conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Note: This is a test run, my first Storium attempt. It's not intended to last too long, a sort of one-shot to get the feel of things. I grabbed the Cyberpunk default setting to use. The plan is that this would last just a handful of scenes and then we can see what else we might do with it!
  
  Note 2: started the first scene, but still open for anything to join in! 
  
  
  Life in the San Diego Metroplex can be tough. Between the megacorporations, the security patrols, the gangers, and the weather, it can be tough to be a "freelancer," as you refer to yourself. Jobs have been sparse, rent is due at the end of the week, and suddenly your private email box pops up with a message. A fixer named Mr. Smith wants you to meet at Dead Channel, a local nightclub. Quick job. Easy money. Low risk. 
  
  Too good to be true, so it probably is. But the rent is the rent. You grab your gear and head out...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve got your own honor, your own steel, your own code in an ugly, dangerous world.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Tough As Steel
  
  Suggested Weakness: Malfunctions
conversations.prefix: Cybersamurai:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You cut and you kill for money — sometimes for more than money.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Deadly Accuracy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Cold-hearted
conversations.prefix: Razorkid:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A high-capacity encrypted databank in your head makes you valuable — and a target.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Dataport Programs
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken Memories
conversations.prefix: Digital Courier:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The electric rush of cyberspace is why you go on living, job to job, challenge to challenge.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hot Reflexes
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken-Down Body
conversations.prefix: Matrix Cowboy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A cutting-edge style hacker and culture punk, reshaping the world through your art.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Famous Charm
  
  Suggested Weakness: Notoriety
conversations.prefix: Rockstar:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Other people’s business is your business. You’re in the intrusion racket, cracking privacy.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Streetwise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Guilty
conversations.prefix: Private Investigator:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your military history and training make you valuable. Your experience makes you dangerous.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Arsenal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Old Wounds
conversations.prefix: Soldier of Fortune:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In your bespoke suit, with that smile, you can change the planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sterling Connections
  
  Suggested Weakness: Obligated
conversations.prefix: Zaibatsu Officer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Saving lives is your trade and business is booming.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medical License
  
  Suggested Weakness: Addicted
conversations.prefix: Cybersurgeon:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: People need information if they’re going to fight for what’s right. You give it to them.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Great Sensors
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.prefix: Freelance Journalist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can take it. Whatever the beating, whatever the heartbreak, you can take it.
conversations.prefix: Tough As Steel:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re accurate with blades and bullets and words. You break hearts as easy as bones.
conversations.prefix: Deadly Accuracy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: That collection of stolen programmed skills you have serves you well. Plug and play.
conversations.prefix: Dataport Programs:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re wired for speed in cyberspace and meatspace alike. Real life’s almost too slow now.
conversations.prefix: Hot Reflexes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: People are dying to meet you, to impress you, to be charmed by you. You’re so cool.
conversations.prefix: Famous Charm:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know the politics and the landscape of the streets and how to get around alive.
conversations.prefix: Streetwise:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whatever it is — if it’s got an edge or ammo, from katanas to lasers — you can get it.
conversations.prefix: Arsenal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know people in high places. You’re owed favors. You make things happen.
conversations.prefix: Sterling Connections:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Skilled and equipped, you can practice medicine, get drugs, and repair meat and metal.
conversations.prefix: Medical License:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whether they’re cybernetic or all natural, your eyes and ears are razor sharp.
conversations.prefix: Great Sensors:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Without regular upkeep, all those fancy cybernetics start to hiccup and misbehave.
conversations.prefix: Malfunctions:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve got to keep your feelings disconnected to do your job. Makes you distant. Cold.
conversations.prefix: Cold-hearted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your head’s not right, riddled with blank spots and holes where memories should be.
conversations.prefix: Broken Memories:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The parts of you that aren’t wired and rehabbed are wearing down from hard use.
conversations.prefix: Broken-Down Body:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a nasty rep for doing nasty things and it’s not wholly undeserved.
conversations.prefix: Notoriety:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cold guilt keeps you up, makes you doubt, gets you down. Can’t undo what you did.
conversations.prefix: Guilty:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your meat and your metal are plagued by the side-effects of old wounds from old fights.
conversations.prefix: Old Wounds:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your anger and spite hold you back, cause you troubles, make you less than you are.
conversations.prefix: Angry:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether hungry or fed, your addiction causes you constant problems.
conversations.prefix: Addicted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve got to act a certain way to be the best you — it’s like fighting with one hand tied.
conversations.prefix: Obligated:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Earn the funds necessary to get away, even for a little while, even if it’s hard.
conversations.prefix: Score Your Escape Funds:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You draw your strength from knowing you do the job right. The whole job. Do it right.
conversations.prefix: Do The Job Right:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Maybe it’ll take money, maybe medicine, maybe something else, but you gotta get right.
conversations.prefix: Repair Yourself:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ll know you’re worthy when you can bring down a big target and survive.
conversations.prefix: Break A Big Target:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Write and perform something that’ll make you a star again — or a bigger star, finally.
conversations.prefix: Make A Hit:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This could be the job that helps you break free of this life for something better.
conversations.prefix: Get Out of This Trap:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is honor? How will you know when you’ve got it back? How will you keep it when you do?
conversations.prefix: Reclaim Your Honor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fix what’s wicked in the world by enacting change from within. Make something better.
conversations.prefix: Change From Within:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get someone clean. Get someone a fresh start. Maybe it’s you?
conversations.prefix: Get Someone Clean:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The world needs to open its eyes and look at itself. Make that happen.
conversations.prefix: Expose A Big Story:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get a couple of good doses of whatever passes for your drug.
conversations.prefix: Score A Fix:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get better guns.
conversations.prefix: Upgrade Your Guns:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get the software, stims, or downloadable memories that’ll sharpen, heighten, brighten your mind.
conversations.prefix: Upgrade Your Mind:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maybe your meat’s old or rusty, maybe you just want to look better. Get on that.
conversations.prefix: Upgrade Your Flesh:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You need a safe retreat, a place to hide or crash, where you can close your eyes.
conversations.prefix: Find A Safe House:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone’s lying to you. Learn something new.
conversations.prefix: Learn the Truth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: People want you hurting or dead. Rise above and strike back.
conversations.prefix: Survive the Attack:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Close your eyes, recall the reasons, the faces, the feelings. Why are you doing all this?
conversations.prefix: Remember Why You’re Doing This:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Break the shell on that bad mother and watch what spills out into cyberspace.
conversations.prefix: Crack That Hostile Mainframe:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Score more money than you’ve got coming to you. Make them think you’re worth it.
conversations.prefix: Get A Raise:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A shiny, curved sword with a fine, delicate edge.
conversations.prefix: Monokatana:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A rapid-fire dart gun capable of delivering drugs and toxins.
conversations.prefix: Flechette Gun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Black-market mycotoxin capable or eroding human memory engrams.
conversations.prefix: Memory-Corroding Chemical:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Big but sleek, quiet but quick, adorned with glowing paint and a hybrid engine.
conversations.prefix: Lectron Powerbike:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The new cutter program meant to overwhelm and confound defenses in cyberspace.
conversations.prefix: Cutting-Edge Anti-Security Program:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A data-stick encoded with kung-fu lessons. Load time is about 9 seconds.
conversations.prefix: A Kung-Fu Datapin:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Records audio, images, atmospheric data, chemical traces, and more.
conversations.prefix: Full-Suite Recorder:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unfolding fabric micro-computer for portable functionality wherever you go.
conversations.prefix: Microtablet:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Personal data stolen from some corporate database, maybe worth killing for.
conversations.prefix: Stolen Data:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A simple hand-held device with a three-inch laser torch emitter.
conversations.prefix: Laser-Cutter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A cramped, cheap coffin hotel in the city’s red-light district.
conversations.prefix: Coffin Hotel:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Not a boat at all but a roving five-seat wagon and noodle bar. The owner’s connected.
conversations.prefix: Crowded Noodle Boat:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Polished concrete, greenish glass, shiny chrome — the paperless office once promised.
conversations.prefix: Gleaming Corporate Office Suite:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The free wilds of the digital consensual hallucination yawning between fortified servers.
conversations.prefix: Cyberspace:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Layers of ramshackle favela crisscrossed with escape hatches and secret passages.
conversations.prefix: Shanty Town:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A dirty, popular club crammed with holography and digital games.
conversations.prefix: Dead Channel Nightclub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A place of deep carpets and soft sheets high above the city.
conversations.prefix: Posh Hotel Suite:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Metal arms and faux-flesh legs dangle from hooks drilled into a low ceiling.
conversations.prefix: Gray-Market Cybernetics Shop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tinted dark and shiny, brimming with Japanese whiskies, and almost certainly bugged.
conversations.prefix: Spacious Limousine:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Luminescent paint glows on the black top, wet with acid rain.
conversations.prefix: The Street:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Don’t think of them as people. Think of them as things between you and freedom.
conversations.prefix: Night-Club Brawl:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get off this roadway alive. Don’t let the motorgangs stop you.
conversations.prefix: Hostile Highway:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Run, jump, climb, drop — it’s time for some parkour-type stuff.
conversations.prefix: Rooftop Getaway:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They want to love you or hate you. Make it work for you.
conversations.prefix: Sway the Crowd:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Flickering light-up crime-scene tape around a forgotten crime scene. Find what they missed.
conversations.prefix: Dirty Crime Scene:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: People, collectively, are animals — furious, ferocious animals. Get out of here.
conversations.prefix: Crazed Mob:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Like a 3D playing-card diamond gleaming in the matrix. Hardened with lethal ice.
conversations.prefix: The Biologique Mainframe — Cyberspace:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tinted-black cameras and white-hot lasers want you out, want you dead. Too bad for them, right?
conversations.prefix: Hot Security Systems:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It’s time to cut. Destroy evidence, steal the prize, whatever. Cut. Then run.
conversations.prefix: Smoke It With Laser:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The tech inside you is hanging, chugging, struggling to run. Get it right.
conversations.prefix: Lock-Up:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: She says her name’s Alexa Carter which means her name is anything but Alexa Carter.
conversations.prefix: Alexa Carter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: CEO of Biologique Unlimited, allegedly cloned from the old Cross crime family.
conversations.prefix: Virgil Cross:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Head of the Lectron biker gang known for anti-corporate activism and street violence.
conversations.prefix: Suzuki Kanon:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hotshot tech and UI designer responsible for the newest popular cyberspace HUD.
conversations.prefix: Frederix Wu:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Former CEO of a genetics company sold to Biologique. Looking for his next startup.
conversations.prefix: Javier Cruz:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bodyguard for hire. Expert with blades. Call her “Kelly” and she’ll show you.
conversations.prefix: Kell Glasner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: High on something and aching for a fight with anyone fool enough to try him.
conversations.prefix: Muscular Cyborg German Dude:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Lectrons are dangerous but highly organized and loyal to Suzuki Kanon.
conversations.prefix: Lectron Rider:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An anonymized, off-the-books corporate assassin with lethal skills. Sent by...?
conversations.prefix: Zaibatsu Assassin:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nefarious and brilliant cyberspace code-hacker and ice-breaker known only by his handle.
conversations.prefix: The Break:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A dirty, popular club crammed with holography and digital games. Lots of dark corners perfect for private meetings.
conversations.prefix: Dead Channel Nightclub:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A compact hand-held device with a three-inch high-frequency laser torch emitter. State of the art.
conversations.prefix: Laser-Cutter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A rapid-fire dart gun capable of delivering drugs, toxins, or just jagged high-velocity death using subsonic rounds..
conversations.prefix: Flechette Gun:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know, I don't think his real name is Mr. Smith.
conversations.prefix: Mr. Smith:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something's going on here, something big. This data packet is worth way more than what you're being paid. The information wants to be free. Or at least, more profitable.
conversations.prefix: Decrypt the Data:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The bouncer is sporting last generation cyber, is high on something, and aching for a fight with anyone fool enough to try him.
conversations.prefix: Muscular Cyborg German Dude:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The client wants the data packet, unopened and untampered. Don't mess with the paycheck, don't ask stupid questions.
conversations.prefix: Deliver the Data:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With the projectors off, it's a dingy table and half a dozen tattered chairs. With the projectors on it can be anything you want.
conversations.prefix: Private Holosuite:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lack of AETHER access is a pain, using greentooth tech is like hacking through molasses. Or is that a keyboard? Blech!
conversations.prefix: Dead Channel Security Protocols:
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.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hardware is good but at the end of the day you still need some talent.  You tell most people you were a natural born hacker, software coding just flows from your fingertips like Michelangelo painting the 16th.
conversations.prefix: I AM EEN-VINCE-ABULL!!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No matter how badly you think you want it, it's mine -  and you aren't going to question it.
conversations.prefix: Master Negotiator: