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[Sutremaine]

These are completey normal tags, except for the lack of additional (and better) numbers on the length modifier

Hmm. Must have gotten a little too creeped out by the idea of a training tablet made of nothing and ribcage that make things from pus, attacks you with surgery, and perms your hair.

[SlimyMarmot]

I think I've ruptured something reading this thread.

[Bohandas]

Speaking of things being ruptured, the travesty generator site appears to be down...

Is this a problem on my end, or are the rest of you getting an error message there too?

[billybobfred]

Yeah, some 403 forbidden thing. I dunno what the site looked like before, but I'd be willing to bet that it is no longer owned by the same guy.

[PTTG??]

Lo, how the aged eternal bedrock of the internet quakes at the passing of a glorious website of a bygone age. Forsooth, we can only beseech providence for a mirror.

And also possibly try to compile a version of this. A local package would make getting results faster. -ahem-.

Let it be knowst throughoute thee lande that ye whoe argh nevermind

If someone does compile a nice portable version of this, I'll test it out and host downloads for it on my webserver.

[billybobfred]

[ETHIC:LYING:PUNISHMENT_MODIFIER:SPIKEDBALL] Don't you think being pummelled with a spiked ball is a bit of a harsh punishment for lying?

No, see, that's a punishment modifier. Their take on the issue is "We can only accept your stance on this issue if you do it with a spiked ball instead."

Think lying is APPALLING? You'd better appall liars with a spiked ball!
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED? Sanctions damn well better have a spiked ball!
And those who believe lying is JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS haven't lied to a spiked ball!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, the process of the generator was explained on the site (there's still a google cache of that, basically it builds a table of all letter combinations and letters following those combinations, and then selects letters at random from the result of adding one and the other) so it should be possible to make a standalone app. It definitely sounds simple in principle, so I might try it...

[Bohandas]

Well, the process of the generator was explained on the site (there's still a google cache of that, basically it builds a table of all letter combinations and letters following those combinations, and then selects letters at random from the result of adding one and the other) so it should be possible to make a standalone app. It definitely sounds simple in principle, so I might try it...

Could you copy-and-paste the explanation here?

[Sean Mirrsen]

I'll just copy-and-paste this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4152380/Travestificator.exe

Took me a while to optimize, but I think it's still slower than the online app used to be. If you want to save time on that, first select the travesty level you want, then copy and paste the entirety of text you want processed. The entirety of creature_standard takes around ten seconds to sort through on my machine, for instance, and it's rechecked every time you paste new text into the field or change the travesty level. However, the output is nearly instantaneous and no rehashes are needed between consecutive travesties.

Bonus point, it preserves tabbing, so the result even looks like raws.

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KE_TRIGGER:1]
[PERMITH]
[PERMITTED_RACE]
[ETHIC:KILL_SYMBOL:BARON]
[PERMITTED_CAVE_STYLE:baronesses consort:countess:count levels your fort]
[PERMITTED_JOB:HUN]
[SCORT:ANY_GOALS]
[DUTY_BOL:WALL:EVIL:0]
[ETHING:NOT_APPOINTED_JOB:GEND
It's still not perfect, probably, but that's the best I could do. It requires .NET 2.0, which is the smallest requirement I could set my IDE to, but that should be good enough to run in Wine et al, IIRC.

The explanation, roughly, goes like this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The program scans the text for all combinations of letters, one less in length than the level of the travesty (so at level 4 it looks for three-letter combinations), as well as all letters that follow those combinations, also keeping count of how often a given letter follows a given combination. For output, it takes an initial letter combination, then looks at which letters follow it in the text, and picks one at random, placing it at the end of the text. Then it uses the last letters of the text to form a new letter combination to look up, and the cycle continues until a required length has been met.

And some random travesties from the prog:

[CREATURES:TEETH_WITH] - Teeth with creatures?
[PERMITTED_RACKS:5] - Multiboobage?
[ATTACK:BONED:0:70:95:98:100] - Yep, we're boned.
[PLUSHERWORKSCRIPTIONS] - Engraved teddybears?

[Vorthon]

from a slightly modified version of entity_default.txt:
[IGNITE_POPULATION] - This one makes sense. As in !!Dwarf!! + booze stockpile = !!booze stockpile!! + !!Dwarves!!
[ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_HARP] - Okay then...

[PTTG??]

g:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:th

[Sean Mirrsen]

g:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:thong:th

Yeah, it tends to do that sometimes. Partially because it starts from a randomly selected sequence every time, partially for a reason I've yet to find. There are still some fatal errors in places, but those are unlikely to surface as long as you're feeding it whole raws.

[PTTG??]

Who said anything about errors?

[COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE_ANIMALS]
Dwarbridges have this tag.

[INDOOR_WOODCUTTER]
"Dammit Abe, take that axe outside already!"

[PERMITTED_JOB:POTASH_MAN]
Nana nana nana nana NANA, NA NA, NA NA...

[PERMITTED_BOXES:2]
And no more.

[PERMITTED_JOB:BONE_CARETAKER]
Creepiest name for a gravedigger ever.

[PERMITTED_BY:DUKE]
   [FLASHES]
   [RESPONSIBILITARY_SCREEN_ONLY]
These were all together. Apparently, the Dule permits flashers, so long as they have a responsible screen.
      
[ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_PICCOLONY_TRADE_SIEGE_ELEMENT:SHUN]
I suppose this means dwarves, uh, shun those who eat sapient colonies of piccolos when they send a siege of trade caravans.

[ITEM_HELM_TURBAN:UNTHINKABLE]
Now that's just mean.

[PROGRESSIVE_FRACTURE_FOR_INFORMATION:BY_HEIR]
It's not torture! It's just gradually breaking his bones until he talks. Like, to pass the time.

[PERMITTED_JOB:ANIMAL_DWARF]

[ACCOUNTAIN]
A mountatin of accountn'

[EXPORT:ANY_FOR_FAT]
"I don't care what you have to sell! Buy more lard!"

   [DEMAND_HOLDER:RING]
   [SIEGE:0]
Woah.

[TORSION_SPOUSE]
Not sure here, but it's probably not nice.

[APPOINTED_BOXES:1]
This is very different from Permitted boxes.

[SLEEP_PREF]
I have this tag. You see, I prefer to sleep.

[PANTS:ITEM_TRAIN_AT_YIELD:35000]
CHOO CHOOOOOO!

[PUN]   
Tell me how to remove this tag from this thread...

[Vorthon]

from Creature_standard.txt:
[GRASPY_VOICE:0:70:90:102:105:110:130:200] - How does one grasp things with their voice?

[GRASP:BY_CATEGORY:NOSE] - Got your nose!

[TRANCE_MODIFIER:CLOSE_SET:0:70:90:100:110:130:200] - Huh? Sounds awesome though.

[ATTACK_CONIFER] - "Is that a pine? I hate pine!" *Starts punching tree*

[HABIT:EAT_BOILINGULAR] - ehh?

[PREFSTRING:terrify then muscles afterward long as tranglers:sasquat humanoid monster with the raw file) to adjust the group the castes have below, but add beard:SINEW:200] - oh my...

[BIOME:SHRINE:BRAIN:SKULL:4TOES:MOUTH:GENERAL_POISON]
    [PLUS_TEMPLATE]
      [TISSUE_LAYER:HAIR:LARGE_POSITION_TARGE_POSTURE_MATERIAL_FEATHER] - ...

[Comrade_Fregge]

[SHOES:ITEM_TRIGGER_POP_NUMBER:EVIL] A major part of a population is corrupted by a pair of shoes. Demon shoes, they must be.
[BIOME_BATTER] Hey! The mountain didnt do anything to you!