BlogNomic

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Fifteen” at the same time that the number 15 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “The Grid”, subrule “Location”, replace “If no other Runner has this Cell in their Location at the time the message is processed, the Gridmaster sets the Location of the Runner to the requested Cell and replies with an acknowledgement of the request. Otherwise, the Gridmaster replies that the Cell is taken. ” with “The Gridmaster should then set the Location of the Runner to the requested Cell. If at least one other Runner has this Cell in their Location at the time the message is processed, the Gridmaster should also reply that the Cell is occupied.”

As a subrule of The Lines, create a rule called “Downloading a new Stratum” with the text:

A Runner may Download by privately informing the Gridmaster that they are doing so, and that Runner is considered to be Downloading until the end of the next Tick action. If a Runner has Executed since the most recent Tick, they may not Download. If a runner is Downloading, they may not Execute.

In Running, replace the bullet point “If no Cells have a value of Battery, Load a new Stratum” with:

If no Cells have a value of Battery, or if the number of Runners that are Downloading is greater than 50% of Live Runners, Load a new Stratum

In the same rule, replace the bullet pont “Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, and announcing any Runners whose Locations are cells in the Alpha Sector.” with

Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, the number of Runners that are Downloading, and announcing any Runners whose Locations are cells in the Alpha Sector.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Fourteen” at the same time that the number 14 shows up on the screen.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Thirteen” at the same time that the number 13 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “Basic Grid Rules”, in the subrule “Status Report”, add the following bullet after the bullet “* Power”:

* Number-Crunches

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Twelve” at the same time that the number 12 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “Running”, replace this bullet:

If the Grue’s Location is in the same row or column as any other Runners (excluding those in the same Cell as it), change the Grue’s Heading to face a secretly random such Runner.

with this bullet:

If the Grue’s Location is in the same row or column as any other Runners (excluding those in the same Cell as it), select all of the Headings where the Grue would be facing such Runners, and where the orthogonally adjacent Cell to the Grue in the direction of each Heading does not contain “Firewall”, and change the Grue’s Heading to a randomly chosen Heading from this selection. If there are no such selections possible, instead select all of the Headings where the orthogonally adjacent Cell to the Grue in the direction of each Heading does not contain “Firewall”, and change the Grue’s Heading to a randomly chosen Heading from this selection if possible.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Eleven” at the same time that the number 11 shows up on the screen.

Your wrist-screen beeps, and a new notification in green appears among the random lines and dots:

Create a rule called The Exit:

The Exit consists of all cells with a value of “Exit”, and all cells with that value have a colour of Purple. Once a cell’s value is set to the value of “Exit”, that cell can never have its value changed, nor its colour changed.

Each Runner has a non-negative integer called Number-Crunches which is privately tracked by the Gridmaster. A Runner can spend any positive amount of Power to increase their Number-Crunches by that amount, though if that runner is in a non-empty cell, this increase is divided by four (rounded down to the nearest integer).

In the rule Running, add a new bullet point to the start of the list of bullet points describing a Tick:

* If the number of runners in the Exit has been at least 1 for the entirety of the last three ticks, and if one of those runners has the highest non-zero Number-Crunches out of all Runners in the Exit, that Runner has achieved victory. (If the Grue achieves victory in this way, the Gridmaster should create a Blogpost to confirm that the Grue has escaped. The Grue’s location should be blanked, and it can never have its location set to a value again, but otherwise its victory is ignored.)

Create a bullet point in the list in the rule Features with the following text:

* Passcoded Egress: If this is exactly the second time that the Passcoded Egress feature is being added to the Grid, set the cells D4, D5, E4 and E5 to have the value of Exit.

If “Veni veni venias” is enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

Add a new rule called “The Beacon” and give it the following text:

The Beacon is a privately tracked variable with either a blank value or the partial or full identification of a Cell, defaulting to blank.

Whenever a Runner is the only Runner with a Location exactly matching the same Cell as the Beacon, and the Beacon is not blank, the Gridmaster should make a blog post indicating the Runner’s name and Location and that they found the Beacon. That Runner achieves victory.

In the rule “The Lines”, add this bullet just before the last bullet:

* Blank the Beacon’s value

In the rule “Disks”, add this row to the table:

|-
| signal.c || 3 || You may pay 3 Power. If you do, send a private request to the Gridmaster setting either the row letter or the column number of the Beacon, then remove this Disk. If honoring this request would result in the Beacon containing the same Location as the Runner executing this Disk, the Gridmaster should privately randomly select a row letter if the Runner requested a column number, or privately randomly select a column number if the Runner requested a row letter, and set the Beacon’s value to the randomly-selected value plus the Runner’s requested value. Otherwise, the Gridmaster should only set the Beacon’s row letter or column number value with the Runner’s choice. In either case, the Gridmaster should privately respond at their earliest convenience confirming only the setting that the Runner chose.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Ten” at the same time that the number 10 shows up on the screen. A yellow notification appears:

Darknight idles out after seven days without any posts or comments.

Under the recently changed idling rule, this now means that they can’t be unidled within the next four days, and that for both this and the next dynasty they will idle out at four days rather than seven.

Create a new dynastic rule named “The End” with the following body:

Each Runner has a Chance, which is a publicly tracked value defaulting to False.

If the current date and time is on or after the 10th of April, 00:00:01 UTC, 2023, then the game is in Endgame. While the game is in Endgame, the Gatemaster may not Load a New Stratum and the Location of Runners whose Location is set to blank cannot be changed.

If the game is in Endgame and they haven’t done so already, the Gatemaster should, at their earliest convenience, Load the Final Game, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Set the Location of all Runners whose Chance is set to True to A1
* Blank the Location of all Runners whose Chance is set to False

A Runner has achieved victory when their Chance is set to Fulfilled.

In the rule Disks, add a new entry to the list of Disks:

| mark.c || 5 || Set your Chance to True

If Proposal: Woops, we were muted enacted, In the rule Short-Distance Comms, change “Any two Runners who share the same Location” to “Any two Runners who are Nearby each other”.

If Proposal: Woops, we were muted was not enacted, create a new dynastic rule named “Short-Distance Comms” with the following body:

Any two Runners who are Nearby each other may privately communicate with each other as if the special case rule “No Collaboration” is not active.

Add the following rule to the ruleset, known as “Short-distance Comms”:

Any two Runners who share the same Location may privately communicate with each other as if the special case rule “No Collaboration” is not active.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Nine” at the same time that the number 9 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “Disks”, replace this text for the Effect of yank.c:

You may add a copy of a Disk from the Heap which shares a row or column with your Location to your own Stack

with this text:

You may add a copy of a Disk from the Heap which shares a row or column with your Location to the rightmost end of your own Stack

For any dynastic action taken where yank.c was Executed and the copied Disk was not placed at the rightmost end of the Runner’s Stack, move that Disk to the rightmost end of that Runner’s Stack if it is still present in their Stack.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Eight” at the same time that the number 8 shows up on the screen.

In the “Warped” entry of “Features”, replace “Set the Location of all Live Runners to a random Cell” with:-

Simultaneously move each Live Runner to a different random Cell

Uphold the Gridmaster’s earlier application of the Warped Feature on March 12.