I am proud to announce that Antarctica has reached an Influence of 100!

Because of this, the Penguins have moved out and the Overlord gets to announce a new Evil Day.

Go.

Create a new enemy group:

Traitors
Leader: Generic Ex-Henchman
App. Number of Members: 37
Weapons: Pistols, knives
HQ location: Asia

Kill the traitors!  They have hidden in Asia!  Kill them all!

Create the following enemy group:

Elephant Culinary Artists
Leader: Horton Fistwhistle
App. Number of Members: 600
Weapons: Ivory salad tongs, Trunk full of spices
HQ location: Africa

The influence in Africa shall be reduced from 4 to 0 because of the delicacies offered to the continent.

The first 6 henchmen to vote FOR and inlude “safari” in their comment shall be immediately relocated to Africa and get 1 FFM.  Each henchmen relocated in this way shall increase influence in Africa by 1 and get 1 standing.

The IRC sidebar doesn’t seem to show active users in the #nomic channel any more, which gets in the way of us getting conversations going. Kevan, is that something you can fix? I’ll try to make it a point to keep the channel activated in the meantime.

Add a new rule titled “Pickpocket” with this text:

Once per day, a Henchman may roll DICE6 to attempt to Pickpocket a targeted fellow Henchman. If 5 or 6 is rolled, the target’s Free Plane Tickets and Frequent Flyer Miles and 20% of the target’s Standing are transferred to the roller. If a 1 is rolled, the roller loses 20% of their INT and 1 GL.

Add the following sub-rule titled “Minor Operations” to the end of rule “Evil Operations [Evil]” (2.8):

Any Henchman may attempt to start an Evil Operation by creating a non-evil Proposal with the text “Operation:” in the title of the Proposal.  That Proposal must include all the required elements of an Evil Operation listed in rule 2.8.  If the text included within the Proposal does not include all the required elements of an Evil Operation, the Proposal fails upon enactment. If the Proposal passes, the Admin who enacts it shall create a Story Post with the text of the Operation that was included on the Proposal (and title it the same as the Proposal that started it) and add 1 FPT to the Henchman who proposed the Operation. That post is an Evil Operation and functions as described in rule 2.8, with one exception: any Admin or the Henchman who proposed the Operation may, after at least 24 hours have passed, resolve the Operation (rolling dice and applying effects where necessary).

Add the following to Sub-Rule named “Minor Operations” at the end of Rule “Evil Operations”:

Any Henchman located in Antarctica may start an Evil Operation by creating a Proposal that includes the full text of the desired Operation. If the text included with the Proposal does not describe a valid Operation, the Proposal fails upon ennactment. If the Proposal succeeds, the Admin who ennacts it shall create a Story Post with the text of the Operation that was included on the Proposal (and title it the same as that Proposal) and add 1 FPT to the Proposer. That post becomes the Evil Operation. Once the Operation has been created and more than 24 hours have passed, it may be resolved by any Admin or the Proposer (rolling dice and following all instructions given).

We need more action going on, and I am sure some of you do have ideas for evil operations. By making them work through a Proposal, we can avoid “I win” Operations that where the problem with the “Left or Right” Proposal.

If more than half of all comments containing counted votes also contain the text “We want it now”, create the following Evil Operation:

It’s that time of the year: let the Evil Contest begin!

Requirements: Any Henchman with one Pending Evil Proposal may join.
Effects: Each Henchman who joins must roll DICEX where X is their INT + GL - 10. If the total rolled by all Henchman equals or exceeds 100 when this Operation is resolved, the operation succeeds. Otherwise, it fails.
Success: All Pending Evil Proposals fail immediately. The influence in Antarctica is increased to 100, and the Overlord’s standing is raised by the same amount.
Failure: All Pending Evil Proposals pass immediately.

Add the following to the rule “Evil Day”

Every Friday is Evil Twin/Clone Day. Whenever an [Evil] proposal is proposed on Evil Twin/Clone Day the following changes apply: All FOR votes count as AGAINST votes, all AGAINST votes count as FOR votes and (by this rule only) all VETOs automatically enact a proposal. If an [Evil] proposal fails by votes on Evil Twin/Clone Day, the proposer gets 2 GL instead of 1, while losing 2 GL if the proposal passes by votes. If the proposal is VETOed then the proposer loses 2 GL and 2 INT as his evil copy is found out by the overlord. Indifferent votes remain the same.

If more than half of all comments containing counted FOR votes also contain the text “Leave VETOs the same”, then remove the line “all VETOS automatically enact a proposal” from this rule.

With my own evil twin locked up again I’ll try this again lol.

Upon enactment, a DICEX and a DICEY are rolled, where X is the number of active henchmen and Y is the number of continents on the Earth wiki page.  The henchman whose position in the alphabetical list of active henchmen equals the DICEX roll has their location set to the continent whose position in the list on the Earth wiki page corresponds to the DICEY roll.  If that continent has an influence of less than 100, its influence and the henchman’s standing increase by DICEZ, where Z is 100 minus the current influence in that continent.  The henchman also receives 1 FPT.

Basically, a random henchman gets transported to a random continent.  The henchman’s standing and the continent’s influence are then raised by a random amount, and the henchman receives an FPT.

Each Henchman may include a DICE5 roll on their vote for this Proposal. If it passes, each of those Henchman who voted FOR, increase their their MS by the amount they rolled.

Roll DICEX, where X is the number of Evil Proposals that failed or were vetoed during April. Ordering them by ennactment date (ascending), pass and enact Proposal number X.

Add the following to the rule “Evil Day”

Every Friday is Evil Twin/Clone Day. Whenever an [Evil] proposal is proposed on Evil Twin/Clone Day the following changes apply: All FOR votes count as AGANIST votes, all AGANIST votes count as FOR votes and (by this rule only) all VETOs automatically enact a proposal. If an [Evil] proposal fails by votes on Evil Twin/Clone Day, the proposer gets 2 GL instead of 1, while losing 2 GL if the proposal passes by votes. If the proposal is VETOed then the proposer loses 2 GL and 2 INT as his evil copy is found out by the overlord. Indifferent votes remain the same.

This rules effects do not apply to itself.

If more than half of all comments containing counted FOR votes also contain the text “Leave VETOs the same”, then remove the line “all VETOS automatically enact a proposal” from this rule.

Since when has trying to take over the world not included evil twins or clones? lol

The head-mounted laser beam of the Overlord’s pet shark shall immediately blast a mighty zot of rage at the submitter of any vetoed [Evil] Proposal, reducing that Henchman’s MS and INT by 1 each.

Whammicus-bammicus,
brassknuckled Henchmen our
flyin fists, Physicist’s
bloody remains.

Prototype Rayguns sit
unfired in holsters as
unconstitutional
violence reigns.

Take Europe - Join the Operation!

Append the following text to the first paragraph of 2.13 Frequent Flyer Miles:

A Henchman traveling on an Evil Day receives double FFM.

Add Puck Grenades and Guns concealed in Hockey Sticks to the Storage Zone.

Stats have already been detailed.

Remove “without using a FPT” from rule “Frequent Flier Miles”.

Josh and your mother fall idle.

Playercount is 16. Quorum drops to 9.

Every henchmen who voted for this proposal shall have their GL reduced to 0 unless they included the comment “I pledge Beane as being the most evil.”
If over half the for votes includes the phrase “I pledge Beane as being the most evil,” then Beane’s GL increases by 5, to be increased after any change in stats due to rule 2.6 occur from the passing of this proposal.

The Mad Physicists have grown too numerous over the past few years. It’s time for us to take them down a notch!

Requirements: Any henchman with more than 10 INT may join this operation (the ignorant are too easily confused). Also, they must be able to travel to Europe immediately after joining this Operation (or be there already).
Effects: A henchman who joins this operation must immediately move to Europe (using a FPT if necessary) and roll XDICE50, where X is that henchman’s Martial Skill. The Mad Physicists then lose an amount of members equal to the outcome of that dice roll. If the Mad physicists lose at least 1800 members due to this Evil Operation, it succeeds. Else, it fails.
Success: We gain 4DICE10 Influence in Europe. An equal amount of Standing is evenly distributed among the henchmen who joined this Operation (any left over goes to the Overlord).
Failure: We lose all Influence in Europe. The Overlord loses an equal amount of Standing.

If proposal “No Witch Hunts” passes, repeal the sub-rule “Current Bans” (1.9.1) of the rule “Victory and Ascension” (1.9).

Rewrite the core “Victory and Ascension” rule to read:

If a ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ (other than the ‘’‘Overlord’‘’) believes that he has achieved victory in the current Dynasty, he may make a post to the Blognomic weblog in the ‘’‘Declaration of Victory’‘’ category, detailing this.

Upon doing so, the game immediately goes into Hiatus, if it hasn’t already. During this time, the only game actions that may be taken are those covered by Rules “Henchmen”, “Calls for Judgment”, “Gamestate Tracking” and “Victory and Ascension”.

Every ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ may respond to an active DoV saying whether or not he believes the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty (using the FOR and AGAINST icons).

The Declaration of Victory may be resolved after 24 hours, or after 12 hours if the ‘’‘Overlord’‘’ has voted on it. Upon resolution, if a Quorum of ‘’‘Henchmen’‘’ have voted on the DoV and more than half of those votes were in favour, then the DoV passes - otherwise the DoV fails, and if no other DoVs are still pending, the Hiatus ends.

When a DoV passes, all other active DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ who made the DoV as its ‘’‘Overlord’‘’. (That ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ may pass this role to another ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ at this point, if he wishes.) The Hiatus continues until the new ‘’‘Overlord’‘’ posts an Ascension Address to the BlogNomic weblog - this shall specify the ‘’‘Overlord’s’‘’ chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally include a proclamation that any number of Dynastic Rules will be repealed, and that any keywords will be replaced with new theme-appropriate terms.

This reverts the rule to its state before Pirahna Tanks was enacted. I personally do not like the new rule, at least as a core rule, as it introduces a punitive stance which may not be appropriate to all dynasties, and may discourage someone from attempting a sneaky victory, which can be a fun surprise if not overdone.

Hopefully the last fix to the Standing mechanics.

Move “, and the proposer’s Standing increases by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence” from its current place in “Politics” to the end of the sentence before the one it’s in. 

Add 2 to dogfish’s standing.
Add 2 to Kevan’s standing.
Add 2 to soyweiser’s standing.

Add 2 to arthexis’s standing if “Proposal: The Evil Council meets again” passed, and e did not already receive standing for it’s passing.
Add 2 to Kevan’s standing if “Proposal: Standing Orders” passed, and e did not already receive standing for it’s passing.
Add 2 to Ornithopter’s standing if “Proposal: If if if if if ifififififififif” passed, and e did not already receive standing for it’s passing.
Add 2 to Yoda’s standing if “Proposal: Overruling a Veto, Take 2” passed, and e did not already receive standing for it’s passing.

If “Proposal: If if if if if ifififififififif” failed, move “, and the Overlord’s Standing to be increased by the total of these die rolls” from its current location in “Doomsday Device” to the end of the last sentence of the second paragraph, and add 2 to Jay’s standing and 4 to Ornithopter’s.

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Fixing the DoV banning rules, per Kevan’s observation about the current illegality of the system.

Change the second sentence of the third paragraph of Rule 1.9 to “If more than half of those votes favor punishment, then the DoV fails, and the poster is added to the list in Rule 1.9.1 followed in parenthesis by the date and time 168 hours after the “Adminned” timestamp on their DoV (the “expiration date” of their ban).”

Create a subrule of Rule 1.9 entitled “Current Bans” with text:

Henchmen listed below are unable to make a Declaration of Victory. Any henchman may remove a henchman and that henchman’s expiration date from the list at any time, so long as the listed henchman’s expiration date has passed. All henchmen shall be removed from the list whenever a Declaraion of Victory passes.

*Rodlen (16:36:36 April 25, 2008)

Remove “The Oubliette” from the ruleset.

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Clarifying “Politics”.

If more than half of all valid “for” votes contain the text “after”, change the second sentence of “Politics” to read “If after this Standing is added, that Continent has the lowest Influence or is tied for the lowest amongst all continents, the proposer gets 1 Free Plane Ticket, and the proposer’s Standing increases by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence.”

If more than half of all valid “for” votes do not contain the text “after”, change the second sentence of “Politics” to read “If before this Standing is added, that Continent has the lowest Influence or is tied for the lowest amongst all continents, the proposer gets 1 Free Plane Ticket, and the proposer’s Standing increases by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence.”; give 1 Free Plane Ticket each to dogfish, Kevan, and soyweiser; give 1 FPT to arthexis if “Proposal: The Evil Council meets again” passed, and eir location was had the lowest or was tied for lowest influence at the time it passed; give 1 FPT to Kevan if “Proposal: Standing Orders” passed, and eir location was had the lowest or was tied for lowest influence at the time it passed; give 1 FPT to Ornithopter if “Proposal: If if if if if ifififififififif” passed, and eir location was had the lowest or was tied for lowest influence at the time it passed; and give 1 FPT to Yoda if “Proposal: Overruling a Veto, Take 2” passed, and eir location was had the lowest or was tied for lowest influence at the time it passed.

Admins are encouraged to mention whether the proposer’s location fulfills the requirements of the proposer’s receiving an FPT, so whoever enacts this doesn’t have to dig through the GNDT and Earth page logs to figure out who gets plane tickets if the “after” clause fails.

Rewrite the rule “Enactment” (1.5) to read as follows:

The oldest pending Proposal may be enacted by any Admin (and the Ruleset and/or Gamestate updated to include the specified effects of that Proposal) if any of the following is true:-

*It has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and has not been vetoed or self-killed.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid vote, more than half of its votes are FOR, and it has not been vetoed or self-killed.
*The Overlord has voted to VETO it, it has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Supermajority, and has been open for voting for at least 12 hours.  (This is called “overruling a VETO”.)
The oldest pending Proposal may be failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:-

*It has enough AGAINST votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those votes being changed.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and half or fewer of its votes are FOR.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and has fewer than 2 valid votes.
*The Henchman who proposed it has voted AGAINST it.
*The Overlord has voted to VETO it, it has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, and the number of FOR votes is less than Supermajority.
Whenever an Admin marks a proposal as enacted or failed, he must also mark his name, and report the final tally of votes (or the fact that the proposal was self-killed or vetoed).

Proposals the Overlord has voted to VETO are considered vetoed unless they have been overruled. Proposals the author has voted against are considered self-killed unless they have fulfilled one of the other requirements to fail a proposal before the author’s self-kill vote is placed.

Add a glossary entry under the title “Keywords” (3.3) with the following text:

*Supermajority is equal to two-thirds the number of Henchmen, rounded down, plus one.

Rewrite the rule “Enactment” (1.5) to read as follows:

The oldest pending Proposal may be enacted by any Admin (and the Ruleset and/or Gamestate updated to include the specified effects of that Proposal) if any of the following is true:-

*It has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and has not been vetoed or self-killed.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid vote, more than half of its votes are FOR, and it has not been vetoed or self-killed.
*The Overlord has voted to VETO it, it has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Supermajority, and has been open for voting for at least 12 hours.
The oldest pending Proposal may be failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:-

*It has enough AGAINST votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those votes being changed.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and half or fewer of its votes are FOR.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and has fewer than 2 valid votes.
*The Henchman who proposed it has voted AGAINST it.
*The Overlord has voted to VETO it, it has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, and the number of FOR votes is less than Supermajority.
Whenever an Admin marks a proposal as enacted or failed, he must also mark his name, and report the final tally of votes (or the fact that the proposal was self-killed or vetoed).

Proposals the Overlord has voted to VETO are considered vetoed. Proposals the author has voted against are considered self-killed unless the Overlord has voted VETO on them, or they have fulfilled one of the other requirements to fail a proposal before the author’s self-kill vote is placed.

Add a glossary entry under the title “Keywords” (3.3) with the following text:

*Supermajority is equal to two-thirds the number of Henchmen, rounded down, plus one.

Please let me know if I missed anything.  I will try to keep a proposal slot open just in case.

Sorry I went idle, 12 hour work days, moving, baby due to be born in about a month, no time for BN right now, even though this dynasty looks really fun!

Each Henchman gets one Free Plane Ticket.
Enact this Proposal.

Move “, and the Overlord’s Standing to be increased by the total of these die rolls” from its current location in “Doomsday Device” to the end of the last sentence of the second paragraph.

If “Proposal: Fix Sinister Machinations” passes, add 2 to Jay’s standing (for that proposal) and 4 to Ornithopter’s (for 2 passing proposals between that one and “Proposal: Derisive Politics and Hardware”).

There once was an Overlord so evil
Who made all under his power to kneel.
    His power swept fast
    and his influence was vast,
And he now rests in the sea that is so tranquil.

Note: This was written after the death of Purplebeard and is a foreshadowing of events to come.

This Overlord’s minion ecstatic
will be when the mission schematic
completed is finally,
and oh, so sublimely,
and the Overlord releases my family after all these long years.

[ We insult the Overlord by giving his Standing a safety barrier. And given that Standing is a measure of status in the eyes of the whole organisation, we should also be able to hand it out ourselves. ]

In the “Standing” rule, replace “The Overlord may at any time remove any amount of their own standing and increase another henchman’s by the same amount so long as their own standing does not fall below 500.” with:-

Any Henchman may, at any time, remove any positive amount of their own standing and increase another henchman’s by the same amount so long as their own standing would not fall below zero.

Chivalrybean and Masked Jedi both fall idle.

Playercount is now 18. Quorum drops to 10.

Create the new Rule, “Secret Masters”:

Whenever one or more Henchman vote FOR on a Proposal, if their combined Standing is equal to or greater than the Overlord’s Standing, any existing VETO on that proposal is counted as AGAINST instead.

Fixed the issues that were not explicitly resolved on the previous proposal. Please note that this proposal is still not marked as [Evil].

Move “, and the Overlord’s Standing to be increased by the total of these die rolls” from its current location in “Doomsday Device” to the end of the last sentence of the second paragraph.

“Proposal: Fix Sinister Machinations” passes add 2 to Jay’s standing (for that proposal) and 4 to Ornithopter’s (for 2 passing proposals between that one and “Proposal: Derisive Politics and Hardware”).

Rewrite the rule “Evil Poetry” as follows:

Revisions in bold.

As a Weekly action, any Henchman whose Location is Oceania, Asia, North America or Europe may post an Evil Poem. If the Overlord deems the Evil Poem to satisfy the requirements of that Location’s Poetic Convention, then the Overlord shall grant to the Henchman who posted it an award (which award shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

The Poetic Conventions are as follows:

*All locations: Subject matter of Evil Poem must reference some aspect of Blognomic (such as the current Dynasty or any past Dynasty) and the applicable one of the following:
*Europe: Evil Poem must be in English Sonnet form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet#The_English_sonnet)
*Oceania: Evil Poem must be in Sea Shanty form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_shanty)
*Asia: Evil Poem must be in Haiku form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Contemporary_English-language_haiku)
*North America: Evil Poem must be in Limerick form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_%28poetry%29)

If a Henchman posts an Evil Poem that the Overlord deems to be particularly bad, or to not be in compliance with the applicable Poetic Convention, the Overlord may in his discretion penalize the applicable Henchman (which penalty shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).  Yoda achieves victory in the current dynasty.  In judging an Evil Poem, the Overlord is encouraged to consider the difficulty of the form, the level of elegance of the Evil Poem, and the content of the Evil Poem itself (that is to say, an Evil Poem may contain, within the structure of the Evil Poem itself, a request for a particular award).

[ We’ve got an invisible non-rule floating illegally around from here - we should write these things down. ]

Enact a new rule, “The Oubliette”:-

Rodlen may not post a Declaration of Victory.

Any Henchman may repeal this rule after 16:36:36 UTC on the 25th of April 2008, or after the First Dynasty of Purplebeard has ended.

My last proposal failed, but the enemy group seemed to be liked, so I’m reproposing it. And I identified a new enemy group. There are a few proposals in the pipeline that add rules for continents without enemies. So a few new groups will force henchmen that want to use these rules to go to specific locations (or to create a proposal that more easily reduces the size of enemy groups. (And perhaps that allows weapon usage ;) ).

Create the following enemy groups.

Name: Ghastly Clean Aboriginal Cannibals
Leader: Sterwi Dasyatidae
App. Number of Members: 212
Weapons: Smelly Soap, Poisoned Spears, Metal boomerangs, A cooking pot so large it could cook us all.
HQ Location: Oceania

Name: Aum “Aleph” Shinrikyo
Leader: Asahara
App. Number of Members: 179
Weapons: Sarin Gas Satchels, Pointy umbrellas.
HQ Location: Asia

Add the following paragraph to the end of rule 2.10 Doomsday Device

All Henchman, including the Overlord, whose location is the destroyed continent have their GL changed to 0, their INT and ML halved (rounded up) and their location set to Antarctica.

And just an idea I had to make that voting a bit more competitive…

If more than half of all comments containing counted FOR votes also contain the text “Spice it up?”, affix the following text to the end of the second paragraph of rule 2.10

When the Overlord posts their activation story post, Henchmen will be unable to change their location until the Doomsday Device destroys a continent.

Add the following paragraph to the end of rule 2.10 Doomsday Device

All Henchman, including the Overlord, whose location is the destroyed continent have their GL changed to 0, and their location set to Antarctica.

And just an idea I had to make that voting a bit more competitive…
If more than half of all comments containing counted FOR votes also contain the text “Spice it up?”, affix the following text to the end of the second paragraph of rule 2.10

When the Overlord posts their activation story post, Henchmen will be unable to change their location until the Doomsday Device destroys a continent.

I am surprised that no one has come up with this yet.

Create a new dynastic rule titled “Money” with the following text:

Each henchman has a statistic “Money”, which is tracked in the GNDT.  New henchman start with a value of 100 in their Money statistic.

Set each henchman’s Money statistic to 100, except for the Overlord.  Set the Overlord’s money statistic to 1000.

If the Proposal titled “Seriously, guys. Victory. Let’s go get it.” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Change the first sentence of “Sinister Machinations” to:

Any henchman other than the Overlord may, as a weekly action, increase the Overlord’s influence in the continent they are currently on by (xDICE2)-x, if that continent contains no enemy HQs, where x is calculated any of the ways listed below, and increase their Standing by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence.

If a rule entitled “Politics” exists, add before the final period:

, and the proposer’s Standing increases by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence

Each continent’s Influence maxes out at 100. This wording prevents Standing gain beyond that.

I already used my two proposal slots, so if anyone wants to sponsor this they can, or I can do it once one of mine goes through.

If the Proposal titled “Seriously, guys. Victory. Let’s go get it.” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Change the first sentence of “Sinister Machinations” to “Any henchman other than the Overlord may, as a weekly action, increase the Overlord’s influence in the continent they are currently on by (xDICE2)-x, if that continent contains no enemy HQs, where x is calculated any of the ways listed below, and increase their Standing by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence.”

If a rule entitled “Politics” exists, add “, and the proposer’s Standing increases by an amount equal to the increase in the continent’s Influence”.

Each continent’s Influence maxes out at 100. This wording prevents Standing gain beyond that.

Jack has fallen idle.

Playercount falls back to 20, and quorum is still 11.

If Proposal “Seriously, guys. Victory. Let’s go get it.” fails, this does nothing.

Create a new Rule named, “Secret Masters”:

Whenever one or more Henchman vote FOR on a Proposal, if their combined Standing is equal to or greater than the Overlord’s Standing, the Overlord may not VETO that proposal.

Remove “the poster’s GNDT values are set to those defined for new players, ” from rule 1.9.

As Kevan pointed out, if the stat is one that decreases (e.g. hit points), the new-player value is likely to be more advantageous.

Change the condition of Rodlen’s ban on DoV’s to “until 25 Apr 2008 16:36:36 UTC or until the end of the current dynasty, whichever comes first”.

I doubt it’ll matter, but that’s what it should be according to the rule.

This proposal is a very slightly slightly changed version of “Proposal: Onward to victory! [Evil]”. I did this because at least three fail votes on the previous version were based on a misunderstanding, and just two votes of those votes would have passed it.

Changelog: better commenting, no “sit down” option (no one voted for it last time), clarification that being tied for highest on the continent isn’t good enough (thanks, Soyweiser), an added bit at the end that takes recent modifications to the Doomsday Device into account, and minor typographical fixes.

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Create a subrule of “Attributes” entitled “Standing” with text:

Standing, which may be abbreviated STND for all purposes, is the measure of how highly regarded a Henchman is by the other members of the Overlord’s organization.

New Henchmen start with a Standing of 0.

The Overlord may at any time remove any amount of their own standing and increase another henchman’s by the same amount so long as their own standing does not fall below 500.

Creating “Standing” as a subrule of “Attributes” means that it is tracked in the GNDT without my having to say it in the subrule itself.

My idea for standing is that the Overlord’s is fixed at 500, and the standing of all the other henchmen combined will eventually equal 700, so an alliance of maybe 3-5 henchmen will eventually be able to overrule the Overlord in some yet-to-be-defined manner.

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Set the Overlord’s standing to 590, darknight’s to 1 (because of Operation Hot Cake), and all other henchmen’s to 0.

590 = 500 (base) + 90 (current Influence in Antarctica)

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Create a rule entitled “Sinister Machinations” with text:

Any henchman other than the Overlord may, as a weekly action, increase their standing and the Overlord’s influence in the continent they are currently on by (xDICE2)-x, if that continent contains no enemy HQs, where x is calculated any of the following ways:
*If they have higher MS than any other henchman on the continent, they may twist a few arms by setting x to their MS-10 plus the combined GL of all other henchmen on the continent, and reducing their MS by half the difference (rounded up) between their MS and the next highest MS on the continent.
*If they have higher INT than any other henchman on the continent, they may organize an assault by setting x to their INT-10 plus the combined MS of all other henchmen on the continent-(10 times the number of other henchmen on the continent), and reducing their INT by half the difference (rounded up) between their Int and the next highest Int on the continent.
*If they have higher GL than any other henchman on the continent, they may subvert the current powers on the continent by setting x to their GL plus the combined INT of all other henchmen on the continent-(10 times the number of other henchmen on the continent), and reducing their GL by half the difference (rounded up) between their GL and the next highest GL on the continent.
*Unless it would make x less than zero, they may set x to any of their MS-10, their Int-10, or their GL, and reduce that statistic by x/4 rounded up.

xDICE2-x is equivalent to flipping x coins and counting how many come up heads.

The first three options are all the same, but with different stats used.

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Change the third sentence of the second paragraph of “Doomsday Device” to “The Continent with the most votes after 48 hours is destroyed (it is removed from the Earth gamestate document), and 100 minus the current Influence of that continent is added to the Overlord’s Standing.”

Add “, and the Overlord’s Standing to be increased by the total of these die rolls” to the end of the last sentence of “Doomsday Device”.

This prevents 100-(current continental influence)+6DICE20 potential standing from being lost when the device goes off, maintaining the 500/700 balance.

Create a new Rule “Politics” that reads:

Whenever a non-Evil proposal passes, the Overlord’s Influence of the Continent the proposer is currently located at is increased by 2.
If that Continent has the lowest Influence or is tied for the lowest amongst all continents, the proposer gets 1 Free Plane Ticket.

Add to rule “Doomsday Device”:

If a Henchman has 25 INT or more, he may add 2 parts to the device per week, instead of just one.

It is time, my evil brethen to begin taking the world piece by piece, least we fail on our rightfull duty of world domination!

[ Reproposing “You’re Going To Need A Bigger Shark” without the ambiguity. ]

In the Rule “Evil Schemes”, replace “If the Overlord votes to VETO an evil proposal, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil, and the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced to 0.” with:-

If the Overlord votes to VETO an evil proposal, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil - the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced to 0, and the shark tank reduces the proposer’s Martial Skill and Intelligence by 5.

If this proposal passes, all henchmen gain 1 GL, and Rodlen gains 1 MS.

If this proposal is vetoed, then Purplebeard recognizes a threat when he sees one.

All the fail-changing and veto-changing EVIL proposals were just getting annoying.

So I chose to stop them by bringing out my DOV.

And you did exactly what I wanted you to do.

Every henchman needs a wiki account so they can edit the Doomsday Device, and you two are the only active wiki admins.

Create a rule entitled “[Evil] Taunt”, with the following text:

Rodlen achieves victory, unless he is banned from making a DoV. This rule expires 25 Apr 2008 16:36:35 UTC, having no effect after that time, and must be removed from the ruleset after that time.

I attempted to add an item to the doomsday device, but alas I don’t have a wiki account. What should I do?

[ Currently, there’s no reason not to try Evil proposals with a GL of zero. ]

In the Rule “Evil Schemes”, replace “If the Overlord votes to VETO an evil proposal, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil, and the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced to 0.” with:-

If the Overlord votes to VETO an evil proposal, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil - the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced to 0, and the shark tank reduces both their Martial Skill and Intelligence by 5.

Errr… I mean, “Loyal servant!”

Quorum remains 11.
-Ornithopter

Kevan, rather frustratingly, continues to be smarter than I am. Specifically, I’m referring to the second paragraph of his comment on my Piranha Tank proposal. I can’t make any new proposals since I’ve got an [Evil] pending, so if anyone else wants to have a go at it, feel free.

Also I just realized that the proposal misspells “piranha”.

Henchman “Dustin” shall recieve an increase of 2 to GL.

This proposal’s [Evil] status shall be nullified upon its passing.

This proposal fails.

Add to Rule “Evil Day”:

An Evil Action is a weekly action that can only be taken during Evil Day.

Add to Rule “Doomsday Device”:

When there are 97 or more different items (entries) in the Doomsday Device, the Overlord may activate it once as an Evil action by making a story post with a poll. On the poll, each Henchman will vote for one Continent. The Continent with more votes after 48 hours is destroyed (it is removed from the Earth gamestate document). In case of a tie, the Overlord will choose one Continent amongst the tied ones. The subsequent fear spread amongst other nations will cause the Overlord’s Influence to be increased by DICE20 in each other Continent (roll the dice independently for each Continent).

Grey has not commented in seven days, and has been idled. Quorum remains 11.

Create a subrule of Attributes entitled “Standing” with text:

Standing, which may be abbreviated STND for all purposes, is the measure of how highly regarded a Henchman is by the other members of the Overlord’s organization.

New Henchmen start with a Standing of 0.

The Overlord may at any time remove any amount of their own standing and increase another henchman’s by the same amount so long as their own standing does not fall below 500.

Set the Overlord’s standing to 590, darknight’s to 1 (because of Operation Hot Cake), and all other henchmen’s to 0.

Create a rule entitled “Sinister Machinations” with text:

Any henchman other than the Overlord may, as a weekly action, increase their standing and the Overlord’s influence in the continent they are currently on by (xDICE2)-x to a maximum of 100, if that continent contains no enemy HQs, where x is calculated any of the following ways:
*If they have the highest MS of any henchman on the continent, they may twist a few arms by setting x to their MS-10 plus the combined GL of all other henchmen on the continent, and reducing their MS by half the difference (rounded up) between their MS and the next highest MS on the continent rounded up.
*If they have the highest Int of any henchman on the continent, they may organize an assault by setting x to their Int-10 plus the combined MS of all other henchmen on the continent-(10 times the number of other henchmen on the continent), and reducing their Int by half the difference (rounded up) between their Int and the next highest Int on the continent rounded up.
*If they have the highest GL of any henchman on the continent, they may subvert the current powers on the continent by setting x to their GL plus the combined Int of all other henchmen on the continent-(10 times the number of other henchmen on the continent), and reducing their GL by half the difference (rounded up) between their GL and the next highest GL on the continent.
*Unless it would make x less than zero, they may set x to any of their MS-10, their Int-10, or their GL, and reduce that statistic by x/4 rounded up.

If a majority of valid “for” votes on this proposal contain the text “sit down”, do not create the subrule “Standing”, ignore the second paragraph of this proposal, and do not include “their standing and” in the text of “Sinister Machinations”.

From rule: Evil Schemes
“If a Dynastic Rule is enacted or amended as a result of an Evil Proposal, it shall have “[Evil]” added to its title (unless it’s already there).”
I think we forgot this.

We need to add [evil] to the rule “Evil Schemes” according to Proposal: Maybe we’re being a little too [Evil].
We need to add [evil] to the rule “Influence” according to Proposal: Rolling out the [Evil]. (which apparently was renamed to evil influence, instaid of [evil] influence).

Of course it could be that the usage if the [] part doesn’t really work well in an wiki environment, in that case we should create a proposal to edit the rule. Either to remove the entire line or the ‘[’, ‘]’ part. (On a related note, could I please get an wiki password?).

The proposal “Victory is even sweeter when you can actually achieve victory” succeeded, but failed to execute properly because the rule it applied to didn’t exist. So this is a recreation of that proposal, with an additional target to work to.

Create a rule titled “Domination” with the text

A Henchman may not achieve victory while their GL is 0.

If a ’’’Henchmans’’’ GL exceeds the ’’’Overlords’’’ GL, and the ’’’Henchmans’’’ INT exceeds the ’’’Overlords’’’ INT, and the ’’’Henchmans’’’ MS exceeds the ’’’overlords’’’ MS, that ’’’Henchman’’’ may achieve victory.

If the ‘Proposal: Pirahna Tank’ failed, add the following text to rule “Domination” .

If a ‘’’Henchman’’’ creates a DoV post that fails, that henchmans GL will be reduced to 0.

If the majority of valid for votes include the text “You do smell nice, but why are you looking at me like that? And could you please stop nibbling my leg?”, create the following Enemy Group.

Name: Ghastly Clean Aboriginal Cannibals
Leader: Sterwi Dasyatidae
App. Number of Members: 212
Weapons: Smelly Soap, Poisoned Spears, Metal boomerangs, A cooking pot so large it could cook us all.
HQ Location: Oceania

Change the third and fourth paragraphs of rule 1.9 to

Every ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ may respond to an active DoV saying whether they believe the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty (the FOR icon), the post has not (the AGAINST icon), or the poster is abusing their ability to post a DoV and should be punished (two adjacent AGAINST icons) .

The Declaration of Victory may be resolved after 24 hours, or after 12 hours if the Overlord has voted on it. Upon resolution, if a Quorum of Henchmen have voted on the DoV and more than half of those votes were in favour, then the DoV passes. If more than half of those votes favor punishment, then the DoV fails, the poster’s GNDT values are set to those defined for new players, and the poster is unable to make any more DoVs for seven days or until the end of the current dynasty, whichever comes first. Otherwise the DoV fails with no further effects. If no other DoV are still pending after a DoV’s failure, the Hiatus ends.

If more than half the valid “for” votes contain “aaronwinborn is a liar; that phrase was exactly as long as Ornithopter would have me believe” or “dunk ‘im” or both, subtract 1 from Rodlen’s GL, and ban em from making further DoVs until 25 Apr 2008 16:36:36 UTC. (Changes to eir stats after the DoV shouldn’t be reverted.)

The following invalid votes were placed during the hiatus, and need to placed again if the henchmen wish their votes to be counted.

Skilled in Blognomicry
Our Evil Overlord
Plots to eliminate
All of his foes.

Evil and craftiness
All kinds of sneakiness
Incontrivertibly
Purplebeard knows.

“If this proposal fails” clauses do nothing.

If the proposal passes, it did not fail, so the clause does nothing. If it fails, none of the proposal’s text has any effect, so it does nothing.

A similar clause in a CfJ would have similar results.

A similar clause in a DoV is additionally worthless, because DoVs do not change the ruleset. A DoV is roughly equivalent to a proposal with the text “I win.”, and any text in the DoV is just an explanation of why you think we should vote “for”.

The only legitimate use of a fail clause is prediction. (e.g. “If this proposal fails, our ship will surely crash into the sun.” or “If this proposal fails, I will cry about it for a week.”) Note that predicting negative consequences for those who vote against the proposal (in game or otherwise), while allowed, is bad form and won’t win you any friends, which can be a serious problem in a game where the rules are whatever a quorum of the players say they are.

Append the following sentence after the first sentence in Core Rule “1.9 Victory and Ascension”:

A ‘’‘Henchman’‘’ may only create a DoV post once per Dynasty.

My previous posting was during hiatus and was therefor not a game action. I hereby submit my weekly Limerick from North America as a game action, conveniently linked rather than re-pasted.

Higgledy Piggledy
Overlord Purplebeard
Rules such that always his
Influence gains.

Vancouver Canucks have
Nothing compared to his
Instigatorial
Mastermind brains.

Purplebeard’s Henchmen take heed
Our Overlord’s mighty indeed
Our quorum’s eleven
On continents seven
It’s time for his Plans to succeed

Propose his next step to Upheaval
Our merciless Evil Knievel
But stupid proposal?
The garbage disposal!
Don’t make him go all medieval

Create a new Dynastic Rule called “The Inheritor” that reads as such:

Their shall be a henchman who is the favorite of the Overlord, which is to be tracked in the GNDT. The Favorite can take any action the overlord can in a dynastic rule.

Really hoping it’s worded right.

Purplebeard Overlord,
Has the pow’r to reward
Demonic poems with
Generous things.

World domination is
Just not enough for me,
I want to write like the
Poetry kings!

If this DOV fails, Rodlen wins this dynasty.

If this DOV is vetoed, Rodlen wins this dynasty.

If this DOV succeeds, Rodlen wins this dynasty.

If this DOV is self-killed, Rodlen wins this dynasty.

I’m evil!

Replace the text of the rule “Free Plane Tickets” with the following text:

Each Henchman has a statistic tracked in the GNDT called “Free Plane Ticket” (abbr. FPT).  New Henchman’s FPT statistic starts at 0.

If a Henchman’s FPT statistic is at least 1, they may, as a daily action, change their location and decrease their FPT statistic by one.  This action does not count as the weekly location change.
For example, a Henchman may change their location then use a FPT to change it again (or vice versa) in the same week.

Set each Henchman’s FPT statistic to 0.

Create a dynastic rule titled “Frequent Flyer Miles” with the following text:

Each Henchman has a statistic to be tracked in the GNDT called “Frequent Flyer Miles” (abbr. FFM).  New henchman’s FFM statistic starts at 0.  A Henchman will receive 1 FFM each time they change their location without using a FPT.

A Henchman with at least 10 FFMs may spend 10 FFMs to receive either one Free Plane Ticket or the the ability to equip once the next more powerful Weapon in the Storage Zone that the Henchman would not normally be qualified to equip.

Set each Henchman’s FFM statistic to 0.

All Henchman who vote for this proposal receive one FPT.

If the majority of valid for votes include the text “rewards for new member who take the pledge”, add the following text to the end of the rule “Free Plane Tickets”:

If a new Henchman or an idle Henchman requesting or anouncing unidling after being idle for at least 1 week includes in their post the text described in the rule “Muahahahaha…”, they receive 1 FPT upon becoming active.

Add the following to rule “Evil Schemes”:

While an Evil Proposal is pending, it’s creator may not create another Proposal.

Add the following to rule “Evil Operations”:

When a Henchman Joins an Evil Operation, that Henchman gets a Free Plane Ticket if er location is Antartica.

Create a Rule named “Jet Lag and Frequent Flyer Miles” that reads:

A Henchman may not use more than one Free Plane Ticket in a 48 hour period.

A Henchman will receive 1 Frequent Flyer Mile per Free Plane Ticket trip. Free Plane Tickets and Frequent Flyer Miles may be voluntarily transferred to other Henchmen. Because of the worldly wisdom gained through such travel, ten Frequent Flyer Miles may be cashed in by a Henchman for one of: (a) one Free Plane Ticket, or (b) the the ability to equip once the next more powerful Weapon in the Storage Zone that the Henchman would not normally be qualified to equip.

Free Plane Tickets and Frequent Flyer Miles will be tracked on the GNDT.

All Henchman voting on this proposal receive one Free Plane Ticket.

A Henchman may not use more than one Free Plane Ticket in a 48 hour period.

A Henchman will receive 1 Frequent Flyer Mile per Free Plane Ticket trip. Free Plane Tickets and Frequent Flyer Miles may be voluntarily transferred to other Henchmen. Because of the worldly wisdom gained through such travel, ten Frequent Flyer Miles may be cashed in by a Henchman for the the ability to equip once the next more powerful weapon in the Storage Zone that the Henchman would not normally be qualified to equip.

Free Plane Tickets and Frequent Flyer Miles will be tracked on the GNDT.

All Henchman conspiring voting on this proposal receive one Free Plane Ticket.

I need to learn to not be so hasty when I concoct an evil plan. *evil grimace*

If this proposal is enacted, all Henchmen who voted FOR it shall have eir GL increased by a sum equal to the reciprocol of the number of Henchmen who voted AGAINST the proposal divided by the total number of active playing Henchmen (if no Henchmen voted AGAINST, substitute the number of playing Henchmen for this value). All Henchmen who voted AGAINST this proposal shall have eir GL decreased by the same sum. The final sum shall be rounded up if it is not an integer.

The Henchman “Dustin” shall also have his GL increased by 2.

Comment: Let ‘f’ be the number of Henchmen who voted against the proposal. Let ‘h’ be the total number of Henchmen. The result which shall be increased or decreased shall be -> x = 1 / ( a / h ) if at least one person voted against, otherwise x = 1 / ( h / h ) = 1

Being intellectually out-of-shape in the math department sucks. :)

Mwuhahahahahaha… *touches fingertips together in a villainous pose*

How are you gentlemen!!

If this proposal is enacted, all Henchmen who voted FOR it shall have eir GL increased by a sum equal to the reciprocol of the number of total active playing Henchmen divided by number of Henchmen who voted AGAINST the proposal (if this number is zero, it shall be counted as “1”). All Henchmen who voted AGAINST this proposal shall have eir GL decreased by a sum equal to the reciprocol of the number of total active playing Henchmen divided by the number of Henchmen who voted AGAINST the proposal. If a Henchman is to have eir GL increased or decreased by a non-integer number, the number shall be rounded up to the nearest integer.

In addition, the Henchman “Dustin” shall be awarded 2 GL in the GNDT.

Please unidle.

I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.

This proposal shall have, in opposite, ten times the effect it normally would.

remove

remove

Kill Dice4 members of the Vancouver Canucks and raise Darknight’s INT (for replacing the game puck with a puck shaped bomb) and North America’s influence by the amount of members killed.

If this is failed by votes, then all henchmen who vote against gain 1 INT but Darknight gains GL equal to 1/4 the against votes (rounded down) for tricking his fellow henchmen into saving the enemy.

A veto fail has the same penalty as in the ruleset

I have decided to test your ambitions. Please me, and you will receive limited access to my formidable library.

Requirements: everyone may join
Effects: upon joining this operation, a henchman must privately inform me wether they choose to be a ‘friend’ or a ‘traitor’. Upon resolution of this operation, if the number of ‘friends’ (f) surpasses the number of ‘traitors’ (t), the operation succeeds. Else, it fails.
Success: If this operation succeeds, all traitors’ GL is increased by one. Furthermore, all friends receive (f-t)/2 intelligence, and all traitors receive 3f/4 intelligence. All fractions are rounded up.
Failure: If this operation fails, all henchmen who joined it lose (t+f)/3 intelligence (fractions are rounded up), and all traitors lose 1 MS from getting beaten up by the friends.

Guys, the Doomsday Device exists. I’m serious.

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Create a Rule named “Free Plane Tickets” that reads:

Whenever a Henchman obtains a Free Plane Ticket, e may change er Location once within the following 48 hours. E may take this action even if e has changed er Location already that week. If e hasn’t changed er Location that week, e may take that Action again.

Change the first sentence of the second paragraph of rule 2.6 to “If an Evil Proposal fails without being vetoed or self-killed, then that was exactly what the proposer was expecting - their Goatee Length is increased by 1.”

And while we’re at it, remove everything but the first three paragraphs from “Weapons”.

Change the first sentence of the second paragraph of rule 2.6 to “If an Evil Proposal fails without being vetoed or self-killed, then that was exactly what the proposer was expecting - their Goatee Length is increased by 1.”

And while we’re at it, remove everything but the first paragraph from “Weapons”.

“Evil Schemes” states that the GL of a proposal’s author increases by 1 if the proposal “fails without being vetoed”, and that the author’s GL is reduced to 0 if the proposal fails “because the Overlord vetoed it”. There’s some space between the two, which Proposal: [Evil] Careful what you say fell into. It was self-killed before it was vetoed, and thus did not fail because it was vetoed, but it also didn’t fail without being vetoed, as the proposal is still pending until it is enacted or failed by an admin.

In order to close this gap, the second sentence of the second paragraph of “Evil Schemes” shall be changed to “If the Overlord votes to VETO an evil proposal, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil, and the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced to 0.” and to help avoid similar gaps in the future, a hierarchy of proposal failure methods shall be established by adding “Proposals the ‘’‘Overlord’‘’ has voted to VETO are considered vetoed. Proposals the author has voted against are considered self-killed unless the ‘’‘Overlord’‘’ has voted VETO on them, or they have fulfilled one of the other requirements to fail a proposal before the author’s self-kill vote is placed.” to the end of “Enactment”.

Beane’s GL was 0 prior to the failing of “Proposal: [Evil] Careful what you say”, so eir stats need no adjustment.

Now, with Wholesome Proposal Goodness!

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Create a new Dynastic rule, entitled: “Evil Poetry”, reading as follows:

As a Weekly action, any Henchman whose Location is Africa, Asia, North America or Europe may post an Evil Poem.  If the Overlord deems the Evil Poem to satisfy the requirements of that Location’s Poetic Convention, then the Overlord shall grant to the Henchman who posted it an award (which award shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

The Poetic Conventions are as follows:
* All locations: Subject matter of Evil Poem must reference some aspect of Blognomic (such as the current Dynasty or any past Dynasty) and the applicable one of the following:
* Europe: Evil Poem must be in Higgledy-Piggledy form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy)
* Africa: Evil Poem must be in Blues form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues)
* Asia: Evil Poem must be in Haiku form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Contemporary_English-language_haiku)
* North America: Evil Poem must be in Limerick form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_%28poetry%29)

If a Henchman posts an Evil Poem that the Overlord deems to be particularly bad, or to not be in compliance with the applicable Poetic Convention, the Overlord may in his discretion penalize the applicable Henchman (which penalty shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

In judging an Evil Poem, the Overlord is encouraged to consider the difficulty of the form, the level of elegance of the Evil Poem, and the content of the Evil Poem itself (that is to say, an Evil Poem may contain, within the structure of the Evil Poem itself, a request for a particular award).

This proposal does nothing if enacted.

This proposal does nothing if enacted.

Create a new Rule named “Mad Genius” that reads:

Whenever a proposal passes, the Henchman that proposed it may increase eir Intelligence by 1 if e is not the Overlord (because the Overlord is already an Evil Genius).
A Henchman cannot achieve victory if eir Intelligence is lower than that of the Overlord (because it takes a Genius to know another).

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Create a new Dynastic rule, entitled: “Evil Poetry”, reading as follows:

As a Weekly action, any Henchman whose Location is Africa, Asia, North America or Europe may post an Evil Poem.  If the Overlord deems the Evil Poem to satisfy the requirements of that Location’s Poetic Convention, then the Overlord shall grant to the Henchman who posted it an award (which award shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

The Poetic Conventions are as follows:
* All locations: Subject matter of Evil Poem must reference some aspect of Blognomic (such as the current Dynasty or any past Dynasty) and the applicable one of the following:
* Europe: Evil Poem must be in Higgledy-Piggledy form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy)
* Africa: Evil Poem must be in Blues form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues)
* Asia: Evil Poem must be in Haiku form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Contemporary_English-language_haiku)
* North America: Evil Poem must be in Limerick form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_%28poetry%29)

If a Henchman posts an Evil Poem that the Overlord deems to be particularly bad, or to not be in compliance with the applicable Poetic Convention, the Overlord may in his discretion penalize the applicable Henchman (which penalty shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

In judging an Evil Poem, the Overlord is encouraged to consider the difficulty of the form, the level of elegance of the Evil Poem, and the content of the Evil Pem itself (that is to say, an Evil Poem may contain, within the structure of the Evil Poem itself, a request for a particular award).

Create a new Enemy Group with the following stats:
Name: Einherjar
Leader: Joshua A. Norton (Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico)
App. Number of Members: 47 (who are named on the “Einherjar” wiki page)
Weapons: Mad Skirmish Skillz
HQ Location: Europe

Append the following text to the rule ‘Evil Day’:

On Evil Day, the Overlord may make an Evil Day Address by making a post encouraging Evil, and outlining current Evil Plans.

The first Henchman, not including the Overlord, to comment on the post with the text “As you wish, Overlord” may increase their own Intelligence by 2.
The second Henchman, not including the Overlord, to do so may increase their own Intelligence by 1.
Any other Henchmen are encouraged to comment on the Evil Day Address with phrases congratulating the Overlord on their brilliance and promising to do as the Overlord says.

Create a new Enemy Group with the following stats:

Name: The Penguins

Leader: Emperor Penguin II

App. Number of Members: 100

Weapons: Sharp Beaks, Flappy Wings

HQ Location: Antarctica

May I have a wiki password please?

How to be a Successful Evil Overlord (They could learn from us…)

If a henchmen has severely displeased the overlord, he can always opt to let him perform one of his favorite hobbies, lobotomy. Sadly this has some ill effects on the henchman.

Create a rule titled “Lobotomy” with the text

As a weekly action, any henchman may ‘lobotomize’ eir Intelligence if e is located in the same location as the overlord. E shall then reduce their INT to 1.

Create a rule titled “Domination” with the text

If a henchmen’s GL + MS + INT equals or exceeds 666, they achieve victory.

Change the second paragraph of “Evil Schemes” to read:

If an Evil Proposal fails without being vetoed, then that was exactly what the proposer was expecting - their Goatee Length is increased by 1. If an Evil Proposal fails because the Overlord vetoed it, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil, and the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced to 0. If an Evil Proposal passes, then the proposer is obviously not as devious as e believed, and eir GL is reduced by 1.

If a majority of for votes on this proposal are labeled “alternate”, then ignore the previous paragraph and instead change the first line of “Evil Schemes” to read:

A Henchman may decide once a week that a proposal they made is a particularly underhanded or devious piece of work, and they may draw attention to its being an Evil Proposal by including the string “[Evil]” in its subject line.

If “Proposal: No, Mr Spivak, I Expect You To Die [Evil]” passes, replace all Spivak pronouns in the ruleset with the singular “they”, and add “, including replacing Spivak pronouns with the singular ‘they’” to the end of the last sentence of rule 1.1.

I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.

Quorum rises to 11. -Ornithopter

Create a new rule, “Tiers”:

As a weekly action, the Overlord may choose a Henchmen whose GL is the highest or tied for the highest of all Henchmen. This Henchman becomes the Overlord’s Right Hand until the time that the Overlord chooses a different Henchman for this position. The Overlord must make a story post to notify all Henchman of who the new Right Hand is at the time of his choosing.

The Right Hand may take any game actions described under Section 2 of the Ruleset as if e were the Overlord.

At this point it looks like there are a lot of game actions showing up that will involve the Overlord, so we should give him some help to prevent him from becoming overwhelmed by it.

Rewrite rule “Evil Operations” so it reads:

The Overlord may start an Evil Operation by creating a story post. That post will then go on to describe the job, namely:
* the requirements for joining the operation
* how the conclusion of the Evil Operation is determined (success or failure)
* the effects of success and failure.

Any henchman who meets the requirements for the operation may join it by including “I’m in.” in a comment to the post.

After at least 24 hours have passed, the Overlord may resolve the Evil Operation (rolling dice where necessary), and apply its effects (depending on wether it succeeded or failed).

Also, replace all instances of “player” in the ruleset with “henchman”.

Append the following text to the rule ‘Evil Day’:

On Evil Day, the Overlord may make an Evil Day Address by making a post encouraging Evil, and outlining current Evil Plans.

[ We removed Spivak from the glossary a while ago. ]

Replace all Spivak pronouns in the ruleset with appropriate usage of the singular “they”.

Add the following text to rule “Evil Schemes”

In any new proposal, if a henchmen uses the text “haha” as a part of text, such as Mmwuahahaha!, e feels very highly of eir scheme’s wisdom.  That proposal now requires a supermajority of 2/3 quorum rounded up in order to pass.  As a reward for the demonstrated consensus, that henchmen shall recieve 1 INT to eir skill if that proposal does indeed pass.  If the proposal is also an [Evil] proposal and it amended, added or created a rule, the henchmen may change one word in that proposal to one other word of eir choosing after it passes, with the change posted on the blog within 48 hours.  That rule is then amended with the indicated choice.

If “Goat Cheese” passes, add the following text to rule “Evil Schemes”

Goatee status shall be tracked on the GNDT under the heading GS.
If a henchmen uses the text “failure is not an option” in any new proposal, e feels strongly about eir scheme.  If eir proposal passes, the first henchmen who responded with a vote against shall have eir Goatee status changed to moldy and eir INT decreases by 1 if eir INT is greater than 0.  Ignore this effect if there is no against vote or if the Overlord voted against the proposal.  If the proposal fails, then it was the henchman that proposed who failed and eir Goatee status is changed to moldy and eir INT decreases by 1 if eir INT is greater than 0.  Ignore this effect if proposal was self-killed within the first 4 comments posted.

ignore post

Add this text to rule “Influence”:

Whenever the Influence of a Continent becomes 100, the Overlord may decree any one non-Evil day of the week of er choice to be Evil Day, in addition to any previously existing Evil Days. If a Rule named Evil Day exists, add then the following text to it: “X is Evil Day.” where X is the day decreed by the Overlord.

If proposal “Goat cheese” passes, add the following text to the end of the rule “Facial Hair”:

A Henchman may not achieve victory while eir GL is 0 or eir Goatee state is Moldy.

If proposal “Goat cheese” fails, add the following text to the end of the rule “Facial Hair”:

A Henchman may not achieve victory while eir GL is 0.

I think that we all agree that a victory is meaningless if you are not properly groomed.

If the Proposal titled “Goat cheese” failed, ignore this proposal.

Add the following text to the rule “Facial Hair”:

A Henchman can never achieve victory if eir GL has a length of 0. Or if eir Goatee state is Moldy.

Create an empty “Doomsday Device” wiki page (if that page already exists, erase its text).

Create a new rule, “Doomsday Device”:

There exists a wiki page named “Doomsday Device” which describes an overly complicated, goldberg-like device used for torturing prisoners and/or blowing up celestial bodies. Any henchman located in Antarctica may, as a weekly action, add another part to this device by describing it in the wiki page. E may then increase eir Goatee Length by 1. The Overlord may reward particulary crafty additions by increasing its writer’s Intelligence by 1.

Add the following to rule 2.4: Influence

When the Overlord has an influence of 100 in a continent, all Henchmen should celebrate. All enemy groups in the continent are removed.

Set Antarctica’s influence to 90 and all other continents’ influences to 0.

If “Proposal: Give me guns” and “Proposal: [Evil] Mad Physicists” both passed, change all instances of “Weapon(s) of Choice” in the ruleset to “Weapons”.

Change the first sentence of the second paragraph of rule 2.6 to “If an Evil Proposal fails without being vetoed or self-killed, then that was exactly what the proposer was expecting - their Goatee Length is increased by 1.”

Add the following to rule 2.4: Influence

All continents begin with an influence value of 0.
When the Overlord has an influence of 100 in a continent, all Henchmen should celebrate. All enemy groups in the continent are removed.

The “Earth” wikipage has influence values for the continents which have been there since the creation of the page, but none were set by the proposal that created it. Should we change/remove them, or am I just overlooking something?

UPDATE: Purplebeard created the “Earth” page with those values on it before making the proposal. Perfectly legal. My fault.

I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.

That angry einstein is at it again, he wants to know what happens if his minions destroy the world using strangelets and black holes from the Large Hadron Collider

Create the following enemy group:

  Name: Mad Physicists
  Leader: Einstein’s brain in a vat
  App. Number of Members: 7000
  Weapon(s) of Choice: Large Hadron Collider, Complicated books, Dangerous prototype rayguns
  HQ Location: Europe

If the Proposal titled “Give me guns” passes, change “Weapon(s) of Choice” in “Weapons” for each enemy group. And in the Dynastic rule ‘enemies’ change all instances of “Weapon(s) of choice” in “Weapons”.

Create a new rule “Facial Hair” with the following text:

There are two possible states a Goatee can be in:  Normal or Moldy.  New henchmen have a Normal Goatee.
Once on every Monday, a henchmen may choose to grow their facial hair if they haven’t already done so on that day.  The result is eir GL increases by 1.
As a daily action, henchmen may choose to shave eir own face.  Executing this action shall reduce eir Goatee Length to 0, and thier Goatee is no longer Moldy and is reset to Normal.

Set all henchmen’s Goatee to Normal.
If “Evil Day” passes, change instance of “Monday” in rule Facial Hair to “Evil Day”

Add a new Dynastic Rule entitle ‘Evil Day’ with the following text:

Monday is Evil Day.

I’m moving today and wont have internet until Monday, just so ya’ll know. Not going idle, just wont be around for a couple days.

Add to rule “Martial Skill”:

As a weekly action, any henchman may ‘train’ eir Martial Skill if e is located in Asia, South America or Africa. E then either:
*gains 1 MS for each henchman in South America if e is located in Asia.
*gains 1 MS for each henchman in Africa if e is located in South America.
*gains 1 MS for each henchman in Asia if e is located in Africa.

Add to rule “Intelligence”:

As a weekly action, any henchman may ‘train’ eir Intelligence if e is located in Europe, North America or Oceania. E then either:
*gains 1 INT for each henchman in North America if e is located in Europe.
*gains 1 INT for each henchman in Oceania if e is located in North America.
*gains 1 INT for each henchman in Europe if e is located in Oceania.

“I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.”

If the Proposal titled “Enemies” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a new Dynastic rule titled Weapons:

Weapons exist.  They give bonuses for missions.  Weapons may only be created by the Overlord or by successful proposals.  The Storage Zone wiki page is used to keep track of the weapons, their requirements, bonuses, and whether we have them in the Storage Zone (SZ).  There is a column in the GNDT titled Weapon where players may equip a weapon from the storage zone, if they meet the requirements of that weapon.  Only one weapon may be equipped by a certain player at a time.  Weapons may only be equipped by a player if e is at Antarctica. Weapon bonuses only count for the purpose of Evil Operations.

Any weapon we gain is automatically in the SZ, and may not ever become out of the SZ.

Some weapons have special traits, which give extra bonuses.

Add the following weapons to the Storage Zone:

*Brass Knuckles
Requires 1 MS, 1 GL
Gives 1 MS
In SZ

*Extremely minor bomb
Requires 10 INT, 1 GL
Special: Bomb, kills half the people who would normally be killed
In SZ

*Puck grenades
Requires 10 MS, 10 INT, 5 GL
Gives 5 MS, 1 INT
Not in SZ

*Guns concealed in hockey sticks
Requires 20 MS, 15 INT, 5 GL
Gives 6 MS, 5 INT
Special: Assassination weapon
Not in SZ

Create another new dynastic rule, titled Evil Operations:

There are Evil Operations, which can only be started with a successful proposal.  They are jobs that all players may attempt.  Each Evil Operation proposal must target one Enemy Group.  Each player who joins an Evil Operation must meet the required amounts of Martial Skill, Intelligence, and Goatee Length.  To target an Enemy Group, the continent that Enemy Group is in must have an Influence value that meets the requirement for the mission.

Players handle die rolls themselves, in the GNDT.

A player joins an Evil Operation by saying “I’m in.” with their For vote on the proposal, if that player is in the continent with the target.

A player may only start an Evil Operation if they meet the requirements.

The following Evil Operations are possible to start:

*Bomb a Base
Requirements: 10 MS, 30 INT, 10 GL, 10 influence, a bomb equipped
Rolls: DICE100+Combined INT of all players in operation must be greater than 50 times the amount of players in the operation
Success: Target loses DICE45 members, +1 GL for each player in the operation, +5 INT for each player in the operation, +DICE3 influence in enemy group’s continent, loss of bomb
Failure: -5 GL for each player in the operation, -5 influence, loss of bomb

*Kill Random Member
Requirements: None
Rolls: DICE50+Combined MS of all players in operation must be greater than10 times the amount of players in the operation
Bonuses: Double the bonus from Assassination weapons
Success: Target loses 1 member, +1MS for each player in operation, +1 GL for each player in operation
Failure: -1 influence, all players in operation lose any weapons they are using

*Warehouse Raid
Requirements: 5 MS, 15 INT, 10 GL, 5 influence
Rolls: DICE30+Combined MS must be higher than 20 times the number of players in the operation
Success: Target loses DICE3 members, all of the target’s weapons are now in the SZ

If the creator of this proposal has a goatee length of 0 when this passes, e shall achive victory.

Hi, never done a nomic before, but wanted to before. So I’m willing to try. And world domination seems like a nice small goal to start with.

“I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.”

Weapons exist.  They give bonuses for missions.  Weapons may only be created by the Overlord or by successful proposals.  The Storage Zone wiki page is used to keep track of the weapons, their requirements, bonuses, and the amount in the Storage Zone (SZ) at the time.  There is a column in the GNDT where players may equip a weapon from the storage zone, if they meet the requirements of that weapon. Weapon bonuses only count for the purpose of missions.

Add the following weapons to the Storage Zone:

*Brass Knuckles
Requires 1 MS, 1 GL
Gives 1 MS
Infinite amount in SZ

*Puck grenades
Requires 10 MS, 10 INT, 5 GL
Gives 5 MS, 1 INT
None in SZ

*Guns concealed in hockey sticks
Requires 20 MS, 15 INT, 5 GL
Gives 6 MS, 5 INT
None in SZ

There are Evil Operations, which can only be started with a successful proposal.  They are jobs that all players may attempt.  Each Evil Operation proposal must target one Enemy Group.  Each player who joins an Evil Operation must meet the required amounts of Martial Skill, Intelligence, and Goatee Length.  To target an Enemy Group, the continent that Enemy Group is in must have an Influence value that meets the requirement for the mission.

Players handle die rolls themselves, in the GNDT.

A player joins an Evil Operation by saying “I’m in.” with their For vote on the proposal.

A player may only start an Evil Operation if they meet the requirements.

The following Evil Operations are possible to start:

*Bomb a Base
Requirements: 10 MS, 30 INT, 10 GL, 10 influence
Rolls: DICE100+Combined INT of all players in operation must beat 50 times the amount of players in the operation
Success: Target loses DICE45 members, +1 GL for each player in the operation, +5 INT for each player in the operation, +DICE3 influence in enemy group’s continent
Failure: -5 GL for each player in the operation, -5 influence

*Kill Random Member
Requirements: None
Rolls: DICE50+Combined MS of all players in operation must beat 10 times the amount of players in the operation
Success: Target loses 1 member, +1MS for each player in operation, +1 GL for each player in operation
Failure: -1 influence, all players in operation lose any weapons they are using

*Warehouse Raid
Requirements: 5 MS, 15 INT, 10 GL, 5 influence
Rolls: DICE30+Combined MS must be higher than 20 times the number of players in the operation
Success: Target loses DICE3 members, each player in the operation gets to add a weapon from the enemy group to the Storage Zone

Anything missing, or anything that could be improved?

The creator of this Proposal increases er Goatee Length by 1.

Okay, if Enemies passes, I plan to create weapon rules, and, if those pass, I will create rules for evil operations.

What are your plans?

Create a new rule “Facial Hair Properties” with the text:

Goatee Length for every henchmen increases by 1 every Monday at 01:00:00 UTC. 
As a daily action, henchmen may choose to shave eir own face.  Executing this action shall reduce eir Goatee Length to 0. 
As a daily action, henchmen may choose to trim eir own face.  Executing this action shall reduce eir Goatee Length to 1 if and only if eir Goatee Length is greater than 1.

If “Proposal: Shortening the Stats” passes, change all instances of “Goatee Length” in “Facial Hair Properties” to “GL” for brevity’s sake.

[ Reproposal of the previous proposal, because I forgot about the italics thing. ]

If “The root of all Evil” passed, repeal the rule it created. Create a new Rule, “Evil Schemes”:-

Whenever a Henchman makes a proposal which they feel to a particularly underhand or devious piece of work, they may draw attention to it as being an Evil Proposal by including the string “[Evil]” in its subject line. Maniacal laughter is optional.

If an Evil Proposal fails without being vetoed, then that was exactly what the proposer was expecting - their Goatee Length is increased by 1. If an Evil Proposal fails because the Overlord vetoed it, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil, and the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of zero).

If a Dynastic Rule is enacted or amended as a result of an Evil Proposal, it shall have “[Evil]” added to its title (unless it’s already there).

Lars atomica has gone idle, since e has not posted anything in 9 days.  Quorum stays the same.

If “The root of all Evil” passed, repeal the rule it created.

Create a new Rule, “Evil Schemes”:-

Whenever a Henchman makes a proposal which they feel to a particularly underhand or devious piece of work, they may draw attention to it as being an Evil Proposal by including the string “[Evil]” in its subject line. Maniacal laughter is optional.

If an Evil Proposal fails without being vetoed, then that was exactly what the proposer was expecting - their Goatee Length is increased by 1. If an Evil Proposal fails because the Overlord vetoed it, however, this marks it as an excessively clumsy work of evil, and the proposer’s Goatee Length is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of zero).

If a Dynastic Rule is enacted or amended as a result of an Evil Proposal, it shall have “[Evil]” added to its title (unless it’s already there).

I unidle and change into my boiler suit. Quorum rises to nine.

Ignore this Post

Create a rule named “Evil” with this text:

Whenever a Henchman makes a proposal, e may mark that Proposal as Evil by stating so in the text of the Proposal.
When an Evil Proposal passes, the Goatee Length of the creator of that Proposal is increased by 1.
Whenever the Overlord votes FOR on an Evil Proposal, that vote shall be counted twice (that is, each legal vote of the Overlord is worth 2 votes).
If an Evil Proposal creates one or more Rules, those rules shall be known as Evil Rules and marked as such in the Ruleset.

If the Proposal titled “This may be more practical” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Add a new dynastic rule titled “Enemies” with the following text:

There exist enemy groups, which can only be created by successful proposals.  They have 5 statistics: Name (N), Leader (L), App. Number of Members(A#M), Weapon(s) of Choice(W), and HQ Location (HQ).  What kind of evil villains would we be if we had to find our enemies’ HQs?  Name is the name of the group.  Leader is the leader of the group.  App. Number of Members is the number of members, and must be a number.  Weapon(s) of Choice is the enemy group’s weapon(s) used.  HQ location is the location of the enemy HQ, and must be a continent.  Enemy groups are listed on the Earth wiki page, under the header for their HQ continent.

If at least half of the valid For votes include the text “They’re not just hockey players”, create the following enemy group:

Name: Vancouver Canucks
Leader: Markus Naslund
App. Number of Members: 27
Weapon(s) of Choice: Guns concealed in hockey sticks, puck grenades
HQ Location: North America

Greetings.  Please add myself among your ranks.

I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.

If the proposal “Stats” passes, make the following changes to the sub-rules of the rule “Attributes”:

Add “, which may be abbreviated MS for all purposes, ” after “Martial Skill” in the sub-rule “Martial Skill”.

Add “, which may be abbreviated INT for all purposes, ” after “Intelligence” in the sub-rule “Intelligence”.

Add “, which may be abbreviated GL for all purposes, ” after “Goatee Length” in the sub-rule “Goatee Length”.

I don’t really have time right now to keep up with a new dynasty.  I may be back in a few weeks, but for now I don’t want to drag down Quorum.

First, revert any changes made to this page since the posting of this proposal.

Then, add to rule “Continents”:

“The Continents are also listed in the Earth wiki page. This page may hold other information relevant to the gamestate.

Also, create a new rule, “Influence”:

Each continent has an ‘influence’ value, which is listed on the Earth page and which may not be higher than 100. This is a measure of the Overlord’s influence in that continent.

We could include stuff like political figures to assassinate, elections to fix and secret agencies who try to thwart our devious plots later.

Add a new rule, entitled Lairs:

All Henchmen may have their own lair. Each Henchman’s lair has a page on the wiki, which will include all necessary information about that lair. The henchmen may optionally also decorate their lair’s page with a description of the lair and an illustration, although nothing contained within these pages will have an impact on the Gamestate unless mandated by the Rulestate.

A Henchman may create a lair at any time. A Henchman may only have one lair at a time and a lair may not be revoked. A Henchman creates a lair by posting to the effect on the front page. Upon creating a lair, the Henchman must chose upon which continent their lair is to be located.

A Henchman may never spend more than 48 hours away from the continent in which their lair is located. At present there is no punishment for doing so, other than the possibility that another Henchman may move them back to their lair.

ajhager has not voted for 7 days and is idled.
Quorum remains the same.

I am unidle; quorum remains nine. And in the interests of compliance:

I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.

Hi everyone. Could I possibly be unidled?

Create a new dynastic rule titled “Muahahahaha…” with the following text:

All new Henchman or idle Henchman who wish to unidle are *ahem* encouraged to state in the post in which e requests membership or unidling to include the following text:

“I do solemnly swear by all that is vile and evil that I will follow any and all orders set forth by the Overlord and will do whatever it takes to achieve world domination.”

I wish to be un-idle now.

Create a new rule named “Weapons” with this text:

Each Henchman may have a Weapon, and it shall be tracked in the GNDT by it’s name.
There exists a Weapon Catalog as a Game State Document, which tracks the existence of all Weapons and their properties.
No two Weapons in the Weapon Catalog may share any word on their names, and each Weapon name must be 5 or 3 words long.

As a weekly action, a Henchman may set er Weapon to any Weapon described in the Weapon Catalog.
A new Weapon may be added to the Weapon Catalog only by the Overlord or by creating it through a successful proposal.

Bwa-ha-ha.  Unidle me, and get me another brain.

Could anyone take a shot at updating these? Anything evil-looking will do. I haven’t the skills for it myself.

Create a new rule, “Attributes”:

Each Henchman has several attributes representing measures of eir abilities, which are tracked in the GNDT.

===Martial Skill===

Martial Skill is the measure of how a Henchman fares in personal combat.

New Henchmen start with a Martial Skill of 10.

===Intelligence===

Intelligence is the measure of how crafty a Henchman is.

New Henchmen start with an Intelligence of 10.

===Goatee Length===

Goatee Length is the measure of how devious and nefarious a henchman is.

New Henchmen start with a Goatee Length of 0.

Set each Henchman’s attributes to the values new Henchmen receive.

Set the Overlord’s attributes to the following:
Martial Skill: 75
Intelligence: 100
Goatee Length: 25

Create a Rule named Brownie Points with the following text:

Each Henchman (including the Overlord) has an attribute named “Brownie Points” which is always zero or a positive integer, and which shall be tracked by the GNDT, abreviated as BP.
Henchman may not lower or increase their Brownie Points in any way other than those specified by the rules.

As a daily action, the Overlord may transfer any amount of Brownie Points from one Henchman to another Henchman.

Whenever a Henchman joins the game, give 10 Brownie Points to Henchman.

Give 10 Brownie Points to all Henchman (including the Overlord)

Create a new rule, “Continents”:

There exist seven continents named Europe, Asia, South America, North America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica.

All henchmen have a location, which is tracked by the GNDT, and which may be any of these continents. New henchmen start at Antarctica.

A henchman may change eir location to another continent as a weekly action.

Set each henchman’s location to antarctica (the location of our secret base).

You all know why you’re here, so I’ll keep it short:

Gentlemen (and ladies, of course), let’s take over the world. *laughs maniacally*

Repeal all Dynastic Rules, veto the pending proposal and wipe clean the GNDT. “Captain” becomes “Henchman” and “Dread Pirate” becomes “Overlord”.

I have unidled.  Quorum stays at 7.

I have achieved victory through the use of the Diamond Steering Wheel of Destiny.

I met the requirements as set in rule 2.18.1 (I had a treasure map, and was at the location specified in said map), so I could legally hunt for treasure. I therefore chose to hunt for the steering wheel, since the ruleset doesn’t restrict the treasures I am able to find from any location. (Rule 2.18.1: “While at a Treasure Island, if allowed by the rules, a Captain may hunt for treasure as a daily action.”)

Note that I didn’t need to meet the requirements set in the treasure map, simply because the ruleset doesn’t say I have to. The only functions a treasure map may have are specifying the name and location of its treasure (see rule 2.20). As far as the ruleset is concerned, any other information in the treasure map is flavour text, in the same way that naming your ship “the owner of this ship has achieved victory” has no effect.

I achieve victory.

Add the following text to rule Gold:

If a single captain has twice the amount of Gold of every other Captain added together has, e achieves victory.

Create a new treasure, “The Diamond Steering Wheel of Destiny”, with a value of 1000 gold and the following enchantment:

As a daily action, you may achieve victory.

Create a Treasure Map for it:

The Diamond Steering Wheel of Destiny is located at “Doom Island”. Only captains with at least 200 gold, an army of 20, 3 treasures and 50 fruit may hunt for this treasure. This treasure map may not be distributed through visiting the tavern.

Reword the rule Treasure Islands that currently reads

Listed below are possible Treasure Islands that a Captain or treasure may be located:

to say

If the a treasure map proposal mentions a location that does not exist on the list of islands below in this rule, is shall be listed when the treasure map proposal is passed. An island listed this way will have no special attributes or effects unless the proposal causes it. Listed below are possible Treasure Islands that a Captain or treasure may be located:

and in case

List any islands mentioned in treasure maps in the Treasure Islands rule.

Create a Treasure named “Mystical Diatomite Seed” with a value of 60 Gold and this Enchantment:

Once a Week you may roll DICE10 and add the resulting amount to your Fruit. If a Captain rolls exactly 10, er Flavor becomes Sweet. This enchantment can only be activated while it’s owner is located on Forbidden Orchard Isle.

Create a Treasure Map to the “Mystical Diatomite Seed” with this text:

To unearth the Mystical Diatomite Seed, a Captain must dig for it at Forbidden Orchard Isle on a Tuesday.

Create the following Bragging Right:

Prosperity [7th]: You may reduce your Rank by X places, X can’t be greater than 6. Add 10 + (XDICE10) to your Gold.

Finders Keepers!

Alethiophile is idled.

Quorum drops to 6.

I summon the Shuriken Island Sea-Moth, targeting Darknight!

Create a new Sea Monster named “Generic Sea Snake”, affiliated to Pirates and with a summoning cost of 12 gold. It has the following effect:

Set target’s Flavor to Bitter. Reduce target’s Fruit by 6.

Create a new Sea Monster named “Osaka Orange-Eater”, affiliated to Ninjas, with a summoning cost of 20 gold. It has the following effect:

Reduce target’s Fruit by 20.

Create a new Treasure named the “BORON PROSPECTING Dummy” with a Value of 130 Gold and the following enchantment:

Once a week, when a Captain targets you with the effect of a Sea Monster, you may respond within 24 hours to er Sea Monster attack post with a comment that reads “I’m sorry, sir. You miss.” and pay 1 Army. If you do, ignore all effects of that Sea Monster during this attack. If the effects where already applied, undo them.

Create a Treasure Map to the “BORON PROSPECTING Dummy” with this text:

The Treasure referenced by this map can be found on the Isle of Infinite Fright. If you attempt to dig this treasure and fail (that is, your dig roll is not 1 or 2) your Army is reduced to 0, your location is set to ‘Home Port’ and your flavor is set to ‘Sour’.

Finders Keepers!

In the rule “Sea Monsters” rewrite:

A Sea Monster’s Affiliation may be either Pirates or Ninjas. Only Pirates may summon Sea Monsters affiliated with Pirates. Only Ninjas may summon Sea Monsters affiliated with Ninjas.

So that it reads:

A Sea Monster’s Affiliation may be Pirates, Ninjas or Common. Only Pirates may summon Sea Monsters affiliated with Pirates. Only Ninjas may summon Sea Monsters affiliated with Ninjas. Sea Monsters with an affiliation of Common may be summoned by Captains of either Role.

Also rewrite:

As a weekly action, a Captain may summon a Sea Monster Affiliated to eir Role by making a post to that effect.

So that it reads:

As a weekly action, a Captain may summon a Sea Monster Affiliated to eir Role, or of Common Affiliation, by making a post to that effect.

Create a new Sea Monster named “Silent Ship Destroyer”, of Common Affiliation, with a summoning cost of 100 gold and 50 Fruit. It has the following effect:

Sink target’s Ship.

Create a new Sea Monster named “Giant Squid”, of Common Affiliation, with a summoning cost of 50 gold and 50 Fruit. It has the following effect:

Reduce target’s Gold by 100.

Create a treasure named “Other Clay Champion Belt” with a value of 75 gold and the following enchantment:

This belt may not be sold.

As a daily action, you may make any other non-entrant captain an entrant by changing their tournament value to ‘entrant’. You then gain DICE10 gold.

If you lose a tournament swordfight, or fail to accept a challenge to one within 48 hours (unless you were unable to accept it), the entrant who defeated you (or challenged you) will gain ownership of this treasure.

Make Purplebeard the owner of this treasure.

Set the location of all captains whose location is undefined (or ‘port’) to ‘Home Land’.

Add to rule “Ships”:

A ship has no effect or meaning unless specifically referred to as a ship.

In subrule “Treasure Hunting”, rewrite

daily a Captain may hunt for treasure.

so that it reads

a Captain may hunt for treasure as a daily action.

in the entry in the Treasures Page describing The Ice Spar Bucket of Nantucket, rewrite the second paragraph so that it reads:

Due to the frozen ground, the Ice Spar Bucket of Nantucket is harder to dig up then most treasures. For a pirate to claim this treasure, e must roll a 1 or 2 twice during the same attempt at hunting for treasure, once to break the icy ground and a second to dig the treasure up before the ground freezes again.

Repeal subrule “Changing Your Pet”.

Create all places where treasure may be located according to its treasure map to rule “Treasure Islands” unless it’s already in there.

So, my name is Masked, and I’d like to be added to the Captain’s list. I believe this is what I am supposed to do.

I would like to unidle, since it seems like the dynasty is ending somewhat.

Also, guess what, I found a loophole in the core rules: today is opposite day &c &c.

You might be interested to know that the Ruleset has been rewritten using an intricate loophole in the Core Rules I can’t be bothered to explain right now.

I’ll have a new, improved ruleset up in a few days. In the meantime, I suggest you keep on my good side. Remember, I could ban any one of you if I wanted to. Don’t even think about crying for Kevan to save you. He is nothing now that I control this site.

Beware. Purplebeard reigns.

I declare myself the champion of the tournament.

That is all.