27 December 2020

d24: Things happening at night in the magical academy

This was another 'rapid encounter table generation' exercise. Prompt was a post on Reddit requesting random encounters inside the academy. Another good opportunity to test the Bellard tool for quickly boosting tables.

Items 1-6 were standard off the cuff responses to the prompt. 7-10 were scraped from the blurbs for the top Harry Potter fanfics on Fanfiction.net. Then I fed these two blocks (1-6, 7-10) into the the GPT-2 network at Bellard.org. seperately then together to get:
Input 1.
1. Students out hunting a great aunts legacy cache, she was once a professor
2. Super keen students swotting up but accidentally unleashing things
3. Animated furniture that has absorbed decades of magic prowling about
4. The phase in phase out time looped ghosts of an old magical accident
5. Non euclidean angles and rooms to get lost in
6. Things escaped from the dissection cages in biology desperate to escape
Input 2.
7. A stranger returns from a teleportation exercise and noone knows who they are
8. A secret war spills over into the grounds of the school, students aligning with their family factions
9. A duplicate of a student falls out of an alternate dimension and no one can tell who is the real version
10. A students raucous godfather turns up to take them out of school and fights one of the teachers over an old grudge
Output 1 from Input 1.
11. A man and woman who are identical are separated in alternate universes. Their paths diverge
12. A secret group of schoolmates come together to fight off evil and save the school (some are friends)
13. A godfather comes back to Earth, in a different world as an ally, and fights his brother and a god in the same war
14. A godmother is called to save the school from the evil that lies within her in her own world and is sent on a mission to get a new world to live in
15. A school teacher is abducted by people from another world and her friend escapes them to the earth to stay with her
16. A group of schoolboys form an alliance with a team of other schoolboys and fight off some evil in their own world
Output 2 from Input 2.
17. An ancient magical artifact's mind-blowing magic
18. A magic device that can make an old friend laugh
19. An evil witch trying to scare the evil witch out of her life using the magic from it
20. A huge evil magical artifact with a mysterious curse that has a time skip trap
Output 3 from Input 1 and 2.
21. The school is under siege by two groups of magic creatures
22. A man with a black box walks in the door
23. A ghost of a student appears in the hallway of the library to take them out, it turns out to be his ghost and takes the students home
24. An old professor gives his old teacher's ghost a magic potion from her desk and tells it to leave the library that night

Needs a little clean up and post processing to be fully useful but for as feedstock for encounters that I would not have thought up entirely myself, this is pretty helpful.

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