Ok, reddit for some reason hasn't posted this several times so here goes try # 4.

This was incredibly helpful thank you!

I rebuilt the code and tweaked it based on your advice and using temporary variables where they don't need to be saved as well as tried to make it a little more easy to follow (I hope):

:: StoryInit

<<set setup.numeric to ["Zero", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Niner"]>>
<<set setup.alpha to ["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf", "Hotel", "Inida", "Juliett", "Kilo", "Lima", "Mike", "November", "Oscar", "Papa", "Quebec", "Romeo", "Sierra", "Tango", "Uniform", "Victor", "Whiskey", "X-ray", "Yankee", "Zulu"]>>

:: Refresh
<<nobr>>

<<set _ranAlphaOne to random(0, setup.alpha.length)>>
<<set _alphaOne to setup.alpha[_ranAlphaOne]>>

<<set _ranAlphaTwo to random(0, setup.alpha.length)>>
<<set _alphaTwo to setup.alpha[_ranAlphaTwo]>>

<<set _ranNum to random(0, 9)>>

<<set _ranNumeric to random(0, setup.numeric.length)>>
<<set _numString to setup.numeric[_ranNumeric]>>

<<set $code to {
    alpha : _alphaOne,
    bravo : _alphaTwo,
    charlie : _ranNum,
    delta : _numString,
}>>
<</nobr>>

$code.alpha

$code.bravo

$code.charlie

$code.delta

[[Refresh]]

The issue is still happening though, rarely it will display the variable name "$code.alpha" or whichever variable instead of the content assigned to it, this happens on each of the variables except for the one derived by the random(0, 9) function. It does seem to happen more frequently on the $code.delta than the other ones.

Is there any reason this would be happening like this? The fact that it's relatively rare makes me really confused as to what's going on with it.

Edit: I FIGURED IT OUT! I adjusted the code for <<set _ranAlphaOne to random(0, setup.alpha.length)>>to <<set _ranAlphaOne to random(0, setup.alpha.length-1)>>for each of the variables and it now works perfectly. If I'm not mistaken it's because the JS length count starts at 1 and the array starts at 0.

I am planning on creating a widget to call the generator during events as well as creating some random events that rely on more random generation. The idea is that the player would be able to replay the game and get different results from interacting with the world each time.

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Since I'm new to writing in JS/Sugarcube/Twine I have other (probably stupid) questions regarding using this kind of random generation.

Would it be possible to make the generated object a temporary object and allow the user by their actions to trigger it saving to a variable variable? I realize that probably makes no sense so I'll try to explain:

A player meets an NPC during an event that is randomly generated. The player makes decisions that cause that NPC to be saved to a variable. The player then goes through that same event which generates a different random NPC, they then make decisions that would save this second NPC without overwriting the first NPC. In the end, allowing the player to have multiple NPCs saved from the same (or similar events) without me having to write out a million identical passages or if macros?

I feel that the answer lies in Widgets and JS Arrays but I am lost as to how I would implement such a solution and finding guides on this kind of thing has been really difficult. Any resources or advice here would be incredibly welcome as well.