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conversations.value: Eleven friends. Eleven lives. Eleven threads all woven together to form the beautiful tapestry that is life. But are those threads each beautiful in their own right? Or do they draw their strength from the tapestry? Where does each thread begin and where does it end?
  
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  This is an experimental game that is going to be more writing exercise than traditional Storium game. With the exception of one player, each player will control two characters. Throughout the game, you'll be making new characters on a regular basis to replace the old ones. Each chapter will consist of a series of vignettes about your characters, how they grow up, who they are, how they all meet each other, how they fall in love and become friends, and how they die. Each chapter will take place during a different time period. The only requirements for your characters is that they will all become close friends at some point in their lives and the lone player's character will be involved romantically with at least one other character. 
  
  **If you know what this is referencing, please don't spoil the story for everyone.**
  
  For your application, apply as a player. Tell me why you're interested in the game and what kind of characters you usually make, if you have a "type" or preference. Feel free to tell me in the bio or in the notes if there's something you want to actively avoid as part of the story. Keep in mind, we'll be exploring life, love and death throughout history, so while I won't be intentionally exploring troublesome periods of history, they may come up in the course of the story. I promise to do my best as a narrator to make sure they're handled in the best way possible. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Create Your Own: These cards will change each chapter, so to facilitate that, create your own (it can be a dummy card) and edit it later. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Create Your Own: These cards will change each chapter, so to facilitate that, create your own (it can be a dummy card) and edit it later. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Create Your Own: These cards will change each chapter, so to facilitate that, create your own (it can be a dummy card) and edit it later. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Create Your Own: These cards will change each chapter, so to facilitate that, create your own (it can be a dummy card) and edit it later. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Europe c. 1200: The Middle Ages of Europe. The time of kings and serfs, lords and slaves. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Con Artist: Since a very young age he was an apprentice to one of the Empire's best swindlers, his uncle.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Silver Tongue: He couldn't have made it this long if he weren't good at what he does.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Zero Cool: He might be able to sell ice to a penguin, but when he loses his cool, all the practiced speeches and setups go out the window.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something More: Escaping poverty, being someone...it all sounds cliched, but he wants it all.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Player: Someone who has characters in this particular game.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Strength Card: This is a dummy card.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Weakness Card: This is a dummy card.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Subplot Card: This is a dummy card.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Author: There's lots of weird people in your head, just waiting to be let out.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Empathy: You can get into your characters' heads, understand their motivations and feeling, be one with them.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Weak: You're sometimes weak.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Earn your Happy Ending: One hard, painful step at a time. It will only make it more satisfying in the end.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone: I might be a human. I might also like writing.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Imagination: It can take you anywhere!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Block: It's not always easy to express through words.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Write: It's fun!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Romantic: Romance is my joy, no matter the form and how it comes. Love in general, be it friends, family, or actual lovers. I give it my all.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Variety: I do my best to make more than one personality of character, and seem to do it well so far.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Confidence: More like the lack there of. I get nervous I do a mistake, or that my characters come off similar in certain situations. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lover: Love is my soul. Be it family, friends, or the romantic entanglements. No matter if it's hetero or homo, trans or asexual, I will emerge myself in it and give it my all.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Multiple Personality: I can embody more than one type of person, and am always willing to test out a new one. Writing is all about exploration and testing boundaries!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lacked Confidence: I tend to get scared sometimes that my characters blend into the same person. Confidence I need to work on, totally will succeed. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Explore: Writing is my love. Love is my soul. I want to test my boundaries and work with others to make as many great stories as possible.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nature: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Strength: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Weakness: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Noble Byzantine: Nika was born to Byzantine nobles in the Empire of Nicaea.  She is a refugee from the home of her family, and a Lady ("Kyria") without her family's land.  But the blood of her ancestors is in her veins, and the frustration of living adjacent to the Latin Empire (the very monsters who sacked and pilfered her heritage!) makes that blood boil.
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Determined: You are absolutely committed to achieving a difficult goal, in spite of any obstacles put in your way.
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Secretly Insecure: On the outside, you appear perfect - from your appearance to your demeanor, you seem to have it all. But the reality is that you lack self-confidence, resulting in others incorrectly perceiving you as being snobbish or uppity. You often scare others away by your defensive attitude, and you have difficulty letting others in on your emotions. And you’re afraid that, someday, others will discover your secret, and all your on-the-surface charm won’t be able to protect you from their ridicule, or the loneliness that not being accepted by those you care about will bring.
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Subplot: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Home, In My Home: There must be SOME way to get Byzantium back, and be back in Byzantium!  
  
  Byzantium ... where Nika can have a home of her own ... a place where she can do what she wants when she wants ... a place where she can be happy ...  
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dreamer: There are more realities than the one we experience with our senses. Writing them down makes them become real.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Un-Writer: I don't write stories, I write diaries and observations of imaginary people in story form. I'm more of a character artist than a real writer.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mega Charactarization: Character development is my strong suit. I think like my character and adapt a writing style that better exemplifies their current personalities. Grammar rules out the window.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: NOT a writer?: English is "technically" my second language, although I speak it flawlessly. However grammar is my weak point. My tenses may be broken at times and sentences lacking sophistication. However I do still try my best to make my meaning known.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tell their stories! : I have a lot of imagination and when I can't get it out through mere daydreaming and pencil sketching, it must come out through words on a page. I love and live for thinking up people and the lives they may lead.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Adventurer: After growing up hearing his father's tales, Andrei wants nothing more than to experience the world that he's only heard about before now.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Creative: Neither educated nor worldly, Andrei is nonetheless thoughtful, and has learned to think quickly on his feet. He's found that most problems have solutions, it's just a matter of changing your perspective.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hiding Something: Andrei's secret is a big one, one that could endanger his plans and his life. It leaves him anxious and self-conscious, constantly worried about anything that might give him away.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Freedom: Andrei could never be content with the life his parents planned for him, that of a married woman. He's determined to live his life on his own terms, even if it means leaving all he loves behind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Perfectionist: Sometimes, it's all or nothing, which can be problematic when something needs to be done quickly.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: l: l
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: .: .
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: School: Teen,blah,blah,blah.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: .: .
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Architect: Paradox, perversity and perplexity: this is what attracts me to fiction.
  
  I like revealing things in characters that they themselves don't know -- having them face those things, and grow from them.
  
  For me, characters should create surprise, confusion, insight and finally, wisdom.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Architect: Paradox, perversity, perplexity -- for me, these are the eternal mysteries of drama.
  
  A passionate character struggles to escape misery, but what will it sacrifice or betray to this end? Will it change or remain steadfast? Will it get what it wants, and will it be happy?
  
  A good character should surprise, delight, appall, and finally, yield insight into ourselves.
  
  A writer's job: to torment and vivisect it until it does -  hence the toolbox.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Genre: Setting, imagery, mood, motive, attitude, dialogue...
  
  From romance to thriller, from ancient Egypt to Eriadne VII, if it's ever been written in English, the chances are, I've either read it, written it, or want to write it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Juice: I'm currently working on squeezing more juice into my characters: that's why a broadly-set character exercise like Nakama appeals.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Honesty: From the glacier of truth to the lake of compassion flows the river of honesty.
  
  How cold is the water we will sip from our friends? How pure is the drink they would serve us?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Character Creator: I tend to be more the type to be character driven as opposed to story/plot driven.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Teamwork: I feel I am someone who works well in a collaborative setting
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Serious Characters: My characters tend to be have a lighter edge to them, and are of of a witty fun type. Serious characters are my weakness.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: For the fun of it all.: Because writing is fun, and I really enjoy Storium.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Musician: Your hands were made for finding tunes, your very mouth for voicing them. Yours is a heart that lives for songs, and your body was born to dance them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cultured: Not only are you learned and well-mannered, but you have an ear, an eye-- an everything, really-- for nuance and fine detail.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Reckless: The line between bravery and foolishness, boldness and danger, is not so fine. Yet you've a tendency to pass it over entirely.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Compose: Given the opportunity, any opportunity, you just *know* that you could be amazing. You could write music that would make a stone cry-- if only you could rustle up the chance to prove it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Apprentice Scribe: Taken under wing by the scribes of the Church, you are supposedly studying and training to be able to write-- even illuminate!-- manuscripts yourself, one day... but mostly you just mix ink and fetch quills.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Earnest: All you are makes all you do an act of heart.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unfocused: Yours is not a mind to let things go... or to let them pass by. And when there's so much to see, to do, to think, to wonder, to be--! Well. Let's just say you don't always get things done right. (Or at all.)
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Brighten the Road: If life were a journey and the world a road, then we have plenty enough stones in the pavement. More than a stiff upper lip to endure until the end's before us, we need flowers to better the view along the way.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Placeholder: ...
conversations.from: gpt
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conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Orphan: She has spent the majority of her life in an orphanage.  To say that she's lived a sheltered life would be underselling it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Smart: Daily lessons from the nuns and a seemingly endless supply of time for independent reading have made her quite knowledgeable.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Devout: Being so devout means that she can be quick to judge, and not very open minded.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Family: Having grown up in an orphanage, the one thing she desperately wants is to be part of a family.  She thinks it means being with her brother and finding her father, but she might just learn that families come in many shapes.