conversations.from: system
conversations.value: It's the late 90's. It's always night, and it's usually raining, but it's not like anyone notices. Because in New Gothic, the city that never wakes up, the unsuspecting public would rather not know about the surreal and monstrous secrets in the shadows.
  
  You are one of those monstrous fears. You're probably sexy, most likely brooding, definitely powerful, and I'd wager tormented in some tragic but intriguing way. You own the night. Or at least, you mortgage it and pay association fees. And someone else is always trying to collect.
  
  The real existential dilemma you face is, do you have what it takes to survive this grim reality? Can you fight the struggle to keep New Gothic from being controlled by those powers that would rather suck it dry, leaving a husk of concrete bones? Can you control it for yourself, and let your benevolence (or malevolence)  keep the sheeple from learning the truth of your dark existence?
  
  Only you can decide. Well, and all the other terrible horrors out to do the same thing. Watch out for those guys.
  
  Welcome to the Huntening. I mean, the Huntering.
  
  -The Game-
  Hey! As you can tell, this is a little tongue-in-cheek take on the dark and brooding World of Darkness, Blade meets Underworld gritty 90's-00's urban action fantasy noir pulp. The goal is to have fun, invoke as many tropes as possible, and maybe tell a compelling and crazy story along the way.
  
  I am a GM/Storyteller who doesn't just root for the players, I fall in LOVE with them. I want you to be fantastic. So as an aspect of this game, I will GLADLY reward players who do awesome, funny or bad-ass things by giving you cards when you do your best.
  
  Lore and legend around vampires, werewolves and other dark creatures of the night are pretty well known in pop culture by now, you can pick and choose how you want to represent that. Just don't try to tell other players they're doing it wrong - leave that to me, or in a sidebar discussion. I usually don't veto actions unless they take away from the fun, or are causing actual confusion.
  
  You don't have to have your clown shoes on, just don't have your tie on too tight. If you want to be dark and sexy, do it. If you want to be guns-a-blazin', go for it. But if your dialog is corny, your kung fu is wired up, and your occult soulblade is yearning for blood, time to put on some techno and jump a few rooftops. Am I rite?
  
  MOST IMPORTANTLY!!
  The story has no end, only players that will come and go. I'll take as many applicants as I can, but when some folks drop out, I'll just invite more. If it gets to be too much fun for one thread, I'll start a splinter game. Let's really show what Storium is for, okay? Build our own lore, have some melodrama, and show that Showtime and AMC don't have the market cornered on pulp serial horror soaps.
  
  That's all. Let's brood, creeps.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The main artery in and out of downtown, NGCS is full of travelers, vagrants, peddlers and crooks. And that's just the businessmen.
conversations.prefix: New Gothic Central Station:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The streetlamps don't seem to do much good here. All the benches and trails are overshadowed by gnarly trees and looming architecture.
conversations.prefix: Gordon Park:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know what they say, all roads lead to Hackney, but who the hell wants to go there?
conversations.prefix: Hackney Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are the stalker of the night. You party. You fight. You seduce. You drink blood like wine. You may not like the monster you are, but there's no going back. Might as well enjoy it.
conversations.prefix: Urban Vampire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The legends can't ever encapsulate the depth of the monster you are. You can shift from a dangerous beast to a dangerous person, which one is the real you?
conversations.prefix: Urban Werewolf:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The occult is your specialty. Ancient blood courses your body, imbued with the potency of the unnatural and the arcane. You have an affinity for broomsticks possibly.
conversations.prefix: Urban Witch:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fleshrider. Poltergeist. Casper. There are many names you go by, but one thing is certain. You died, but missed the train to the next life. Better make another one here.
conversations.prefix: Urban Ghost:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You weren't born a monster, but you survived around them, you know everything about them. Perhaps now you're becoming the monster? Who cares, just reload.
conversations.prefix: Urban Hunter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's some deep trauma in your life. Something that holds you by the ear and gives you a good ol' yank from time to time.
conversations.prefix: Haunted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a bleeding heart. In a world that drinks blood, it makes you terribly vulnerable at the wrong times.
conversations.prefix: Sympathetic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are the protector of someone or something. It causes you to compromise your own needs in order to keep your charge in check.
conversations.prefix: Dependent:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a tarnished legacy, a history of disrepute. This mark on your character crops up at the most inconvenient times, like... all the time.
conversations.prefix: Blighted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're bad, as in awful. And somehow you manage to just make things even worse.
conversations.prefix: Horrible:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: We are us, they are them. You don't get them, you don't want to get them. You just want them to stay out of your business.
conversations.prefix: Prejudiced:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're here to be the hero. You have a mission, and it will probably involve saving the day. Couple days. Weeks, even.
conversations.prefix: Savior:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What you know could fill a book. Lots of books. Maybe a library. Whatever it is, it's locked in your head, and you have the key.
conversations.prefix: Wizened:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have what it takes, so long as it takes bullets, and explosions, and also driving really fast. Did I say explosions?
conversations.prefix: Warrior:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's a delicate balance of on-your-feet skill and on-your-ass luck, but you manage to skirt danger at (almost) every turn.
conversations.prefix: Unstoppable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's really easy to get what you want when everyone seems to want what you've got. Sexually.
conversations.prefix: Seductive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nobody seems to get you but you, and that leaves you with the answers nobody else can obtain. Keep them guessing, you'll always have the upper hand.
conversations.prefix: Enigmatic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you can't get your own problems together, what hope is there for anything greater?
conversations.prefix: Save Yourself:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Too much bloodshed, not enough picnics. C'mon people now...
conversations.prefix: Make Peace:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's time to put right what once went wrong, and hope the next leap will be the leap... home.
conversations.prefix: Redemption:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's been a mystery for so long, you yearn to just close the chapter on this one.
conversations.prefix: Case Closed:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This town needs an enema. Time to take out the trash, and claim the throne for yourself. There's no throne? Well make one already!
conversations.prefix: Hostile Takeover:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know that there's more, just so much more, and if you had it, just imagine what you could do with it!
conversations.prefix: Unlock the Secret:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The dark and sultry gothic electrica club that has an equally dark and sultry underbelly.
conversations.prefix: Bludwerks:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something devious is going on tonight.  Much like any night, really. But this time, it's caught your eye.
conversations.prefix: Who Owns The Night:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Haydes is an accommodating and reasonable vampire, as far as power-dominating sadists go.
conversations.prefix: Zoe - A meet with the boss:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes the old blood-sucker and flea-flicker feud flares up.
conversations.prefix: Meg, Reeve & Thom - Commotion Outside:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can't quite put your finger on it, but tonight feels a little electric. Like a storm.
conversations.prefix: Open - Something Strange:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your conversation isn't meant for other ears. But this place isn't exactly sound-proof.
conversations.prefix: Caranack & Matthew - Keep It Secret:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Mercedes in the street isn't helping the chaos of tonight, spilling out of the club into the world.
conversations.prefix: Mara, Lucien & Thom - Phased or Fazed:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: With the chaos of the ravers and cravers leaving the club, will it turn into a feeding frenzy?
conversations.prefix: Open - Will There Be Blood:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The heart of the underground network, anything can be bought and sold here, but never for a fair price.
conversations.prefix: The Underberg:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know someone who can provide a useful service.
conversations.prefix: Helpful Ally:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know someone who collects secrets like a pawn shop.
conversations.prefix: Info Broker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're adept at letting magical essence pass through you, amplifying or dissipating at your whim.
conversations.prefix: Conduit:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your allies go beyond friends or family, you are bound by blood and honor.
conversations.prefix: Loyal Pack:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Everyone has their account of the fate of Bludwerks. Anecdotes and blame abound. How close is it to the truth?
conversations.prefix: Open - Facts or Lies:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's purpose is unknown, but it is more than just a cloud of mist. It emanates the essence of an ancient fear.
conversations.prefix: The Blood Haze:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You feel the essence of hatred.
conversations.prefix: Hatred:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You feel the essence of fear.
conversations.prefix: Fear:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You feel the essence of anger.
conversations.prefix: Anger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You feel the essence of rage.
conversations.prefix: Rage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You feel the essence of demise.
conversations.prefix: Demise:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The red haze is having an adverse effect on the city, even the mundane citizens seem caught in the peril.
conversations.prefix: Open - Grim Pandemonium:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your state between the land of the living and the great beyond has allowed you some extra tricks for getting around on the mortal plane.
conversations.prefix: Free to Roam:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your state between the land of the living and the great beyond has allowed you some extra tricks for getting around on the mortal plane.
conversations.prefix: Free to Roam:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The pit from Bludwerks has turned into a gateway from the nether. It is vomiting forth inhuman terrors.
conversations.prefix: Demon Horde:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The pit from Bludwerks has turned into a gateway from the nether. It is vomiting forth inhuman terrors. 
conversations.prefix: Topside - Demon Horde:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The demons are scratching to enter. You'd rather they didn't.
conversations.prefix: Underberg - Secure The Underberg:
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.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You hail from the *really* old country, and as such, you uphold certain traditions, ones that mortals and immortals have apparently forgotten. You have a certain lordly demeanor that lends you a distinguished air... that oh-so-subtly masks your more savage side. Your powers are strong, your blood is old, and you revel in the terror, pain, and madness of others, mortal and immortal alike. But that is not all that drives you.
conversations.prefix: Foreign Exchange Vamprie:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are the shadow in the night, the lurker in the dark, the center of the ballroom or at least, nightclub dance floor... when you enter a room, you make an impression... whether its in the hearts and minds of terrified/aroused mortals, or the holes you make in the concrete walls... or on the flesh and minds of your victims. You are the definition of the classic vampire overlord, and you love your dark nature. This self-assured confidence is alluring in its own way... but there is no denying that you are a monster.
conversations.prefix: Dark Lord:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Always *whining*... when will that beautiful learn to embrace his Dark Nature? You'll show him... oh YES you'll show him...
conversations.prefix: Oh, Louis...:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a tarnished legacy, a history of disrepute. This mark on your character crops up at the most inconvenient times, like… all the time.   
conversations.prefix: Tainted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: I'm a wild beast without a cause. Do not try to cage me or tame me, I'll bite the feeding hand off. I merely rush into the fray, to overcome anything I face, and will not fall prey to cheap tricks or melancholic fits. Mark those words.
conversations.prefix: Indomitable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're dead.  Or you were.  Now you're not sure what you are.  Awakened by someone (probably by accident) the only thing you can do is try and figure out how to make the best of it.
conversations.prefix: Urban Mummy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether it's because you drink WAY too much, or clothe yourself in Rayon, you're more than a little vunerable to open flame.
conversations.prefix: Flammable:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you can’t get your own problems together, what hope is there for anything greater?    
conversations.prefix: Save Yourself:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Old and unforgiving, this mythic dragon has been here before the dawn of man. Nations rise and fall under the dragon's cruel gaze. In times long past, they preferred mingling and extorting with the nearby kingdoms. But now that man has created annoying tools, the wyrm now resides in the shadows. They wait idly for the power in the world to shift. It will only be a matter of time before they can reign again.
conversations.prefix: Ancient Wyrm:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You desire anything that catches your fancy. Money, knowledge, the last box of twinkies in the store, you want it all. And you will KILL to have it. 
conversations.prefix: Next time on Hoarders:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You must suppress your instincts. You crave a feast of humans or cattle, but you'll have to settle for a hamburger instead. You may not like the world you are in, but you don't hate it. You must bend to rules for now, lest you want to be discovered.
conversations.prefix: Restraint:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're a shapeshifter with a taste for emotions and the means to gain them. Love, joy, sorrow, and hate are your food and weapons.
conversations.prefix: Dark Changeling:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Why be one thing when you can be ALL of them? 
conversations.prefix: Shapeshifter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shapeshifting and feeding on others emotions has it's costs, and it's slowly started to tear your mind apart. It's no longer a matter of IF you'll go insane, but WHEN.
conversations.prefix: Fractured Psyche:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Existing is meaningless if you're not going to do anything with it. You're not going to just live, you're going to live magnificently.
  Just try not to lose yourself along the way. 
conversations.prefix: Survive and Thrive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Though you are not always, you have the ability to become intangible. Meaning your invincible to normal threats. That doesn't make you immortal though, as there are threats far from normal in this world...
conversations.prefix: Intangible:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fleshrider. Poltergeist. Casper. There are many names you go by, but one thing is certain. You died, but missed the train to the next life. Better make another one here.    
  
conversations.prefix: Urban Ghost:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Only a few centuries old, you are ready to make a name for yourself...except that's hard to do in this day and age. You really can't burn villages and hoard gold without getting a ton of attention (and you don't need that).
conversations.prefix: Young Dragon:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You really, REALLY like collecting things, okay. Like, you really need that book...and that box of Twinkies. You claim that you like sharing, but you don't actually mean it. Your spending habits are HORRIBLE, but hey, at least you're happy.
conversations.prefix: Next Time on Hoarders:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Don't ever arm wrestle with Morgann unless you want your arm ripped off.
conversations.prefix: Super Strength:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are crazy. As in bonkers, off your nut, bat crap, woo-hoo, nuts. On the plus side you're fun at a party and it's not like you're dangerous or something...usually...well hardly ever...look, we all have bad days, get off my case jack.
conversations.prefix: Crazy:
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: Not everything is as it should be. Bits and pieces of your past are missing.
conversations.prefix: Broken Memories:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Grigori  is the name of an entire for a group of angels who "fell" from grace, they are also called watchers.  Originally it is told that the Grigori were sent to guide and look after humanity during the beginning of civilisation.  These angels were not suited to this job and instead of playing a positive role they began to teach man sciences that God had deemed to be forbidden.  These subjects included construction, astrology, divination, herb craft and magic and other things. Worse, they also began to lust after some of the women they were supposed to be guiding.  In order to lay with these women they even assumed physical forms.
conversations.prefix: Grigori:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This probably does not seem like some kind of life discerning idea to most people. But, most people aren't crazy fallen angels.
conversations.prefix: To not be bored:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Diplomacy is one of two things ..."
  
  "It's either asking someone to go to Hell in such a fashion as they look forward to the trip ..."
  
  "... Or it's saying 'Nice Doggy, Good Doggy' while reaching for club."
conversations.prefix: Diplomat:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shit is about to go down. You can see it around you, but decide it's better to let it happen.
conversations.prefix: let it go:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Years of practice have given you total control while shifting between your human, half-wolf, and wolf forms.
conversations.prefix: Practiced Shifter:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The legends can’t ever encapsulate the depth of the monster you are. You can shift from a dangerous beast to a dangerous person, which one is the real you?    
conversations.prefix: Were-Tiger:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: After years of consuming emotions, you've learned how to distinguish each individuals emotional state even in a crowd. With some concentration, you can also get an idea of who, or what, that emotion is directed against. 
conversations.prefix: Psychovore Connisseur:
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: You've been doing this long enough that you know when something's up.
conversations.prefix: Hunter Instincts:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the best parts of being of the shifter world? Heightened senses. How do vanilla mortals even function.
conversations.prefix: heightened senses:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ll do a job to the best of your ability. After all, you have a reputation for professionalism to maintain. 
conversations.prefix: Dedicated Professional:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Though sometimes The Voices screw you over and get you into even more trouble, this time it actually paid off to listen to them.
conversations.prefix: The Voices:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Girl's got balls, metaphorically speaking.
conversations.prefix: Confident:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: While scientists and skeptics claim there's no such thing as magic, you know better.  Unseen forces are at your command, to do with as you please.
conversations.prefix: Magical:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Missed it. Damn.
conversations.prefix: Unobservant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a monster among monsters... tales of you spin through the centuries of your exploits and more often than not, your atrocities, your diabolical experiments and other assorted acts of cruelty. Normally this works to your advantage as it makes others reluctant to even touch you. Here however... it makes you the first one people suspect... and it makes it hard to get help.
conversations.prefix: Monstrous:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes, regardless of the quality of your upbringing and education, you need to be able to speak the same language as they do...
conversations.prefix: Ruthless, Cunning, Inventive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You honestly just don't care.
conversations.prefix: Indifferent:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You spent your childhood in another world. Because of that, you don't have a great connection to humanity. You don't particularly want to do evil, but you don't have much of a drive to do good. Sometimes it just becomes too hard to fight off the apathy.
conversations.prefix: Live and Let Live:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You don't just glean useful information from mundane and supernatural minds, you can use the ebb and flow of the mass stream of consciousness to navigate without any difficulty whatsoever... unless you get too focused on one particular strain of thought for too long.
conversations.prefix: Expert Mind-Walker:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There are somethings man is not meant to know.  Things that should remain hidden and buried.  Things that you are aware of, and try desperately to forget.
conversations.prefix: Secrets:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The battle wrecked Portside and the Underberg. Do the residents sit in their squalor, or get off their asses?
conversations.prefix: Open - Full Recovery:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know things that no one aught to know, and never should have come to light. Alas.
conversations.prefix: Secrets:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know things that no one aught to know, and never should have come to light. Alas.
conversations.prefix: Secrets:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The city is being devoured from this very plane of reality by dark, featureless shadow figures.
conversations.prefix: Open - Entropy Shades:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Unknown to you, in your previous life, you fought, you hunted, you killed... And you were good at it.
conversations.prefix: Bloodfilled Past:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In your past life, you used to hunt, to fight, and to kill.
  
  Let's just say you haven't lost your touch.
conversations.prefix: Bloodfilled Past:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A piece of you is missing.  Literally.  There is a part of your body, or multiple parts, that you have lost and will never get back.  How you deal with this is up to you, but you will never again be whole.
conversations.prefix: Incomplete:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have made enemies and hurt innocent people in your mad quest for pleasure, directly or indirectly. And that will come to haunt you...
conversations.prefix: Mistakes Were Made:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes life is so fucked up the way to cope is massive amounts of alcohol.
conversations.prefix: Boozing to Cope:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a connection, however tenuous with anyone you have given blood to. This can come in handy from time to time.
conversations.prefix: Blood Bond:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sturdy, magically warded walls are keeping the danger well away.
  
  You can hardly even tell that there's a problem, let alone what it might be.
conversations.prefix: Safe behind walls: