In the rule entitled Collections, change the text “Artefacts in Collections are never considered to share a Location with any other Individuals or Artefacts” to read

Artefacts in Collections are never considered to share a Location with any other Individuals or Artefacts, except those Artefacts which are in the same Collection.

To the end of the same rule, add the following:

If an Individual ever ceases to be a Collector then all of the Artefacts in their Collection have their Locations set to Public Places at random.

In the rule entitled Collections, change the text “Artefacts in Collections are never considered to share a Location with any other Individuals or Artefacts” to read

Artefacts in Collections are never considered to share a Location with any other Individuals or Artefacts, except those Artefacts which are in the same Collection.

To the end of the same rule, add the following:

If an Individual ever ceases to be a Collector then all of the Artefacts in their Collection have their Locations set to Public Places at random.

In “Locating Artefacts”, replace “any Individual may” with “any Individual (or the Director) may”.

Add to Attainment:

The first Individual to be the sole Individual who has the most Attainment past the 5th of Feburary 2020 at 12:00 UTC has achieved victory.

Enact a new rule, “Institute Proposals”:-

If a proposal has the “[Institute]” tag and its effects are confined to one or more of the Agenda Points below, it is an Institute Proposal.

Agenda Points are:-
* Making an Outsider into a Researcher, or vice versa
* Moving an Artefact from the Institute or from a Researcher to the Containment Facility
* Moving an Artefact from the Containment Facility to the Institute or to a Researcher. (This is a High-Risk Agenda Point.)
* Setting the Protocol of an Artefact to “None”
* Setting the Protocol of an Artefact to be the same as the Protocol of another Artefact

Votes from Outsiders and Collectors are ignored, on Institute Proposals. An Institute Proposal with no High-Risk Agenda Points is considered Popular if more than half of the Researchers are voting FOR it. An Institute Proposal with one or more High-Risk Agenda Points is considered Popular if three or more Researchers are voting FOR it. An Institute Proposal is considered Unpopular if at least half of the Researchers are voting AGAINST it.

Replace “A Researcher may not pick up an Artefact in the Containment Facility” and everything after it in the Containment rule with:-

A Researcher may not pick up an Artefact in the Containment Facility, unless they are carrying the Security Pass.

Remove “An Outsider may become a Researcher if fewer than a Quorum of Individuals are Researchers.” from the ruleset.

Add the following as subrules to the rule entitled Artefacts:

Red Notice

Description: A piece of taupe paper implausibly bearing the words “Red Notice” on top. It is signed by the Director but anything written above the signature disappears after a few seconds.
Location: The Containment Facility.
Protocol: To not use this artefact.
Effect: As a daily action, the Individual carrying this Artefact may Focus to Inscribe. When an Individual Inscribes, they must write a string of text (the Inscription) in a comment on the dice roller tool, and then randomly select from all existing artefacts. The selected artefact then has its Protocol changed to the Inscription.

The Sheriff’s Badge

Description: A tin replica of a sheriff’s badge, likely from a children’s playset. A bit dented but still very shiny.
Location: Unknown
Protocol: This artefact may not be allowed to remain in a Public Location for more than 72 consecutive hours.
Effect: The Individual carrying this Artefact may Focus to set their Pursuit to Enforcer. An Enforcer is not a Researcher or Collector for the purposes of any rule. An Enforcer cannot Focus. An Enforcer may Travel to Secure Locations as if they were a Researcher. As a Weekly Action, an Enforcer may take 2 ☣️ Damage to pick up 1 Artefact in the Containment Facility or 1 Artefact in the Collection of a Collector in the same Location as them. Whenever this Action is taken, the Sheriff’s Badge has its location set to Unknown and the Enforce who used it has their Pursuit set to Outsider.

Sticky Taffy

Description: A block of taffy that is extraordinarily sticky, but can’t be wrapped: any attempt to contain it in paper or plastic fails as it simply sloughs off the material.
Location: The Institute
Protocol: [REDACTED}
Effect: As a Daily Action, the Individual carrying the Sticky Taffy can Focus to Stick the Taffy. When an Individual Sticks the Taffy they must immediately Travel to a location, ensuring that the comment field in the wiki changelog contains the words “Sticking the Taffy”. For the subsequent 72 hours the source and destination locations are considered to be the same location for all dynastic rules.

Replace “If an Artefact’s Location is the Containment Facility, then its Effect is considered to be blank.” with:-

If an Artefact’s Location is the Containment Facility, then its Effect is considered to be flavour text.

Replace “sentence is considered to be a blank string with no effect for all purposes except those outlined in this rule” with:-

sentence is considered to be flavour text

To the first paragraph of “Artefacts”, add:-

An Artefact’s Description is flavour text.

In the “Keywords” appendix rule, rename “Flavour Text” to “Commentary” and then add a new entry:-

Flavour Text
If a part of the ruleset is defined as being “flavour text”, it is gamestate and remains part of the ruleset document, but is not considered to have any meaning beyond being a string of characters. Individuals are not required to obey flavour text and may not perform any action defined by it, and any statements that flavour text makes about gamestate are ignored.

Randomly select an Individual that doesn’t have an EVC on this proposal (if any). That Individual gains 3 Reality Damage.

I request to be made Idle. My attention isn’t on the game right now.

Change the Effect of Strong Gin to:-

If an Individual carrying the Strong Gin would receive [REDACTED] Damage, they receive an equal amount of [REDACTED] Damage instead.

Add to “Artefacts”:

“Carrying” an Artefact and “holding” an Artefact are synonymous.

Enact a new rule, “Attainment”:-

An Individual’s Attainment score is a number which measures their success in this world, and which may be negative.

If an Individual is a Researcher, then their Attainment score is five times the number of Artefacts in Secure Places, plus three times the number of Artefacts they are carrying, minus the number of Damage tokens they currently have.

If an Individual is a Collector, then their Attainment score is ten times the number of Artefacts in their Collection, plus three times the number of Artefacts they are carrying, minus the number of Damage tokens they currently have.

If an Individual is an Outsider, then their Attainment score is five minus the number of Damage tokens they currently have.

Remove the subrule “Lunchbox”

Enact a new rule, “Redaction”:-

Certain aspects of the Institute’s research are classified, and blotted out of their written records. While a sentence in the Protocol or Effect of an Artefact contains the string “[REDACTED]”, that sentence is considered to be a blank string with no effect for all purposes except those outlined in this rule.

At any time, the Director may decide (and privately record) the Secret of any “[REDACTED]” string which appears in the Protocol or Effect of an Artefact: that Secret may be any single word or number that appears in the dynastic ruleset, such that the sentence would make grammatical sense if the “[REDACTED]” string were replaced with it. Upon determining such a Secret, the Director should select a secretly random Researcher and inform them of the Secret, and the string that it corresponds to.

At the request of the Individual who was told its Secret, the Director may replace the string “[REDACTED]” in the Protocol or Effect of an Artefact with its Secret.

Attention all Institute staff. The Lunchbox was picked up by a freelance recovery team this afternoon and is now on site, under containment. The documented safety protocol of this highly destabilising object is that “If a Researcher has the means to destroy this Artefact then they must do so within 24 hours of having gained the capability to do so.” If any Researcher feels that they meet this criteria at present, or meets it any time in the near future, please proceed at once to the Containment Facility and initiate disposal procedures.

Pokes idles automatically after a week without a post or comment from them. Quorum drops to 4.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Artefacts” called “Void Razor”:

Description: An emptiness in space shaped as a 2 meter long blade.
Location: Norwich
Protocol: None
Effect: This Artefact is Alive. As its behaviour (and upon its carrier Focusing, and its carrier may Focus), it will cause all Individuals whose Location is “Unknown” to gain 4 Flesh Damage, if any exist. If none exist, it will cause a random Individual at its Location (or an Individual of the carrier’s choice at their Location, if carried) to gain 4 Flesh Damage instead.

Create a new rule called “The Warp”:

A Researcher in the Warp can Begin Diving by gaining 1 Spatial Damage, and are now considered to be Diving until they perform a Dynastic Action. If a Researcher has been Diving during the last 48 hours they can Retrieve a Fetal Artefact. The status of being Diving or not is tracked in the Damage column as “🌊” for being Diving, and its absence for not being Diving.

When a Researcher retrieves a Fetal Artefact, they add to the Ruleset’s list of Artefacts (subrules of the rule “Artefacts”) a new Artefact as per the following:

Name: X
Description: A mysterious, stillborn item from The Warp.
Protocol: None
Location: Z
Effect: Y

X is a string formed as “A B”, where B is a random word from this this: “Potion, Elixir, Ether, Pill, Panacea, Injection, Cream, Suppository” and A is a random word from: “Magical, Glowing, Incandescent, Frigid, Sparkling, Dark, Shining, Putrid, Transparent, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Shimmering”

Y is a string formed as “This Item is Alive and begins with 10 Spatial Damage. The holder of this item may focus to C and grant this item 1 Spatial Damage. If this item has 13 or more Spatial Damage, it is removed from the Ruleset. This is a Fetal Artefact.”, where C is a random string from the following list:

- Remove 3 Damage Tokens of their choice from themselves
- Remove 3 Damage Tokens of their choice from an Individual that shares a Location with them, other than themselves.
- Set the Location of a random Artefact you own to The Warp.
- Remove all Spatial Damage Tokens from an Individual at their Location.
- Remove all Soul Damage Tokens from an Individual at their Location.
- Remove all Flesh Damage Tokens from an Individual at their Location.
- Remove 4 Reality Damage Tokens from an Individual at their Location.
- Grant 3 Spatial Damage Tokens to an Alive Artefact at their Location.

Z is “The Individual named D”, where D is the name of the Individual that Retrieved this Artefact

In the rule “Damage”, remove “If you have 10 or more Flesh Damage Tokens, you cannot perform Dynastic Actions.”

Add to the end of that rule:-

An Individual with 13 or more Damage Tokens is Broken. A Broken Individual cannot perform Dynastic Actions.

The Duke of Waltham idles out automatically after seven days without a comment or post. Quorum remains 5.

What happened here, where Cuddlebeam took control of the Marble from its Unknown Location on Friday with a casual comment of “The Marble is mine now”? Neither of the explanations I can come up with fit the circumstances.

A report on my desk, please.

In the rule entitled Artefacts, change the paragraph that begins “An Artefact’s Location may be either a Place, an Individual, or Unknown”, to read as follows:

An Artefact’s Location may be either a Place, an Individual, a Collector’s Collection, or Unknown. If an Artefact’s Location is an Individual, it is said to be carried by that Individual, and all Individuals should, for the purposes of its effect or any actions taken, consider its Location to be the Location of the Individual who is carrying it. If an Individual shares a Location with an Artefact that is not being carried by another Individual, they may pick it up by setting its Location to themselves. If an Individual is carrying an Artefact, they may drop it by setting its Location to their own Location. An Individual may be carrying no more than two artefacts at any time.

Change the text of the rule entitled Collections to read as follows:

Each Individual with the Pursuit of Collector has a Collection.  As a daily action, a Collector may put an Artefact that they are carrying into their Collection by changing its Location to read “x’s Collection”, where x is their own name. Artefacts in Collections are never considered to share a Location with any other Individuals or Artefacts. Collectors may reclaim Artefacts from their Collection as a daily action by Focusing.

As a Daily Action, a Collector may add one Soul Damage Token to every Collector whose Collection contains fewer items than their own.

Add the following three Artefacts to the ruleset as sub-rules to the rule Artefacts:

Lunchbox:

Description: A small child’s lunchbox, decorated with Pokémon colours. Dented, with the colours starting to wear off.
Location: The Containment Facility
Protocol: If a Researcher has the means to destroy this Artefact then they must do so within 24 hours of having gained the capability to do so.
Effect: A Collector carrying the Lunchbox may, as a daily action, Focus to carry out the Effect of an Artefact in their Collection as if the were carrying it.

The Left Shoe:

Description: A patent leather brogue, tan, EU 42 / US 9.5. Brand new, not broken in.
Location: Norwich
Protocol: None
Effect: The Individual carrying the Left Shoe may Focus to throw it. Once the Left Shoe has been thrown, the Individual who threw it should randomly select a Place (including Unknown, the Warp, and all Collectors’ Collections). The Left Shoe’s Location is set to that Place. Any other Artefacts at that Place are then also relocated to Places at random.

The Right Shoe:

Description: A plimsol in pale blue. EU 38 / US 7.5. Sole is worn through at the toe.
Location: Unknown
Protocol: None
Effect: If ever the Left Shoe and the Right Shoe are in the same Location, any Individual may remove both Artefacts from the ruleset.

I have now joined and would like to become a player of this game

If “Locating Artifacts” does not begin with the words “If no Individual has changed Location in the past 24 hours”, then replace its first word with “If no Individual has changed Location in the past 24 hours and if”.

To the second paragraph of “Researchers and Collectors”, add:-

Whenever an Individual Travels to or from a Public Place, they must gain 1 Soul Damage.

In “Alive Artefacts”, remove “Alive Artefacts have a Sturdiness value, which defaults to 20.” and replace “An Alive Artefact which has as much or more Damage Tokens as its Sturdiness is considered Incapacitated.” with:-

An Alive Artefact with seven or more Damage Tokens is considered Incapacitated.

Add to that rule:-

An Individual may choose to Clash with an Alive Artefact that they share a Location with, by making a die roll which mentions the Artefact and which randomly determines the type of an Attack Token (which may be either Flesh or Soul) and of a Retaliation Token (which may be either Flesh or Soul): upon doing so, the Artefact gains a Damage Token of the Attack type and the Individual gains a Token of the Retaliation Type.

Amend the Effect of “Strong Gin” to:

Whenever any Individual in the same Location as this artefact (or the same Location as the Individual who is the Location of this artefact), they are Drunk. Drunk Individuals do not receive Flesh damage from any source.

Add to “Damage”:

An Individual, as a Weekly Action, can Recover: they lose 2 of their Damage Tokens of their choice.

Remove “If no Individual has changed Location in the past 24 hours and” from the ruleset.

Add the following artefacts as subrules to the Artefacts rule:

The WW2 Grenade
‘’‘Location:’‘’ Unknown
‘’‘Description:’‘’ An undetonated German grenade. It seems to be a dud as the pin has been pulled years ago.
‘’‘Protocol:’‘’ To not use the Artefact and bring it to the Containment facility as soon as possible.
‘’‘Effect:’‘’ An Individual carrying this Artefact may focus to activate the effects of all Artefacts in your location, including those carried by Individuals in your location. If an effect requires a choice to be made, choose it randomly out of the legal choices. If the effects apply to the Individual carrying them, they are instead chosen at random from among the Individuals within your location.

A Sketchbook
‘’‘Location:’‘’ Unknown
‘’‘Description:’‘’ A used sketchbook. It seems to contain drawings of mundane items.
‘’‘Protocol:’‘’ None.
‘’‘Effect:’‘’ An Individual carrying this Artefact may focus to copy a subrule of the rule “Artefacts” and set the copied subrule’s location to their own.

Lampshade
‘’‘Location:’‘’ Unknown
‘’‘Description:’‘’ An ornate lampshade. Anything it is set upon appears to become a lamp.
‘’‘Protocol:’‘’ None.
‘’‘Effect:’‘’ An Individual carrying this Artefact may focus to set another Artefact’s Location that they share to the Lampshade or to set any Artefact’s Location that is Lampshade to their Location.

Sandwitch
‘’‘Location:’‘’ Unknown
‘’‘Description:’‘’ A deli sandwitch that appears to be in mint condition. Whenever nobody is looking, it appears to regenerate bites taken out of it.
‘’‘Protocol:’‘’ To keep this Artefact’s location to be either that of a Researcher or the Insititue.
‘’‘Effect:’‘’ An Individual carrying this Artefact may focus to lose 5 Flesh Damage.