"The Everfree Forest doesn't know what went wrong! A collection of random stories about ponies in need of chaos threatens to be happy. What will become an apple tree, and what will become a mysterious dream? The final foal awakens. Will she destroy gravity?"
A 'My little Pony' fanfiction written using Botnik’s Predictive Keyboard. A collaboration between man and machine, in the same vein as “Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like A Large Pile of Ash”.
Teen rating for quite possibly the most bizarre innuendos you'll ever read.
Special thanks to FanOfMostEverything, and everyone involved in his multi-author shorts-collections "Never the Final Word (Vol. 2)" and "Group Precipitation" for providing the input data.
Chapters (4)
Still more coherent than (multiple author names deleted to avoid ban).
Reluctantly upvoted.
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I'll take that as a compliment.
Tracking. This is fun.
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Thanks! Could you, in your own words, describe your favorite moment?
This... this certainly was a thing. A thing indeed. Is it bad I can recognise portions of my entries from NtFW2?
Botnik made a few intriguing lines that piqued my interest:
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It's funny you'd be one of the people to comment on this...
I take it you've only just read chapter 1?
I...
...
Well then
That is awfully sad there
Leak for S9's opening villain?
Heh heh
I would, but I do not want Luna to curse all my stoplights as well. Besides the chameleons and Teapot ("The" Teapot with a capital "T") are already a credible threat to Equestria!
Aragon? Is that you?
This certainly was odd. As a proper story it is a bit meh; pretty much an automated Exquisite Corpse by guiding a bot. However, taken for what it is, it was a fun, silly amusement. There certainly were a few intriguing nuggets in there that could serve as inspiration for some little one-shots ("cursing Equestria's stop lights" and "love and mariachi music" come to mind)
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Just finished to chapter 3 (latest one at time of writing). Glad my username could provide inspiration.
This is just coherent enough to make some sort of crazy sense. I can't wait to see more.
I am so stealing this to say
As a programmer, I've written programs capable of writing their own "stories"... They tend to be a little more broken than this. I've also read stories that claimed to be written by robots, and were clearly nothing of the sort; the computer has no concept of plotlines, often limited to nothing in grammar, and...
Beyond that depends on the program. While the human influence is evident here, it's also evident to me it's largely a legitimate machine-written story.
Admittedly, I've never used the particular program you're using- but the program I made... It reads a story, then generates its own. The result is often nothing short of epic, if I get the settings right- and the longer and better a story I feed in, the better the result! (In those, I've had ponies open other ponies' eyes for them, and that sort of thing. My favorite is when it has no concept of quotation marks...)
I like this. It's hard for me to read, so I'll probably never finish it, but it's entertaining anyways. I'd mash up a few of my stories (Iron Mountain comes to mind) through my program and publish that, if I wasn't almost certain it would be a violation of FimFiction policy... But I think you're still within the policy with this, so
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I guess Luna didn't want her daughter to get caught up in all the spaghetti, so she sent her to go to Tartarus, where she no doubt will receive a good upbringing and education.
Actually the Teapot is the villain of Season Toast-Diamond, Episode Toast: "From Canterlot Palace's mouth and then another round".
(Hmm. I should make an input set that contains all the episode titles and then use those for the chapter-titles...
)
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"Cursing Equestria's stop lights" sounds like something that might happen in Manehatten on a busy day. Protagonist might be a taxi driver or somepony in a hurry. Maybe a unicorn who really really really needs to get from point A to point B, but can't teleport. If Starlight didn't have other options like teleportation, self-levitation, or bending space-time, you'd wonder what she'd come up with to solve a problem like this.
Or maybe... While stuck in Manehatten traffic (and also somewhat tipsy), an evil enchantress puts an actual a curse on every stoplight in Equestria. "Those who dare to cross the road at red's eye shall henceforth carry the... the... burden, of, of *hick* [indecipherable mumbling that makes the curse very confused about what it's actually supposed to do. Poor curse.]"
"Love and mariachi music" - Either Cadence has an unusual taste in music, or it's a parallel universe crackship fic where Cadence married somepony else, and how A Canterlot Wedding and the Return of the Crystal Empire had a different outcome because of it. Maybe King
SombreroSombra is reformed by Cadence's new husband? And Chrysalis is allergic to tacos, so her plan is ruined by the wedding banquet.And yes, this isn't exactly my usual work, but I must admit I just couldn't stop giggling at the complete insanity unfolding.
...Oh, also, by the time you'd posted your comments, there's now a 4th chapter.Ah, I see you already noticed....Okay, no, I didn't type it up just now, I just hadn't cleaned it up yet for submission.
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That sounds neat! Opening other pony's eyes for them, oh my gosh.
Yeah, I'm a programmer myself actually, though I just took what was already available as a web-application and worked with that for funsies.
And you still have to pick the words from a list it gives you to match the grammar - hence me stressing the "collaborative" work with a machine, not "written exclusively by a machine". It's just that you have no idea where the sentence you're cobbling together is gonna lead.
I put links to the differently trained "keyboards" in the author's notes of the respective chapter, you can check it out yourself and type up your own.
I'd say, maybe you can cobble something together from the mad ramblings of your program, rather than taking its output as the finished work? Like, take only the best parts, or move sentences/paragraphs around to give it more of a "logical" structure. (I moved a lot of sentences around in chapter 4, and admittedly cut those last few Pinkie paragraphs together from the best of multiple attempts.)
Maybe treat the whole thing like your program wrote the first draft of a story and you're the editor improving it for human readability. I'm sure considering the machine wrote the first draft all by itself, you can be "excused" for cutting out the fat, adding more of a "human touch" and "revising" some of the grammar afterwards. It'll still be machine-written, but collaboratively with a human.
Or, maybe you can flip-flop between sections of text written by the program, and then you take whatever the bot gave you as a prompt and write a paragraph or two yourself, then let the program take over again, repeat until you got a story you can claim at least partial authorship over.
PS: Also, I was made aware of this while getting the story ready for publishing.
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I honestly wasn't sure if that wasn't in the story already, it just made so much sense.
But no, "getting in touch with" only appears twice in Group Precipitation, and neither has anything to do with entrails at all. Somepony too jaded to even react to their own guts sounds like a barrel of laughs.
I say go for it.
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Input: Iron Mountain, though I used the Google Docs file, backdated to the time of the latest chapter update. 504 MB.
Output, 2 MB:
Go ahead and try.
(No really, I did just run it. And that's all I had it generate; I can make more next time, if you like.)
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I'll look into it and see if I can do something with this.
The story so far:
• Celestia may or may not have always been a hologram, and is currently malfunctioning in either case.
• Chrysalis rapidly decayed into a pile of desiccated tissue and chitin once the story had no further use for her, but don't worry! There's a thriving changeling hive in Pinkie's imagination, and Pinkie herself has joined the unknowable AI gestalt that guides this universe in lieu of a flesh-and-blood
authorprincess. The Flying Spaghetti Monster may or may not be involved.• Rarity has become Madame Bonaparte and has deigned to threaten Equestria.
• Luna is sporting the latest innovation in fashion: Strapping live teenagers to yourself.
• Derpy is the true unsung hero of the piece, as I would expect when I provide the initial data set.
• Twilight wandered off to more nutritious pastures and has no intention of coming back any time soon.
• Trixie is queen of the shoggoths, who she loves like a basket of writhing, amorphous puppies.
• Shining Armor is some manner of aquatic dryad and also the Golden Oaks Library.
• That teapot is clearly the most important object in all of Equestria.
• Chameleons command a vast conspiracy that threatens to undermine all of Equestria, or at least its stoplights.
• Various members of the cast can recognize the insanity of the world around them, but never for long enough to actually do anything about it.
This sort of thing is exactly why Oversaturated Sunset can't go to Equestria or otherwise leave Earth's universe for the better part of the next century.
*reads this chapter* Well, Skynet's totally screwed.
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The cursed stop lights! Must not forget the stop lights too!
I. Have. No. Words.
That is some Discordian kind of messed up world.
Said no one ever.
I wheezed, laughed and snorted at the same time because of how funny this is.
Cant...!
BREATH!!!!
Pinkie Pie is the only one who seems to know what’s going on.
I mean... you're not wrong.
Indeed, that's the best way to get away from an akward moment.
My robot overlords told me to come upvote this fic. I have acquiesced.
Also
at this fic having more comments than up/downvotes. Always a good sign. Means you just can't define it as "good/bad" and have to explain wtf you just experienced. 
Botnik Sparkle is Best Bot.
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Chrysalis seems to as well
Sounds meta
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Only her head! The rest of her is fine.
So this is all the Teapot's fault! no wonder Cadence tried to set it on fire earlier!
Vibrating at the speed of light makes you toned AF.
Me too, Twi. Me too...
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And then to eat it while it was still hot.
Either that or her mouth is really, really hot.
Be very afraid.
Yeah, chewing on a plane will do that to ya.
Somehow, it's funny.
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Well, I'm guessing Trixie's obsession with teacups has awakened the Teapot, causing all of Equestria to become covered in thick spaghetti.
And now they're planning how to repopulate after the apocalypse, and Luna is the most prevalent candidate to do it, as she is already covered in pony-teenagers. (She's already had one foal during this story.)
And everypony has their own idea of how to take over Equestria for a better future, they're just being held back by destiny's stoplights dictating when they can and can't make a move, when their fate is all-green and when they'll stop and stumble. Now, if somepony were to gain control over Equestria's stoplights - why, it would be like she could steer destiny itself, cause traffic jams for her enemies, and green waves for herself and her allies.
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That about sums it up!
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That's actually referring to me.
I typed in "Ultra", and, well, Botnik dubbed me the Princess of Horrifying Plot Spells.
Well... it's not wrong...
...you know what? I think this paragraph makes the most sense out of anything else here. At least, I was able to read it as Pinkie Pie, being completely aware of the situation (as usual), coming to warn Twilight to try to get her out of the weird zone, before succumbing to it herself and turning into cookies when she hits the floor.
Typical Pinkie Pie, being the only one who makes sense in a world full of nonsense.
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Couldn't she send one of her avatars though? Or... I suppose that does that not work across dimensions?
Also, one thing I'm a bit confused about... Has Oversaturated-Sunset never got to "make up" with Celestia yet, or did I miss that? I'd have expected her to be exchanging letters at least - or, if that's too impersonal, arrange for a video conference. You know, throw a smart phone through the portal to Equestria, make a phone call.
What do you mean "there's no connection"? You're telling me WiFi won't propagate through the portal, and you can't set up a repeater on the other side?
Or at least stick a cable through temporarily and hook that up to a provisional cell-tower?
It seems like a kind-of obvious solution, unless I missed something.
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Well, this is certainly something to address in the near future. Long story short, Sunset's avatars break down almost immediately if they're not in the same universe as her main consciousness. The Astral Plane lets her cheat, but only so much. As for Celestia... Sunset has been deliberately pushing that particular reconciliation down her to-do list for a while. The fact that Celestia can't even set foot in the human world without breaking it for the next decade or two doesn't help (or hurt, depending on your perspective.) This also means that interdimensional telecommunications are a poorly explored field of study, since the quantumantic journal and human Ditzy Doo meet all current needs on that front. Also, no one lets the Twilights directly work together after the electric kettle incident.
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I assume you mean "Bloom the Girl"?
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Got home Skynet, you're drunk.
Seems the bot doesn't like flash
Oh bother, Celestia is very neutral in this.
That was a sentence.
Maybe that could be the title
Luna's been getting around
Well that's not nice of her, you'd think she would know not to do that.
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Rarity cringes a lot and is the last unicorn.
Celestia nodded neutrally or sagely, she's also farting.