Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Ruses:

If they have not been involved in a Mistaken Identity post this Season, an Elector may make a Mistaken Identity post as a Seasonal Action. A Mistaken Identity post is a post in the Story Posts category which must name exactly one other Elector who has not previously been involved in a Mistaken Identity post this Season.

As soon as possible after it is posted, the Doge should Evaluate a Mistaken Identity post. Evaluating a Mistaken Identity post is an Atomic Action with the following steps:
* Assess whether or not the ruse is effective. The ruse is effective if the Elector who posted the Mistaken Identity post and the Elector named within it had the same Mask and the same Faction at the time at which the Mistaken Identity post is posted.
* If the ruse is effective, the Doge should add the Political Powers of the involved Electors together, divide the result by two (rounded up), and set the Political Power of both Electors to that value.
* If the ruse is ineffective, the Doge should increase the Political Power of the targeted Elector by 2.
* In either case, the Doge should increase the Scandal of both named electors by 3.
* The Doge should then respond to the Mistaken Identity post to say that it is resolved.

The rule The Masquerade states that each Masquerade post should contain:

a list of the names of any Electors who have accrued (or lost) Scandal since the last Masquerade (including the net change in value for each of those Electors)

So far, it seems Josh has only been including a list of Electors whose Scandal has been changed by him, not all Electors whose Scandal has changed since the last Masquerade. Since that seems to have been the intention, the aforementioned passage should be changed to read as follows:

a list of the names of any Electors who Scandal has been changed by the Doge since the last Masquerade, including the amount by which the Doge changed the Scandal of each relevant Elector

It shall be understood that any previous Masquerade posts were written with this intention in mind, and do need not be updated to include all Scandal changes that occurred in past Seasons.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Aria:

If at any time a single Secret Faction contains Electors with a combined Political Heft of more than 50% then the Doge should, at a time of their choosing within 24 hours of this having come to pass, make a story post announcing that the prima donna’s aria has started.

In the rule “Proposte” change “one or more other Electors” to “two or more other Electors”

What new secrets may there be

In “Imperial Deferentials”, replace “Proposal” with “Votable Matter”.

Change

Each Elector may have a Faction, which is publicly tracked and which defaults to “-”, and a Secret Faction, which is secretly tracked by the Doge and which defaults to “-”. An Elector may change either piece of information to any surname on the list of Italian surnames wiki page, either by changing their Faction directly in the tracking document as a Daily Action, or by private messaging the Doge to change their Secret Faction as a Daily Action. Faction and Secret Faction names are flavour text.

A Faction or Secret Faction of “-” is considered to have a no value, and for the purposes of determining whether Electors have the same values for the Factions or Secret Factions a value of “-” is not considered to match other values of “-”.

Each Elector’s Political Power is one higher for each other Elector in the same Secret Faction as themselves. The Doge is responsible for maintaining this modifier as information changes.

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Each Elector may have a Faction, which is publicly tracked and which defaults to “Factionless”, and a Secret Faction, which is secretly tracked by the Doge and which defaults to “Factionless”. An Elector may change either piece of information to any surname on the list of Italian surnames wiki page, either by changing their Faction directly in the tracking document as a Daily Action, or by private messaging the Doge to change their Secret Faction as a Daily Action. Faction and Secret Faction names are flavour text.

A Faction or Secret Faction of “Factionless” is considered to have a no value, and for the purposes of determining whether Electors have the same values for the Factions or Secret Factions a value of “Factionless” is not considered to match other values of “Factionless”.

Each Elector’s Political Power is one higher for each other Elector in the same Secret Faction as themselves. The Doge is responsible for maintaining this modifier as information changes.

Change the sentence in the rule “The Elective Monarchy” that reads “If the sum of the Political Hefts of all Electors whose EVC on that DoV is FOR is greater than 50%, the Doge should vote FOR the DoV” to read:

If the sum of the Political Hefts of all Electors whose EVC on that DoV is FOR is greater than or equal to 50%, the Doge should vote FOR the DoV.

Brendan advanced a merchant circles campaign again with a value of 4 using the same roll referred to in the first CfJ; at the time the rule was still the previous text of

Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Merchant Circles Campaign” and giving the result of a randomly selected number between 1 and 4 inclusive.

Even though the rule was not fixed, I believe this was still illegal, as it still must be ‘randomly’ selected, but it was not the ‘appropriate’ DICE roll per

If a number or other game variable is selected “at random” or “randomly” from a range of possible values, its value shall always be taken from a uniform probability distribution over the entire range of possible values, unless otherwise specified. This value must be determined by an appropriate DICE roll in the Dice Roller, unless otherwise specified.

If the Doge increased Brendan’s Political Power by 1 as the result of the merchant circles campaign, undo it.

In the rule “Factions”, change

by private messaging the Doge to change their Secret Faction as a Daily Action

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by private messaging the Doge to change their Secret Faction as a Seasonal Action

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Rewrite the rule Campaign as follows:

Each Elector has a Campaign, defaulting to “None”, which is publicly tracked. Once per Season, if their Campaign if not Jail, an Elector can change their Campaign; the list of valid Campaigns is included in this rule.

Once per Season, an Elector may Progress their Campaign, by carrying out its Activation, which is always an Atomic Action. Once an Elector has Activated their Campaign, either they (for public information) or the Doge (for secret information) should update the gamestate as directed in its Effect.

* None. Activation: None. Effect: None.
* Vatican. Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Vatican Campaign”. Effect: If your Scandal is positive, reduce it by 3.
* Foreign Powers. Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Foreign Powers Campaign”, Increase your Scandal by either 5 or the number of Electors with the same Faction as you, whichever is higher, and set your own Campaign to Jail. Effect: The Doge must increase your Political Power by 1 before the next Masquerade.
* Merchant Circles. Activation:Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Merchant Circles Campaign”, rolling a DICE4, and posting the result. Effect: Refer to the result generated in your Activation. If the result was 1 then you may reduce your Scandal by 5. If the result was 2 then nothing happens. If the result was 3 then you must gain 2 Scandal. If the result was 4 then the Doge must increase your Political Power by 1 before the next Masquerade.
* Gerontocracy. Activation: If your Campaign has been “Gerontocracy” at the start of 5 or more Seasons, you may respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Gerontocracy Campaign” . Effect: The Doge must increase your Political Power by 2 before the next Masquerade.
* Revolution. Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Revolution Campaign” and naming a single other Elector whose Campaign is “Gerontocracy”. Effect: You may then set the Campaign of the named Elector to “Jail”. You may then reduce your own Scandal by 2.
* Mob Contacts. Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Mob Contacts Campaign” and naming a single other Elector. Effect: You must then set the Campaign of the named Elector to “Jail” and the Doge must increase their Power by 1 before the next Masquerade.
* Jail. Activation: None. Effect: You may set your Campaign to “None”.
* Dark Cult. Activation: If you have 15 or more Scandal, you may respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Dark Cult Campaign”. Effect: You must then lose 3 Scandal and the Doge must increase your Political Power by 2 before the next Masquerade.
* Market Spy. Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Market Spy Campaign”, and increase your Scandal by 2. DM the Doge the name of another Elector. Effect: The Doge must privately inform you of the named Elector’s Political Power, and when it was last changed.
* Tavern Spy.  Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Tavern Spy Campaign”, and increase your Scandal by 2. DM the Doge the name of another Elector. Effect: The Doge must privately inform you of the named Elector’s Secret Faction, and when it was last changed.
* Society Spy.  Activation: Respond to the most recent Masquerade post with a comment saying “Advancing my Society Spy Campaign”, and increase your Scandal by 2. Effect: The Doge must privately inform you of your own Political Heft, and what the valuie of your Politcal Helft was at the last Masquerade.

If any Elector has Assassin Contract or Downtown Spy as their Campaign, set their Campaign to -.

To the “contains only the following identifying information about them” list in The Masquerade, add:-

* Their Mask

And add a paragraph after the list:-

Each Elector’s Mask is chosen afresh for each Masquerade by the Doge, in a secretly random manner from the following list: Arlecchino, Bauta, Columbina, Medico, Moretta, Pantalone, Volto and Zanni. However, if an Elector is the Winnower, they always wear a Medico mask; if they have a Faction of “-” and are not the Winnower, they always wear an Arlecchino mask; if they have a Campaign of Gerontocracy, a Faction other than “-” and are not the Winnower, they always wear a Pantalone Mask.

Create a new rule called “Mode” with:

Each Elector has an Attire secretly tracked by the Doge, defaulting to White Pajamas. Attire has a Color (which can be White, Black, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green or Gold) and a Kind (which can be Pajamas, Robe, Dress, Tuxedo, Armor, Corset or Regalia). An Elector can change their Attire (set it to a certain Color/Kind) as a Seasonal Action by privately communicating this to the Doge.

The Doge can set each Elector’s Attire to random Color / Kind combinations and then remove this sentence from the Ruleset (they shall do this at their soonest convenience).

Add under the fourth step in The Masquerade’s Atomic Action as new steps:

- For each Elector, if their Attire Color is identical to another Elector’s, reduce their Political Power by 1.
- For each Elector, if them and only one other Elector (and no more than one) share the same Kind of Attire, increase their Political Power by 2.
- For each Elector, if their Attire during a Masquerade does not share a Color nor a Kind with any other Elector’s Attire, increase their Political Power by 4.

Add to the list after “The Guest List is a list of Electors, which contains only the following identifying information about them:”

- Their Attire (Its Color and Kind)

In The Elective Monarchy, replace this text:

At any time, any Elector may post a Declaration of Victory (DoV). While it is open, every Elector may cast Votes on that DoV to indicate support or opposition. The Doge may only cast a vote of FOR on a DoV, and may only cast such a vote if the sum of the Political Hefts of all Electors whose EVC on that DoV is FOR is over 50%.

A pending DoV may be enacted by any admin if the Doge has voted FOR it.

A pending DoV may be failed by any admin if 24 hours have elapsed since it was posted and the Doge has not voted FOR it.

If a DoV is Failed, the Elector who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 72 hours (3 days) have passed since the time their DoV was Failed, and that Elector and any Elector who voted FOR it lose 1 Political Power.

With this:

At any time, an Elector may post a Declaration of Victory (DoV). While it is open, each Elector may Vote on that DoV to indicate support or opposition. The Doge may not process changes to any Elector’s Secret Faction while a DoV is pending.

The Doge may only vote on a DoV according to the following conditions:
* If the Secret Faction of the elector who posted the DoV is different than it was at the time of the most recent Masquerade post, the Doge must vote AGAINST the DoV.
* If the sum of the Political Hefts of all Electors whose EVC on that DoV is FOR is greater than 50%, the Doge should vote FOR the DoV.
* If the sum of the Political Hefts of all Electors whose EVC on that DoV is AGAINST is greater than 50%, the Doge should vote AGAINST the DoV.
* If none of the previous conditions are met, the Doge may not vote on the DoV.

A pending DoV may be enacted by any admin if the Doge has voted FOR it. If the Doge is an Admin, then they should immediately enact a pending DoV after casting a vote of FOR on it.

A pending DoV should be failed by any admin if 24 hours have elapsed since it was posted and the Doge has not voted FOR it, or at any time if the Doge has voted AGAINST it.

If a DoV is Failed, the Elector who posted it may not make another DoV during the same Season. After a DoV is failed, the Doge should decrease the Political Power of each Elector whose EVC on the DoV was FOR by 1.

Every year a new parade of eager young people appear at the Doge’s court, eager to make their name. Pity those, however, who come of age just in time for a Doge’s funeral; the Court of the Wise Men is no place for the green.

Today’s correspondent is a hurt soul. He thought he had found a friend, but there are no friends here. The fellow in whom he placed his trust promised him the world: entry to high society, the rarefied shoulders of the great and the good to rub against, and a place in the upper echelons of the Court for life, all in exchange for naught but his vote. An offer was made, but was, of course, rescinded, and now the young man finds himself cast off, mocked, and abused.

It seems that one must ideally have a knack for power, as the lessons are punishingly expensive.

What isn’t expensive, however, is news of the goings-on at the court. That is free; you just have to know who your friends are. For I, of course, am your friend forever, and you shall know everything that I know, except for my identity; that, of course, is one secret I’ll never tell.

xoxo,
Lady Pettegola

Create a new rule called “Mode” with:

Each Elector has an Attire secretly tracked by the Doge, defaulting to White Pajamas. Attire has a Color (which can be White, Black, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green or Gold) and a Kind (which can be Pajamas, Robe, Dress, Tuxedo, Armor, Corset or Regalia). An Elector can change their Attire (set it to a certain Color/Kind) as a Seasonal Action by privately communicating this to the Doge.

The Doge can set each Elector’s Attire to random Color / Kind combinations and then remove this sentence from the Ruleset (they shall do this at their soonest convenience).

Add under the fourth step in The Masquerade’s Atomic Action as new steps:

- For each Elector, if their Attire Color is identical to another Elector’s, reduce their Political Power by 1.
- For each Elector, if them and only one other Elector (and no more than one) share the same Kind of Attire, increase their Political Power by 2.
- For each Elector, if their Attire during a Masquerade does not share a Color nor a Kind with any other Elector’s Attire, increase their Political Power by 4.

Add to the list after “The Guest List is a list of Electors, which contains only the following identifying information about them:”

- Their Attire (Its Color and Kind)

Add a new subrule to “The Masquerade” called “Unmasking”

As a Seasonal Action, an Elector may send the Doge an Unmasking List by private message, which consists of the name of every Elector (or Idle Elector) who was an Elector at the time the current Season began, as well what their Political Power and Secret Faction were at the time the the Season began (as listed in the Masquerade report)

At their earliest convenience after receiving such a list, the Doge should evaluate its correctness. The list is correct if the Elector managed to correctly deduce what the Political Power and Secret Faction of every single Elector or Idle Elector they listed (at the time the the Season began) was, otherwise it is incorrect. After doing so, the Doge must send a reply confirming the correctness or incorrectness of the list. If the List is correct, the Elector who made the list gains 3 Political Power. If it is incorrect, the Elector loses 2 Political Power.

The rule Proposte says

If all the Electors named in the title of a Proposta have the same Secret Faction when the Doge processes it

I’ve not consistently successfully done it that way; I’ve occasionally based the outcome of a Proposte on what the status quo was when it was posted, as that makes more sense to me than a world in which people are allowed to spam Change Secret Faction PMs to me while I’m asleep. Nevertheless, that’s wrong, and it has had a measurable but not, I think, meaningful impact (i.e. I can’t see that Power or Scandal totals would have changed) on the current state of the game.

Rather than unpick a bunch of stuff, uphold the current resolution of all proposte posted before this CfJ, and the Doge will strive to be more consistent.

MI BAMBINO

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In the rule Victory and Ascension, change

Between the enactment of the DoV and the posting of the Ascension Address, no new DoV may be made and BlogNomic is on Hiatus.

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Between the enactment of the DoV and the completion of any changes to the ruleset and gamestate mandated in the Ascension Address, no new DoV may be made and BlogNomic is on Hiatus.

Remove the last paragraph of the rule The Elective Monarchy.

In “The Masquerade”, replace “Determine a new Winnower by randomly choosing an Elector who is not currently the Winnower who will become the Winnower.” with:-

Randomly select an Elector who has never been the Winnower (if any such Electors exists), or select a random Elector who is not currently the Winnower (if all Electors have already been the Winnower), and make them the Winnower.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Dynastic Wrap-up:

This rule serves as an informal commitment made by the Doge to endeavour to:

* Maintain a clear summary log of all secret actions or actions that have affected secret values;
* At the end of the dynasty, to work privately with Electors to establish their wilingness to have the data held in that log disclosed, sanitising the log of any data that the originator doesn’t want disclosed and any information on Electors who cannot be reached;
* Make all secretly tracked statistics and the sanitised log publicly available at their first opportunity thereafter

This rule establishes a commitment, but not any actions. No activity undertaken as described herein can be considered an action; nor can it affect or alter the gamestate in any way.

The old Winnower, pokes, chose to elevate Jumble and denegrate Brendan. The new Winnower is once again Bucky. 1 Scandal each has been lost by Brendan, Bucky and pokes.

If there is no rule “Relevation”, create a new dynastic rule with that name and the following content:

The Doge shall, as soon as reasonably possible for them after an Elector has achieved victory, reveal each dynastic action that was taken by privately messaging the Doge, including the actor and the timing of the action.

I was thinking, a little zuppa toscana, a little marinara, a little rigatoni, a little cosa nostra…

Add the following to the end of the rule The Masquerade:

The part of a Season that falls between the end of the Preamble and the end of the season is known as its Resolution.

Move the following paragraph from the rule Winnowing to the rule Factions:

The member of each Secret Faction with the highest Political Power is its Figurehead.

In the rule Winnowing, reword the last paragraph as follows:

When a Disclosure Post has been made, the Doge must evaluate for each Secret Faction named within it (at the time of posting) whether the Disclosure was correct or not, i.e. whether the listed Electors are indeed members of that Secret Faction. If it was, then during the resolve disclosures part of the masquerade, he must resolve the Disclosure by performing the following atomic action:
* Reduce the Political Power of that Secret Faction’s Figurehead by 3,
* Increase the Scandal of each Elector named as a member of that Secret Faction in the Disclosure Post by the cumulative total of the Scandal responses received against that Secret Faction as a response to that Disclosure Post.
* Set the Secret Faction of all affected Electors to “-”.

Spaghetti tortellini, pokes? Ah, ravioli, ravioli. Lasagna grazie spaghetti. Mamma mia.

Create a new rule called “Relevation”:

The Doge shall, once an Elector has achieved victory, reveal a summary of the secret information that has been transmitted to them throughout this dynasty as soon as reasonably possible for them.

Make the following changes to the rule “Campaign”

Replace “by carrying out the instructions (if there are any) detailed in the list below” with ” by carrying out the instructions associated with your campaign (if there are any) detailed in the list below”

Replace “If your Scandal is positive, the Doge must reduce your Scandal by 1 before the next Masquerade.” with “If your Scandal is positive, reduce it by 1.”

Replace “and giving the result of a randomly selected number between 1 and 4 inclusive” with “and rolling a DICE4”