Time...

Going after some random dates.

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.

Input a seed for pseudo random #s

The page needs a number to generate some pseudo-random numbers.

Bandits band with half pi as a seed

Some Bandits

Some Bandits...

Some Bandits

Patched my perpetual prompt!

This is a utility page for typing up a list of words for the next month.

Today's prompt is 'fireworks', although they look more like dandelions!

My perpetual prompt page is broken... I patched it, for now. Until the next thing which I failed to anticipate!

I'm going to do the thing!

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/zx7jtp/world23_a_daily_worldbuilding_challenge_for_2023/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I'm doing

https://emeralddragonwrites.wordpress.com/.../world23-an.../ instead of #dungeon23, starting with a bandit camp in a cleft in the cliff face. There's a big old tree and an overhang for shelter, with a lean to added and a place to climb up into the tree for a look out.

The cleft is a dangerous climb, but doable for anyone healthy enough (not me!). The gap between the protruding corner of the overhang and the great old tree has been filled in with an A-frame lean-to which doesn't do a great job of shedding water but is a lot less drafty than the overhang. A half dozen scraggly bandits and their dependents live here, a dysfunctional family of sorts.

I'm going to code up a page with the bandits ages and such. I also decided that I would take another step, adding flora and fauna, a blood oak for the great old tree, because it bleeds pink sap and a peregrine griffin, a peregrif, living in the crags of the cliff.