conversations.from: system
conversations.value: *“In a battle of wills, of the gods of old for each his revenge, will he forfeit his soul. 
  On the chess board of blood, will their narrative play. 
  Aged, innocent lives, revenge claims her way. 
  Out of hate will come love, and love will come hate. 
  For immortal and man, have entwined their damned fate.”
  ― L.A. Starkey*
  
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  What would have happened if the people in the legend of Minos & the Minotaur behaved differently?  Come play a well known character in this classic Greek legend and find out!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crete is  the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. The capital and the largest city is Heraklion. 
  
conversations.prefix: Crete:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: By your own will and that of the gods, you are lord and ruler of all you survey.
conversations.prefix: King:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a firm believer in the rights of all men to be judged with truth and honesty.
conversations.prefix: Just:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You desire.  Wealth, fame, women, accolades.  You want it all.
conversations.prefix: Greed:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You desire the favor of the gods and in seeking it, will let no obstacle prevent you from your goal.
conversations.prefix: Favor of the Gods:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mingle with your fellow players and begin to foster alliances.  Will you keep your word or break it?  Only you can decide!
conversations.prefix: Make alliances:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Unlike the rest of the Athenian tribute, you're not here to be sacrificed but to stop this, to break the hold of King Minos over your people.
conversations.prefix: [Theseus] Make an impression:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're no less capable of intrigue than your conniving husband only in your case, it's all about protecting your children from being drawn into his machinations.
conversations.prefix: [Pasiphae] Protect your children:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Is your father really the right person to ally yourself with?  What of your mother, brothers, sister?  And what of this new Athenian who's just arrived?  Choose wisely!
conversations.prefix: [Ariadne] Choose your path:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your sister has your father's love, your bastard brother, your mother's.  What about you?  Who will care for and hear what Phaedra has to say?
conversations.prefix: [Phaedra] Gain attention:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Entrapped within your prison, your options are limited.  Soon the tributes will arrive.  Will your hunger get the better of you?  Or can you master it enough to make connections and your escape.
conversations.prefix: [Asterion] Control your hunger & make connections:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The kingdom and its subjects are yours.  Yours to control.  Yours to subjugate.  Yours to sacrifice.  Even your wife and children must bow to your whims.  Can you maintain that control?  Or will the plotting of those around you wrest it from your grasp?
conversations.prefix: [Minos} Maintain control:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's a fine line that you tread within the court of Crete.  Can you keep your head?  Can you escape to freedom?  And what of the lives of your sons?
conversations.prefix: [Daedalus] Keep the peace & keep your head:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The gardens, site of revelry and intrigue.
conversations.prefix: The palace gardens:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The entrance to the labyrinth.  Many enter, few ever return.
conversations.prefix: The Gates to the Labyrinth:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The time has come to consecrate the tributes and send them into the labyrinth.  Can you do it?  Will you attempt to provide them with weapons or some other form of assistance?
conversations.prefix: Consecrate the tributes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Here it is folks, the ball of thread.  Who will grab it?  Who will use it? Who will you give it to?
conversations.prefix: Ball of Thread:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: And here's the weapon.  Where have you left it?  Who did you give it to?  What will they use it for?  Grab the asset card and use it in your move and you get to be the one to decide
conversations.prefix: Dagger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've been faced with the choice once before.  This time you must seal your fate.
conversations.prefix: [Ariadne] Have you chosen your path?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Finally there are people here.  Not guards but people.  Can you get one of them to hear you, see your perspective?  Do you even want to?
conversations.prefix: [Asterion] Connect:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The time has finally come.  Can you use your artifice and cleverness to devise a way out for you and your son?
conversations.prefix: [Daedalus] Engineer your freedom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This world is yours to control.  By right of kings and the will of the gods.  And not even Posidon himself will stand in your way.
conversations.prefix: [Minos] Stop them all!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's been your aim all along.  What will it take for you see it through?
conversations.prefix: [Pasiphae] Protect yourself and your children:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's time to step out from everyone else's shadows.  Time for you to shine like the diamond you are.
conversations.prefix: [Phaedra] Shine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Like the other tributes you've been cast into the labyrinth.  Can you survive?  Have you gained the assistance of someone on the outside?  Lets see if it was enough
conversations.prefix: [Theseus] Survive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whether you can see it or not, each of you has had a fate set forth for you from the moment of your birth. Do you see it coming? Will you fulfill it proudly? Or choose to take it in your own hands and bargain with the Moirai to change its course?
conversations.prefix: The Moirai | The Fates:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Life is a twisted finite thread.
  The thread is a segment, a line connecting two points.
  Clothos spins the thread of life into the spindle.
  Lachesis measures the thread of life allotted to each person.
  Life is temporal, we are portions of time.
  Atropos cuts the thread and Death arrives.
  Birth and death, cradle and grave … And the rest is silence.
  
  “Allea jacta est” By Aquileana
conversations.prefix: The Moirai:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The primordial goddess of necessity, compulsion and inevitability, she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation--an incorporeal being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos.  She was seen as the most powerful dictator of all fate and circumstance which meant that mortals, as well as the Gods, respected her and paid homage. 
conversations.prefix: Ananke | Necessity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury. A victim seeking justice could call down the curse of the Erinyes. The goddesses were also servants of Haides and Persephone in the underworld.
conversations.prefix: The Erinyes | The Furies:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The personified spirits of the human condition, the Daimon are, among other things, the divinities that were released when Pandora opened the Jar.  In Plato's Symposium, the priestess Diotima teaches Socrates that love is not a deity, but rather a "great daemon". She goes on to explain that "everything daemonic is between divine and mortal", and she describes daemons as "interpreting and transporting human things to the gods and divine things to men; entreaties and sacrifices from below, and ordinances and requitals from above..." 
conversations.prefix: The Daimon:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are gifted with the ability to create, devise, innovate.  These skills put you in high demand from the royalty of the region but with that demand comes the price; the politics of both Earth and Olympus
conversations.prefix: Master Artificer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have an immense capacity for creative expression and invention.
conversations.prefix: Innovation:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are proud of your accomplishments.  And well you should be!  But what will the price be for your pride?
conversations.prefix: Hubris:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your skill has brought you fame and with that fame comes attention.  Can you survive the machinations of your betters?
conversations.prefix: Survival:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The adventurer, the hero, the righter of wrongs.  
conversations.prefix: Hero:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your willingness to continue in the face of adversity is impressive.  Through faith and resolve, you can move mountains.
conversations.prefix: Persistent:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your reputation precedes you far and wide.  Can you continue to live up to it?
conversations.prefix: Renoun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: As the daughter of Cretan royalty, she takes the part of the Maiden in the Mysteries, leading the sacred dances and assisting in other rites. Although privileged, her life is also one of service.
conversations.prefix: Princess/Priestess:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know everyone worth knowing, and quite a few who aren't. What's more, you have standing with all of them.
conversations.prefix: Connected:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a great heart. Sometimes that's not always a great thing. Fiery emotions can make life intense, for good or ill.
conversations.prefix: Passionate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know you're meant for great things. Strive to find your path, and then let nothing stand in your way.
conversations.prefix: Follow your destiny:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are the queen of the realm, the counterbalance to the king, the person with their fingers on the pulse of the people.
conversations.prefix: Queen:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a deep knowledge of herbs and their uses both medicinal and magical
conversations.prefix: Herbalist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have an insatiable lust for the carnal pleasures in life.  While your husband certainly provides plenty of satisfaction, you find yourself yearning for more.
conversations.prefix: Lust:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: As the daughter of a deity, you are accustomed to having a certain amount of power.  As such, you seek to use subtle manipulations of those around you to bend the world to your whims.
conversations.prefix: Manipulation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You are not entirely human and neither are your motivations.
conversations.prefix: Beast:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are loyal, sometimes to a fault
conversations.prefix: Loyal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a hot temper and sometimes it becomes so overwhelming that you are no longer capable of seeing sense.
conversations.prefix: Rage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your fate is foreordained. Can you escape it's clutches? 
conversations.prefix: Entwined by fate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The youngest daughter of King Minos and Pasiphaë, Phaedra is often overlooked and outshone by her siblings. She may seem to be simply a shadow at Ariadne's side, but Phaedra knows she is much more.
conversations.prefix: Princess:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Grand-daughter of a God, Phaedra thinks she is meant for more than being the youngest child of King Minos, overshadowed by her beautiful and cursed siblings. She wants an adventure, or a kingdom of her own--she'll take what she can get.
conversations.prefix: Ambitious:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Quick to fall into the throes of passion, Phaedra is easily overcome by what she desires--be that a thing, or a person. Dramatic to the extreme, Phaedra is prone to these kinds of moods, no matter how banal they may seem.
conversations.prefix: Emotional:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Phaedra desires an escape, be that from the disinterest of her family and her Cretan home, or simply from boredom, Phaedra is willing to risk what she has for a chance for something new.
conversations.prefix: Escape:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Through the faults of others, and Fate's cruel weavings, the minds of many are poisoned against you. They react in fear or distrust, believing and tell horrible stories about you that are not true. Or are they?
conversations.prefix: Reputation:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Daughter, Princess and Sister are roles with duties that must be performed as diligently as a priest to their prayers. 
conversations.prefix: Dutiful Child:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Being torn between a promise and your own will you are forced to compromise.
  Making your role as ruler seem questionable.
conversations.prefix: Dilemma:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: *"Let us end this tribute, Father. Allow me to take the place of one of our citizens fair."* Your words burn inside your very soul, and you meant everything you said. You will put your life on the line if it means there is a chance to end the sacrifices.
conversations.prefix: Noble:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your introspection veers into self-centeredness. Also, privileged child, you tend to forget that there ARE limits on what you should say and do. And though you may wield people as tools, you forget they can turn on you.
conversations.prefix: Arrogant:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You may not show it all the time, but you dearly love all of your children and will go to great lengths to ensure their well-being. No matter who or what threatens it.
conversations.prefix: Mama Bear:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A priestess should be a shepherdess to her people, leading them on the right paths to please the gods and goddesses. Royalty is there to be a shield to the people, protecting them. There should be no conflict!
conversations.prefix: Pious:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who would deny that Love is a weakness?
conversations.prefix: Love:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You think pretty highly of yourself most of the time, but if the Fates are against you, your struggles may well be useless.
conversations.prefix: Only human:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the great virtues of man is also one of his greatest follies. Compassion is the enemy of assertion and causes steps to falter.
  
  Is it worth courting failure to right a wrong?
conversations.prefix: Compassion:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Of the many reasons, religious, aesthetic and technical, generally adduced to explain to explain the apparent reluctance of greek tragedians to represent the moment of death on the stage, none seems to me to give sufficient weight to certain dramatic exigencies internal to the context of the plays themselves in which such deaths occur… For no one denies that there are many problems connected with the presentation of death on the stage and even the modern playwright, in spite of all the illusionist resources of the modern theater, may well boggle at the attempt.” ~R. Sri Pathmanathan 
conversations.prefix: Death in Greek Tragedy :
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Janus was a uniquely Roman god, but maybe you can prove that the Greeks have a fitting two-faced equivalent after all.
conversations.prefix: Shameless Schemer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Asterion's death hit you hard. You're not sure if you can save your children anymore, or if that was ever really your goal.
  
  More than anything though, you want to spite the gods that put you in this situation and expect unending gratitude just for letting your exist.
conversations.prefix: Deny the Gods:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ‘If I stay here and fight beside the city of Trojans,
  my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting;
  but if I return home to the beloved land of my fathers,
  the excellence of my glory is gone, but there will be a long life left for me, and my end in death will not come to me quickly.’
  
  Achilles after speaking to his mother Thesis, start of the Illiad
conversations.prefix: To live forever:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There comes a time when every child rebels against their parents. 
  
  When your father is Zeus, this gets complicated.
conversations.prefix: Child of Olympus: