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I was having a talk with New Horizon last night about creating random conversations. We came up with a possible way to keep the conversations sounding fairly fresh. We take 3 columns of random phrases, then have each guard pick radomnly from a column when talking.

 

Two AI pass each other in a hallway. Guard #1 says a random line from List A, Guard #2 responds with a line from List B and Guard #1 finishes up with a response from List C. Even with only a few phrases in each list, there are lots of potential combinations. They are fairly generic exchanges, but that would be believable, I think. An example of guard lists:

 

List A - greetings

 

"Evenin'."

"Good to see you."

"Hello, you taffer."

"Nice Night."

"How're things?"

 

List B - questions (these may not be the best, but you get the idea)

 

"You workin' hard?"

"Have you had any dinner yet?"

"You seen anything interesting tonight?"

"Nice boots. They new?"

"Your feet hurt as much as mine?"

"Look like rain to you?"

"You keepin' your eyes open?"

 

List C - responses

 

"Naw."

"Bugger off."

"Yep."

"I dunno."

"Same as always."

 

By picking randomly, you could get some interesting exchanges, without having anything that sounds ridiculous:

 

"Hello you Taffer." "You workin' hard?" "Bugger off."

"Nice Night." "Look like rain to you?" "Naw."

"Good to see you." "Your feet hurt as much as mine?" "Same as always."

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Yeah, the "I dunno" one I imagined being mostly for the stupid guard voice. :)

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