conversations.from: system
conversations.value: "Hey, uh, is that you? It's Tom, Tom Garland. Listen, I just wanted you to know, everything's okay. Really. He was right all along. I'll see you soon, okay?" 
  
  That was the message on your answering machine two days ago. There's just one problem: you don't know a Tom Garland. But you did a little looking around. Turns out, there's a Tom Garland out in the midwest, used to be a reporter, now he writes books. You'd never heard of him. Moderately famous. 
  
  You chalk it up to a crossed wire. A late-night mistake. Drunk dialing. 
  
  Last night, another call. 
  
  Tom Garland's voice again. "Denver, nine. Milwaukee, seven. Regina, two." Just that, until you finally hung up. And in the background of Tom Garland's voice, a low drone, a quiet static hum. 
  
  All the next day, you had headaches, nosebleeds. Doctors said you checked out. Nothing awry, except that you looked in the mirror that morning and saw something that wasn't your face looking back. 
  
  Tom Garland is doing a book signing not far from where you live, in a little town called DeWitt. It's a short drive, a quick flight, a bus or a train ride, maybe. 
  
  What have you got to lose by tracking him down?
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: Seems like a nice enough kid. Talks too fast, though, and his cologne could wilt plants.
conversations.prefix: Enzo Ciaretti:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The bouncer outside the auditorium. Big, big guy, but he's got a soft voice. 
conversations.prefix: Enzo Ciaretti:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Del knows a thing or two about all this weird junk, but his usefulness over that radio is probably limited. 
conversations.prefix: Del's Expertise:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A lovely flower- pale, translucent petals and a soft glow from within. 
conversations.prefix: A Single Perfect Flower:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone wants Quinn out of the picture, that much is clear. But this also has some alien text on it- it's a poor Rosetta stone, but it might be enough. 
conversations.prefix: Printed File:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: There's something weird going on here, and you want to know what it is. Just pray that you can figure it out fast!
conversations.prefix: Get to the Bottom:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know that Garland's mystery is just the first step in contacting a higher presence- and you want to be the one to make contact. 
conversations.prefix: Open The Way:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whatever Garland has got that's letting him influence people's health over the phone, there are people who are going to want that pretty badly. 
conversations.prefix: Secure the Technology:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This isn't the first time something like this has happened to you- but it might be the first time you've been able to do anything about it.
conversations.prefix: Solve the Mystery:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Garland could be in trouble, and since you're roped into this anyway, you might be able to save him. Protect and serve, after all. 
conversations.prefix: Cop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You work hard, pay your bills, and now you're getting roped into supernatural rigmarole? This is too much. 
conversations.prefix: Ordinary Joe:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You work for the government, and the weird effects you've been feeling could mean Garland has some technology you should know about. 
conversations.prefix: Spy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether you knew him before or not, there's a man in trouble here. 
conversations.prefix: Save Garland:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Cygnus is a landmark in DeWitt, and it's also got decent rooms at decent prices. You're just outside.
conversations.prefix: Outside the Cygnus Hotel:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's some violence going on here, but nobody wants things to get bloody- probably not even the people involved. 
conversations.prefix: Defuse the Situation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Little more than a heap of mobile rags and a pair of goggles, Champion is always eager to make a sale. 
conversations.prefix: Champion:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether or not Del Salazar is the one who called you, he's the best lead you've got so far. Too bad the bouncer in front of the auditorium doesn't seem keen on letting anyone past. 
conversations.prefix: Get into the Auditorium:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The bouncer outside the auditorium. Big, big guy with a soft, quiet voice. Looks like he's keen on his job. 
conversations.prefix: Enzo Ciaretti:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A warmly lit room adorned with flowers- not what you might expect from these two. 
conversations.prefix: Champion's Den:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know all about Garland's work- ostensibly non-fiction accounts of paranormal happenings. This might be your chance to prove he was right all along. 
conversations.prefix: Conspiracy Theorist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know a few things about medicine, and you know the doctors who checked you over are wrong. Garland might be able to help you diagnose what's going on. 
conversations.prefix: Doctor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You didn't get the calls- your client did. You're being paid to check Garland out, for whatever reason. The client sounded nuts, but the money is good. 
conversations.prefix: Investigator:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The auditorium in which Garland's talk is to take place. Some folks are doing setup. 
conversations.prefix: Reynolds Auditorium:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Del Salazar says there's something in the basement of the auditorium that'll help. Getting through security won't be easy, though. 
conversations.prefix: Get to the Basement:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: So far, he's just a voice on the other end of a radio- but he seems like he knows what's up. 
conversations.prefix: Del Salazar:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A blue, bipedal lizard, Tantevor seems to operate on a strict moral code.
conversations.prefix: Tantevor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They seem benign- but they're also terrifying. Can they be reasoned with?
conversations.prefix: Communicate with the Researchers:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The computers and terminals lining the walls are barely comprehensible- but they may hold some useful info.
conversations.prefix: Decipher the Machinery:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Banks of computers line the walls, office chairs stand empty, and the smell of coffee and cheap deodorant lingers in the air. 
conversations.prefix: Underground Base:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The streets of a small and pleasant town, the kind of place you can really see yourself retiring to someday.
conversations.prefix: Streets of DeWitt:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Soldiers in faceless, jet-black armor tend to be bad news no matter what planet you're on. Run for it!
conversations.prefix: Slip the Net:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Looks like an office jockey, acts like a secret agent. Well, a Hollywood secret agent. 
conversations.prefix: Duggan Watermann:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're all alone in a distant land in what appears to be another solar system- time to meet the locals. 
conversations.prefix: Find some friends:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Broad windows open ahead of you into an impossible alien vista- you appear to be in actual space. 
conversations.prefix: Hephaestus Station:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Looks like Del's radio has shorted out. Well, there's got to be some way to patch it back up. 
conversations.prefix: Repair Del's Radio:
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.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When you really need to, you can convince someone that you're telling God's honest truth - whether or not you actually are.
conversations.prefix: Convincing:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're not sure who they are, what they want, or why they're so interested in you. But they're watching...and you need to watch back, all the time.
conversations.prefix: Paranoid:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: By now, you're beyond used to life giving you lemons in the form of a mean curveball. You've learned not only to deal, but to flourish. Sticky situations never seem to keep you down for long.
conversations.prefix: Adaptable:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your beauty and charisma draw people to your aid when you need it. Whether you're acting pitiful or actually need help, you can get it with those big blue eyes.
conversations.prefix: Damsel: