conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Driven by greed as much as a thirst for knowledge, you are occult book dealers, scouring libraries, auction houses and private collections, facing threats from rival bookhounds and strange cultists in that great rambling city on the Thames, London, the heart of Empire in the 1930s.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Antiquarian: You’re an expert on antiquities and artifacts, known world-wide for your skills.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Archaeology Professor: You teach archaeology at a prestigious New England college and are widely published.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Slow
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Physics Professor: You stand at the forefront of “alternative physics”—where science meets mysticism.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Medical Doctor: Your knowledge of the human body and its care is much celebrated.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psychologist: The human mind is your purview—you understand how it works and when it doesn’t.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Judgmental
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Field Archaeologist: You blend archaeological knowledge with wilderness survival and digging techniques.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dilettante: You ache to make a mark on the world, to amount to something special.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Graduate Student: You’re at the beginning of an exciting career... you hope.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Vital Youth
  
  Suggested Weakness: Impatient
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Soldier of Fortune: Your military training makes you valuable the world over. It’s a dangerous place, this planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Occult Author: You’ve studied and written widely on matters of mysticism and folklore. Your fans are many.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Appraisal: You’re sharp, perceptive, and quick—capable of appraising situations as well as objects.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lore: Your intellect is formidable and your knowledge spans many cultures and histories.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sciences: You have a calculating mind that prizes reason and calm precision above all.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Medicine: You’re adept at medicine, from saving lives to identifying the telling marks of death.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Mind: The human mind is a remarkable device and you understand how it works.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Survival: You’ve survived the wilderness, bandits, and wolves in your search for ancient treasures.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Resources: You’re well equipped with quality tools, society contacts, and funds.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Vital Youth: You’re energetic, athletic, and hale—ready for adventure!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hardy: You’re a rugged, leathery sort. You’re hard to kill and ready to work through pain.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mysticism: You know the ways of folklore and magic, some of it so much hogwash... some of it not.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delicate: You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Slow: Your mind may be sharp but your body is slow to keep up.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Limited: Outside your areas of expertise, you’re easily lost.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Oath: You’ve sworn an oath to save lives, avoid violence, and heal the sick.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Judgmental: Your judgmental attitude causes you troubles. If only others would try harder to measure up.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Reckless: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Naive: A bit gullible and trusting of the wrong sorts, perhaps, but you mean well.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Impatient: You don’t wait around well. You want to act first and think about it later maybe.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Heartless: The years have left you wary and callous, unwilling to risk your heart again.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bookish: You’re no athlete. Maybe you’re doughy or awkward or frail but you’re sure no athlete.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Learn an Eldritch Secret: Learning is power, whether you share it or not.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hunt Something New: You’ve stalked or been stalked by the most dangerous game. Time for a new challenge.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find Worthy Material for a Dissertation: Stop waffling and wondering and find out what you believe to be true about the world.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Show Your Father You’re Worthy: It’s not about inheritance, it’s about respect.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Push A Mind Beyond Its Limits: Push someone—perhaps yourself!—beyond the limits of reason and then study what happens.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Show Them Your Work is Sound: It’s not enough anymore to believe you’re right. Show them you’re right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bring Back A Groundbreaking Artifact: If you can retrieve a never-before-seen treasure, your career will be revitalized.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Home Alive: Maybe this work isn’t worth your life? Just get home alive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nothing Is Forbidden: Human morals are a human construction. Knowledge of the infinite is more valuable.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Matters of Love: Love may be an earthly concern, but it’s real and it matters.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Deciphering: Read words that have gone unread for generations.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Survive the Wild: Endure and survive the threats of the wild.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Protect Someone: Prevent harm from coming to a colleague you admire or cherish.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Save A Life in Danger: Rescue someone in peril, perhaps bringing them back from the brink of death.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Be The First: Set foot in a new or ancient place before someone else can despoil it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the Dig Site: Protect the dig site from harm.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Warn the World: Get word out about what’s happening at the dig site.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make A Friend: The best protections against the harsh realities of the world are friendship and allies.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Photographic Evidence: Get a photo that no one would believe if it weren’t true.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Right Might: Show someone that you’re not to be trifled with.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Matchbook From The Blue Star: A simple matchbook adorned with a blue star and no words.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jameson’s Portfolio on the Peru Dig: A collection of newspaper clippings, sketches, and geographical survey maps.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash: At least $1,000 dollars American in bright green bills.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Heavens Below: by Brother Francisco Castillo. Contains occult secrets about pre-Columbian South America.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Revolver: A six-shot snub-nosed pistol.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shotgun: A long, double-barreled shotgun with a wood stock.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ammunition: Ammo for a gun.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dynamite: One stick of dynamite with a long fuse.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Digging Equipment: Shovels, brushes, and picks suitable for quick or fine-detail work.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Fine Camera: A high-quality camera with tripod.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Jameson’s Office: All dark hardwoods and plush chairs with a penthouse view.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Aveline Estate: The sort of place with marble pillars and a hedge maze.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Aboard Butcher’s Plane: The plane rattles and dips in tough turbulence. It’s more for cargo than passengers.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Blue Star Nightclub: The city’s best-hidden jazz secret is this hole-in-the-wall club, open just twice a week.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Suburban Dining Room: The table is buried under layers of maps and sketches and newspaper clippings.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Remote Peruvian Village: A quaint, humid little village on the road leading to the dig site.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Swaying Rope Bridge: No way a truck could make it across that. Only foot traffic could cross this rickety thing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Abandoned Dig Site: The dig site resembles, at first, just an assortment of low, stone walls and carved pits.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Deep Jungle: This sort of jungle can swallow up a traveler with ease and never release its secrets.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Far Beneath the Dig: A circle of sunlight through the well shaft above reveals a vast, finely carved chamber...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Turbulence: Avoid embarrassing yourself in flight.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: First Impressions: Make a first impression on the locals that won’t get you in trouble later.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cross the Rope Bridge: Get across the rope bridge with all your equipment intact.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rains From A Clear Night Sky: The dig site fills with water and mud. Protect the artifacts!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find Your Way: The track through the jungle is perilous and difficult to follow. Don’t lose your way.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lost Beneath: These strange passages beneath the earth make little sense. Will you ever see the sky again?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ancient Writings: Who can decipher these ancient markings?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gunfire!: Someone from afar is taking shots at you!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Impossible Creature: It is both there and not there, part tentacle and part grasping mouth. Understand it? Or flee?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Vision: Are you dreaming or is this real?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Jeremiah Jameson: Dr. Jameson isn’t brave enough to lead expeditions so he funds others’ trips into the unknown.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Diane Aveline: The widow of Michael Aveline, who was killed on an expedition of Jameson’s. She wants revenge.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Caroline Butcher: One of the world’s great pilots and photographers.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Walter Corrigan: A soldier of fortune hired to protect Dr. Jameson’s investments.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Leonard Crenshaw: A locally renowned jazz musician and expert on folklore of the Americas.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jorge Quispe: A young driver, fixer, and guide in Peru. He’s been to the dig site Jameson’s curious about.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mysterious Interloper: Tall and shadowy in a fedora and trench coat. Who is this gravel-voiced stranger?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mad Cultist: This drug-addled cultist is ready to give his life—or yours—to please his monstrous god.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tentacular Beast: Tentacles and feathery antennae probe out from a shadowy mass at the heart of this beast!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hellish Flying Monstrosity: Wider-winged than a condor, with a bone-chilling cry and gleaming teeth.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reckless: The urge to take risks sometimes derails your train of thought.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Warn the World: Get word out about what’s happening.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Book Stock (copy): There may be some useful tomes in your stock. You might even discover a Squiz desired by a customer...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Phil Topper (copy): Your former catalogue agent, pulled soaking from the muck of a feeder to the Thames. He would have something sour to say about all this, but he's too dead to say it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: By the Thames: Thick fog shrouds the great old river, and locked gates in the Thames Embankment guard secrets that only the flushers know.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Book Stock: There may be some useful tomes in your stock. You might even discover a Squiz desired by a customer...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Northam Collection: Locate Lord Northam's famed trove of rare books.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lay a Friend to Rest: For the sake of the dead, debts must be settled, and truths must be revealed.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Banned Poetry: A stack of Aleister Crowley's most inflammatory collections of poetry.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: An Invitation to the Hemlock Club: The letter offers membership to you, provided you commit a "notorious and heretical" act to prove your worth.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Handy tools: A claw hammer, some long nails, a screwdriver, a pair of large pliers and a crowbar. Just the thing for some interior redecoration.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Black Book of Favours: A black-bound notebook where you keep names of contacts who owe you a good (or bad) deed.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hired Lad: A young bravo off the street, hired to provide assistance.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sorting the Trash: There must be three boxes full of wet paper trash here. Oh, the smell!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Revolver: A six-shot Webley .455 pistol.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Young Bravos: These are no charming Dickensian urchins - the rough lads are tall enough to reach your neck and do something with it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sleepy Librarian: She may not be particularly awake or aware, but she could cause trouble if she gets in your way.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Drunk looking for a fight: He's decided your kind isn't wanted here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Elizabeth Brookbriar: A rangy raven-headed heiress with a hungry and eager mind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Suspicious Clerk: Annoyed to be bothered with yet another request, and far from eager to assist.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Unfriendly Steward: He looks down on anyone who seems out of place in this establishment. Some people are just too quick to judge.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Gentlemen in Army Boots: Two singularly unpleasant men with the demeanour of military veterans. And soldiers' boots.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Auction: The Knock: Illegal collusion with co-conspirators to knock rivals out of the bidding. Inevitably followed by The Ring.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Library Use: Sorting through this voluminous collection for the information you seek requires perseverance and a detective's mind.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Followed: You're being shadowed. It will take wits and luck to deal with your pursuers.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Auction: The Ring: A private follow-up auction after the Knock, in which co-conspirators bid for the lot they have bought together.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Monstrous Rectigraph: An infernal contraption of the modern age. Place a document within, operate its beastly mechanisms, and a fresh facsimile comes out.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Immeasurable Charm: Your suavity and savoir faire are highly convincing. You’re a pleasure to talk with.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Doubting: Your abilities are sometimes diminished and dampened by your greatest enemy: yourself.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Haunted: You cannot escape your mistakes or your guilt, which can make you hesitant and halting.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stealth: You are quiet and surreptitious in nature or demeanor.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Thief: By guile, subterfuge or plain criminality, you acquire that which other people desire...and will pay for.
  
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  Suggested Strength: Stealthy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Haunted
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find Your Way: The rain-swept streets are a labyrinth at this late hour. What was the address again?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Stacks: The weight of history and collected knowledge fills the air in the library. Shelves stretch all around the vast, circular Reading Room. A clock ticks somewhere.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Inn of Court: The great halls are the traditional lodgings and training grounds of the legal profession. Barristers bustle past like a murder of crows.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Exclusive club: A home away from home for distinguished gentlemen. Comfortable armchairs, library, billiards and good dining.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Algernon Williams: A delicate and sensitive-looking young man, seemingly ready to fall down at the first wind...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The corner pub: A place for the working man. Don't order anything ludicrous or American: if you want a cocktail, go to a nightclub and be damned to you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clerk's Office: Papers, trays, rubber stamps and a sense of someone trying to carve desperate order out of bureaucratic chaos.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: P.C. Perkins: Constable Perkins doesn't approve of all this "Satanist" bookstore nonsense.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Auction: The Drop: It isn't the lot you want to win, but you could drive up the price and make it costly for your foe.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Working-class Charm: Charwomen, janitors, groundskeepers, servants. You know their trade and drink up their gossip.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Heartless: Life has left you mean, wary and callous, unwilling to betray yourself with an ounce of kindness.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bookish: You’re no athlete. Perhaps doughy or awkward or frail but certainly far from fit.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Impatient: You don’t do "sit and wait." You pace about, you never stay still, you act first and think later.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Judgmental: Your judgmental attitude isn't the problem. It's everyone else who just doesn't meet standards.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delicate: The world is too rough and loud for you. You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Discover Something Old: The dead past is the only place that seems alive to you. Discover a truth from the times long gone.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Naive: They said you were too gullible and trusting of the wrong sorts. Well, they were right.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Obsessive: You take too much care, too much interest in the little details.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Book Scout: You find and obtain unconsidered trifles and lost treasures at estate sales and bookstalls, whether by subterfuge or five-fingered discount.
   
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Street Smarts
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Document Analysis: You are an expert in the study - and creation - of physical documents.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find Artistic Inspiration: Follow your Muse wherever she leads, clay in her hands for moulding.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash: A hundred quid could get  you nine copies of Malleus Maleficarum, an affordable sedan, or a great deal of useful information.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A sword-cane: A two-and-a-half-foot sword blade hidden in a black cane with a brass top.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Solve a Riddle: Damn the risks, there's something going on here and you're going to figure it out.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find a Windfall: You know what poverty is like, and you have no intention of repeating the experience. How much money do you need to feel secure? As always, the answer is "more."
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Follow Your Blood's Calling: Queer behaviour runs in the family, and the others just won't understand. Sometimes you have to dig deeper and dance with the skeletons in your family's closet.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Push Beyond Your Limits: Achievement for achievement's sake is not a vice; it's something you have to prove, if only to yourself.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Investigate Miss Brookbriar: Who is Elizabeth Brookbriar, and what does she want with Williams?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Fierce Rivalry: Hathaway & Co. Fine Books, the bastards. You'll get them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Establish a Reputation: Become famous or infamous in your field of specialty.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shake off Suspicion: If only you could get the coppers off your back...!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Itinerant bookstall: The wheels have almost come off this glorified book-barrow, loaded with water-stained paperbacks and battered ex-lib stock.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Orient Archives: A rare book shop of some small repute, and regrettably limited selection. Good location in the heart of the City. They are known for fulfilling special orders, if you're willing to wait.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Street Smarts: You're always ready to fight, run or strike a bargain in the dark streets where good men fear to tread.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Occultist: There is an inner truth beyond the crude lies of history, religion and materialism. You seek a new revelation.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Arrogant
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Author: Words are your weapons, your tools, your defense against horrid reality. Your labours are solitary and your rewards sporadic. You have too much time to think.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Catalogue Agent: A less disreputable book scout, a  bibliophile's private eye, you take your commission from buyer, from seller, or from both: in a phrase, you are a "mercenary of books."
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength:
  Working-class Charm
  
  Suggested Weakness:
  Impatient
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Forger: You do the world a service: you increase the supply of something precious and desired. Thought of correctly, you're more artist than criminal, more publisher than cheat.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength:
  Document Analysis
  
  Suggested Weakness:
  Obsessive
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bookseller: Love them or loathe them, you live surrounded by books and draw your living from them.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Arrogant: Know what you're doing? Of course you know what you're doing! Someone has to!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Locksmith's Tools: A leather wallet containing an assortment of lockpicking devices.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Antique Inks and Papers: All you need to produce an authentic forged letter.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hired Lads: A handful of young bravos off the street. Rough hands for rough work.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Overcome Ennui: You had that one shining moment when you felt truly alive. Maybe you can find it again. So what if it kills you? At least that would be different.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Aston Drummell: The catalogue agent of Hatahaway & Co. Fine Books. Athletic build, dresses well, hawk profile, dark hair pomaded back 
  from a widow’s peak. Smokes Silk Cuts, drinks whisky, drives a Rover.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Open the Shop: It's past opening time, and the new deliveries are yet to be sorted. The floor is still unswept. Cabinets still closed, register locked.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash (copy): A hundred quid could get  you nine copies of Malleus Maleficarum, an affordable sedan, or a great deal of useful information.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The City Proper: Courts, newspapers and banks nestle together under the shadow of St. Paul's. Better class of ladies and gentlemen on the streets at the heart of the old City.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Underground: A rush of wind and the crowds shudder every time a train arrives in this brightly-lit Tube station. The pleasantly warm atmosphere smells false somehow.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dusty basement bookshop: Books in piles like twisted trees, overflowing creaky old furniture in a dark but dry establishment two rungs below respectability.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Vacated townhouse: Dim, cold and empty. The lack of furniture only serves to highlight the ugly bare walls.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Aleister Crowley: Author, occultist, spy and notorious bisexual adventurer. The Great Beast has grown slow and flabby in his later years, but there is still fire in his eyes.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Northam Collection (copy): Locate Lord Northam's famed trove of rare books.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Inspector Eustace L. Smith: Through his narrow spectacles, he takes the view that all bookhounds are guilty of something.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Phil Topper: Your former catalogue agent, pulled soaking from the muck of a feeder to the Thames. He would have something sour to say about all this, but he's too dead to say it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Booker Retrieval: Charmayne hates when this happens.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cab versus old lady: It isn't even remotely fair, is it?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Filthy back alley: The light never reaches the depths of this back way. Vermin chitter and root around in the trash heaps.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hathaway & Co. Fine Books: In terms of location, presentation, selection and service, just like your store - except slightly better. Bastards.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Respectable Bookshop: The smell of tea and biscuits is stronger than the smell of pages. Every shelf sorted and labelled neatly for your convenience.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Chez Booker: Books in piles like twisted trees, overflowing creaky old furniture in a dark but dry establishment two rungs below respectability.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Coordinate the Search: The lads lack education and guidance - but with a little direction, nobody's better for searching the streets and gutters.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Dead End in Watford: Some of this slum housing hasn't changed much since the 1850s.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Under the Floorboards: You know it's under this patch of loose floorboards. The only question is how long it will take. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mistress Lizbet: A wizened face grins out of a blue shawl. She can't read very well, but she can sell with the best of them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Where did she come from?: You have the uncanny knack of appearing out of nowhere in the midst of people... often looking as if 'yeah..I belong here, so what?' with a bored expression.  This greatly unnerves people and rattles their cages.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Inscrutable Oriental: There's just something about easterners that makes them so hard to read. Particularly if they don't want you to read them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bossy: You like to take charge of the situation and run roughshod over objections. YOUR way is the RIGHT way, and you won't stop till other see it too.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Streetwise: You are intimately acquainted with the streets of London, and the people and buildings who populate it. You know the beggars who live under the bridge, the street rats who run through her streets, and where lurks who or what... Very little pass unnoticed under your gimlet eyes.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Chip On The Shoulder: All these damned "gentlemen" and their airs and graces. You have no patience for pretension and it shows. Often.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: I know what I'm doing...: Actually, I don't but I'll destroy everything before I admit that...
  
  