Story Starters

Situation: Imprisonment
Denizen Type: Administrator
Outcome Direction: Good harvest
Mundane Problem: You drank too much
Theme Quote: ‘Dictum factum — No sooner said than done.’ Tertullian

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short days, shaved humans, fine wine,
and ice for their meal.
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Situation: Quick action
Denizen Type: Victorious hero
Outcome Direction: Bright prospects
Mundane Problem: Your mother is babying you again
Theme Quote: ‘A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment.’ La Roche.

Situation: Pleasant voyage
Denizen Type: Holy person
Outcome Direction: Loss of confidence
Mundane Problem: You cannot empathize with your team
Theme Quote: ‘Evil events from evil causes spring.’ Aristophanes.

Situation: Get bad news
Denizen Type: Troubles follow them
Outcome Direction: All is revealed
Mundane Problem: Wasting time
Theme Quote: ‘Qua vincit victos protegit ille manu — With the same hand with which he conquers he protects the conquered.’ Ovid.

Situation: Meeting with a distinguished person
Denizen Type: Bad person
Outcome Direction: Unexpected advancement
Mundane Problem: You let others make your decisions too often
Theme Quote: ‘Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen? — Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one’s mouth?’ German Proverb.

Situation: Conquest
Denizen Type: Someone beautiful
Outcome Direction: Success plus financial reward
Mundane Problem: Nothing is fun for you anymore
Theme Quote: ‘Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses.’ A. R. Parsons.

Situation: Travels on the untrodden ways
Denizen Type: Great mother
Outcome Direction: Predestined
Mundane Problem: You have nothing to do at work
Theme Quote: ‘Blessed he who has a skin and tissues, so it be a living one, and the heart-pulse everywhere discernible through it.’ Carlyle.

Situation: Change your life
Denizen Type: Brainiac
Outcome Direction: Vicious
Mundane Problem: You start a relationship with the wrong person
Theme Quote: ‘Bescheiden freue dich des Ruhms, / So bist du 20wert des Heiligthums—If thou modestly enjoy thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the holy.’ Goethe.

Situation: Trouble
Denizen Type: Dark witch
Outcome Direction: Is generally favorable
Mundane Problem: You dislike learning new skills and today is training day
Theme Quote: ‘You never long the greatest man to be.’ Goethe.