Friday, November 03, 2006

Proposal Drafts

(Edited to include one more Proposal)

Fellow students, I’d be glad if you could review the following texts. I’d not be jealous if someone else cared to publish them.

Yours sincerely,

Chronos

Proposal: Configurations
If the Rule “Astronomical Events” does not exist, this Proposal does nothing.

In the Rule “Astronomical Events” group all current wording into a Sub-Rule named “Aspects”.

Add a Sub-Rule “Configurations”:

At any time, if more than two Planets are in Conjunction to each other, they are said to form a Stellium.

At any time, if three or more Planets are all in Quadrature and/Or Opposition to each other, and they are at exactly 3 different Signs, they are said to form a T-Square.

At any time, if four or more Planets are all in Quadrature and/Or Opposition to each other, and they are at exactly 4 different Signs, they are said to form a Grand Cross.

At any time, if three or more Planets are all in Trine to each other, and they are at exactly 3 different Signs, they are said to form a Grand Trine.


Proposal: Tomes

Add a Rule “Eldritch Tomes”:

Listed under this rule are Eldritch Tomes which copies may be possessed by a Student. The Tomes copies possessed by a Student are tracked in the GNDT, under the field “Tomes”. New Students start with no Tomes, which is signaled by a “-“ in the GNDT.

A Tome may list a set of Spells that may be cast by the Student that possesses it. Each Spell may list a set of circumstances that must be true so such Spell can be cast and must list a set of consequences of casting such Spell.

A Tome may list a “(X Copies)” entry after its name, where “X” is the max number of Students that may possess copies of that Tome at a said time. If no such an entry is listed, no more than one Students may possess a copy of that Tome at a said time.

Add a Sub-Rule “Tomes” to the rule “Eldritch Tomes”:

* Tome: Unaussprechlichen Kulten (3 Copies)
** Spell: To call forth the Gods of Darkness
** Circumstances: This Spell may be cast often while the Moon and the Sun are in Conjunction,
** Consequences: The Student casting this Spell loses 1 point of Sanity. E is allowed to post, in the next 2 hours after the Casting, one extra proposal over the limits set by Rule 1.3.

If more than half of all comments containing counted votes also contain the text “Unitalicize”, unitalicize the italicized text above.

Create a GNDT field “Tomes”. Set all Students Tomes to “-“.


Proposal: Permutations

If the Rule “Signs” does not exist, this Proposal does nothing.

In the Rule “Planets”, rewrite the list of Planets so it reads:

* Moon (P)  - Cancer
* Mercury (P) - Gemini, Virgo
* Venus (P) – Taurus, Libra
* Sun (P) - Leo
* Mars (P) – Aries, Scorpio
* Jupiter (T) – Sagittarius, Pisces
* Saturn (T) – Capricorn, Aquarius
* Uranus (G) - Aquarius
* Neptune (G) - Pisces
* Pluto (G) - Scorpio
* Eris (G) - Libra

Add to the end of the “Planets” rule:

A Planet may be Regent to one or more Signs. The Signs each Planet is Regent of are listed after their name in the list above.

When a Planet is in a Sign it’s Regent of, it’s said to be Dignified. When a Planet is in a Sign Opposite to one it’s Regent of, it’s said to be in Detriment.

If 2 Planets are each in a Sign the other is Regent of, those 2 Planets are said to be in Mutual Reception.

Venus and Jupiter are said to be Benefic Planets, respectively the Lesser and the Greater Benefic. Mars and Saturn are said to be Malefic Planets, respectively the Lesser and the Greater Malefic.

Comments

Hix:

03-11-2006 18:58:43 UTC

Actually, I was thinking about completely rephrasing the Quadrature and Trine definitions in terms of the 4 Zodiac Elements (fire, earth, air, water (Starting at Aries and repeating)) and the 3 Zodiac Qualities (cardinal, fixed, mutable (Starting at Aries and repeating)).  So that, for example, two planets are Trine to each other if they are in distinct signs of the same element.  If I do that, I might as well include definitions of “T-square”, “Grand Cross”, and “Grand Trine”, too.

ChronosPhaenon:

03-11-2006 19:01:49 UTC

Though I’d vote FOR that change, I refrained from it ‘cos of excessive complexity.

Hix:

03-11-2006 22:25:09 UTC

Yeah, it would have been excessively complex.  I decided to introduce the Elements and Qualities, but keep them out of the definitions of the aspects and configurations.