conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Shapes that rip and tear.  Shadows that live in corners. Windows in space and time that lead to realms of madness and decay. A dark, lurking horror that feeds off the echoing anguish of a billion tortured souls.  This is the center of a twisted, sinister conspiracy which threatens the very existence of all humankind.
  
  The Metroplexes, where most of the world's population lives, are a blend of lawless gang turf and corporate fortresses ruled by men and women powerful enough to be above the law.  The countryside is sparsely inhabited, its natives suspicious and violent. And increasing areas of countryside are turning into Demonground, from which few return.
  
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  This game will be based on the classic RPG Dark Conspiracy by GDW, Inc. with some modifications for the Storium format.  Players will be members of a group who have had one or two minor incidents with weird things previously, and would be willing to come together and investigate more unbelievable things. 
  Use of provided Natures and cards is highly recommended, although suggestions for additions or alterations are welcome.
  This is a modern horror game.  The year is 2053, and the Players are citizens of the Chatlanta metroplex.  Cybernetics are known, but uncommon unless you are among the ultra-wealthy.  Magic does not exist, although some psychic abilities, known as Empathy, are rumored to exist although they are mostly fodder for tabloids.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can use this asset to indicate that you are willing to help Zach recover his missing children.    
conversations.prefix: Hands In...:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can use this asset to indicate that you are . (copy)willing to help Zach recover his missing children.    
conversations.prefix: Hands In..:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tactical Mossberg 500 - Pistol grip folding stock w/5 shotshell holder and pistol grip forend w/flashlight. 18.5in barrel w/heatshield, 28in ribbed double bead accu-choke barrel
conversations.prefix: Mossberg 500:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There is undoubtably a story behind this chip.
conversations.prefix: Poker Chip:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This deck of cards is crisp, but obviously not new.
conversations.prefix: Deck of Maverick Playing Cards:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The hairs at the back of your neck stand up, and a chill runs down your spine. You feel, you know, something bad is going down.    
conversations.prefix: Foreboding:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This envelope contains pictures of the six missing kids, as well as basic biographical information on them.
  The kids are:
  Candice Grace Morgan, 10
  Mary Sartain, 8
  Mark Sean Greene, 7
  Patricia Walsh, 7
  Lee-anne Powers, 6
  Lisa Marie Marcelle, 4
conversations.prefix: Zach's Envelope:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This weapon is a Belgian-built semiautomatic shotgun used by the British in antiquerrilla actions in Malaysia after WWII.  It is still common to find as a home protection weapon.
conversations.prefix: Browning Autoriot:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Also known as the Wildy Wolf, this weapon is a custom-made version of the Wildey pistol
conversations.prefix: Wildey .475 WM:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This moderately rare item is a pack of cigarettes, each with over 50% real tobacco in them.  
conversations.prefix: Pack of Cigarettes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The high-grade tactical defense baton telescopes from 12" to 19" in length and is capable of delivering a 2,000,000 volt charge to assailants with either the tip or the final 4" of the weapon.  This unit also includes a 6000 lumen LED flashlight in the base and is wall-chargable.
conversations.prefix: Tesla Nova 9M Stun Baton:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This set of myriad tools, picks, wire, and other equipment is essential for most tasks of burglary and thievery. 
conversations.prefix: Thieve's Toolkit:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When it comes down to a coin flip, things usually go your way.
conversations.prefix: Lucky:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It used to be you tracked down missing husbands and testified at divorce proceedings. Sometimes you'd get a real case investigating crimes the police had decided to let lie. Nowadays you track monsters in the sewers and investigate crimes that would get you an appointment with a psychiatrist, if you told anyone. You're not exactly sure what's happening to the world, but you certainly intend to find out.
conversations.prefix: Private Investigator:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not necessarily only in regards to money, you always try to get more than your fair share.
conversations.prefix: Greedy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One of the worst effects of the Greater Depression has been that no one has the clout anymore to enforce protection of the environment. As a result, the business world seems to have abandoned itself to a mad scramble to rape the Earth before anyone else gets it all.  There's not a lot an individual can do to turn things around, but you're determined to protect as much of the natural world as you can, even if it means using violence.
conversations.prefix: Environmentalist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're young, you're tough, and you're slick.  You're part of a family of the street, a motley collection of disaffected youths that knows the world is going to pieces and intends to party and rumble until the world's last gasp.
  But lately you've been wondering if it's ever going to end. Maybe someone's manipulating things to keep everyone right on the brink but never let them go over.  maybe you and your chums ought to find out who that someone is and kick some butt.
conversations.prefix: Ganger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Faced with corporate aggression, the federal government stepped back into the wings.  Most people think it's moribund, that it will never recover.  But you know it's playing possum.  All available money and resources have been poured into clandestine operations to find out exactly what's behind the new world order. It's no longer just the CIA and FBI, either. Nowadays some of the most effective agents are FCC, EPA, SEC, IRS, and the like.  Using their primary missions as cover these agencies are collecting the data that may turn things back around.
conversations.prefix: Government Agent:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: For the past couple of centuries, doctoring has been a good gig with high pay and lots of perks.  Lately, there has been an increased demand for doctors with lots of knowledge about emergency medicine.  It looks like business will remain good for a long time to come.
conversations.prefix: Medical Doctor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The streets are more dangerous than ever before, but you're well trained in self-defence and can hold your own against multiple foes in face-to-face combat.  Even in fire combat, however, your training gives you an edge, making your reactions quicker and more exact.  Also your physical control translates into stealth when necessary.
conversations.prefix: Martial Artist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: with the old superpowers cooling their heels after the corporate takeover, they're not able to watchdog the world's trouble spots as effectively any more.  As a result, the temperature of brush wars has risen a number of degrees, and the countries involved are crying for someone to come and train their troops in modern warfare techniques. Of course, part of training them is supplying them, so if you're sharp, it's pretty easy to make a lot of money really fast.  You just have to be careful to duck when the bullets start flying.
conversations.prefix: Mercenary:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've always been more attuned to the nature of things than most people.  Lately, you've felt a sickness growing in the world, like a sort of psychic gangrene.  Even the common people, who aren't as sensitive as you, are beginning to feel the pressure, and it adds to the world's problems, causing them to lash out in ever-increasing violence. Someone has to locate the source of that infection and lance it. Unfortunately, it looks like that someone will have to be use.
conversations.prefix: Mystic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To your mind, the city streets have become a war zone. Jut to collect the wounded, you have to carry firearms on the ambulance. And body armor is stard-issue for ambulance teams nowadays. Once good thing about it all, though: You don't have to worry about a layoff. Business is booming.
conversations.prefix: Paramedic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: As an expert in the workings of the human mind, you have become very interested in what have come to be called the empathic powers. This field was once known as parapsychology, but as the laws governing their use have become better known, it has been rechristened paraphysics. You want to delineate the limits of those powers, to learn how they work, and to discover what has brought about their sudden upsurge in today's world.
  But your interest has led you into subjects you never expected.  you've begun to find evidence of a psychic invasion sweeping the planet. Now, you realize that the research you are doing is no longer merely simple interest: It may be the only thing that can save the world.
conversations.prefix: Paraphysicist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It seems the gold age of science as savior never came. High technology proved to be only as good as the people who wield it, and as often as not conflicts over the raw materials it required excalated into wars. but people have to have hope. In the modern age of misery, they need more than ever to have a shoulder to lean on and an ear that listens.  And they're willing to pay for the privilege. Some of those who step in to fill the gap do so for a quick and easy profit.  Others are self-sacrificing saints.
conversations.prefix: Clergy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In today's world, it is sometimes difficult to get by without bending or outright breaking them.  For others, that really isn't even that big of a deal.
conversations.prefix: Criminal:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Technically, the country still has a free press. But most of the national news services have fallen prey to the big money of the corps. That leaves you to fill the gap.  You work for a street corner rag that prints all the news that fits. Across your front pages headlines clamor about the ghost of Elvis and two-headed babies born on roller coasters. But in between those stories are others like the one about the ritual murders in Galveston. That one was truth, intended to draw fire on the perpetrators, and apparently it worked, because the murders stopped.
  You wish you could print nothing but stories like that.  But the more sensational ones serve two purposes. First, they draw buyers, keeping you in business. Second, they serve as camouflage to screen you from the revenge of whatever it is out there that's driving this world insane. As long as your true stories seem accidental, you've got a chance to survive.
conversations.prefix: Journalist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You used to be unemployed, homeless, and hungry. Now you're just unemployed. You live in a barracks or tiny apartment provided by a major corp. you eat the daily rations they provide for you. you wear the clothes they give you. And you watch the television they pipe in. All the corp requires in return is that you sign a proxy allowing it to vote in your place in public elections. All in all, it doesn't seem a bad exchange, but it's awfully boring, or would be if it weren't ofr the ganges, gambling, and gin mills. You also tend to meet a lot of strange people in the slums.
conversations.prefix: Prole (Corporate Welfare Recipient):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Here and there across the globe, clandestine labs to study psychic phenomena are being built by a number of different organizations. You have been identified as manifesting high psychic potential and have been recruited or captured to become a test subject.  All sorts of stimuli are tried to bring your abilities to light: hypnosis, drug therapy, and electrostimulus are just a few. The result has been a rapid improvement in your empathic powers. But you've learned a few things about medicine and psychology along the way, as a well.
conversations.prefix: Psychic Test Subject:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your determination is unshakable and you will cannot be broken.
conversations.prefix: Iron Will:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can push through the pain and wall it away to deal with later on.  You are the master of it, not the other way around.
conversations.prefix: Pain Threshold:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whether through hand-eye coordination or simply fine control, you have the ability to be incredibly precise in action and word.
conversations.prefix: Precision:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know medicine and are skilled in it's use.  Whether you are a doctor or paramedic, or trained in field medicine, you can fix the wounded and known your way around common drugs and diagnosis.
conversations.prefix: Medic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know how the pieces move and what options are out there at a given point. Plans and outcomes are your forté, and success is your objective.
conversations.prefix: Tactician:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If it fires a projectile, you have probably shot it, cleaned it, rebuilt it, and shot it again.
conversations.prefix: Gunner:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You notice things other people miss, from fine details to hidden connections.
conversations.prefix: Perceptive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not only do you know people, but you know people who know people.  Whether you need to get rare equipment, access, or information, you probably know someone that can hook you up.
conversations.prefix: Connected:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your empathic nature has been awakened through some traumatic event.  This strength can be used to super charge any of your empathic skills.
conversations.prefix: Empathic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: While not rich enough to have a private home in the gated communities you are comfortably well off, and have spare cash to drop if needed.
conversations.prefix: Wealth:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone owes you a major favor.  Is now the time to call that favor in?
conversations.prefix: Favor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You and money have never been close.  No matter what you do, it seems like you are destined to be broke.
conversations.prefix: Poor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whether from age, illness or wounds, you are physically weak and damaged.
conversations.prefix: Frail:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: When it comes down to a coin flip, you should hope it doesn't come down to a coin flip.
conversations.prefix: Unlucky:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have some type of physical disability that requires some sort of accommodation.
conversations.prefix: Physical Disability:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have problems opening up and sharing with people, regardless of how close they are to you.
conversations.prefix: Secretive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone is significant to you and that could be a vulnerability.
conversations.prefix: Loved One:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Guns are dangerous and scary.  They should be avoided at all costs.
conversations.prefix: Gun Shy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Just because you think they are all out to get you, doesn't mean they aren't.
conversations.prefix: Paranoid:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a short fuse, and it is usually more of a struggle for you not to blow up at the slightest provocation.
conversations.prefix: Short Tempered:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex...  It could be almost anything, but something is the monkey on your back.  You don't know how far you will go for a fix, but you know it's probably farther than you are ready to go.
conversations.prefix: Addicted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Regardless of how important it seems, or critical it may be, you have difficulty remembering pretty much any particular detail about anything.  it often seems that the more important it is that you recall something, the  harder it is to find in your foggy mind.
conversations.prefix: Forgetful:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have great difficulty waiting or holding off on an action.
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some money is good, more money is better.  You are sick of always needing more money and want to get out of this whole once and for all.
conversations.prefix: Get Rich:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The innocent and weaker deserve to be shielded from the harsh realities of this world, particularly the things that move in the shadows.
conversations.prefix: Guardian:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ignorance breeds fear.  Evil feeds on fear.  The only way to combat the growing evil in the long term is to drag proof of its existence into the light.  Expose the bleating sheeple to the monsters that hunt them and they will rise up!
conversations.prefix: Find the Truth:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You seek to cure the ill and heal the wounded.  It's the only way to keep up the fight.
conversations.prefix: Heal the Sick:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Now that you know that things are not what they seem, it has become your mission to hunt down those things that hunt us.
conversations.prefix: Monster Hunter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Being unknown sucks, because people only care about people they know about.  The easiest road to a life of luxury is to get people to notice you and then fortune and power is sure to follow.
conversations.prefix: Get Famous:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Somewhere along the way, someone has done you wrong.  You need to fix that, either by getting back what was taken from you, or making those who wronged you pay.
conversations.prefix: Right a wrong:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Corporate greed and human apathy have scarred and bloodies Mother Earth, and you are one of the few working to try to begin the healing.
conversations.prefix: Heal the Earth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether it is definite knowledge of the impending evil, or learning more of the scope of your own psychic power, you need to delve into the darkness to bring answers into the light.
conversations.prefix: Learn the Unknown:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Joe's is a well known greasy spoon on the corner of Whatley St. and Charleston Ave.  The group meets here on a regular basis to discuss any topics of interest that have shown up.
conversations.prefix: Joe's Delicatessen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Zach has seen a lot of miles and a lot of things.  He probably has tales worth telling, if anyone would bother to listen.
conversations.prefix: Zachariah Greene:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have decided for whatever reason you are going to help Zach find what happened to the kids of his town.  
conversations.prefix: Volunteer to Investigate Indian Springs:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Welcome to the little town of Indian Springs, GA. This bucolic little burg may look a bit run-down, but otherwise servicable, but you know that there is something darker going on here.
conversations.prefix: Indian Springs:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This envelope contains pictures of the six missing kids, as well as basic biographical information on them. The kids are: 
  
  Candice Grace Morgan, 10
  
  Mary Sartain, 8
  
  Mark Sean Greene, 7
  
  Patricia Walsh, 7
  
  Lee-anne Powers, 6
  
  Lisa Marie Marcelle, 4
conversations.prefix: Zach's Envelope:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sheriff Grimes has tried to keep order in town, but a lack of resources and increasing lawlessness outside the town makes that difficult.
conversations.prefix: Sheriff Kevin Grimes:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Never tell me the odds!
  -Han Solo
conversations.prefix: Gambler:
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: You're able to help people soften up to new company.
conversations.prefix: Friendly Face.:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes a simple friendly gesture is all it takes to make a mark tell you exactly what you want to know. 
conversations.prefix: A Friendly Gesture:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild: