Deep Machine combat

The cylinder speaks. The messages were transcribed. The actions recorded.

For most of the messages below, these word buckets are used to randomly generate text (some of these are modified to suit the grammar of the sentence, eg. adding "ing" or "es"):

Some messages may pick or combine from more than one word bucket, so some of these may belong to different buckets.

• ??? adjective: feverish / itching
• Body parts: being / brain / eye / heart / pineal gland / soul / void / vortex
• Mind parts: body / consciousness / courage / dreams / experience / eye / heart / life / liver / memories / mind / pineal gland / regrets / soul / third ear / third eye / thoughts / timeline / voice
• Colors: blue / cerulean / cornflower / cream / cyan / emerald / fuchsia / gray / magenta / maroon / mustard / pink / purple / puce / scarlet / silver / tan / white / viridian / violet / <color>-<color>
  • Color modifiers: bright / dim / flickering / translucent / transparent / pearlescent / shimmering / scintillating / <color mod>, <color mod>
• Damage noun: chaos / disease / disquiet / hurt / imbalance / pain / ripping / sadness / shock / tearing / unwitting.
• Damage verb: eviscerates / intersects / mangles / eviscerates / rips apart / ruptures / slashes / slices / tears apart
• Emotion: fear / revulsion / wistfulness
• Exudence noun: bleeding / bubble / drip / leaking / seeping / trickle / radiation
• Exudence verb: bubbles / coalesces / drips / extrudes / leaks / oozes / radiates / seeps / sprays / surges / trickles
• Fluids: breeze / cloud / fountain / gravy / haze / oil / river / sauce / shadow / smoke / song / static / steam / universe / wind / <object>
  • Muscle fluid modifier: angry / boiling / hot / powerful / roaring / savage / sizzling
  • Mysticalty fluid modifier: enchanting / ethereal / intellectual / magical / mysterious / mystical / spectral
  • Moxie fluid modifier: ghostly / shadowy / shady / shrewd / slick / sly / tricky
• Reaction from damage: bleeds / gasps / hazily manically sings / hisses / severs / shiver / sighs / weeps / wails
• Material: clay / delicious / metal / quicksilver / stone
• Movements: dance / gyrate / nod / oscillate / revolve / spin / throb / twirl / twist / twitch / wiggle / whirl / writhe
• Objects: coil / cone / cube / dodecahedron / hexagon / icosahedron / octagon / parallelogram / pyramid / rectangle / spiral / sphere / tetrahedron / triangle / whirlpool / whirlwind / wire / <color>agon
  • Object modifier: cacophonous / dim / erotic / glowing / harmonious / impossible / melodic / melodious / opaque / piercing / shrill / soothing / strident / thrilling / throbbing / tuneless / lilting
• Vocalization verbs: blare / buzz / growl / hiss / howl / hum / thrumming / yell / pipe / scream / screech / shout / shriek / sing / sigh / toot / wail / whisper / whistle / wildly hum
• Vocalization nouns: benediction / lullaby / melody / memory / promise / prophecy / scream / secret / shriek / song / symphony / threat / tune / wail / warning
  • Vocalization modifier: cacophonous / clay / crystal / crystalline / deafening / discordant / erotic / harmonious / humming / impossible / intoxicating / laughing / lilting / melodic / piercing / plastic / quicksilver / shrill / soothing / stone / strident / thrilling / throbbing / tuneless / wicker
• Mana adjectives: bracing / cool / energizing / fresh / invigorating / refreshing / restorative / revitalizing

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Gaining Initiative

• It hesitates. It <vocalizes>. It <moves>.

Player Messages

Pickpocketing

Successfully Pickpocketing an item

Pocket: smoke-crystal, wicker-prophecy, sound-clay

• You reach into your foe's <pocket> and withdraw a <voc. modifier> <object>.

Failing to Pickpocket an item

Develops: falls into, falls through, hides behind, imagines, becomes, believes in, turns into

Developee: dream, hurricane, vortex, galaxy, pyramid, whirlwind, cloud, hexagon, whirlpool, cylinder, icosahedron

• Your efforts create an <exude> of <colours> that <develops> the <developee> without so much as a <vocalisation noun>.

Weapon Attacks

Successful Attack

• <Color> <exudes> from the foe's <material> <body part> as you <vocalize>.
• Your <vocal adj> <vocal noun> <damage verb> the <moving> foe, who <reacts> from the <damage noun>.
• Your <mind part> <damage verb> the foe with a <exudence> of <color modifier> <color> and a <exudence> of <damage noun>.

Misses

• Your attempt to cause <damage> within your foe's <body part> goes unnoticed by all.

Critical hits

• You hit the entity so hard, it <exudes> a harmonious prophecy sideways in time. CRITICAL CLOUD!
• You hit the entity so hard, it <exudes> a plastic warning into your liver. CRITICAL ORANGEAGON!

Skill Messages

Unsuccessfully Using a Skill

• You try something impossible, and yet it does not happen.

Using Entangling Noodles

• You reveal your burning wood to your foe, but they are plastic.

Olfaction

• You're effectual on account of the effect you have just acquired.
• You gain an effect. Impromptu grammar lesson: effects affect you.

Combat Items

Dealing Damage via Combat Items

• You eject a(n) <object modifier> <object>, which intersects violently with your foe.

Other Combat Item Usage

• A(n) <object modifier> <object>, and it performs its function.

HP Gain

• Your <body part> sings a <vocal adjective> <vocalization> as you are healed.

MP Gain

• A <mana adjective> <color> <vocalization> echoes through your <body part>, revitalizing you.

Running Away or Banishing

Successfully

• Your foe emits a scintillating warning, but you are no longer anywhere.

Familiar Messages

Stat Point Increasing

• A small <object modifier> <color> <object> {scrutinizes / listens / regards} you and beams.

Attacking

• A small <object modifier> <color> <object> <damages> your foe, causing the damage.

General

• A small <object modifier> <color> <object> does something incomprehensible.

Leveling Up

A small <object modifier> <color> <object> emits a lilting scream as it grows slightly larger.

End of Combat

Losing the Fight

A deafening <fluid> of defeat fills your <mind part>. The <objects> <vocalize or move>.

Winning the Fight

• A(n) <object> <reacts to damage>, and there is no enemy anywhere.

Gaining Substats

Muscle Substats

• A <muscle fluid modifier> <fluid> <exudes> through your <mind part>.

Gaining a Muscle Point

• A < muscle fluid modifier> <fluid> <exudes> through your <mind part>. You feel as though your <mind part> has expanded.

Gaining Mysticality substats:

• A <mysticality fluid modifier> <fluid> <exudes> through your <mind part>.

Gaining a Mysticality Point

• A <mysticality fluid modifier> <fluid> <exudes> through your <mind part>. You feel as though your <mind part> has expanded.

Gaining Moxie Substats

• A <moxie fluid modifier> <fluid> <exudes> through your <mind part>.

Gaining a Moxie Point

• A < moxie fluid modifier> <fluid> <exudes> through your <mind part>. You feel as though your <mind part> has expanded.

Leveling Up

• A spiraling humming dream sprays from your courage as you surge with newfound power. You have gained a dodecahedron.

Item Drops

• You discover a smoke of shifting crystal, and hold it tightly within your courage.
• You discover a memory of shining deliciousness, and hold it tightly within your body.
• You discover a thread of shimmering darkness, and hold it tightly within your body.
• You discover a memory of thrumming humming, and hold it tightly within your dreams.
• You discover a sound of shining silver, and hold it tightly within your voice.
• You discover a cloud of thrumming wicker, and hold it tightly within your pineal gland.
• You discover a galaxy of oily quicksilver, and hold it tightly within your memories.
• You discover a vibration of pearlescent clay, and hold it tightly within your liver.
• You discover a song of bright crystal, and hold it tightly within your body.
• You discover a thread of flashing clay, and hold it tightly within your third ear.
• You discover a shadow of glowing throbbing, and hold it tightly within your body.
• You discover a thought of scintillating glass, and hold it tightly within your third ear.
• You discover a song of bright humming, and hold it tightly within your soul.
• You discover a feeling of thrumming deliciousness, and hold it tightly within your life.
• You discover a sound of flickering laughter, and hold it tightly within your experience.
• You discover a song of opaque deliciousness, and hold it tightly within your heart.

Other

Twiddling

You <hiss / nod / sigh / react / weep> without purpose.