conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Humanity discovered the Webway just over 50 years ago, and it is as mysterious now as when the first Gate was found near Saturn. An interconnecting system of – wormholes? Dimensional rifts? To this day, what they are, and how they work, and who created them, remains elusive.
  
  Whatever the answers, one thing is clear. They have ushered in a new era of discovery for mankind. The Webway provides the stepping stones to hundreds of new worlds which are ripe for exploration, and for exploitation. For 50 years, a trickle, then a torrent, then a flood of ships, from Corporate Cruisers to Military Scouts to cobbled-together chunks of aluminium and wire, have made their way to Saturn, and from there to destinations unknown. Fortunes have been won. Lives have been started afresh. And many, many people have disappeared without trace.
  
  It’s a high-risk business, travelling the Webway, and the lifestyle attracts its fair share of chancers, crazies, dreamers and thrill-seekers.
  
  People like you.
  
  You paid your life-savings to SatWeb Incorporated. You signed the disclaimers waiving them of liability for loss of life or limb. You sat through the two-week induction. You joined the Xenon at the Saturn Gate.
  
  You had been aboard for a day when the Captain made the announcement to “buckle up”. There was a flash of light, a moment of nausea. Then noise and spinning and shouting all around.
  
  *This isn’t supposed to happen*, you thought.
  
  You woke to a strange sky.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Professional Explorer: Discovery is your business. You tread the edge of human understanding and capability. Make way, people.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Arrogant
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Occult Scholar: You are an expert in the occult and—how does one say it?—possessor of rare and secret knowledge.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mystique
  
  Suggested Weakness: Frail
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bold Cryptozoologist: The world is host to a wide variety of life and you seek it out for the sake of public knowledge. Only a few understand.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Quick Study
  
  Suggested Weakness: Cowardly
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Soldier of Fortune: Your experiences in live-fire conflict zones have become your expertise. Your survival is your CV.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Combatant
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Eager Producer: Some call your shows “reality TV” but you consider yourself a producer of experiences worth living and sharing.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Charming
  
  Suggested Weakness: Clueless
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Renowned Archaeologist: You’ve been called “famous” and “nefarious” by colleagues and rivals alike. Point is, you get results.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Well Educated
  
  Suggested Weakness: Uncouth
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: World Traveler: Your journeys have taken you from extreme-sports competitions to war zones to remote paradises. Hunger for more.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Worldly
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Clever Mechanic: Machines are the ultimate expression of science, where intelligence makes contact with solid ground.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Build & Rebuild
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naïve
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Eager Sidekick: You admit, you’re along for the ride until you can figure out what to do with your life. Who do you follow?
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Wise Insight
  
  Suggested Weakness: Awkward
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mysterious Traveler: You’re not headed somewhere, you’re headed away from somewhere, in search of yourself.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Escapist
  
  Suggested Weakness: Untrusting
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hardy: You are sturdy, tough, resilient; easy to hurt, maybe, but hard to kill.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mystique: You’re versed in mysteries and mysticism but your most potent strength may be your open mind.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Well Educated: Quality schooling, perhaps combined with real-world experience, gives you an edge in the field.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Charming: That smile, that swagger, that look—you’re an enchanting, persuasive sort, in almost any language.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Worldly: You’ve been around, seen the best and the worst the world has to offer, and that gives you great instincts.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Build & Rebuild: You make things go. With parts and tools, from circuit boards to chewing gum, you do remarkable things.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wise Insight: You’re a natural study of people and situations. Some call it intuition but it’s just the way you see the world.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Combatant: You’re a fighter, adept at staying alive in lethal situations. You’re at your best when lives are at stake.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Quick Study: This isn’t about instinct, it’s about study. With observation or a primary source, you learn quickly.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Escapist: Your body and mind are nimble and hard to contain. You’re like an animal that won’t stay caged by steel or circumstance.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cowardly: Fear is your greatest obstacle; you build it in your own mind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Frail: Your spirit is willing but your body isn’t yet up to every challenge.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reckless: You might prefer to think of yourself as bold but, yeah, sure, sometimes you’re just plain reckless.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Arrogant: People should look up to you after everything you’ve done and for everything you’re bound to do yet.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clueless: You’ll get it, if they’d give you a minute to think it through.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Uncouth: Manners are for fundraisers and weddings. You’ve got work to do.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Awkward: Sometimes even two hands and two feet seem like a lot to keep track of.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Angry: The world hasn’t been fair to you so you show it the same courtesy.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Naïve: Sometimes even you think you should’ve known better.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Untrusting: People hurt each other. You’ve been hurt before. Why open yourself up to getting hurt again?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Escape the Island: Escape this mysterious island and get back to the world you know.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make Friends: Whether escape is possible or not, you’re here now. Make the best of it by understanding the others stranded here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not Our Stars: The stars in the sky aren’t right. Those aren’t our constellations. Where are you?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Secret Knowledge: What lore and truths to change the world can you uncover from this place? What secrets can you discover?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Fittest: What are the costs of survival in this place? You were fit to survive one world. What about this one?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lost Love: How can you go on without all you’ve lost? How far can love reach?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Faith in the Island: You believe something about this island—you feel you’re right about it. What are you hiding?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Understand the Impossible: Find reasonable explanations for what’s happening here. Science is on your side.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What Comes Around: We live in the worlds we make. Whatever happens is the result of our own actions, even in this chaotic world.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make A New World: You’ll never get home. You don’t want to. This is your chance to start over.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The First Order of Business: Survival. Food, shelter, defenses. You can’t make sense of this place if you’re dead.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Treasures of Yore: Wherever you are, you should acquire artifacts (or treasures) so others will believe you when you get home.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make Contact: Make contact with the world beyond this island.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Recover Yourself: Get a grip. Restore yourself to your best capabilities. Heal.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prove Yourself: Show the others that you’re more than you were by saving someone or something valuable.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rescue: Ace Bishop: Free Ace Bishop from her life in this strange place.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rescue: Thomas Merchant: Free Thomas Merchant from his exile and maybe return him to civilization.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rescue: The Madman: Rescue the raving madman from himself and maybe help him find a measure of peace.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make Peace: Get through to those who want to hurt you. Find a way to make peace between hated groups.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kill To Live: Defeat that monster that hunted you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Smartphone: No signal, half a bar of battery left, but maybe some app or data within can still help somehow?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shotgun: This battered pump-action shotgun was in the front of the plane and survived the crash. Lucky.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Radio: The plane’s weatherbeaten radio is detachable and sports an emergency battery.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tome of Occult Lore: Aged and marked with generations of marginalia, this is either spooky nonsense or a mystic treasure trove.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Spyglass: An old-fashioned spyglass in pretty good shape.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Backpack: A good, sturdy, 21st-century backpack with a dozen pockets.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: MRE: One military-issue meal, ready to eat.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Digital Camera: Top-of-the-line still and video camera with a backup battery taped on and a tripod.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: 50 Feet of Good Rope: A coil of top-grade climbing rope, blue with an orange stripe.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Golden Idol: A one-foot gold idol vaguely resembling the art style of the Chachapoyas but in a previously unknown mode and style.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crash Site: Thick jungle holds up the wrecked front half of the plane, it’s shredded tail littering the forest beyond.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Vista Overlook: A deep valley, thick with deep jungle, yawns before this cliff-top perch. Tall stone ruins peek through the canopy below.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Thundering Waterfall: Waters gush off the edge of a sheer cliff into what looks like a deep lagoon forty or fifty feet below.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Monstrous Nest: Three-toed footprints and crushed eggshells, the size of melons, mingle with gore-streaked animal bones here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ancient Ruin: This towering complex of vine-choked ruins is pocked by shallow dig sites and excavations throughout.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Damp Cavern: A dripping grotto of still water with a stroke of sky visible through a crack in the ceiling, where skulls are knotted into hanging roots.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shanty Town: A rough and ragged stilt-village of haphazard buildings assembled from sorry wreckage and harvested planks.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shore of Wrecks: The beach here is a rusty tangle of wrecks upon wrecks—a storied landscape of maritime disasters spanning a century or more.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Enigmatic Statue Garden: Statues, some carved from stone, some from tree trunks, stand in this clearing like a meeting of a dozen artificial ambassadors.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Strange Jungle: The deep jungle of the island’s interior sweats beneath a canopy of twisted branches populated with colorful, unidentifiable birds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Build a Fire: You’ve done this before. You can do it again.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cross the River: Make your way carefully across without being carried away or drowned.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Down the Cliff: Get down the cliff side to the jungle below. Do you climb or take the plunge into the lagoon below?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Track the Beast: Learn what you can about how it moves, where it nests, and what it is.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Puzzle Out the Ruin: What was this place? Who made it? Where did they go?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Explore the Cave: Ancient graffiti and a broken piano decorate this grotto. What is this place?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pillage the Wrecks: Find something of value in the rusting shipwrecks on this beach—if you can.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sneak Through Town: Sneak around in the shanty town to learn what you can or to escape.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Repair the Transceiver: Is the old transceiver aboard the outermost shipwreck really beyond saving?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shootout in the Rain: Not much ammo on this island but a lot of it is flying at you tonight.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Atticus Kirkhill: A pioneer among explorers and visionary behind this expedition, sadly lost in the crash on this mysterious island.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kate Kirkhill: The bold and daring heiress to the Kirkhill legacy is a renowned explorer and linguist. Did she expect any of this?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Michael Barrett: Survivalist, rabble rouser, and self-proclaimed leader of the island. How long has he been here?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Candace “Ace” Bishop: This fabled singer-turned-adventurer was lost crossing the Pacific in 1938 during an airplane race.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Venomous Constrictor: Like some combination of a cobra and a boa, this hooded constrictor is almost twelve feet of trouble.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Curious Elephant: An inquisitive, strangely tattooed elephant. Where did those tattoos come from and what do they mean?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gigantic, Roaring Beast: Its unearthly roar shakes the jungle, sending birds to flight and hearts to pounding. What the hell is it?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Blade-Toting Goon: One of several sweaty, angry goons armed with blades (or worse) who do Barrett’s bidding. But why?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sweaty-Toothed Madman: Raving and flailing in rags and broken boots. Who was this long-bearded lunatic and how did he get here?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Thomas Merchant: A privateer and pirate who plied the seas from Bermuda to Barbados before disappearing in the 18th century.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Astronaut ice cream: Freeze-dried and ready-to-eat. Doesn't even melt. Comes in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry falvours. Delicious!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cassius Haye: His help, given out of necessity and with poor grace.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dream Catcher: Is it more than just an item of jewellery?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: daniel's notes: Rough scribbled notes  on proto-Euphratean culture
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Trashy books: Shopaholic In Space by Dame Sophie Kinsella.
  
  The Time-Traveller's Wife's Second Cousin Once Removed's Dog by Audrey Niffenegger, Jr.
  
  One Direction: 50 Years on Top of Pop by Harry Styles
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cassius Haye: Shared adversity brings people together. Cassius is the closest thing you have to a friend here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lily Wildflower: A hippy girl, or maybe a white witch. She seems the friendliest member of the camp.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The First Order of Business: Food, friends, shelter. You need to assure your immediate survival in this place before you can do anything else.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: MRE: One military-issue meal, ready to eat. Nutritious, and tastes like dog food.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Footprints in the sand: They lead across the crimson sand to the jungle.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Escape from the river: Dark tentacles are bursting from the river. Get away before they tear you apart or drag you in.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cassius: Shared adversity can bring people together. Cassius is the nearest thing to a friend you have here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Awake Daniel: Is it a simple concussion from the blow? Some kind of contact poison from the tentacle? Or something altogether more mysterious? Whatever the case, Daniel is unconscious and in a bad way.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Why so tense?: Are these bad people, or just scared and confused? What do they know, and what have they seen?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Cave Environs: A slash in the cliff face. A small clearing. And the jungle, pressing in.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Greenwood: Where is he? What has happened to him?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cassius Haye: A body-builder or a boxer, or something like that. And also very suspicious of people who sneak up behind him in the jungle.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Track down the other survivor: The footprints lead across the beach from the wreckage to the jungle. Who are they? Only one way to find out!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cave entrance: A damp grotto. Rain sleets past the entrance and runs along the walls. Smoke from the fire drifts back, and the atmosphere is choking.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: THE CRASH SITE: Wreckage from the Xenon is strewn across the blood-red sands of this stretch of the beach.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Raging Jungle River: Too wide to jump, too deep and too fast to swim.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Camp: Sullen faces and a suspicious manner make it clear you are not wanted. But who else is there?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find provisions before Xenon collapses: The most ready source of food is on the Xenon - but hurry! The superstructure is liable to collapse at a moments notice.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Occult Scholar: You are an expert in the occult and—how does one say it?—possessor of rare and secret knowledge.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mystique
  
  Suggested Weakness: Frail
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Obsessive Research: Extensive study in History, The Occult, Demonology, Linguistics and related fields provide significant expertise.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clueless: Your area of expertise obsesses you completely, but anything else, from common sense or everyday social clues is almost invisible to  you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prove your Theories: You travelled to the Webway to prove that your theories were correct. This detour makes no difference.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Detail Oriented: You always notice the very fine detail, in an almost casual offhand way. Unfortunately that often comes at the expense of the big picture.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Allergies: You suffer from many, many, minor annoying allergies. Whenyou travel pretty much everything makes you cough or sneeze.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Caring: Loyal to the end. Never leaving anyone's side while help can be offered.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Confrontational: Sometimes the speaking before thinking action really doesn't help the situation. Anger and arguments are not healthy.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Occultist: There is more to your research than just dusty tomes and ancient myth. You have studied demons, mysticism and magics. Of course it might all be smoke and mirrors.