Thursday, July 02, 2009

Proposal: Pocket money

Create a new rule entitled “Money”:

There exists for each Tourist a statistic called “Money”. This is a number, tracked and displayed by the GNDT in $ to 2 decimal places (e.g. “$27.00"). The smallest individual unit of Money possible is $0.01, which cannot be split up any further. The default value for new and unidling Tourists is $50.00

Set each Tourist’s Money to $50.00

Dear Mum,
Having a wonderful time in the Caribbean. It’s even hotter than it was at home, even though it’s apparently winter here. All the people from that TV show are here, but I haven’t had the courage to talk to them yet. The only problem: remember the studio promised us $50 spending money? It turns out that in East Caribbean Dollars that’s not very much at all. One ice cream costs $5, and that’s without a flake. I’ve spent the last five days living on coconuts and dead crabs. Do you think you could get someone to send some food? Please.
Hope Grandma is well,
Lots of love,
Shem.

Proposal: What are we tourising?

If the Proposal titled “I’m on a Boat” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a new rule called “The Island” with the text:

Any Tourist who Boat Statistic is set to No may, as a weekly action attempt to take a tour of the island.  To do this they roll 1DICE20.  If the result is higher than their current tourism then their tourism is increased by 1, if the result is lower than their tourism, then the Tourist has seen no new aspects of the island and their stress is increased by 1.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Proposal: I’m on a Boat

Add the following to the beginning of Enjoyment:

All statistics have a default value of 0 unless otherwise stated.

Add the following to the end of Enjoyment:

Boat. This represents whether the Tourist is on a Boat or not. The legal values are “Yes” meaning that the Tourist is on a Boat and “No” meaning that the Tourist is, sadly, on land. The default value is No.

Create a new Dynastic Rule titled “I’m on a Boat” with the following text:

As a weekly action, a Tourist may “Get on a Boat.” To do so, the Tourist changes their Boat statistic to Yes, increases their Tourism by 2, and increases their Tan and Stress by 1. A Tourist may depart from the Boat at any time by changing their Boat statistic to No. If a Tourist departs from the Boat without having been on it continuously for the preceding 6 hours, that Tourist must decrease their Tan by 1 (as their tanning lotion washes off).

This Boat is real!

Make some proposals

Yuri, please at least give it a try and propose something. Give us something to work with. 

Idle

Neil goes Idle. 15 Tourists, Quorum is 8.

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Proposal: Take 2

Add a new rule called “Fed-ex delivers” and give it the following text

There exists an entity called “Wilson” which is listed in the GNDT as if it where a Tourist. Wilson is a volleyball and cannot take any actions unless the rules explicitly state so on each of those actions. In those cases, that rule must determine which Tourist shall be the one that must make the appropriate gamestate changes (including making posts, modifying the GNDT or rolling dice) to complete that action. Those actions must always be clearly labeled as performed by Wilson.

As a daily action, a tourist may talk with Wilson. To do this, e makes a story post detailing his conversation with the volleyball. If, after four hours, no other tourist has commented on the post within the four hours after the post was made, the tourist who posted it may reduce their stress by one exactly once. If this would make their stress below zero, it is instead set to zero. He must do this within forty eight hours of making the original post or not do it at all. However, within four hours of the post being made, any other tourist may make a comment on the post, provided no tourist other than the one who made the original post has commented on it. After doing so, the tourist must increase the tourist who made the original post’s stress by two exactly once. If this would make their stress above twenty, it is instead set to twenty.

As a weekly action, a tourist may attempt to drown Wilson. To do this, e makes a post announcing that e is drowning Wilson. After twelve hours, if no other tourist makes a comment on this post, the tourist who made the post may replace this entire rule with “NAME is a big fat jerk” where NAME is their own in-game name. If no other tourist has already done so, any other tourist may comment on the post and then must immediately increase eir own stress by three. If this would make their stress an illegal value they may not do this.

Proposal: Catchhome

Veto of a Self-Kill. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 05:20:38 UTC

Add a new rule called “Fed-ex delivers” and give it the following text

There exists an entity called “Wilson” which is listed in the GNDT as if it where a Tourist. Wilson is a volleyball and cannot take any actions unless the rules explicitly state so on each of those actions. In those cases, that rule must determine which Tourist shall be the one that must make the appropriate gamestate changes (including making posts, modifying the GNDT or rolling dice) to complete that action. Those actions must always be clearly labeled as performed by Wilson.

As a daily action, a tourist may talk with Wilson. To do this, e makes a story post detailing his conversation with the volleyball. If, after four hours, no other tourist has commented on the post within the four hours after the post was made, the tourist who posted it may reduce their stress by one. If this would make their stress below zero, it is instead set to zero. He must do this within forty eight hours of making the original post or not do it at all. However, within four hours of the post being made, any other tourist may make a comment on the post. After doing so, the tourist must increase the tourist who made the original post’s stress by two. If this would make their stress above twenty, it is instead set to twenty.

Proposal: Defining Moment

If the Proposal titled “Going Home” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “A Perfect Tan”

A Tourist is considered to have a “Perfect Tan” when they have a Tan score of 15, no more and no less.

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “Sightseeing”

A Tourist is considered to have “Seen the Sights” when they have a Tourism score of 15 or higher.

A Perfect Tan

If the Proposal titled “Going Home” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “A Perfect Tan”

A Tourist is considered to have a “Perfect Tan” when they have a Tan score of 15, no more and no less.

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “Sightseeing”

A Tourist is considered to have “Seen the Sights” when they have a Tourism score of 15 or higher, to a limit of 20.

Proposal: This dynasty is just stressing me out

Create a new rule called, “Breath Deeply”:

Whenever a Proposal fails, the Admin who fails that Proposal shall increase the Stress of the author of that Proposal by 1 exactly once, due to the author being annoyed at failing. As a weekly action, a Tourist may “Count to Ten” by rolling DICE10 in the GNDT followed by a comment of “Counting...”. Then, if the result of the roll is equal to or higher than the Stress of that Tourist, the Tourist relaxes and decreases their Stress by that amount. Otherwise, the Tourist grits their teeth and fumbles but is still stressed out afterward. As long as a Tourist’s Stress is exactly zero, that Tourist is considered to be Stress Free.

If at least half the votes on this proposal contain the word “Piggybacked”, then create a new rule called “Coconuts”:

Proposals regarding coconuts cannot be voted VETO by the Tour Guide.

Proposal: A Cake. For you.

Create a new rule, “The Cake is Not a Lie (I Promise)”:

If at any point The Princess where to achieve victory, instead the last Tourist who has made a gamestate change to complete one or more actions performed by The Princess achieves victory.

Meh, past proposal contained a typo. Thanks to yuri for allowing me to re-propose it. BTW, this proposal has nothing to do with Mario and I hope yuri can understand that. In fact no proposal has ever referred to any Mario at all. 

Proposal: Going Home

Create a new dynastic rule “Homeward Bound” with the text:

A tourist that has a Perfect Tan, has Seen the Sights and is Stress Free, is considered to be finished with their vacation and has acheived victory.

Deliberately undefined values, for future fun for others.

Story Post: Caribbean.

We are in the Caribbean. Mario does not live here.
No more Mario themed rules, Ok?
I worked hard to win last dynasty, so let’s just enjoy the Caribbean.

Proposal: The Princess has baked a Cake for you

Vetoed, yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 02:29:42 UTC

Create a new rule, “The Cake is Not a Lie (this Time)”:

If at any point The Princess where to achieve victory, instead the last Tourist who has made as applied a gamestate change to complete one or more actions performed by The Princess achieves victory.

So, you make her win, and she gives you cake. If you get cake, you win. Simple, uh? Everyone wins when they have cake. Delicious cake. 

Proposal: Victory Conditions

Illegal proposal (edited after comments) --arth

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 00:42:59 UTC

Make a new Rule entitled “Fun in the Sun”:

A Tourist who has a tan value of 20, a tourism value of 20, and a stress level of 5 or below, is said to have had a “good” vacation. Any tourist meeting these criteria may make a Declaration of Victory.

Proposal: Admin

No admin has made MacMed a Tourist yet, so this is illegal -Darth
P.S. Idle Admins are still always considered Admins, because “Some Tourists are Admins” is in Rule 1.2.

Adminned at 30 Jun 2009 22:58:50 UTC

MacMed shall become an admin, with all the privileges and responsibilities pertaining thereto.

Join Announcemt

I, MacMed, hereby join this Caribbean expedition as a tourist.

Proposal: Money

Self-Vetoed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 20:47:41 UTC

Create a new rule entitled “Money”:

There exists a statistic in the GNDT entitled “money”, which can be any non-negative integer. The unit of measuring money shall be $.

Create a new Rule:  I scream for ice cream:

As a weekly action, any Tourist with at least $5 can spend $5 to buy an ice cream cone. The tourist then may either decrease their stress by 1 or increase their tourism by 1.

Set all Tourists’ money to $50.

Proposal: Back on track

Self-Vetoed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 20:46:29 UTC

Replace all mentions of Shine Sprites in the rules with Souvenirs. Replace all mentions of the Princess with Creepy Local.

Idling

You know, when this dynasty was first announced, it was the Caribbean Vacation Dynasty, not the Super Mario Sunshine Dynasty. I go idle.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Proposal: The Princess Awaits (in the past)

Vetoed, yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 02:29:50 UTC

Create a new rule “Time Manipulation”:

As a weekly action, a Tourist may spend 1 shine sprite to Rewind Time. To do so, that Tourist (known as The Scientist) shall make a comment in the GNDT of “Rewinding”, then immediately reverts all gamestate changes that resulted from all actions, excluding Time Immune actions, that have taken place exactly during the last 60 minutes right before the timestamp shown by the last “Rewinding” comment made in the GNDT. All Shine sprites spent by the Scientist for Rewinding Time are added to the shine sprites owned by the Tour Guide.

All actions defined by Core Rules are Time Immune Actions (for example, creating Proposals, Calls for Judgment, enacting Proposals, etc). Spending shine sprites is a Time Immune action (that is, no gamestate effects that result from spending shine sprites may be rewound). Actions taken by The Princess are always Time Immune actions.

Sometimes we will need a little magic to escape from the unavoidable grasp of The Princess… wait, don’t we wanna find her? Why are we escaping? It all seems backwards…

Monday, June 29, 2009

Proposal: Because what is a whole number?

Passes 7-1. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 20:31:16 UTC

In rule 2.2 Enjoyment, change the following line:

Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any whole number.

to:

Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any non-negative integer.

Proposal: Everyone still loves arrows

Passes 8-2. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 20:28:04 UTC

Create a new dynastic rule called “A Burst of Flavour” with the following text:

When voting on proposals which have flavour text, a Tourist may include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) with their vote; they should do this if and only if they like the proposal’s flavour text, or think that the proposal’s flavour text is in keeping with the spirit of the dynasty. If, when a proposal is enacted or failed, a quorum of counted votes on it contain arrow icons, the Tourist who proposed it may once within 48 hours increase their own Tourism by 3.

This was Ais523’s proposal from earlier.

Proposal: Tour Guid Approval

Passes 4-1-2. I’m enacting this Proposal as creating a new Dynastic Rule titled “Shine Sprites” (since there is no current Rule with that name) and then creating a subrule. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 01 Jul 2009 20:21:34 UTC

Create a new sub-rule of Shine Sprites, “Reward” with the text:

Whenever a proposal passes with the Tour Guide voting on the proposal without including the phrase “Non-Tour Activities”, the tourist that authored the proposal may once, within 48 hours of the proposal passing, reduce the Tour Guides Shine Sprites by 1 and increase their own Shine Sprites by one.

If the majority of counted votes also contain the phrase “retroactive”, the Tour Guide votes FOR and the Tour Guide’s vote does not include the phrase “Non-Tour Activities” decrease the Tour Guides Shine Sprites by 1 and Increase Amnistar’s shine sprites by 1.

Proposal: Learning from your mistakes

Self-Killed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 30 Jun 2009 05:57:49 UTC

Create a new rule called “Rewinding Time”,

As a weekly action a Tourist can Rewind Time. To do so, the tourist spends any number of Shine Sprites that they own (only positive integer amounts may be spent, zero is not positive). The Shine Sprites spent this way are added to the Tour Guide’s Shine Sprites. Then, the tourist that took the Rewinding Time action reverts all gamestate changes that ocurred in the last X hours, where X is the number of Shine Sprites spent for this action. Spending Shine Sprites this way shall not be reverted. Then, if that Tourist made one or more proposals during those last X hours, those proposals are declared illegal and not considered as valid proposals.

Got lost Exploring

I’m going away for a bit can i be idled until i get back.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Proposal: Take 2… no SKs

Passes 8-0 — yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 30 Jun 2009 04:27:11 UTC

Rename Rule 2.1 “Hands off” to “G-Man”.

Since noone reproposed this.

Proposal: No hallucinating on the beach

Passes 8-0
yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 29 Jun 2009 03:55:49 UTC

Create a new rule called “The Princess”,

There exists an entity called “The Princess” which is listed in the GNDT as if it where a Tourist. The Princess cannot take any actions unless the rules explicitly state so on each of those actions. In those cases, that rule must determine which Tourist shall be the one that must make the appropriate gamestate changes (including making posts, modifying the GNDT or rolling dice) to complete that action. Those actions must always be clearly labeled as performed by The Princess.

If the Proposal titled “Itsa Proposal” was enacted, transfer one Shine Sprite from the Tour Guide to The Princess for each FOR vote on this Proposal.

Perhaps rewinding time should be an allowed action for the princess…

Friday, June 26, 2009

Proposal: Revenge of King Anthony

Self killed- yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 29 Jun 2009 00:55:26 UTC

Make a new Dynastic Rule titled “Checks and Balances” with the following text:

The Tour Guide cannot Veto more than 5 Proposals in one day.

Because yuri is on a record-breaking pace right now . . . even if most of them are justified. Blognomic should never be making that many bad Proposals at once.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Proposal: Itsa time to rescue the Princess

Self killed- yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 29 Jun 2009 00:55:00 UTC

If the Proposal titled “Itsa Proposal” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a sub-rule of Shine “Found” with the text:

If the number of Shine Sprites that the Tour Guide possesses should ever be exactly 0, the dynasty is over, if no one meets any victory conditions, repeal all dynastic rules and start a new metadynasty.

Proposal: Itsa Proposal

Enacted 8-1: yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 29 Jun 2009 00:53:16 UTC

Add a new rule called “Shine!” and give it the following text

There exist 120 shine sprites which have been scattered across the island. Shine sprites are tracked in a GNDT column called “Shine Sprites”.  Each tourist has a non-negative number of shine sprites and starts with zero. The tour guide begins with 120 shine sprites. The total number of shine sprites owned by all tourists and the tour guide must always be 120. No action can taken which causes the sum to be different from 120. When a tourist goes idle, their shine sprite total is added to the tour guide’s shine sprite total and their shine sprites are set to zero.

Itsa Me

Add a new rule called “Shine!” and give it the following text

There exist 120 shine sprites which have been scattered across the island. Shine sprites are tracked in a GNDT column called “Shine Sprites”.  Each tourist has a non-negative number of shine sprites and starts with zero. The tour guide begins with 120 shine sprites. The total number of shine sprites owned by all tourists and the tour guide must always be 120. No action can taken which causes the sum to be different from 120. When a tourist goes idle, their shine sprite total is added to the tour guide’s shine sprite total and their shine sprites are set to zero.

Proposal: Third Time’s a Charm

Enacted, 6-5-- yuri_dragon_17
Speeds things up

Adminned at 29 Jun 2009 00:50:45 UTC

Create a new rule, Enjoyment:

Every Tourist has the following statistics, tracked in the GNDT:
• Stress. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tan. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any whole number.

Set the Tan, Stress, and Tourism of all Tourists to 0.

Enjoying the Caribbean yet?

Create a new rule, Enjoyment:

Every Tourist has the following statistics, tracked in the GNDT:
• Stress. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tan. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any positive integer.

Set all Tourist’s Stress, Tan, and Tourism to 0.

Reproposing this part.

Mysterious New link

The new link on the sidebar was added by me. It is not a rickroll. Seriously. Actually, it links straight to the CP home rather than the “Make a new Post” page, which is convienient for admins with slow computers. I was going to link it straight to the admin page, but do not know how to make the link only show up if you are an admin. If anyone does know, please pm me.

Proposal: Deferential Tour Guide

Passes 10-1-- yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 28 Jun 2009 02:39:12 UTC

Replace the text “The Tour Guide cannot cast a vote of DEFERENTIAL” in rule 1.4 with the following:

If the Tour Guide casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, it serves the purpose of cancelling any previous vote on that proposal that was cast by the Tour Guide.

Proposal: Good Deeds

Self-killed-- yuri_dragon_17

Adminned at 28 Jun 2009 02:38:14 UTC

Make a new Dynastic Rule titled “Good Deeds” with the following text:

Create a wiki page titled “Good Deeds” that can only be altered by manners specified in the Ruleset. Up to 5 times per week, the Tour Guide may add a new Good Deed to the wiki page. Each Good Deed has a name, a set of Requirements, a Reward, and a Completed By section. The Tour Guide, when he adds a Good Deed to the wiki, must add a name and a set of Requirements, as well as a Reward. Whenever a Tourist meets a set of Requirements, he may add his name to the Completed By section. Whenever a Tourist legally adds their own name to the Completed By section, the Reward of that Good Deed takes place.

Make a subrule of Good Deeds titled “Epic Deeds” with the following text:

If a Good Deed includes the word “Epic” in its name, then it is an Epic Deed and only one Tourist may add his name to the Completed By section. If there is already a name in the Completed By section of a particular Epic Deed, then no Tourist may add his name to the Completed By section of that Deed.

Because, what better way is there to start of a new Dynasty than by doing Good Deeds? May I suggest that the first Good Deed be named, “Saving the Beached Whale.”

Proposal: There are no Rules in the Caribbean!

Fails about 10 to 2—arthy

Adminned at 28 Jun 2009 01:21:04 UTC

Create a new Dynastic Rule, titled “Ignoring Rules”, with the following text:

A Tourist may, as a Weekly Action, choose to Ignore a specified Dynastic Rule for the purpose of performing a single specified action.  The action’s legality and effects are determined as if the Rule didn’t exist.

At least, they’re enforced laxly enough that tourists can get away with ignoring them once in a while.  If a lot of Dynastic Rules are enacted, this could provide an interesting means to achieve victory.

My first real proposal, don’t be _too_ harsh.

Old blognomic pages

I’ve added a working link for the old blognomic blogspot pages to the wiki if anyone wants to have a look. It’s on the main page.

Proposal: A more traditional title

Accidentally Self-Killed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 27 Jun 2009 17:22:36 UTC

Rename Rule 2.1 “Hands off” to “G-Man”.

It’s been a tradition ever since the First Dynasty of Yoda.

TestNomic

A single EE site can contain more than one blog. So…

Here’s my idea: a subblog called TestNomic where you can test dynasty ideas. Each dynasty lasts for at most one week, so that the entire dynasty idea isn’t spoiled. TestNomic would also be used by those like Wakukee who like to tinker with EE. You could mess around with TestNomic all you like, and it wouldn’t hurt BlogNomic at all.

Any comments?

Proposal: I Forgot My Suncream…

Vetoed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 00:26:40 UTC

Create a new subrule under “Beach”:

Sunburn. Add a variable in the GNDT called ‘Complexion’, the legal values of which are Normal and Sunburnt. When tanning, if the number rolled by the Tourist is more than 2 below their tan statistic, that Tourist is then considered to be Sunburnt and thus changes their Complexion status to Sunburnt and increases their stress level by 1. If a Sunburnt Tourist changes location to another location that is considered to be outdoor whilst Sunburnt, he increases his stress by 1. A Tourist’s Complexion status returns to Normal after 48 hours.

Damn my fair hair and pale skin! Don’t touch it. DON’T touch it!

Proposal: Starting values

Vetoed. Wow, yuri is starting to rival Anthony.  : p - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 00:25:36 UTC

Set all starting values for Stress, Tan and Tourism to 1

Set all Locations to Hotel

Proposal: Administraive Stuff #2

Passes 8-4 --yuri_dragon_17
(Did I do this right?)

Adminned at 27 Jun 2009 17:15:29 UTC

In the glossary replace:

# Unless otherwise specified: When “X” is a number, to spend X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X); no action may be taken which requires spending X of a numeric value when the subtraction would result in a number which is illegal as a replacement for that value (e.g. if the value represents a variable which is restricted to non-negative integers, but the subtraction comes up negative).

with

# Unless otherwise specified: When “X” is a number, to spend X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X).
# No action may be taken which could require setting a gamestate variable to an illegal value. (e.g. spending X of a numeric value that must be non-negative when the subtraction would result in a number which is negative).

I think this covers most cases. Obliviously its best to explicitly ban such actions in the rules they are described in, but incase we forget this covers it.

Proposal: Administraive Stuff #1

Open for 12 hours, reached quorum of FOR votes. Welcome aboard Yuri—Clucky

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 03:42:13 UTC

Make Yuri_dragon_17 an admin

Its generally traditional to make the emperor an admin unless there is some pressing reason not to. Yuri has shown himself to be competent, so why not? I’m not sure why we didn’t make ais an admin last dynasty, but I’d totally be in favor of a proposal to make him an admin as well.

Proposal: Everyone loves arrows

veto veto veto —Clucky

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 03:36:09 UTC

Create a new dynastic rule, with the text in the quote below, and whose title is the most commonly-suggested title amongst valid votes on this proposal:

When voting on proposals which have flavour text, a Tourist may include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) with their vote; they should do this if and only if they like the proposal’s flavour text, or think that the proposal’s flavour text is in keeping with the spirit of the dynasty. If, when a proposal is enacted or failed, a quorum of counted votes on it contain arrow icons, the Tourist who proposed it may once within 48 hours increase their own Tourism by 3.

Yes, I know, I have a problem with remembering to title rules at the same time as I propose them. Anyway, a little fun group activity on holiday never hurt anyone, and some nice publicly-minded community spirit (with great flavour text) definitely should count as enjoyable.

Proposal: Setting up statistics.

Vetoed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 00:22:06 UTC

In the rule Enjoyment change all instences of 1 to 0.

Set all Tourists’ stress, tan and tourism to 0 and set their Location to Hotel

Proposal: Historical Fraud

Yuri is a little veto trigger happy today, eh?—Clucky

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 03:35:08 UTC

In the Dynastic Histories, rename “The First Dynasty of Geran” to “The Second Dynasty of Myke.”

I know that this theoretically doesn’t require a Proposal, but I think the Histories are important enough that I shouldn’t make a big change without formal consent.

Here’s the story: In the days of Blognomic lore, there was the first Dynasty ever. It was ruled by the Emperor Myke, who gave a direction to this game that would propel us into fortune; the rest is history. Incidentally, Myke never could have won Round One without the help of Kevan. Now, as the legend goes, following the First Dynasty of Lyndse, Myke was absent from the game and another early Blognomic patriot, Geran, earned his first Dynasty.

Years later, Myke revealed that he had controlled the character “Geran” as well, admittedly using two identities at once. Even back then, using multiple identities was frowned upon, and was probably illegal; only Kevan might still be able to tell you.

While Myke’s fraud is historical, and there is no question that he earned another Dynasty (though perhaps through immoral means), he should not be able to claim 2 Dynasties under different monikers. Therefore, I Propose that forevermore, The First Dynasty of Geran be known as The Second Dynasty of Myke, to right the wrong that has haunted Blognomic perpetually since its third Dynasty.

Proposal: Too many people make me uncomforatable.

Vetoed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 00:21:28 UTC

Create a subrule of Locations “Crowded” with the text:

A Crowd is considered 1/x of the number of Tourist, rounded down, where x is 1 less than the number of Locations,

If a Tourist changes their location to a Location which a Crowd or more Tourist have their location currently set to, that Tourist shall increase their stress by 1.

Shall we make it 5?

I’m Baaaaaack

Kicking back and relaxing is my middle name!

Hi, I’d like to join in this dynasty, please. I followed the last one and read up on your history. This sounds amazing.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Proposal: Fix

Self-Vetoed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 00:20:32 UTC

If the rule “Enjoyment” exists, replace the text
“• Satisfaction.
• A Tourist’s Satisfaction is equal to their Tan, plus their Tourism, minus their Stress.”
with

• Satisfaction: A Tourist’s Satisfaction is equal to their Tan, plus their Tourism, minus their stress.

Also, create a new rule: Assistant Tour Guide:

The Tour Guide may appoint any Tourist to be the Assistant Tour Guide by posting a Story Post to that effect. The appointed Tourist accepts their position by commenting FOR the post. Unless otherwise stated, an Assistant Tour Guide is also a Tourist. Only one Tourist may be an Assistant Tour Guide. The Tour Guide may remove the Assistant Tour Guide from their post by creating another Story Post to that effect.

I do not know if I’ll be able to get on every day, starting next Wednesday, so an Assistant could help there. The top part is just a formatting issue.

Proposal: Let’s Look Around Town, Shall We?

Self-Killed. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 00:19:34 UTC

Create a new rule, Locations:

There exists a variable in the GNDT called Location, the legal values of which are any location that is in the Adjacency Chart. Twice per day (i.e. Sunday, Monday), but not more frequently than once every six hours, any Tourist may move to any Location that is adjacent to their current Location. The legal values for Location are any Location that appears in the Adjacency Chart.

Create the following subrules to “Locations”:
•Adjacency

The following Adjacency Chart is the list of Locations that are considered to be adjacent to each other:
Hotel: Casino, Beach
Beach: Restaurant, Patio, Casino, Hotel
Casino: Patio, Bar, Hotel, Beach
Patio: Restaurant, Theater, Bar, Casino, Beach
Restaurant: Theater, Patio, Beach
Bar: Theater, Patio, Casino
Theater: Bar, Restaurant, Patio


•Buildings:

The Hotel, Casino, Restaurant, Bar, and Theater are considered to be Buildings. All other Locations are considered to be Outdoor, or Outdoors collectively.

•Location-Specific Rules

The following Locations have specific rules:

Create the following subrules to “Location-Specific Rules”:
• Outdoor Locations:

Once per day, if there is at least one Tourist in an Outdoor Location, one Tourist must roll DICE5 in the GNDT for weather, and apply the results to the weather table. If no Tourist rolls DICE5 for this purpose, all Tourists in an Outdoor Location lose 1 from their Satisfaction.
Weather Table:
1:Extremely Hot- Any Tourist who successfully Tans today adds an additional 2 to their Tan statistic. All Tourists who are in any Outdoor location today add 1 to their Tourism.
2: Sunny- Any Tourist who successfully Tans today adds an additional 1 to their Tan statistic.
3: Partly Cloudy- Any Tourist who tries to Tan today must treat their Tan as if it were one higher when rolling DICE20 to tan.
4: Rainy -No Tourist can successfully tan today, regardless of other rules. Any Tourist who is in an Outdoor location reduces their Tourism by 1.
5: Storm- No Tourist can successfully tan today, regardless of other rules. Any Tourist who is in an Outdoor location reduces their Tourism by 2, and increases their Stress by 2.

Hotel.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is in the Hotel may do one of the following actions:
• Rest. They decrease their Stress by 1.
• Plan their Vacation. They increase their Tourism by 1.

Beach.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is on the Beach may do one of the following actions:
•Tan. The Tourist rolls DICE20 in the GNDT, and subtract $5 from their money (for sunscreen). If the resulting number is higher than their Tan Statistic, they Tan successfully. They add DICE3 to their Tan. If the number the roll is within 2 of their Tan, they also Tan successfully. They add 1 to their Tourism.

Casino.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is in the Casino may do one of the following actions:
•. Play Roulette. They subtract $6 from their money, and then roll DICE11, and add the resulting number to their money.

Bar.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is in the Bar may do one of the following actions:
• Buy a nice glass of cool lemonade. The Tourist spends $5, and may choose Pink or White lemonade. If they choose pink, they decrease their stress by 1, white increases their Tourism by 1.

Create a new rule, Enjoyment:

Every Tourist has the following statistics, tracked in the GNDT:
• Stress. This can be any positive integer between 1 and 20, inclusively.
• Tan. This can be any positive integer between 1 and 20, inclusively.
• Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any positive integer between 1 and 25, inclusively.
• Money. This can be any Positive integer, or 0. The symbol “$” shall be used as the unit for money.
• Satisfaction.
• A Tourist’s Satisfaction is equal to their Tan, plus their Tourism, minus their stress.

Create a new rule, Tour Guide:

Up to three times a week, the Tour Guide, or Assistant Tour Guide (if such a position exists), may arrange an Event. The Tour Guide or Assistant Tour Guide creates a story post detailing the event. An Event can affect any variable in the GNDT, as allowed by that event.

Set the Money statistic of each player to 75.

I think I see a hotel, a patio, and a really nice beach! Ok...ummm… rules...: Er… none. Knock yourselves out. Here’s $75.

Let’s Kick Back and Relax

Well… that TV show turned out… interesting. Aside from most of us almost drowning, I think we had a good bit of fun. There was one little problem though… after almost dying, I managed to get myself disqualified, ending the show rather anti-climatically. That meant no prize fund.
That was really too much, so me and some of the others filed a class-action lawsuit for reckless endangerment, and breach of contract. After only a couple hours, the producers settled for $350 000. So I turned to Waukee and said, “Why not go on vacation!”
Thirty-six hours later, here we are, in a nice Caribbean Village by the ocean. Ahhh, isn’t it nice? Most of the Contestants from the show are here, as is the Host. We’ll just see how people react to him, after he abandoned us in that godforsaken bunker.
We are just going to drop by the hotel, and then I assume we will spread out across the town.
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Repeal all Dynastic Rules except 2.6. Replace “Contestant” with “Tourist” and “Host” with “Tour Guide”.
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Elizabeth: So that’s it, then? That’s the secret, grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow. You spent three days lying on a beach drinking rum.
Jack Sparrow: Welcome to the Caribbean, love.

Call for Judgment: Ruleset implications

Passes 9-1. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 26 Jun 2009 23:52:43 UTC

If the Proposal “Making the Ruleset Neat” passes, it shall apply to the Ruleset as it was immediately before yuri_dragon_17 posted a Declaration of Victory.

Or else it will be very confusing to enact.

Photo Credit

Thanks to freedigitalphotos.com for the images used in the header!

Call for Judgment: Ban comex

Fails 1-9. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 25 Jun 2009 20:22:29 UTC

comex changed his nickname in IRC to “Wobble”.  This is impersonation, which is against the rules, so he is hereby banned from BlogNomic.

Shem joins Blognomic

I think it’s about time I joined in, instead of just stalking you all and lurking in IRC.

I look forward to yuri’s new dynasty.

After six weeks of eating junk food and watching Reality TV, Shem has decided to step out of his front door and go and see the world.

Rules

Test
Edit: Didn’t mean to post this

Dynasty appearance

Before anyone goes off and chooses a new logo and colours, I would like to post this.
I have created a header, but if it’s horrible, we just won’t use it and someone else can make one. If we are using this header, the background colour of the blog should be #FFFFC4 or something close to it.
I don’t know how to do it, so I’ll leave it to you guys.
Thanks.

Story Post: [Flavour] Disqualification

[A camera points at the Host, who is rather wet, and drying off on a beach Outside. In the distance, several contestants, camera crew, and the Hostess, are busy attempting to salvage the bunker by pumping water out of it (or possibly sabotage it by pumping water in?)]

Host
So, it seems that, according to the rules, we have a winner. We’re down to three contestants, and between them they voted yuri the winner.
However, I’m not sure if we can call this a legitimate win. First, there’s the little problem of the bunker being mostly underwater. Swimming out to avoid a flood hardly counts as being voted out by the viewers; a need to evacuate the bunker is probably unusual circumstances, and I see no reason why the opinions of all the contestants who ran from the flood shouldn’t count.
Second, yuri went outside, and flooded the bunker deliberately. This sort of sabotage would be enough to disqualify someone as it is, but worse, he pumped water into the control room while I was in it. (No excuses, yuri; the cameraman was outside helping with the bailing and we caught it all on tape.) You know that bribing/blackmailing the Host is not allowed; attempting to drown me probably counts as blackmail.
Therefore, yuri_dragon_17 is disqualified. As for the prize fund? It’s dropping to $0. The amount of foul play here has been hideous. You all deserve nothing for a mess like this. I’m ashamed.

[Host storms off-camera]


Host
See, I told you I’d find some excuse not to give away the money. Mission successful, I think. Also, ratings had dropped way down, but we got a record number of viewers for the ending; I think I probably got away with that one.
Cameraman
Ah good. Now, any chance you could help me get out of here? It’s been a nice holiday, but I really need to get home sometime soon or I won’t get any work for ages.
Host
Well, I think the Kitchen’s dry enough to fit both of us in. Do you have any experience in getting Cessnas in flooded underground fridges to fly?
Cameraman
You’d be surprised...

[Host and cameraman swim back into the bunker.]


[The skies, above the island. Below are several people, looking like tiny figures, a bunker which has clearly just been dropped roughly into a hole in a ground after being transported to the island, and the wreckage of a tower crane.]
Host
Wow, you are good with technology. I suppose that all we can do now is pick a direction and hope we reach mainland; after all, I don’t know where I am.
Cameraman
Nah, that’s simple. North-north-west, and keep flying, we’ll be back home soon.
Host
You mean you knew where we were all along?
Cameraman
You never asked...

Don’t worry, this is purely flavour. It was a good and perfectly nomic-style win; just not the sort of thing that would normally be allowed in a reality TV show.

Declaration of Victory: Drowned the Competition

Passes 9-0. We’re still in Hiatus. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 25 Jun 2009 05:57:40 UTC

All insiders support me.

Explanation

The two important rules here were “As a daily action, a Contestant (known as the Caller) may spend 1 point of Looks to change the Location of any Contestant to the Caller’s Location. If this action would cause the Caller’s Looks to become less than 10, the action can’t be taken. “ and “If the number of Remaining Contestants in a room is ever greater than its Capacity, Contestants in that room are in imminent risk of drowning; any Contestant (including the Host) may pull a Remaining Contestant in that room to safety, by making that Contestant an Evacuee. However, if at least one of the Remaining Contestants in that room has not been in it continuously for 24 hours (for the purposes of calculating this, being idle does not count as being in a room), then the Remaining Contestant who entered that room most recently must be chosen to pull to safety this way”

Darth used his luck to make his fruit roll a one, giving him a second action. He drowned DK and Comex this way as the indoor Garden has capacity 2 and only Rodlen was there. (even though the original idea was half DKs). Yuri had 2/3rds support, and so Darth welcomed him back in. Darth and Yuri headed to the control room, which also had capacity 2. Yuri moved Rodlen into the control room in the same manner. Only Neil, Darth and Yuri remained and Darth and Neil both supported Yuri.

And that, my friends, is truly a blognomic style victory. Thanks for helping Darth, thanks for help with the idea DK and good luck on your dynasty Yuri =)

Pressing my luck - Fruit picking

I got lucky and picked a caffeinated tangelo instead of a regular one.

Darth Cliche’s Fruit Picking

tangelo

Call for Judgment: Insiders cannot be outside

Passes 8-0. - Qwazukee

Adminned at 28 Jun 2009 20:39:35 UTC

No Insider may have Location value of “Outside” for any reason. If this CfJ passes, then all Insiders with the Location value of “Outside” immediately are returned to the Location value that they had immediately prior to being Outside.

The DoV was sort of a referendum on this, so I figured we should make it official.