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Example: * Fifty Ways to Leave Your Larva
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Location: Making new substitutions
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RecipeLocation: Varying What Is Written
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Index: Substituting insults and boasts
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Description: Using text substitution to make characters reply differently under the same circumstances.
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For: Z-Machine
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We can use these substitutions to put together fairly complicated variations within a single piece of text:
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{*}"Fifty Ways to Leave Your Larva"
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The Beekeeper's Palace is a room. Wasp is a woman in the palace. Drone is a man in the palace.
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Instead of kissing someone:
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say "'[denial], [insult]! [boast]!'";
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In this context, [denial] is understood to refer to the denial property of the noun -- but we could spell it out with "denial of the noun" if we wanted to.
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{**}A person has some text called denial. The denial of a person is usually "Stand back". The denial of Drone is "You forget yourself"
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A person has some text called insult. The insult of a person is usually "Grasshopper". The insult of Wasp is "Larva".
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A person has some text called boast. The boast of a person is usually "I am ferocious". The boast of Drone is "I have ferocious allies".
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And then it would be trivial to insert further rules using these responses:
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{**}Instead of attacking someone:
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say "'Get away, [insult]!'"
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Test me with "kiss wasp / hit wasp / hit drone / kiss drone".
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