conversations.from: system
conversations.value: ##Prologue
  
  Your alarm wakens you from sleep, pulling you from sweet dreams.  You lean over and turn it off, trying to shake the drowsiness from your mind.  But that fog of sleep won’t seem to lift, you can’t get your bearings, can’t get your focus.
  
  And that’s when it hits you…  Or doesn’t hit you.
  
  You don’t know what your alarm was set for.  You don’t know where you are.  You don’t know *who* you are.
  
  You sit up in a panic, desperately looking around the bedroom you woke in.  Your bedroom?  It has to be, right?  You may not recognize anything, but surely it must be yours.  You reach up to run a hand through your hair, and that’s when you see it…  A tattoo on your left forearm.
  
  You study it, knowing this must be a clue to who you are.  It must be important if you were willing to permanently mark yourself.  No matter how hard you think on it, though, the string of numbers means absolutely nothing to you.  Then, the unthinkable happens:  The number changes.
  
  ***
  
  ##About the Story
  
  The above scenario played out all over the world early one morning (EST, but in the middle of the night in other places), as every person suddenly found themselves without any memories, and with a countdown tattooed on their left forearm.
  
  A special few also found a brand new symbol tattooed on the inside of their right wrist.
  
  What does it all mean?  Who were you before the reset?  Why were your memories taken?  What is the meaning of the strange symbol tattooed on your right wrist?  Perhaps most importantly, What is the significance of the countdown tattooed on your left forearm?
  
  And you had better find out quick, because there are only 14 days before the clock strikes 0.
  
  ***
  
  ##Notes on Character Creation
  
  Although at the beginning your character will know nothing about themselves or their past, that past *does* exist, and it will come back to them a bit at a time.  Therefore, it is imperative that you have a good idea of your character’s past before we start.  In order to keep this past a secret, I ask everyone PM me any pertinent details about their character’s history – who they were, what they did, who their family was, any deep dark secrets, etc.  This will primarily be what I use to determine which characters I accept.  (Pay special mind to the last of those suggestions - any deep dark secrets.  When terrible things bubble up from the past, it will add significantly more drama.)
  
  As for your actual public character description, I expect it will be relatively short.  You can outline some of the traits you expect your character to display now (knowing that this may or may not be quite different from who they used to be).
  
  I want you to create your own strength, weakness, and subplot cards.  Please use one of the natures I have provided, though.  The natures are based on the new symbol tattooed on your character's inner right wrist, and they will have an influence on the part your character will play in the greater story line.  If you have an idea of your own symbol you would like to use, you can ask me, but I will only accept one if I can clearly see how I can fit it into the greater plot I have in mind
  
  I only expect to accept 3 or 4 characters (maybe 5), as I know that I do not do well as a Narrator with an expansive cast.  I intend to keep applications open through the standard two week ‘Looking for Players’ period.  If applications stop coming in, or if I end up with more than I know what to do with, I may close them early.
  
  ****
  
  ##Update:
  
  I have had an amazing response to this game already, with 9 wonderful applications!  Though I originally intended to keep invitations open for 2 weeks, I am going to cut that in half to just one week.  Therefore, I will be closing open invitations **Sunday, July 19**.
  
  If it gets to be Saturday night / Sunday morning, and you've got an application started but not finished, please feel free to PM me and let me know, and I'll hold off on closing them until you are done, because I really don't want to deny anyone the opportunity to apply.
  
  I *am* going to split this into two games, with two separate casts.  As it stands now, I will probably deny a couple of applications so neither game is too big, and I apologize ahead of time if I don't accept you.
  
  I hope everyone will be willing to be flexible with me, if I ask them to transfer the character over to the cloned game.
  
  And, to make them fun, I'm going to make sure each story unfolds a bit differently.  So, if you decide to follow whichever copy of the game your character is not in, you'll see different plot twists, etc!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Semi-Colon: On the inside of your right wrist is a tattoo of a semi-colon, new enough that it is still red around the edges.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Geometrical Symbol: On the inside of your right wrist is a strange geometrical tattoo, new enough that it is still red around the edges.  The symbol may seem somewhat familiar, but you can't quite identify it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Unclosed Triangle: On the inside of your right wrist is a tattoo of a triangle, with one edge not quite connected.  It is new enough that it is still red around the edges.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sanskrit Symbol: On the inside of your right wrist is a tatto of a Sanskrit-like symbol, new enough that it is still red around the edges.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Infinity Arrow: On the inside of your right wrist is a tattoo of a design combining an arrow and an infinity sign.  It is new enough that it is still red around the edges.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Create Your Own: Please create your own strength.
  
  Note:  I like images, if you can include them.  It helps set a tone for your character.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Create Your Own: Please create your own weakness.
  
  Note:  I like images, if you can include them.  It helps set a tone for your character.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Create Your Own: Please create your own subplot.
  
  Note:  I like images, if you can include them.  It helps set a tone for your character.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who Are You?: Your alarm wakens you from sleep, pulling you from sweet dreams. You lean over and turn it off, trying to shake the drowsiness from your mind. But that fog of sleep won’t seem to lift, you can’t get your bearings, can’t get your focus.
  
  And that’s when it hits you… Or doesn’t hit you.
  
  You don’t know what your alarm was set for. You don’t know where you are. You don’t know who you are.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Who Are You?: Your alarm wakens you from sleep, pulling you from sweet dreams. You lean over and turn it off, trying to shake the drowsiness from your mind. But that fog of sleep won’t seem to lift, you can’t get your bearings, can’t get your focus.
  
  And that’s when it hits you… Or doesn’t hit you.
  
  You don’t know what your alarm was set for. You don’t know where you are. You don’t know who you are.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who Are You?: Your alarm wakens you from sleep, pulling you from sweet dreams. You lean over and turn it off, trying to shake the drowsiness from your mind. But that fog of sleep won’t seem to lift, you can’t get your bearings, can’t get your focus.
  
  And that’s when it hits you… Or doesn’t hit you.
  
  You don’t know what your alarm was set for. You don’t know where you are. You don’t know who you are.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Who Are You?: Your alarm wakens you from sleep, pulling you from sweet dreams. You lean over and turn it off, trying to shake the drowsiness from your mind. But that fog of sleep won’t seem to lift, you can’t get your bearings, can’t get your focus.
  
  And that’s when it hits you… Or doesn’t hit you.
  
  You don’t know what your alarm was set for. You don’t know where you are. You don’t know who you are.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Finding Help: Your quest for answers leads you to venture outside.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Investigate: Your own amnesia would have been one thing, but for four of you in the same area to wake up without memories?  Something bigger is going on here, and you need to try to figure it out.
  
  ((Each card you play on this challenge should be treated individually:
  
  If you play a strength card, your character manages to find some information (helpful or not).  If you play a weakness card, your search hits a dead end.))
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Elephant In The Room: Two of you have had episodes now.  Are they brave enough to share what actually happened?  Are the others brave enough to ask?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dinner: Everybody's gotta eat, right?  And you already skipped breakfast and lunch.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Precise: Tinkering, typing, surgery, sewing. It is as if your fingers were made to handle small, pointy things. However physicality is only half of your skill set. Your intense gaze alone is enough to pierce. Who knows how sharp the mind behind it is. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not There: Ever since you woke up you've been out of touch with reality. Sometimes you think you're just dreaming. Other times, you seem perfectly at bliss not knowing who you are.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Method: The predictable, yet rigorous approach.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Resourceful: You seem to have a lot of practical knowledge, ranging from simple repairs to wilderness survival. Whoever you were, you did for yourself.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sullen: Things tend to get under your skin more than is healthy, and stay there longer than they should. You know you should let things go, but you tend to let the negativity simmer.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Greater Good: There's a nagging feeling in the back of your mind that you should make the best of this situation by helping out everyone you run across. Somehow, you know that it's important.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Comfortable Around Strangers: You don't know why, but your subconscious keeps you comfortable around strangers or random people running up to you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Follower: You don't lead, you follow or at least need direction
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Remember Who You Are: You just want to remember who you are.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Brilliant: Your mind seems to just work *faster* than others, and you can pull out facts and make connections that surprise even you. You aren't sure how you know what you know, but you know it well, you know?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Scrawny: You're obviously more of a thinker than a fighter. Thin and awkward, you don't have a lot of physical strength or stamina.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Connect the Dots: Nothing makes sense. Even considering an amnesiac world, nothing makes sense. Not you, not where you woke up, not anything else. When things don't make sense...you poke at them until they do.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Weapons skill: You don't know why, but you get a feeling of familiarity when you hold weapons, and despite your lack of memory you know how to use them
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Panic attacks: You don't know why, but every so often you begin to panic, your muscles tensing up, a terrible feeling of fear building up inside you. They don't last long, but they scare you, because you don't know what it is that causes them.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Regain your memories: There is something from your past that you don't remember. Something important, crucial even. You have to find out what it is, for better or worse.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Skilled: You have a surprising variety of skills, from lock-picking to talking your way out of trouble to handling a gun to tackling a fully roided-up football player to hacking networks and driving like an insane stunt driver. You also seem to be fluent in several different languages like English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Thai, Latin, and German to name a few. Of course... this all raises the question of why and how you acquired these skills. But that seems to be just one of many mysteries right now.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Key Symbol: On the inside of your right hand is a key-shaped tattoo that is still new enough for the edges to have a tinge of red to them.  The symbol may seem somewhat familiar, but you can’t quite identify it.    
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pregnant: Somehow, you're into your third trimester of a pregnancy and you can't remember how or why you got that way. Another vexing mystery to solve... but the cravings, the increased libido, the cramps, the morning sickness, and all of the other fun symptoms are definitely a distraction at best, and possibly dangerous at worst... depending on the situation. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Curiosity: Whenever there's a mystery to solve or an answer to find... you need to know, no matter where it might lead you. Your current situation is full of such mysteries, and you mean to get to the bottom of it no matter what it takes, or what you might find.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stir the pot: Even if you don't know who you are, or if you're even real, you still yearn to be seen and remembered. Simple curiosity drives you to witness a world with you at the center of it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Practical: Ok, first thing's first. Deal with the most important issues, then we can poke at the trivial ones.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stubborn: I'm sure I'm right. Not a doubt in mind..... what, I was wrong? No, I'm still right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who are you?: Find out who I am.... and who this belongs too and why I have it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lucky: You've never been good at much of anything, but somehow you always get by. Some call it chance. You call it luck. And it's your best friend. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Charming: You instinctively know how to set people at ease. You're great in social situations and easily make people like you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Compulsive Liar: You can't help but lie about everything. When it's best to tell the truth, you lie. When you've got nothing to lose with the truth, you lie.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stay Free: If anyone knew what you were going through, they'd have you committed. You just want to get out alive, and safe.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Afraid: The world is scary people. Anyone could hurt you. Anyone could turn on you in a second, like a rabid dog and you wouldn't have a gun to shoot it down. You're afraid of what the world is beneath its smiling face.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Find Your Voice: The world makes you shrink away. You're not sure why. You just know nothing feels right and you want to find out what you would say if you only knew how.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Someone Important: Your search into yourself has you thinking you may have been important.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Keen Logical Mind: Despite it all, you manage to hang onto your grasp of logic even in the direst of situations. As Mr. Holmes would say, "Emotion is common, logic is rare."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: I want to know.....: When you want to know something, you have no problem letting it dominate your mind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Turning A New Leaf: After finding out the type of person you were before, you want to be nice to everyone.