If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret,”

I think I’m slowing the game down quite a bit right now, and I don’t think I’ll be able to speed up my actions much, so I am hereby requesting to be idled.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Scoring”. Call it Authorized Secrets and give it the following text:

Although the author of a Scoring is generally encouraged to share the reasoning behind it, the following information is expressly exempt from such disclosure and should not be shared in a Scoring even if it strongly affects the score:
* The identity of their Rival
* Any Wordsmith’s Favorites
* The true author of a Backronym in a Secret Round

Add the following as a new paragraph in the rule “Favorites”

As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may remove a word from their Favorites.

In the rule Acronym, change

Set the current Acrotype to a publicly randomly selected Acrotype. Repeat this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.
Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.

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Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Arcotype, ignoring the result and repeating this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.

In “The Threshold”, remove the definition of the Finalize action, and replace “Final Acronym” with “Endgame Acronym”.

In “Acronym”, replace “If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action” with:-

If the state of the blog is Endgame and a single Wordsmith has more points than any other Wordsmith (ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons), skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory

Replace “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

In the rule “Acronym”, replace the text “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold”.

In the rule “Scoring”, move the text “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame” to just after the text “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym”.

Add a subrule to “Acronym” called “Nicknames” with the following text

Each Wordsmith may have a Nickname. Nicknames are publicly tracked strings that are between 3 and 10 letters long and consist only of alphabetical letters. If the only thing a proposal does is change the nickname of the wordsmith who is the author of that proposal, such a proposal does not count against that author’s limit of 2 pending proposals and may be enacted at any time provided it still has a quorum of FOR votes

Replace steps of the the “Names” Acrotype with the following

* For the purposes of the rest of these steps, if a Wordsmith has a Nickname their Name is considered to be their Nickname rather than their actual Name
* Create a set containing the names of all active Wordsmiths.
* In that set, remove the name of any Wordsmith selected in a Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names” this dynasty (unless this would remove all Wordsmiths, in which case skip this step)
* Publicly randomly select a Wordsmith’s name from that set.
* Set the Acronym to that Wordsmith’s name, with any characters other than alphabetical letters removed and with it trimmed to only its first 10 letters if it would otherwise be more than 10 letters long

In the rule “Backronym”, after the text “The author of such a Backronym is privately tracked by the Puzzler, and the Backronym is instead posted under the name of the Puzzler.” add the following text:

If the Acrotype is Secret, the Puzzler may also create and post a Backronym for which they themselves are the author.

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following as the second step in Resolving a Backronym:

* If the original author of that Backronym was the Puzzler, skip to the step that begins with the text “Post a comment”.

and in the same rule, before the text “For each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword” add the text “If the original author of that Backronym is not the Puzzler,”

Give the following Wordsmiths 1 point each:

Bucky
Trapdoorspyder
Josh

In “Rules and Votable Matters” in the Appendix, replace

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal. Votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Wordsmiths on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid, but the Wordsmiths who made them still contribute to quorum

with

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they (and any other Wordsmiths who have voted DEFERENTIAL on it) are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal.

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points” with

for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 2 to that Wordsmith’s Points

and in that same rule, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each word in that Backronym author’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that author’s Points and remove that word from that author’s Favorites.

In the rule Scoring, after

Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym, rounded down to the nearest integer, and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym.

add the sentence:

If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead.

If the ruleset contains the text

At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

add the following text after it:

For this calculation, the mean average of an empty collection is considered to be 2.15.

Append the following to the end of the subrule “buzzwords”:

If any of the Buzzwords are contained in the Word Bank, the Puzzler may remove them from the Buzzword list.

In the rule “Backronym”, change

The words “a”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the”

to

The words “a”, “an”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the”

Add a dynastic rule called “The Threshold”

The Threshold is equal to the median point total of all Wordsmiths minus 20

The blog may or not be in a state of Endgame, and by default is not in a state of Endgame. The state of the blog is publicly tracked.

When the state of the blog is Endgame, then only Wordsmiths whose names are listed in the Endgame Wordsmiths list are considered Wordsmiths for the purposes of dynastic rules.

Endgame Transition is a Dynastic Action with the following steps:

* Add all current Wordsmiths to the Endgame Wordsmith list.
* Set the Acrotype to be Secret
* Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.
* Set the Prompt to “Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty”
* Set the state of the blog to be Endgame
* Set every Wordsmith’s Status to Playing.
* Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Final Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.

Finalize is a Dynastic Action with the following steps:

* If a single Wordsmith has more points than any other wordsmith, ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons, that Wordsmith has achieved victory
* If multiple Wordsmiths have tied for the most points out of all Wordsmiths, again ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons, publicly randomly select a Wordsmith out of those who have tied for the most points. That Wordsmith has achieved Victory
* In either case, make a post to the blog naming the Wordsmith who ahs achieved Victory

In “Resolving a Backronym” after “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym” add “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame”

Add the following steps to the start of “Acrogenerate”

* If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action
* If the Threshold is at least 1, Roll a DICE20. If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold cease performing the rest of this action and instead perform the Endgame Transition action

If there is a rule called “Proposalnym” then in it replace “As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.” with

A Wordsmith’s EVC on a Proposalnym should contain the word “Valid” if that Wordsmith believes the content of the proposal fits the title that was given to it.

When a Proposalnym is resolved, if a quorum of the EVCs made by Wordsmiths other than the Proposal’s author contain the word “Valid”, then the Proposal’s author gains 1 point; unless the author already gained a point from this method for the same Backronym in which case the author does not gain any points. 

The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.

In the rule “Relationships”, add a subrule named “Accusations” with the following text:

An Accusation is a Story Post where the title begins with the text “I accuse” followed by the name of a Wordsmith and no other text following that name. The author of an Accusation is known as the Prosecutor of that Accusation. The name of the Wordsmith in the title of an Accusation is known as the Defendant of that Accusation. As a Round Action, a Wordsmith may post an Accusation. An Accusation is either Open or Closed and defaults to Open.

At their earliest convenience, the Puzzler should perform a Ruling on the oldest Open Accusation. A Ruling is an atomic action with the following steps, where the terms Prosecutor and Defendant apply to that Accusation on which the Ruling is being performed:
* If that Prosecutor was named as that Defendant’s Rival at the time and date of the posting of that Accusation:
** That Prosecutor gains 1 Point.
** That Prosecutor is removed from that Defendant’s Rival.
** The Puzzler must post a comment to that Accusation with the text “X is guilty” where X is that Defendent.
* If that Prosecutor was not named as that Defendant’s Rival at the time and date of the posting of that Accusation:
** That Prosecutor loses 3 Points, to a minimum of 0.
** The Puzzler must post a comment to that Accusation with the text “X is innocent” where X is that Defendent.

After a Ruling has been performed on an Accusation, that Accusation is Closed.

If you suspect that someone named you as their Rival, you could accuse them and stop being their Rival, but if you’re wrong, you’ll pay a penalty. The Points gain is not as large as the loss because of the strategic value of removing yourself as their Rival.

My intention is not to weaken the Rivals mechanic but to add an extra layer on it, but I’m open to arguments that it goes too far.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, galled Generosity in Marking:

Each Wordsmith has a Generosity, which is a score between 1 and 5 and which is derived from their own Scorings on other players’ Backronyms. At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

Any Wordsmith whose Generosity is in the lowest quarter of Generosity values of all Wordsmiths may neither achieve nor declare Victory.

Enact a new rule, positioned after “Backronym”, called “Proposalnym”:-

If a Proposal has a title (not including the “Proposal:” prefix) that would be a valid title for a Backronym made at the moment of its posting, then it is a Proposalnym.

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.

Repeal the rule “Relationships”.

Remove ” or that Wordsmith’s Rival” and “, or X+2 if the Scoring was made by the Backronym author’s Rival, unless X was a 1, in which case record it as the number of Wordsmiths for whom the author of that Backronym is named as their Rival” from the rule “Scoring”.

Add a new rule named “Favorites” with the following text:

Each Wordsmith has Favorites privately tracked by the Puzzler. Favorites are either empty or a list of 1 to 5 words, defaulting to empty. As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may add words to their Favorites, up to the maximum words allowed, as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria:
* The first letter of that word is not one of the letters in the current Acronym
* That word is not in the Word Bank
* That word is not one of the Filler Words

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each Wordsmith who is not the author of that Backronym, for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

In the rule “Acronym”, after the text “Set the current Acrotype to a publicly randomly selected Acrotype.” add the text “Repeat this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.”

If the rule “Backronym” contains the text

The words “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the” are known as the Filler Words.

change it to

The words “a”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the” are known as the Filler Words.

In “Backronym”, add a paragraph after the first:-

The words “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the” are known as the Filler Words. If a Filler Word appears in the title of a Story Post in lower case, then it is not considered to be a word for the purposes of matching that title to an Acronym, or counting the number of words in that title.

In the rule “Relationships”, replace “No more than twice per dynasty, each Wordsmith may change their Rival to the name of another Wordsmith, by notifying the Puzzler” with the following:

No more than twice per dynasty, as a Virtual Action each Wordsmith may change their Rival to the name of another Wordsmith

In the same rule, at the end of the first paragraph, add the following text:

At any time, as a Virtual Action a Wordsmith may set their Rival to be no Rival.

In the dynastic rule “Scoring”, change

Wordsmiths are strongly encouraged to include the reasons why they chose the number that they did in their Scoring unless it’s on their Rival’s Backronym. A Scoring should reflect how much the commenter likes the Backronym (or the fact that it’s their Rival’s Backronym), and how well they think it fits the Prompt (if the Prompt is not blank).

Add a new rule named “Secret Messages” with the following text:

As a Daily Virtual Action called a Secret Message, a Wordsmith may request a message of no more than 50 words and no more than 300 characters to be sent anonymously through the Puzzler to another Wordsmith. When resolving this request, the Puzzler must privately send the message verbatim to the intended recipient, along with an indication that this is a Secret Message.

To “Relationships”, add a paragraph:-

As a virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may Accuse another Wordsmith of rivalrous thoughts towards them: if the Accused has the Accuser as their Rival, the Accused loses 3 points and stops having a Rival; otherwise the Accuser loses 3 points. When points are lost in this way the Puzzler should make a blog post announcing this.