dumping some stuff from abulafia

i used to use this wiki called abulafia what was up at random-generator.com, it was a cool resource because you could write generators sort of in plaintext-ish tables, in the source of a page on the wiki, and if someone went to that page it would generate output, the contents of that page, based on those tables, so it was, for a while, a really cool resource for tabletop rpg dorks. it fell into unusability when mediawiki updated their software one year, but for a while the pages were still up on there and you could still extract the data, but not really anymore

you can still pull the data off of archive.org here as of this writing. but what you get is an xml dump of the whole wiki, which gives you the whole wiki in a big file (like 500meg) and text editors cant really read that real good.

so like, i have a compsci degree, i could probably write a python script to pull apart a xml file, or i could set up a mediawiki and import the data into it, but instead what i did was i downloaded this tool ltfviewer that opens pretty big files ok, so im just reading through the large file that contains the whole wiki, very slowly

anyway, here's some of the data i was trying to find, for the articles Village and People of Dust (which i wrote)

Message - abulafia

http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Message
a message was sent to the north king., a response from the skeleton king, it may be, was "INFERNAL RUINS OF THE PRINCESS"., or a sigil
12 bags of hand mirror on a deep-places pack
a message was sent to the fox king., a response from the snake king, it seems, was "MINE"., and so a cloaking bottle
a message was sent to the fox king., a response from the skeleton king, it seems, was "CLOCK"., thus a sphere
9 sets of charcoal spell infernal curse
a message was sent to the rat king., and so a comprehend languages seal, a response from the demon king, it may be, was "THE HOWLING RUNE".

8 a message, "LOYALTY. OURS a-SENSUALITY" was recieved from the demon king.
a message was sent to the dwarf king., thus a spell elven script, a response from the alien king, it seems, was "THE IMPERTURBABLE QUIESCENT SPHERE be THE SOLVENT OF HORRID CORROSION".
a message was sent to the elf king., and so a spell pack hidden in a descent be'suffering brewing esp warning "THE CHARM OF THE INVEIGLING TONGUE" in common, a response from the alien king, it seems, was "DOORWAY OF THUNDER".


a message was sent to the fox king., a response from the hell king, it may be, was "QUANTUM a-WEALTH... LUSTOFF'S VICARIOUS HEAD"., or a war ascent be'eternity script

kinda getting there. i'll keep working on this one.

GENERATOR TRASH

i love generator trash.

PC Generator on Abulafia

i made a thing

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MADISON BERTA, Pilgrim of Glass  
a human fighter 
LOVES EXTRADIMENSIONAL; HATES CRYSTAL 
9 STR 7 DEX 12 WIS
6 CON 11 INT 16 CHA 
a  seal on a orcish device
26 copper pieces, mother's copper watch
cook pot 
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ELIZABETH EMIL, Warrior of Torment  
a demented goblin fighter 
LOVES LOSS; HATES FUNGUS 
13 STR 8 DEX 13 WIS
11 CON 8 INT 10 CHA 
a  staff with a dwarfish wooden curse
77 copper pieces
courier coat, tunic, breeches
padded armor (+2)
halberd (d8)
4 javelins (d6, range 20/40) 
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ZIPHITES JESHUA, Assassin  
a hungry human fighter 
LOVES PEACE; HATES DREAM 
11 STR 13 DEX 9 WIS
13 CON 14 INT 13 CHA 
eye patch
 tunic, canvas breeches
crow hide leather armor (+2)
flail (d6)
light crossbow with 13 bolts (d4, range 60/120) 
----

guard generator on abulafia

the city is guarded by:
1 d12 hooded passionate elves, in leather armor (+2) with salt axes who can breathe out a mist of fire
2  4d4 hooded blind, eyeless goblins, in studded leather armor (+3) with head clubs and smoke bombs who keep sacred the Safe of Grace
3 2 giant wild sharks (who will have been there for many years)
4 2d8 swarms of elderly rats, the Daughters of the Deserts, who devour everything who hate catwomen
5 28 humans (disguised as loveman/s) with 20 demented cats
6 d20 masked peace-loving large buffalos, the Guardians, in splint mail (+6) with dream daggers who hate tigers


( generate your own )

village generator

made a new generator on abulafia:

www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Village

sample output:

village at Tower of the Greeds
overrun with beasts
population 68
visiting: false-dwarf fighter (lv3), pig-keeper barbarian (lv1), hungry nocturnal buffalo-keeper druid (lv2)
60 water centaurs (goat) (with earth powers) with 5 giant revered rogue beetles

village at The Mines of Dread
egg mine, day of sacrifice
population 647 (has 2 noble houses, 2 tailors, tavern, mason, carpenter)

horse generator

Jack: because all you guys have horses
Jack: which I did not bother to give stats or anything
me: yeah. i guess i should make a horse table
Jack: do that, I love zak's dog table
Jack: I want you all to buy dogs
Jack: all the time
me: it'll be more structured, less gonzo
Jack: aw
me: like "this guy is selling racing horses - one horse is brave and loves crushing things, one horse is skinny and emaciated, one horse can only be ridden by maidens"
Jack: that's fairly gonzo
Jack: write a hundered of those.
me: yeah, but they're all racing horses, all three
me: instead of one flying horse, one camel, one wooly arctic horse
me: i'll put it on abulafia


but then it turned out more gonzo than I intended