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- \* SIFI: Sci-Fi Plot Generator
- \* Last Modified: 8 July 1990 by wiml@milton.u.washington.edu
- \*
- \* Originally coded by Kevin D. Quitt (demott!kdq, kdq@demott.com)
- \* who commented, in the C version,
- \* "This program was converted on [24-July-1990] from a spaghetti-
- \* coded BASIC program (that almost worked). I am the original
- \* author of both works, though G*d only knows why someone would
- \* claim otherwise. .... Note that the original flowchart for this
- \* program is *not* my [kdq's] creation - I believe Gahan Wilson did it
- \* originally, I think about '81, published in OMNI magazine."
- \* Minor modifications to the C code by chad@anasaz.UUCP on 31 July 1990.
- \* Converted to spewfile format 7 August 1990 by wiml@milton.u.washington.edu,
- \* also a few more phrases added and probabilities tweaked.
- \* The \PRUNE pseudo-class is unique to the version of SPEW modified
- \* for this rulesfile.
- %SIZE
- tiny
- giant
- microscopic
- planet-sized
- humongous
- itty-bitty
- %BEING
- bugs, which
- reptiles, which
- mechanical devices, which
- super persons, who
- icky things, which
- beings composed completely of energy, which
- %BEINGTYPE
- extra-galactic
- Martian
- Moon
- Betelgeusian
- %COMETRESULTS
- destroyed.
- saved by Jesus and the J.D.L.
- not destroyed, but everybody dies.
- saved by a a reclusive hermit and his cute alien pet.
- %KILLEDBY
- the Atomic Bomb
- a crowd of peasnts with torches
- the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and/or Coast Guard
- orbiting laser satellites
- guerilla foces
- %BUT
- they fall in love with a beautiful girl
- a cute little kid convinces them that people are OK
- a priest talks to them of God
- Captain Kirk uses logic on them
- %TERM1
- and they die. \PRUNE
- and they leave. \PRUNE
- and they turn into disgusting lumps. \PRUNE
- %TERM2
- but they die from catching chicken pox. \PRUNE
- so they kill us. \PRUNE
- so they put us under a benign dictatorship. \PRUNE
- so they eat us. \PRUNE
- %WEAPONRESULTS
- which fails
- which kills them. \PRUNE
- which turns them into disgusting lumps. \PRUNE
- %DESCRIBEBEING
- \SIZE \BEINGTYPE \BEING \DESCRIBEBEINGTAIL
- %DESCRIBEBEINGTAIL
- want our women,
- want our women, take a few and leave. \PRUNE
- are friendly. \PRUNE
- are friendly, but misunderstood,
- misunderstand us
- understand us too well
- are emissaries from God
- look upon us only as a source of nourishment
- look upon us only as a source of nourishment, and eat us. \PRUNE
- %DOBUT
- , but \BUT \TERM1
- %SIFI!
- (2)Earth is struck by a giant comet and \COMETRESULTS
- (5)Scientists discover or invent \DESCRIBEBEINGCURIE
- (5)Earth is attacked by \DESCRIBEBEINGCURIE
- Earth burns up or freezes or falls into the sun and everybody dies.
- Earth burns up or freezes or falls into the sun and almost everybody dies.
- %MAYBE
- (1)
- (1) not
- %DESCRIBEBEINGCURIE
- \DESCRIBEBEING and are\MAYBE radioactive, and can\MAYBE be killed by \KILLEDBY/ \WHATTODO
- %WHATTODO \* WHATTODO is a recursive version of the iterative original
- \DOBUT \TERM2
- \DOBUT so scientists invent a weapon \WEAPONRESULTS \WHATTODO
- %MAIN
- \SIFI!/ \!\!
- %%
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