conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The sorrow I feel for all I've done do not excuse what I caused. My lust for power, my shedding of all that made me human. 
  
  The burden I give for you to bear is not just, but it is all I can give. Our family is shattered, none claim the responsibility and honor we once had. And why should they, after all I did to break it apart until nothing visible remained of our proud name.
  
  This letter, this inheritance, is not a passing of wealth, but a call to action.
  
  I do not know when or even if you, or the generation after you, or even their offspring will answer my wretched request. But I ask, if not that, please keep it in the family, that in some way, perhaps, I might have peace.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Antiquarian: The knowledge you gained from university, of the classics, of geography, of the ancients and the market, you decided to turn not toward scholarship, but profit.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Licentiate: You teach The Law, and your writings and rulings are well known. Responsibility, knowledge, judgement. Such are your burdens, and your strengths.
  
  ...
  
  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: Chirrurgeon: Your tools, your hood, the rank of blood that clings to your oiled robes. Many fear you, some hate you. But as their life ebbs away, all call to you.
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Upsetting
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Statesman: In the jungle of the king's court, you have proven yourself savvy, wise, and preternaturally observant. What your eyes cannot see, the germ of thought easily deduces.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Vengeful
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Monk: Your ancient knowledge, gained from your books, blends with the practical knowledge of the jungle gained from your life in a wilderness cloister.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Pious
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dilettante: You ache to make a mark on the world, to amount to something special... something beyond your titles and your gambling debts.
  
  ...
  
  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: Veteran: The constant wars between the myriad rulers of your land have made you who you are. They have broken you as well.
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Shaken
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mystic: You’ve studied and written widely on matters of mysticism and folklore. You are known in all churches, many schools. And perhaps in places beyond your sight.
  ...
  
  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: Pious: You’ve sworn an oath to  do no harm, put others first, and covet nothing.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Vengeful: If anyone, for any reason, thinks to insult you. By your hand, their life will be short and painful.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Upsetting: The way you speak. The way you move. The way your eyes cast over others. No matter your intentions, no one will feel comfortable in your presence.
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: Broken: You obey orders, but feel no urgency. You can talk, but you cannot feel. You look at your hands and wonder if they are yours. You are a slave to awful memories.
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 The Power of the Faith: It is not enough to warn people of evil. All know it to be real and present. What must be shown is that it can be killed.
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: Bring Your Ancestor To Rest: Their sins are laid to rest. Now they may as well.
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: You Cannot Destroy an Idea!: Preserve a book, a manuscript, a needed document from the machinations or passions of others.
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 Them: Protect these strangers, for they are still family.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Warn the World: Get word out about what’s happening at the dig site.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Befriend the people: You do not come as a conqueror or inheritor. You come as a leader and friend. Show your subjects this.
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: Sparkbox: A little heavier, but it is far easy to light the fire with these precious preserved embers. The canister of oil held underneath guarantees warmth in any weather.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Journal: The maps, records, and final words of your ancestor. Though madness bleeds through the final pages, the estate's salvation may be written still in their hand.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dijeda Stones: The milky green stones are wealth in any part of the world. Jungle or city, to skinner, banker, and smuggler alike.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Heavens Below: by Sister Fisk Casta. Contains the occult secrets of the ancients. The last thing owned by your ancestor, by all rights. It has their blood on it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Miquelet: An old pistol, worn but well oiled. Few designs have aged so well. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Steelbite: A pike imbued with the aspect of destruction. Originally made to take down war wagons, such power might see some use on your expedition.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Saber: The grey steel has tasted blood before.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Blasting charges.: The latest, heaviest grade explosive. One of these will clear a wall. Two can make a tunnel.
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 Mantblonc Estate: The sort of place with marble pillars, ancient mosaics, and skeletons in each closet.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: On the Stage Coach: The cramped box flies across the dirt, navigating ditches, dung heaps, rocks and mud. Your luggage strapped above beats on the roof, comforting you at least by its presence.
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: The Drawing Room: The table is buried under layers of maps and sketches... noneuclidian diagrams and unholy icons.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your birthright: Gingered tea, spirits, and despair fill the village. Flies cling to your subjects, they to their stinking jugs. The jungle encroaches.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Catacombs: The Cellar of your mansion, twisted to some insane joke. Bottles of honeyed wine are jammed into the skulls of the dead and damned. Headstones are covered in dried blood. The pervading sweetness of booze and death fill your nostrils.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Below the mansion: You see your ancestor's handiwork. The cold stone of the cellar dissolves into loose bricks, hasty stairs and as you strain your eyes... Nothing.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Deep Jungle: Where the villagers could not, nature has taken action to choke the evil from the estate. But in its darkness, opportunistic greed creates its own evil.
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: Flash Flood: The coach cannot take such torents! You must protect yourself and what you can before it meets the merciless ground.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: First Impressions: Your ancestor's legacy is on each of your heads, plain to the village leaders. Somehow, you must make them know you are here to redeem, not to release the sins of the former master.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The winding way: Making it to your ancestral home will be more than a walk in the park.
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: The Halls of Insanity: Dark, rotted, labyrinthine. Is this really your new estate, or simply another test of your will against your ancestor's inexorable evil?
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: Blink Cats: The yaguras, proud and silvery black. The symbol of your lands. Corrupted by the evil of the estate. Crazed... and uncanny. Between worlds, they watch you. Waiting.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Yagura Bet: Where many villagers saw despair and ruin as their lands were swallowed up by poisoned jungle, young Basht saw opportunity.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Malah Bet: Once an adventurous girl, now a young mother with the loss of her brother on her mind. No one knows the jungle better.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Ancestor: ... You Came?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Aleph Kuato: The village shaman. Shrewd and far seeing, she feels the wounds of the wilderlands around her.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kallaral Kalmuz: Your gardener. A drunk. The last person who remembers what's under your mansion.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mysterious Interloper: Tall and shadowy. This panther of a person has been stalking you, but for what reason?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Remnant: Strong backs were needed to excavate this horror. When life found no further use for them, something else did.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Moon: Iridiscent tentacles and feathery antennae probe out from its shadowy mass. Teeth and mouths sprout all over, its thousand tongues probe the air.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Sun: Fire casts across its broad wings. Its eyes are like lightning, its beak a blade of light. Feathers undulate red to irradiated blue. It wheels around and descends.
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 Aveline Estate: The sort of place with marble pillars and a hedge maze.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Remote Peruvian Village: A quaint, humid little village on the road leading to the dig site.
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: Suburban Dining Room: The table is buried under layers of maps and sketches and newspaper clippings.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deep Jungle: This sort of jungle can swallow up a traveler with ease and never release its secrets.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Deep Jungle: Where people could not, nature has taken action to choke the evil from the estate. But in its darkness, opportunistic greed creates its own evil.
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: Field Archaeologist: You blend archaeological knowledge with wilderness survival and digging techniques.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.from: gpt
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: human
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: 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: 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: 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: human
conversations.value: Judgmental: Your judgmental attitude causes you troubles. If only others would try harder to measure up.
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: Monk: Your ancient knowledge, gained from your books, blends with the practical knowledge of the jungle gained from your life in a wilderness cloister.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Chirrurgeon: Your tools, your hood, the rank of blood that clings to your oiled robes. Many fear you, some hate you. But as their life ebbs away, all call to you.
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reckless: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.from: gpt
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: human
conversations.value: Heartless: The years have left you wary and callous, unwilling to risk your heart again.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Turbulence: Avoid embarrassing yourself in flight.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cross the Rope Bridge: Get across the rope bridge with all your equipment intact.
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: Find Your Way: The track through the jungle is perilous and difficult to follow. Don’t lose your way.
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: The Remnants: Strong backs were needed to excavate this horror. When life found no further use for them, something else did.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the Dig Site: Protect the dig site from harm.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make A Friend: The best protections against the harsh realities of the world are friendship and allies.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect Someone: Prevent harm from coming to a colleague you admire or cherish.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Home Alive: Maybe this work isn’t worth your life? Just get home alive.
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: Mysterious Interloper: Tall and shadowy in a fedora and trench coat. Who is this gravel-voiced stranger?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Leonard Crenshaw: A locally renowned jazz musician and expert on folklore of the Americas.
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: Caroline Butcher: One of the world’s great pilots and photographers.
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: Walter Corrigan: A soldier of fortune hired to protect Dr. Jameson’s investments.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Ancestor: ... You're here?
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: 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: The Caretaker: Imprisoned in her position, feet split and bleeding from wandering the halls. Crazed. And Hateful.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Swaying Rope Bridge: No way a truck could make it across that. Only foot traffic could cross this rickety thing.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Whitejacket Estate: The sort of place with marble pillars, ancient mosaics, and skeletons in each closet.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Matchbook From The Blue Star: A simple matchbook adorned with a blue star and no words.
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: Dynamite: One stick of dynamite with a long fuse.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ammunition: Ammo for a gun.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Revolver: A six-shot snub-nosed pistol.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shotgun: A long, double-barreled shotgun with a wood stock.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The blessed mark: The eye of truth bleeds forth from the hand of protection. No matter what creed, the power and gravity of the mark is acknowledged by all.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Miquelet: And old pistol, worn but well oiled. Few designs have aged so well. 
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: Jameson’s Portfolio on the Peru Dig: A collection of newspaper clippings, sketches, and geographical survey maps.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Black Hands: Blind and half buried in the swirling silt, they grasp and pull anything that gets to close, anything that dares to fall into their waiting grip.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Jaguar Basht: Where many villagers saw despair and ruin as their lands were swallowed up by poisoned jungle, young Basht saw opportunity.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jaguar Bet: Where many villagers saw despair and ruin as their lands were swallowed up by poisoned jungle, young Basht saw opportunity.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Sun: The wings cast fire across the broad arc of its span. Its eyes are like lightning, its beak a blade of hard light. Feathers undulate from red to irradiated blue. It wheels around and descends.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Moon: Tentacles and feathery antennae probe out from a shadowy mass at the heart of this beast!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Heavens Below: by Sister Fisk Casta. Contains the occult secrets of the ancients.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Resourcefulness : Quick thought and quick feet. I don't want to bite it here, thanks.