conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Come join a  game about a small group of people who, while navigating an uncertain job market, have signed on with the worst temp agency ever. A group of people, who on their second assignment, are really thinking they should have read that 13 page contract more closely. 
  
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  Thinking modern workday Paranoia/Better off Ted at minimum wage/ Shadowrun with less cool and more “Gaaaah!”
  
  Looking for about 4 characters with all kinds of potential backgrounds, from people who have just been shuffled from one temporary clerical position to another, highly educated people with degrees too specific for easy employment, just out of the military or downsized at 20 years with a good luck cake and a pat on the back. Heavy equipment operator with a drinking problem? Ex-con? Wonderful! This agency has just the assignment for you. Just sign this waiver…
  
  Notes for play- 
  
  While experienced at running games, this will be my first narrating foray on Storium. I expect we'll all learn a bit together. 
  
  That said, this game is planned to be finite, 3 chapters of 5 scenes each. 
  
  I am planning on moderate but steady paced game, approximately 1 scene a week. If there are more, awesome! If a scene is really involved and just takes longer to complete, also awesome. Otherwise, if complete or action is stalled, I'll finish a scene and start a new one every Sunday or Monday, depending on my work schedule, if I must blow up all the characters  to do it.
  
  Please be aware that character death will be possible, potentially multiple times. Fear not! Your character's Tempest contract completely covers cloning in the subliminal text portion and your character may not even be aware that anything untoward occurred. Their coworkers might be mysteriously traumatized though.
  
  (I'll keep invitations open unit Monday (5/4). If there is interest, I might do 2 small games where teams are doing different jobs and scenes end on Thurs/Friday. Avatars are awesome but I am not stickler, if you want to make a character first and add one later, that's cool.)
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Office: Welcome to Tempest Incorporated, where we provide temporary solutions to any perceived obstacle! 
  
  The Lobby is professional and immaculate and looks like it could be dissembled and removed in about an hour. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Newest of the New Hires: Fresh out of school, possibly your first job, full of hope and ideals and inexperience just waiting to be exploit- ahem, explored. Your world, we meant, explored. Go, you tiny Magellan, you!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Very Specific Skill Set: Your past has given you a very specific but very thorough area of expertise. 
  
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Curiosity: A trait shared by inventors, explorers and visionaries, always pursuing the next horizon.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Curiosity: Now, what does this button do?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Almost Made It: So your former employer pushed you out the door just a few years shy of retirement... worry not! We here at Tempest value your experience and/or desperation! We cherish the power of company loyalty/entropy.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Experienced Drone: Just because we're your 4th temp agency and you've spent precious years going from one fleeting job to another, we don't think your spirit is broken, little worker bee! Just usefully conditioned with low expectations.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Downsized, Outsourced, or Automated: So your last position was replaced by a coworker willing to do two jobs or a small child in another country working for change. We at Tempest sympathize and value you and would never replace you with a machine, because machines didn't test well and are prohibitively expensive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Former Military: Are you highly trained and missing a life of scheduled tedium interspersed with unpredictable and occasionally horrifying danger? We have been looking for you!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ex-Con: If a felony conviction is making job placement difficult, be assured that Tempest treasures unconventionally gained experience and the added leverage of a parole system.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Unrealistically Educated: Do you have an very advanced degree in fascinating yet obscure field in which there are no available positions? Well, their loss is our gain! We'll help you pay (your share of) the rent and distract you from your looming debt with exciting new challenges!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unfortunate Flaw: No one's perfect! And we at Tempest don't expect you to be either. Whatever your issues, addiction, anger management, witness protection, whatever it might be, we'll find just the right task for you!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Optimistic: Despite the relentless encroachment of reality, you are sure this will all work out somehow.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Worldly: Been there, done that. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Vast Breadth of Knowledge: Besides being an insufferable champion at trivia based games, you never know when your previous dabblings into early Mesopotamian artifacts or the voting records of junior Congressmen may come in handy. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Naive: Gosh, they wouldn't really do that to us, would they?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Jaded: Of course. This is exactly the kind of thing they are going to do to us....
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pay a Debt: You owe somebody something, and you'll pay it back if it's the last thing you do. Unless it's one of those debts where not paying it back is the last thing you'll do.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Just Get To the Next Paycheck. : Getting by, day by day, sometimes that all you can manage. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Prove Yourself: I am more than just a cog!! More!! Do you hear me?!? Anyone?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Security: Someday, you will have a a retirement plan, and health benefits, and more for lunch than popcorn and ramen noodles. Someday.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Solve the Mystery!: There is a mysterious mystery that keeps you up at night, scouring the internet on your neighbor's unsecured wireless. Your research has brought you here...  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ingenuity: You have a talent for finding a way... somehow. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Not Much Practical Application: So there are things one knows in theory, actually doing them is another matter...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Twitchy: Past experiences have left you a little bit jumpy for one reason or another.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Old Dog: You know what you know. This other stuff? It's all just new tricks. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get To the Next Paycheck: Getting by, day by day, sometimes that's all you can manage
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pay A Debt: You owe somebody something, and you’ll pay it back if it’s the last thing you do. Unless it’s one of those debts where not paying it back is the last thing you’ll do. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prove Yourself: I am more than just a cog!! More!! Do you hear me?!? Anyone?   
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Security: Someday, you will have a retirement plan, and health benefits, and more for lunch than popcorn and ramen noodles. Someday.   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Solve A Mystery: There is a mysterious mystery that keeps you up at night, scouring the internet on your neighbor’s unsecured wireless. Your research has brought you here…  
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Impress the Supervisor: First impressions count so show'em whatever it is you got...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Product Testing: Where good things get better! And because animals are not articulate enough to distinguish between "chafing" and "burning" on end surveys.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Shiny suit: A suit of some sort of shiny stretchy material, like a unitard from space.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Red Button: Palm-sized metal box with an unmarked red button on it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: CDX544: A shatter-resistant vial containing an unappealing looking brackish liquid
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gummies: A packet of what look like colorful gummy candies in whimsical shapes. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: MITEES: A Spray bottle of what seems to be fine black glitter. On the side is a cartoon of a round smiling bug, next to the logo "MITEES- Your nanofriends"
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mysterious vortex: So the red button accidentally created a vortex, which, judging by everyone's face, doesn't seem to be a good thing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Flashback!: This thing...it reminds you of that other thing that one time...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Security Measures: So Dr. Traubner's curious robotics are still operating on and whatever else they are doing seems to be impeding your goal.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dr Traubner's Lab: The doctor's disappearance  left behind a number of mysteries, half-finished projects and beeping things. That could be good, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Uber Sloth: You take lazy to a whole new level... and find all kinds of creative ways to avoid doing work. Sometimes it almost looks like you're putting more effort into avoiding doing work than the actual work was originally demanding of you. This tends to confuse and disgust people.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bohemian Backpacker: . . . 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Resume Builder: Hm.... Herding cats?  How about... "Directed team with diverse objectives toward goal completion.."  Yeah that sounds good
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rich Kid: Your rich parents finally got sick of you wasting your life and their money.  They were going to cut you off unless you got a job.  Lucky for you Tempest was hiring!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Confidence: For no particular reason, you think you're amazing.  Whether it's unwarranted or not, confidence is vital to success.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Arrogant: For some reason you tend to rub people the wrong way.  They're probably just jealous.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hold the Job: You don't care about the job, the work, advancing, or even the paycheck.  You just need your name on that company payroll so you can keep your trust fund.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Yeah, sure...": "Yeah sure, why not..."
  Can you do it? Probably, If not you'll figure it out.
  Will you do it? Sure, why  not...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "I don't get it...?": You're not the sharpest blade in the drawer, or the brightest bulb in the bunch.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Parole: You're only out on parole... If you don't prove you can be a contributing member of society, then it's back to the big house.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Worldy: You've travelled the world and been exposed to all kinds of cultures, traditions and languages.
  
  You're flexible, adaptable and there's a wide variety of things that you can do badly.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Romantic: You beleive that the world is inherently a fair place, that good people get rewarded and bad people get what's coming to them.
  
  You are, of course, wrong.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get to the next trip: You live in a squat;it's a dump but it beats paying rent. You ride a bicycle to work, shop in thrift stores and eat rice, noodles and reclaimed food every meal. You also  haven't filed a tax return in living memory.
  
  This Spartan lifestyle lets you save most of your money which allows you to abandon everything and head off overseas on your next adventure every few years.
  
  You're just counting the days.
  
  Given Tempest Inc's policies you might even have a job when you get back next time.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Irresponsible: While all your peers were growing up, completing their degrees and getting with the program you were surfing off Easter Island.
  
  You've lived most of your life as a bohemian backpacker. Living for today and not worrying about what tomorrow might bring.
  
  It was great, until you blew out the candles on your 27th birthday cake and realised that you don't have a partner, a family, a career or any of the myriad other things that adults are supposed to accumulate.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Durable: 40 years, working 10 hour days under the sun inside a heavy mascot costume while kids pushed and poked at you has made you one tough cookie.  
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Woman of Few Words: You don’t speak up when you should and often keep your thoughts to yourself.    
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Paid: The amusement park ws sold off and you need a new job. No matter the job, no matter the mess, you keep your head down and get the work done.    
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Friendly: Sure, you may be as flaky as snowstorm but you're also pleasant, polite, and easy on the eye.
  
  All around it's pretty easy to get along with you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Not paying attention...: Lost in thought isn't an excuse that really works for you... you just plain weren't paying attention.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Logical: Generally, Eddie's minds have pathways, and they usually make sense.