#wtwtlw prompts

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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Some quotes have been edited or paraphrased for RP purposes. Feel free to change it up to fit your muse.

" didn't wanna be out in this rain, did you? come in. "

" it must be lonely up here. "

" you must have some good stories from the road. "

" you've met them. you've seen them, too. you carry them with you. "

" you came far to get away from me. "

" you got a light, friend? "

" do you think that really happened? "

" please - i have to reach the sanctuary before they find me. "

" i am not a ghost. "

" i'm not charging. folks around here need what they can get. "

" where i'm going, you can't come. "

“ maybe you’re standing on the wrong side. ”

“ you want to see something interesting? ”

“ just be gone by morning, okay?

“ can you imagine? naming a thing that every generation will remember you for? ”

“ i’ve been cursed two times; once to live forever, but the second time to die. i’m dead for sure, and certainly alive. ”

“ well, take a hint from me, which is don’t fuck with a witch or any kind of anybody who does witch stuff. ”

“ good things sometimes wear foul guises. ”

“ that’s close enough. ”

“ how long have you been stepping on dead folks, fully unaware? ”

“ what are you, stranger? ”

“ it’s very special. a good luck charm. don’t be disturbed by how it looks. it’ll bring you luck. ”

“ consider your debt to me repaid. ”

“ i won’t bite. trust me. ”

“ it’s never going to get better, is it? ”

“ i know the look of you. know what you’re here for. ”

“ you see, this land is built on stories. it’s one big story, this country, woven of many small ones. few of the small ones are strictly true, and the big story is mostly a lie. ”

“ if you like, i’ll let you wager your word. i know you’ll be good for it. ”

“ just promise you’ll pay the debt, however i ask. ” 

“ isn’t even a dingy and battered truth better than a shining lie? ’ 

“ stories are heavy. ”

“ it might be true, but it will grow wild and unbelievable with the telling. ”

" your deepest desires? your greatest wish? is it heaven? "

“ i’m afraid you owe me. your life, sure - but more than that. ”

“ hearing stories is important work. ”

“ well, your luck wasn’t so good, was it? ”

“ all the stories and songs and myths and legends start somewhere...”

“ that was quite the hand, but not for the game we’re playing. ” 

" funny how bad luck seems to follow the folks who already have problems aplenty."

" maybe we'll meet again...or maybe not. "

“ the most important stories are the true ones. the ones people will tell you about their own lives. those often get lost in the weaves of the big story. ”

“ try your luck out there. see how the dice treat you. ”

“ i hope, in the end, you at least found it fulfilling. ”

“ ask the people you meet. they’re all searching for the same thing. ”

“ everyone wants to be heard and so few are listening.”

“ you’ll be free of all my traps, soon. ”

“ maybe now you see some of the benefits of living with an oath to keep. ”

“ you were part of our strange little family for a little while. we’ll miss you. ”

“ everyone does, eventually, need to die. probably even me. and certainly even you. ”

“ here you go, off into a new adventure. ”

“ i hope the journey was valuable. and maybe the destination, as well. ”

“ you’ll have to work hard, but it’s not all bad. ”

“ hunger, weariness, and despair. they’re all part of stories - the part not often told. ”

“ as long as your task remains, you’ll come back. ”

" everyone's the captain of their destiny. "

" ain't any bootstraps in the world that can save you now. "

" the choices you make, they change the kind of story you can tell. "

" well, you've got a long, long road ahead, don't you? "

“ dance around, get to know them. ”

“ the boss likes his tarot cards. ”

“ i got some experience when it comes to chasing folks. ”

“ you could find another friend like that if you went looking around. there’s more than one interesting person in this land, for sure. ”

“ that’s what humans say, anyway. ”

[garrusprompts]

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Some quotes have been edited or paraphrased for RP purposes. Feel free to change it up to fit your muse. 2/?

" i wasn’t one to accept death. to live beside it - that wasn’t my way. "

“ i threw him away. i thought i loved him, but he was nothing to me. ”

“ i did not think that death could, or would touch me. before i met the devil, i was too worthless even for death. ”

“ i never feared the devil, no. he took something from me, but he gave me back something i lost, too. ”

“ when they died, it sucked the love right out of me. ”

“ i thought it would last forever. it should have. ”

“ joy? well, i think there’s more of it in the world than there was. ain’t mine to have, but it’s there. people dance more now. they smile more, i think.  ”

“ you ever wake up, already silently screaming in your head? ”

“ heaven don’t last. ”

“ do you need a soul to love? i don’t think i’m capable of it anymore. ”

“ what’s freedom to me? some say that when we end, that’s freedom. ”

“ i wish i could find comfort in the notion of death, but i know what waits for me beyond the veil. ”

“ don’t bother wishing me any luck. luck’s not in my stars. love ain’t in there, either. ”

“ sit with me - let’s talk. i don’t want to sleep tonight. ”

“ this life is a prison and sometimes i laugh because i made it. i made this whole world and now i’m trapped in it. ”

“ we were all cursed. right from the beginning. ”

“ i think i was born cursed. there was never a happy ending for me; i die alone no matter what path i took at that crossroads. ”

“ the devil doesn’t give even deals. ”

“ the devil gave me everything - but he took everything, too. ”

“ it was me. it was me who made this world. that’s all i have now, and i need you to know this; i made the world that ruined me. ”

“ there’s no running left in me. don’t weep for me. i will die here. ”

“ are we done here? i laid myself bare for you - that’s all there is to me now. ”

" does being out here free that part of you? "

" i've met a lot of people like you on this road. there's something you want from it, isn't there? "

" i've been a wandering ghost for a while now, and i'll be that way for some time to come. "

" it's a fate i should have known i was in for. "

" sometimes i start to think: well, the world isn't made for being happy in. not for someone like me. "

" i've seen a lot of change. everything - everyone - i thought i had is gone. "

" when i'm alone out here, i spend too much time inside my own head. "

" you know the hardest person for anyone to have faith in? it's themselves. "

" what do you want from this life? do you think there's a chance you'll get it? "

“ i still love him. ”

“ it takes a special kind of fool to become a poet. ”

“ writing poetry won’t make your sadness go away, nor will your problems be solved. but at least you’ll be able to look back and know how you felt. ”

“ maybe the traps i’ve fallen into are ones i made myself. ”

“ maybe what i think happened didn’t happen at all, and i’m the one who’s been a monster. ”

“ i don’t trust myself to see them and act like a decent human being. ”

“ i suppose after a while i’ll start to realize how little i can change and accept myself as seething with anger and pain. ”

“ a pity, isn’t it? to be stuck with ourselves like this. ”

“ i don’t want to be the way i am now. ”

“ looks like i’m still me and you’re still you. ”

“ it’s enough for something to exist in the past and for that to have been good. ”

“ i wanted to find what it meant to be alive. ”

“ most people go through life doing a lot of work to avoid the truth. ”

" the past doesn't even feel like it happened - it feels like it's happening in every moment. in every slumber. "

" when your memories come back to you, do they clutch at you? at your heart? "

" do you know any happy stories? hopeful ones? "

" there's some hope left for you, too, you know. don't give it away too quickly. "

" faith? well, god and i haven't been on speaking terms. i gave the fucker so many chances to make things right and he hasn't followed through. "

" the days come and go and the terrors return. "

" they'll never be able to pay back what they owe me, but i'll always keep at 'em. "

" what about you - is there something somebody owes you? "

" the journey - if you look at it all at once, it'll overwhelm you. it'll hurt your mind. if you take it day by day, then...then it won't hurt quite so much. "

" they wanted someone to be proud of, and i did as they asked. "

" the sadness didn't come immediately. when they died, it left me feeling like half of me was missing. "

" the emptiness didn't last - it filled itself with sadness not long after. "

" for a moment there - just a moment - i felt better about it all, too. "

" the time for faith has long passed, friend. "

" love comes in so many forms. i love more dearly now than ever."

" i love more deeply than the sun and the earth. "

" loyalty to him is the only loyalty i don't regret. "

" when everything has left you, all that remains is a peculiar peace. "

" the way people look at me...that's when i miss being whole the most. "

" i wish i could talk about what happened the way you do. "

" wishes? if i had my way, i'd go back to a time before the war...but now, i have no wishes. "

" the stars cross the sky and they mean nothing. "