conversations.from: system
conversations.value: In the coastal California college town of Santa Susanna, a group of people with strange, oddly specific, supernatural talents of questionable worth are drawn together as their talents inexplicably change and even amplify.  Little nexuses of localized weird all of their lives, our heroes suddenly find themselves in the middle of a vast conspiracy that threatens their lives and that of those around them. Their motley assortment of talent, along with their experience, moxie and brains are going to have to keep them alive long enough to figure out what is happening and why, and hopefully set things right again.
  
  What they may or may not know as our story begins is that they are the children of powerful supernatural beings… some much more powerful than others, perhaps, but something strange is happening with the balance of power in all of their realms. 
  
  … Actually? Some of their parental deities are the half-baked gods and goddesses of weird, non-sexy-sounding things like ‘trash’ and ‘footgear’ and ‘handrails’, generally relegated to footnotes and subtext, and some of them are just distant relations to stronger deities… which makes even less sense that anyone would remember they’re around, much less wish them harm or care about their progeny. A starting point will be hard to come by, and a solution... well. It's a good thing they have each other.
  
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The iconic belltower on campus, 3SU's Astronomy Tower is ideal for clandestine meetings.
conversations.prefix: 3SU Astronomy Tower:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Susie's closed years ago, but that doesn't stop it from being a popular spot.
conversations.prefix: Susie's Truck Stop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Miriam's Vault is an underground pub that most people in Saint Susanna believe is an urban myth. It's not.
conversations.prefix: Miriam's Vault:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Evergreen has long known as a place that belongs to the restless dead.
conversations.prefix: Evergreen Cemetery:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Peterson House has been empty since the resident passed away, leaving only grandchildren to squabble over its ownership. 
conversations.prefix: The Peterson House:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One of the oldest neighborhoods in Santa Su; a tourist trap, but filled with real charm and useful shops.
conversations.prefix: Old Santa Susanna:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: As far as trailer parks go, Santa Su's most infamous trailer park is actually a pretty nice co-op.
conversations.prefix: Budford Beach Mobile Home Park:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: *THE* place to be if you're young, like alcohol, and don't mind the idea of future hearing loss.
conversations.prefix: Thump:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Historical Society has parlayed the old library into a tourist attraction, but it's a state-of-the-art learning center under all of the renovations.
conversations.prefix: Santa Susanna Historical Library:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This part of town is hard to navigate in daylight, much less in the dark. Proceed with caution.
conversations.prefix: Pursued by the Unknown:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keep your powers under control-- the wrong person might be watching you.
conversations.prefix: Blend In:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: They're claiming it was a fuel leak. They're wrong.
conversations.prefix: Car Bomb:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A stray dog or something more sinister? Your luck hasn't been great lately.
conversations.prefix: Portent of Doom:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're being followed by a group of shadows. Lose them.
conversations.prefix: Armed Minions:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are being watched. This is inconvenient-- make it stop.
conversations.prefix: The Evil Eye:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something is riling up the people around you. Calm them, or escape.
conversations.prefix: Angry Mob:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They were expecting you, and they aren't concerned about your safety.
conversations.prefix: Booby Trap!:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re quick and nimble, perhaps superhumanly so, whether you look it or not.    
conversations.prefix: Agility:
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: With that smile, backed up by your silver tongue, it’s hard not to like you.  
conversations.prefix: Charming:
conversations.from: human
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: gpt
conversations.value: You’re perceptive, perhaps from years of watching and observing. Nothing gets past you.  
conversations.prefix: Perceptive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Subtle and sneaky. People don’t often notice you until you want to be noticed. 
conversations.prefix: Stealthy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re physically strong and probably look it, whether you’re lean or built.   
conversations.prefix: Strong:
conversations.from: human
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: gpt
conversations.value: You have a brilliance that comes from experience and intuition more than study or memory. 
conversations.prefix: Wise:
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: Inherited skills. Edit to your specifics.
conversations.prefix: A Thing I Do (required):
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’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: human
conversations.value: Your abilities are sometimes diminished and dampened by your greatest enemy: yourself.   
conversations.prefix: Doubting:
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: 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: gpt
conversations.value: You think you know how things work. You think people are basically good. You’re wrong. 
conversations.prefix: Naïve:
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: 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: 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 are easily cowed, because you're secretly afraid that you aren't as capable as you seem.
conversations.prefix: Insecure:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Control is its own reward. You deserve to understand the extent of your powers and what you can do with them.
conversations.prefix: Achieve Control:
conversations.from: gpt
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: human
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: gpt
conversations.value: Your heart bears a wound that might heal if you could only stop meddling with the scars.  
conversations.prefix: Heal Your Hurt:
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: 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: gpt
conversations.value: Your missing parent has been a thorn in your side since birth-- you need to come to terms with your situation and make peace.
conversations.prefix: Parentage:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A photo of twentysomethings in love, circa 1980. Written on the back it says “Hank and Marie” but the last name is illegible.
conversations.prefix: A Photo of Young Lovers:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: But whose? And does it matter?
conversations.prefix: Keys to a Honda:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone thinks this pocket knife etched with a peace sign is magical — that it stops bullets. Maybe they’re right. 
conversations.prefix: Pocket Knife, c. 1969:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Working hard to get through classes at 3SU is a balancing act.
conversations.prefix: College Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Striving for a tenure track position, writing grants, teaching classes, mentoring students; and the kids think *they* have it hard.
conversations.prefix: Young Professor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: College kids are messy, selfish bastards, and this job is rough. Still, the pay and the benefits are alright and sometimes you even get a 'thank you'.
conversations.prefix: 3SU Staff:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A self-starting entrepreneur, Santa Susanna has proven to be a great place to start a business that caters to both locals and tourists.
conversations.prefix: Merchant of Old Santa Su:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Professor of Statistics; might be brilliant or homeless. Or both. He's also ex-military, but from the way he flicks his pens... well. You probably shouldn't cross him.
conversations.prefix: Dr. M.H. James:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Professor of Physics; known for her genial nature, egregious loads of homework, challenging tests but forgiving grading criteria. And her amazing finals cookies.
conversations.prefix: Dr. A. L. Martinez:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dean of the College of Sciences; he's a warm guy that is happy to make appointments with top students and is a fantastic reference. Rumors occasionally circulate that he is not all he seems, but that's probably all bitter students he's had to discipline. Probably.
conversations.prefix: Dean Z. Ambrose:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 3SU Maintenance Crew Chief. A good guy to know if you need a spill contained; a bad guy to know if you need to sneak around without being caught.
conversations.prefix: John McTavish:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Department Chair, Humanities. Her own specialty is in Mythology and Ancient History, and is the adviser to the 3SU historical society club. Wildly knowledgeable, and always willing to share.
conversations.prefix: Dr. H.N. Octavius:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A weird shrimp made out of a dead palm tree in front of a VERY nautically decorated house on a nondescript Santa Susana street. 
conversations.prefix: Shrimp Totem:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Main crossroads of the sprawling 3SU campus; chances are if you're on campus any day, you'll pass through here at least once.
conversations.prefix: 3SU Quad:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ray has always been really twitchy about being social, or anything really, and please send help he's freaking out.
conversations.prefix: Twitchy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have been a fixture on campus for as long as anyone can remember. Your personal mission is to help uptight academics and stressed out students expand their minds and relax. You are a vegan that believes that all life is sacred. 
conversations.prefix: Local Hippy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The world is too interesting to be stuck on one path for too long.
conversations.prefix: Easily Distracted:
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: Born out of really not wanting to talk to anyone, and not necessarily being bad at it, you are pretty bad at making conversation.
conversations.prefix: Socially Awkward:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild: