conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The year is 2030. Europolis, an agglomerate of European cities including Paris, Brussels, Antwerp and London, has become one giant urban area. It is the center of Europe attracting many immigrants while the rest of Europe slowly descends into anarchy and poverty. A web of high speed trains and highways both underground and above ground connects this sprawl in such a way as to make both business and crime transcend national boundaries. Administrative reforms tied the Europolis together adding yet another layer onto the already complicated bureaucracy that governs the European Union.
  
  At the same time extreme weather, due to global warming, and energy shortages have made the world smaller in a way. Airliner companies went bankrupt, sea travel has become more dangerous and fewer people can afford things we used to take for granted like cars.
  
  This new reality demanded a new agency ready to combat overarching security problems. The Agency was born. Local police forces and even national agencies of the UK, France and Belgium have to bow to a new small but very powerful police force. They are only brought in when the entire Europolis is threathened. Composed of the best the European union can offer, the players are brought together as part of a unit working together on one specific big case.
  
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  Tense : Whatever you feel comfortable using but I myself prefer 3rd person past tense with some first person present tense thrown in for action scenes.
  
  Language: the agency works in English but if you make a character that has a different primary language I encourage you to use it for small snippets where appropriate, google translate for the win!
  
  Technology level : I would like to keep it somewhat realistic with only realistically extrapolated technology used
  
  Tone and inspiration : I'm thinking of The Wire, Blacklist, Luther, Dexter, William Gibsons latest books for cyberpunk influences, etc. Mostly recent cop shows with a dark undertone basically.
  
  Characters: You can make your own natures and other cards but I have provided some of my own for ideas.
  
  Please use photos instead of drawings in case you use character portraits or want art for your nature, goal, weakness and strength cards. It fits more with the "TV show" vibe I'm trying to go for
  
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  A devil's gambit is the first "episode" with the idea of creating a series called "the agency". This to combat player fatigue and to have a chance to periodically attract new blood.
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: Crime Scene Reports: Reports of all the different crime scenes so far. Already over 5 terabyte of video footage, documents, pictures and logs of media coverage. It grows bigger with every new dissapearance and yet it still fits on a decent sized external harddisk.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Airplane graveyard tenement block: When kerosine prices spiked after peak oil passed most commercial airliners went bankrupt. Now the hulls are repurposed as appartments, the hulls put on stilts. Perfectly suited to extreme weather.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bulletin board: Even though everything has gone digital these days you hold onto your old bulletin board. Presenting the evidence in this way is a conduit through which you often manage to solve a case. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Respect my authority: Your authority, they will respect it wether they want to or not.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Old smartphone: This smartphone has served you well in the past but now it's old and you sort of want a replacement. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: VTOL police cruiser C1: The latest in personal transportation technology these small VTOL aircraft for 4-6 persons can land like helicopter but fly like a small jet. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reconnect with old friends: You really want to get back in touch with your old friends from the crime syndicate. But are you sure they still want  you to after you put away buddies? Do they even realise what you have done?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Super Snazzy Suit: You own this suit. It's almost like a second skin, super trendy. If you were a superhero, this would be your spandex equivalent.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Michael Phillips: CEO of ARAI, a company specialising in arms research. A brilliant man known to impress even his enemies.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: VTOL police cruiser C2: The latest in personal transportation technology these small VTOL aircraft for 4-6 persons can land like helicopter but fly like a small jet. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Motel: A cramped, cheap motel in the city’s red-light district.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Spacious Limousine: Tinted dark and shiny, brimming with Scottish whiskies and expensive gins, and almost certainly bugged.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crowded French fry Boat: Not a boat at all but a roving five-seat wagon and french fry place. Fire Containment systems unsurprisingly absent. The owner’s connected.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Container Town: Layers of ramshackle containers crisscrossed with escape hatches and secret passages. Temporary quarters built after the first North Sea Typhoon that sadly gained a more permanent destitute character
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Virgil Cross: CEO of ERIN industries, London native and has been born into a family of ultra-rich entrepreneurs.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dead Channel Nightclub: A dirty, popular club crammed with holography and loud thumping music. It's not exactly known for its friendly customers so watch your back.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fix Yourself: Maybe it’ll take money, maybe medicine, maybe something else, but you gotta get right.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Expose A Big Conspiracy: The world needs to open its eyes and look at itself. Make that happen.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Break A Big Case: You’ll know you’re worthy when you can solve a big case and survive with your career intact.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Score A Fix: Get a couple of good doses of whatever passes for your drug.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Investigative cop: Sleuthing and puzzling are your forte. Fighting is not really your thing. That's what the Special Units are for.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tough cop: You are the kind of cop who is hard as nails and loves getting into a fight, any fight really. Maybe throw in a car chase or an explosion while you are at it?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Corporate Sponsored Cop: Budget cuts necessitated corporate financed personnel. These operatives can not work on cases of their corporate sponsor but often they will help them in other ways.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: High tech specialist: You know where to find things online and then we're not talking about that silly "Silk road". High tech gear is also not just your job but your passion.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Legal specialist: You work in tandem with detectives so an attorney can build the best case possibly without procedure mistakes that can be exploited by the defense. You are a walking legal library.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crooked cop: Who needs fancy corporate money? Nobody has as much money as the Casa Nostra, the Russian mob, the Cartels, the Triads and the Yakuza.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Good cop: You are one of those bleeding heart do-gooders who are always on about innocent bystanders or helping victims.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bad cop: Who gives a fuck about criminals? Smash their face before they get to you I say.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Undercover Cop: You have a believable criminal alter ego that you exploit to get more information.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Old and weary: You aren't as young as you used to be and even though you have much experience to compensate you feel tired. You simply don't have the energy anymore.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Vicious manner: When you put the hurt on people, either physical or verbally you don't hold back.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Empathy: When you listen to people you actually listen and they tend to notice that. Sometimes the right words are all you need to get coöperation.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crypto-analysis: You can decipher anything, be it a complex riddle or the twisted logic behind ritual murder.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Disturbed mind: Somehow you know what the deranged and criminally insane think. Maybe you control the same urges or you had an intimate relationship with one. Either way it gives you an edge in tracking them down.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Profiler: You are the guy (or girl) they go to when they need psychological analysis on a perp.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Underworld connections: You know a guy who knows a guy who can get you pretty much any illegal thing ever. Want to know who did something illegal? That's going to cost extra.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Eidetic memory: You have a photographic memory which makes you ideally suited to remember details during crime scenes or learning lots of new information fast.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tons and tons of cash.: What the title says. How the hell did you get it? Inheritance? Bribes? A rich family? Fancy corporate expense account?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Religious fervor: All this technological changes makes people afraid. Turns people right  back to god. Are you god's righteous instrument of punishment for the wicked?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jaded cop: You have seen everything and to be honest, you are sick of it all. The sooner you can get out of this job, the better. Why are you staying for now?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Basement: The base of operations of your unit is hidden in a basement. No, no the super cool underground lair kind of thing. Just an elevator leading to an underground warehouse with some cubicles, desks and meeting rooms.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Headquarters aka "The Tower": A gleaming tower newly built about 5 years ago. Located in Lille it is the headquarters of The Agency. Features helipads and plenty of interrogation rooms.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fancy appartment: An airliner, repurposed in this case, as a really fancy appartment. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Corporate forensic team: These guys were brought in by Virgil Cross, the CEO of ERIN industries. Very well paid and professional.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: François Danvers: Parisian detective who seems like he is out of his depth. You guess he is more used to the gangs of the 'Banlieue' than a weird conspiracy.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cockroach central: Somewhere, in the middle of nowhere, south of Paris, there are cockroach farms. Apperently the Chinese really love them for their 'medicinal' properties.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: G.I.P.N: Groupes des Intervention de la Police International. 
  
  French SWAT equivalent, these guys mean business.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Armando Delgado: Ex-cartel leader of the Templars. He is ruthless, smart and doesn't mind playing dirty. He learned plenty of tricks back in Mexico before he had to flee when it turned into a fascist dystopia fueled by American surveillance hysteria.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hyperobservant: Small details. Tells. Twitches. Drop of sweat on the brow. Ketchup/blood stain on the sleeve. You notice it all. And not just people stuff.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Demons of the past: Retirement is not an option as long as parts of your job keep creeping back into your life. Securing the few people you love and your own future comes first. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Corporate Sponsored Cop: Budget cuts necessitated corporate financed personnel. These operatives cannot work on cases of their corporate sponsor but often they will help them in other ways.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sterling Connections: You know people in high places. You’re owed favors. You make things happen.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bon Vivant: Luxury is difficult to find in this impoverished, dangerous world. You crave  the finer things in life, even if it means bending the rules or stepping on other people to get them.
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: Feminine Wiles: You'd prefer to be respected for your brains. But you're not above using your natural, er, charms to get your way.