conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The curtain rises night after night, and over the years the performers have their entrances and exits mapped out for them by an unseen force. 
  
  **For years** the Ingénue has fallen in love with the Leading Man, to the audiences delight. For years he has ended up with her simply because he is supposed to. Isn't that love? 
  
  **For years** the Bad Guy is given the fate so justly deserved and is booed off the stage, every plot having failed again and again. 
  
  **For years** the Comic Relief delivers jokes with perfect timing, milking every single laugh out of the tired old script and calculating every tiny shift in expression to amuse. Making others laugh while never being able to laugh is a miserable existence, but it has value here.  
  
  **For years** the Outcast can't seem to find a break, marginalized by fellow castmates and audiences alike. Never quite good enough. Never quite appealing enough. Harboring bitterness against the stars who have life so easy and always seem to get just what they want. 
  
  **For years** the Ensemble Member has waited in the wings, ready in case they are needed to fill a part, hoping to someday have a song of their own soaring to the theater rafters. 
  
  **For years** the Tech Crew has built sets and mapped out elaborate lighting plans, repairing every lose board and replacing every broken prop. 
  
  **For years** the Pit Musician has turned the pages of dozens of volumes of sheet music, providing accompaniment, never standing out above the rest of the orchestra. 
  
  None of them deviate from their assigned role and none of them question the lines that they have been given. They do not know why they have been trapped in the old theater. They do not know where the audiences come from, filling the seats every night and never noticing that the players cannot leave even after the curtain falls. The players do not see the hands that pull their strings, and they do not question that they are exactly where they belong. 
  
  **Until one night** 
  
  The wind blows north by northwest and they are suddenly aware. Will they remain content to have their parts assigned to them, or will they find the determination to change the script and embark on new, untried paths? Will there be consequences if they throw the script out the window and embark on a quest to find out who they really are? Will they discover who has forced them to do the same two or three actions every night, and will they make their way at long last, out of the theater and into the sun?
  
  *Each character should begin as one of the roles defined above, and there should be no duplication of roles. The characters are free to develop away from their prescribed origins, but be warned...failing to act in a manner fitting ones nature carries a cost.*
  
  Please note that other than the ingénue and leading man, any character can be any gender. Also please provide in your background a starting prop for your character. This will become useful fairly quickly, so choose wisely. The director is watching you. The prop can be as fantastical as you like. Also, feel free to come up with your own strengths/weaknesses as appropriate to your character. Creative thinking will be greatly encouraged.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: These are your early nights as a vampire. Eternity sprawls before you. Lust steams within.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Alluring
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naïve
conversations.prefix: Novice Vampire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Many lifetimes lay fading behind you in the dark. Every night’s another risk that it all ends... at last.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Wise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartbroken
conversations.prefix: Ancient Vampire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re just learning what it’s like to be a lycanthrope: terrible power and great torture.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Agile
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.prefix: Young Werewolf:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve survived as a werewolf long enough to know the life’s mix of passion and guilt.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Tough
  
  Suggested Weakness: Guilty
conversations.prefix: Aged Werewolf:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Death, it turns out, offers no escape from this world when you don’t know how to let go.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Witty
  
  Suggested Weakness: Ephemeral
conversations.prefix: New Ghost:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve now been dead longer than you were alive. You’re getting pretty good at it, sadly.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Stubborn
conversations.prefix: Old Ghost:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Meddling with magic felt rebellious at first but now you see it’s a lot like school, except deadly.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Educated
  
  Suggested Weakness: Crass
conversations.prefix: Green Wizard:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve been a practicing wizard for many years now and you still wonder if the money’s worth the trouble.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Wise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Doubting
conversations.prefix: Practicing Wizard:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Strange and dreadful things tread the world. You do business with the bad to hunt down the worst.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Strong
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naïve
conversations.prefix: Rookie Monster-Hunter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If there was any way to quit this job, you might take it, but the only way to avoid being hunted... is to hunt.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Stealthy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Obsessed
conversations.prefix: Veteran Monster-Hunter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re physically strong and probably look it, whether you’re lean or built.
conversations.prefix: Strong:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re quick and nimble, perhaps superhumanly so, whether you look it or not.
conversations.prefix: Agile:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re perceptive, perhaps from years of watching and observing. Nothing gets past you.
conversations.prefix: Perceptive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your hardy body has seen a lot of pain and you’re still here to suck up more.
conversations.prefix: Tough:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a brilliance that comes from experience and intuition more than study or memory.
conversations.prefix: Wise:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With that smile, backed up by your silver tongue, it’s hard not to like you.
conversations.prefix: Charming:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your mouth is sometimes quicker than your mind but you’re a master of making that work for you.
conversations.prefix: Witty:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know things that ordinary folk don’t know, be it magic or science, and that gives you power.
conversations.prefix: Educated:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don’t have to say anything. It’s in that smile, in the way you move. It’s almost hypnotic.
conversations.prefix: Alluring:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Subtle and sneaky. People don’t often notice you until you want to be noticed.
conversations.prefix: Stealthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re blunt, rude, or even gross sometimes. Maybe you don’t care what others think, maybe you don’t know better.
conversations.prefix: Crass:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your abilities are sometimes diminished and dampened by your greatest enemy: yourself.
conversations.prefix: Doubting:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your blood sears your veins and when you lose control, you lash out.
conversations.prefix: Angry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can only act on the physical world when you concentrate; otherwise you’re just an image and a voice.
conversations.prefix: Ephemeral:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You think you know how things work. You think people are basically good. You’re wrong.
conversations.prefix: Naïve:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something you did gnaws at your heart and screams nightmares at you when you sleep. It’s holding you back.
conversations.prefix: Guilty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Are you sure you’re right or are you just unwilling to admit when you’re wrong? Either way: stubborn.
conversations.prefix: Stubborn:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve come too far, done too much, worked too hard to put up with this shit from people like this.
conversations.prefix: Proud:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When you get an idea, a mission, or a fear in your mind, you can’t just let it go.
conversations.prefix: Obsessed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone broke your heart and you’re not willing to heal, not yet, because the pain’s what you have left.
conversations.prefix: Heartbroken:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Love leaves you open to pain. The only thing worse than keeping it inside is being rejected. Will you take that chance?
conversations.prefix: Reveal Your Love:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Living alone is hardly living. You need allies to watch your back. You need friends to fight for.
conversations.prefix: Something Worth Having:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Even if you think you don’t know anything good, act like you do. Secrets are why they keep you alive.
conversations.prefix: Air of Secrets:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not love, it’s infatuation. It’ll go away. It’ll go away because it’s not love, it’s infatuation.
conversations.prefix: Deny Your Love:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Don’t let the worst of you take over. Don’t become a monster. Be better than those monsters.
conversations.prefix: Be Humane:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Don’t let your weakness hold you back. Don’t let humanity slow you down. The monster is powerful.
conversations.prefix: Be the Monster:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ll never know safety until you know power, territory, control over others. It’s the way of the world.
conversations.prefix: Achieve Power:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Control is its own reward. You deserve it. They deny you out of fear, out of jealousy. Don’t stand for that.
conversations.prefix: Achieve Control:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your heart bears a wound that might heal if you could only stop meddling with the scars.
conversations.prefix: Heal the Hurt:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They’ll keep hurting people until they know — really know — what it’s like to be hurt themselves.
conversations.prefix: Spread the Hurt:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What’s the secret behind the photo of Hank Farrow, ancestor of the Farrow hunter family?
conversations.prefix: The Secret of Hank Farrow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Victor Castle’s keys aren’t where they belong. Get them for yourself or return them to him. They’re worth a favor.
conversations.prefix: Get Victor’s Keys:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The vampire enforcer, Brickhand, has a secret mission. What is it? Who is he out to hurt?
conversations.prefix: Brickhand’s Mission:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Damned Diary, in Alistair’s possession, seems to say you did something bad. Does the diary lie?
conversations.prefix: Does the Diary Lie?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The mortal, Brian Becker, is missing -- maybe dead -- and Delia Becker’s paying handsomely to know what happened.
conversations.prefix: Brian Becker Is Missing:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Just what spells has Brigid been casting for mortals around town? Is she someone’s scapegoat?
conversations.prefix: Investigating Brigid:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Syrupy, hot, metallic — drink it in.
conversations.prefix: Get Blood:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The P.I., Edgar Crease, knows things it would be good to know.
conversations.prefix: See Edgar’s Files:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bring down the rampaging werewolf in a way that doesn’t get you killed — by it or its old friends.
conversations.prefix: Rampage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Who left a vampire chained up beneath the city? Why? What are you going to do about it?
conversations.prefix: Dead In Chains:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shiny and sharp.
conversations.prefix: Straight-razor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The so-called Damned Diary captures thirteen confessions a year, out of the air, and records them in old script.
conversations.prefix: The Damned Diary:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: With these magic words you can name a target and conjure a spying eye in their presence. Hope they don’t notice.
conversations.prefix: Magic Words: Scrying:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These magic words turn any circular portal (like a manhole) into a passage for a ghost or spirit you invoke.
conversations.prefix: Magic Words: Summoning:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A warm vial of wizard blood. A drink of it either gets a vampire high or gives her magic powers. Depends who you ask.
conversations.prefix: Wizard Blood:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Big, blunt bullets, wrought in silver. You know what they’re for.
conversations.prefix: Silver Bullets:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Angular, sharpened, and ready for work.
conversations.prefix: Wooden Stake:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone thinks this machete is magical -- that it stops bullets. Maybe they’re right.
conversations.prefix: Machete Etched with Alchemical Symbols:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Victor Castle’s favorite bike’s spare keys. Are these where they belong?
conversations.prefix: Keys to Victor’s Hog:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A photo of youngsters in love, circa 1940. Written on the back it says “Hank Farrow and Edith.”
conversations.prefix: A Photo of Young Lovers:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Blood Red is a cheap, moldy old club deep in a part of town rotten with vampires and ghosts.
conversations.prefix: The Blood Red Club:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This hot new club opened near Rathbone & Highland and caters to the living -- all the living. It won’t last long.
conversations.prefix: Petite Mort:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This dangerous intersection marks the point where werewolf and vampire turf touch -- and have for fifty years.
conversations.prefix: Rathbone and Highland:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Young werewolves grow up here and pretty much everyone knows it.
conversations.prefix: Highland Ave Trailer Park:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ghosts guard the graves of vampires, sleeping off the centuries, in this old Victorian cemetery. Dangerous place.
conversations.prefix: Edgebrook Garden Cemetery:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The New Sussex Tower is a gothic skyscraper capped with swooping buttresses where vampires dance.
conversations.prefix: Atop the New Sussex Tower:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dank and rotten, this scary stop is a favorite dead-drop and graffiti spot for modern monster hunters.
conversations.prefix: Crawford Street Subway Stop:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In the old foundations of the city, deeper than parts of the subway, is an old private wizard’s club.
conversations.prefix: Deep Underneath Miller’s Pub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Like a dead part of the city, haunted by ghosts straining to hold onto the world with both hands. Don’t go alone.
conversations.prefix: Grove Ave Rowhouses:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Victor Castle’s domain. Here he holds court for visiting werewolves and passes judgment on crimes in his turf.
conversations.prefix: The Junkyard:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re being followed by echoes of the dead. They’ll watch where you go and they’ll remember. Get rid of them.
conversations.prefix: Shed the Ghosts:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The crowd’s getting surly, angry. Show them their place or slip out before things get ugly.
conversations.prefix: Throng:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Highland Ave trailer park is trapped with tripwires and alarm bells. Get around them if you can.
conversations.prefix: Ramshackle Traps:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Poltergeists don’t just crack headstones and throw rocks. They bend flesh and break bones.
conversations.prefix: Angry Ghosts:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you dare take the escape route they don’t think you’re brave enough to try?
conversations.prefix: Rooftop Escape:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Try to breathe like a normal person, like the living, like you belong in this crowd.
conversations.prefix: Blend In:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Can you dodge the surveillance of a wizard’s ward? Is that even possible?
conversations.prefix: The Evil Eye:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This part of town’s a warren of rotten allies and broken blacktop. Watch your step.
conversations.prefix: A Chase Down Dead Streets:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The whole block’s on fire. The populace burns hot, flipping cars. They’d grab pitchforks if they could find them.
conversations.prefix: Fires:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They say Castle’s hounds come from Hell itself. They see things. They’re smart. Don’t piss them off.
conversations.prefix: Junkyard Dogs:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Biker, heartbreaker, werewolf. Victor rules from the Junkyard he owns. He might be the oldest werewolf in the city.
conversations.prefix: Victor Castle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An unpopular but skilled wizard, Brigid is on the outs for selling spells to customers not vetted by the Conclave.
conversations.prefix: Brigid Douglas:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Alistair’s a new name, just a century or so old. This vampire’s old; they say he knew Emperor Nero, back when.
conversations.prefix: Alistair Wright-Smith:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This guy’s an enforcer for Alistair. Devoted, maybe in love with him. Huge dude, takes no shit.
conversations.prefix: Brickhand:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 300 pounds of angry muscle in a speedy panic. No way it doesn’t kill someone.
conversations.prefix: One High Werewolf:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Supposedly Edgar washed out of wizard school and now works cases for monsters to pay the rent.
conversations.prefix: Edgar Crease, Private Detective:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This young mortal woman is looking to sic a monster or some magic on her problems. Who will help her?
conversations.prefix: Delia Becker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bone-thin and starved nearly to dust. Crazed from years of isolation chained up in a basement. Who did this?
conversations.prefix: Starved Vampire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Farrows were a famous hunting family in town in the 1970s. Jean’s the toughest of a new generation.
conversations.prefix: Jean Farrow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Officially he’s the wizard in charge of the county, feared by all. Secretly? They say he’s a dragon -- an actual dragon.
conversations.prefix: The Drake:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Jaaaaaazz Haaaaands! You get by with a little help from your friends, and in this case your friends are the entire rest of the ensemble. They're always in perfect step, which is really kind of impressive. Wonder where they find the time to practice...
conversations.prefix: The Ensemble:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Is your name Emily? Does it even matter? What about the rest of the Ensemble? Ensemble Members need names (and love) too! Who cares if they aren't even listed on the program, right?  
  
  Find the names! 
conversations.prefix: Name Them All:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fix it, Felix! You've got everything you need to put the Theater back together or take it apart. Now...GET BACK TO WORK. You're on the clock, you know. 
  
  Use these tools wisely because what gets fixed with them stays fixed and what gets broken is broken forever. 
conversations.prefix: Techie Toolbox:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There were never such devoted sisters...except for the fact that you didn't know you were sisters until right now. 
  
  Congratulations, you're related! Will this be sibling rivalry or the beginning of a beautiful friendship? 
  
  Either way, you need to figure out how to relate to one another now because..."[T]here is no friend like a sister
  In calm or stormy weather;
  To cheer one on the tedious way,
  To fetch one if one goes astray,
  To lift one if one totters down,
  To strengthen whilst one stands."
conversations.prefix: Sisters, Sisters:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This is the Aristotelian form of sparkly, fabulous wands. Need we say more? It's just...FABULOUS. OK, just fabulous, people, and...oh, yes, it's MAGIC.
conversations.prefix: Sparkly, FABULOUS Magic Wand :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This is a cello made in Cremona, which makes it even more exceptional. The strings are perfectly tuned and the wood gleams with care and with years of playing. This tenor instrument of the violin family will sing with tone colors ranging from passionate in the upper register to somber in the lower range. The cello almost seems to have life to it, thanks to the warmness of the patina. 
  
  The bow which accompanies the cello fits perfectly in the hand and is elegantly crafted to make the instrument's sound even richer.
conversations.prefix: Guarneri Cello:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Original, historical proof of...something. Also, lots and lots of obituaries. Surely this will be good for SOMETHING at some point. You hope. Or...you could always start a bonfire...or, you know, practice origami. 
conversations.prefix: Documents:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've got charge of some really old, fragile papers. Keep them protected and figure out what to do with them. 
  
  Can you HANDLE the truth? 
conversations.prefix: Paperwork :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know those pithy remarks you always wish you could say in the moment? The perfect comeback that is just out of reach? 
  
  Worry no longer, because you've got snark at your fingertips and you are officially armed and dangerous. 
conversations.prefix: Book of Snarky Comebacks:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Find something that will shed a little light on what was in the box left outside the prop room...or the person who left it. 
  
  Also, what in the world is that glass bauble for?  
conversations.prefix: In the Spotlight:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Awwwww...would you look at that teeny widdle car? It's just so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute. 
  
  Oh...you can fit HOW many people in there? And it'll get 60 mpg too? Too bad it's a clown car, because we all KNOW how terrifying clowns are.
  
conversations.prefix: Clown Car:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What is a genius plot without someone to follow you? 
  
  Get yourself a minion. Better yet, convince them to follow your lead without them even realizing it. 
conversations.prefix: Minion Challenge: Accepted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: We're not gonna die. We can't die...And you know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw, huh? Come on!
  
  Ruggedly handsome looks can get a guy out of some sticky situations. Good thing you only use your manly looks and great personality for good or you'd really be dangerous. 
conversations.prefix: Headshots Featuring Your Ruggedly Chiseled Jaw:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Why invite stress in? Stop studying strife and learn to live the unexamined life! 
  
  Besides, these changes to the show are AWESOME!!!! 
  
  Too bad the rest of the group isn't QUITE so excited yet. Help them stop curbing their enthusiasm and then...GAME ON! 
conversations.prefix: Dancing Through Life:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Look at me I am gorgeous.
  I am absolutely gorgeous.
  There's this avalanche of beauty in one woman and I'm it.
  Ahh.
  Oh look at the way all of the parts fit together.
  
  Stunning.
  
  Why wouldn't you want to look in the mirror ALL THE TIME, lovely as you are? 
  
  Oh...what's that? The mirror shows what's happening in the rest of the Theater instead of your absolutely stunning features? Pity...
conversations.prefix: (Magic) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wouldn't you think she's the girl...the girl who has everything? 
  
  You know what they think about you: that you're stuck up and that you get whatever you want. 
  
  Convince them that you're more than just a pretty face. 
conversations.prefix: Good Girls Don't Finish Last:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Knock knock, who's there? 
conversations.prefix: Do You or Don't You? :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are endearingly (or sickeningly, depending on perspective) sweet and wholesome. 
  
  Sure you're covering for a lack of sophistication, cunning, and, let's face it, brains, but you ALWAYS get the part. Audiences love you, the leading man loves you, heck, even the villain loves you--or at least kidnapping you. 
  
  
conversations.prefix: Ingénue :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Charming, handsome and brave...that's you. You leap tall buildings in a single bound and you're always ready to save the damsel in distress from whatever snare she's managed to find herself in this time around. 
  
  Lurking beneath that devastatingly suave exterior, though, beats a true heart, just like any other, and maybe, just maybe, the spotlight is beginning to glare. 
conversations.prefix: Leading Man:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're a little too plucky, a little too real for those main roles you covet, but you don't really care what the rest of the cast thinks about you either. That's right, you're just FINE on your own, thank you very much, and if you need rescuing, well, you'll take care of that yourself. 
conversations.prefix: Outcast:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make them laugh, make them laugh, make them laugh! You know the punchline for every joke, because you're ordinarily the one delivering them. 
  
  You're good for a pratfall or a pithy one-liner that sets them rolling in the aisles, and laughter can be intoxicating. What happens, though, when the laughter begins to fade?
conversations.prefix: Comic Relief:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If there's a hero, you'll thwart him. If there's a fair maiden, you have a strange compulsion to tie her to the railroad tracks. It's good to be bad, as you well know. Getting pegged as the villain in every single show, however, has its disadvantages. 
conversations.prefix: Villain:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you could just be noticed, you'd shine on the stage. As it is, you're little better than a piece of furniture, without even a song to sing. While other characters complain about doing their part, especially on a bad day, you'd be grateful just to get your name on the program.
  
  You're starting to realize that blending is is overrated. Now what are you going to do about it?
conversations.prefix: Ensemble Member:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Behind the scenes is your whole world, and that's just the way you like it. You build the sets, you put together the props, and you make sure that the curtain always goes up on time. 
  
  It isn't glamorous, but you take pride in every nail you put in the backdrop and, when the spotlight shines on the members of the cast, you know that's your hand at work. 
conversations.prefix: Stage Tech:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your music is what makes the lines stand out. You can make audiences feel all of the pathos of a great show in just a few notes. And each tear becomes a gentle tune or duet kept straight by a metronome. Wherever music plays, you know you're home. 
  
  When the baton raises, you are ready, just out of sight beneath the stage, to join in the chorus of unseen voices with your small part. Can all your practice prepare you for life beyond the stage? 
conversations.prefix: Pit Musician:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You aren't supposed to be noticed, and you're really good at it. Your particular genius is to make the other characters shine by association. 
  
  You want to be unmentioned because you know that you have value of your own even if nobody ever bothers to find out your name. 
  
  Still, it would be really nice if once, just ONCE, somebody thought you were important. 
conversations.prefix: Come Out of the Background :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whatever the scene is, you want to find the perfect melody to express what the words can't say. You put time into your music, and you are going to perform, come Hell or high water. 
  
  In a nutshell, you want to live for your art, and you are driven by the notes on the page. If only you could become part of the music. 
conversations.prefix: Make Beautiful Music:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Audiences pay to see you, and you hate to disappoint your adoring public. Give you dragons and you'll slay them. Provide you with a damsel in distress and you'll rescue her. 
  
  Too bad you're beginning to realize that being the hero doesn't always mean saving the day.  
conversations.prefix: Be the Hero of Your Story:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Why should anyone else be happy when you aren't? Why should the good guys always win? You've got a brain full of eeeeeeeeeeeeevil ideas and you're going to make everyone realize that you are just that much better than they are. 
  
  On the other hand, you're really not such a baddie after all, if only everyone else would see it that way. 
conversations.prefix: Foil All the Endings:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've discovered your purpose, and that is to repair all the broken things. All of them. Give you a hammer and enough nails and you'll soon put the world to rights. 
  
  There isn't a crack you don't want to mend or a crooked board you don't want to straighten. Late at night, though, you ponder whether or not a little glue and a few bolts are going to be enough. 
conversations.prefix: Fixer-Upper:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Being adored, cherished, and, let's face it...practically perfect all the time is exhausting. All eyes are on you every minute of the day, not that you don't deserve it, of course. 
  
  It would be so lovely if you could just for once be yourself instead of this adorable creature your fellow castmates try and make you into. Maybe there will be a way to step out of the gilded cage and down off that pedestal before it's too late. 
conversations.prefix: Measuring Up:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These train tracks have been part of the scenery almost since the Theater was built. They lead upstage into the distance, but there are only the vaguest legends hint at how far they go or where they stop. 
  
  Train tracks...train tracks everywhere but never a train in sight. The space surrounding the railroad tracks is the definition of desolate, except for a bench left over from a long-ago production of *Waiting for Godot*. 
conversations.prefix: Abandoned Railroad Tracks:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Where there's smoke, there's a train coming down the line (the first, last, and perhaps only train ever to use these tracks). No idea where this train is going or who's driving the train, but there's only one way to find out...
conversations.prefix: Get on the Train:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gorgeous...absolutely stunning...divine. Who's the fairest of them all? You are, naturally. You light up the stage with a glow that is impossible not to like. 
  
  The combination of beauty and innocence is really devastating.
conversations.prefix: Lovely:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Good thing you can rely on your pretty face, because you've never been the sharpest tool in the shed. It's not that you don't have smarts, but...let's be honest. The one brain cell you have is getting a little lonely there. 
conversations.prefix: Not Exactly Bright:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Laugh and the world laughs with you. You like nothing better than lightening the mood and finding the funny in every situation you encounter. 
  
  If you can spread happiness and get a few laughs in the process, then you're doing your job right. 
  
  Lately, though, you're beginning to realize that the funny side of life isn't quite everything you thought it was anymore. 
conversations.prefix: Send in the Clowns:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sure, you like to pretend you're just fine on your own. You mock the characters who always need someone else to save them. 
  
  No thank you...you don't need anybody and nobody needs you, and as far as you're concerned the rest of the world can just leave you alone.  
  
  What you really find yourself wanting, though, is just a place to belong. You wish the play was all about you, but that's probably never going to happen and you've learned to live with isolation. 
conversations.prefix: The In-Crowd :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're so handy. Everyone says so. Your intuition when it comes to fixing things is spot-on. In fact, tools are your BFFFFFFFFs because they never let you down as long as you take care of them.
  
  Use those mad-fixing skills for good. 
conversations.prefix: Handy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Charge that invading army! Capture the castle! Slay the dragon. You aren't afraid of anything...even fear itself, and you'll walk into the fire if it means protecting someone you care about. 
conversations.prefix: Brave:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You think so far outside the box that you DESTROYED the box altogether...in a really creative way, of course. You're the type of problem solver that will come up with a solution that nobody's ever thought of that will end up being the perfect idea.
conversations.prefix: Creative:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're evil and you know it. No mere mortal can possibly comprehend the brilliance of what goes on inside your head, and they wouldn't want to. It's more than a little bit scary up in there. Until you succeed you plot, plot, and then plot again. 
conversations.prefix: Evil Genius:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Isn't it funny? Well, yes, actually, it IS funny when you're around. You don't worry much about anything because you can always find the humor or the irony even in the darkest situations. Dancing through life...skimming the surface...gliding where turf is smooth. That's you. 
conversations.prefix: Lighthearted :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pay no attention to the man (or woman) behind the curtain! People only notice you when you want them to. When you don't, you're part of the background as if you've always been there all along. Who needs a disguise when you're that good? 
conversations.prefix: Blending In:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have an independent streak a mile wide, but that also allows you to take the lead when other people fall behind. You'll blaze new trails and strike out on your own just for the fun of it, and you're good at taking care of yourself. 
conversations.prefix: Self-Sufficient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're desperate for your chance to shine, but people tend to overlook you, and that can drive a person crazy. When you're ignored, all those doubts buried deep down float right up to the surface, and that lack of confidence shows. 
conversations.prefix: Not-So Secretly Insecure:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Play nicely with others? You never learned that one back in kindergarten, and that lone-wolf attitude sometimes gets the better of you when you have to work together with someone else. There's something to be said for group effort, after all...
conversations.prefix: Not a Team Player:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Just trust you...until you turn around and stab someone in the back, that is. You are out for your own interests, and who cares who suffers for it? 
  
  Of course, the fact that you're known to be a villain makes it tough to get anyone to take your side, but then you can always kill those who stand in your way, so what does that matter? 
conversations.prefix: Not Trustworthy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have an overwhelming need for perfection. When mediocre just won't do, you've got very little room for error, and that can be exhausting. You can't stand the slightest hair out of place or the slightest deviation from the ideal. Someone might get the wrong idea about you, after all.
conversations.prefix: Not a Failure:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The warning signs are all around, but you're too busy having a good time to pay any attention...until it's too late. Something right behind you? They're just kidding, right? RIGHT? 
  
  Is everything in life just a joke to you? Weeeeeell, yes, as a matter of fact, it IS. 
conversations.prefix: Not Serious:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh? You have a tendency to figure things out just a little too late, or you end up going in the wrong direction altogether without recognizing that you're way off base. 
conversations.prefix: Not a Clue :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Once you've got your mind made up, that's that. Evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, you've dug in your heels and you aren't about to be shaken by a few details. 
  
  If other people want you to go along with them, you'll go...as long as they drag you kicking and screaming. 
conversations.prefix: Immovable Object:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Theater has stood for who knows how long. Not even the Stage Techs know all of its secrets. Stepping onto the stage is like walking into another world. There are (ominously) no exits. That can't be up to code, right?
conversations.prefix: The Theater, Main Stage:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This old theater bromide becomes a little more relevant when someone is watching...and even when there is no audience someone is ALWAYS watching in the Theater. Letting on that this show is different would be a dangerous idea. 
conversations.prefix: The Show Must Go On! (Act I):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been given your instructions. To follow or not to follow-that is the question. 
  
  Best make up your mind, because Act One won't last forever. 
conversations.prefix: Musical Interlude (FOR DANIEL ROTH):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have your marching orders, but do you have it in you to throw a world class tantrum and risk losing the audience's adoration? 
  
  One way or another, once Act II is over, the choice won't be a choice any longer. 
conversations.prefix: Pitch a Fit (CLARE) :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Theater is larger inside than it appears to be, and this is one of many spaces which are not ordinarily used. Oddly, someone has changed the commissary's orders, and the food that is supposed to go to the Green Room has shown up here instead. 
conversations.prefix: Abandoned Prop Room:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Yo ho, yo ho, an actor's life for me. You're on stage, so mind your props and cues. 
conversations.prefix: Onstage :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You were instructed to make sure that the trap door above the orchestra pit was open by the end of Act Three...
  TICK TOCK TICK TOCK
conversations.prefix: It's a TRAP(Door)-ALEX ONLY:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Breaking up Ruth and Robin's characters (for good) is what your note was asking for. 
  
  In other words, just another day in the life of the stage's most EVIL QUEEN. 
  
  It's Act Three (where does the time go?) so it's time to put up or shut up. 
conversations.prefix: Breaking Up is Hard to Do (DRUSILLA ONLY) :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can't stop the beat (literally). Remember those dancing princesses in the fairy tale who wore through their shoes night after night because they couldn't stand still? Best start believing in fairy tales...
conversations.prefix: Dance, Dance Revolution:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Stage Crew, in a moment of great tragedy, has managed to revert to what they know and everything is somehow ready for Act Four. 
  
  After all, the show must go on...some of those scene changes look a little rough, though. 
conversations.prefix: Upstage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Poor Harrison Beckett. I knew him. A scene-changer of infinite variety. Of most excellent abilities. 
  
  Dead, it would seem, and not by choice. Still, lounging around the theater when you are deceased just isn't nice, especially in the middle of a play. 
conversations.prefix: Body, Body, Who's Got the Body?:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: At this rate, the orchestra is never going to know what to play, and they aren't the most creative bunch, as a rule. 
  
  The conductor looks like he's pretty close to having a heart attack too. Best do something to prevent that if the play is to finish. 
conversations.prefix: Swimming in Sheet Music (DANIEL):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A kiss to build a dream on...but WHICH lucky costar will you be locking lips with this scene? 
conversations.prefix: Kiss the Girl (GAVIN) :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clare always wears the pretty dresses. They aren't your style, but it might just be time for a change...if you're going to obey the note you received, that is. 
conversations.prefix: Clothes Make the Man (Or Woman)-RUTH:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Can you: 
  
  A) Stop the Fire
  B) Keep the Audience Calm
  C) Continue With Act V 
  D) All of the Above
  
  All before the curtain falls, or will it BE curtains?
conversations.prefix: Where There's Smoke...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keep the show moving to the inevitable conclusion (and what lies ahead when the curtain closes) and try not to let on that all is not as it should be. 
conversations.prefix: Finish Strong (Or Just Finish) :
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Do you have what it takes to be in the spotlight? Will you complete your orders and steal a song (any song) before it's too late. The audience...and the Mastermind...are watching.
conversations.prefix: Steal a Song (EMILY):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Railroad tracks onstage in Act 5 instead of Act 3? Oh, well, just another day in the life, and if people are going to expect you to do the impossible, it's only because you CAN. 
conversations.prefix: Making Tracks (ANYONE):
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Some people don't respond well to the word "Can't" and you're one of them. You don't give up easily. If there's a way to get what you want you will find it.
conversations.prefix: Determined:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been too far in the background for too long. You're used to following other people. Descisions don't come easy to you and if someone seems in charge you might just follow them... Right off a cliff.
conversations.prefix: Follower:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know you're not meant for a main role, but maybe a supporting character? You've got your own story you'd like to tell, but don't want to lose those you've grown close to.
conversations.prefix: Balance:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Everything you do, from your motions to your music, is careful, considered, calculated, and exact. Your timing is impeccable, your memory sharp, and you usually say *exactly* what you mean.
conversations.prefix: Precise:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're used to being overlooked, ignored, partly because you're not really one to stick yourself out there most of the time. Even when you might want to. And when you *are* out there - boy howdy do you get nervous.
conversations.prefix: Timid:
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.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If there's a hero, you'll thwart him. If there's a fair maiden, you have a strange compulsion to tie her to the railroad tracks. It's good to be bad, as you well know. Getting pegged as the villain in every single show, however, has its disadvantages. 
conversations.prefix: Villain:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dispite all your flaws you can still get people's hearts pounding.  Your looks, your voice, your fierce attitude; nothing can stand in your way.  Your fabulous!
conversations.prefix: Fabulous :
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Why must everything and everyone always be against you?  Well if that's how this is going to go down, then let everything burn...
conversations.prefix: Wrath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Why should anyone else be happy when you aren't? Why should the good guys always win? You've got a brain full of eeeeeeeeeeeeevil ideas and you're going to make everyone realize that you are just that much better than they are. 
  
  On the other hand, you're really not such a baddie after all, if only everyone else would see it that way. 
conversations.prefix: Foil All the Endings:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You may not know much yet, but you want to; that counts for a lot. Half of convincing the world to care about you is caring for it right back.
conversations.prefix: Interested:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You keep a level head. You know what to do. You're a Stage Manager! You got this shit.
conversations.prefix: Not my first disaster: