Saturday, May 20, 2017

Story Post: The Closing Ceremony

... The dark red sky was unstable. Hyphenicus swirled around it in a cloud of dark ink. Marinja loomed over the horizon, her Bloggsball prowess distorting her form into a mockery of humanity. Three teams still remained to take each other on the Final Bowl. But as soon as it finished, our most recent Bloggsball Universe’s field of pure Bloggsball energy collapsed in the blink of an eye. That’s the story of how it happened, O Commissioner of Commissioners.

The Ur-Commissioner was not pleased with how the assistant’s story finished. “Surely”, the Ur-Commissioner’s voice boomed, “with such Bloggsball power, this Universe was able to achieve at least one measly Merit.”

“I’m afraid not. Not even a thousandth of a Merit came from this one.”

“Terrible. Well, how much did they get?”

The Ur-Commissioner’s assistant reported:

卍 Turbines of Nihilism 卍 versus Zahndorf Cubs: 4 to 9
♠ Aces and Eights ♠ versus Zahndorf Cubs: 2 to 11 (Using the first rolls, of 19/05 18:33 in the GNDT, as per the text added by “Unscammy Final Bowl”)
♠ Aces and Eights ♠ versus 卍 Turbines of Nihilism 卍: 8 to 5

Zahndorf Cubs have 9+11 = 20 Final Points.
♠ Aces and Eights ♠ have 2+8 = 10 Final Points
卍 Turbines of Nihilism 卍 have 4 + 5 = 9 Final Points.
?THE HOSTS? have 52 Final Points.

Merit:
Sphinx 6993 nanoMerit
Cuddlebeam 6500 nanoMerit
card 3915 nanoMerit
Matt 900 nanoMerit

“Well, should we try something else?”

Comments

Oracular rufio:

20-05-2017 17:16:13 UTC

You told me that the final bowl was ready once you idled PSS.  So why did you wait for Unscammy Final Bowl to pass before doing this if you didn’t want to “do something scammy” to interfere with the results?  Because you did interfere, twice, once when you idled PSS, and once when you waited to pass Unscammy Final Bowl.  How can you claim you did what you did for the sake of neutrality?

Oracular rufio:

20-05-2017 17:16:45 UTC

Not that I am unhappy with this result.  Cuddlebeam is idle, that’s the best thing that could have happened here.

Madrid:

20-05-2017 17:19:50 UTC

Oh whoops lol. Oh well, I’ll unidle in a few I guess.

Madrid:

20-05-2017 17:28:54 UTC

I think it’s alright. It was basically in the Emperor’s hands whether I won or Sphinx won at that point, and in the end, “winning” is just a line of text on a cool site.

I believe that we’ve all “won” on our own fronts here, so in the end, I think it’s all OK.

I’m glad with how the Dynasty has turned out.

...Except for the part where it kinda took too long lol, which I guess can be improved (along more stuff) with improvements to Combo and similar mechanics. But its minor and solvable.

Oracular rufio:

20-05-2017 17:29:24 UTC

Nope, your request is still valid, an admin can still idle you.  Also, you can’t request to be unidled if you’ve requested to be idled in the past four days.

Madrid:

20-05-2017 17:29:56 UTC

Yes, definitely.

pokes:

20-05-2017 17:30:16 UTC

@Oracular rufio: Waiting for Unscammy Final Bowl was, I think, ultimately faster. If I did the closing ceremony right away, and then Unscammy Final Bowl gets enacted, then the Merit totals posted in the earlier closing ceremony are invalid, and that means yet another CfJ to sort out.

Oracular rufio:

20-05-2017 17:32:40 UTC

Ahh, ok, I see.

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they

20-05-2017 18:50:24 UTC

I request to be unidled as soon as possible.

Oracular rufio:

20-05-2017 18:55:12 UTC

It doesn’t work like that.  You can only be unidled if you’ve asked in the past four days and you haven’t gone idle in the past four days.  There is no time when that will be true with just that statement.  You’ll have to wait four days and ask again.

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they

20-05-2017 19:09:00 UTC

Four days from when?

Oracular rufio:

20-05-2017 19:20:03 UTC

From when you were idled.