conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Rock a world of dwindling privacy and fleeting fame where info's precious and life is cheap in this slick and stylish cyberpunk thriller.
  
  Also, you're all werewolves.
  
  Hipster wolves.
  
  Okay, so you don't HAVE to be a hipster, but everyone here is a wolf. The city is built for werewolves: there are tunnels and communal marking posts, public pots so people aren't popping a squat or marking where they're not supposed to be (that's a no-no), drinking fountains and doggy-doors (no handles!), not to mention wolf-friendly menus alongside humanoid venues. There's wolf-only fashion, including designer collars and kerchiefs, leg warmers, jewellery, hats, coats, shirts, whatever you want. People dye their fur. They paint their nails. They wear contact lenses and piercings and all kinds of ridiculous shit.
  
  Also, this is the future. Clothes refit and size to whatever shape you're wearing. TA-DA.
  
  The werewolves here shift anytime, anywhere. It's magic! Don't sweat the details.
  
  And everyone gets along just as they would if they were just regular humans. But seeing as how werewolves are regular humans half the time, that's just how things roll around here. There might even be butt-sniffing, but only while you're on all fours. If you're on two, that is just soooo awkward.
  
  Bonus: Depending on what type of werewolf you are will determine how you look and behave. 
  
  1) Some people are classic werewolves, who will shift shape only once a month. The ones that go berserk during this time tend to receive special treatment, or are on special drugs that help to calm them during this time. (ie. valium.) And there are some assholes who think this condition is catching, which it isn't. But they sure act like it is.
  
  2) MOST people can shift whenever they want. The only form available to folks in this universe is from human to wolf, with no in-between. The thing in between is considered monstrous and unnatural, and has been the subject of movies since the dawn of time. (Sorry folks, no anthro!)
  
  3) Some people have unfortunate genetics. Having received two recessive genes at once, these people are technically werewolves but cannot shift form. They are born as humans or as wolves and are forced to stay that way. There are charities for this sort of thing.
  
  4)  People can be different species of wolf, depending on their cultural backgrounds and nationalities. For those folks who come from countries that don't have native wolves, they tend to come in the form of whatever native canines exist in that nation (ie. coyotes, wild african dogs, jackals, etc.). Interestingly enough, the Grey Wolf appears to have existed everywhere at a certain point.
  
  * * * * *
  
  THE STORY: So there's been a revolution going on in the city of Las Lupos forwever. It's considered a kind of old hippie movement that has been forwarded into a hipster movement instead. It calls for a return to the wild, where wolfy shapes were meant to run across plains and through forests, eating wild game and living in primeval packs. Activists range from mild to extreme. Most folks protest peacefully at government conferences or whatever, but the occasional oddball will set fire to things or even kill people to get their point across. It's been going on forever, and nothing much has changed.
  
  And then one day, the Alpha Cult incident went down.
  
  There were cameras and helicopters, something exploded, SWAT marched in and were shot at, children were abused, cultists poisoned themselves, and the town of Borough became a landmark. In the middle of it all was a figure called the Star Bride, who, before immolating herself, declared a dire prophecy:
  
  "By five rings the hand of man grasps two;
  From unearthly tunnels the Fen-Dweller comes
  trailing six stars to swell the earth
  and from Lost Wolves
  give birth."
  
  For three decades the prophecy has been puzzled over by experts around the world, but no one is sure what it means. Most people conclude aliens.
  
  Aaaand back to the present. Depending on how players make their characters, I'll be forming you guys up into either a motorcycle gang, a rock band, professional thieves (heisters), or nerdy basement-dwelling LARPers. So CHOOSE WISELY.
  
  Looking for five players! Custom cards totally welcome!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cybersamurai: You’ve got your own honor, your own steel, your own code in an ugly, dangerous world.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Tough As Steel
  
  Suggested Weakness: Malfunctions
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Razorkid: You cut and you kill for money — sometimes for more than money.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Deadly Accuracy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Cold-hearted
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Digital Courier: A high-capacity encrypted databank in your head makes you valuable — and a target.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Dataport Programs
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken Memories
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Matrix Cowboy: The electric rush of cyberspace is why you go on living, job to job, challenge to challenge.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hot Reflexes
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken-Down Body
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rockstar: A cutting-edge style hacker and culture punk, reshaping the world through your art.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Famous Charm
  
  Suggested Weakness: Notoriety
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Private Investigator: Other people’s business is your business. You’re in the intrusion racket, cracking privacy.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Streetwise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Guilty
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Soldier of Fortune: Your military history and training make you valuable. Your experience makes you dangerous.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Arsenal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Old Wounds
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Zaibatsu Officer: In your bespoke suit, with that smile, you can change the planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sterling Connections
  
  Suggested Weakness: Obligated
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cybersurgeon: Saving lives is your trade and business is booming.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medical License
  
  Suggested Weakness: Addicted
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Freelance Journalist: People need information if they’re going to fight for what’s right. You give it to them.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Great Sensors
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tough As Steel: You can take it. Whatever the beating, whatever the heartbreak, you can take it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deadly Accuracy: You’re accurate with blades and bullets and words. You break hearts as easy as bones.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dataport Programs: That collection of stolen programmed skills you have serves you well. Plug and play.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hot Reflexes: You’re wired for speed in cyberspace and meatspace alike. Real life’s almost too slow now.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Famous Charm: People are dying to meet you, to impress you, to be charmed by you. You’re so cool.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Streetwise: You know the politics and the landscape of the streets and how to get around alive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Arsenal: Whatever it is — if it’s got an edge or ammo, from katanas to lasers — you can get it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sterling Connections: You know people in high places. You’re owed favors. You make things happen.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Medical License: Skilled and equipped, you can practice medicine, get drugs, and repair meat and metal.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Great Sensors: Whether they’re cybernetic or all natural, your eyes and ears are razor sharp.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Malfunctions: Without regular upkeep, all those fancy cybernetics start to hiccup and misbehave.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cold-hearted: You’ve got to keep your feelings disconnected to do your job. Makes you distant. Cold.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Broken Memories: Your head’s not right, riddled with blank spots and holes where memories should be.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Broken-Down Body: The parts of you that aren’t wired and rehabbed are wearing down from hard use.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Notoriety: You have a nasty rep for doing nasty things and it’s not wholly undeserved.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Guilty: Cold guilt keeps you up, makes you doubt, gets you down. Can’t undo what you did.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Old Wounds: Your meat and your metal are plagued by the side-effects of old wounds from old fights.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Angry: Your anger and spite hold you back, cause you troubles, make you less than you are.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Addicted: Whether hungry or fed, your addiction causes you constant problems.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Obligated: You’ve got to act a certain way to be the best you — it’s like fighting with one hand tied.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Score Your Escape Funds: Earn the funds necessary to get away, even for a little while, even if it’s hard.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Do The Job Right: You draw your strength from knowing you do the job right. The whole job. Do it right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Repair Yourself: Maybe it’ll take money, maybe medicine, maybe something else, but you gotta get right.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Break A Big Target: You’ll know you’re worthy when you can bring down a big target and survive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make A Hit: Write and perform something that’ll make you a star again — or a bigger star, finally.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Out of This Trap: This could be the job that helps you break free of this life for something better.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reclaim Your Honor: What is honor? How will you know when you’ve got it back? How will you keep it when you do?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Change From Within: Fix what’s wicked in the world by enacting change from within. Make something better.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Someone Clean: Get someone clean. Get someone a fresh start. Maybe it’s you?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Expose A Big Story: The world needs to open its eyes and look at itself. Make that happen.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Score A Fix: Get a couple of good doses of whatever passes for your drug.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Upgrade Your Guns: Get better guns.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Upgrade Your Mind: Get the software, stims, or downloadable memories that’ll sharpen, heighten, brighten your mind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Upgrade Your Flesh: Maybe your meat’s old or rusty, maybe you just want to look better. Get on that.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find A Safe House: You need a safe retreat, a place to hide or crash, where you can close your eyes.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Learn the Truth: Someone’s lying to you. Learn something new.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Survive the Attack: People want you hurting or dead. Rise above and strike back.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Remember Why You’re Doing This: Close your eyes, recall the reasons, the faces, the feelings. Why are you doing all this?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crack That Hostile Mainframe: Break the shell on that bad mother and watch what spills out into cyberspace.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get A Raise: Score more money than you’ve got coming to you. Make them think you’re worth it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Monokatana: A shiny, curved sword with a fine, delicate edge.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Flechette Gun: A rapid-fire dart gun capable of delivering drugs and toxins.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Memory-Corroding Chemical: Black-market mycotoxin capable or eroding human memory engrams.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lectron Powerbike: Big but sleek, quiet but quick, adorned with glowing paint and a hybrid engine.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cutting-Edge Anti-Security Program: The new cutter program meant to overwhelm and confound defenses in cyberspace.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Kung-Fu Datapin: A data-stick encoded with kung-fu lessons. Load time is about 9 seconds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Full-Suite Recorder: Records audio, images, atmospheric data, chemical traces, and more.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Microtablet: Unfolding fabric micro-computer for portable functionality wherever you go.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stolen Data: Personal data stolen from some corporate database, maybe worth killing for.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Laser-Cutter: A simple hand-held device with a three-inch laser torch emitter.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Coffin Hotel: A cramped, cheap coffin hotel in the city’s red-light district.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crowded Noodle Boat: Not a boat at all but a roving five-seat wagon and noodle bar. The owner’s connected.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gleaming Corporate Office Suite: Polished concrete, greenish glass, shiny chrome — the paperless office once promised.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cyberspace: The free wilds of the digital consensual hallucination yawning between fortified servers.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shanty Town: Layers of ramshackle favela crisscrossed with escape hatches and secret passages.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dead Channel Nightclub: A dirty, popular club crammed with holography and digital games.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Posh Hotel Suite: A place of deep carpets and soft sheets high above the city.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gray-Market Cybernetics Shop: Metal arms and faux-flesh legs dangle from hooks drilled into a low ceiling.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Spacious Limousine: Tinted dark and shiny, brimming with Japanese whiskies, and almost certainly bugged.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Street: Luminescent paint glows on the black top, wet with acid rain.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Night-Club Brawl: Don’t think of them as people. Think of them as things between you and freedom.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hostile Highway: Get off this roadway alive. Don’t let the motorgangs stop you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rooftop Getaway: Run, jump, climb, drop — it’s time for some parkour-type stuff.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sway the Crowd: They want to love you or hate you. Make it work for you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dirty Crime Scene: Flickering light-up crime-scene tape around a forgotten crime scene. Find what they missed.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crazed Mob: People, collectively, are animals — furious, ferocious animals. Get out of here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Biologique Mainframe — Cyberspace: Like a 3D playing-card diamond gleaming in the matrix. Hardened with lethal ice.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hot Security Systems: Tinted-black cameras and white-hot lasers want you out, want you dead. Too bad for them, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Smoke It With Laser: It’s time to cut. Destroy evidence, steal the prize, whatever. Cut. Then run.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lock-Up: The tech inside you is hanging, chugging, struggling to run. Get it right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Alexa Carter: She says her name’s Alexa Carter which means her name is anything but Alexa Carter.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Virgil Cross: CEO of Biologique Unlimited, allegedly cloned from the old Cross crime family.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Suzuki Kanon: Head of the Lectron biker gang known for anti-corporate activism and street violence.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Frederix Wu: Hotshot tech and UI designer responsible for the newest popular cyberspace HUD.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Javier Cruz: Former CEO of a genetics company sold to Biologique. Looking for his next startup.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kell Glasner: Bodyguard for hire. Expert with blades. Call her “Kelly” and she’ll show you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Muscular Cyborg German Dude: High on something and aching for a fight with anyone fool enough to try him.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lectron Rider: The Lectrons are dangerous but highly organized and loyal to Suzuki Kanon.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Zaibatsu Assassin: An anonymized, off-the-books corporate assassin with lethal skills. Sent by...?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Break: Nefarious and brilliant cyberspace code-hacker and ice-breaker known only by his handle.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Save Willow: Crap, the band left their backup singer behind!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Walk the bass line: Everybody loves the bass player! Now show 'em why. ;)
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Plow that set: Play the toms hard and crash those pies, drummer! Kick it!!!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sing the house down: Break a thousand hearts with your croonhound voice!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tickle the ivories: Slash the chords and jam the keyboard! Play it til your fingers are stubs!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hub City Pub: Just a regular street-corner pub that brings in local artists for weekly jams. They serve coffee, too.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something to Prove: You gotta prove something either to yourself, or to someone else. Whether you're strong, responsible, sincere, or in love, this is your chance to show just how much you mean it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Normie: Holy crap, you're... normal? Wow! This means you've got a day job, rent to pay/a mortgage, regular bills, maybe even a family. You're so normal, your life is just begging to be wrecked by a rogue plotline.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hipster Kid: You were hipster before hipster was even a thing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Submissive: You're always deferring, even when you know you shouldn't be. Anything to stay out of trouble, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Perceptive: You pay attention to things, be it words, body language, scents, or subtle looks.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Big: Holy moly they make 'em huge these days. You're just big, whether or it's fat or muscle. Weight and mass are useful when trying to intimidate or protect people.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Aggressive: You're so badass, you can't contain yourself when stuff doesn't go your way. If they won't respond the way you want them to, you'll MAKE them do it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Atavistic: You can't help it, sometimes you divulge in 'wolf' behaviours while in human mode. The worst part is that you don't even know you're doing it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Informed: You don't just read headlines, you actually read the articles too. You keep yourself abreast of current events by staying in touch with news, reading, gossip, and chatrooms.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Professional: You're a professional at something. Not only are you an expert at what you do, but you maintain a professional attitude about it too. And people respect that.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nevernude: You can't stand being naked, even in wolf form. You've gotta be wearing pants at least, which looks hilarious on a wolf.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unwolflike: You're so human that even as a wolf you don't behave like a proper wolf. No one taught you how to groom yourself properly, you don't engage in proper body language, and you keep forgetting that you don't have hands.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Survive: Welp, everything's going to hell in a handbasket. Keep your head above water at least til the end of the story!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Revenge: Someone did something to you, or something happened to someone you know/love. It's payback time.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Curiosity: What the hell is going on? You're bored, let's go see what's up, maybe get into some trouble... or maybe today's a good day to die.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Save Willow: Crap, the band left their backup singer behind! 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Big Grey Wolf: Who is this guy, and what does he want...?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shady white van: No marks, but plenty of windows at least. And no candy. :(
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Broody Artist: You are a deep soul and nobody really understands you, so you play broody and emotive music in coffee shops and small venues. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Insight: You are empathetic and are capable of intuitive leaps which turn out to be surprisingly astute
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Just human: Your genes cursed you and half the world is a furry mystery. It's hard to stomach the pity and the snickering at times. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nosy: Always sticking your nose (literally and figuratively) where it doesn't belong, you are constantly looking to find out more, usually without thinking about your own personal safety first