes branch off from this area.
conversations.prefix: Downtown Aurora:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: O'Leary's dry goods shop was pretty badly wrecked - can you help them salvage what's left?
conversations.prefix: Clean up O'Leary's shop:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Runs the dry goods shop. Usually friendly enough, but understandably gruff today.
  
  He saw the gang from his apartment above the shop, and might be able to tell you more about them if you ask the right questions.
conversations.prefix: O'Leary:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sensing other's emotions, and, with proximity, the reasons for them. 
conversations.prefix: Empathy (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The ability to affect water in all its states. 
conversations.prefix: Hydrokinesis (copy):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The ability to sense memories from inanimate objects by touch.
conversations.prefix: Psychometry (copy):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Home and work alike.
conversations.prefix: Lindsey's Junk Shop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You spot something or someone off in the distance. What do you do?
conversations.prefix: A dot in the distance:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: About a half-dozen cagey-looking folk block the way between you and the arboretum. 
conversations.prefix: Wary Group:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You'll cover more ground apart, but who knows what's lurking behind the trees...
conversations.prefix: Split up or stay together:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Eden's ward.
conversations.prefix: Izzy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Really?
conversations.prefix: [Eden and Lori] Hedge maze:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: To open the shed. 
conversations.prefix: [Lindsey] Find the Key:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The siren is calling - best get to the shelter as quickly as you can. 
conversations.prefix: Make it to the shelter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There's a twister coming...
conversations.prefix: Into the Storm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: He must be very scared, out here all alone.
conversations.prefix: [Eden and Lori] Find Peter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've managed to get back to the junkyard - now what.
conversations.prefix: [Lindsey and Gill] Find what you left behind:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're trapped in the cellar. What do you do?
conversations.prefix: [Eden and Lori] Escape:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lindsey's leg is broken. How are you going to deal with that?
conversations.prefix: [Lindsey and Gill] Cope:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: In times of trouble the community comes together. 
conversations.prefix: Help with Repairs:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Doctor's orders: Peace and Quiet.
conversations.prefix: Recuperate :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: And with it come thoughts of love.
conversations.prefix: Spring is in the air...:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Items have a special meaning for you. Each one has a past, each one tells a story, and it's difficult for you to throw any of them away. They were once held by people just like you, and those souls deserve to be remembered.
conversations.prefix: Hoarder:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have an impressive capacity for recollection. Names, facts, details - you have a way of remembering all of them.
conversations.prefix: Mind Like A Steel Trap:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You offend easily and are easily offended. Not one to consider or care about another person's feelings, you rarely guard your tongue or check your temper.
conversations.prefix: Prickly:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your sister disappeared after your parents' death. After decades of looking, you have all but given up. But new leads have a way of rekindling that flame.
conversations.prefix: Face on a Milk Carton:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: At heart your home will always be open roads and waterways. You would be happy to never wake up to the same view two days running.
conversations.prefix: Driftwood:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are adaptable and innovative, and can usually see a route past the rocks in your path, one way or another.
conversations.prefix: Go with the flow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't really care about rubbing people the wrong way and although you're not stubborn in your dealings with people, they always know what you think of them.
conversations.prefix: Oil and water:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You need to learn to better contain and control your abilities if you're ever to use them effectively.
conversations.prefix: Calm the tempest:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your natural urge is to nurture, be it people, communities or plants.
conversations.prefix: Caregiver:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're naturally calm and good at taking things in your stride. Having survived your world ending once rather put things in perspective.
conversations.prefix: Level-headed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't feel whole anymore and your self-confidence fails you at times.
conversations.prefix: Self-doubt:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You need to make peace with your loss and find your inner strength again.
conversations.prefix: Heal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When you really, really mean it, a person would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by your story.
conversations.prefix: Disarmingly sincere:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There isn't always time to stand around talking things through.
conversations.prefix: Turbulent:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If there's something broken you can probably fix it.
conversations.prefix: Handywoman:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're good to have around just generally. 
conversations.prefix: Handy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're smooth - maybe a little *too* smooth.
conversations.prefix: Glib:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: As long as everything is running smoothly, you're happy.
conversations.prefix: Keep Things Running:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your things mean everything to you - even more than most people, probably.
conversations.prefix: Hoarder:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're always ready for the worst-case scenario. 
conversations.prefix: Prepared:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A better leader might have realised before now that some people will never step to their own responsibilities if they think you'll look after everything.
conversations.prefix: Too obliging:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make do and mend is often how your little community survives.
conversations.prefix: Resourceful:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are difficult to get to know, and rarely form attachments. But when you do, there's nothing you wouldn't do for those you love.
conversations.prefix: Loyal:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild: