conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Warwick, New Jersey.  June, 2014.  
  
  Another pallid day in the small town.  
  
  The school's little league is well on the path to being state champions.  
  
  Ricky Buster's hardware store got vandalized again—Probably by those Mason brothers. 
  
  Sherry Marigold has been voted Prom queen.
  
  After one too many, Alex Vorren wrecked his car last night, and escaped with a few bumps and a trial date.  
  
  Today was just another day in small-town USA.
  
  It will also be the last.
  
  *From Ashes will take players from the peace and hum-drum of everyday life, right through the eye of the needle.  From peaceful modern life, to dark apocalyptic horror.*
  
  
  *New players, before submitting characters, please read previous scenes, especially scene 1 in its entirety, as your character would have encountered the same event, though possibly elsewhere.  Also, please review existing characters to diversify the natures/strengths/weaknesses.*
  
  *As it starts in a small town, characters are encouraged to create existing relationships with existing characters.  I will also allow players to assume some NPCs that already exist in the narrative if they'd like!"*
  
  *Player's are encouraged to modify nature/strength/weakness cards, but please try to keep your characters very human, and very real.*
  
  *Currently, we will be accepting 1-2 new players.  There are many ways for you to enter into the story, but currently, the group is split.  Scene 4 has the details.*
  
  *Small back-and-forth dialog between all characters (narrator-controlled and player controlled) highly recommended.  I'm very interested in inter-character banter and relationships.*  
  
  *I'm anticipating adult content and themes.  I will do very little to censor content unless it gets REALLY bad, or is completely out of character.*  
  
  *Let's make a great story!!*
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Susan is unnaturally sad.  She may need a an ear, or an outlet.
conversations.prefix: Address Susan:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's unknown how extensive the destruction is.  The old way of living might be history.   The faster you can adapt to a potential new world, the better you might be.
conversations.prefix: Adapt:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A standard assortment of hand tools, including a hammer, utility knife, a small saw and a small pry bar, among others.
conversations.prefix: Misc hand tools:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Three foot long, with a large, heavy head and sharp blade.
conversations.prefix: Felling axe:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Now, more than ever, it's important to push through.  
  
  Some won't be strong enough to do it themselves.  
conversations.prefix: Keep it together:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A large-beam flashlight with included batteries.
conversations.prefix: Flashlight:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This heavy duty crowbar is close to three foot long and manufactured from solid steel.
conversations.prefix: Large Crowbar:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Comes with small canisters of oxygen and acetylene, with a 10' hose.  Used to cutting metal and some basic welds.
conversations.prefix: Portable cutting torch:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Long-time waitress at the Pine Street diner, with a friendly demeanor.  Recently widowed, but pushing forward.
conversations.prefix: Susan Macklin:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A love of electronics and technology, from hacking main-frames to schooling kids in online shooters.
conversations.prefix: Technophile:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Warwick's resident anti-government conspiracy theorist and chain-smoker.
conversations.prefix: Rodney Thorund:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Build in the 1950s and rarely maintained since.  Nicotine-stained ceiling tiles hang above.  Broken Juke-boxes sit atop each table.
  
  A cozy, though aged and dingy, diner.
conversations.prefix: Pine Street Diner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Whether it's repairing an alternator, or installing a replacement window, you know the tools and the job.
conversations.prefix: Mechanically Inclined:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fight or flight.  In times of need, the bodies own chemicals help push us through with near supernatural enhancement.
conversations.prefix: Adrenaline:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: That old football injury, or the bad back from poor posture, something always struggles to bring you down.
conversations.prefix: Reoccurring Injury:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pain meds.  Alcohol.  Cigarettes.  Sex.  Technology.  The vice has a strangle hold on you
conversations.prefix: Addicted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human body and mind has always fascinated you, whether it be to help others, or know just where to apply the pain.
conversations.prefix: Anatomical Wiz:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stronger and faster than the people around you, with the endurance to outlast most.
conversations.prefix: Athletic Composition:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Somehow, someway, you find a method of achieving things that requires little effort and training.
conversations.prefix: Freeloading Extraordinaire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Everyone else's ideas are garbage.  They're smaller, weaker and dumber.. and sometimes you just need to let them know
conversations.prefix: Arrogance:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Everyone has skeletons in their closet.  You're doing what you can to keep them in there.
conversations.prefix: Sordid past:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whether for military or, police, you've had training in discipline, weapons and circumventing bureaucratic red tape.
conversations.prefix: Basic Training:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes, the answer is right there.
conversations.prefix: Common Sense:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The answer was right there.  The name was on the tip of your tongue.  It's gone now...
conversations.prefix: Scatterbrained:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Forget 15 minutes.  You want forever.  Your name in lights.  Money.  Power.  Every soapbox is a chance to increase your reputation.
conversations.prefix: Fame:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The world around you vanishes to a din and hum.  The target of your focus becomes everything.
conversations.prefix: Focus:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A love of nature and the outdoors has been a theme you cannot escape.  Whether it's hunting, fishing, camping or just going for a kayak ride, the stars have almost been more comforting than the fluorescents.
conversations.prefix: Child of the Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can pluck straight through the words and see the deeper picture.  The hurt.  The lies.  And, you know just what to do about them.
conversations.prefix: Empathy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prayer can offer answers we seek.  Meditation can help ease pain and clear the mind.  Sometimes, our power comes from within.
conversations.prefix: Spirituality:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It can get the better of you.  From zero to 'punch something' in two seconds.
conversations.prefix: Rage-fueled Monster:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Anxiety.  Phobias.  Sometimes it only takes a thought to bring us to our knees.
conversations.prefix: Fearful:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You just want to help, and be a good person.
conversations.prefix: Philanthropist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It's all about the grind.  You know there's no fast path, or easy pill.  Everything worth having takes time and money
conversations.prefix: A slightly brighter tomorrow:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sometimes, all you need is a pretty face.. or something else.
conversations.prefix: Attractive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To settle down, and start a family is a noble cause.
conversations.prefix: Family Oriented:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You want to absorb every bit of knowledge and every experience.  Life is nothing is you're not living.
conversations.prefix: Insatiable curiosity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Is almost always buried in a book, generally philosophy or genre fiction.  Carries a spiral bound notebook, he jots poems and thoughts in. Sneaks cigarettes behind his parents back.
conversations.prefix: Danny Walters:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tanner is trapped under a collapsed table debris from the ceiling (vents/lighting fixtures).
conversations.prefix: Free Tanner:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sarma is bleeding out, and has a potentially serious head injury.  She needs prompt attention to avoid further damage.
conversations.prefix: Stabilize Sarma:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A devastating catastrophe has occurred, with only seconds of response time allowed to escape harm.
conversations.prefix: Avoid Injury:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Catastrophe has struck.  But how bad?  How many casualties?  Is it over?  Can wounds be mended?
conversations.prefix: Assess/Address damage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Once, a bustling thoroughfare through Warwick.  Now, the streets are lined with downed power lines.  Garbage and rubble fill the streets.
conversations.prefix: Pine Street:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The whimpering cries of a child can be heard from the wreckage.
conversations.prefix: Investigate Toyota Camry:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The canopy of a large tree envelopes the bus stop.  A man's voice cries out for help from beneath.
conversations.prefix: Investigate bus stop:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Inside the rubble, a faint moan can still be heard.
conversations.prefix: Investigate Pine Street Diner:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Many people didn't survive the blast.  Lt. Frieman has asked the deceased by gathered, to inform loved ones and be given a proper burial. 
conversations.prefix: Gather the dead:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The road isn't passable with a car, and a walk to the hospital would take a long time.  Clear the branches, poles, wires and debris until the road becomes clear enough to drive through.
conversations.prefix: Clear the Road:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A gas powered, 16" chainsaw.  
conversations.prefix: Chainsaw:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The infant's aunt, Beth, lives close by.  She can assume responsibility for the baby, and needs to be informed of Jasper's parents death.  
conversations.prefix: Deliver Jasper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mark has had enough, and gone aggressive.  And though everyone is on the verge of explosion, a fight is the last thing everyone needs right now. 
  
  
conversations.prefix: Diffuse Mark:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Some of the generators were damaged.  There aren't enough extension cords or lights.  Refrigerators keep blowing fuses.  Glass and debris is everywhere.  Help clean up and prepare the place as a sanctuary for the injured and afraid. 
conversations.prefix: Prepare school for refuge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Loves all things made of trash.
conversations.prefix: Trashy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Because: Trash.
conversations.prefix: Smells of garbage:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Because: Practical.
conversations.prefix: Flip top design:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To be filled to the brim with garbage.
conversations.prefix: Stuffed:
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: Your family never thought much of you, and no amount of success has convinced them otherwise thus far.  Since they refuse to see how good you are at what you do, then the rest of the world will have to make up for it.
conversations.prefix: Prove I'm worthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes, all you need is a pretty face... or something else.
conversations.prefix: Attractive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You'll never be content with a nothing job in this place. You want to make a difference and if that requires leaving, so much the better.
conversations.prefix: Do Something Great:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're able to form am e,pathetic bond with someone, understanding their ideas and emotions easily.
conversations.prefix: Empathy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: If you live, well, what then? You're not seriously going to make much of a difference. It would be no great loss to the world if you were gone from it.
conversations.prefix: Apathetic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Working in a mechanic's shop has its perks, one of those being a good deal of upper body strength.
conversations.prefix: Physically Strong:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: When I put my mind to something, I get it done and get it done right.
conversations.prefix: Dedication: