BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Create a sub-rule of rule 3.2 Proper References, sub-rule of rule 3 Needless Bureaucracy, Rule of the MIC ruleset with the name “Reference Exceptions” with the text:

WHEREAS at times a rule must be referenced before it has been added to the ruleset;
WHEREAS in such times, a proposal should not be needlessly failed;
THEREFOR if a proposal refers to a rule that was not added to the ruleset until prior to the proposal was posted, it need not refer to the rule number, or parent rules of the rule to which it refers, as specified in rule 3.2 Proper References, sub-rule of rule 3 Needless Bureaucracy, Rule of the MIC ruleset.

Create a new rule of the MIC ruleset named “The Will of the People” with the text:

WHEREAS at times the people will be unified in their decisisions;
WHEREAS the will of the people is represented by the Chairman and his Viziers;
THEREFOR if a proposal has reached a quorum of votes and the Chairman and at least one of his Vizier’s has voted on the proposal, and cast the same vote, that proposal may be immediately enacted or failed, regardless of it’s position in the queue.
THEREFOR if a proposal has been voted on by the Chairman and BOTH of his Vizier’s, and all three have voted the same, that proposal may be immediately enacted, regardless of it’s position in the queue.

EDIT: Yoda’s comment doesn’t count as a real comment, so this edit is legal :D.

Replace the text “As a daily action” in Rule 6 Smash it to pieces with “As an hourly action”.

If half of all legal FOR votes on this proposal contain the text “YES!”, replace the text “As an hourly action” in Rule 6 Smash it to pieces with “At any time”.

WHEREAS the terms of a treaty may need to be changed quickly;
WHEREAS it is not up to regular citizens how the treaty works;
THEREFORE the Vizier of Issues may change the treaty.

Add a sub rule of rule 5 Diplomacy - Amendments

At any time the Vizier of Issues or the Stylist (referred to as diplomats) may create a post with a title prefixed by [Treaty]. In this post they may write an unlimited number of potential amendments (with a minimum of one), each of them numbered, starting at one. If the diplomat belonging to the other faction posts a comment which contains the words “I agree with amendment X” where X is the number of a potential amendment, that potential amendment becomes an unenacted amendment. After either 72 hours have passed since the creation of the post or if both diplomats make a comment containing “End the negotiations”, whichever comes first, all unenacted amendments are added to the list of Current Amendments (sub rule 5.3) of both factions. Amendments function like normal rules. All potential amendments then stop being potential amendments.

Add a sub rule of rule 5 Diplomacy - Current Amendments

If the chairman posts a comment to this proposal which contains the text “The Chairman’s word is law”, replace all instances of “Vizier of Issues” with “Chairman”.
Obviously this has no effect unless BLO also makes this rule. And can someone fix the “Whereas; Whereas; Therefore.” part of the diplomacy rule?

If the Proposal titled “[MIC] Loyal Citizen’s Contribute” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a new sub-rule of the Rule “Class Structure” entitled “Current Chairman” with the text:

WHEREAS the Chairman cannot by his very nature be disloyal, and
WHEREAS it would be redundant to mention the Chairman’s loyalty,
THEREFORE the class of the Chairman is always “Chairman”

Create a new sub-rule of the Rule “Class Structure” entitled “Retiring Chairman” with the text:

WHEREAS a Chairman who retires honorably should be recognized for his service, and
WHEREAS the loyalty of the Chairman does not change merely because he chooses to retire,
THEREFORE should the Chairman retire while remaining a Citizen of MIC, his class must be immediately changed to from “Chairman” to “Loyal”

Create a new rule of the MIC rules “Class Structure” with the text:

WHEREAS each citizen is more than simply a citizen;
WHEREAS it is important for other citizen’s to acknowledge their fellow citizen’s stance with the People;
THEREFOR there exists a field in the GDNT called “Class” which tracks the current status of a Citizen within the People.  As a Daily Action a Citizen may change any other Citizen’s (but not their own) class to any of the classes listed in sub-rules of this rule, as long as that citizen meets the requirements for that class, as explained within the rule.

Create a new sub-rule of the Rule Class Structure, Rule of the MIC ruleset “Loyal” with the text:

WHEREAS a Citizen may show themselves to be especially loyal to the People;
WHEREAS a Citizen should be recognized if they show themselves thus;
THEREFOR a Citizen’s Class may be set to Loyal if, within the last 24 hours a proposal which that citizen was the Author of which was also deemed loyal by the Vizier of Propaganda, per rule 2.1.2 Vizier of Propaganda, sub-rule of rule 2.1 Organization sub-rule of rule 2 The Party, rule of the MIC ruleset,  was passed

Create a new sub-rule of the Rule Class Structure, Rule of the MIC ruleset “Disloyal” with the text:

WHEREAS a Citizen may show themselves to be a non-contributing member of the People;
WHEREAS such non-contributors may be punished;
THEREFOR a Citizen’s Class may be set to Disloyal if that Citizens has not authored a MIC faction proposal within the last 4 days.

Create a new sub-rule of the Rule Class Structure, Rule of the MIC ruleset “Mere” with the text:

WHEREAS a Citizen may simply be a mere member of the People;
THEREFOR a Citizen’s Class may be set to Mere if that citizen’s Class has not been changed within the last 2 days.

Set All Citizens’ Class to Loyal.

This provides a use for the Class column by the MIC, encourages proposals within the MIC (making proposals the game that we’re playing) encourages the Vizier to mark a proposal as Loyal, and open the doors to allow further means of being a loyal or disloyal citizen (or perhaps others if people are so inclined to think of them).

Create a new rule with the title Removal of GNO’s Secrecy

At the end of the dynasty, a member or former member of GNO must post the decrypted version of the encrypted text (as defined by GNO’s Shhhh rule) or give the method used to decrypt it before a new dynasty or meta dynasty may begin. If more than 72 hours have passed since the end of the dynasty or if GNO has less than 3 members, this rule does nothing.

I’m not implying that nobody would say what the text said. I just want to be sure it’s translated.

Remove the phrase “except for the purpose of enacting or failing proposals” from dynastic rule Membership.

That phrase raises the quorum of faction proposals to the Blognomic normal quorum.

Add a rule to the GNO Faction Ruleset entitled “Gnostic Gossip” with the following text:

This rule shall be treated as if the following string of numbers has been decrypted using the official GNO encryption method.

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SHHHH

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Create a new subrule of rule 3.1 Proper Reasoning, subrule of rule 3.0 Needless Bureaucracy, rule of the MIC ruleset, named “Proper References” with the text:

WHEREAS it is oftentimes confusing which rule a Citizen is refering to;
WHEREAS said confusion can be eliminated by proper reference;
THEREFOR any reference to the rules of the MIC ruleset within the Ruleset, or within a MIC proposal, must include the full rule name and number, as well as any rules of which that rule is a subrule of.

See my reference in this proposal for what I’m aiming at.

Create a new subrule of rule 3.1 Proper Reasoning, subrule of rule 3.0 Needless Bureaucracy, rule of the MIC ruleset:

WHEREAS it is oftentimes confusing which rule a Citizen is refering to;
WHEREAS said confusion can be eliminated by proper reference;
THEREFOR any reference to the rules of the MIC ruleset within the Ruleset, or within a MIC proposal, must include the full rule name and number, as well as any rules of which that rule is a subrule of.

See my reference in this proposal for what I’m aiming at.

Create a rule “Shared Proposals”

In this rule X, Y and Z refer to different factions. A proposal may have [Shared X/Y] in front of the subject, where X and Y are decided by the creator of the proposal. It is referred to as a shared proposal. Shared proposals cannot be faction posts. Shared proposals may only create or modify shared rules. Only a shared proposal or rule can modify a shared rule. When a shared proposal passes, it creates or changes a shared rule which is shared between the factions X and Y. The title of a shared rule or sub-rule must be prefixed by [X/Y]. Shared rules can affect the rules and gamestate of X and Y but it cannot affect the rules and gamestate of Z. To pass, a shared proposal must reach the quorum of both X and Y. The quorum of the main rules is irrelevant. If a shared proposal between X and Y is created by a member of Z, it can be self killed but no other vote by anyone in Z is valid. This includes the implicit FOR vote from the creator of the proposal. A sub-rule may not be shared if the rule it belongs to is not shared. If a rule is shared, all sub-rules of it are considered shared. The shared proposal must be legal in both rulesets that the shared rule would belong to.

I don’t really expect this to pass this late in the dynasty but it could be useful.

Ok, no more playing around:

Arthexis is the Stylist.

Replace the “THEREFORE” section of the rule “Relic Control” with the following:

THEREFORE the Chairman may, as a daily action, grant ownership of the Relic M to any other Citizen, regardless of who currently owns the Relic, subject to the restrictions below.

Create a new subsection of the rule “Relic Control” titled “Righteous Relic Retention” with the following text:

WHEREAS the value of the MIC Relic to the people has been established;
WHEREAS things of value should not be lightly taken from a loyal Citizen once granted;
THEREFORE the Chairman may not grant ownership of the Relic M to any Citizen if it is currently in the possession of another Citizen who has been deemed “Loyal”.

Change the phrase “and to inform the other Citizens of GNO” in GNO rule 7 Shhhh to “and to inform the other Citizens of GNO, as well as Blognomic admins,”

I’m ready for some bat-crap crazy fun.

Mmm. I know I came late to the party, but is it too late to propose (informally) a color scheme/banner change? I mocked up this weird/gnome/parliamentary themed banner, and I was also thinking a warmer brown for the color scheme - check it below.

What do you think? If you really like what we have right now, we don’t have to switch, or if you have better ideas for the color scheme, I’m open like China’s door at the turn of the 19th century.

Gnauga, Hello Sailor kaddar and Syl all went idle.

Wow.  I’d admin this mess, but I’m too lazy to admin a huge amount of proposals.

If the Proposal titled “[MIC] Relics are we” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Replace the “THEREFORE” section of the rule “Relics are we” with the following:

THEREFORE the Chairman may, as a daily action, grant ownership of the Relic M to any other Citizen, regardless of who currently owns the Relic, subject to the restrictions below.

Create a new subsection of the rule “Relics are we” with the following text:

WHEREAS the value of the MIC Relic to the people has been established;
WHEREAS things of value should not be lightly taken from a loyal Citizen once granted;
THEREFORE the Chairman may not grant ownership of the Relic M to any Citizen if it is currently in the possession of another Citizen, if the current owner has been deemed “Loyal”.

I leave it to future rules to determine how a Citizen can be deemed “Loyal”.

WHEREAS the MIC faction has made diplomatic overtures towards our noble Empire;
WHEREAS upon the slightest hurdle SingularByte has chosen to scuttle said overtures;
and WHEREAS he threatens to taint any further communion between us;
THEREFORE let the sting of hellish frost instruct him in the ways of patience and perseverance.

SHHHH
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Add a new subrule to the Rule “Gnomic Gnostic Church of GNO” in the GNO Ruleset.  Call it “Imperial Decrees” and give it the following text:

The wiki page called “Gnomish Scrolls” shall contain GNO faction gamestate that is sacred to the Church or the contents of an Imperial decree.  The Gnomish Scrolls may only be modified as the GNO faction ruleset permits.  Any other attempt to modify the Gnomish Scrolls shall be immediately reverted.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Holy GNOmish Empire” in the GNO faction ruleset.  Call it “Imperialism” and give it the following text:

There is a section of the Gnomish Scrolls called the “Oath of Fealty”.  If another faction’s ruleset has the Oath of Fealty as a Rule, except with XXXX in the Oath of Fealty replaced by the name of a Disciple and YYY is replaced by that Faction’s name, and that Rule is in full effect, that Disciple’s Gnomes shall be treated as if it were 60 higher than the amount in the GNDT for the purposes of victory conditions.

Create the “Gnomish Scrolls” wiki page.  Add the following text to that wiki page in a section called “Oath of Fealty”:

We recognize the authority of the Holy Gnomish Empire as guaranteed by XXXX and willingly submit the GNO Faction’s wise and benevolent government.  To allow more effective governance, GNO Faction proposals may modify YYY Faction Ruleset and Gamestate, and the Supreme Being may vote on and veto YYY Faction proposals.

Add a rule to the GNO Faction Ruleset entitled “Gnostic Gossip” with the following text:

This rule shall be treated as if the following string of numbers has been decrypted using the official GNO encryption method.

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Add a GNDT column entitled Garden Gnomes, which tracks the number of Garden Gnomes a citizen has.

Create a new rule “Diplomacy”

Having no friends is no fun, because you have nobody to invite you to parties, and there will be no one to help you when you cut your fingers off while trying to dial 911. Because of this, we should hand out with other factions some more. As an effort to accomplish that, the MIC Chairman and the BLO Stylist shall be drinking buddies.

Any subrules of this rule have no effect unless they also exist in MICs ruleset.

Add a subrule of diplomacy - “A leader’s vote between BLO and MIC”

The Chairman of MIC and the Stylist of BLO have a vote in BLO proposals and MIC proposals respectively. They may be referred to as ambassadors but only in the context of them voting in the other faction (the BLO faction for the Chairman and the MIC faction for the Stylist). Ambassadors are not considered idle in the other faction for the purposes of voting only.

Unless more than half of all comments containing counted votes also contain the text “Not so fast”, the Citizen who has made the most Proposals that have been enacted in BLO becomes the Stylist.

If the rule “Diplomacy” exists, add “WHEREAS the Stylist is the most wise among the BLO;” after “WHEREAS the Supreme Being is the most wise among the GNO; “

If the rule “Diplomacy” doesn’t exist, add a new rule “Diplomacy”

WHEREAS the chairman is the most wise among us;
WHEREAS the Stylist is the most wise among the BLO;
THEREFORE we must share our wisdom.

Any subrules of this rule have no effect unless they also exist in another factions ruleset.

Add a subrule of diplomacy - “A leader’s vote between BLO and MIC”

The Chairman of MIC and the Stylist of BLO have a vote in BLO proposals and MIC proposals respectively. They may be referred to as ambassadors but only in the context of them voting in the other faction (the BLO faction for the Chairman and the MIC faction for the Stylist). Ambassadors are not considered idle in the other faction for the purposes of voting only.

For any people in BLO reading this, could you propose the same rule for your faction?

Add a new rule “Diplomacy”

WHEREAS the chairman is the most wise among us;
WHEREAS the Supreme Being is the most wise among the GNO;
THEREFORE we must share our wisdom.

Any subrules of this rule have no effect unless they also exist in another factions ruleset.

Add a subrule of diplomacy - “A leader’s vote between GNO and MIC”

The Chairman of MIC and the Supreme Being of GNO have a vote in GNO proposals and MIC proposals respectively. They may be referred to as ambassadors but only in the context of them voting in the other faction (the GNO faction for the Chairman and the MIC faction for the Supreme Being). Ambassadors are not considered idle in the other faction for the purposes of voting only.

Since they are considered idle for everything else, they can’t be affected by rules saying things like “The ambassador stops being the chairman” or similar things but if something stops them voting, since it’s the vote which becomes illegal, it probably applies to them. For any people in GNO reading this, could you propose the same rule for your faction?

Remove the text of rule “The rule formerly known as Wheeeeee” and replace it with:

In BLO, there is no event more important than the Midnight Snowboarding of Mount Doom. Those who manage to do so successfully, will obtain the “Awesome Relic” (which is considered BLO’s official Relic). Snowboarding down Mt. Doom is however, a dangerous process and is considered a daily action. In order to successfully accomplish it you need to perform the following three tasks in order, and break exactly less than three bones in the process:

* Put on your snowboarding gear on. This 25% Dangerous because you don’t have snowboarding gear and you will probably have to improvise it.
* Climb Mt Doom. This is 50% Dangerous because the automatic escalator sometimes works backwards and can chop your head off.
* Snowboard down Mt Doom. This is 75% Dangerous because it obviously is (I mean, its called Mount DOOM), and we really should not have to explain it to you. If you break some bones when attempting this, you break twice that number of bones instead.

If you break any bones while trying to perform any of these actions, you may not attempt it again for a number of days equal to the number of bones broken in the process.

SHHHH

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ADd the following to the end of the rule 2.1.1 “Organization”:

WHEREAS confusion begets distrust;
WHEREAS knowledge of The Party’s government will lower the potential for Confusion;
THEREFOR there is a value “Position” tracked in the GDNT, each Citizen shall have the Position of Citizen, unless they are one of the members of The Party’s Organization, in which case they may change their Position to reflect their title within the Party.

Create a new rule “Relic Control” with the text:

WHERAS the MIC relic is valuable to The People;
WHEREAS the Chairman is the most trustworthy of the people;
THEREFOR the Chairman may, as a daily action, grant ownership of the Relic M to any other Citizen, regardless of who currently owns the Relic.

I heard about nomic rather by accident ( as an incredibly off topic post for another games website) and thought it sounded interesting enough to try out.  How long does it normally take to become a registered citizen?

WHEREAS I am the duly elected Chairman of the Faction of MIC;
WHEREAS I lead The People to a brighter future;
THEREFOR let it be known that Oze shall be my Vizier of Issues and SpikeBrennan shall be my Vizier of Propaganda.

WHEREAS The People must have leadership;
WHEREAS I represent the will of The People;
THEREFOR The People shall endeavor to increase their productivity and strive to become educated in the ways of MIC, encourage others to flock under our banners, and bring to me, the Chairman, the Relics of our Factional Enemies.

As I am not a non-Idle Citizen of BLO, I cannot make a faction-only proposal, however, rule 10 in the BLO ruleset is broken. Here’s a bugfix (mandatory pun not included)

Change Rule 10 to read

Citizens are not known for being in two or more places at once, mainly because Quantum Physics is so dangerous when you have to do it blindfolded. Because of this, each Citizen has a Position, which is recorded in the GNDT. A Citizen’s Position may only be one of the following, “Upside down”, “Across”, “Backwards”, “Inside Out”,  “OMG WAI?!”, or “All over the place”. As a weekly action a Citizen may change their Position, or the position of another Citizen to any valid value other than “All over the place”. Attempting this is 34% Dangerous, but is always successful unless trying to change another Citizen’s Position. If a Citizen breaks three or more bones in the attempt to change eir own Position, that Citizens position is set to the special value “All over the place” and doesn’t have to worry about Quantum Mechanics anymore.

Happy Holidays everyone! I’ll be back on after xmas so hope ya all have fun. Lol, no need to idle me though, its only two days.

Add a rule called “Planar Shift” and give it the following text

As a weekly action, a citizen may attempt a planar shift by picking another citizen and rolling three DICE10’s. If the value of the rolls are in weakly increasing order, the first citizen switches factions with the second citizen and visa versa.

If more than half of the citizens which vote on this proposal include the phrase “I like my coffee black” in a comment of this proposal, change the word “weakly” to “strongly” in the above rule.

Add a new rule called “My other car is a TARDIS” and give it the following text

As a daily action, a Citizen may preform self surgery. To do this, he picks a number between 1 and 4 (refereed to as X) and preforms a 20*X% dangerous action. If successful, he’ll be healed and may reduce his total fractures by X.

I’m not a member, just started watching recently to get a feel for things, but I noticed there’s a reference to “Narrator” in rule 1.9 that wasn’t changed to “Watcher” when the dynasty changed.  Just thought I’d point out, and go back to lurking till the next dynasty starts. ;)

(edited to add:) Oh, and I guess this counts as an announcement of arrival.  /wave

Move the second and third paragraphs of rule “Membership” into a sub-rule of their own named “Faction Posts”.

Create a new rule called “Victory Hall”:

Whenever a Citizen becomes the Watcher of one of the Factions, the name of that Citizen shall be added to a list at the end of this rule, followed by the name of the Faction where that Citizen achieved victory. A Citizens name and faction may be added once each time that Citizen achieves Victory in a Faction. This list of names is collectively known as the “Victory Hall” and its only purpose is to track the Victories of Citizens within Factions. If a single Citizen has achieved Victory in Faction BLO, Faction GNO and Faction MIC, that Citizen achieves Victory in Blognomic.

So with this version, one does not need to win in the three at the same time. The idea is simple: Even if you manage to twist the rules of a Dynasty in your direction and win, you still have to move on to the next and win there. So, to win one needs to adapt and take advantage of not just one, but three wildly different rulesets. And if someone achieves victory within one Faction, that Citizen would be compelled to allow someone else to win too so that e can move on and take on the next one. If a Faction Watcher leaves for another Faction, it counts as if going Idle (the Citizens of that Faction may still take advise to guide the dynasty from the watcher or put someone else into power when the Watcher is gone). In other words, this opens up a world of possibilities.

Create a new rule called “Blue is slightly Greener than Yellow”:

Citizens are not known for being in two or more places at once, mainly because Quantum Physics is so dangerous when you have to do it blindfolded. Because of this, each Citizen has a Position, which is recorded in the GNDT. A Citizen’s Position may only be one of the following, “Upside down”, “Across”, “Backwards”, “Inside Out” or “OMG WAI?!”. As a weekly action a Citizen may change their Position, or the position of another Citizen to any valid value. Attempting this is 34% Dangerous, but is always successful unless trying to change another Citizen’s Position. If a Citizen breaks three or more bones in the attempt to change eir own Position, that Citizens position is set to the special value “All over the place” and doesn’t have to worry about Quantum Mechanics anymore.

Is it just me, or is arthexis not rolling properly? I’m tempted to reroll for em…

I haven’t been back in a while, so I have no idea: have we enacted some rule that allows proposals to skip the queue?

EDIT: bahhhh hahah never mind just read the blo ruleset. i’m going crazy. better join a faction quickkkkkkkk.

I hereby announce my arrival.

Create a new rule called “I cannot believe its not AAAAAGGGHHHH!!”:

This rule exists with the sole purpose of serving as target practice for smashing the ruleset, and citizens who fail to realize it should take special care when eating with metal spoons. If a Citizen attempts to smash a sentence contained in this rule and fails, that Citizen may attempt to smash a different sentence immediately, ignoring the once per week limit.

* Koalas are cute, as long as they have exactly four broken bones and their name is Joe.
* As a daily action a Monkey may fix the wardrobe.
* Mount Rushmore can only be climbed gracefully if the Ragdoll attempting it has eight or more broken nachos.
* Giraffes cannot row the boat if there is four or less Citizens altogether.
* If the word aluminium appears twice in this sentence, any Citizen can cook salmon.

If this proposal is ennacted with a Quorum of OVERWHELMING votes, change every instance of the word “weekly” to “daily” in rule “Smash it to pieces”.

Putting a twist on the space girder.

Create a new rule with the title “Victory”.

If a citizen has three relics, he may make a Declaration of Victory. One of the relics must be the BLO relic, another must be the GNO relic and the final must be the MIC relic.

Create a sub rule of “Victory” with the title “Relics”.

There exist three relics, the BLO relic, the GNO relic and the MIC relic. Each relic may only be owned by a maximum of one citizen. Each relic may be given to any citizen at any time by the citizen who currently owns the relic. If more than one of any relic would exist at any one time, all versions of that relic are referred to as copies of that relic. If any copies of a relic exist, all copies except the newest must be removed. If multiple copies of the same relic were created at the same time, all those copies are removed, along with any other copies of that relic.

Only a faction proposal belonging to the same faction as the relic may create or change any rule regarding the relic. An exception to this is a proposal which isn’t a Faction Post and which reaches quorum from each of the three factions (BLO, GNO and MIC) in addition to reaching the Blognomic quorum. If a faction’s ruleset gives a citizen the relic belonging to that faction, this applies to all gamestates.

There exists a GNDT tracked variable called “Relics”. This will keep track of which relics each citizen owns. In this variable the BLO relic will be abbreviated to B, the GNO relic will be abbreviated to G and the MIC relic will be abbreviated to M.

In the rule “Factions” replace the text

Rules existing only in a Faction’s Ruleset have no effect outside that Faction’s Gamestate and Ruleset.

with

Rules existing only in a Faction’s Ruleset have no effect outside that Faction’s Gamestate and Ruleset. An exception to this is relics, as detailed in the Relics sub rule.

Each faction will need rules saying how to get each relic. Feel free to unofficially name the relics. Also it’s intentional that you can steal relics by completing the conditions necessary to create it a second time.

Add a new rub-rule “I am right behind the cupboard” to rule “Are you still there?”:

If a Citizen achieves victory, no rules will get repealed, and the new Watcher does not get to select a new theme. Instead, the Watchers Fractures are set to zero, and the Watcher’s name is added to the Hall of Fame of BLO. The new Watcher may also select a Citizen to become the Stylist, instead of anyone else who currently holds the title. The Watcher may not select the Watcher to become the Stylist. No Citizen may become the Watcher during Mondays, because Monday is a boring day and interesting things tend not to happen on Mondays.

Add a new sub-rule “You are the little teacup” to rule “Smash it to pieces”:

Because the Watcher is sometimes dangerous, The Watcher may smash the ruleset as a daily action instead of as a weekly action. Whenever the Watcher smashes the ruleset, every other Citizen must hold their breath in awe.

Add a new sub-rule “My favorite color is green” to rule “You should have taken more Calcium”:

The Watcher is such a nice fellow that e won’t break your bones accidentally. The Watcher may, however, break your bones intentionally. As a weekly action, the Watcher can impart eir infinite wisdom and break DICE3 bones of any one Citizen (except the Watcher’s), for whatever reason. A Citizen whose bones have been broken in this fashion is said to Have Learned a Lesson.

I’m unidling! There are 22 active citizens! Quorum is 12! Let’s fight!

In rule 2.3 “Membership” after it says

Whenever a Citizen makes an official post with the text “[Faction]” at the beginning of its subject (Where Faction is replaced by the Faction that the poster is a member of), then that post shall be known as a Faction Post and is considered to be made only within the context of the Ruleset and Gamestate for that Citizen’s Faction. Otherwise, it is considered to be made within the Ruleset and Gamestate of Blognomic as a whole.

add

Proposals may only change the ruleset of a given faction if they are a proper Faction Post for that faction. Likewise, Faction Posts are not allowed to change the main ruleset or the ruleset of any other faction.

Replace the text “Every rule existing in the Blognomic ruleset is considered implicit in each Faction’s Ruleset, even if not written on it.” in rule 2.2 “Factions” with the text “Every rule in Sections 1 and 3 of the Blognomic ruleset is considered to be in each Faction’s Ruleset.  Every rule in Section 2 of the Blognomic ruleset except rule 2.1 “First Metadynasty of Rodlen” is considered as implicit restrictions for which each Faction must adhere, even if the Ruleset of one or more Factions disagrees.”

Replace the text of the rule titled “The rule formerly known as Wheeeeee!” with the following text:

As a weekly action, a Citizen may attempt to snowboard down Mount Doom.  This action is X% Dangerous, where X is 100 minus the number of times that citizen has attempted to snowboard down Mount Doom because Mount Doom gets easier with practice.  If a Citizen breaks any bones while attempting this feat, the attempt is not successful.  If a Citizen successfully snowboards down Mount Doom and has less than 10 broken bones at the time, he achieves victory.

In 2.3 Membership replace the sentence “A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to.” with “A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to, except for the purpose of enacting or failing proposals.”

Change the faction of each currently pending official post to the faction of the Citizen who has made the most recent comment on that post, discounting comments made by the Admin who enacts this proposal.

Yes.  Yes it will.

Anyone want to win?

Step 1) Switch to BLO (its now monday, so you can do weekly actions again)
Step 2) Attempt to smash the ruleset to pieces
Step 3) Pick the victory sentence. With 2/21 odds you’ll be able to change “has” to “hasn’t” or “and” to “or”. Either one will give you victory.
Step 4) Declare victory!

Feel free to try and publish a block to this, but it’ll take 12 hours to pass. Its not something you guys can CfJ away without abusing the game.

With 20 of ya’ll, its statistically likely for one of you to get lucky.

I don’t have access to the ruleset wiki, but have just smashed the ruleset to pieces, selecting the BLO-specific sentence “If a Citizen breaks two or more bones attempting this, that Citizen may not create another Proposal in the next 24 hours.” I have to replace the word “two”, and choose to replace it with the word “Ï€.”

Replace “There exist three Factions called BLO, GNO and MIC, respectively.” in dynastic rule Factions with “There exist four Factions called BLO, GNO, MIC, and EEB, respectively.”

Create a new rule in the EEB ruleset titled “Definitely Not A Puppet Faction Of The DDA” with the following text:

EEB is Definitely Not A Puppet Faction Of The DDA.  All EEB Citizens must state this at least once in each of their proposals.

Create a new rule in the EEB ruleset titled “Command” with the following text:

There exists a position called the EEB Commander.  The EEB Commander may veto an EEB proposal once per week.  The EEB Commander may give his position to any other EEB citizen.  If he does, he will no longer be in the position.

Make Rodlen a member of EEB.

Make Rodlen the EEB Commander.

I will give the position to someone else after this passes.  By the way, EEB is Not A Puppet Faction Of The DDA.

Create a new sub-rule “You have to be THIS crazy to listen to him” to “You need to be THIS tall to read this Ruleset”:

Sticking wooden fillings in your eyes is dangerous, but thankfully this rule has nothing to do with that. There is a Citizen known as the Stylist, who shall determine what is awesome and what is not. Whenever a Citizen votes DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, the votes shall be instead counted as the same type of vote as the one for the Stylist, if the Stylist has votes on that Proposal. This overrides rule “Voting”.

If more than half of all comments containing counted votes also contain the text “He is the craziest of us all, let him do it”, add this text at the end of the newly created rule:

On every day except Thursday, Arthexis shall be the Stylist.

Create rule, “Don’t scream like a little girl. Dance.”

Voting has never been entirely safe. Killer bees, and homicidal robots on the loose are just some of the dangers a Citizen can encounter when trying to take democracy into their own hands. Whenever a Citizen votes on a proposal, that Citizen may try to make that vote an OVERWHELMING vote by using five or more voting icons on a single comment. This excess of excitement is dangerous, because it can lead one to swallow a pair of scissors or land face first on a frying pan. Because of this, attempting an OVERWHELMING vote is 15% Dangerous, but is always successful, no matter how many bones are broken in the process.

If a Quorum of OVERWHELMING FOR votes appear on a proposal, the Proposal may be ennacted immediately by any Admin belonging to the BLO Faction. If a Quorum of OVERWHELMING AGAINST votes appear on a proposal, the Proposal may be failed immediately by any Admin belonging to the BLO Faction. If a Quorum of OVERWHELMING DEFERENTIAL votes appear on a proposal, then probably everybody has gone crazy, but nothing else special happens.

Please notice that this proposal is valid now that “Making things a bit more clear” has passed, because this proposal exists only within the rules and gamestate of BLO, thus is invisible to the external proposal queue. Furthermore, Proposals made outside of BLO are completely invisible to it, unless they pass and create a rule on Blognomic, which causes that rule to be implicitly added to BLO as well.

Add a rule to the GNO ruleset entitled “Shhhh” with the following text:

If the body of a proposal begins with the text “SHHHH”, then the remainder shall be considered to be encrypted in the official encryption method of GNO.  However, when these proposals are enacted, they shall be enacted as if they had been decrypted.  It is the responsibility of the Demiurge to choose the official encryption method of GNO and to inform the other Citizens of GNO how to encrypt and decrypt proposals.

Add a GNDT column named Position.  Set Bucky’s Position value to Supreme Being.  Set Cayvie’s Position value to Demiurge. These positions have already been decided in an official election, this is just to make it easier to see who is what

Add a GNDT column named Class.

Add the sentence

Classes are kept track of in the Class column in the GNDT.

to the end of the rule entitled Citizen Classes.

WHEREAS, the citizens of MIC are exhorted to produce more proposals for the glory of the revolution;
WHEREAS, this propsal is a means to that end;

BE IT RESOLVED, that the MIC ruleset be amended so as to add a rule as follows:
The maximum number of active Proposals that a MIC citizen may have that would affect the MIC ruleset or gamestate shall be THREE, and proposals that would not change the MIC ruleset or MIC gamestate shall not be counted toward this limit.

I unidle from BLO (think I have to do this)

I don’t know if I have to, but I announce I’ve joined BLO.

WHEREAS there is currently no Chairman of the Party;
WHEREAS a Chairman should be selected by the People;

THEREFOR if this proposal passes, the Citizen with the most ‘Votes’ (as described below) that is also a member of the Faction MIC shall become Chairman.

Each Citizen may vote for any other Citizen by including their name in the comment of which they vote.  Only the comment with the counted vote for the proposal counts as a vote, and only if there is only one users name within the comment.

Open to everyone to give us an interesting spin at the start of the game, let’s see who the entire community thinks should run MIC.

Each citizen currently has 0 fractures. The BLO Ruleset doesn’t say “Only non-Idle citizens have fractures, fractures are undefined for Idle citizens”. Just because only BLO recognizes fractures, doesn’t mean it can’t track fractures for all citizens.

In Rule 2.3 Membership, replace the text

Each Citizen may belong to at most one Faction (also known as being member of that Faction). This shall be tracked in a GNDT column named Faction. As a weekly action, a Citizen who is not the Watcher may change their Faction to any one of the three valid Factions. A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to.

with the text

Each Citizen may belong to at most one Faction (also known as being member of that Faction). This shall be tracked in a GNDT column named Faction. As a weekly action, a Citizen who is not the Watcher may change their Faction to any one of the three valid Factions or no Faction. A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to.

Add a new dynastic rule under the name “Like a Normal Person” with the following text.

As a weekly action, any citizen may Visit the Doctor Like a Normal Person. The action taker is referred to as the Visitor for the remainder of this rule. In Visiting the Doctor Like a Normal Person, the Visitor shall roll 1D4 and subtract the number resulting from the dice roll by 1. The difference shall be subtracted from the total fractures.

Make a new rule in faction BLO’s ruleset, titled “My eyes, how they sting”, with the following text:

As a daily action, each Citizen may attempt to Cut Onions. Cutting Onions is a 73% Dangerous action, because you can go blind from eye-watering and cut your own hand off.

I’ll let someone else decide the reward for onion cutting.

Create a new rule named, “Victory”:

The Watcher of a Faction may achieve victory in the whole of Blognomic if every Blognomic Citizen belongs to the same Faction as that Watcher.

Add a rule to the main ruleset titled, “Faction Renown”:

Each faction shall have a GNDT tracked statistic termed “Renown.”

Add a rule to the main ruleset titled, “Irish Boxing”:

1. Any Citizen may challenge a Citizen of a different faction to an Irish Boxing Contest.

2. Initiation

(a) To issue a challenge, a Citizen shall make a post that contains both the words “boxing” and the name of the Citizen being challenged.

E.g., “I hereby challenge Steve to an an Irish boxing match”

(b) The challenged Citizen can participate in the Irish Boxing Contest by responding to the post in the comments section and indicating eir acceptance.

E.g., “I accept your challenge, scoundrel!

(c) The challenged Citizen can choose not to participate either by not responding per 1(b) or by refusing in the comments section of the initial challenge post.

(d) Challenged Citizens have 48 hours to respond or else they shall be considered to have refused the challenge.

3. Refusal. A Citizen who refuses an Irish Boxing Contest challenge has brought Shame onto that Citizen’s faction. The faction of the refusing Citizen loses two points from its Renown.

4. Rules & Voting

(a) Once an Irish Boxing Contest has been accepted by the challenged party, the challenger shall compose a limerick of five lines and post it to the comments section of the original challenge. The challenged Citizen must then respond with a limerick of five lines and post it to the same comments section.

(b) Citizens may then vote for the limerick that, in the Citizen’s opinion, best exemplifies the qualities of Irishness, Jocularity, Manliness, Boxitude, Old-Timeyness, Prancing-around-in-high-trunks-with-no-gloveosity, and all-around does a better job of making the other boxer seem like a little girly-man.

(c) All Citizens (except the ones participating in the contest) may vote on the Irish Boxing Contest.

(d) The Contest shall remain open to voting for 48 hours from the posting of the challenged Citizen’s limerick and does not require quorum.

5. Winning

(a) Whichever Citizen-boxer receives most votes shall be considered the winner of the Irish Boxing Contest.

(b) The winning Citizen’s faction shall receive two points of Renown.

6. Losing

(a) Whichever Citizen-boxer receives the fewest votes shall be considered the loser of the Irish Boxing Contest.

(b) The losing Citizen’s faction shall be deducted one point of Renown.

7. Ties

(a) In the event of a tie, the two boxing Citizens shall retire to the pub for mutual back-slapping and exchanges of masculine tall tales. Each faction receives one point of Renown.

This is a proposal for both the GNO and BLO factions. If it passes, it will be included in the GNO ruleset under the title, “Our most unregarded neighbor,” and in the BLO ruleset as “Cheese doodles for breakfast again?!”

1. MIC is the lowliest and most untrustworthy of factions. As such, the Citizens of GNO and BLO have taken it upon themselves to chain all Citizens of MIC to a rock. Per this rule, all MIC Citizens are Chained to a Rock, and thereby lose the power to vote, to make proposals, to issue calls for judgment, or to declare victory.

2. MIC Citizens that are Chained to a Rock may not switch factions unless they engage in an act of Self Immolation.

3. A Citizen of MIC may Immolate eirself by making a post titled, “I hereby renounce MIC.” In the post, the Citizen of MIC must declare whether they are defecting to GNO or BLO. Upon declaration, the MIC Citizen shall become a member of the declared faction (being either GNO or BLO).

4. If a Citizen of MIC defects to BLO, they instantly suffer 100 broken bones. If a Citizen of MIC defects to GNO, they instantly fall to -100 Garden Gnomes and are ceremonially shot out of the Snowball Cannon.

Brothers of Blo and Gno, let us nip this unseemly faction….in the bud.

Considering the recent events, I think this is mostly unnecessary now. Furthermore it can also cause trouble, because it is passed implicitly down to the Factions. I also propose a fix to the recent comments towards the usage of in-faction CfJs.

Remove rule “2.4 G-Man (or is it?)” if it exists.

Append the following sentence to rule “Membership”

Calls for Judgement can never be Faction Posts.

Turn “Danger!” into a sub-rule to rule “Shake your bones”, then move the rule “Shake your bones” to the top of the Ruleset.

Create a new rule called “You need to be THIS tall to read this Ruleset” and place it at the beginning of the Ruleset.

Citizens are encouraged to follow these guidelines when creating or modifying rules in the BLO ruleset. Those who don’t follow them will be made fun of.

* Every rule’s text shall contain anywhere from one to three hundred puns.
* The relation between a rule’s name and its contents must be as obscure as possible.
* Random is good. Nonsense is a little Penguin.
* Rules should be self-explanatory, even if the explanation is absurd.

Rename rule “Shake your bones” to “You should have taken more Calcium”
Rename sub-rule “Danger!” to “This sub-rule will hurt you”
Rename rule “Wheeeeee!” to “The rule formerly known as Wheeeeee!”

Create a rule titled “Declaration of War with the following text:

WHEREAS the Faction known as BLO seems to enjoy the injuries of its own Citizens; and
WHEREAS the Faction known as GNO appears to be constructing a Cannon to use against the noble Citizens of other Factions;
THEREFORE The People’s Republic of MIC declares war on the Factions known as BLO and GNO, and no non-Idle Citizen shall in any way provide aide of any sort to an Idle Citizen.

Add a new Rule to the Faction Gno Ruleset.  Call it “Snowball Fight” and give it the following text:

As a daily action, each Gnome may Bombard an Idle Citizen.  To Bombard a target, a Gnome makes a Story Post with a title that starts with “Bombardment:” and a subject that contains the name of the target.  The body of the Story Post should contain a payload of bombast.  The target is then pummeled by infernal snowballs.

:(  I announce I am unidling from GNO, however, cannot change this fact without a GNDT password.  :(

Recent studies show that 70% or the population is more than half the population, and this doesn’t seem Random enough: this requires urgent attention.

Create the following rule, “I am feeling DEFERENTIAL today”:

When a Citizen votes DEFERENTIAL, their vote is not dependent on the Watcher’s vote. Instead, at the time an Admin tallies the votes to decide if the Proposal shall be Ennacted or Failed, that Admin rolls XDICE2, where X is the count of valid DEFERENTIAL votes. After the roll, the count of valid DEFERENTIAL votes is subtracted from the roll result. If the result is negative, the absolute value of the result is added to the count of AGAINST votes. If the result is positive, the value of the result is added to the count of FOR votes. If the result is exactly zero, the admin gets annoyed at the Citizens voting DEFERENTIAL, for making er lose time with such silly antics, and is thus free to break one bone of each Citizen who voted DEFERENTIAL for that Proposal, but only during the following hour.

...and everything goes completely insane. Oh well. I unidle. Quorum stays at… Good grief, 20 players? I think only the First Dynasty of AngryGrasshopper was more active. Anyway, Quorum stays at 10.

Create a new rule called “Are you still there?”:

Idle Citizens are said to have ADD. The rest of the Citizens are perfectly fine and are not crazy at all or anything.

Create a new rule called “Smash it to pieces”:

As a weekly action, the Citizen can attempt to Smash the Ruleset into Pieces. This is considered to be 29% Dangerous, because the ruleset has rough edges and can explode when exposed to fire. If the Citizen breaks no bones in the attempt, e selects any one sentence which exists in the BLO ruleset only and rolls DICEX where X is the number of words in that sentence. Then, the Citizen may change the Xth word in that sentence for any other word e likes, as long as as the new word belongs to the same lexical category as the replaced word. The new word cannot be Aluminium.

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

Create a subrule of “The Party” - “Elections” with the text

WHEREAS a leaderless government is weak
WHEREAS weakness leads to strife

THEREFORE a Chairman must be Elected

Any time three or more citizens of MIC exist but no citizens hold the position of Chairman and no elections for the Chairman are currently in progress, any citizen of MIC may create a post with the title
“[MIC] [number] election for the Chairman of the People’s Republic of MIC” where [number] shall be replaced an ordinal number equal to the number of the previous election plus one. If no such elections exist, [number] shall be replaced by First.

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

In the sub-rule “Chairman” replace the text

Citizen of MIC whose name comes next in alphabetical order becomes the new Chairman

with

Citizen of MIC whose name comes next in alphabetical order becomes the new Chairman. If the Chairman was last alphabetically, the new Chairman will be the Citizen of MIC whose name comes first in alphabetical order. If no such citizen exists, the position of Chairman will not be held by any Citizen.

WHEREAS ambiguity can lead to confusion
WHEREAS confusion will lead to strife

THEREFORE an ambiguity must be removed

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

In the MIC Faction Ruleset,

Replace the text of “Needless Bureaucracy” with:

WHEREAS the Government of the People’s Republic of MIC knows that it is best to avoid confusion concerning rules;
WHEREAS structure provides a means to avoid confusion;

THEREFORE all proposals pertaining to the MIC ruleset must comply to the regulations of the subrules of “Needless Bureaucracy” or be considered illegaland failed immediately.

Replace the text of “Proper Reasoning” with:

WHEREAS the intent of a rule can be unclear from the specific wording;
WHEREAS a misunderstanding of the rules can lead to strife;

THEREFORE all proposed rules must include a proper explanation for why such a rule is needed, and what the rule is designed to acheive.

Replace the text of “The Party” with:

WHEREAS all good factions need Government;
WHEREAS communism is the fairest form of Government;

THEREFORE The People’s Republic of Mic shall be governed by The Party.

Create a new subrule of “The Party” - “Organization” with the text:

WHEREAS all governments need organization;
WHEREAS organization requires that individuals perform duties beyond those of The People;

THEREFORE there exists the positions of Vizier of Propaganda, the Vizier of Issues and the Chairman.

Create a new subrule of “Organization” - “Chairman” with the text:

WHEREAS it is time consuming to poll all of The People;
WHEREAS The Will of The People is embodied in the Chairman;

THEREFORE the Chairman may, at anytime, give, or revoke the titles of Vizier of Propaganda and Vizier of Issues to any Citizen of MIC.  No more than one Citizen of MIC may hold of these positions. If at any time more than either position is held by more than one Citizen of MIC, All Citizens that share the same positions shall immediately lose these positions.
THEREFORE the Chairman may, at any time, resign their position and appoint another Citizen of MIC as the Chairman. Should the Chairman leave the People’s Republic of Mic without resigning their position and appointing another Citizen of MIC as the Chairman, that Citizen automatically ceases to be the Chairman, and the Citizen of MIC whose name comes next in alphabetical order becomes the new Chairman.

Create a new subrule of “Organization” - “Vizier of Propaganda” with the text:

WHEREAS it is important to ensure that infromation is properly disseminated;
WHEREAS control cannot be maintened without supervision;

THEREFORE the Vizier of Propaganda is given the express power to proclaim a proposal “Loyal” or “Disloyal” concerning the People.

Create a new subrule of “Organization” - “Vizier of Issues” with the text:

WHEREAS there are times when the good of The People is not obvious to The People;
WHEREAS the Vizier of Issues is trained to fortell such;

THEREFORE the Vizier of Issues may VETO any proposal deemed Disloyal by the Vizier of Propaganda.

I modified it a tiny bit. We still need to choose a Chairman.

The Supreme Being and Demiurge shall be elected by the population of the GNO dynasty in elections to be initiated by any Gno Citizen after this proposal passes. Only Gno citizens may vote in this election.

I vote for Bucky as Supreme Being and Darth Cliche as Demiurge.

In the Rule entitled “Membership”, change the text

A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to.

to

A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to.  If a Citizen is ever un-Idle in a Faction of which e is not a member, e immediately becomes Idle within that Faction.

I am unidling myself within the Blo Faction by my own request, as permitted by the version of Rule 1.2 implicitly present in the Blo Ruleset under Rule 2.2.  I am still not a member of the Blo faction.  Now what?

I, as I assume all other active players got this PM from Darth Cliche earlier today:

Rodlen plans to repeal the G-Man rule and start a fourth faction called EEB! I put this in a post, but Rodlen abused his admin powers and removed it!

This is a highly accusatory remark, given that you have no proof of the statement. If it was intended as a joke, I think it was a very poor one as accusing another player of cheating is no laughing matter. If it was serious, then Rodlen is a veteran player here who at least has my respect, and so for now I am giving him the benefit of the doubt, but regardless a PM to the rest of members is no way to resolve a dispute. We have rules for that, and PMs should really only be seen as a last result if someone is blatantly abusing power to prevent you from using the methods outlined in the ruleset.

Secrets don’t make friends, (or particularly good rules, *cough cough*) so can we can ‘sending messages behind other players backs’ and if we have a problem with another player, deal with it like civilized people?

Make the Citizen Darth Cliche an Admin.

Don’t have the proposal room for it but…lemme know what you think.  Also, if you guys like it, feel free to propose it on your own.

Replace the text of “Needless Bureaucracy” with:

WHEREAS the Government of the People’s Republic of MIC knows that it is best to avoid confusion concerning rules;
WHEREAS structure provides a means to avoid confusion;

THEREFORE all proposals pertaining to the MIC ruleset must comply to the regulations of the subrules of “Needless Bureaucracy” or be considered illegaland failed immediately.

Replace the text of “Proper Reasoning” with:

WHEREAS the intent of a rule can be unclear from the specific wording;
WHEREAS a misunderstanding of the rules can lead to strife;

THEREFORE all proposed rules must include a proper explanation for why such a rule is needed, and what the rule is designed to acheive.

Replace the text of “The Party” with:

WHEREAS all good factions need Government;
WHEREAS communism is the fairest form of Government;

THEREFOR The People’s Republic of Mic shall be governed by The Party.

Create a new subrule of “The Party” - “Organization” with the text:

WHEREAS all governments need organization;
WHEREAS organization requires that individuals perform duties beyond those of The People;

THEREFOR there exists the positions of Vizier of Propaganda, the Vizier of Issues and the Chairman.

Create a new subrule of “Organization” - “Chairman” with the text:

WHEREAS it is time consuming to poll all of The People;
WHEREAS The Will of The People is embodied in the Chairman;

THEREFOR the chairman may, at anytime, give, or revoke the tittles of Vizier of Propaganda and Vizier of Issues to any Citizen of MIC.  No more than one Citizen of MIC may hold of these positions. If at any time more than either position is held by more than one Citizen of MIC, All Citizens that share the same positions shall immediately lose these positions.

Create a new subrule of “Organization” - “Vizier of Propaganda” with the text:

WHEREAS it is important to ensure that infromation is properly disseminated;
WHEREAS control cannot be maintened without supervision;

THEREFOR the Vizier of Propaganda is given the express power to proclaim a proposal “Loyal” or “Disloyal” concerning the People.

Create a new subrule of “Organization” - “Vizier of Issues” with the text:

WHEREAS there are times when the good of The People is not obvious to The People;
WHEREAS the Vizier of Issues is trained to fortell such;

THEREFOR the Vizier of Issues may VETO any proposal deemed Disloyal by the Vizier of Propaganda.

Make a new rule in the ruleset for faction GNO titled “Garden Gnomes”:

Each Citizen of Gno has a GNDT-tracked variable called “Garden Gnomes”, which may be any non-negative integer.

Make a subrule of this rule, titled “Collecting Gnomes”:

As a daily action, each Citizen of Gno may Collect Gnomes. To Collect Gnomes, a Citizen rolls 1DICE10 in the GNDT. Eir Garden Gnomes are increased by the result of that roll.

It’s a new day in GMT, so I can make more proposals.

And yes, Clucky, I know you hate gnomes.

In the rule Membership Replace the text:

Whenever a Citizen makes an official post with the text “[Faction]” at the beginning of its subject, then that post shall be known as a Faction Post and is considered to be made only within the context of the Ruleset and Gamestate for that Citizen’s Faction. Otherwise, it is considered to be made within the Ruleset and Gamestate of Blognomic as a whole.

with

Whenever a Citizen makes an official post with the text “[Faction]” at the beginning of its subject (Where Faction is replaced by the Faction that the poster is a member of), then that post shall be known as a Faction Post and is considered to be made only within the context of the Ruleset and Gamestate for that Citizen’s Faction. Otherwise, it is considered to be made within the Ruleset and Gamestate of Blognomic as a whole.

Recent studies have demonstrated that 24 hours a day are not enough hours to have fun: This requires urgent attention.

Create a new rule called, “Making more in less time”:

As a daily action, a Citizen may create a Proposal, even if that Citizen has exceeded the maximum number of allowed and active proposals for that day. However, because this must be done while riding a motocross and juggling knives, it implies a 47% of Danger to the Citizen attempting it. If a Citizen breaks two or more bones attempting this, that Citizen may not create another Proposal in the next 24 hours.

Initiate a celebration party for the newly created rule. Every Citizen shall enjoy it.

Add the following text to the end of rule 3 Glossary:

*In cases of conflict, dynastic rules override core rules.

Add the following text to the end of rule 3 Glossary:

*In cases of conflict, dynastic rules override core rules.

In the rule “Factions” right after the sentence,

For each one of these factions, there exists a Ruleset and a Gamestate to which those rules apply.

add the following sentence.

Each faction’s Ruleset is tracked on that faction’s wiki page.

Create three wiki pages titled “Faction BLO Ruleset” “Faction GNO Ruleset” and “Faction MIC Ruleset” respectfully. Move all faction rules to their respected wiki page.

This will keep the main rule page from getting cluttered up.

If the Proposal titled “People’s Republic of MIC” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Amend the rule ‘The Party’ in the Ruleset of MIC Faction, so that it reads as follows:

WHEREAS all good factions need Government.
WHEREAS communism is the fairest form of Government.
The People’s Republic of Mic shall be governed by The Party.

The Party shall consist of the Vizier of Propaganda, the Vizier of Issues and the Chairman. The Vizier of Propaganda ensures that all citizens of the People’s Republic of Mic are informed of current events, and are not led astray. The Vizier of Issues is responsible for political issues within the People’s Republic and outside of the People’s Republic. The Chairman is the Leader of the People’s Republic of Mic.

The Vizier of Propaganda and the Vizier of Issues shall be appointed by the Chairman. The Vizier of Propaganda, the Vizier of Issues and the Chairman shall all be citizens of the People’s Republic of Mic.

No problems here. Someone else can decide how the Chairman erself is appointed.

Alright, could one of the admins please delete this?

Create a new rule “Danger!” in the ruleset for Faction BLO:

Lots of things are dangerous by nature like, for example, riding a poorly maintained merry-go-around or attacking polar bears with your bare hands. Because of this, some actions which a Citizen can take have a measurable element of Danger to it.

If an action is declared by a rule to be X% Dangerous, then the Citizen performing that action must roll DICE100 in the GNDT before taking the action. If the result of the roll is smaller than X, that Citizen breaks 1DICEY bones, where Y is the number of Dangerous actions taken that day by the Citizen. If the result of the roll is equal or greater than X, the Citizen has a lot of fun performing the action and is free to brag about how dangerous it was, even if other Citizens do not want to hear about it.

The permanent Ruleset (not the Dynastic Ruleset) will be amended under the title “Authority to Title New Rules” and shall read:

The Watcher may provide a title of suitable relation to a new rule that has passed without a title.

Create a new rule “Needless Bureaucracy” the MIC ruleset with the text:

While the government of the People’s Republic of MIC feels that it is best to avoid confusiion by examining all new rules and regulation, and ensure that they are made with the proper language
AND while the government of the People’s Republic is comprised of the People;
Therefore, require all rules added to the MIC ruleset to comply with formal proposal language, as determined by the subrules of the rule “Needless Bureaucracy.”

Create a new sub-rule of Needless Bureacuracy “Proper Reasoning” in the MIC ruleset with the text:

While a rules intentions can be swayed based upon the needs and desires of individuals,
AND while a misunderstanding of the intent of a rule can create problems with the implementation of said rule;
Therefore, it is required that all additions to the MIC ruleset include proper explanations for why such a rule is created.

Create a dynastic rule entitled “Broken Bones”, reading:

All citizens have a GNDT-tracked attribute called Broken Bones, representing their health. New citizens start with zero Broken Bones. No citizen with more than nine Broken Bones can win. Each citizen may reduce their number of Broken Bones by one per week, to a minimum of zero.

Create a dynastic rule entitled “Gnolls”, reading:

Gnolls are non-playable entities, native to the Holy Gnomish Empire but found everywhere. There are four packs of Gnolls, one residing in each Faction and an extra one in GNO. Once every other day per Gnoll pack, the watcher of the Faction in which it normally resides may choose another Faction and cause their Faction’s pack of Gnolls to attack a random Citizen of one of that rival faction, selected only from among those Citizens of that Faction who have not already been attacked by Gnolls in the last 100 hours. The victim of a Gnoll attack receives two Broken Bones.

Add a new dynastic rule, entitled “Victory Conditions”, as follows:

A [Character] achieves Victory if that [Character] concurrently fulfills the Victory conditions of at least two [Factions].

Replace the terms [Character] and [Factions] as appropriate if those terms are changed in the ruleset before this Proposal is adminned.

I heard how much you like Clucky, so I unidled.

I’ve used up all my proposals today. Anyone who hasn’t could post this.

Add a rule titled “Demonym” to faction MIC’s ruleset:

A Citizen of the People’s Republic of Mic may be referred to as a Micese.

Add a rule titled “Demonym” to faction GNO’s ruleset:

A Citizen of the Holy GNOmish Empire may be referred to as a Gnomiard.

Not quite sure about GNO’s demonym. Any suggestions?

Add a rule titled “Demonym” to faction BLO’s ruleset:

A Citizen of Blo may be referred to as a Pufferfish.

Create a new rule entitled “Shake your Bones” in Faction BLO’s ruleset with the following text:

Each Citizen has exactly 206 bones at all times, and each of them may either be broken or non broken. All bones a Citizen owns are initially considered to be not broken. There exists a GNDT stat called “Fractures” which determines the number of broken bones a Citizen has. Whenever a Citizen breaks a bone, it increases that Citizen’s Fractures by the number of bones broken, and also causes terrible pain.

I hereby propose the following and append to it some further ideas:

Create a new rule entitled “Holy GNOmish Empire” in Faction Gno’s ruleset with the following text:

The Gno faction shall be styled the “Holy GNOmish Empire.”

It is, of course, holy, gnomish, and an empire. Discuss amongst yourself.

Create a new rule entitled “Gnomic Gnostic Church of GNO” in Faction Gno’s ruleset with the following text:

Gno is spiritually led by the Gnomic Gnostic Church of GNO.

Create a new rule entitled “Citizen Classes” in Faction Gno’s ruleset with the following text:

1. Citizens may choose from the classes contained in this rule.

2. Citizens may switch classes once per week.

3. A Citizen may be both Supreme Being or Demiurge and hold a Citizen class simultaneously.

4. The Classes:

(a) Gnome. Citizen Gnomes exist in the Holy Gnomish Empire.

Gnomes are well-regarded for their Tinkering skills, the fruits of which form the backbone of the Holy Gnomish Empire’s economy. Gnomes are, however,often regarded as cute and cuddly by other types of Citizens, leading both to their worship and fawning obsession.

(b) Disciples of the Gnomic Gnostic Church. Citizen Disciples exist in the Holy Gnomish Empire.

Disciples worship Gnomes and are integral cogs in the theocracy’s state machinery. They are known for their mastery of the Holy Gnomish Empire’s Bureaucracy.

(c) Gn’er-Do-Well. Gn’er-Do-Wells, or “Gnogues,” as they are more commonly known, exist in the Holy Gnomish Empire.

Gnogues are the seedy underclass. They are known for their skills at Thievery.

We need to change the color scheme, create a banner, and create an Imperial Seal.

Just thought I’d remind everyone.

Create a new rule entitled “People’s Republic of Mic” in Faction MIC’s ruleset with the following text:

MIC may be known as the ‘People’s Republic of Mic’.

The Official Arms of the People’s Republic of Mic are located at the following URL:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w298/OzeFroze/MICArms.png

The Official Flag of the People’s Republic of Mic is located at the following URL:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w298/OzeFroze/MICFlag.png

Create a new rule entitled “The Party” in Faction MIC’s ruleset with the following text:

MIC is governed by The Party.

I didn’t want to make that second one too detailed at this early stage.

Create a new rule titled “Gnomes of Victory” in Faction GNO’s ruleset with the following text:

If a Citizen owns 100 Garden Gnomes, they have achieved victory.

Create a new rule in Faction GNO’s ruleset with the following text:

1. Supreme Being. There shall be a position called “Supreme Being.” The Supreme Being may veto proposals.

2. Demiurge. There shall be a position called “Demiurge.” There Demiurge may veto proposals.

3. Elections. The Supreme Being and Demiurge shall be elected by the population of the GNO dynasty in elections to be initiated by any Gno Citizen after this proposal passes. Only Gno citizens may vote in this election.

Create a new rule in Faction GNO’s ruleset with the following text:

If a Citizen owns 100 Garden Gnomes, they have achieved victory.

Create a new dynastic rule, titled G-Man (or is it?), with the following text:

For the purposes of Dynastic Rules and the contents of proposals, the Watcher is not considered a Citizen unless specifically referred to as the Watcher.  The Watcher may repeal this rule at any time.

Add a new rule titled “Factions”:

There are three Factions, BLO, GNO, and MIC. Each Citizen has a GNDT-tracked variable called “Faction” which can equal any faction. Once a Citizen chooses their Faction, they cannot change it to any other Faction.

Add a subrule to this rule, titled “Faction Rulesets”:

Each Faction has its own ruleset. Citizens must obey not only the BlogNomic Ruleset, but also the ruleset of their Faction.

Does the text “no one may VETO a Proposal” in rule 1.8.1 “Metadynasties” override the text “may only veto his own proposals and proposals that have been self-killed” in rule 2.1?

Add a rule entitled “Wheeeeee!” to the ruleset of faction BLO:

If a Citizen has successfully snowboarded down Mount Doom and has fewer than three broken bones, that Citizen has achieved victory.

I’d like to be unidled. Will my old GNDT password still work or will I need a new one?

sgeo joins.

quorum is now 10.

(i checked the players—everyone has posted within the past week.  a couple go idle tomorrow, though.)

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

Add a new subrule called “Metawatcher” to “First Metadynasty of Rodlen” which reads:  DEFERENTIAL votes for a proposal are counted as explicit votes of abstention until and/or unless the Watcher has voted for this proposal.

I wish to register as a Character/whatever the new term’s going to be of BlogNomic.

If the Proposal titled ” Battle of the Nomics!” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Add rule “Methods and Procedures for Scoring” to the ruleset of Faction MIC:

Each Citizen has an amount of Management Points (abbreviated MP), which shall be tracked in the GNDT and is an integer. If at any moment, a Citizen’s MP is not a valid value, it becomes 0. As an hourly action (that is, an action that can be performed once an hour, and no more than once each hour), a Citizen may add 1 to their MP.

If you like micromanaging and refreshing the page compulsively again and again, the MIC Dynasty is the one for you!

BTW, I am not using the [Faction] Proposal method because it won’t work properly until some people join each Faction. If people like this mini-theme, they are more likely to join, so I encourage others to create Faction Rules through this method until they get enough population.

I guess I don’t remember it.  May I please be sent a new one?

Jason Smith dies, we go into a metadynasty, but Rodlen is saved by careless checksumming on Yoda’s part?

Is that the consensus here?

Create a new rule called “Factions”:

There exist three Factions called BLO, GNO and MIC, respectively. For each one of these factions, there exists a Ruleset and a Gamestate to which those rules apply. Every rule existing in the Blognomic ruleset is considered implicit in each Faction’s Ruleset, even if not written on it. Rules existing only in a Faction’s Ruleset have no effect outside that Faction’s Gamestate and Ruleset.

This implies that a Citizen CAN win in a Faction, indeed becoming Watcher for that faction, but not for the whole game. Also, just to clarify: the way this is worded means that if two factions create the exact same rule, it becomes valid everywhere in Blognomic.

Create a new rule called “Membership”:

Each Citizen may belong to at most one Faction (also known as being member of that Faction). This shall be tracked in a GNDT column named Faction. As a weekly action, a Citizen who is not the Watcher may change their Faction to any one of the three valid Factions. A Citizen is considered to be idle within each Faction that e doesn’t belong to.

Whenever a Citizen makes an official post with the text “[Faction]” at the beginning of its subject, then that post shall be known as a Faction Post and is considered to be made only within the context of the Ruleset and Gamestate for that Citizen’s Faction. Otherwise, it is considered to be made within the Ruleset and Gamestate of Blognomic as a whole.

Faction Posts cannot be made if the Citizen’s Faction has less than three Players (and if they are made, they shall be marked as invalid).

If more than half of all comments containing counted votes also contain the text “Randomize Me!”, roll 1DICE3 for each Citizen. On a result of 1, that Citizen’s Faction becomes BLO. On a 2, it becomes GNO. On a 3, it becomes MIC.

Repeal all Dynastic Rules.

The purpose is simple: being there no Emperor, this simple task needs to be carried out before we can get on with the next theme. Players should be also able to suggest and apply a different style to the webpage, but this is not included in the text of the proposal because, as we determined before, the skin of the page is not really part of the gamestate.

All references to Characters are to be replaced with references to Citizens in the ruleset.

All references to the Narrator in the ruleset are to be replaced with references to the Watcher.

The theme is Blo vs. Gno vs. Mic.

All references to Characters are to be replaced with references to Citizens in the ruleset.

All references to the Narrator in the ruleset are to be replaced with references to the Watcher.

The theme is Blo vs. Gno vs. Mic.

I’ll officially start the metadynasty tomorrow.

Here’s an idea:

We start the Blo Gno Mic game. Rodlen is default head of one of his choice; everyone who supports his candidacy joins that group. The other two engage in….anarchy.

We’ll call it “The First Separatist Dynasty of Rodlen and Some Other People”

Or, “The First Blognomic Civil War, a Rodlen Joint”

But seriously. I like the first one.

Could a more experienced admin please run an IP tap so that we can find out who keeps posting these spam CfJs?

he does too like amistar

give me 100 relationship points

I have used my power as admin, with Darknight’s help, to prune the CfJ’s.  We have simply deleted the CfJ’s that we felt were spam and cluttering up the game.  We deleted CfJ’s that had no effect on the gamestate.

15 Calls for Judgment?!?!?!?!?!

Seriously guys. I think everyone should just take a break and calm down. I feel sorry for anyone who wasn’t actually on for the chaos tonight. Imagine waking up to check how the dynasty ending and finding not one but FIFTEEN CfJs arguing over the endgame. Blognomic will still be here tomorrow. Blognomic will still function properly regardless of who leads the next dynasty (or if no one leads at all). CfJs are designed to resolve disputes, not to be tossed around like hand grenades. So yeah, call down and stop posting so many CfJs =P

Start a new metadynasty.

Repeal all dynastic rules.  Fail all pending CfJs and DoVs.

Create a new dynastic rule, titled First Metadynasty of Rodlen, with the following text:

During this metadynasty, Rodlen is treated as the Narrator, but may only veto his own proposals and proposals that have been self-killed.  The theme is Blo vs Gno vs Mic.  This rule may not be removed until the First Metadynasty of Rodlen ends.

If this CfJ passes, then:

(1) All pending CfJs & DOVs fail and all dynastic rules are repealed,

(2) Rodlen becomes Emperor,

(3) Every seven days Rodlen must issue a Call for Judgment on the seventh day to determine his continued status as Emperor,

(4) Rodlen must issue this CfJ every seven days on the seventh day for the duration of his dynasty,

(4) If Rodlen loses a CfJ and is deposed, Blognomic falls into anarchy and a new metadynasty begins, and

(5) This dynasty shall be titled “The First Ad Hoc Dynasty of Rodlen”

Fail all pending CfJs and DoVs.  Begin a new metadynasty.

Create a new dynastic rule, titled “First Metadynasty of Rodlen”, with the following text:

During this dynasty, Rodlen is treated as the Narrator, but may not veto.  The theme is Blo vs Gno vs Mic.

Start a new metadynasty.

Repeal all dynastic rules.  Fail all pending CfJs and DoVs.

Create a new dynastic rule, titled First Metadynasty of Rodlen, with the following text:

During this metadynasty, Rodlen is treated as the Narrator, but may only veto once per week.  The theme is Blo vs Gno vs Mic.  This rule may not be removed until the First Metadynasty of Rodlen ends.

Repeal all dynastic rules.  Fail all pending CfJs and DoVs.

Create a new dynastic rule, titled First Metadynasty of Rodlen, with the following text:

During this dynasty, Rodlen is treated as the Narrator, but may only veto once per week.  The theme is Blo vs Gno vs Mic.

You know what?  Screw this.

If this CfJ passes, the First Metadynasty of Rodlen shall start.  Rodlen will choose the theme and act as a Narrator, but with only one Veto per week.

The following CfJs fail:

*Oh yeah, HE is back!
*Illegal actions
*Checksums just don’t add up
*This is ridiculous!
*Screw this.  Rocks fall…oh wait, they already did.  Well…everyone dies.

Let’s take a vote.

If this CfJ passes, the following effects occur:

All pending CfJs and pending DoVs are immediately failed.  If more than half of all comments containing counted FOR votes also contain the text “Rodlen should win.”, Rodlen achieves victory in the current dynasty.  If more than half of all comments containing counted FOR votes also contain the text “I like anarchy.”, begin a new metadynasty.

Add the following text to the end of the plot seed that occurred at 11:55 PM on December 18, 2008:

Oh, and the rocks that fell killed everyone else as well.

Whoops, I missed something in the last one.

If this CfJ passes, all pending CfJs and pending DoVs are immediately failed and a new metadynasty begins.

For the current secret rule, the checksum is ad7e987099dbaba794e1f1867ab4e88f, instead of the 64b0ae5b13b7ed6bdb34c1bb60e1af53 in the ruleset.  Therefore, the secret rule Yoda gave us is incorrect.

Remove the dynastic rule “Plot Twist Enabler”.

Ignore the effects of the secret rule that was given to us by Yoda.

If we are to go into a metadynasty, perhaps our first act should be to establish Rodlen as the “Adam”. The Adam functions as Emperor until each state had declared sovereignty. This gives each state a chance to set up their initial structure before becoming independent. Sovereignty votes could not be veto’ed by the Adam, and only those members of a state could participate in them.

I’d call this a compromise. Rodlen becomes Emperor Lite while the initial ruleset is being constructed. Then we unleash the dogs of war.

Let’s just get past all this CfJ mess.

If this CfJ passes, all pending CfJs are immediately failed and a new metadynasty begins.

If this DoV passes, the dynasty ends and a new metadynasty begins.

Regardless of whether or not the secret rule should be interpretted one way or another, the rule that was given:

At exactly 23:58:00 on 25/12/08, each Character shall replace his Relationship with 0 minus his Relationship.

gives the checksum of:

3da9375cdc381c88b532c51d70ab9f24

Not the checksum of:

64b0ae5b13b7ed6bdb34c1bb60e1af53

as written in the rules.

Therefor:

If this CfJ passes, remove rule 2.8 Plot Twist Enabler and reset all gamestate values to what they were at 19 Dec 2008 00:10:01.

Rodlen: Yay, I’ve worked hard to get my Relationship x PP up and ahead of everyone by far, through very fair methods!

Yoda: I’m going to make a Secret Rule that will guarantee that Rodlen loses, as he won’t be able to go down far enough to win.

(secret rule gets voted in)

Other members: Lets plot many assorted ways to prevent Rodlen from winning, as we are all out to prevent him and start up a metadynasty that still needs planning!

Yoda: Veto, veto, veto, this will allow Rodlen to win so veto…

Other members: Yoda must be working for Rodlen!  Lets prevent Rodlen from winning as he has emperor support!

Yoda: Veto.  Veto.  Veto.  Rodlen won’t win.

(Secret rule is revealed)

Rodlen: Oh no, I lose!  Oh wait…this rule doesn’t work in any way.

(Rodlen CfJs)

(Members go crazy)

Rodlen: Oh wait…the secret rule was made at a time when it would have prevented me from winning without large fundraisers, which I wouldn’t be able to do because everyone is out to get me!!!

(Rodlen goes insane)

All Characters are clearly in violation of the secret rule because no Character changed eir Relationship as specified.

If this CfJ passes, replace each Character’s Relationship with 0 minus eir Relationship.

Our final installment.

11:55 PM

Hilario threw the switch.

The machine rumbled to life. And then…

Cough COUGH COUGH BANG SPUTTER BANG BANG!

It failed. Catastrophically.

Shade and Hilario Vandenbergh ran through the cavern to escape the coming blast. It’s too bad they would never appreciate the irony; the DDF agents hadn’t caused the unique piece of flebotnum ore code-named “Black Swan” to be fused to a higher energy state—they had rendered it useless altogether!

The ARCTIC device was ruined.

Hilario Vandenbergh’s plans were ruined.

Marcus Shade remained a man lost in time.

There was no cross-dimensional shifting of Earth’s lifeforms.

And Jason Smith stayed right where he was when the meteorite came crashing down nearby.

The impact blast acted like a bomb; shards of glass from a storefront, bits of metal from a vehicle, branches from a tree, they all were hurled about in the ensuing shockwave.

Begin Broadcast…

“Hello? Hello, Meagan. This is Tim Eager reporting live. Grim news on the shore front today, where a meteorite of all things has struck this sleepy village unexpectedly. Jason Smith lies dead on the side of the street, covered in blood spilling from countless wounds covering his lifeless body…”

Fade to black.

Reverse the effects of the Secret Rule.

Too late, sorry.  The word exactly means it has to be done exactly at that time.  It was not.

The contents of the rule called “Plot Twist” are as follows:

At exactly 23:58:00 on 18/12/08, each Character shall replace his Relationship with 0 minus his Relationship.

The original contents (before the change) were as follows:

At exactly 23:58:00 on 25/12/08, each Character shall replace his Relationship with 0 minus his Relationship.

Allos, I’m Syl, my younger brother showed me this, and I’ve been intrigued.

I’m not totally sure what to do, and I’m just going on the FAQ, and what my brother said.

One minute until the dynasty ends.

Increase the Plot Points of Eljefe by 5.

I don’t have a proposal slot open. Anyone who does should post this.

Okay, how about this:

I post this. I claim neither PP nor a relationship change and none of you tries to get this removed from the plot summary. It shall be a gentlemen’s truce. Sound good?

December 18

7:52 PM

OhmygodthisissoboringwhyIamhere.

“...so, as you can see on chart thirteen, already highly stressed chemical bonds can be further agitated using a variety of amplified energy wave outputs…”

DEAR GOD. He’s reading right off the slide. Why is he reading right off the slide? I see the slide. The slide is right in front of me. Why is he reading off it?

“...causing a cross-pollenation, if you will, of interdimensional trans-temporal properties, the net result, theoretically, being a substantive resonance breach…”

That’s on the slide too. THAT’S ALL ON THE SLIDE OHMYGODI’MGOINGTOSTRANGLETHISMAN. He must die at my hands.

Damon Flatley, PhD, Theoretical Physics with a concentration in Dimensional Topography (Cal Tech ‘04, junior dimensional specialist, Dimensional Defense Force) sat in a mostly empty auditorium at the 4th annual International Dynamic Planar States Conference. He was bored. He was hungover. His head throbbed. His notepad was covered with doodles; most inappropriate for youngsters.

Professor Naoto Hashimoto of St. Anthony University, the host institution for this year’s conference, continued with his mind-numbingly boring lecture on the properties of certain agitated alloys in certain experimental states with certain finely-tuned physical stresses. It was all very certain: mostly in how uncertain the outcomes of such trials would be.

“Now, I’d like to bring you to one interesting possibility. Here we have the highly unstable alloy known as ‘flebotnum.’”

Damon dropped his pencil and snapped to attention.

The good professor continued, “I’m sure few of you have worked with flebotnum before, given its inherently dangerous properties, and the fact that it is practically worthless in all but the most refined states. Currently, only the most expensive laboratories in the world have the centrifuges capable of refining flebotnum to a pure enough state, but due to lack of practical uses for flebotnum, few have spent the money to do so.”

Damon leaned in.

“However, myself and members of the Pan-Dimensional Consortium, a group of scientists studying the possibilities of inter-dimensional travel, have concluded that flebotnum has extra-chronographical properties.”

Damon began to scribble.

“Using a variety of frequencies, we bombarded a piece of 99.8% refined flebotnum with energy; our studies are more fully detailed in Appendix Q, but I’d like to point you to one interesting result.”

Damon flipped to Appendix Q (page 365, for those following at home).

“When bombarded with a simple but highly tuned laser beam, of an output approaching that used in prototype experimental weaponry, we found that the flebotnum became increasingly agitated, emitting a significant amount of iota-wave radiation.” The professor took off his glasses and set them on the podium.

“Iota waves?!” Damon wrote down in his notebook. He knew all about them—they were integral for the time travel of humans and all other biological matter.

“While this is all highly speculative, it is entirely possible that a pure enough sample of flebotnum, when bombarded with a sufficient quantity of amplified light waves, such as through a laser beam, could, when placed under high degrees of stress, shift all life on earth into a cross-dimensional state. The effects would be…well, as best we can theoretically determine, all biological life on earth would cease to exist in our ‘dimension’...momentarily, at least.”

Damon sat back in his chair and pondered. He knew the DDF had been chasing a device that used flebotnum for temporal-tempering purposes; but as far as he knew no part of the process involved radiating flebotnum with lasers. Also, DDF had yet to find any flebotnum refined to pure enough a state to be a reliable emitter of iota rays. He had nothing to worry about, right?

Damon smiled and doodled that cute girl from human resources.

* * *

FLASHBACK TO: Beneath Shade Industries

Jzzt~! “Ow!” Shade drew his hand back from the Black Swan, sucking on his lightly burnt finger.

What the hell? Shade thought; he had pulled the Swan out of his pocket to check on it, but when he touched it the damn rock fired off an electrical charge.

Shade picked it back off of the ground. It didn’t shock him this time, but the ore seemed to continue to emit a field reminiscent of the kind one feels when rubbing a balloon on their hair.

“Are you alright, Shade?”

Shade stuffed the Black Swan into the case and got back to his feet, turning to face the Shade that had, as of a week ago, made his life so very, very interesting.

The Shade of times yet arrived stood in the dim light of the warehouse’s underground emergency exit. The DDF had stormed the building and; with the odds turning against the Shades so, they had decided on the only honorable course: sacrifice Shade Industries’ minions so the two of them could flee unnoticed into the secret exit passage.

The two had hustled for some five hundred yards before coming to a stop to tend to their wounds. The cave, except for the occasional drop of water on the stone floor, was silent. No DDF agents had yet followed them, but they would be sure to detect the passage way eventually.

“You’re wounded.”

The present’s Shade looked down at his leg and thigh; the laser had burned his leg, his hip, his waist, and of course…the Black Swan. He opened his mouth to tell the other Shade about the damage suffered by his valuable cargo—

“Give me the flebotnum.”

Shade drew back. He could sense that the Black Swan was his last bit of leverage and should not be parted with so easily. He did not trust this Shade; he did not trust how in the dark he had been kept; he did not appreciate the amount of faith on which he had been forced to operate. Now he wanted answers.

“You have to tell me where we’re going, first.”

Shade produced a pistol.

“No. Give it to me.”

Shade reached into his singed pocket.

* * *

Hilario withdrew from chatting with a pair of his technicians and turned back to Marcus Shade.

“So, where is the Mr. Shade from this busy time period?”

Shade laughed, a laugh that came from somewhere deep in his throat; a laugh that came to a rest before it could escape his mouth.

“He’s indisposed of.”

Vandenbergh scratched his chin, yawning. “I do hope your accuracy is good, it would have been a shame for the Swan to be damaged this late in the production.”

“The rock hasn’t been touched.”

* * *

FLASHBACK TO: Shade Industries

Lt. Comm. Ashby Taylor, acting field commander of the DDF tactical response team, stood in the door way to the single most secure vault in Shade Industries.

His face was hard and dirty. The battle for Shade Industries had likely lasted only fifteen minutes in real time, but in combat things moved differently. They moved slower. And hey, Ashby thought to himself, wasn’t all time relative, anyhow?

His radio sparked to life, “Commander, the door should be opening in two…one…”

KA-CHUNG. Air escaped in a loud “Whiffffffff…”

The door swung open, and there stood the Antarctica device. The DDF had captured it.

“Noah, alert base that we have the football. Swan remains unsecured, however.”

They were missing the Black Swan. Then again, no one was even sure it was anywhere near Shade Industries. They had just hoped to get lucky. But alas, it was not to be. The absence of Shade was troubling as well, thought Taylor. But he had men searching every nook and cranny of the warehouse; DDF support teams had the perimeter surrounded; he would turn up. For now, they had the Antarctica machine and Lt. Comm. Taylor knew that without it, the Black Swan was worthless.

“I’m patching Rodlen through now, sir.”

Taylor’s radio crackled. “Lt. Comm., I’m sorry about your loss. But sacrifices must be made. Ruby knew that.”

Taylor nodded. At least it was over.

* * *

The ARCTIC device whirred to life.

“You’ve done good work.” Hilario puffed smoke out of the side of his mouth, emptying his pipe in the process.

And Shade had done good work—everything that had been asked of him. Unlike in his original timeline, where the DDF had wound up with the Black Swan, it was now being loaded into Vandenbergh’s machine. And, unlike his original timeline, Vandenbergh had second-generation equipment: the ARCTIC device capitalized on all the known flaws of the Antarctica device Shade had originally seen deployed. It had been a long journey.

Shade could overhear one of the engineers speaking to Vandenbergh, “Sir, the device is ready for activation.”

Vandenbergh smiled. Shade sat down. Hilario turned to Shade.

“Well, Marcus, are you prepared to have a very merry Christmas?”

The machine dominating the cavern groaned. The ARCTIC device and its flebotnum—flebotnum of an unbelievably refined nature, flebotnum that had been agitated and fused by exposure to a concentrated laser burst, flebotnum that was being incredibly stressed—was about to test Professor Hashimoto’s hypothesis.

If the professor was right…reality itself would hardly know what hit it.

Hilario threw the switch.

* * *

Jason Smith meandered down a glorious sidewalk set amongst trees and sea views; he stopped for a moment and looked out into the water. It had been a month to remember. But through it all—the death of Andrea, a near-kidnapping, the involvement of a sinister villain and a bunch of lunatic extra-dimensional vigilantes, more bacon cheeseburgers than he could count, and the biggest project of his career—he had persevered. He had made it. Now, he looked forward to spending tomorrow celebrating Christmas with some rest and relaxation.

But up above the fates had different ideas. The meteorite screamed to earth; the trials of the atmosphere had caused it to shrink but it remained strong; hurtling through the atmosphere at terminal velocity; streaking towards its destination; delivering death and destruction to any poor soul who happened to be within a 10 meter radius…

Little did either party know that a lone tax sorter and a speeding meteorite both intended to be at the same place at the same time.

Nobody ever seems to get any sleep in the plot.  They seem to be awake at all times.

My penultimate entry.

December 18

5:49 PM

Shade’s hand drifted over the ARCTIC Device. “Catchy name.”

Hilario undid the bag containing the Black Swan and pulled out the small green rock. “Yes, well, I would hate for there to be any confusion.”

A nearby metal plate read: “Antimatter Resonance Chronal Transmutation Iota-wave Contraption”. It looked impressive. It looked devious.

Shade paused. It was unusual for his personal concerns to trump his motivation for respect and power, but the events of the previous week gave him a new found respect for the universe’s natural order of time and dimensional stability.

“How do we know this won’t cause the same rift it did in my timeline?”

Hilario held the Black Swan up to a soft blue light near a make-shift engineering station. One of a handful of technicians in the facility pounded keys on a nearby computer.

Hilario responded without bothering to look at Marcus Shade, instead remaining focused on the Black Swan, “Your original employer didn’t have this wonderful bit of magic. He couldn’t control the reaction.”

CLANK CLANK CLANK. Shade descended the ARCTIC device’s platform.

Hilario handed the flebotnum ore to one of the engineers and turned to another workstation, eagerly making entries into a leather journal with a silver pen.

“You see,” Vandenbergh continued, “In your timeline, your employer had to settle for more pedestrian flebotbum. But the Black Swan is different; for every instance of refinement there is a one-billioneth chance that an ounce of flebotnum will emerge in a heightened state of purity. The Black Swan is such a piece of super-refined flebotnum.”

A dusty, ancient book sat atop a workstation. Shade opened it. Vandenbergh, who he had not seen move, slammed it shut. Hilario stared into Shade’s eyes.

“The purity of the Black Swan, plus the advanced schematics I had the good sense to send back with you from your original timeline, gives me, in this timeline, the control I need to rectify the mistake committed by your old employer.”

“That’s a good thing.”

Hilario laughed and returned to his logbook. Engineers were busy fitting the enhanced flebotnum into the ARCTIC machine. A generator whirred and hummed.

Hilario, “Tell me Shade, how did you come to possess the Black Swan?”

Shade stared off into space. “Well, I suppose it all started just a couple of days ago…”

FLASHBACK TO: Shade Industries

The DDF has stormed the facility. Two Shades, both injured, fight alongside Shade Industries henchmen. The firefight has ravaged the complex. The Shades are being pushed ever back; from the entrance to the main warehouse, from the warehouse to the control room, and now, as another Shade henchman falls to the ground, clutching a fresh bullet wound, the Shade of this timeline orders his men to fall back.

Lt. Comm. Ashby Taylor taps his radio, “Commander, the control room is secured. Charlie Squad is investing the elevator bank. Shade’s men are holed up in a few hot pockets of resistance.”

A buzz and a crackle. Taylor’s radio roared to life with the transmitted sound of sporadic gunfire, “Be there in a second.”

Taylor nodded to himself and looked around the control him. It had been damaged, but his DDF forces had thus far refrained from high explosives. Most stations remained operational. The close quarters fighting was taken its toll. Nearby, dragged from the entrance way where he had fallen, Agent Simmon was being tended to by Medic First Class Ibanez.

Commander Ruby Quirk and the four-man fire team that was Dog Squad (“God,” Ashby had thought to himself more than once as the squad’s members barked and woofed following a victory on the DDF basketball courts, “Do I ever hate that name.”) stormed into the control room.

Clackity-clackity-clack. A submachine gun was being fired, somewhere.

Quirk, the red-haired, ball-busting DDF commando and head of the tactical response team gave the control room a once over. Her machine pistol was slung back around her waist.

“Report.”

Taylor snapped to attention. “We’ve secured most of the flebotnum ore; the Antarctica device is located in one of the warehouse’s basement storage units; Shade’s goons are holed up in the elevator bank, though.”

Quirk looked through the windows of the control room and out at the warehouse below. Baker Squad had stopped firing and were moving in the open.

“And the Black Swan?”

Taylor bit his lip. “Haven’t found it yet; but it could be in with the rest of the flebotnum…”

“Unlikely,” barked Commander Quirk, “They’re sure to know about it by now and have protected it.” She keyed her intercom. “Charlie, we need those elevators… NOW!”

* * *

MEANWHILE, in the technologically advanced basement storage unit of Shade Industries, the Shade of the current timeline squeezed the Black Swan hidden in his pocket—

Hilario interrupted, “The unfortunate Mr. Shade of now had it already?”

Shade answered, “He stole it from Smith. He had just returned to the warehouse with it when the DDF attacked.”

—Shade did not yet know why this particular piece of flebotnum was so important, only that it was.

The future Shade patrolled up and down the corridor. They were two rooms removed from the elevator bank. It appeared to be a hopeless situation. He listened to his radio: The elevator bank had fallen. The idiots had neglected to demolish it and the DDF were able to reroute the power to get it going again. They were coming down.

An explosion. Close by. The DDF were in the basement.

“Let’s go!” yelled the Shade of times coming; it was a primitive yell, that of a man fighting for more than just his life.

DDF commandos advanced from the elevator bank and into the primary underground warehouse. The air was thick with ammunition. The two sides reached a seeming stalemate, fighting between metallic containers. The DDF were being judicious in their use of weaponry, Shade thought. Bullets? Shells? They have lasers—but lasers pierced metal with deadly efficiency, and they were most assuredly trying to secure the Antarctica device intact.

The Shade of the present saw a pair of DDF agents head into an adjacent hallway. They were flanking. He reloaded his pistol and dove from his cover to the nearest door, rolling across the floor and narrowly being spared a bullet to the torso.

Future Shade and the few remaining henchmen continued the bogged down fight in the main room. The Shade of our time waited in the hallway—the far door opened, surely this was them!—he fired twice, catching the DDF agent in the chest both times. He crumpled to the ground. A second trooper came through, this one a red-haired woman—Shade fired again, she stumbled back.

Shade slowly slid past the body of the first enemy and into the room. He looked at his prey. She was slumped up against the wall clutching a wound in her gut, breathing heavily. Her weapon had bounced across the room. Shade approached her, out in the open.

And then Shade was shot.

The bitch had a goddamn laser pistol! Shade cursed to himself. She hadn’t been clutching her gut, she’d been hiding the damn gun. The blast had grazed his thigh, he was bleeding. Had the flebotnum been hit?

Shots were being fired outside. His radio chirped to life, “Shade, Shade. This is hopeless. Bring the Swan—let’s go.”

Shade didn’t bother to look his adversary in the eyes; if he did, he would have seen them steeled over with icy determination. Traveling through dimensions for a livelihood might make one less fearful of death; more appreciative of the mysteries of the universe.

Shade fired three rounds and retreated.

* * *

Like a caterpillar into a butterfly, the earth’s atmosphere transformed the meteor into a meteorite—a cocoon made of unforgiving heat.

The meteorite lost mass; more and more…and more. But it would not be denied. It burst through the atmosphere; below, a placid and quiet earth awaited it’s extraterrestrial visitor.

And Jason Smith exited a coffee shop.

How do you post an anon CfJ anyway?

Merry Christmas! Today is Christmas according to Blognomic Rules, so… Merry Secular Holidays again to everybody! I hope you’re having a cool holiday, no matter where you are and what you believe in :)

Something weird just happened. I reloaded the front page, and suddenly there were edit buttons next to every single post. Irealoded it again and they were gone, but still…

Add the following to the end of the glossary section Timespans:

*For the purpose of all rules, time in Blognomic is in GMT.

Remove the plot seed that occurred at 8:20 PM on December 17, 2008.

Eljefe loses 1 PP, gains 1 relationship, and gains 50 bucks.

Said plot seed was illegal…it was made on the 18th.

In rule 1.5 “Enactment”, replace the text:

Proposals the Narrator has voted to VETO are considered vetoed.

with:

Proposals any Character has voted to VETO are considered vetoed.

THIS TIME FOR REAL! Except for the fact that this is a joke.

In rule 1.5 “Enactment”, replace the text:

Proposals the Narrator has voted to VETO are considered vetoed.

with:

Proposals any Character has voted to VETO are considered vetoed.

This is a joke proposal. Yes, I know I’m a hypocrite.

Add the following to the Plot Summary document, under the section “December 18, 2008”:

Jason and Rodlen did not knew what Arthexis meant that last time, right before shooting the man he believed to be Jason. The chest was opened, and it was Jasons face the first thing that was seen from within it. An evil force had sprung from within, making the sensors back at the DDA/F go highwire in an instant.

Chuck Norris has arrived.

Add Chuck Norris to the Planar Entities page, again.

I have added an explanation of the recent events to the Plot Summary page.

Create a new core rule titled Absolute Power with the following text:

The Narrator may alter the ruleset at any time.

This is NOT serious.

In rule “1.8 Dynasties” change the text:

The Narrator may vote to VETO any Proposal.

To:

As a daily action, the Narrator may vote to VETO any one Proposal.

I understand that some Proposals may be silly enough to get failed on sight, yet, why should the Emperor police us on every single one of them? Why do we have to think our actions through, yet the Emperor can blast anything he wishes with no need for justification? The power of the VETO is fine, but it should not be over abused as it has been in the later dynasties. If Yoda vetoes this, I’m gonna CfJ based on his behavior.

Darth Cliche nukes the town where this takes place. Everyone is dead now, except for Yoda and Darth Cliche.

Create a sub-section of the plot summary section Foresight titled December 20, 2008.

Create a plot seed in said sub-section with the title 11:42 PM and the following text:

Rocks fall.  Everyone dies.

Begin a new metadynasty. Characters become Players. Narrator becomes Emperor. Repeal all dynastic rules.

3:45 PM

Arthexis kills Jason with a round of bullets.

December 18, 3:55 PM

The man that Arthexis shot coughed, it was obvious he wouldn’t make it, but there was a smile on his face.  He reached up, his hands shaking and pealed off the Latex mask he was wearing.  It wasn’t Jason that Arthexis had jumped, but Amnistar.  He grinned at the old man and shook his head, “Rodlen may not know you have it, but he’ll find out.  We knew you would strike, Jason is safe.”

Per rule “2.7 The End” the Protagonist has died (by being shot by Arthexis) and thus, no one can win the Dynasty. So, I propose that the current Dynasty ends and a new Dynasty begins instead.

Characters become Players. The Narrator becomes the Emperor. Remove all Dynastic Rules.

December 18, 3:35 PM

“Hello, Jason” says the old antiquarian, the guy named Arthexis. He was the kind of man that was easily overlooked, and yet always liked it that way. The man holds Jason’s wallet in his hand and Jason’s DDF ID in his other hand. “Sorry that I had to take this, but I wanted to have a word with you…”

Jason takes a step forward, frowning, mouth opening slowly as he begins to say something, only to be interrupted by the war veteran again. More specifically, by an old WWII rifle getting pointed at his head by the war veteran. “No need to say anything, just to shut up and listen.” Arthexis smirks, “I am not planning on using this as long as you play along. And playing along is simple enough, just stay quiet and come back here: there is something I must show you”

Jason continues frowning, noticing how the apparently old rifle is indeed in good enough condition to get a bullet across his skull. Trying to think how to get out of this one, he has no choice but to follow the old man into a shady, musky chamber where the old man kept his relics, those to rare to be left out with the rest and handled by the tourists. “In that chest, open it up please, and take a good look at whats inside.”

Jason nods, trembling just a little as his hands touch the sides of the chest, yet trying to hold his fear inside like a real man ought to do. Certainly, he has a bad feeling about the chest. A ‘deja vu’ if you wanna call it that way. “I do not work for Shade. But I do have something that is his. Something an even higher power wants. The funny thing is that I have it and they don’t know it. Rodlen wanted it too, and he even tried to kill me to get it. But he thought Shade had taken it first and let me to die behind.” Jason opens the chest, his eyes go wide in awe.

“You understand now, right? Goodbye Jason, this is the only way I can protect you now.”

Arthexis kills Jason.

Decrease the relationship of every player by 20.

Darth Cliche walks into Shade Industries headquarters and hands a folder to Dr. Marcus Shade, as Darth Cliche was actually a spy for Shade all along.

Because of the awesome idea of the Battle of BloGnoMic, I want Jason to die.

And I’m plot /
PLOT SEEDING…

===December 17===

===8:20 PM===

There are hills to the west of town; just beyond the dilapidated rail yards adjacent to Shade Industries. There, overlooking the town and the surrounding hills with a vista that some would consider beautiful if visited during less interesting times, rested Hilario Vandenbergh. Reading a novel. In front of a cave.

Marcus Shade, frazzled and limping, a Shade with the weight of two worlds on his shoulders, crept up the side of Vandenbergh’s hill. It was a difficult climb; Shade’s last 48 hours had been a veritable roller coaster of action and thrills. To his dismay, the final instructions from Mr. Vandenbergh had been to ascend this useless hump of dirt and deliver him the Black Swan.

Hilario struck an odd sight; even the bitterly cynical Shade of times future had to admit that. There he sat: mustache, impeccably starched shirt, combed and trimmed beard, tall hat, cane at his side; all in the middle of an encampment that seemed to be a relic of the American Civil War. If Shade had stopped to think about it, he would have sworn he could smell coffee brewing in the narrow metal pot sitting atop the fire and a whiff of gunpowder in the air. But a man’s imagination can get the better of him when confronting the weird.

“You look like the model of comfort. And here I am, all banged up.”

Hilario looked up; he laughed. Shade’s blood boiled.

“I hope you don’t find this so funny very much longer.”

Vandenbergh stood up, closing the middle three buttons on his five button coat.

“No, no, my boy; it’s merely that you appear to have had a productive day. I trust you have returned with all of our…requisite materials?”

That was a damn lie. Hilario Vandenbergh doesn’t trust, he knows. He knows because Hilario Vandenbergh has a reputation as someone not to be disappointed. He knows that if Shade didn’t have exactly what he wanted, Shade would have high-tailed it into the first parallel dimension DDF could fling open for him as part of their infamous cross-chronographical witness protection program.

“Yeah.” Shade sized up his relatively new employer. “I got it. But I don’t see what good it’ll do you out here in the woods.”

Hilario smiled. “How quaint of you, Mr. Shade. How quaint.”

And together they walked back into the cave; receding into the dark of the earth.

An elevator ride. Ding. A long hallway. An expensive but Spartan research facility; and, in the middle of a cavern some hundred meters below the graveyard above, steeped in an artificial light ricocheting this way and that off of the grotto ceiling and cave walls, held aloft on a platform of unbefitting quality, lay Hilario Vandenbergh’s answer to the Antarctica device. His loud, thunderous answer.

* * *

MEANWHILE, as the North Atlantic of the cobalt orb that is humanity’s home spins below, a meteor is falling to earth.

Jason Smith may still die if the rest of you can amount to more than 28 points worth of negative relationship * PP in the remainder of the game.

I can take care of the majority of the current 82 point deficit, but I’ll need help. Bucky, Darknight, Arthexis can be the most helpful if they post and lower their relationships.

Let’s do this.

PS. To clarify: We have until 6:59pm EST.

Hello.

I want Jason Smith dead.

If you do too, give me 80 bucks. That’s all I need to max out.

Give it to me.

GIVE
IT
TO
ME.

Random occurrences!

Positive: Graveyard (Cayvie PP +1, Relationship +1)

Negative: St. Matthew’s (no one)

I think this might be the same exact role I made last week.

Eljefe PP +1

i edited some posts back in 12/05 to get rid of hanging html tags that were making the page reallllly ugly.

technically, i know we’re not allowed to alter posts with comments on them, but i figured the benefit to history outweighed the detrimental effects of my minuscule abuse of admin power.

I’m returning to the game, Unidle me please.

Hey, back from a long sabbatical, this next one sounds interesting and I want to see how it goes..
De-idle me please?

Create a new rule called “Factions”:

There exist three Factions called BLO, GNO and MIC, respectively. For each one of these factions, there exists a Ruleset and a Gamestate to which those rules apply. Every rule existing in the Blognomic ruleset is considered implicit in each Faction’s Ruleset, even if not written on it. Rules existing only in a Faction’s Ruleset have no effect outside that Faction’s Gamestate and Ruleset.

This implies that a Player CAN win in a Faction, indeed becoming Emperor for that faction, but not for the whole game.

Create a new rule called “Membership”:

Each Player may belong to at most one Faction. This shall be tracked in a GNDT column named Faction. As a weekly action, a Player who is not the Emperor may change their Faction to any one of the three valid Factions. A Player is not considered to be so by a Faction’s Ruleset unless that Player’s Faction is the same as the Ruleset’s Faction.

Whenever a Player makes an official post with the text “[Faction]” at the beginning of its subject, then that post shall be known as a Faction Post and is considered to be made only within the context of the Ruleset and Gamestate for that Player’s Faction. Otherwise, it is considered to be made within the Ruleset and Gamestate of Blognomic as a whole.

Faction Posts cannot be made if the Player’s Faction has less than three Players.

I hereby apply to be a player.

Replace the text “the Narrator shall multiply the Relationship of each Active Character by their PP and add the results” in rule titled “The End” with “the Narrator shall add the Relationships of each Active Character”.

Jen & Berry’s: +1

hooray for darknight and gnauga!

Graveyard: -1

aw boocats

may i please be unidled?

man, it’s cool to see that this thing is still going.

and that the legend of anthony lives on.

When’s the last time spikebrennan posted? I think e’s idle now.

Remove tusho from the list of Idle Characters.

Hokay, back.

So when’s the next dynasty start? :P

edit: Also, I announce my arrival.

I leave to change my name.

Darth Cliche joins the DDF/DDA.

There’s a big chance that we will end with a metadynasty next. Because of that, I’d like to propose having a contest for the next dynasty just after it. Something really simple: a poll where each player gets to propose a theme for a dynasty and then vote on the idea each likes the most other than their own. People who do not vote after a set period of time has elapsed will be counted as issuing random votes on the proposed ideas. Or maybe each player can pick to propose more than one idea, and also get more than 1 vote too? Or something like that. What do you guys think?

13:45 PM

Nothing happened at this time.

In Rule 2.1.1, change the text

no more than three times per week

to

no more than five times per week

Hilario Vandenbergh puffed his cigar and, for a moment, indulged his own vanity: The chaos that people of his ilk had to manage to their own profit, like the task of wrestling a bull to the ground, was beautiful in the challenge it posed. But a challenge is, to the strong and smart, an opportunity.

He could plainly see that the end game was in progress—timelines were overlapping, dimensions were being crossed, people were being hurled through time only to wind up in different dimensions… depending on where you looked Jason Smith was alive, dead, a secret agent, a double agent, a giraffe, or on a Caribbean island with Andre Montgomery, having absconded with hundreds of thousands in tax refunds months ago.

In short, a glory mess of things was being made.

Another thing was clear to Hilario. The much-feared dimensional cascade had occurred. In the future, perhaps the one this Hilario was familiar with, someone had trifled with powers beyond their understanding. The effects were proving enormous.

The damage was already done. The only question remained: Who would trigger it? And to what end? Perhaps Vandenbergh himself, that self-styled Captain of the Chronautic Industries, had triggered it. Perhaps a time-traveling porpoise had. The crossing of dimensions and time had had more curious effects in the past.

The past. A quaint concept, he muttered to himself.

11:59 PM

Jason Smith quickly rushed to get his microDRC.  He, with a few weapons, pretty much wiped out the Shade security force, and took the device, as well as a lot of flebotnum.  He then returned to the DDA/DDF, and met with Rodlen.  However, some of Shade’s goons somehow followed Jason into the DDA/DDF HQ and hid.

“I am such an idiot.”

Jason shoved open the door to Energy Clerk Xander’s office.

“I need a double set of Energy packs ASAP.”

Xander looked up from his computer.

“Why the rush?  We just had a clean pullout, and you won’t be doing anything but paperwork for the next week.”

“I lost my coat at pullout minus three days.  Bucky returned it later that night, but in my drunken stupor I failed to make sure my microDRC was still in the pocket.”

“You went out drinking carrying your Rift Container?  What were you thinking.”

“Standard procedure.  We’re always supposed to carry them when we’re on duty, even during breaks.”

“You were drinking on-”

“-during an extended deployment.” interrupted Jason.  “Look, we need to recover it immediately.  Just give me the packs and I’ll take a shuttle back over for a redeploy.”

Xander informed his computer of Jason’s intentions, then bit his lip.  “Do you have clearance?”

“There’s no time to go through the clearance process.  When he gave me back the coat, Bucky showed me a reasonably pure sample of flebotnum, and told me that Shade had more.  If they manage to reprocess it into chronium, they may be able to bootstrap the DRC into a time travel device.  And if they try to reverse-engineer it - well, even if they fail, they may end up causing a class-2 or 3 rift or shredding the town with gravity waves if the flebotnum’s involved.”

Xander’s jaw dropped.  “Take the packs and go.  I’ll requisition the shuttle and fill out the clearance forms.  But Rodlen will want a word with you when you return.”

7:00 PM

A few of Shade’s goons snuck into the DDF HQ and hid.  They had been told that the DDF was planning on escaping later in the night.

Remove the second to last sentence in the location Sidewalk.

Remove the phrase “by the Sidewalk” from the last sentence of the location Ruined DDF HQ.

Positive: Graveyard (useless)
Negative: St Matthew’s (useless)

7:23 PM

“All this time, Jason Smith has been a trap.  He brought out our enemies.  Those enemies are going to be killed…after we exit this dimension with Agent Smith.  Now, we know that Shade, Eljefe, and Arthexis are out to get us.  I have hired a squad of assassins to kill them.  We escape…now.” said Rodlen to the standard crowd.

The DDA/DDF HQ was dimension-warped to a less hostile dimension.  Jason Smith, secretly a DDA/DDF agent, was inside the HQ.

Dec. 14th 2:32PM
The two Shades looked on as workers finished putting the last of the flebotnum ore into a giant machine deep under the warehouse. “Your sure the ore is stable enough to use now?” the uninjured Shade muttered. The other Shade nodded slightly, eyes focused on the strange machine in front of him. “Very well then.” the first Shade said. “I’ll go to the control box and start the F.L.U.X. Once it destroys Rodlen and the… rest of his group, I can get the swan back from the young lad who has been so kind in tending to it after the car accident those idiots caused last month.” As he left to start the machine, the other Shade smiled and placed a note onto the table. He then turned and looked down into the lab as the F.L.U.X started up, bright green light glowing out of it. “This time I’ll make sure that I stay on task.” he muttered to himself as the events of the injured Shade’s timeline caught up to him. The machine suddenly glowed brighter, then blew up. As lab techs worked to contain the fire, the newly injured Shade stumbled into the office. “YOU SON OF A…” he started before seeing that the room was empty of life. He then saw the paper on the table, picked it up and read the note.

“By the time you read this, the events leading to my injury will have happened and set our timeline into place. I was indeed you, coming back to send you on a different path. You must “persuade” Smith into telling you how to stableize the ore. If you don’t… well lets just say the boss will be very upset.”

I posted a plot seed. About 24 hours later I changed my relationship. Rodlen has reversed this via the GNDT. While I think it’s up to the Character objecting to a debatable rule interpretation to post the COJ, I’m going to do it to avoid having a back-and-forth in the GNDT that will inevitably end up as a COJ.

The germane rules state:

2.4 Relationship

There exists a GNDT-tracked variable for each character entitled relationship, which can be negative. New Characters start with a relationship of 0. The narrator always has a relationship of 0.

Whenever a Character other than the Narrator Seeds the Plot, that character may spend 50 Bucks to increase or decrease their Relationship by 1.

I am a Character. I seeded the plot. I “may” which, per Ruleset language usage, means I am “permitted to.” The way I see it, this means I have the ability to change my relationship until I seed the plot again (at which point I’ll have another chance to change my relationship by one unit, but not by two). I don’t see anything in the rule that mandates some sort of immediate action.

Does the Bognomic week start on Sunday or Monday?

Add the following text to rule 2.9 “Christmas”:

On December 19, 2008, Christmas is changed to December 25 for BlogNomic purposes.

That way, Christmas is on the 25th in 2009, 2010 and so on,

Kiosk: +1

Graveyard: -1

I get 1 PP and no-one else is affected. Bah, humbug!

If you wish for Jason to live, please donate to me.

Not Eljefe.

Me.

El Jefe here. I need money to leverage my PP with a relationship change. I’m requesting $100. Since I believe money can be transferred here freely per the Ruleset, feel free to make the transfer via the GNDT. I suggest a number of $30-$50 donations.

In the Rule entitled “The End”, change the text:

the Protagonist dies and a new metadynasty begins.  If the Protagonist has not died

with:

the Protagonist dies. 
If the Protagonist does not die

Add the following paragraph to the Rule entitled “The End” by inserting it right before the last paragraph in that Rule:

If the Protagonist dies, the Narrator shall roll DICEX in the GNDT, where X is the number of Characters with a negative Relationship.  Let the result of the DICE roll be n.  This roll will pick a Character, determined by iterating downwards through the Name column of the GNDT, starting with the top character and skipping any character with a Relationship that is not negative, for a number of steps equal to the result of the DICE roll minus one (A roll of ‘1’ corresponds to the top unskipped character in the GNDT, with 0 iterations performed).  The Narrator shall then publish the chosen Character’s name in a Story Post.  That Character achieves victory.

Is the name “Rodlen” mentioned in the Secret Rule?  No (In fact, no character is mentioned by name in the secret rule.)

Will PP, Location and relationship stats have more meaning do to the Secret Rule?  Yes, in a way.

Are there circumstances under which the secret rule would change whether or not Jason would die?  Yes

Taking the secret rule into account, will Rodlen win this dynasty?  At the moment, no.  But that can always change.

Is ‘metadynasty’ mentioned in the Secret Rule?  No

Is ‘Woodchuck’ mentioned in the Secret Rule?  No

A strong hand grabs Jason by the shoulder.  He turns around to find himself inches from a distorted version of a familiar face.  Familiar because he’d seen it so many times at the café.  Distorted because of an emotional cocktail that was difficult to read, but most definitely negative.

“B-B-Bucky?”

“Is this your coat?”

Jason tried to swallow, but his mouth was suddenly dry.  “Y-yeah.  Did I l-leave it at the c-cafe last night?”

“No, Smith.  Not where I found it.”

Jason suddenly uncomfortably aware that his back was pressed against a brick wall.

“It was in the kitchen area, along with all the evidence of a burglary.  Someone had picked the lock on the Alley door that most customers don’t know about, and ransacked the meat freezer.  Every single container had been cut open.  By the time I found out, a couple thousand Bucks’ worth of fish had thawed, meaning that the burglary happened shortly before midnight.”

“I d-don’t… didn’t…”

“Either you did do it, or someone wants me to think you did it.  Either way, I want to know why.”

“I was at W-wong’s.  Beer.  Can’t ya tell?”

“You’ve had long enough to get drunk afterwards.  I don’t care.  I just hope you’re sober enough to tell me what this is.”

Jason stared for a second and a half at the green rock in Bucky’s hand, then blinked hard twice to clear his vision.  The rock was still there, and still green.”

“I th-think it’s flebotnum ore.  Andrea used ta work with the stuff.  Where’d it come from?”

“That’s what I want to know.  That and where the rest of them went.  There was a whole box of them at the café this morning, and someone thought they were important enough to stage a burglary.”

“I d-didn’t do it, I…”

“Enough.  I’ll talk to you again when you’re sober.  In the meantime, I have some reading to do.”

Jason closed his eyes for a second from fatigue, and Bucky had faded into the crowd by the time he opened them.

Each Character may, along with their valid vote on this proposal, ask one yes/no question about the Secret Rule.

If this proposal passes, Yoda must truthfully answer each question on a story post within 24 hours.

Only the last question each Character asks must be answered.

Reduce Rodlen’s PP by 1 for each FOR vote made on this proposal.

Here we go now.

December 12, 2008

3:00 PM

Marcus Shade was running. Running was an unusual activity for the typically too-dignified-to-really-exert himself Shade; it was more like he was engaged in a behavior that existed somewhere in the twilight between fleeing and sauntering; a compromise between the expedience of abandoning a previous engagement and the imperative of looking imperious.

As he fled from the premises of his warehouse and into the alleys that connect it to the main strip of town, Shade was struck by the absurdity of his present condition. He was struck by the guile of his opponent, who had, apparently, distracted his entire retinue of guards and henchmen. But, most of all, he was struck by a fist. Ow. He had not expected his apparently lame adversary to be so quick.

Shade crumpled to the ground, landing on his hands and rear. He hurriedly crab-walked backward, soon finding his escape route compromised by a chain link fence. He was trapped.

The afternoon sun blighted his view, but there was little doubt as to the figure towering over him. It was familiar but different—different in shape but also in gravity. Where one aspect was impaired, the other characteristic had grown to accommodate for his new found weakness. And this Shade, our Shade, the Shade of now, had never been accused of lacking gravity to begin with.

Marcus Shade dragged his lame leg with him as he brought his ponderous but still powerful frame closer to his double. He was breathing hard. “I expected you to be wiser about this. You’re disappointing me.”

“Son of a…I think you broke my nose!”

“If that’s the worst that happens then you’re still going to come out ahead.” Shade pivoted on his good leg and looked back toward the warehouse.

“The key code was bad.”

“You broke my nose.”

“Why did you change the key code? I knew the key code.”

Shade gripped the fence for support. “You sent away all of my men.”

Shade turned his head back after a slight pause. “Yes, go figure, they can’t tell the difference in our voices.”

The undeniable depth of this statement stopped the Shade of the present for a moment.

“I don’t know that I buy your story.”

This insolence aggravated Shade. “You are stubborn, aren’t you?”

Shade, the Shade at home in this time, pushed himself off the fence and took up a more tactically favorable position, cutting this other Shade off from the alley. He fingered a small blade in his pocket.

“Listen, I don’t care who you are or where you’re from. I run this operation. I always run the operation. Now, I let you help me recover those rocks from Bucky because

I

needed them. I let you turn out the double-agents in my own fold because it helped

me

. But any enterprise you have that goes beyond that is your own business, and to the extent that it crosses with mine… you lose.” The cool, dull edge of the blade rubbed up against his thumb.

But then that Shade, that otherworldly Shade, impaired physically but also seemingly renewed with some strange strength that only the depths of despair can grant, whispered a name. And Shade stepped back.

He knew the name; Shade knew his backer kept a watchful eye over him; knew that he was, in a way, the chief competitor for the very…resources Shade’s employer now sought to have Shade secure.

“What of?”

“He sent me here.”

“Why would you work for him? Money?” It was hard to imagine this mysterious fellow eclipsing the sum offered by his current employer.

“No. Something greater than money; an opportunity. The chance to set things right. And that is why I need full access to my…

your

facility. And that is why I need you; because you’re the very fool I’ve come to protect. If you were anyone else your impudence would have found you a cool plot of land in a cemetery somewhere.”

Shade pondered this for a moment. It seemed wild; almost as if it had to be true by the very nature of its unbelievability. But then again, if he were willing to accept this yarn, certainly he could accept a differing version where this Shade before him was an impostor or deceptive provocateur. But the best gamble, right now, was to play along.

“So what are we to do?”

For the first time since this Shade encountered our familiar present, the Shade from beyond smiled. The expression warped the scar across his cheek, rendering it into a hideous hieroglyph. “Keep the Antarctica device away from your former employer. Stop the DDF. But most of all, find the Black Swan.”

Shade raised an eyebrow. “The missing one?”

His doppelganger turned to walk back towards the warehouse. “It’ll be found at a most inopportune time, Mr. Shade, if we don’t find it first.”

* * *

Jason Smith, a tax accountant and (if it is not too repetitive to say) a creature of habit, made the odd decision to stop in the midst of his big project and have a cup of tea at Joey Wong’s today.

The restaurant was at the height of a lunchtime rush. Alone, as he had been since the still-unsolved slaying of Andrea, Jason opted for the counter. He placed an order for a certain oolong and sat back, drumming his fingers on the table.

“I don’t suppose this seat is taken?”

A regal gentleman descended onto the adjacent stool. He smiled at Jason before turning to the waiter and ordering a drink Jason had never heard of.

“So,” the impeccably dressed fellow said, “What’s good here?”

Later that day at work, while entering some accounting data, Jason paused to reflect on this all but fleeting instant of an encounter. He was struck: not by the stranger’s clothes, which seemed to be fashioned out of Dickensian turn-of-the-century whole cloth and fancy; but by his face, even his aura. The man was a cross between Jay Gould and the Cheshire Cat, though without the occasional arrogant bumbling of the former and with none of the frivolous, hidden gaiety of the latter. Yes, indeed, Jason would think to himself—it was, for a short conversation, one of the oddest encounters of his life.

And Jason wondered where one even went about buying a top hat, nowadays.

Replace the text “Each Character other than the Narrator may, no more than three times per week,” in the sub-rule titled “Plot Summary” with “Each Character other than the Narrator may, as a daily action,”.

Replace the text “Any Character may, as a weekly action,” in the sub-rule titled “Random Occurrences” with “Any Character may, no more than 3 times per week,”.

Today, the events in the Foresight section start unfolding…

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

December 18, 2008 is considered to be Christmas Day for the purposes of Blognomic.

I hereby decree that Christmas will be one week earlier this year!

So, you better watch out, you better not cry cuz Santa Claus is coming a week early!

Jockawo has been inactive for 7 days and therefore goes idle.  Quorum drops to 6.

Amend the Occupation wiki page:

1. Medical Doctor

One Character may hold the occupation of “medical doctor.” The MD has a pay rate of 2D30+30. The doctor is chosen by the Characters via a vote, akin to a Declaration of Victory, but only a plurality is required to win.

2. Mortician

One Character may hold the occupation of “mortician.” The mortician has a pay rate of 2D20+25. The mortician is chosen by the Medical Doctor in an open posting to the BlogNomic page.

Amend the Location wiki page:

16 Morgue

There is a Morgue located on Main Street. Oddly enough, it is located directly on top of Jason Smith’s apartment. The Morgue is fully functioning and is often inhabited by a mortician (along with less lively folk). The floor is structurally unsound, but only the landlord and the company that financed the building’s construction know this.

The Morgue may be accessed from the Sidewalk or Jason’s Apartment, but the door is locked and reinforced, and only the Mortician has keys.

Amend the Current Ruleset under section 2.7, and renumber “The End” and “Plot Twist Enabler” 2.8 and 2.9, respectively:

2.7 Body Count

2.7.1 The Medical Doctor

When any Character or non-player character is killed in a plot seeding, the Medical Doctor may declare that character dead in a post to the initial thread announcing the plot seed. If the plot seed is not announced, the Medical Doctor may declare dead characters who have been killed in plot summary postings via a new post on the main page.

2.7.2 The Mortician

Whenever the Medical Doctor declares a Character or non-player character deceased, the Mortician may state in either a new post or a reply to the original post that the Mortician has transported the dead body to the Morgue. The dead body is then considered to be in the Morgue. The Mortician may move in and out of the Morgue without cost and whenever the Mortician chooses.

Amend “The End” section of the Current Ruleset:

2.8 The End

2.8.1 Fixed Date Ending

After 23:59:00 on 25/12/08, no Character may take any actions described by any other dynastic rule; however, the Narrator may still, at any time, edit the “Plot Summary” wiki page. Any time after 23:59:00 on 25/12/08 has passed, the Narrator shall multiply the Relationship of each Active Character by their PP and add the results. If this sum is less than or equal to 0, the Protagonist dies and a new metadynasty begins. If the Protagonist has not died, the Character with the most PP (of the Characters with a Relationship greater than 0) achieves victory. If two or more of those Characters tie for the most plot points then the Character in the tie with the higher Relationship achieves victory. In the event that causes another tie the players who tied for both shall roll DICEX, where X is relationship + PP for each player. The character who rolls the highest may declare victory. In the event of another tie, repeat the roll until there is a single highest roll. The roller of that roll may declare victory.

No Character may declare victory before 23:59:00 on 25/12/08. If a character does declare victory before this time then the declaration fails automatically regardless of how the voting goes.

2.8.2 Alternate Ending

Notwithstanding the text of 2.8.1, the game will end if Jason Smith is killed prior to the entry pertaining to his death in the “Foresight” section of the Current Ruleset.

Jason Smith is fatally crushed to death in his apartment if the number of bodies in the Morgue location reaches ten. At ten, the Morgue collapses on top of Smith’s apartment. All Character and non-player characters in Smith’s apartment will then be considered dead as well. It will be unnecessary for the Mortician to exercise his powers to transport any newly flattened deceased to the Morgue as they will, in a manner, already be there.

Jason Smith may only be killed via the Foresight section of the Plot Summary wiki page or rule 2.8.2.

If the dynasty ends per rule 2.8.2 a metadynasty begins.

Plot seedin’.

==December 10==

===3:32 PM===

“Jenkins, you ol’ dog! I hear it’s only four days until retirement for you!”

Lieutenant McGlaughlin delivered a stern and hearty backslap to Detective Jenkins. Jenkins was fifty-four, by the end of the week he would have put in his twenty-five years on the force and qualified for his full pension. Twenty-five years: Sometimes dangerous, sometimes frustrating; twenty-five rewarding years serving and protecting the public.

He smiled bashfully. “Hey, watch out Lieutenant, soon they’ll be coming for your badge too.”

“Ha, I’m not good for nothin’ but bein’ a cop. Not like you. I hear you got big plans.”

Jenkins leaned back against his black unmarked police cruiser. “Shucks, Lt. it ain’t too much. With Catherine going to college out east, it’s just me and Jeanne at the homestead. We don’t got too much planned, just a little trip out to Europe for a few months, then down to Thailand for a week or two. Maybe get to Morocco. The kind of places we’ve always wanted to go.”

“I tells ya’ Jenkins, you sound downright domesticated—spending all your money on the woman like that.”

“She’s earned it, Charlie. All these years on the force. Going on all-night stakeouts, going undercover for drug busts, coming back home with a bullet in my thigh once—I’ve put Jeanne through a lot of restless nights. Heck, I was so dedicated to my job that I never even took her on a proper honeymoon. Well, I’m going to correct that now.”

“That sounds real sweet, Ray.”

“Ah screw you, Charlie. If you get all sensitive on me I won’t know what to think.”

“Haw, think nothing of it. I hear Stacker and Johnson will be takin’ over your case.”

“Yeah…” Jenkins lingered for a moment. “Yeah, that’s the only thing that bugs me. This case. Too many things don’t add up, like there’s something bigger at work here. Something strange. I tell you, if it weren’t for the fact I gave the Cap’n my notice a couple of months ago, I’d stay on this case and see it through…aw, there I go, sounding like an ol’ hounddog who can’t let go.”

“You ain’t a young man anymore.”

“You got that right, Charlie. Say, let me buy you one last round of coffee.”

“I’d like that, Ray.”

The two were the resident warhorses of the homicide and SWAT divisions. They were consummate professionals, fine examples of the thin blue line standing between law and lawlessness, between order and chaos. Their senses were usually sharp; but age had dulled them, and time had slowed down their reflexes. They heard the solitary whine of the motorcycle speeding their direction too late, saw the gun too late, reacted too slow.

Jeanne and Catherine and Ray’s mother and Charlie’s wife and two sons and little dog might be able to find some comfort in knowing that it was over quickly; that the bullets struck vital organs and caused little suffering. Might.

It would look like a gang killing; an initiation, perhaps. The DDF was skilled in the art of deception. It was also skilled in the art of ruthlessness.

For the week of 12/8:

Positive: Smith Apartment (Hello Sailor)

Negative: St. Matthew’s

1 net relationship increase, 2 PP’s (Sailor and me)

If the proposal “Move everything up a week” fails, this proposal does nothing.

Change the text “whose MD5 checksum is “3da9375cdc381c88b532c51d70ab9f24”.” in rule 2.8 “Plot Twist Enabler” to “whose MD5 checksum is “64b0ae5b13b7ed6bdb34c1bb60e1af53”.”

Change the sub-rule called “Plot Twist” to the text corresponding to the new checksum in rule 2.8 “Plot Twist Enabler”.

All it will do is change the date if the other proposal passes.

Since activity is at a mid-dynasty low, we should try to move into endgame sooner.
Change all dates in the Foresight section of the Plot Summary to refer to a date 7 days earlier.
In the Rule entitled “The End”, change all occurrences of “25/12/08” to “18/12/08”.
In the Rule entitled “Plot Twist Enabler”, change the text “December 26” to “December 19”.

11:06 PM

“Police are investigating the mad bombings of the Shade warehouse and a local antique shop.  Sources say that these incidents are believed to be connected.” crackled the radio in Rodlen’s office.

“Dammit, they know too much.  I guess I’ll get some assassins to kill every officer involved in the investigation.  Anything to keep Shade from activating the Antarctica device.”

And Rodlen is the good guy here.  The DDA/DDF is ruthless, and its leader bombs places and hires assassins.  However, it is still working for the good of all most themselves those that it does not kill.  Meanwhile, Shade is just evil.

King Anthony Library: Positive

Sidewalk: Negative

Ouch.

No plot seed for this yet.

10:10 PM

A DDA/DDF undercover agent entered Arthexis’s shop, knowing that Arthexis was working with Shade. Said DDA/DDF agent hid a small bomb in a product when Arthexis wasn’t looking, and then purchased a small black box. The agent left the building. A few minuted later, the bomb was triggered. At that point, it was discovered that the bomb was slightly underpowered, and it had only destroyed some products, damaged others, injured Arthexis, and barely damaged the shop itself.

Some DDA/DDF High Command members were found dead.  Their deaths were “accidental”.  Everyone rejoiced.

Spending 50 bucks to gain relationship.

Replace the text

If the Protagonist has not died, the Character with the most PP achieves victory unless that Character is the Narrator (in which case the Character with the second most PP achieves victory). If two or more characters tie for the most plot points then the characters in the tie with the higher relationship score may declare victory.

in rule titled “The End” with

If the Protagonist has not died, the Character with the most PP (of the Characters with a Relationship greater than 0) achieves victory. If two or more of those Characters tie for the most plot points then the Character in the tie with the higher Relationship achieves victory.

Note: Because the Narrator always has a Relationship of 0, I cannot be eligible to achieve victory, so the rule does not need to explicitly exclude me when calculating the winner.

Create rule “Time Shift”:

There exists a Time Displacement device which allows Characters to move back and forward in time. The Time Displacement device is located in “Arth’s Antique Shop”, and a Character that attempts to activate it must be in that location. To attempt activate it, a Character creates a Story Post titled with this format: “TimeShift -> DATE” where DATE is a valid date from November 15 to December 25. If at least a Quorum of Characters make a comment of “Shift” on that Story Post, then device is activated succesfully. If after 72 hours, there are not enough comments to activate the device, the attempt fails and no more comments are allowed on that post.

When the device is activated succesfully, the Character counts the difference in days between the current date and the DATE specified by the title of the Story Post. (this is the distance in days from today’s date to the specified date and may be positive or negative). Then, makes a comment stating what this difference is and stickies the post. Then, every other BlogNomic Rule shall consider todays actual date to be today’s real word date (in UTC time) plus the difference stated in the post (effectively shifting the date back or forth, so that the date becomes the one specified on the post title). This overrides every other rule, except itself, that determines what the date is.

1:43 AM, December 5

Arthexis, the antiquarian hears a loud noise not far away, the impact shaking his establishment slightly. He gets up, picks up his teapot and ours some water into a cup with leaves. “Hmph, they’ll see… they’ll repent for not believing me. I’ll do it myself….”

1:00pm Dec. 5th

Rodlen sat at his desk, head in hand. “How could those twits in higher up keep messing up. First our name and now this. They should have changed those passcodes so Shade couldn’t have even tried to ship us off to another plane. And now we detected another Shade?!? They really should have locked him in our prison plane before he went fully rouge on us.” Rodlen shakes his head. “Why do we get the nuts at this place?”

Create a new location, the Graveyard, with the following text:

Beside the King Anthony Library is a small graveyard.  Few people visit it.  Most of those people are shadowy men in trenchcoats, who all seem interested in one grave…

Add the following sentence to the end of the entry for the location King Anthony Library:

Beside this library is a small graveyard.

A pair of men in security uniforms wandered around the Shade warehouse.  These men, who most thought were security guards, were actually DDA/DDF (High Command is full of idiots) agents.  They were speaking on their walkie-talkies.

“Kalumson, is your bomb set?”

“Yep.  Yours, John?”

“Nope…” A gunshot was heard on John’s end.

“John…John…you okay!?!” Kalumson said, clearly panicing.

There was silence. After a while, Kalumson heard a voice behind him.

“Surrender now, DDA agent.”

“Actually, I think we are the DDF right now.”

“Okay, then surrender now, DDF agent.”

“Never.”

Kalumson detonated his bomb.  The resulting explosion killed both him and the mysterious person behind him, as well as destroying a section of the Shade warehouse.

The counter-attack starts…

I’d like to add this to the plot summary but don’t yet have access. In light of these circumstances, I’d like to request that the narrator add it to the plot summary for the evening of December 4th.

A slight jingling.

Mike, the slow-witted but hard-working prep cook from the BuckyStar Cafe, marched through the door and into Arthexis’ antique shop. He didn’t notice the tarps that had been thrown about, the wrappings, the out of place containers. He didn’t notice Arthexis’ annoyed look.

“Hey boss, a got something you might want to take a look at.” Mike dropped one of the glowing green rocks onto Arthexis’ countertop. “Any clue what this is? There’s a whole stack of them at the restaurant.”

Words don’t often fail Arthexis but the idiotic breach in protocol and execution, the bungling of Shade’s men again, this predicament, stunned him.

“Uh, erm, how—what... is that?”

“We was kinda’ hopin’ you would know. I mean, I can tell you one thing: It ain’t no shrim—”

PHEWT

“Aw damn damn damn!”  Arthexis threw up his hands in disgust. He verged on vomiting.

The store proprietor was fine, save for the blood and small bits of brain that had just found a new home on his clothes and counter.

A figure, familiar yet different, dressed in all black and hidden in an unnatural shadow, stood in front of the closed entrance way. He slowly lowered the silenced pistol to his side.

Arthexis squinted. “....Shade?”

An audible grunt. “A Shade. One Shade.” He stepped forward, and Arthexis instinctively drew back. This Shade wasn’t his Shade; he was burnt on the side of his face. He limped—dragged, really—his left leg with him. As he came into the light, more scars were visible on his body.”

“What the heck happened to you, Shade?”

“Nothing that can’t be undone.” He waved at the body. “This is the first step. This was where it started to go wrong. Give me your phone.”

Disturbed, disquieted, disgusted, Arthexis was in no mood to object. He handed it to Shade.

“Who are you calling?”

“Myself.”

An eerie chill filled the room. The cell phone booped and beeped. The lone sound that seemed to penetrate the stillness was the soft pitter-patter of a silhouette in a tall hat walking through the evening twilight with a slender cane at his side.

I’m also going to spend $50 bucks to change my relationship to -1. My location is now Sidewalk.

Positive: St. Matthews (nobody home)

Negative: Arth’s Antique Shop (Bucky, Arthexis)

PP’s added, relationships changed, the game is afoot.

...to see what condition my condition is in.

Actually, you shouldn’t end with a preposition, so it should be: “...to see what condition in which my condition is.”

Anyhow, first-time player moderate-length lurker. Someone add me to something. STAT! STET!

If the proposal “Dont warp, take the Bus” passes, change the text “any of those valid values” in the rule titled “Locations” to “any of those valid values except “Smith Apartment”“.

Add a new subrule to the Rule entitled “Locations”.  Call it “Bus Stops” and give it the following text:

A Location is a Bus Stop if its description on the Locations page contains the phrase “bus stop”.  A character at a Bus Stop whose Location has not changed in the last four hours may spend 10 Bucks to change their Location to any other Bus Stop.

In the Rule entitled “Locations”, change the text:

As a weekly action, each Character may change their location to any of those valid values.

to

A Character whose location is “Nowhere” may change their location to any of those valid values at any time.

Add the following text to the end of the description of “Sidewalk” on the Locations page:

There is a bus stop here.

Add the following text to the descriptions of “City Hospital”, “City Tax Office” and “King Anthony Library” in the Locations page:

There is a bus stop outside.

Yes, this means that the Smith Apartment is off-limits for now.  I feel it should remain harder to get to than the other locations, perhaps requiring some sort of invitation.

Read the title.

Buckystar: Positive

Jen and Berry’s: Negative

No plot seed yet.

11:10 AM

“As you all know, there was a major security breach yesterday involving an attempt to move the DDF/DDA Local HQ across dimensions.  I have spent some money to make the base shifter only respond to me.” Rodlen said, facing the DDA/F again.

Location of Positive Impact - King Anthony Library (Oze)
Location of Negative Impact - Ruined DDF HQ (Rodlen)

There is no plot seed as of yet…

This dynasty looks interesting. I’ll try to catch up and join. I’m still recovering from winning NaNoWriMo (Write 50,000 words in the 30 days on November). Don’t unidle me yet. I just wanted to say hi and post some ‘yay me!’ for finishing NanoWriMo {:0p It’s good to see Blognomic still running.

December 2, 12:01 PM

“My friends, our preparation shall be boosted today.  Donate to the research department.  Aid it in researching, and we may become better prepared.  I myself have contributed 100 dollars to it.” Rodlen said, facing a swarm of DDA/DDF/whatever agents.

Bucky discovers that the meat truck handles other stuff besides meat.  PP plz?

[I should point out that the Father Mackenzie plot seed from Nov. 24 is not on the plot summary page]

November 15: 8:40 PM
The scene: Joey Wong’s.  Father Mackenzie is getting sloshed at the bar.  Some frustrated-looking young man is sitting alone at a table- his date must be standing his up.  The rest of the usual cast of characters.

Alfredo Falsonome scowls at his two associates and waves a slender finger at them as if brandishing a stiletto.  “Shade is trying to pull it off again.  We have to stop him.  Get our people into place.  Everybody—including that slob at the newspaper stand.”

Armayus, ovangle, and Purplebeard have gone idle.  Quorum drops to 6.

If you are looking for a plot seed idea, you can have Jason start his massive project today at work.  Just be sure to include what that project is.