conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The history of the world as we know it....
  
  Ain’t worth the paper it’s written on. Everything you think you know is just a crap reflection of what really happens. The ancient Greeks philosophized on what they were told to. You think the Roman Emperors were men of power? They just did what they were told, or died trying to do what was right. And nothin's changed since.
  
  Light, darkness, renaissance or dark age, they's just reflections of a bigger picture, one that most people never get a look at. There’s a whole friggin’ war going on and every petty little power is trying to claw its way up to the next level. Everyone just goes about their day, clockin’ in and clockin’ out without even noticing much of anything. Everyone except a few unlucky schmucks like me. 
  
  And now, like you.
  
  You see that the days seem a little brighter, right? And the nights… well you used to think you knew what a dark night was. You ain’t seen nothin’ though. These nights, they’re all gonna get darker, until the real night of darkness comes. And then those people who ain’t to busy messin’ their pants? Well that’s gonna be me and you too, and it’s gonna be up to us to save the freaking world. 
  
  Again.
  
  
  Night of Darkness is a noir, urban fantasy jaunt through a farcical world where things go wrong and heroes are as hard boiled as an egg and as black and white as a lightning strike.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A blank business card?: What does it mean? And why was it shoved into Carol's left shoe? If you could figure that out, you may be a lot closer to figuring out who killed Carol.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Roll of Quarters: The poor person's brass knuckles. Grab on to these and punch someone in the jaw - watch 'em drop like a bag of bricks.
  
  Then you can use it to get dinner with afterwards.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Hand Mirror: Great for looking at yourself. Or around corners. Also handy with detecting potential vampires.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Carol's Clappers: Who in this city is trying to do that funky voodoo? More specifically, the dark magic that involves murder and dismemberment? 
  
  While that kind of thing should be discouraged, the knowledge of how it works would also be invaluable. Strictly for... science.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This is real, right?: This is actually happening? Wait, this is really happening?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Healing Crystals: These crystals are good for you! Because they're uh, all natural crystals. And they have energy! They also weigh in at about 4 pounds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Science Stuff: Neat looking instruments with knobs and dials and bits that get squeezed.
  
  In the hands of a scientist, they may actually be useful too!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ouija Board: It ain't fast, and it ain't glamorous, but it works. Sometimes.
  
  When the spirits are feeling talkative.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Of course it would be a graveyard: Graves with dates ranging from the late 18th century to modern day. Dreary, quiet and empty of all but the dead. And the squirrels. And a few birds too.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Woods Beyond the Suburbs: Your Mom told you to be a dentist. Your Dad opted for lumberjack, left and got a house out in the woods. To this day, they still creep you out.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: South Station: If grease, squealing metal, human stink and vagrancy could be rolled into a souvenir, you'd be able to buy it here at South Station.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tinkerer: You spend an inordinate amount of your free time mucking about with gears, electronics and a soldering iron. You're pockets are often stuffed with parts and gadgets and you sometimes even make something useful.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rich: Money is never an issue for you. Your family is old and has been collecting interest for a long time.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Burbs: This is where the people with money go to escape the dirt and the vampires in the city. 
  
  Wimps.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Francis: Francis has been working on the force at the Boston PD for almost a decade. Nothing surprises her anymore. She's taken down perps as easily as she's taken out ghouls.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Chip 'n Surf: If you're looking for a dirty drink in a clean glass, a bit to eat and the latest on the movers and shakers of the underworld, eat at the Chip 'n Surf.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Kim: Kim runs the Chip 'n Surf, a seedy dive with $6 meals and $2 beer. 
  
  $20 will get you the latest in rumors.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Corner of Boylston & Washington: Ah,Chinatown. Six thousand years of walking myths and history transplanted to Boston.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Utility Worker: I'm gonna have to ask you to move along. Got a job I need to finish here and can't have you in the way.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Briana LeStraung: Briana is a theoretical chemist at Harvard, where her latest work focuses on synthesizing life in the laboratory.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Otto: Otto is a talking anthropomorphication of a sentient being from an alternate plane of existence. 
  
  He's also a smart-mouthed idiot of a gargoyle. But he sees lots of things.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Scoop: Scoop is Cambridge's most popular mime. Meaning he's the only one who hasn't been run outta town yet.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Michael DeDark: Michael stylizes himself as a vampire, but comes across as a pompous, pimple-necked 23 year old. That's probably not his real last name either.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Percy: Percy is a stinking, undead ghoul who's been hanging around corpses since Boston was a village. Other than that he's a pretty decent guy.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prof. Dr. Whooda Thunkit: Prof. Dr. Thunkit is a world renowned Parapsychologist, working out of his lab at Harvard. He's smarter than Einstein, richer than God and stranger than a two-legged horse.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rachel Kar: Rachel's a genuine, local Boston celebrity. She started as a lounge singer and worked her way up to three record deal. She's also not quite alive anymore.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Boston Police Department: Boston's finest, and also lots of cops.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Blue Meanie: Comprised primarily of ectoplasm and a loathing for all things living. Hard to kill, harder to let live.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cultist: Goddamned cultists always trying their best to awaken things that should sleep forever. 
  
  You can't reason with them unless you're using your fist to do the talking.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Red: Man, woman, human? No one's really sure. One thing is sure though - Red's eaten more lead than a Roman pipe layer and it's still not only alive, but thriving.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Captain Storp: Storp is an ass. A grade A, card carrying, certified ass. He's also the one who signs your checks as you work your consulting gig with the cops.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Captain Thorp: He's not looking for an explanation. He doesn't want an excuse. What he wants is your ass, in jail, right now.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nine Lives: Jesus - that would have killed anyone else! 
  
  Flesh wounds, near misses, ducking instinctually - whatever luck god exists in this universe, it's surely smiling down on you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Too Curious: Your curiosity sometimes drives you to forget all but the knowledge you are pursuing. That includes eating, sleeping, danger and potential insanity on your part.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Transformed Cultist: I'll be damned. They were right about one thing anyway. Those elder gods were real.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Truth Seeker: All your life you've known that there was something else out there. Things both magical and sinister. You've been seeking, and managed to turn up some clues, but haven't found the real deal. At least, not yet.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Driven by Knowledge: Students, library haunts, scientists - whatever it is you claim to be, it's the knowledge you're after. You've learned that if a little knowledge can be dangerous, a lot of knowledge can be downright deadly - but that's not going to stop you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stoathis - Elder God: It's a... this Elder god is... why did it manifest as a goddamned giant frog?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Born a Private Eye: You couldn't or wouldn't hack it as a cop, didn't like the authority. But you still love the chase. You're a born Private Eye, willing to put in the hours to earn your pay.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stubborn Non-believer: Nope. That wasn't a ghost, it was done with mirrors. And clearly that person you shot seven times, who ran away, was wearing a protective vest. 
  
  It would take something like the appearance of an elder god to make you actually believe in all this occult mumbo jumbo.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Spooky: When dealing with regular people, you come off about as inviting as an overnight stay in a haunted house.
  
  People who aren't in the know find you genuinely spooky.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Solves problems with violence: When you're a hammer, all of your problems tend to look like nails.
  
  And you, my friend, are a hammer.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Slightly Insane: You are genuinely, honestly, slightly insane. You've seen a bit too much of the other side, and it shows.
  
  Sometimes you see things that aren't there. Or that are there but that no one else can see. Sometimes, they tell you things too.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Down and Out: You had big plans, but life had other ideas. You don't have much left to lose. That also means there isn't much you're afraid of anymore either.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Red Again: Jesus Red, didn't we kill you once already?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fighter: You grew up tough. You had to fight for everything you've ever gotten. Food, respect, your place in the world. 
  
  You tend to solve problems quickly, and occasionally brutally.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Thinker: Every problem has a logical, clear solution. It's just a matter of time and mental effort to get there.
  
  You're smart, you know it, and you'd much rather expend mental energy than get your hands dirty.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Boxer: You grew up right around the corner from Burley's Boxing Gym. That became an advantage in middle school and you stuck with it.
  
  You're no champion, but you can go 10 rounds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Innocent: You're not sure how you got here, or what's going on but gosh darn it isn't this fun! 
  
  No matter how much of the grime and grit that seems to get into everyone else's skin, you remain a shining example of happy cluelessness.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nether Minion: I don't know what the hell this thing is, or where it came from, but shoot it now!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Occult Knowledge: Unlike most of the stiffs out there, you know that strange things exists in our world. You've had first hand experiences with some of them.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Public Alley: Narrow enough to keep anyone driving down it, this alley is generally home to a few dumpsters and the occasional drifter.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One Liner: Zing! You're great with the one liners. No one gets anything over you!  (CAVEAT: you must write out an actual one liner in your text to use this strength).
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Prof. Dr. Thunkit's Office: Prof. Dr. Thunkit is Harvard's preeminent scholars on all matters Occult. He has a PhD, an MD and has been known on several occasions to have been escorted off campus by the Harvard Police for reckless behavior.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Harvard Subway Stop: Most people use 'em to get from place to place. Others choose to shelter beneath the ground when the weather turns sour.
  
  Harvard stop is relatively clean and features far less in the way of crazy drifters than would normally be found in the depths.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Black Cross of Afthoo: Urban legend holds that a renowned 19th century Satanist is buried here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Harvard Mearl Building: Home to several classrooms, a small laboratory and the entrance to the Underground Club
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Revolver: Six reasons the thugs and demons of the world need to worry about you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Magical Fetish: These enchanted bone fetishes can be used to help divine outcomes and possibly alter fate.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Big, Heavy Stick: It's heavy, it's handy and it's great for hitting things.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What killed Carol??: Carol was a street person. A little dirty, a little crazy but still one of the nicest ladies around. Always willing to lend a hand. Now both of hers are missing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Find the Strange Truth: You know there's more going on in the world that what "normal" people can see. You catch glimpses. Hints. 
  
  You want to know more. You want to know it all!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Redemption: You've done things in your past that are nearly unforgivable. You can barely forgive yourself - but someone out there, can make it all right. Right?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bring some color to this world: Everyone you know, everyone around you seems so drab! So lifeless! You are determined to spice things up. The world isn't all darkness and rain. The sun'll come out! Tomorrow?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Just get me home: Another shift, another day, another dirty dollar. You just want to get through the day, hop on a train and get your tired self home.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: 3 Steadies and a Million bucks: When your family got you into Harvard, your ticket was pretty much written. All you want is to do your four years, get your degree and move on to a life of money and leisure.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Resist: You've been hearing it calling forever. As long as you can remember, it's evil voice has been whispering in your ear. It wishes to be awakened, but you'll be damned if you're the one that's going to do it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Captain Thorp (again): He's not looking for an explanation. He doesn't want an excuse. What he wants is your ass, in jail, right now.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Church of St. Otto: One of Boston's older churches, it's steeped in history like a thousand year old tea.
  
  Featuring a number of strange gargoyles and carvings, during the day the church looks odd. At night, it's downright spooky.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Knowledge ain't free: I may know a few things, but what I got to tell you, it's gonna cost. If not money, then you gotta do something to make it worth my while. Capiche?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Narcissist: Everything is about you, even when it doesn't directly involve you.  If someone is sick, you are sicker.  
  
  All attention should be paid to you.