conversations.from: system
conversations.value: *They were ordinary people living ordinary lives when everything began to change around them. The shadows came alive. The scent of blood hit the air. The darkness had a face. And it was beautiful.*
  
  They Walk In Beauty is based on gothic horror, namely Dracula, about a group of people influenced by and drawn into the story of a vampire. Characters are people within the story but not the vampire themselves. The game is about hunger, redemption, and hope. If this were the game of Dracula, you would play Mina, Harker, and Van Helsing. 
  
  Play will begin with their normal lives. All the characters will be tied to one another some how (discussed once characters are selected). You will be friends, lovers, family, and enemies. You will care for each other and betray each other as the vampire takes hold.
  
  The setting will be ambiguous for now. I will take between 1 - 4 players. Make your vulnerabilities (strengths) and secrets (weaknesses) somewhat timeless, so that upon discussion we can choose a time setting. But it will take place at a sizeable house/mansion, where isolation is a concern.
  
  The cards. Decide your own for each. Your strength is your vulnerability. This is why the vampire is interested in you but it also gives you character traits that allow you to fight back. Think of vampire fiction when creating these. You could be vulnerable because you're an outsider (homeless), because you're unwell (mental illness), because you're in an abusive relationship, because someone recently died on you, because you're a stranger in a strange land. Figure it out and put it down.
  
  Weakness is your secret. You do not have to write your actual secret in the card. Give a hint or a picture that gives a hint, some facsimile of a title and then use the comments section to tell me the secret. The secret will come out in play. It should be a secret that, if found out, would mean you don't fit in to modern society. It can be a kink, a violent tendency, a power of some kind (make sure this is subtle if you go down this road), a racist/sexist belief, etc. 
  
  Plot. Tell me what you are interested in seeing with the character in terms of the vampire. The character themselves will not know this goal until perhaps scene 2 or 3 when they begin to meet and interact with the vampire. There will be a confrontation once the story leads to such.
  
  Back story: For now, tell me about the character without an actual setting. Please talk about what setting you would briefly like to see. Tell me what you want to have happen with the character. Tell me what you want from a gothic style vampire horror game. 
  
  Submissions close on Friday the 24th. Unless some phenomenal characters come out first. Speed is slow, low expectations, hoping to move at least once to twice a week, more if we get excited.
  
  Trigger warnings: Vampires often deal with issues of consent and abuse. This game will be about those lines and what a monster brings out in all of us. Be prepared for that.
  
  This game is based on the Indie RPG Annalise. Check it out. It's pretty great.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who are you? : What defines you as you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Vulnerability: Why are you vulnerable? What makes the creature drawn to you? What lets it take hold of you but also gives you strength?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Secret: What's the secret no one can know? What's the thing that makes you different and afraid to let others in? 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What do you want from the monster?: Examples: To survive, to capture, to enamour, to succumb to, to destroy, to become one of, etc
  
  Even if you choose "to belong to" or "to succumb to" this shouldn't be something that is realized immediately, or if it is, there needs to be serious reasons why you won't right now (family, love, etc)
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Darkness' Temptation: Every human has a weakness, something that draws the darkness to them. What is yours?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: I Am Vulnerable Because: Use this card to describe your vulnerability. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Unseen Key: There's a vulnerability in humanity, a tendency towards self destruction or worse, the destruction of others. It's what the darkness can't resist. It's what lures you in.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Unseen Key: There's a vulnerability in humanity, a tendency towards self destruction or worse, the destruction of others. It's what the darkness can't resist. It's what lures you in.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Beauty of Music: Music can stir a crowd, sway the soul, and assuage the monster within. It is its own life blood and beating heart within the truth and entity of humanity. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Beauty of Romance: Love and romance hold a special magic, a kind of youth and power that many an artist has written of but few have truly captured. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Beauty of Order: A place for everything and everything in its place. The quiet of order and law and sense, the beauty of knowing and knowledge. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Decaying Flowers: The flowers in the courtyard droop sadly, their leaves and petals curl and darken. Their scent carries on the wind through the Villa.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Aging Professor: Just about the only things outside of a museum that you've met that's older than you are about five centuries-old books in your personal library.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Loss: In order: loss of spouse, loss of children, loss of reputation, loss of job, loss of purpose. I've lost a lot recently, it reminds me of just how old I am... and I know the statistics... with the long chain of losses, I should've died last week. But I'm going to beat the odds. I'm not going to let this growing malaise break me.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Reading Graffiti: Just an odd habit of mine... I can't help but read through the graffiti you find in bathroom walls, and in back alleys... or where-ever really. Its... amusing. There's nothing else to it. Stop staring at me.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Study the Monster: Something about the creature... fascinates me. It is just human enough to fool the unobservant, yet clearly inhuman when put under even cursory examination. What is this thing, really? A Childe of The Dragon? No... the truth must lie in a reasonable explanation... it simply has to. Otherwise, it wouldn't exist and I would just be completely insane.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: FFFFF: FFFFFF
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Auditor: Someone has to make sure the numbers are all in line and that someone is you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bachelorhood: Past thirty, you really ought to have settled down with a proper young lady by now.  Dedication is all well and good, but you don't want to go to your grave a bachelor.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Student: You study the art of music under the tutelage of a kindhearted mentor.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Foreigner : You have traveled to a land that is unfamiliar to you. Although you are very adaptable, you still have trouble fitting in.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Inner Confusion : Some days it haunts you...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To Escape: The presence of the vampire has changed how you live your life. You want to return to how things were before...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: To Succumb: To sink slowly into the abyss, into a place where thinking and logic no longer rule. Only obedience. Only peace.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Isolated Heart: Your work and life have kept you from forming strong connections with others.  There is a longing in you. To make connections, friends, lovers. Something more than faint acquaintances.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Wanderer: Set adrift on the open road.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Vagabond: Though it has made you self reliant, the years on the road have left you without hearth or home, kith or kin. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Open Road: It calls to you to return.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To obtain from: The promise of power, secrets, wealth, and more, all in return for service.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Writer: It's more than just arranging words on parchment. It's plucking stories from the aether, like butterflies, and trying to capture their beauty by pinning them to the page. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Controlled: Others take credit for your work, have a say over what you do, where you can go. But you also control yourself, to keep the anger and the resentment and other "unacceptable" emotion inside.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Forbidden Knowledge: You've peaked at things society doesn't think you should know. Things they fear. But you don't find them fearsome. You find them...compelling. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To Study: This seems impossible. What is it? What does it mean? What can it teach me? What stories does it have?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Store Attendant: Maman told you to watch out for the store and to take care of her customers.
  
  After a while, she's taken to let you deliver and sell baked goods.
conversations.from: human
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conversations.from: human
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conversations.from: human
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conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Trapped: To know that you are to wed in less than a year is doting to a young and restless woman like yourself.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Innocent: With someone as innocent and caring as you, it's easy not to use you for bad and to harm you. However you can't help but to believe that people are good deep down.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What do you want from the monster?: Examples: To survive, to capture, to enamour, to succumb to, to destroy, to become one of, etc
  Even if you choose “to belong to” or “to succumb to” this shouldn’t be
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: To Protect and Comfort: Sometimes, all people need  is someone on their side and to cry to. You want to be that person. You don't want to see anyone hurt.