conversations.from: system
conversations.value: You must've fucked up bad to draw this story. It's just sordid enough to be time consuming but not nearly important enough to get you a Pulitzer. Which editor did you piss off?
  
  This evening, Frank "The Chin" Maggliano was gunned down on the courthouse steps in front of the cops, his lawyer, maybe even you, if you were covering the trial. Whole thing was weird. The guy didn't look like a mobster. Ran off before anyone could stop him. 
  
  Things are winding down now, settling into that after-crime mode where the cops are fairly loose and most of the gawkers have gone home.
  
  Time to put on the press badge and go to work.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Novice Vampire: These are your early nights as a vampire. Eternity sprawls before you. Lust steams within.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Alluring
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naïve
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ancient Vampire: Many lifetimes lay fading behind you in the dark. Every night’s another risk that it all ends... at last.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Wise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartbroken
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Young Werewolf: You’re just learning what it’s like to be a lycanthrope: terrible power and great torture.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Agile
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Aged Werewolf: You’ve survived as a werewolf long enough to know the life’s mix of passion and guilt.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Tough
  
  Suggested Weakness: Guilty
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: New Ghost: Death, it turns out, offers no escape from this world when you don’t know how to let go.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Witty
  
  Suggested Weakness: Ephemeral
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Old Ghost: You’ve now been dead longer than you were alive. You’re getting pretty good at it, sadly.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Stubborn
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Green Wizard: Meddling with magic felt rebellious at first but now you see it’s a lot like school, except deadly.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Educated
  
  Suggested Weakness: Crass
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Practicing Wizard: You’ve been a practicing wizard for many years now and you still wonder if the money’s worth the trouble.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Wise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Doubting
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rookie Monster-Hunter: Strange and dreadful things tread the world. You do business with the bad to hunt down the worst.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Strong
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naïve
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Veteran Monster-Hunter: If there was any way to quit this job, you might take it, but the only way to avoid being hunted... is to hunt.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Stealthy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Obsessed
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Strong: You’re physically strong and probably look it, whether you’re lean or built.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Agile: You’re quick and nimble, perhaps superhumanly so, whether you look it or not.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Perceptive: You’re perceptive, perhaps from years of watching and observing. Nothing gets past you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tough: Your hardy body has seen a lot of pain and you’re still here to suck up more.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wise: You have a brilliance that comes from experience and intuition more than study or memory.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Charming: With that smile, backed up by your silver tongue, it’s hard not to like you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Witty: Your mouth is sometimes quicker than your mind but you’re a master of making that work for you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Educated: You know things that ordinary folk don’t know, be it magic or science, and that gives you power.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Alluring: You don’t have to say anything. It’s in that smile, in the way you move. It’s almost hypnotic.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stealthy: Subtle and sneaky. People don’t often notice you until you want to be noticed.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crass: You’re blunt, rude, or even gross sometimes. Maybe you don’t care what others think, maybe you don’t know better.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Doubting: Your abilities are sometimes diminished and dampened by your greatest enemy: yourself.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Angry: Your blood sears your veins and when you lose control, you lash out.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ephemeral: You can only act on the physical world when you concentrate; otherwise you’re just an image and a voice.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Naïve: You think you know how things work. You think people are basically good. You’re wrong.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Guilty: Something you did gnaws at your heart and screams nightmares at you when you sleep. It’s holding you back.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stubborn: Are you sure you’re right or are you just unwilling to admit when you’re wrong? Either way: stubborn.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Proud: You’ve come too far, done too much, worked too hard to put up with this shit from people like this.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Obsessed: When you get an idea, a mission, or a fear in your mind, you can’t just let it go.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Heartbroken: Someone broke your heart and you’re not willing to heal, not yet, because the pain’s what you have left.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reveal Your Love: Love leaves you open to pain. The only thing worse than keeping it inside is being rejected. Will you take that chance?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Something Worth Having: Living alone is hardly living. You need allies to watch your back. You need friends to fight for.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Air of Secrets: Even if you think you don’t know anything good, act like you do. Secrets are why they keep you alive.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deny Your Love: It’s not love, it’s infatuation. It’ll go away. It’ll go away because it’s not love, it’s infatuation.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Be Humane: Don’t let the worst of you take over. Don’t become a monster. Be better than those monsters.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Be the Monster: Don’t let your weakness hold you back. Don’t let humanity slow you down. The monster is powerful.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Achieve Power: You’ll never know safety until you know power, territory, control over others. It’s the way of the world.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Achieve Control: Control is its own reward. You deserve it. They deny you out of fear, out of jealousy. Don’t stand for that.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Heal the Hurt: Your heart bears a wound that might heal if you could only stop meddling with the scars.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Spread the Hurt: They’ll keep hurting people until they know — really know — what it’s like to be hurt themselves.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Secret of Hank Farrow: What’s the secret behind the photo of Hank Farrow, ancestor of the Farrow hunter family?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Victor’s Keys: Victor Castle’s keys aren’t where they belong. Get them for yourself or return them to him. They’re worth a favor.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Brickhand’s Mission: The vampire enforcer, Brickhand, has a secret mission. What is it? Who is he out to hurt?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Does the Diary Lie?: The Damned Diary, in Alistair’s possession, seems to say you did something bad. Does the diary lie?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Brian Becker Is Missing: The mortal, Brian Becker, is missing -- maybe dead -- and Delia Becker’s paying handsomely to know what happened.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Investigating Brigid: Just what spells has Brigid been casting for mortals around town? Is she someone’s scapegoat?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Blood: Syrupy, hot, metallic — drink it in.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: See Edgar’s Files: The P.I., Edgar Crease, knows things it would be good to know.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rampage: Bring down the rampaging werewolf in a way that doesn’t get you killed — by it or its old friends.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dead In Chains: Who left a vampire chained up beneath the city? Why? What are you going to do about it?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Straight-razor: Shiny and sharp.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Damned Diary: The so-called Damned Diary captures thirteen confessions a year, out of the air, and records them in old script.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Magic Words: Scrying: With these magic words you can name a target and conjure a spying eye in their presence. Hope they don’t notice.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Magic Words: Summoning: These magic words turn any circular portal (like a manhole) into a passage for a ghost or spirit you invoke.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wizard Blood: A warm vial of wizard blood. A drink of it either gets a vampire high or gives her magic powers. Depends who you ask.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Silver Bullets: Big, blunt bullets, wrought in silver. You know what they’re for.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wooden Stake: Angular, sharpened, and ready for work.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Machete Etched with Alchemical Symbols: Someone thinks this machete is magical -- that it stops bullets. Maybe they’re right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keys to Victor’s Hog: Victor Castle’s favorite bike’s spare keys. Are these where they belong?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Photo of Young Lovers: A photo of youngsters in love, circa 1940. Written on the back it says “Hank Farrow and Edith.”
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Blood Red Club: Blood Red is a cheap, moldy old club deep in a part of town rotten with vampires and ghosts.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Petite Mort: This hot new club opened near Rathbone & Highland and caters to the living -- all the living. It won’t last long.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rathbone and Highland: This dangerous intersection marks the point where werewolf and vampire turf touch -- and have for fifty years.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Highland Ave Trailer Park: Young werewolves grow up here and pretty much everyone knows it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Edgebrook Garden Cemetery: Ghosts guard the graves of vampires, sleeping off the centuries, in this old Victorian cemetery. Dangerous place.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Atop the New Sussex Tower: The New Sussex Tower is a gothic skyscraper capped with swooping buttresses where vampires dance.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crawford Street Subway Stop: Dank and rotten, this scary stop is a favorite dead-drop and graffiti spot for modern monster hunters.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deep Underneath Miller’s Pub: In the old foundations of the city, deeper than parts of the subway, is an old private wizard’s club.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Grove Ave Rowhouses: Like a dead part of the city, haunted by ghosts straining to hold onto the world with both hands. Don’t go alone.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Junkyard: Victor Castle’s domain. Here he holds court for visiting werewolves and passes judgment on crimes in his turf.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shed the Ghosts: You’re being followed by echoes of the dead. They’ll watch where you go and they’ll remember. Get rid of them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Throng: The crowd’s getting surly, angry. Show them their place or slip out before things get ugly.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ramshackle Traps: The Highland Ave trailer park is trapped with tripwires and alarm bells. Get around them if you can.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Angry Ghosts: Poltergeists don’t just crack headstones and throw rocks. They bend flesh and break bones.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rooftop Escape: Do you dare take the escape route they don’t think you’re brave enough to try?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Blend In: Try to breathe like a normal person, like the living, like you belong in this crowd.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Evil Eye: Can you dodge the surveillance of a wizard’s ward? Is that even possible?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Chase Down Dead Streets: This part of town’s a warren of rotten allies and broken blacktop. Watch your step.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fires: The whole block’s on fire. The populace burns hot, flipping cars. They’d grab pitchforks if they could find them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Junkyard Dogs: They say Castle’s hounds come from Hell itself. They see things. They’re smart. Don’t piss them off.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Victor Castle: Biker, heartbreaker, werewolf. Victor rules from the Junkyard he owns. He might be the oldest werewolf in the city.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Brigid Douglas: An unpopular but skilled wizard, Brigid is on the outs for selling spells to customers not vetted by the Conclave.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Alistair Wright-Smith: Alistair’s a new name, just a century or so old. This vampire’s old; they say he knew Emperor Nero, back when.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Brickhand: This guy’s an enforcer for Alistair. Devoted, maybe in love with him. Huge dude, takes no shit.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One High Werewolf: 300 pounds of angry muscle in a speedy panic. No way it doesn’t kill someone.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Edgar Crease, Private Detective: Supposedly Edgar washed out of wizard school and now works cases for monsters to pay the rent.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delia Becker: This young mortal woman is looking to sic a monster or some magic on her problems. Who will help her?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Starved Vampire: Bone-thin and starved nearly to dust. Crazed from years of isolation chained up in a basement. Who did this?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Jean Farrow: The Farrows were a famous hunting family in town in the 1970s. Jean’s the toughest of a new generation.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Drake: Officially he’s the wizard in charge of the county, feared by all. Secretly? They say he’s a dragon -- an actual dragon.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ace Reporter: You're a hotshot, the top of your profession. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cub Reporter: Your hopes and dreams have yet to be destroyed. You will learn. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Photographer: You're in the picture business. It beats taking portraits at Wal-Mart. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Columnist: They pay you for your columns and insight, because everyone loves thinkpieces. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Freelancer: Maybe you're working for the paper, maybe you're trying desperately to work for the paper. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Contacts: You know the right people to get what you need. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Black Sheep: Everyone in the newsroom hates you for one reason or another. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get the story: You will do anything, ANYTHING, to get this story out there. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make A Name For Yourself: You're going to be famous, one way or the other. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Advance your career: Anything that makes you move up the chain is worth doing. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Redeem Yourself: You fucked up bad. This may be your chance to make amends. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Book: This will surely be material for that book you've been meaning to write. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Repay That Favor: Someone helped you out when you were in a bind. You owe them big. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It's Alive...?: Bodybag just sat upright. Sometimes that happens. Usually there's not something inside trying to get out, though. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Daily Tribune-Express: Ah, the ol' homestead. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Charming: Everyone likes you. It's a gift. Makes things much easier. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Educated: You went to J-School! Maybe even learned a few things. God help us. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Perceptive: You know, instinctively, when shit is just not right. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wise: You know when to keep your mouth shut and your ears open. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Witty: You put things together well, quickly, in ways people don't expect. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Angry: Look at you, you've got a temper! Be sure to let everyone know it, they love the angry guy. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crass: You don't give a shit. Maybe you've dropped down to sweatpants or shave as the mood strikes you. Maybe you'll tell everyone exactly what you'll think of them. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Doubting: The only thing that can stop you is you. Unfortunately, you're pretty good at it. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Naïve: You believe everyone is good at heart and everything will work out for the best. You idiot. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Obsessed: Once you get onto something, it's coming out. Sometimes, that's not for the best. Sometimes, you have to remember to eat. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Proud: You do not have to take this shit. NOT FROM THESE ASSHOLES AND NOT FROM ANYONE! 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stubborn: No, fuck you. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Veteran Reporter: You've been there, done that, and know you're probably never working anywhere else. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crime Reporter: Covering this thing is your job. You just wish the other guys would stay out of the damn way. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Editor: You can herd these guys. Maybe. But they've got you outnumbered and outsarcasmed. Tread lightly. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Photographic Memory: You remember when you saw something or read something at the drop of a hat. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Technology: You terrify the dinosaurs in the newsroom because you don't call it "The Google." You know how to find what you need in the electronic world. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Spine of Steel: You've been insulted by mayors, arrested by the cops, called out by the city council. And you don't give a shit. You'll stand up to anyone. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Inquisitive: You know the right questions to ask, the right people to ask, and how to get the info you need. You never stop asking questions. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pariah: You put something off the record in a front page story. Now nobody wants to talk to you. Or look at you. Or help you. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Newsroom Physique: Let's just say you're more suited to desk work than running with the cops anymore. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Don't Risk It: You depend on your benefits, such as they are, so you want to stay employed more than anything. Don't piss anyone off, cash the checks. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Discover the Truth: Honestly? You don't really care about the paper or anything else. You just want to know what's going on. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Revenge: The city or the people in it have wronged you in some way. Those fucks are gonna pay. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get out alive: Look, no job's worth dying for. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Courthouse Steps: They were marble once. Now they're more filth than marble, but it's where everyone hangs out anyway. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Frank Maggliano: He was the most powerful gangster in the city. Then he was dead. Now he seems to be something other than dead...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Carol Weaver: One of the few female editors at the top of a national newspaper, Carol fought her way to the top with legendary reporting skills and unparallelled maneuvering through management. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Alistair Wright-Smith (copy): Alistair’s a new name, just a century or so old. This vampire’s old; they say he knew Emperor Nero, back when.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Suits: You probably don't want to stop and have a chat with those guys. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Self Preservation Instinct: The best newsie is one that isn't dead. Or in jail. Or in secret jail.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Inconspicuous: One of those forgettable faces.