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Excerpt |
Author |
Date |
Total Comments |
Recent Comment |
| Not Made of Moneytronium |
In Rule 2.4.4, replace “As a business action, a Production Corporation may produce one unit of Product, prefixed by any one-word adjective, unless that Corporation already owns a unit of Product prefixed by a different one-word adjective.” with:- As a business action, a Production Corporation may produce one unit of… |
Kevan |
09/02/10 |
2 |
09/02/10 |
| Planet Excess |
Making a post of this so that Glopso is aware that I’ve reverted the second action, but as I see it, Planet Express’s action of “switch to research, make learning materials, switch to exploration, make study pass, switch back to delivery” in the wiki history was illegal, since the ruleset… |
Kevan |
09/01/10 |
1 |
09/01/10 |
| Only One Pair of Manipulator Appendages |
In Rule 2.4.2, replace “and one member” with “and one other member”, throughout. |
Kevan |
09/01/10 |
10 |
09/02/10 |
| Downsizing Ray |
Rodney and Spitemaster idle out after seven days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 6. |
Kevan |
08/27/10 |
0 |
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| Customer Order: Stephen Hawking |
Professor Stephen Hawking is speaking at a historical reenactment symposium, and requires two units of Leisurewear Product (one jacket, one pair of trousers) and a Delivery Chit for his props. |
Kevan |
08/27/10 |
1 |
09/01/10 |
| Two to Beam Up |
Aeromark and Flurie automatically idle out, after seven and eight days of inactivity. Quorum drops to seven. |
Kevan |
08/26/10 |
0 |
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| Spammer update |
I’ve just checked in to see how the spammer situation is going these days, and it looks like ReCAPTCHA didn’t make any difference, and was actually letting through more spam accounts than before. Presumably this confirms that the main problem is human spammers who are being paid a few pennies… |
Kevan |
06/18/10 |
4 |
06/19/10 |
| Idle Hands |
I’ve just unidled and reidled, in order to process a couple of new player requests, one of which had been sitting there patiently for two days. Given that proposals have been timing out at three or four days recently, it might be time for some of the older players to… |
Kevan |
05/17/10 |
0 |
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| Idlings out |
With over a week of inactivity each, LordCooper, Ornithopter and Wakukee all time out and go idle. Coppro also goes idle as requested, and I think I’ll drop out myself. Quorum is now 12. |
Kevan |
05/14/10 |
0 |
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| Manifesto: Mornington Crescent |
May as well stick a poster up. Mornington Crescent is a fictional boardgame played on London’s iconic tube map; the Dynasty would, in some way or other, involve players moving around on that map, interacting with one another and spouting a lot of made-up jargon, until somebody finally managed to… |
Kevan |
04/28/10 |
7 |
05/02/10 |
| Decolonisation |
Neither Clucky nor Oracular Rufio have commented in the past week. They both fall idle, and quorum drops to seven. |
Kevan |
04/19/10 |
0 |
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| Running on Empty |
I go idle, quorum drops to six. |
Kevan |
03/29/10 |
0 |
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| Eat My Dust |
Lithophagist hasn’t posted or commented for over a week, and goes idle. Quorum drops to 7. |
Kevan |
03/25/10 |
0 |
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| Bombed Out |
Digibomber hasn’t commented in over a week, and goes idle. Quorum drops to 7. |
Kevan |
03/18/10 |
0 |
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| Put Out |
The player “Put” hasn’t commented since March the 9th, and goes idle. Quorum is unchanged. |
Kevan |
03/16/10 |
0 |
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| Idle overflow |
Pteriforever65536 and Yabbaguy haven’t commented in over a week, and go idle. Dbdougla also idles as requested. Quorum drops to 9. |
Kevan |
03/12/10 |
0 |
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| Winding Down |
Neither Hix nor Zauper has commented in the past week; they both idle out. Quorum drops to 11. |
Kevan |
03/11/10 |
0 |
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| Idlings |
Neither Hellzapoppin, Flurie, NoOneImportant nor Thrawn has commented or posted in the past week. They all go idle, and quorum drops to 13. |
Kevan |
03/09/10 |
0 |
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| BlogNomic downtime |
Just a short post to note that the BlogNomic server was unavailable from around 11am until 2pm (GMT) on Sunday, which means any proposals pending during that time weren’t “open for voting” for three hours, so won’t time out until they’re 51 hours old. |
Kevan |
03/07/10 |
0 |
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| The Police Arrive |
As a pale glow begins to light the sky over the village, a black police van pulls up in the driveway of Cartlesham Manor. Four uniformed officers step out onto the gravel, and spring up the front steps to the heavy double doors, which the Apothecary opens for them. One… |
Kevan |
02/25/10 |
11 |
02/26/10 |
| Still an Idle Stranger |
Wakukee hasn’t posted or commented for another full week, and is idle again. Quorum drops to 14. |
Kevan |
02/24/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
Thunder rumbles over the hills, and it starts to rain heavily, water pouring over the crumbling slate of the rooftops. Lightning strikes an outlying turret of Cartlesham Manor, and the rooms and corridors fall dark. As the cold and damp permeates the building and the wooden floorboards groan, the door… |
Kevan |
02/24/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
Struggling to shift the fallen bookcase away from the door, the guests in the Master Bedroom inadvertently lean it back against the polished-brass stem of a light fitting, which bends and snaps. There is a bright flash, and the fuses blow. Trailing a few embers, the bookshelf tilts back against… |
Kevan |
02/23/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Master Bedroom blocked |
There are further explosions from the deathtrap that is Cartlesham Manor kitchen. There is a whistling, whipping sound as the rope snaps in one of the dumbwaiters, sending a counterweight into the basement and a forgotten tureen of lobster bisque hurtling up through the walls of the house. It crashes… |
Kevan |
02/22/10 |
2 |
02/22/10 |
| Dust to Dust |
There the Housewife hasn’t commented since February 12th, and goes idle. Quorum drops to 14. Also, the GNDT cookie problem is now fixed and we’re back to the default voting icons. |
Kevan |
02/22/10 |
2 |
02/22/10 |
| Incident: Lights Out |
Something started whirring and grinding in the kitchen when the lights came back on, and whatever it was has just burst into flame, scattering broken glass and blowing the lights in the process. The kitchen cannot be entered for 24 hours. |
Kevan |
02/21/10 |
0 |
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| The Big Sleep |
The missing chauffeur Truman Capote hasn’t made a comment since the 12th of February, and is now idle. |
Kevan |
02/20/10 |
0 |
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| The Lights Remain Off |
The house is quiet, the lights remain off. In the darkness, the Housewife crashes into an ornament-heavy occasional table and injures herself, the Gangster cracks his head on a bookshelf and begins to feel a little woozy, and the injured Inventor collapses onto a carpet somewhere, drifting off to a… |
Kevan |
02/18/10 |
2 |
02/18/10 |
| Idle Stranger |
Wakukee hasn’t posted or commented since February 8th, and idles out. The front door slams. Quorum drops to 13. |
Kevan |
02/16/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
Disastrous things continue to unfold in the empty kitchen. Unseen by the guests, a slowly spreading pool of golden syrup drips over the edge of the marble worktop, and begins to patter into an empty and misplaced power socket. Across the manor, the lights go out. |
Kevan |
02/15/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Basement Blocked |
There is a drawn-out creak as the basement trapdoor swings slowly shut of its own accord. With a click, the basement cannot be left or entered for 24 hours. |
Kevan |
02/14/10 |
1 |
02/14/10 |
| Incident: Attic Blocked |
Closing a trapdoor to sketch the final curve of a chalk circle across the floorboards, the Spiritualist inadvertently traps himself in the dusty attic of the mansion. The attic cannot be entered or exited for 24 hours. |
Kevan |
02/12/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Kitchen Blocked |
Another shelf collapses in the kitchen, and a dozen two-kilo cans of corned beef and powdered milk roll loudly across the work surface, clattering into a dented pile in front of the main door. Nausved, who was leaning on the other side of the door at the time, is naturally… |
Kevan |
02/11/10 |
4 |
02/12/10 |
| Miraculous escape |
Looks like I mixed up the Dark Lists when they got split over three days; Digibomber was actually hiding in the Bathroom at the time of the murder, and so escaped his fate. (This doesn’t affect anything Put may or may not have seen, as a Murder attempt is glimpsed… |
Kevan |
02/11/10 |
6 |
02/11/10 |
| Still dark |
The manor has fallen eerily quiet, the silence broken only the whistling of the wind and the occasional cry of a distant owl. (Under Rule 2.6, I have received no Dark Lists in the past 24 hours, and we are now into another phase of the Lights being Off.) |
Kevan |
02/08/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
The wind howls, and somewhere in the gardens of Cartlesham Manor, an oak branch drops clean through the cables of the gazebo lighting. As the ancient wiring sparks and burns through, the entire house is plunged into darkness. In the stumbling confusion, a chaise longue in the library becomes wedged… |
Kevan |
02/06/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Master Bedroom locked |
Something unexpected has gotten into the workings of the pipe mail system. One of the intake pipes above the door to the master bedroom becomes jammed, and small brass rivets pop onto the carpet. With a creak, the wire guttering splits in two, one half blocking the only door in… |
Kevan |
02/05/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
Pressing what they mistakenly believe to be a switch for a reading lamp in the parlour, a guest inadvertently activates the room’s security system. The doors click shut, and the entire house is plunged into darkness. (Guests cannot enter or leave the Parlour for 24 hours.) |
Kevan |
02/04/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
Idling picking at the wood of the mantlepiece with his straight-edged razor, the Gangster inadvertently shaves the insulation from a lighting cable. He crumples onto the hearth rug, stunned, as the lights fail. |
Kevan |
02/02/10 |
2 |
02/03/10 |
| Incident: Lights Out |
Leaning on a wall to steady himself, the chaffeur inadvertently catches his sleeve on a loose cable connector, and stumbles to the floor. He takes the wire with him, ripping a dusty trail through the plasterboard towards the top of the stairs. With a thunk, it pulls away a doorstop… |
Kevan |
01/31/10 |
1 |
01/31/10 |
| Incident: Attic Blocked |
There is a thump from the attic as a tea chest falls from a precarious pile, blocking the single trapdoor entrance for 24 hours. Unrelatedly, the fusebox cable that the chauffeur was leaning on happens to spark for a moment, delivering a mild electric shock and flooding the basement with… |
Kevan |
01/31/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
Perhaps someone lifted the wrong book from the shelf, perhaps the manor’s hidden security systems have become damaged by the storm, but for some reason the library doors have just sealed themselves shut, and the lights have gone out across all floors. The Library may not be entered or exited… |
Kevan |
01/30/10 |
1 |
01/30/10 |
| Incident: Rain and Terror |
A storm is gathering outside, and the French windows in the lounge crash open, rain and wind pouring in. The only door to the lounge swings shut and locks itself, and Roujo - who was in the armchair next to it in the study - leaps out to his feet… |
Kevan |
01/29/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
In the second-floor bathroom, wind rustles the net curtains and a forgotten electric razor slips from the mirrored shelf, dropping with a flash into soapy water. A towel rack falls against the door, wedging firmly under the handle. Lights are off, and the Bathroom can’t be entered for the next… |
Kevan |
01/27/10 |
1 |
01/28/10 |
| Dark Lists |
Just a reminder to players that Dark Lists must explicitly be submitted via email, under Rule 2.6 (“a non-Dormant Guest may email the Executor with a list of at most five Dark Actions [...] if the Executor has any unprocessed Dark Lists in his email inbox”). Those sent as private… |
Kevan |
01/27/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: Lights Out |
A loose lighting cable knocked half out of its socket by the stumbling gardener finally sparks and burns through, plunging the attic and every other room into darkness. |
Kevan |
01/26/10 |
2 |
01/27/10 |
| Incident: A Thump in the Attic |
Stumbling through the cobwebs and dusty crates of the attic, the Gardener has cracked his head on a low beam and knocked himself unconscious. |
Kevan |
01/25/10 |
2 |
01/25/10 |
| Incident: Lights Out |
Thunder rumbles, and the rusting electrics of Cartlesham Manor begin to buzz and hum. With a short series of popping sounds, the lights fail and the rooms and corridors are once more plunged into darkness. |
Kevan |
01/24/10 |
0 |
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| Incident: The Lights Go Out |
A metallic burning smell fills the air, and a stained-glass tablelamp flares up and flashes bright sparks. Across the house, the lights go out, and a phonograph slows and slurs into silence. |
Kevan |
01/22/10 |
4 |
01/22/10 |
| Incident: Another Phonecall |
The phone in the parlour is ringing insistently. |
Kevan |
01/20/10 |
1 |
01/20/10 |