Hey, thanks for pointing out the 'on text' vars that I forgot to get rid of lol! Now, looking back, I was able to decrease the file size by yet another 0.1k lol. Nice! :) As for $read(fortune.txt), yea, I slipped up by adding $rand(). :-)

Zmodem, why set those vars in the on text? You don't even use %r. :/

And $read(fortune.txt) would work fine enough, since it already picks a random line.

azy: You are correct. That is a more sensible way of doing it. However, for simple and 'beginner-like', this can be made acceptable :)

SoxFarAway777: May I suggest a different approach? See below:

alias -l fort {
  var %r = return
  goto $rand(1,10)
  :1
  %r will live a wonderful life, full of happiness, and love.
  :2
  %r will become a hermit and live sad and lonely for the rest of their life.
  :3
  %r will start a company, and live a prosperous life.
  :4
  %r will die at a young age.
  :5
  %r will become a famous actor/actress/musician and spend the rest of their life in the spotlight.
  :6
  %r will disappear without a trace, and never be heard from again.
  :7
  %r will die, but become reanimated as a Zombie, and forever roam the earth in search of purpose... And brains, of course.
  :8
  %r will live a normal life, with a normal home, a normal job, and a normal future.
  :9
  %r will be eaten alive by bears.
  :10
  %r does not exist, and therefore will not have a future.
}
on *:TEXT:-Fortune*:#:msg $chan $2 $fort

Code's a bit quicker and cleaner and it will also save you around 0.2k in file size. However, as 'azy' suggested, use a text file. Create a text file called 'fortune.txt' and save all of the fortunes to it. Then, all you will need is this simple, one-line text-event:

ON *:TEXT:-Fortune*:#:msg $chan $2 $read(fortune.txt)

I'm pretty new too, but couldn't you have just done...

on :TEXT:-Fortune:#: { msg $chan $read(fortune.txt) }

and put all the "outcomes" in fortunes.txt?

Nice script though, will use!

Meh. I just started scripting about a week ago, and I haven't slept in a while, so I might apply your suggestions later, although I did fix the brackets and backslashes.

Thanks for the comment, that probably saved me a lot of complications. :)

You don't need the slashes (/msg $chan), and you're missing a bunch of brackets (1st and 4th "fortune".
Also, try to add some flood protection to that trigger; you wouldn't want people spamming it. :D

Put this into good use: http://www.hawkee.com/snippet/3874/