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[Eric Blank]

giant axoloth butted slug men. What the hell would that look like. slug men with axoloth bears' butts, and enormous?

[NJW2000]

24 vulturtle wolves

It is terrifying.


427994 giant great mountain men

Totally not minmaxing.

[Dunamisdeos]

Spoiler: 51192 hungfish (click to show/hide)

Oh myy.

[ZM5]

Hey guys, I started a thread for posting travesty creature mods here - hope you have fun modding!

Anyway, some site and pops travesties:
10 basiliant
303 fly beak
10 giant basilisks
10 groutcasts
104 skythy Bears
50 animaters
2 cave snails
10 basilind trolls
6 scorpider chicken
2395: Muck trollocs
2 geeseizure
Parent cave cocks
9 bulled Umciins
25 chimeroses
2 retreant basilisks
Unnumber men
10 basilistrigorlocks

And finally:
100 clopest trolls

[Asin]

Bear dwarves.

[ZM5]

For those interested, I compiled a list of all site_pops travesties so far here - feel free to look it over and take any of them and turn them into actual in-game creatures!

[Dunamisdeos]

Bear dwarves.

In response to this, I made a bear dwarf race by smooshing some bear traits in with dwarves. They are bear-sized with fur and beards, also they have bear-appropriate claw + bite attacks. Lessened agility an d higher strength. The move at a slightly faster pace than regular dwarves because you cannot outrun bear.

Does anyone know what happens when you give an alcohol-dependent creature [guzzler]? I feel like the results should be amusing.

I am going to make an entity now.

::EDIT::
1- I changed Baron to Bearon. I am a clever jokesmith.
2- It's done, time to test. They are more martially-inclined and unpredictably violent than dwarves. They also place more emphasis on family and isolation. They can also eat you.
3- -snip- totes mcgoats made my own sprites.

Who wants some bear-dwarf civ? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=163728.msg7420248#msg7420248

[Dunamisdeos]

For those interested, I compiled a list of all site_pops travesties so far here - feel free to look it over and take any of them and turn them into actual in-game creatures!

Speecho the Trustworm is a giant pink earthworm-based megabeast. Only one can exist, and he is packed with useful phrases and trivia! He has a trustworthy moustache. Additionally, he breathes fire and wants to be your best friend.

Will update when complete. Ok this one was a lot of fun.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=163737.0 <- Mod Page

[Asin]

Bear dwarves.

In response to this, I made a bear dwarf race by smooshing some bear traits in with dwarves. They are bear-sized with fur and beards, also they have bear-appropriate claw + bite attacks. Lessened agility an d higher strength. The move at a slightly faster pace than regular dwarves because you cannot outrun bear.

Does anyone know what happens when you give an alcohol-dependent creature [guzzler]? I feel like the results should be amusing.

I am going to make an entity now.

::EDIT::
1- I changed Baron to Bearon. I am a clever jokesmith.
2- It's done, time to test. They are more martially-inclined and unpredictably violent than dwarves. They also place more emphasis on family and isolation. They can also eat you.
3- -snip- totes mcgoats made my own sprites.

Who wants some bear-dwarf civ? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=163728.msg7420248#msg7420248

Cool!

Now for other strange combos...
Goat elves and winged zebra goblins.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Sites and pops overdrive!

Spoiler: explanation (click to show/hide)

Normally sites and pops travesties are just of the last block of creature numbers, because the site names are throwing everything into disarray.

Thanks to the magic of Notepad++ and regular expression search&replace, the names of sites were removed from the source text, allowing to include the occupants of the world sites (and the occasional "Owner:" and "Parent:" lines) into the fun.

Parent lion of Culmous Confederacies, human

2 salting, dwarves

Owner: The Conqueroup, humans

lorderace, human

Owner: The Eviligned Realms, goblins

5 alpacasts

10 giant grizzly beasels

7 gilalrushmasked Pring of The Spiredness, humans

lady: Doomy Balrhyming, dwarves

2 water buffy watersapedstangeons

Owner: The Pregrizzly bears

24 jack bearspident ayers

lord: Mother, human

150 ratto Buds of Word: Mode Heat horses

5 gabbits

Owner: The Peekisses, goblins

9 forehogs

10 chick rattlesquirrels

3 sharkobolds

72 jump, humans

6273 beak Birthful Virginals

4995 fox squids

88 dwarvehatred, goblins

1 wilded Hatchpaint Triflingmoths

8683 wolf mandrilus men

3 cyclopean sunfishers

247677 nake men

Owner: Kissbuttone, human

103811 grizzly beetle man outcastlefish men

500 giance of Immoralizard, crones

4420 polarly Delight-Sheels

168328 frillarmadillos

66 dwarved Sacrifistlolins

66280 elephantoms of Quills

555 spiny Leaping magma crabs

46 waterbrunches

8288390 purringchanter brutes,

41707 fluffy wambridledequalition men

190 horseshoe cronesponges,

66 goat masked muskoxen

472874 hamstrancemonstrussels

And finally:
152 cockadingoes

[ZM5]

3 sharkobolds

I love this.

[bloop_bleep]

I'm sorry, but can someone explain to me what all this "travesty" stuff is all about? From what I gather it seems to be something that allows you to combine creatures?

[Sean Mirrsen]

A "travesty generator" is an algorithm that takes a certain input text, makes a note of all letter and symbol combinations that occur in the text (ofto a certain length, known as the "travesty level"), and then creates an output text by stringing together those letter and symbol combinations from the original text in new and exciting ways. A perhaps better known name for the concept is "Dissociated Press".

The Travestificator, linked in the OP, is a program I wrote in VC# (I think...) that uses that algorithm along with a few bells and whistles. The common use for it includes using various Dwarf Fortress raw definitions as inputs, and picking interesting-looking faux tags out of the result. What you see above is created by using a "sites and pops" file as the source, which usually has a list of all creatures existing in a generated world - thus the outcome is a listing of various funny and nonsensical creatures.

prepost edit: Note to PTTG: Dropbox took down all Public links in general, and my links in particular seem to have been suspended for excessive traffic. For some reason. Here's a googledrive link to put in the OP instead: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-dH7h5-e_uQWTdnNXlhS2xjUkk

[Dunamisdeos]

You can put anything you want into it, and it jumbles it up amusingly. You can choose how badly it jumbles it.

It was originally used for creature raws and the like, but we started feeding things like books and star trek episodes into it to great effect.

[bloop_bleep]

You can put anything you want into it, and it jumbles it up amusingly. You can choose how badly it jumbles it.

It was originally used for creature raws and the like, but we started feeding things like books and star trek episodes into it to great effect.

It jumbles it up in such a way that the product is in correct DF raw syntax?
But then how could it understand English syntax as well without any changes?