Cheap tallow candles in a high garret room. A few handfuls of small gold and silver coins are scattered across the wooden table, meagre spoils from a long night’s work through the city’s winding streets and unsecured doors. With lowered but insistent voices, a group are pushing the coins around the table, occasionally gesturing to marks and crosses on a map of the city, and dividing up their takings.

The group look up as the door bangs open, one of them instinctively snatching up and folding away the map, but it is only the last of their number returning.

The newcomer strides up to the table and throws a few more coins down, before holding a dark gemstone up against the candlelight. When the map holder gestures for this to also be added to the table, the new arrival holds out his other arm, the sleeve of which is ragged and bloody with the marks of a guard dog’s teeth. As the group tilt their heads and glance at each other, the holder of the stone closes his fist around it.

The term “Seeker” becomes “Thief” and “Observer” becomes “City”. The Public Tracking page becomes “The Garret”. The Building Block “Mantle Limiations” is activated.

My declared Imperial Style is Gardener/Protective/Powerhouse/Scam-Neutral/Guarded/Methodical.

Post-dynastic washup thread.

With 4 Awards I have achieved victory. My Private Criteria and their salts were, in chronological order:

“Satisfies the text of my 1st secret key. 512”, “Satisfies the text of my 2nd secret key. 104”, “Satisfies the text of my 3rd secret key. 826”, “Satisfies the text of my 4th secret key. 912”, “Satisfies the text of my 5th secret key. 783”, “Satisfies the text of my 2nd secret key. 953”, “Satisfies the text of my 5th secret key. 173”, “Satisfies the text of my 54th secret key. 511”, “Satisfies the text of my 29th secret key. 451”, “Satisfies the text of my 386th secret key. 613”, “Satisfies the text of my 853rd secret key. 271”, “Satisfies the text of my 3716th secret key. 523”, “Satisfies the text of my 3727th secret key. 124”, “Satisfies the text of my 1731st secret key. 436”, “Satisfies the text of my 7510th secret key. 415”, “Satisfies the text of my 9264th secret key. 774”, “Doesn’t contain a Mornington Crescent mug. 523”, “Doesn’t contain a Mornington Crescent mug. 124”, “Doesn’t contain a Mornington Crescent mug. 436”, “Doesn’t contain a Mornington Crescent mug. 415”, “Doesn’t contain a Mornington Crescent mug. 774”, “Doesn’t contain Bank tube station. 126”, “Doesn’t contain Euston tube station. 361”, “Doesn’t contain Morden tube station. 751”, “Doesn’t contain Chalk Farm tube station. 925”, “Doesn’t contain Balham tube station. 651”, “Contains a liftable manmade object. bkf”, “Neither the sky nor the sea is visible. wh6”, “Contains a painted surface (but not blue). dha”, “Contains something brown and/or striped. i8y”, “Camera is clearly angled downwards. kxj”, “Contains a tree, twig or playing card. g9q”, “Contains glass or clear plastic. ba8”, “Contains a crisp shadow or clear reflection. ba9”, “Contains an object at least 50m away. 6nj”, “Player name is neither horizontal nor red. 86h”

I claim the Conceptual Balance award: at this point on 22 April I had a Criteria at 4/4, from snaps 29 through 36.

I think I will make an extraordinarily unlikely but somewhat topical guess:

Kevan is one of your criteria:

snap contains water?

In the rule “Guesses” replace the text “Make a story post to the blog clearly declaring the name of the Targeted Seeker, and what the guesser thinks one of their Private Criteria are” with this text:

Make a story post to the blog containing each the following items: the name of the Targeted Seeker, text that uniquely identifies a single existing Authentic Shot posted within the last 48 hours where the Targeted Seeker has not yet responded to that post and the guesser is not the author of that post, and a number between 1 and 4 inclusive that the guesser thinks is the number of Private Criteria that the named Authentic Shot will satisfy for the Targeted Seeker.

In the same rule, replace the steps for the atomic action Resolving the Guess with the following steps:

* If the number mentioned in the guess is the same as the number of Private Criteria that is satisfied for the Targeted Seeker for that Authentic Shot, respond to the post with a , reduce their own Score by the Exposure of each of the Private Criteria that is satisfied by that Authentic Shot, and increase the score of the Guesser by the same amount, and then remove each of that Private Criteria from the Target’s private criteria list (resetting its satisfying and unsatisfying counts to zero in the process)
* If the guess is not the same as the number of Private Criteria that is satisfied for the Targeted Seeker for that Authentic Shot, respond to the post with a

In Criteria, replace “Private criteria may only refer to and be verified by the contents of the shot. Private criteria may not refer to things such as the date, other criteria, the contents of other documents or the thoughts, opinions or feelings of any Seeker.” with:

Private criteria may only refer to and be verified by the contents of the shot. Private criteria may not refer to things such as the date, other criteria, the contents of other documents or the thoughts, opinions or feelings of any Seeker. Private criteria may not use the conjunctions “and”, “or”, “and/or”, “nor” to combine multiple shot conditions.

As it has been 48 hours, I now have a Personal Criteria of Bird.

As it has been 48 hours, I now have a Personal Criteria of Bird.

I believe that Snap 037 Bounty meets the upgrade benchmark for:

“A Snap, posted after 19 April, to which the Observer has responded saying that he finds it aesthetically pleasing”

Grant all players who comment or vote on this proposal 5 score for participation

JonathanDark will act as Xebec’s mentor.

I claim the “Grand Prix in Advertising Photography” for guessing another Seeker’s Criterion.

With more than 200 Score I claim “Fine Art Photographer of the Year”.

I refresh my Criterion of “Camera is clearly angled downwards. kxj” (80494b98cac922f620f8a26ed125439706f8aafeb8576017f95822c0faa712f0)

Hopefully my last criteria reset for a bit:

Contains the username Kevan or Josh
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Changing my 3rd and 5th Private Criteria (4th was reset due to Kevan’s correct Guess):

Contains an even number of letters on paper
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Contains something blue
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For real this time: I claim Conceptual Balance due to my 1st Private Criteria which has a Satisfying score of 4 and an Unsatisfying score of 4, where those scores were obtained from 8 contiguous Authentic Shots all taken after 8 April 2024

Hi BlogNomic, I’m Xebec, I would like to become a player.

handle on discord is @radioactivecauliflowerstew. Got here from Infinite Nomic, my name on there is “google” (using something slightly less confusing for here but on second thoughts having two different names might be more confusing). Anyway, hello. Looking forward to meet everyone.

I guess that one of Jonathan Dark’s Private Criteria is that the photo must contain some water.

I claim the Conceptual Balance award for my 5th Private Criteria which has a Satisfying score of 4 and an Unsatisfying score of 4, where those scores were obtained from 8 contiguous Authentic Shots all taken after 8 April 2024

Claimed too soon, please ignore.

(Snap removed because it was taken too soon. I need to wait until April 22 UTC.)

Changing my second criteria:

Contains the sky at night
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I nominate myself for a Personal Criteria.