Monday, January 2, 2023

Today's prompt is 'sleigh bells'. Ugh, it's so damn phallic...


I changed that bandit code to accept a seed for a pseudo-random #s. I want to give these poor bastards names and birthdays, backgrounds, hopes and fears.

Seed: 6567432, Pseudo-random #: 0.1385257700458169. This page generates a pseudo-random # from the seed, which the page takes the square root of and takes the number after the decimal. Every iteration after that, it multiplies the previous PRN by 1000, takes the square root, and then the rest of the number after the decimal.


12 Bandits, 6 Dependents. Bandit #1, age: 17, Bandit #2, age: 17, Bandit #3, age: 16, Bandit #4, age: 17, Bandit #5, age: 29, Bandit #6, age: 19, Bandit #7, age: 23, Bandit #8, age: 21, Bandit #9, age: 19, Bandit #10, age: 25, Bandit #11, age: 15, Bandit #12, age: 24


Dependent #1, age: 2, Dependent #2, age: 3, Dependent #3, age: 7, Dependent #4, age: 5, Dependent #5, age: 13, Dependent #6, age: 2


Pseudo-random # 0.8139806923194151


I created the bandit camp for the Sunday settlement of this week's World23, drew a simple map and decided that the great tree is a blood oak which bleeds pinkish sap. The crags of the cliff are full of a little pride of peregriffs, little peregrine kitty griffins, domestic cats with peregrine falcon wings.


That's flora and fauna for the local environment, but I have also implied some weather and geology. There's some kind of upland going on and there's a wet temperate climate, probably a little like Scotland and North England, Ireland and the borderlands.


The bandits started out as tenant farmers who were turned out by the local lord one year of famine, where the lord took all their food and the farm folk objected, unsuccessfully. They turned to banditry with little success, but they survived, sort of. These guys are what's left of their village somewhere nearby...


I worked on birth dates and random times, two simple pages because I am a simple fat man! 8-P (I wonder if I should create a calendar for this setting?)


Tomorrow I need to write up the nearest town for this setting.

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