conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Prestigious Midvale University, one of the top ranked schools in the United States of America, is known for many things. The school boasts top notch academic programs, a first rate football team, and a lively variety of social and cultural events. Yet the school may be known for one thing above all else: the Multidisciplinary Academic Department, or MAD.
  
  Founded in the 1920s by contemporaries of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, MAD was designed as an institution where top minds from a variety of scientific disciplines could work together on groundbreaking research. Generously funded and given access to the latest in scientific equipment, the scientists at MAD pursue experiments which would be dismissed as impossible at any other institution. Their work has brought scientific progress ahead by leaps and bounds, leading to inventions and discoveries which have changed humanity forever.
  
  Of course, not everyone has such a rosy view of MAD. Some see them as a collection of crackpots and cranks, dangerous individuals pursuing projects man was never meant to pursue. Others say the line between genius and insanity can be fuzzy at the best of times. Who's to say?
  
  One thing is for certain: there's always something interesting happening at MAD.
  
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  This is a Storium for Beginners game. It is intended for players who are new to Storium and will be a fairly simple story which will introduce the mechanics of how Storium is played.
  
  Asking questions is encouraged. If you aren't certain how something works, ask for clarification in the game's green room, open lobby, or comment section. Chances are you aren't the only one with questions.
  
  All player characters should be people working at MAD. The story will revolve around mad-science related hijinks happening at MAD. This will be a fairly silly story with mostly comedic elements.
  
  Nature, strength, weakness, and subplot cards have been provided to give you character ideas. If you want to make a different sort of character, you can make custom cards if you like.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mad Physicist: Forget observing the Higgs boson. You're experimenting with interstellar transportation, time travel, and teleportation.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mad Programmer: You're working with cutting edge artificial intelligence and supercomputers.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mad Biologist: You seek to genetically engineer new wonders. Can human immortality and raising the dead be far behind?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mad Chemist: Creator of materials with mind boggling properties. Half the elements on the periodic table will be named after you by the time you're done.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mad Engineer: You are a builder of wondrous machines. You would put Tesla, Edison, and Goldberg to shame.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mad Graduate Student: Brand new to the world of mad science. On good days, you're a respected lab assistant. On bad days, a glorified test subject.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mad Psychologist: You're unlocking the deepest secrets of the human brain. Can mind control be far away?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mad Astronomer: Who knows what secrets lurk out there in the depths of space? You do.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Tenure: With tenure, you'll be able to do whatever you want, whenever you want. It's every academic's dream.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Earn Doctorate: You need a proper doctorate if you're ever going to be a proper mad scientist.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rule the World: When you've made your next breakthrough, you'll finally be able to take over the world!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Learn it All: Your curiosity is insatiable. You will only be happy when you know everything about everything.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make the World Better: You want to use your genius to improve the lives of everyone on Earth.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Revenge: They laughed at you once. Called you crazy. You'll show them. You'll show them all!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Legacy: Your parents were great scientists. Their parents were great scientists. So on and so forth. You must live up to the tradition.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rivalry: You are the one true genius at this university. You must prove that you are better than the other pretenders.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Creativity: You tend to find unusual and unexpected solutions to problems.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Frail: Your mind may be strong, but your body is weak.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Angry: You have a very short temper and tend to let rage get the better of you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unhinged: You have an unsettling manner which can make others uncomfortable around you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Uncouth: You have a rude, blunt manner which others find off-putting.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Clumsy: You have a tendency to cause accidents around the laboratory.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Amoral: You don't tend to make ethics a high priority in your work.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Reckless: You don't put as much thought into the negative consequences of your actions as you should.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rigid Moral Code: You have very strict ethical standards which sometime hold you back.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Charisma: You have a gift for charming and persuading others.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Naive: You still haven't learned just how things work in the world of mad science.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Respected: You have a positive reputation which can open doors for you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Enthusiastic: You truly love your work, and seem to have boundless energy to pour into it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Athletic: You are unusually physically fit for an academic.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Intuition: You have a gift for finding the solution to your problems simply by relying on instinct.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Composed: You remain calm and level headed even when all those around you are panicking.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Foresight: You have many detailed plans for the future, and are ready for almost any eventuality.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: M.A.D.: Midvale University's Multidisciplinary Academic Department, a building with advanced scientific equipment for practically every field of study.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Elon Cooke: A wealthy silicon valley tech billionaire. One of the principle philanthropists keeping MAD funded.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Robot Army: Professor Asimov's new self-replicating robot army is out of control. It must be stopped!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Visitors from the Future: Future members of M.A.D. have traveled through time to stop the robot army. But could they be causing more danger than they are stopping?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the Future: Time travel poses a serious risk to the integrity of the future. You must stop this!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Future Technology: The visitors from the future have stuff that is advanced even by the standards of M.A.D. Surely it couldn't hurt to test it out?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bad at Politics: Possessed of a sensitive political ear, but one perfectly tuned to the height of Soviet power instead of the realities of today: fervent defence of communist principles, threats to have superiors sent to a Siberian gulag for disloyalty, etc.
  Not the sort of thing that gets your NSF grant proposal approved.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Communicate with Superior Lifeforms: Produce a means of communication with extraterrestrial lifeforms and receive their glorious wisdom on how to improve our form of governance. Clearly, to reach their advanced stage of development they must have seen the dialectical forces of history to their conclusion and established a perfect rule of the working class!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Good Teacher: While other MAD consider their teaching obligation fulfilled if they show up to the classroom on time, you go above and beyond, and have a knack for explaining complex concepts to simple minds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Time-travel obsession: You're obsessed with the technology of time travel. If you have a chance to learn something new about it, you'll ignore everything else.