BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Add a new rule called “Fed-ex delivers” and give it the following text

  There exists an entity called “Wilson” which is listed in the GNDT as if it where a Tourist. Wilson is a volleyball and cannot take any actions unless the rules explicitly state so on each of those actions. In those cases, that rule must determine which Tourist shall be the one that must make the appropriate gamestate changes (including making posts, modifying the GNDT or rolling dice) to complete that action. Those actions must always be clearly labeled as performed by Wilson.

  As a daily action, a tourist may talk with Wilson. To do this, e makes a story post detailing his conversation with the volleyball. If, after four hours, no other tourist has commented on the post within the four hours after the post was made, the tourist who posted it may reduce their stress by one exactly once. If this would make their stress below zero, it is instead set to zero. He must do this within forty eight hours of making the original post or not do it at all. However, within four hours of the post being made, any other tourist may make a comment on the post, provided no tourist other than the one who made the original post has commented on it. After doing so, the tourist must increase the tourist who made the original post’s stress by two exactly once. If this would make their stress above twenty, it is instead set to twenty.

  As a weekly action, a tourist may attempt to drown Wilson. To do this, e makes a post announcing that e is drowning Wilson. After twelve hours, if no other tourist makes a comment on this post, the tourist who made the post may replace this entire rule with “NAME is a big fat jerk” where NAME is their own in-game name. If no other tourist has already done so, any other tourist may comment on the post and then must immediately increase eir own stress by three. If this would make their stress an illegal value they may not do this.

Add a new rule called “Fed-ex delivers” and give it the following text

There exists an entity called “Wilson” which is listed in the GNDT as if it where a Tourist. Wilson is a volleyball and cannot take any actions unless the rules explicitly state so on each of those actions. In those cases, that rule must determine which Tourist shall be the one that must make the appropriate gamestate changes (including making posts, modifying the GNDT or rolling dice) to complete that action. Those actions must always be clearly labeled as performed by Wilson.

As a daily action, a tourist may talk with Wilson. To do this, e makes a story post detailing his conversation with the volleyball. If, after four hours, no other tourist has commented on the post within the four hours after the post was made, the tourist who posted it may reduce their stress by one. If this would make their stress below zero, it is instead set to zero. He must do this within forty eight hours of making the original post or not do it at all. However, within four hours of the post being made, any other tourist may make a comment on the post. After doing so, the tourist must increase the tourist who made the original post’s stress by two. If this would make their stress above twenty, it is instead set to twenty.

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

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “A Perfect Tan”

A Tourist is considered to have a “Perfect Tan” when they have a Tan score of 15, no more and no less.

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “Sightseeing”

A Tourist is considered to have “Seen the Sights” when they have a Tourism score of 15 or higher.

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

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “A Perfect Tan”

A Tourist is considered to have a “Perfect Tan” when they have a Tan score of 15, no more and no less.

Create a new subrule under “Homeward Bound”, titled “Sightseeing”

A Tourist is considered to have “Seen the Sights” when they have a Tourism score of 15 or higher, to a limit of 20.

Create a new rule called, “Breath Deeply”:

Whenever a Proposal fails, the Admin who fails that Proposal shall increase the Stress of the author of that Proposal by 1 exactly once, due to the author being annoyed at failing. As a weekly action, a Tourist may “Count to Ten” by rolling DICE10 in the GNDT followed by a comment of “Counting…”. Then, if the result of the roll is equal to or higher than the Stress of that Tourist, the Tourist relaxes and decreases their Stress by that amount. Otherwise, the Tourist grits their teeth and fumbles but is still stressed out afterward. As long as a Tourist’s Stress is exactly zero, that Tourist is considered to be Stress Free.

If at least half the votes on this proposal contain the word “Piggybacked”, then create a new rule called “Coconuts”:

Proposals regarding coconuts cannot be voted VETO by the Tour Guide.

Create a new rule, “The Cake is Not a Lie (I Promise)”:

If at any point The Princess where to achieve victory, instead the last Tourist who has made a gamestate change to complete one or more actions performed by The Princess achieves victory.

Create a new dynastic rule “Homeward Bound”  with the text:

A tourist that has a Perfect Tan, has Seen the Sights and is Stress Free, is considered to be finished with their vacation and has acheived victory.

Deliberately undefined values, for future fun for others.

We are in the Caribbean. Mario does not live here.
No more Mario themed rules, Ok?
I worked hard to win last dynasty, so let’s just enjoy the Caribbean.

Create a new rule, “The Cake is Not a Lie (this Time)”:

If at any point The Princess where to achieve victory, instead the last Tourist who has made as applied a gamestate change to complete one or more actions performed by The Princess achieves victory.

Make a new Rule entitled “Fun in the Sun”:

A Tourist who has a tan value of 20, a tourism value of 20, and a stress level of 5 or below, is said to have had a “good” vacation. Any tourist meeting these criteria may make a Declaration of Victory.

MacMed shall become an admin, with all the privileges and responsibilities pertaining thereto.

I, MacMed, hereby join this Caribbean expedition as a tourist.

Create a new rule entitled “Money”:

There exists a statistic in the GNDT entitled “money”, which can be any non-negative integer. The unit of measuring money shall be $.

Create a new Rule:  I scream for ice cream:

As a weekly action, any Tourist with at least $5 can spend $5 to buy an ice cream cone. The tourist then may either decrease their stress by 1 or increase their tourism by 1.

Set all Tourists’ money to $50.

Replace all mentions of Shine Sprites in the rules with Souvenirs. Replace all mentions of the Princess with Creepy Local.

You know, when this dynasty was first announced, it was the Caribbean Vacation Dynasty, not the Super Mario Sunshine Dynasty. I go idle.

Create a new rule “Time Manipulation”:

As a weekly action, a Tourist may spend 1 shine sprite to Rewind Time. To do so, that Tourist (known as The Scientist) shall make a comment in the GNDT of “Rewinding”, then immediately reverts all gamestate changes that resulted from all actions, excluding Time Immune actions, that have taken place exactly during the last 60 minutes right before the timestamp shown by the last “Rewinding” comment made in the GNDT. All Shine sprites spent by the Scientist for Rewinding Time are added to the shine sprites owned by the Tour Guide.

All actions defined by Core Rules are Time Immune Actions (for example, creating Proposals, Calls for Judgment, enacting Proposals, etc). Spending shine sprites is a Time Immune action (that is, no gamestate effects that result from spending shine sprites may be rewound). Actions taken by The Princess are always Time Immune actions.

In rule 2.2 Enjoyment, change the following line:

Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any whole number.

to:

Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any non-negative integer.

Create a new dynastic rule called “A Burst of Flavour” with the following text:

When voting on proposals which have flavour text, a Tourist may include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) with their vote; they should do this if and only if they like the proposal’s flavour text, or think that the proposal’s flavour text is in keeping with the spirit of the dynasty. If, when a proposal is enacted or failed, a quorum of counted votes on it contain arrow icons, the Tourist who proposed it may once within 48 hours increase their own Tourism by 3.

Create a new sub-rule of Shine Sprites, “Reward” with the text:

Whenever a proposal passes with the Tour Guide voting on the proposal without including the phrase “Non-Tour Activities”, the tourist that authored the proposal may once, within 48 hours of the proposal passing, reduce the Tour Guides Shine Sprites by 1 and increase their own Shine Sprites by one.

If the majority of counted votes also contain the phrase “retroactive”, the Tour Guide votes FOR and the Tour Guide’s vote does not include the phrase “Non-Tour Activities” decrease the Tour Guides Shine Sprites by 1 and Increase Amnistar’s shine sprites by 1.

Create a new rule called “Rewinding Time”,

As a weekly action a Tourist can Rewind Time. To do so, the tourist spends any number of Shine Sprites that they own (only positive integer amounts may be spent, zero is not positive). The Shine Sprites spent this way are added to the Tour Guide’s Shine Sprites. Then, the tourist that took the Rewinding Time action reverts all gamestate changes that ocurred in the last X hours, where X is the number of Shine Sprites spent for this action. Spending Shine Sprites this way shall not be reverted. Then, if that Tourist made one or more proposals during those last X hours, those proposals are declared illegal and not considered as valid proposals.

I’m going away for a bit can i be idled until i get back.

Rename Rule 2.1 “Hands off” to “G-Man”.

Create a new rule called “The Princess”,

There exists an entity called “The Princess” which is listed in the GNDT as if it where a Tourist. The Princess cannot take any actions unless the rules explicitly state so on each of those actions. In those cases, that rule must determine which Tourist shall be the one that must make the appropriate gamestate changes (including making posts, modifying the GNDT or rolling dice) to complete that action. Those actions must always be clearly labeled as performed by The Princess.

If the Proposal titled “Itsa Proposal” was enacted, transfer one Shine Sprite from the Tour Guide to The Princess for each FOR vote on this Proposal.

Make a new Dynastic Rule titled “Checks and Balances” with the following text:

The Tour Guide cannot Veto more than 5 Proposals in one day.

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

Create a sub-rule of Shine “Found” with the text:

If the number of Shine Sprites that the Tour Guide possesses should ever be exactly 0, the dynasty is over, if no one meets any victory conditions, repeal all dynastic rules and start a new metadynasty.

Add a new rule called “Shine!” and give it the following text

There exist 120 shine sprites which have been scattered across the island. Shine sprites are tracked in a GNDT column called “Shine Sprites”.  Each tourist has a non-negative number of shine sprites and starts with zero. The tour guide begins with 120 shine sprites. The total number of shine sprites owned by all tourists and the tour guide must always be 120. No action can taken which causes the sum to be different from 120. When a tourist goes idle, their shine sprite total is added to the tour guide’s shine sprite total and their shine sprites are set to zero.

Add a new rule called “Shine!” and give it the following text

There exist 120 shine sprites which have been scattered across the island. Shine sprites are tracked in a GNDT column called “Shine Sprites”.  Each tourist has a non-negative number of shine sprites and starts with zero. The tour guide begins with 120 shine sprites. The total number of shine sprites owned by all tourists and the tour guide must always be 120. No action can taken which causes the sum to be different from 120. When a tourist goes idle, their shine sprite total is added to the tour guide’s shine sprite total and their shine sprites are set to zero.

Create a new rule, Enjoyment:

Every Tourist has the following statistics, tracked in the GNDT:
• Stress. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tan. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any whole number.

Set the Tan, Stress, and Tourism of all Tourists to 0.

Create a new rule, Enjoyment:

Every Tourist has the following statistics, tracked in the GNDT:
• Stress. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tan. This can be any integer between 0 and 20, inclusively.
• Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any positive integer.

Set all Tourist’s Stress, Tan, and Tourism to 0.

The new link on the sidebar was added by me. It is not a rickroll. Seriously. Actually, it links straight to the CP home rather than the “Make a new Post” page, which is convienient for admins with slow computers. I was going to link it straight to the admin page, but do not know how to make the link only show up if you are an admin. If anyone does know, please pm me.

Replace the text “The Tour Guide cannot cast a vote of DEFERENTIAL” in rule 1.4 with the following:

If the Tour Guide casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, it serves the purpose of cancelling any previous vote on that proposal that was cast by the Tour Guide.

Make a new Dynastic Rule titled “Good Deeds” with the following text:

Create a wiki page titled “Good Deeds” that can only be altered by manners specified in the Ruleset. Up to 5 times per week, the Tour Guide may add a new Good Deed to the wiki page. Each Good Deed has a name, a set of Requirements, a Reward, and a Completed By section. The Tour Guide, when he adds a Good Deed to the wiki, must add a name and a set of Requirements, as well as a Reward. Whenever a Tourist meets a set of Requirements, he may add his name to the Completed By section. Whenever a Tourist legally adds their own name to the Completed By section, the Reward of that Good Deed takes place.

Make a subrule of Good Deeds titled “Epic Deeds” with the following text:

If a Good Deed includes the word “Epic” in its name, then it is an Epic Deed and only one Tourist may add his name to the Completed By section. If there is already a name in the Completed By section of a particular Epic Deed, then no Tourist may add his name to the Completed By section of that Deed.

Create a new Dynastic Rule, titled “Ignoring Rules”, with the following text:

A Tourist may, as a Weekly Action, choose to Ignore a specified Dynastic Rule for the purpose of performing a single specified action.  The action’s legality and effects are determined as if the Rule didn’t exist.

I’ve added a working link for the old blognomic blogspot pages to the wiki if anyone wants to have a look. It’s on the main page.

Rename Rule 2.1 “Hands off” to “G-Man”.

A single EE site can contain more than one blog. So…

Here’s my idea: a subblog called TestNomic where you can test dynasty ideas. Each dynasty lasts for at most one week, so that the entire dynasty idea isn’t spoiled. TestNomic would also be used by those like Wakukee who like to tinker with EE. You could mess around with TestNomic all you like, and it wouldn’t hurt BlogNomic at all.

Any comments?

Create a new subrule under “Beach”:

Sunburn. Add a variable in the GNDT called ‘Complexion’, the legal values of which are Normal and Sunburnt. When tanning, if the number rolled by the Tourist is more than 2 below their tan statistic, that Tourist is then considered to be Sunburnt and thus changes their Complexion status to Sunburnt and increases their stress level by 1. If a Sunburnt Tourist changes location to another location that is considered to be outdoor whilst Sunburnt, he increases his stress by 1. A Tourist’s Complexion status returns to Normal after 48 hours.

Set all starting values for Stress, Tan and Tourism to 1

Set all Locations to Hotel

In the glossary replace:

# Unless otherwise specified: When “X” is a number, to spend X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X); no action may be taken which requires spending X of a numeric value when the subtraction would result in a number which is illegal as a replacement for that value (e.g. if the value represents a variable which is restricted to non-negative integers, but the subtraction comes up negative).

with

# Unless otherwise specified: When “X” is a number, to spend X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X).
# No action may be taken which could require setting a gamestate variable to an illegal value. (e.g. spending X of a numeric value that must be non-negative when the subtraction would result in a number which is negative).

I think this covers most cases. Obliviously its best to explicitly ban such actions in the rules they are described in, but incase we forget this covers it.

Make Yuri_dragon_17 an admin

Its generally traditional to make the emperor an admin unless there is some pressing reason not to. Yuri has shown himself to be competent, so why not? I’m not sure why we didn’t make ais an admin last dynasty, but I’d totally be in favor of a proposal to make him an admin as well.

Create a new dynastic rule, with the text in the quote below, and whose title is the most commonly-suggested title amongst valid votes on this proposal:

When voting on proposals which have flavour text, a Tourist may include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) with their vote; they should do this if and only if they like the proposal’s flavour text, or think that the proposal’s flavour text is in keeping with the spirit of the dynasty. If, when a proposal is enacted or failed, a quorum of counted votes on it contain arrow icons, the Tourist who proposed it may once within 48 hours increase their own Tourism by 3.

In the rule Enjoyment change all instences of 1 to 0.

Set all Tourists’ stress, tan and tourism to 0 and set their Location to Hotel

In the Dynastic Histories, rename “The First Dynasty of Geran” to “The Second Dynasty of Myke.”

Create a subrule of Locations “Crowded” with the text:

A Crowd is considered 1/x of the number of Tourist, rounded down, where x is 1 less than the number of Locations,

If a Tourist changes their location to a Location which a Crowd or more Tourist have their location currently set to, that Tourist shall increase their stress by 1.

I’m Baaaaaack

Hi, I’d like to join in this dynasty, please. I followed the last one and read up on your history. This sounds amazing.

If the rule “Enjoyment” exists, replace the text
҉ۢ Satisfaction.
• A Tourist’s Satisfaction is equal to their Tan, plus their Tourism, minus their Stress.”
with

• Satisfaction: A Tourist’s Satisfaction is equal to their Tan, plus their Tourism, minus their stress.

Also, create a new rule: Assistant Tour Guide:

The Tour Guide may appoint any Tourist to be the Assistant Tour Guide by posting a Story Post to that effect. The appointed Tourist accepts their position by commenting FOR the post. Unless otherwise stated, an Assistant Tour Guide is also a Tourist. Only one Tourist may be an Assistant Tour Guide. The Tour Guide may remove the Assistant Tour Guide from their post by creating another Story Post to that effect.

Create a new rule, Locations:

There exists a variable in the GNDT called Location, the legal values of which are any location that is in the Adjacency Chart. Twice per day (i.e. Sunday, Monday), but not more frequently than once every six hours, any Tourist may move to any Location that is adjacent to their current Location. The legal values for Location are any Location that appears in the Adjacency Chart.

Create the following subrules to “Locations”:
•Adjacency

The following Adjacency Chart is the list of Locations that are considered to be adjacent to each other:
Hotel: Casino, Beach
Beach: Restaurant, Patio, Casino, Hotel
Casino: Patio, Bar, Hotel, Beach
Patio: Restaurant, Theater, Bar, Casino, Beach
Restaurant: Theater, Patio, Beach
Bar: Theater, Patio, Casino
Theater: Bar, Restaurant, Patio

•Buildings:

The Hotel, Casino, Restaurant, Bar, and Theater are considered to be Buildings. All other Locations are considered to be Outdoor, or Outdoors collectively.

•Location-Specific Rules

The following Locations have specific rules:

Create the following subrules to “Location-Specific Rules”:
• Outdoor Locations:

Once per day, if there is at least one Tourist in an Outdoor Location, one Tourist must roll DICE5 in the GNDT for weather, and apply the results to the weather table. If no Tourist rolls DICE5 for this purpose, all Tourists in an Outdoor Location lose 1 from their Satisfaction.
Weather Table:
1:Extremely Hot- Any Tourist who successfully Tans today adds an additional 2 to their Tan statistic. All Tourists who are in any Outdoor location today add 1 to their Tourism.
2: Sunny- Any Tourist who successfully Tans today adds an additional 1 to their Tan statistic.
3: Partly Cloudy- Any Tourist who tries to Tan today must treat their Tan as if it were one higher when rolling DICE20 to tan.
4: Rainy -No Tourist can successfully tan today, regardless of other rules. Any Tourist who is in an Outdoor location reduces their Tourism by 1.
5: Storm- No Tourist can successfully tan today, regardless of other rules. Any Tourist who is in an Outdoor location reduces their Tourism by 2, and increases their Stress by 2.

Hotel.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is in the Hotel may do one of the following actions:
• Rest. They decrease their Stress by 1.
• Plan their Vacation. They increase their Tourism by 1.

Beach.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is on the Beach may do one of the following actions:
•Tan. The Tourist rolls DICE20 in the GNDT, and subtract $5 from their money (for sunscreen). If the resulting number is higher than their Tan Statistic, they Tan successfully. They add DICE3 to their Tan. If the number the roll is within 2 of their Tan, they also Tan successfully. They add 1 to their Tourism.

Casino.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is in the Casino may do one of the following actions:
•. Play Roulette. They subtract $6 from their money, and then roll DICE11, and add the resulting number to their money.

Bar.

As a daily action, any Tourist who is in the Bar may do one of the following actions:
• Buy a nice glass of cool lemonade. The Tourist spends $5, and may choose Pink or White lemonade. If they choose pink, they decrease their stress by 1, white increases their Tourism by 1.

Create a new rule, Enjoyment:

Every Tourist has the following statistics, tracked in the GNDT:
• Stress. This can be any positive integer between 1 and 20, inclusively.
• Tan. This can be any positive integer between 1 and 20, inclusively.
• Tourism. This represents how much of the Caribbean they feel they have experienced. It can be any positive integer between 1 and 25, inclusively.
• Money. This can be any Positive integer, or 0. The symbol “$” shall be used as the unit for money.
• Satisfaction.
• A Tourist’s Satisfaction is equal to their Tan, plus their Tourism, minus their stress.

Create a new rule, Tour Guide:

Up to three times a week, the Tour Guide, or Assistant Tour Guide (if such a position exists), may arrange an Event. The Tour Guide or Assistant Tour Guide creates a story post detailing the event. An Event can affect any variable in the GNDT, as allowed by that event.

Set the Money statistic of each player to 75.

Well… that TV show turned out… interesting. Aside from most of us almost drowning, I think we had a good bit of fun. There was one little problem though… after almost dying, I managed to get myself disqualified, ending the show rather anti-climatically. That meant no prize fund.
That was really too much, so me and some of the others filed a class-action lawsuit for reckless endangerment, and breach of contract. After only a couple hours, the producers settled for $350 000. So I turned to Waukee and said, “Why not go on vacation!”
Thirty-six hours later, here we are, in a nice Caribbean Village by the ocean. Ahhh, isn’t it nice? Most of the Contestants from the show are here, as is the Host. We’ll just see how people react to him, after he abandoned us in that godforsaken bunker.
We are just going to drop by the hotel, and then I assume we will spread out across the town.
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Repeal all Dynastic Rules except 2.6. Replace “Contestant” with “Tourist” and “Host” with “Tour Guide”.
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Elizabeth: So that’s it, then? That’s the secret, grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow. You spent three days lying on a beach drinking rum.
Jack Sparrow: Welcome to the Caribbean, love.

If the Proposal “Making the Ruleset Neat” passes, it shall apply to the Ruleset as it was immediately before yuri_dragon_17 posted a Declaration of Victory.

Thanks to freedigitalphotos.com for the images used in the header!

comex changed his nickname in IRC to “Wobble”.  This is impersonation, which is against the rules, so he is hereby banned from BlogNomic.

I think it’s about time I joined in, instead of just stalking you all and lurking in IRC.

I look forward to yuri’s new dynasty.

Test
Edit: Didn’t mean to post this

Before anyone goes off and chooses a new logo and colours, I would like to post this.
I have created a header, but if it’s horrible, we just won’t use it and someone else can make one. If we are using this header, the background colour of the blog should be #FFFFC4 or something close to it.
I don’t know how to do it, so I’ll leave it to you guys.
Thanks.

[A camera points at the Host, who is rather wet, and drying off on a beach Outside. In the distance, several contestants, camera crew, and the Hostess, are busy attempting to salvage the bunker by pumping water out of it (or possibly sabotage it by pumping water in?)]

Host

So, it seems that, according to the rules, we have a winner. We’re down to three contestants, and between them they voted yuri the winner.

However, I’m not sure if we can call this a legitimate win. First, there’s the little problem of the bunker being mostly underwater. Swimming out to avoid a flood hardly counts as being voted out by the viewers; a need to evacuate the bunker is probably unusual circumstances, and I see no reason why the opinions of all the contestants who ran from the flood shouldn’t count.

Second, yuri went outside, and flooded the bunker deliberately. This sort of sabotage would be enough to disqualify someone as it is, but worse, he pumped water into the control room while I was in it. (No excuses, yuri; the cameraman was outside helping with the bailing and we caught it all on tape.) You know that bribing/blackmailing the Host is not allowed; attempting to drown me probably counts as blackmail.

Therefore, yuri_dragon_17 is disqualified. As for the prize fund? It’s dropping to $0. The amount of foul play here has been hideous. You all deserve nothing for a mess like this. I’m ashamed.

[Host storms off-camera]

Host

See, I told you I’d find some excuse not to give away the money. Mission successful, I think. Also, ratings had dropped way down, but we got a record number of viewers for the ending; I think I probably got away with that one.

Cameraman

Ah good. Now, any chance you could help me get out of here? It’s been a nice holiday, but I really need to get home sometime soon or I won’t get any work for ages.

Host

Well, I think the Kitchen’s dry enough to fit both of us in. Do you have any experience in getting Cessnas in flooded underground fridges to fly?

Cameraman

You’d be surprised…

[Host and cameraman swim back into the bunker.]

[The skies, above the island. Below are several people, looking like tiny figures, a bunker which has clearly just been dropped roughly into a hole in a ground after being transported to the island, and the wreckage of a tower crane.]

Host

Wow, you are good with technology. I suppose that all we can do now is pick a direction and hope we reach mainland; after all, I don’t know where I am.

Cameraman

Nah, that’s simple. North-north-west, and keep flying, we’ll be back home soon.

Host

You mean you knew where we were all along?

Cameraman

You never asked…

All insiders support me.

The two important rules here were “As a daily action, a Contestant (known as the Caller) may spend 1 point of Looks to change the Location of any Contestant to the Caller’s Location. If this action would cause the Caller’s Looks to become less than 10, the action can’t be taken. ” and “If the number of Remaining Contestants in a room is ever greater than its Capacity, Contestants in that room are in imminent risk of drowning; any Contestant (including the Host) may pull a Remaining Contestant in that room to safety, by making that Contestant an Evacuee. However, if at least one of the Remaining Contestants in that room has not been in it continuously for 24 hours (for the purposes of calculating this, being idle does not count as being in a room), then the Remaining Contestant who entered that room most recently must be chosen to pull to safety this way”

Darth used his luck to make his fruit roll a one, giving him a second action. He drowned DK and Comex this way as the indoor Garden has capacity 2 and only Rodlen was there. (even though the original idea was half DKs). Yuri had 2/3rds support, and so Darth welcomed him back in. Darth and Yuri headed to the control room, which also had capacity 2. Yuri moved Rodlen into the control room in the same manner. Only Neil, Darth and Yuri remained and Darth and Neil both supported Yuri.

And that, my friends, is truly a blognomic style victory. Thanks for helping Darth, thanks for help with the idea DK and good luck on your dynasty Yuri =)

I got lucky and picked a caffeinated tangelo instead of a regular one.

tangelo

No Insider may have Location value of “Outside” for any reason. If this CfJ passes, then all Insiders with the Location value of “Outside” immediately are returned to the Location value that they had immediately prior to being Outside.

I would like to begin this by saying that I think that this was totally legitimate. If you can find any mistake I (or Wakukee) made, please tell us and we can fix this thing. But I think it’s legitimate.

When going over the Ruleset, I noticed a Rule that I had forgotten: “As a daily action, a Contestant (known as the Caller) may spend 1 point of Looks to change the Location of any Contestant to the Caller’s Location. If this action would cause the Caller’s Looks to become less than 10, the action can’t be taken.”

So I ate a fruit, and got the Hyper result (thus, I can Call twice today).

Then I called 2 Insiders to the Location of Outside, making them Outsiders (Outsiders are the only ones legally allowed to occupy the location known as “Outside”).

Wakukee went temporarily Idle, making Darth Cliche and Rodlen Support me, Qwazukee.

I became an Insider, because 2/3 Insiders Supported me.

Wakukee then unidled, becoming an Outsider via the Rule we recently passed.

Wakukee, having gotten enough Looks via Hat Dances, then Called one more Contestant Outside.

The only ones left Inside were me, Rodlen Supporting me, and Darth Cliche Supporting me. Since, with at least 3 Insiders, all other Insiders Supported me, I achieved Victory.

If you see any problems with this, let me know, and I’m sure there will be a big discussion. If worse comes to worst, I’ll just go back to the drawing board. Thank you.

I Declare Victory, as all Insiders, other than myself, Support me.

I, Wakukee, un-idle.

I, Wakukee, go idle.

Take the following actions in order. When a reference is made to a “Rule”, that reference includes all subrules of that Rule, as well as subrules of subrules of that Rule, et cetera :

Make the subrule “2.1.3 Voting Events” into a Dynastic Rule, retaining all of its current subrules. Place the Rule “Voting Events” in the Ruleset directly after the Rule “Social Structure.”

Move the Rule “Confrontation” to directly after the Rule “Voting Events.”

Move the Rule “Challenges” to directly after the Rule “Confrontation.”

Move the Rule “The Coup” to directly after the Rule “Challenges.”

Give the subrule of the Rule “Final Showdown” the title “Casualties.”

Make the Rule “The Final Showdown” into a subrule of the Rule “Challenges.” Make “Casualties” into a subrule of “The Final Showdown,” if it is not already.

Make a new Dynastic Rule titled “Statistics” with the following text:

These are the statistics for this Dynasty.

Move the Rule “Statistics” to directly after the Rule “Social Structure.”

Make the Rule “Fame” into a subrule of the Rule “Statistics”

Create a subrule to the Rule “Statistics” titled “Looks.”

Move the first 2 sentences of the Rule “Exercise Regime” so that they are the text of the subrule “Looks.” (these sentences will no longer be a part of the Rule “Exercise Regime”)

Create a subrule to the “Looks” titled “Outshined.”

Move the sentence “Whenever two or more Contestants have their Fame increased at the same time, if exactly one of those Contestants has more Looks than each other of those Contestants, that Contestant receives 1 extra Fame.” so that it is the text of “Outshined.”

Move “My face is up here” and “Come here for a second” so that they are subrules of “Looks.”

Make the Rule “Hands off” into a subrule of “In or Out?”

Move the Rule “Luck” so that it is a subrule of “Statistics.”

Move the Rule “Putting Luck to Good Use” so that it is a subrule of “Luck.”

Move the Rule “Hats” so that it is a subrule of “Statistics.” Move “Hat List” and “Bare Head” so that they are subrules of “Hats,” if they are not already.

Move the Rule “Coloured Hats” so that it is a subrule of “Hats.”

Make “Taking Over the Controls” into a Dynastic Rule and move it to directly after the Rule “Bathing.”

Move the Rule “Looks Like Fame Is Good For Something” so that it is a subrule of “Fame.”

Move the Rule “Running the Late Night Circuit” to directly after “Taking Over the Controls.”

Move the Rule “Rewards” so that it is a subrule of “Challenges.”

Move the Rule “Prize Fund” so that it is a subrule of “The Coup.”

Change the title of “The Coup” to “Victory Conditions.” (for clarity’s sake)

Move the Rule “Go Fish” to directly after the Rule “The Bunker.”

Move the Rule “Hell’s Kitchen” to directly after the Rule “Go Fish.”

Move the Rule “Bathing” to directly after the Rule “Hell’s Kitchen.”

Move the Rule “Exercise Regime” to directly after the Rule “Bathing.”

Move the Rule “Deep Sleep” to directly after the Rule “Dear Diary.”

Move the Rule “Blognomican Hat Dance” to directly after the Rule “Picking Fruit.”

Repeal the subrule of Voting Events titled “Final Showdown,” as it has no effect (and we already have another rule

with that name).

smith goes Idle.

yuri_dragon_17, Qwazukee, and Clucky are considered never to have been Evacuees, and are Insiders.

Hopefully, someone will get the lucky number of 8!

For the purposes of the current Challenge, if a Contestant posts (or has posted) the Dryness of a room when they should have posted the Integrity, for the purposes of the Challenge it shall be considered as if they had posted the Integrity (this does not change the actual value of the Integrity to the value of the Dryness, but does prevent Contestants from becoming Evacuees because they posted Dryness rather than Integrity).

Yuri_dragon_17 has achieved victory.

Qwaz has already expressed support of Yuri. The nature of this challenge is potentially highly confrontational, and we’ve already seen people stoop to new lows in it. Better to avoid any further confrontation and just get the likely end over with.

This does nothing

I thought I was an evacuee,  turns out I’m not.

But seriously Qwaz. Seriously? Seriously? I thought we had put fighting behind us. Even if AIS had written the rule right, what I did was well within the intended purpose of the rule.

Dance my minions, dance

Qapmoc goes Idle. 13/7.

When a room drops below 50 integrity Outsiders and Evacuees as a daily action may each evacuate one Insider from the room.

Make a new subrule to the Rule titled “In or out?” with the title “The Final Countdown” and the following text:

New Contestants (i.e. those who are becoming Contestants for the first time) and unidling Contestants have their Status set to Out.

Lemons. Good.

Pushing my luck on the Barricade roll. Increases to 5. Integrity is now 105. Increases by another 5, due to extra pushing luck bonus. Integrity of the Gym is now 110. Pumping water. 1+3=4. 4+110=114. Gym’s total integrity: 114.

Sgt. Zed, Bucky go Idle.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been growing more and more paranoid and irrational with regards to Blognomic.  This is not healthy for myself or the nomic and I feel I should take a bit of time off.

Since we’re in a Voting Event right now, this won’t take effect for another hour or so.

This challenge is all about being the last remaining contestant in the Bunker, which is slowly filling up with water. An Evacuee is a contestant who is either Out, or has been made an Evacuee some other way by this challenge; Evacuees automatically become Outsiders when they become an Evacuee, rules permitting, or when a rule is added that allows a Challenge to make Contestants Outsiders; in order to “make another player an Evacuee”, you must make a GNDT comment to that effect (and change that player’s Status at the same time, if permitted). If an Evacuee ever becomes an Insider (for any reason), he ceases to be an Evacuee. This challenge ends when only one Contestant is not a Evacuee; that Contestant is the only Contestant who succeeds at this challenge (all others fail), and the Challenge Champion (and incidentally also wins the dynasty, due to being the only Contestant not to be an Outsider). Contestants who are not Evacuees are Remaining Contestants.

Each room of the Bunker has an Integrity value, initially 120. This value can be changed in the following ways:

• A Remaining Contestant can attempt to barricade the room he is in against the rising waters, with the same timing as a daily action. To do this, he must roll DICEX in the GNDT, where X is 2, plus 1 for every full 10 points of Looks that Contestant has (more attractive contestants tend to be fitter, and can also more easily persuade other contestants to help), add the number rolled to the room’s Integrity, add another 5 if he used Luck to adjust the result of that roll, add another 1 if all Remaining Contestants in that room are wearing the same colour of hat (because hat synergy makes work go faster), and make a post here specifying which room was barricaded, and the new value of its Integrity. A room can be barricaded any number of times, subject to the timing requirements of a daily action. If a Remaining Contestant makes a GNDT dice roll to barricade a room, but then does not make the comment to this post specifying the new values within 20 minutes, any player may make them an Evacuee (this is to ensure people keep the records up-to-date in a timely manner).
• An Evacuee can attempt to pump water out of any room (using the complicated miswired plumbing system), with the same timing as a daily action. This increases that room’s Integrity by 1, plus 1 for every 4 full points of Fame that Evacuee has (famous Evacuees can more easily recruit members of the camera crew to help man the pumps). Alternatively, instead of making this daily action by pumping water out of the room, they can pump water into a room, if for some reason they want to sabotage the bunker; this is done instead of pumping water out of a room, and decreases that room’s Integrity by the same amount it would otherwise have increased. To perform either of these actions, the Evacuee must post a comment to this post specifying that he does so, which room is affected, and the new value of that room’s Integrity.

Both of the daily action-timing actions above can be affected by the hyper rush from certain results of eating fruit.

A room’s Dryness is equal to its Integrity, minus the number of hours that this challenge has existed; its Capacity is equal to its Dryness divided by ten, rounded to the nearest integer but rounding multiples of 0.5 downwards (rather than the usual upwards). If the number of Remaining Contestants in a room is ever greater than its Capacity, Contestants in that room are in imminent risk of drowning; any Contestant (including the Host) may pull a Remaining Contestant in that room to safety, by making that Contestant an Evacuee. However, if at least one of the Remaining Contestants in that room has not been in it continuously for 24 hours (for the purposes of calculating this, being idle does not count as being in a room), then the Remaining Contestant who entered that room most recently must be chosen to pull to safety this way (as they couldn’t find as dry a spot as the others); if every Remaining Contestant in that room has been in it continuously for 24 hours, only the lowest-Fame Remaining Contestant in that room can be made an Evacuee in this way (because the producers want to keep famous people in there for as long as possible to boost the ratings); if more than one Remaining Contestant ties for lowest Fame, any of those involved in the tie can be chosen.

Incidentally, the Prize Fund has dropped to about $318,234; I’m not sure of the exact value. I suspect the cameramen were skimming some of it off the top while I wasn’t looking. Also, the Cessna is apparently part of it, apparently because we couldn’t easily fly a car out here so a plane had to do instead.

yuri cooks a delicious fruitcake made with fruits from the Indoor Garden, and some left over jalapeños from the Fiestas the other day.

Would the two of you stop bickering about everything? It’s getting rather annoying. Thanks lol

This is a challenge, that ends 1 second after it is created. All Contestants fail this challenge. Nobody is the Challenge Champion.

If the Rule “Final Showdown” does not exist, this Proposal does nothing.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Final Showdown” with the following text:

Extreme Challenges can cause contestants to become Out, even before the challenge ends.

A Contestant with Immunity cannot become a Nominated Contestant in a Voting Event. For the purposes Voting Events, all Contestants with Immunity are considered to have -1 Votes.

Create a new Dynastic Rule titled “Bathing” with the following text:

Whenever a Contestant is in the Bathroom, as a weekly action, that Contestant may “Bathe” by making a comment in the GNDT of “Bathing” and a roll of DICE10. The Contestant then takes the roll to the ‘Bathing Effects Table’ below. If the dice roll is 1, the effect in the row titled ‘1’ is applied; if the dice roll is between 2 and 5 inclusive, the effect in the row titled ‘2-5’ is applied; if the dice roll is 6 or 7, the effect in the row titled ‘6-7’ is applied; if the dice roll is 8 or 9, the effect in the row titled ‘8-9’ is applied; and if the dice roll is 10, the effect in the row titled ‘10’ is applied.

Bathing Effects Table:

1 The Contestant, after bathing, is in a good mood and decides to clean the Bathroom. The Contestant may increase their own Fame by 2, but must reduce their Looks by 1.
2-5 The Contestant is cleaner. They may increase their own Looks by 1.
6-7 Bathing does wonders for the Contestant’s image; they may increase their own Looks by 3.
8-9 Out of soap. Nothing happens.
10 The Contestant’s singing annoys the other Contestants. The Bathing Contestant must reduce their own Fame by 1.

Add a new dynastic rule entitled Gifting:

Any Insider may, as a weekly action, voluntarily Gift any other Insider some of their Fame by creating a post stating who they are Gifting to, and the amount of Fame to be Gifted.. The Gifting Contestant decreases their Fame by X, where X is the desired amount of Fame to Gift, and increases the Giftee’s Fame by X.

All Insiders who have Red Hats at 12:00:00 AM on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 have their Status set to Out.

I UnIdle.

I go Idle (temporarily).

Sgt. Zed goes Idle. 15/8.

This is another voting event

I’m back, could someone please activate me.

I can use the net on this trip after all, so I unidle. 15/8.

Late last night, worn out from trying to argue with the brothers I decided to go take a nap. I hit the sack around 10 in the evening and slept a good eight hours. During which, I had the most incredible dream. I found myself surrounded by monkeys. They were preforming a strange dance ritual. As I observed, I realized I too was a monkey and I too was part of this ritual. We were in a line, and there were hammers. Bucky and Darknight were there, both they both looked like Monkeys. Many other people I recognized were also there, though none of them were currently around. Also the monkeys were wearing hats and I had a very distinct feeling of deja vu. Actually, it wasn’t really deja vu. It was more one of elation, like an awesome light bulb going off in my head. Suddenly, Qapmoc was the awesomest person in the whole wide world. I also noted odd monkeys, somewhat robotic, that acted differently than Bucky, DK and the other monkeys—as if there was not a player behind their brains. One of those monkeys, King Kong, used a large hammer and ascended to top of the monkey line.

Then my dream ended. I felt sad, because it was a good dream and I felt like it never got its real conclusion. However, I was aware than I had things that I needed to do and prolonging my dream, at least in my current state, would’ve not allowed it to have the same awesome qualities as it had so far and ultimately everyone would’ve suffered.

Hey blognomic wassup? I was chillaxing in the indoor garden when I got hungry. So I climbed a nearby cherry tree and climbed it and picked it and went om nom nom.

But I saved so for ya’ll, be ya’ll are awesome.

Create a new Dynastic Rule titled “Final Showdown” with the following text:

All Challenges must be Extreme Challenges. Only 1 Contestant may Succeed at any Challenge, and that Contestant is the Challenge Champion. Challenges must incorporate the Fame, Looks, and Luck statistics. Challenges may not incorporate the Vote and/or Support statistics. Challenges may incorporate Hats.

Neil, delta go Idle. 14 Contestants, Quorum is 8.

Add the following to the end of “Timespans”

Any duration reference to a given day (i.e. “Sunday” or “August 2nd”), unless otherwise stated, inclusivly begin at 0:00:00 GMT on the mentioned day and inclusivly end at 23:59:59 GMT on the same day.

Add the following:

00:00 dd/mm/yy on any given day is considered to have occured on both dd/mm/yy and dd-1/mm/yy, due to the limitations of expression engine to display time. A daily action made on any given day at 00:00 cannot be made again until 24 hours later.

to the end of rule 3.2 “Timespans”.

Both Wakukee and Clucky are considered to have immunity until the completion of the next Challenge.

This is a challenge. All contestants succeed at this challenge. If Clucky was the Challenge Champion of the previous Challenge, Wakukee is the Challenge Champion of this one. Otherwise, Clucky is the Challenge Champion of this one. This challenge ends 1 second from now.

I’m going on a 2-week vacation, so for the second time in history, I go idle. Quorum remains nine.

(Perhaps I should have told the DDA about this early…)

Fiesta!!!

Come on, everyone! Fiesta!!!!!

*continues James Brown dance*

In subrule 2.1.3 Voting Events, change the text:

If either no Contestant has ever become an Outsider, or at least 72 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became an Outsider

to:

If either no Contestant has ever become an Outsider, or at least 48 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became an Outsider

Wait a second… did the blognoic time change for some reason?? Normally, a new day would have started 4 minutes ago… I WANT ANSWERS, PEOPLE!!

Night before last, I had a dream. Clucky was standing by the door to the bunker, speaking to the assembled crowd:

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our Bunker.
Six score hours ago, a great Contestant, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed Looks like fame is good for something. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to two Outsiders who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But five days later, the Outsider still is not free. Five days later, the life of the Outsider is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. Five days later, the Outsider lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. Five days later, the Outsider is still languished in the corners of Contestant society and finds himself an exile in his own Bunker. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our Bunker’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Bunker wrote the magnificent words of the Ruleset and the Declaration of Victory, they were signing a promissory note to which every Contestant was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all Contestants, yes, Outside Contestants as well as Inside Contestants, would be guaranteed the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It is obvious today that The Bunker has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her Outside citizens are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, The Bunker has given the Outsider people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this Bunker. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind The Bunker of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our Bunker from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of Reality TV’s children.
It would be fatal for the Bunker to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Outsider’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. June Seventeenth is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Outsider needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the Bunker returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in The Bunker until the Outsider is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our Bunker until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvellous new militancy which has engulfed the Outsider community must not lead us to a distrust of all Inside people, for many of our Inside brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Outsider is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of Admin brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the Bedroom of the Bunker. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Outsider’s basic mobility is from a smaller ditch to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Insiders Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as an Outsider to the north cannot pick fruit and an Outsider to the south cannot exercise. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”¹
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from harrowing voting events. And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of Admin brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to the east, go back to the west, go back to the south, go back to the north, go back to the ditches and caves of our muddy cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Contestant dream.
I had a dream that one day this Bunker will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Contestants are created equal.”
I had a dream that one day on the red sofas of the Lounge, the sons of former Outsiders and the sons of former Insiders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I had a dream that one day even the bathroom, a room sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I had a dream that my four little children will one day live in a Bunker where they will not be judged by their popularity, but by their score.
I had a dream yesterday!
I had a dream that one day, down in the Basement, with its vicious Green Hatters, with its creepy Crate-Man having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification”—one day right there in the Basement little Outside boys and Outside girls will be able to join hands with little Inside boys and Inside girls as sisters and brothers.
I had a dream yesterday!
I had a dream that one day every Card Game shall be exalted, and every room shall be cleaned, the Cessna will fly, and the kitchen will be used; “and the glory of the Host shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the Outside with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our Bunker into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day—this will be the day when all of Reality TV’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My Bunker ‘tis of thee, sweet Bunker of liberty, of thee I sing.
Bunker where my fathers died, Bunker of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if The Bunker is to be a great Bunker, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the lovely tables of the lounge.
Let freedom ring from the mighty trees of the Indoor Garden.
Let freedom ring from the shining toilet of the Bathroom.
Let freedom ring from yuri’s Crates in the Basement.
Let freedom ring from the ceramic stove of the Kitchen.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from the medicine balls in the Gym..
Let freedom ring from the desk in the Diary Room.
Let freedom ring from every toe and weight standard of the Reward Room.
From every concrete wall, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every chair and every bed, from every door and every room, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Reality TV’s children, Outside Contestants and Inside Contestants, Executives and Cameramen, Producers and Investors, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Outsider spiritual:
          Free at last! Free at last!
          Thank Reality TV Almighty, we are free at last!

I’m feeling good.

Whoa-oa-oa!
I feel good.
I knew that I would, now.
I feel good.
I knew that I would, now.
So good,
So good,
I got you.

Whoa!
I feel nice.
Like sugar and spice.
I feel nice.
Like sugar and spice.
So good,
So nice,
I got you.

*Does James Brown dance*

Increase yuri_dragon_17’s Looks, Fame, and Luck by Bucky’s Looks, Fame, and Luck, respectively.
Decrease Bucky’s Looks, Fame, and Luck to their lowest legal value.

In the Rule entitled ” Make your mind up”, change the text

a Contestant may, as a daily action, change a Misvoting Contestant’s Vote to any Insider

to

a Contestant who is not Misvoting may, as a daily action, change a Misvoting Insider’s Vote to the Vote of the Contestant the Misvoting Insider Supports.  If the Contestant they Support is a Misvoting Outsider, their vote instead becomes the Vote of the Contestant taking the Daily Action.

Set Qwazukee’s and Darth Cliche’s status to ‘Out’

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Coloured Hats”:

Insiders with a combined total of 30 or more Fame, Looks, and Luck have a blue hat. Outsiders always have a red hat regardless of these other conditions.

Change the text “An Insider with Fame, Looks, and Luck totalling 20 or more has their Hat set to Green” to An Insider with Fame, Looks, and Luck totalling between 20 and 29 inclusive has their Hat set to Green”

It’s been a while since we’ve had Cherries!

In subrule 2.1.2 Make your mind up, change the text:

If at least 72 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became Out, or if no Contestant has ever been Out, a Contestant may, as a daily action, change a Misvoting Contestant’s Vote to any Insider.

to:

If at least 48 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became Out, or if no Contestant has ever been Out, a Contestant may, as a daily action, change a Misvoting Contestant’s Vote to any Insider.

Create a new rule called, “Colorblindness”:

Insiders wearing Red Hats cannot achieve victory unless they are supported by exactly two Outsiders wearing Blue Hats.

Oh, g-d. I think I lost them. Where the **** did the raptors get lightsabers?!? Anyway… man, I’ve been running all around the bunker… not doing much but hiding and running, yet I somehow succeeded several challenges and won a voting event. How odd. I don’t remember any of this. What?!? And what’s this in my pocket? Cards? ...huh, no money. I remember having money. I guess I lost. I also don’t remember eating much… but I am still alive. This is getting creepy… What the heck are they putting in the water??
—Wakukee

At the bottom of the page, in a small, very different handwriting, there is another note:

...the heck?? When did I write this? That doesn’t sound anything like my experience… Raptors?? What Raptors?? Why would I write that, I don’t remember any of those things happening! Of course I was eating. And I did those challenges… and the voting event (that was scary)... And yeah, I was playing go fish… lost… the heck?!? Why did I write that… What the heck are they putting in the water??
—Wakukee ~For Dimensional Stability!~

This is a Voting Event.

Mmm… Tangelo. Yum.

..but only for a very short time before unidling

Create a new Dynastic Rule titled “Blognomican Hat Dance” with the following text:

Whenever a Contestant has been in the Basement for 6 consecutive hours or more (and is still in the Basement), as a weekly action, that Contestant may perform a “Hat Dance.” The Contestant makes a post to the blog entitled ‘Y’s Hat Dance’ where Y is the name of that Contestant. Each Contestant may make a comment to the post once with a For icon symbolising that they have ‘Danced the Dance.’ Upon making the comment, that Contestant rolls DICE3 in the GNDT and increases their own Looks by that amount once. The Contestant may also change their Hat to the Hat above theirs on the Hat List one time, even if this contradicts the Rule titled “Coloured Hats.” When the number of For votes reaches Quorum, it is a “Fiesta!,” and if they have not already done so, all Contestants who Danced the Dance may increase their own Fame by 1. The Contestant who performed the Hat Dance may once increase their own Fame by 2 instead of 1 if they Danced the Dance.

Create a subrule of Blognomican Hat Dance titled “Hats All Around” with the following text:

Contestants who are Bare cannot perform a Hat Dance. If a Contestant who is Bare Dances the Dance, they may change their own Hat to Red once in the hour after they Danced the Dance.

Fresh Tangelos.

For this challenge, you can either choose to gamble or play safe. To play safe, just comment here stating that you play safe; or alternatively, do nothing (Contestants who don’t comment to this challenge at all will be considered to have played safe.) To gamble, make a dice roll in the GNDT (DICE6 if you do it during the rest of today (Monday), DICE5 on Tuesday before 12:00 UTC, DICE4 on Tuesday after 12:00 UTC, DICE3 on Wednesday before 12:00 UTC, DICE2 on Wednesday after 12:00 UTC) saying that you’re gambling (you can influence that with Luck if you like), and post here with a comment stating: that you’re gambling, what your GNDT dice roll was, and a guess (an integer) as to how many Contestants will gamble. You can’t gamble once you’ve played safe, or vice versa; likewise, once you’ve gambled, you can’t re-gamble with a different guess.

• You succeed at this challenge if you play safe. You can also succeed if you gamble, and your guess was different from the number of Contestants who gambled by no more than your GNDT dice roll (e.g. if you guessed 2, and 5 Contestants gambled, you succeed iff your dice roll was at least |2 - 5| = 3).
• To become the Challenge Champion, you must gamble. The Champion will be the gambling Contestant whose guess is nearest; if there’s a tie, it’ll be the Contestant involved in the tie whose GNDT dice roll was lowest; if there’s still a tie, it’ll be the first of the Contestants tying on both guess distance and dice roll to make the comment stating that they’re gambling. In the event that nobody gambles, the Champion will be a random contestant who specifically stated here that they were playing safe.
• This challenge ends on Thursday (i.e. Wednesday is the last day you can gamble on); the number of gamblers is counted as of when the challenge ends.

Incidentally, the Prize Fund has now dropped by another $120,000 to $690,001, due to people failing at the pi challenge.

Anybody have a 5?

The number is 7.

Append the following to the end of Rule 2.23 Coloured Hats:

Outsiders don’t have a Hat.

I rolled a 10 for my sleeping result, but I would like to treat it as a 9.

Append the following text to the end of the rule called “Putting Luck to Good Use”

A Contestant may not “Press My Luck” on a DICE roll in a way which causes a result that was not a possible result of the unmodified roll.  A Contestant may not “Press My Luck” more than once for the same DICE roll.

Darth Cliche wen Out on the 12th, which is four weeks ago.

According to Rule 2.1 (In or Out), “If a Contestant remains Out for more than a week they lose 1 fame per week that they remain Out.”  We have not been tracking this.

Darth Cliché‘s Fame at the time he tried to bribe his way back in should have been 2, rather than 5.  As a result, he should not have been able to bribe his way back in

Therefore:
Make Darth Cliche an Outsider
Revert any actions Darth Cliche has attempted as an Insider since June 13th at 16:11 that he could not have taken as an Outsider
Set Darth Cliche’s Fame to 2
Set Darth Cliche’s Looks to 5
Reduce Qwazukee’s fame by 1 (to offset the Fame he gained as the bribe target
Darth Cliche is still eligible to become an Insider under Rule 2.20 later this dynasty

Hello, I would like to join the game.

I bribe Qwazukee

I’ve made an interim RSS feed. It has a few flaws (ie. not showing the number of comments to a post, linking to the blognomic homepage instead of the post) but it works.
I’ll try to fix it later.

RSS Feed:
http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/blognomic-com/UlBQVlBa

(Classy jazz plays, with close up views of the best looking Contestants, and images of Darth Cliche and Clucky out in the rain…)
Voice over:

I don’t think you viewers have had a good look at our basement, so let’s take a tour.
There’s no one in here at the moment, but I have a feeling that someone will come down here soon - yuri_dragon_17 has a habit of hiding in this crate(the camera zooms in on a crate that is a lot less dusty than the others) and Rodlen likes to sneak up on him and scare him.
Over here we have spare parts for our Cessna (the view switches to one of a pile of propellers and wheels), and this little button (the camera shows a button) is the one featured in our very first Challenge! Take a good look at that button, folks.

Ummm… there`s not really that much else down here… let`s look at the entrance, and see if anyone comes down.
(No one does. The studio audience is forced to sit through 40 minutes of looking at the door; at-home viewers have the luxury of being able to change the channel.)

Change rule 2.11.1 from

When a Contestant casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal which has been created by a Contestant that has more Looks than the voter, the DEFERENTIAL vote is counted as a FOR instead of as a DEFERENTIAL.

to

When a Contestant casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal which has been created by a Contestant that has more Looks than the voter, the DEFERENTIAL vote is counted as the same type of vote as the vote of the Contestant who created the proposal in question.

Make a new subrule to Rule 2.19 Hats titled “Hat Hierarchy” with the following text:

A Contestant wearing a Green, Yellow, or Red Hat cannot Vote for a Contestant wearing a Blue Hat. A Contestant wearing a Yellow or Red Hat cannot Vote for a Contestant wearing a Green Hat. A Contestant wearing a Red Hat cannot Vote for a Contestant wearing a Yellow Hat. A Contestant who is not wearing a Hat cannot Vote. If a Vote is currently set to a value that is illegal under this Rule, then reset that Vote to its default value.

Add a subrule, 2.12.1 titled “Immunity” with the following text:

The Challenge Champion of the last completed Challenge has Immunity until another Challenge has been completed. A Contestant with Immunity cannot become an Outsider by any means other than Confrontation.

Add a subrule, 2.12.2 titled “Extreme Challenge” with the following text:

If a Challenge includes the text [Extreme] in its title, then it is an Extreme Challenge. When an Extreme Challenge finishes, all Contestants who Failed that Challenge become Outsiders. All Contestants who Succeeded at an Extreme Challenge gain 1 Fame when that Challenge finishes (in addition to any Fame they might otherwise receive.)

Create a new Dynastic Rule entitled “Coloured Hats”:

An Insider with Fame, Looks, and Luck totalling 20 or more has their Hat set to Green.
An Insider with Fame, Looks, and Luck totalling between 11 and 19 inclusive has their Hat set to Yellow.
An Insider with Fame, Looks, and Luck totalling 10 or less has their Hat set to Red.

Tangelos For all

Create a new rule “Black Hats”:

The Hat of the Contestants named X is Black.

Change the text of rule “Black Hats” so that X is changed to the names of each Contestant that voted FOR on this proposal.

  *  +10 for each point of Fame that Contestant has;
  * +1 for each point of Looks that that Contestant has;
  * +3 for each point of Luck that that Contestant has;
  * +5 for each Insider who Supports that Contestant;
  * -12 for each Insider who is Voting for that Contestant.

Clucky: 1 times +10 = 10
+ 6 times +1 = 6
+ 0 times +3 = 0
+ 2 times +5 = 10
+ 6 times + -12 = -72
————————————————
-46 Popularity

Wakukee: 1 times +10 = 10
+ 5 times 1 = 5
+ 0 times +3 = 0
+ 1 times +5 = 5
+ 5 times -12 = -60
———————————————
-40 Popularity

-40 (Wakukee) > -46 (Clucky). Clucky goes out.

Add a subrule to rule 2.3 called “Taking Over the Controls”, with the following text:

Any Insider who has been in the Control Room continuously for 6 hours can do filming as if he was the Host. This is only legal if the Host could legally do filming at that moment; and it counts as the Host’s filming for that day. For the purpose of rules such as ‘Putting Luck to Good Use’, the random dice rolls rolled by that Insider in order to do filming as if he was the Host count as rolls by that Contestant, not as rolls by the Host.

I’m idling.

TAE, spikebrennan go Idle.

This is a Voting Event.

Add a new rule entitled “Some People Have All the Luck”:

As a weekly action, any contestant who is in the Reward Room may make a comment to the GNDT stating that they are “Getting Lucky”. They may then roll DICE3 and add the resulting number to their Luck once.

If a Quorum of Votes on this Proposal contain the phrase “Lucky Break”, then all Contestants may make one roll of DICE3 within the next 72 hours and add the result to their Luck once.

Also, change the text in the Glossary which reads “All integers, unless stated otherwise by a rule, are in base ten.” to “All numbers, unless stated otherwise by a rule, are in base ten. “

Got any 5’s?

In Rule 2.2 Social Structure, change the text:

A Contestant’s Support defaults to the Contestant immediately below them in the GNDT, skipping the Host, with the bottom Contestant defaulting to the top Contestant.

to:

A Contestant’s Support defaults to the Contestant immediately above them in the GNDT, skipping the Host, with the top Contestant defaulting to the bottom Contestant.

I had a weird dream last night. I got run over by a Cessna. Anyway…
I’ve eaten a good bit of fruit over the last few days; it’s pretty tasty. Some of the others were all gathered in a corner for a while. They said they were having a pie contest. I wish I could have some pie, but I can’t if I want to be the best looking contestant. There’s just Qwazukee ahead of me, but some of the others are catching up. If they get too close, I’m going to have to dispose of them.

Create a new Dynastic Rule titled “Looks Like Fame Is Good For Something” with the following text:

An Outsider who has at least 5 Fame may “Bribe My Way Back In” by spending 5 Fame. When a Contestant “Bribes My Way Back In,” they become an Insider, and have their Vote and Support stats returned to their default values. In order to “Bribe My Way Back In,” the Contestant must make a blog post describing who he is Bribing (he can only Bribe an Insider who has a higher Fame rating than he did before spending 5 Fame, or the Host). The Bribed Contestant (or Host) may increase their own Fame by 1 once (the Host can gain Fame through this method). When a Contestant becomes an Insider by “Bribing My Way Back In,” they set their Location to “Control Room” and decrease their Looks by 1 (to a minimum of 0). No Contestant may ever “Bribe My Way Back In” more than once. No Contestant may “Bribe My Way Back In” at any time when there are fewer than 6 Insiders.

Create a New Dynastic Rule titled “Running the Late Night Circuit” with the following text:

As a weekly action, an Outsider may “Appear on a Late Night TV Show” if their Fame is less than 5. To do this, the Outsider makes a Comment in the GNDT of “Conan” and a roll of DICE2. They may then increase their Fame score by the DICE roll’s result, to a maximum of 5 Fame.

Hey, I found tangelos. Want some?

So I was in the indoor garden looking for something to eat, and I came across some kind of scary citrus hybrid thingy.  I think it’s called a tangelo.  I picked enough for everyone, but I don’t know if anyone’s going to want to eat one.

Add a new rule Called ‘Hats’, as follows:

Most Contestants have a Hat, each tracked in the GNDT. The default hat for a new Contestant is Blue. The list of hats a Contestant can have is known as the Hat list. When an action makes a Contestant change hat (and does not specify which hat to change to) they change to the hat 1 lower on the list than their current hat (If their hat is at the bottom of the list they change to the first hat).

Add a sub-rule to Hats called ‘Hat list’, as follows:

The following is the list of hats known as the Hat List:

  * 1. Blue
  * 2. Green
  * 3. Yellow
  * 4. Red

Add a second sub-rule to Hats called ‘Bare Head’, as follows:

Some Contsetants don’t have a Hat. Such Contestants are said to be Bare-headed (or Bare). If a Contestant is bare the word ‘Bare’ appears as their entry under Hat in the GNDT. If an action tells a Contestant to become Bare (or if an action tells a Contestant to lose their hat), they lose their hat and are then bare.

I can’t remember why i left, but i want back in (unidle me plox)

Multiple attempts to destroy Pi cheat sheet failed.  Unfortunate.

Adventures of High Command is still a great show.  So is that new show, Dimension Cops.  Yay for cop shows.  Bit unrealistic, though.  Oh, and this reality TV show I’m on is being shown on the DDA Entertainment Channel.  Woo.

...wait…this could be useful…spying…

For Dimensional Stability!

Please unidle me.

Add a new subrule to the Rule entitled “Voting Events”.  Call the subrule “Final Showdown” and give it the following text:

If all Insiders are Nominated Contestants during the same Voting Event, then for the purposes of calculating Popularity for that Voting Event all Outsiders are considered to be Insiders.

This is a challenge about the number pi (which I hear many of you have been memorizing…) For the purpose of this challenge, the “first digit” of pi is the 3 at the start; the second digit is the 1 after the decimal point, the third digit is the 4 after that, and so on.

The only posts that count for this challenge are comments to this post that follow a certain format:

• A sequence of digits of pi from 6 to 60 digits long inclusive
• In square brackets, the position of the last digit of your sequence in pi
• Optionally, other commentary

Also, each sequence of digits must follow on from the previous one, with the first sequence starting at the first digit (for instance, if the first two people each went for 6-digit sequences, the comments might look like (person 1) 3.14159 [6] (person 2) 365358 [12]. You can make any number of comments of this form, until the challenge ends; however, you must obey daily action timing when making the comments (i.e. you can only make one such comment per day, and each such comment must be at least six hours after any previous such comment you made, even if they’re on different days). The scoring on this contest depends on the average (arithmetic mean) value of one of your sequences (e.g. 3.14159 scores 3.8333333…, the average of those six numbers):

• To succeed at this challenge, at least one of your comments must have an average of 5 or more.
• To become the champion of this challenge, you must get the highest average amongst all comments.
• This challenge ends once the thousandth digit of pi is contained in a sequence, or on Monday if the thousandth digit hasn’t been reached by then.

Good luck, everyone!

In Rule 2.1.2 Make your mind up, change the text:

A Contestant whose Vote is not set to an Insider is said to be Misvoting. If at least 72 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became Out, a Contestant may, as a daily action, change a Misvoting Contestant’s Vote to any Insider. (Changing the Vote of one Misvoting Contestant is the same daily action as changing the Vote of a different Misvoting Contestant; therefore, each Contestant may only change one other Contestant’s Vote per day.)

to:

An Insider whose Vote is not set to an Insider is said to be Misvoting. If at least 72 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became Out, or if no Contestant has ever been Out, a Contestant may, as a daily action, change a Misvoting Contestant’s Vote to any Insider. (Changing the Vote of one Misvoting Contestant is the same daily action as changing the Vote of a different Misvoting Contestant; therefore, each Contestant may only change one other Contestant’s Vote per day.) Outsiders shall have their Vote statistic set to blank.

Add a new rule to 2.3.1 Voting Events called “Grace Period”

If a contestant has been registered and active for less than a period of 56 hours, he may be excluded from 1(One) voting event during the Grace period of 56 hours or until he has accumulated 2 fame, whichever goal is completed first.

Add a new rule to 2.3.1 Voting Events called “Grace Period”

Well, the wiki said that to become an active user I have to make a post declaring my arrival.

So, hi.

Create a new rule “Unnoticed Moving”,

As a daily action, if a Contestant (the Unseen) has less than half the Fame of the Contestant with the highest Fame, the Unseen Contestant may change their own Location to any valid room except the Diary Room.
This is a separate action from the one described by rule 2.3 The Bunker

As you log in please vote FOR this proposal

I had the quite a dream today, leaving me perhaps more tired that when I got into bed. It started with that guy who got Voted Out and then disappeared, The Avenger or whatever he was called. He was trying to produce some sort of movie. The movie’s hero, named “Stewart” or “Stweart” or just “Hero” at the beginning, kept going through incoherent montage Scenes with bad guys blowing up everywhere. So much blood! There was a relatively attractive Tall Girl, didn’t catch her name, who kept popping up occasionally for flavor. The cast was star-studded; I think I caught Angelina Jolie, 50 Cent, Mahatma Gandhi, and Brad Pitt playing multiple roles (very confusing). After the climactic Scene (ninjas everywhere), instead of Credits, there was just our current Host shouting “I win, I win!” or some such rubbish. Something about meerkats. It was such a mess, I woke up sweating. So good to be back in the world of the waking. I hope Stweart and the Tall Girl hooked up.

I would go with 00, to stick with the theme, but I can’t, so how about 11?

Get your kiwis, fresh from the garden.

That’s right.  Thanks to the newly accelerated schedule, it’s time to kick someone out.

Modify the challenge “Double Zero” so that everyone fails.  Then finish it.  The Prize Fund shall not change as a result of that challenge.

A comment post.

Time for another challenge! This one is a challenge of timing, and will last for the rest of today, Monday, and Tuesday. What you basically have to do is post comments at the start of a new minute; to be precise, the seconds value of the time at which you post the comment needs to be 00.

• To succeed at this challenge, you must post at least one comment to this thread before the challenge ends, and the timestamp of every comment you post to this thread before the challenge ends must end :00 (even a single comment not on an exact minute will cause you to fail, as will not posting at all).
• To become the champion of this challenge, post the most comments to this thread, whilst still succeeding; if there’s a tie, whoever was first to post their last comment (out of the tied contestants) will become the champion.
• This challenge ends on Wednesday. (Incidentally, a comment with a timestamp of midnight on Wednesday morning doesn’t count, so 23:59:00 on Tuesday will be your last chance to post a comment.

Good luck, everyone!

Create a new Dynastic Rule titled “Rummaging” with the following text:

When a Contestant is in the Basement, as a weekly action, that Contestant may “Rummage” by making a comment in the GNDT of “Rummaging” and a roll of COLOR. If the color rolled is Silver or Green, then that Contestant may increase their Luck by 1. If the color is Magenta or Purple, the Contestant may increase their Fame by 1. If they do so, they may give an ability to any Reward that has no current Ability or Owner. If the color rolled is Red, that Contestant may create a Reward (even if they have already created a Reward this week). If a Contestant creates a Reward this way, then the Owner of that Reward is the Contestant who created it.

Everyone I am sorry this post is belated, I was at a writers convention, which was by the way great. Anyway I will start playing blog nomic, and I will have fun, most likely.  I do hope I did this right

Influenza goes Idle. 15 Contestants, Quorum is 8.

Add the following sentence tho the end of rule 2.12

A Contestant who Fails at a Challenge becomes an Outsider.

Create a new rule “Personal Hygiene”:

As a daily action, a Contestant may decrease the Looks of another Insider by 1, as long as that other Contestant hasn’t been in the Bathroom within the last 120 hours (5 days).

If there is a Rule titled “Hell’s kitchen,” then add the following to the end of it:

When the number of For votes reaches Quorum, if they have not already done so, the Contestant who Cooked may increase their own Fame by 1.

Replace the last period in the Rule “Go Fish” with the following text:

once.

I’ve been out of proposals slots for a while now, but I have many ideas, so I will throw in some that anybody can propose and feel smart like me:

* A weekly action that can be taken while in the bedroom, that costs 3 looks and gives another Contestant +1 Luck. Props for creative names for this..
* A new stat called stress that has a negative impact on you as a balance for some positive actions, and as way to attack other contestants.
* A rule that allows Contestants with low Fame to move twice a day, due to being stealthy.
* An effect that decreases Looks every week that a Contestant has failed to visit the Bathroom.
* A daily action that allows a Contestant to spend 1 Fame to go to get their vote counted twice, on a single proposal.

Create a new sub-rule “My face is up here” under rule “Exercise Regime”:

When a Contestant casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal which has been created by a Contestant that has more Looks than the voter, the DEFERENTIAL vote is counted as a FOR instead of as a DEFERENTIAL.

Create a new sub-rule “Come here for a second” under rule “Exercise Regime”:

As a daily action, a Contestant (known as the Caller) may spend 1 point of Looks to change the Location of any Contestant to the Caller’s Location. If this action would cause the Caller’s Looks to become less than 10, the action can’t be taken.

Add a subrule, 2.3.1 with the title “Host” and the following text:

The Host can be in the Control Room.

[Title sequence]

Host

Welcome again to Reality TV! We bring you footage today from the Reward Room. arthexis is just putting the finishing touches to the shopping list; but time’s up, so I’ll just take it now. [Mechanical arm reaches down from the ceiling and snatches the order pad out of arthexis’ hands.] Ah, interesting. I see the prop guys have been working on some of this stuff already; there already seems to be a plane in the fridge, no idea how it got there, but much of the food we should be able to work on. (Not counting the whole of Wikipedia; that would just be silly, and rather expensive.)

Add a new Dynastic Rule to the Ruleset.  Call it “The Coup” and give it the following text:

If at any time there are at least three Insiders, and one Insider is supported by every other Insider, the supported Insider achieves victory.  Achieving victory in this manner is called “winning by consensus”
If at any time there is exactly one Insider, that Insider achieves victory.  Achieving victory in this manner is called “winning by default”.
If at any time there are no Insiders, all Outsiders immediately become Insiders. This is called a Coup.

More Cherries!

illegal, so I edited before any comments

Have any 6s?

If there exists a rule called “Hell’s Kitchen” add to it a subrule, called “More Cessna, Please”:

Within 24 hours of a Contestant making an Eating action, any Contestant (including the Host) may make a Weight Gain action on the Contestant who made the Eating action (referred to as the Eater) by rolling DICE15: if the result is less than the Looks of the Eater, the Eater’s Looks are reduced by one. Only a single Weight Gain action may be made on an Eater in response to each Eating action by that Eater.

Add a rule called “Hell’s Kitchen”:

When a Contestant’s Location is set to ‘Kitchen’, as a daily action, that Contestant may Cook. The Contestant makes a post to the blog entitled ‘Z’s Cooking’ where Z is the name of that Contestant. In the post, the Contestant may include the name or description of the dish cooked (Contestant’s choice, bearing in mind the ingredients available). Each Contestant may make a comment to the post once with a For icon indicating that they are Eating the Cooking of Z. Upon making the comment, that Contestant may change their own Support value to Z, or their own Vote value to Z, even if this violates frequency restrictions on changing Support and Vote values as stated in other rules.

Create a new rule, “Lucky Day”:

As a weekly action that can only be taken during Fridays or Saturdays, any Contestant may roll DICEX after a comment of “Lucky Day” on the GNDT. On this roll, the value of X shall be equal to the number of Contestants listed in the GNDT. Then within the next hour, the Contestant may once increase by 1 the Luck of the Contestant whose number (in top to bottom order) in the GNDT is equal to the result of the rule.

Well, I was getting a three from Qwazukee’s Go Fish pile, but the Host’s escape left me with a four due to the water!  How lucky!

It’s been a lovely week so far. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Gym getting buff and writing poetry. I question the use of refrigerator space, but I guess with the lack of a real Tetris game, that will have to do. I sure hope the Producers or whoever know what they’re doing; with numerous Contestants having gone missing and the Host nowhere in sight, I’m not quite at ease with the whole situation. But I can’t really complain, I suppose. It’s probably better than my backup plan, if I hadn’t gotten on this show; Battle School sounds like a drag.

Wooow! What a week. I’ve taken to going to the gym, and have recently got super buff. I’m now very good looking (and the others know it). Meanwhile, the prize fund has dropped down by a few hundred thousand and the hostess has just vanished! I had a great dream where I won the money, and then a nightmare where I was thrown into the basement and locked there! I was tormented by demons and Rodlen. Anyway, my evil plan is working out perfectly: no fewer than six of my enemies have “disappeared”!

In the Rule entitled “Voting Events”, change the text

6 days have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became an Outsider

to

72 hours have elapsed since the last time a Contestant became an Outsider

So, here I was, sitting in the lounge, watching Adventures of High Command (what idiots) and sipping my Bonk! Energy Drink (it’s fulla radiation!), when a Cessna 500 was teleported into the bunker.  I think we may have a new escape route.

Our new computer was just brought in.  It’s…unimpressive.

Well, this seems to be working out pretty well.  Apparently, I’ve made it to the cover of a few magazines.  Heh.

Now, where’s an Awesome Deathship when you need it!?!

If there is a rule entitled “Picking Fruit”, repeal it and its subrules, and delete them from the ruleset.

We still haven’t solved the issue of InterNomic II - are we sending a liaison or not, and if so, who will it be?

SingularByte goes Idle. 16 Contestants, Quorum is 9.

Create a new rule, “My face is up here”:

When a Contestant casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal which has been created by a Contestant that has X or more Looks than the voter, the DEFERENTIAL vote is counted as a FOR instead of as a DEFERENTIAL. The value of X is equal to Quorum.

Create a new rule, “Nothing Shady”:

There is no Cake Room. This rule takes precedence over rule 2.3 The Bunker.

Wakukee apparently unidled himself.  Quorum should remain 9.

Wakukee goes Idle. Down to 16, 9.

Now, time for something completely different. You have the rest of today (not a lot), Tuesday, and Wednesday, to submit poems (as comments to this post) for a poetry contest; ideally, these should relate to nomic as a whole, BlogNomic, or this dynasty in particular (flavour-wise or rules-wise, your choice). On Thursday and Friday, all Contestants can vote for their favourite poem out of the submissions in the comments here (use an arrow followed by the name of the contestant whose poem you’re voting for to vote); Contestants can’t vote for themselves. I can’t vote; but if there’s a tie for the most votes, I choose who wins the tie.

• To succeed at this challenge, get at least one vote.
• To become the Challenge Champion, get the most votes. (I will choose who becomes Champion if there’s a tie, from amongst the tied Contestants.)
• This challenge ends on Saturday, although from Thursday onwards you can’t submit new poems.

Good luck!

In rule 2.12, after

Then, the Challenge Champion gains 3 Fame (the Host is responsible for updating the GNDT accordingly); in addition, the Host may change the owner of one Reward to the Challenge Champion.

add

If the Challenge Champion is an Outsider, instead they become an Insider then gain 1 Fame (in addition to any other fame they would gain for becoming an Insider).

Add “Control Room” to the bottom of the list of Locations in the Rule entitled “The Bunker”.

In the same Rule, change the text

where X is the number of Rooms that exist - the Room whose position in the list matches the rolled result is filmed

to

where X is the number of Rooms that exist, excluding the Control Room - the Room whose position in the list matches the rolled result is filmed (excluding the Control Room)

Oze goes Idle. We’re down to 17 Contestants, Quorum is 9.

[Title sequence.]
Welcome back again to Reality TV. Today, more footage from the diary room, followed by coverage of our first eviction. (Yes, we tried to get rid of Devenger earlier, but he ran away before we could film him leaving.)
[Diary room footage plays. Much of it is repeats, but it’s been remixed and given funky music.]
And now, for our first eviction. Many other shows give contestants ages to say their goodbyes, and so on; it’s all very soppy. Not here.
[The Host pulls a lever; a hole opens up under Darth Cliche, who falls out of sight.]
[There is a sound of breaking glass, as the Host dives through the camera run wall, and jumps down the hole after Darth Cliche. Then it closes again.]

Here are the guesses for the second challenge. Unique guesses are in bold; players who failed are crossed out.

Congrats to Bucky for being the only person to guess 0!

Four Contestants failed due to a lack of unique guesses; arthexis, delta, Oze, SingularByte, TAE, and Wakukee failed due to not entering. Therefore, I remove another $100,000 from the Prize Fund; it now stands at $810,001.

It is very strange since last I left the kitchen many people have left, and many people are now staring at me menacingly. I think I had better start hiding somewhere until it all dies down Darth cliche appears to be the one responsible but i don’t knoiw what to do about it especially as so many people seem to dislike him already. I only cam ehere to try and make friends.

In other news Rodlen has come into the kitchen and asked me to try and work out how to fit a Cessna into the fridge. I think it might take me a while to sort out but it should be doable.

On that note I’d better go back to solving that problem.