BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

If the Proposal titled “Veto Express, Now With Absolutely No Scam Whatsoever” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Add the following to Rule 1.5 Enactment:

When the Artisan votes to VETO a Proposal, any Admin may fail that Proposal from that moment on, even if it is not the oldest Pending Proposal.

Remove the bullet point reading:

The Artisan has voted to VETO it

from Rule 1.5 Enactment.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal also contain the text “OVERTURN”, replace the text:

The Artisan may vote to VETO any Proposal.

in Rule 1.8 Dynasties with:

The Artisan may vote to VETO any Proposal, unless at least a Quorum of Apprentices have voted FOR it.

May an admin please unidle me?

Ok, I tried to fix my error and made things worse, I ended up with two identical proposals. How do I fix this?

Add the following text to the end of Rule 2.5.1 Basic Spells:

The spell Appetizers has “TAPAS” as its Activation Sequence. This spell has no effect unless at least one Apprentice has more items on their table than the caster. Its Effect is “Chose one table, add DICEX items to that table.” X = the largest value in the Table column of the GNDT at the time this spell is cast.

If a majority of the votes on this proposal have the word MULTI, use the following instead:

The spell Appetizers has “TAPAS” as its Activation Sequence. This spell has no effect unless at least one Apprentice has more items on their table than the caster. Its Effect is “Chose one or more tables, add DICEX total items to those tables, distributed at the caster’s discretion.” X = the largest value in the Table column of the GNDT at the time this spell is cast.

Add the following text to the end of Rule 2.5.1 Basic Spells:

The spell Appetizers has “TAPAS” as its Activation Sequence. This spell has no effect unless at least one Apprentice has more items on their table than the caster. Its Effect is “Chose one table, add DICEX items to that table.” X = the largest value in the Table column of the GNDT at the time this spell is cast.

If a majority of the votes on this proposal have the word MULTI, use the following instead:

The spell Appetizers has “TAPAS” as its Activation Sequence. This spell has no effect unless at least one Apprentice has more items on their table than the caster. Its Effect is “Chose one or more tables, add DICEX total items to those tables, distributed at the caster’s discretion.” X = the largest value in the Table column of the GNDT at the time this spell is cast.

Part 1:
Add the following to the list of spells in the Ruleset:

The spell “Doppelganger” has “POTATO” as its Activation Seqauence.  Its effect is as follows: Does nothing if the casting Apprentice’s Partner has a Ward that is not Null.  Choose another Apprentice (other than the casting Apprentice’s Partner) (the “Source Apprentice”).  This spell causes the entire Workbench of the casting Apprentice’s Partner to be replaced with a copy of the Source Apprentice’s Workbench (including any “U” runes, notwithstanding any prohibition in the rule entitled “Unstable Runes”).

Part 2:
If there is a rule entitled “Unstable Runes”, then change the phrase in that rule that present reads: “Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ruleset” so that it reads “Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ruleset (but subject to the Doppelganger spell)”.

http://blognomic.com/member/387/

How is Wak a Super Admin?

I hereby found Weblog Nomic. The ruleset can be found here. It plays on this very blog; that won’t be confusing at all.

I hereby announce my arrival within Weblog Nomic.

Add the following to Rule 1.5 Enactment:

When the Artisan votes to VETO a Proposal, any Admin may fail that Proposal from that moment on, even if it is not the oldest Pending Proposal.

Add the following text to Rule 1.5:

When Bucky votes to VETO a Proposal, any Admin may fail that Proposal from that moment on, even if it is not the oldest Pending proposal

End BlogNomic. Set Bucky’s Workbench to 42. Make Bucky explode. Make BlogNomic become a subgame of B Nomic. Invade Agora. Cause the end of the world as we know it. Darth Cliche achieves victory.

VETO THIS PROPOSAL IT IS VETO BAIT

This post exists to see if voting icons can exist in post titles.

I Tecslicer, am serving an item of food to my table. I am letting you know here because there is no “Table” column in the GNDT.

I think tecslicer got shortchanged by one rune on his workbench length initially. Can someone else confirm?

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

Spellcasting is hungry work, so change the portion of Rule 2.5 Spellcasting that currently reads:

Any Apprentice whose Workbench contains a Rune Chain that has the same Value as a Spell’s Activation Sequence may Cast that Spell. Upon doing so, he must select one such Rune Chain, change the last Rune in that Rune Chain to a Damaged Rune, then perform the Spell’s Effect.

To read instead:

Any Apprentice whose Workbench contains a Rune Chain that has the same Value as a Spell’s Activation Sequence may Cast that Spell, provided he has Eaten some food that day. Upon doing so, he must select one such Rune Chain, change the last Rune in that Rune Chain to a Damaged Rune, then perform the Spell’s Effect.

“Eat” is used in the sense described in Rule 2.9 Table the Motion.

As my first timed action (And first action in this game, so I don’t know if this is the right place to do it or not.) I am manipulation my workbench, by adding a O to the start of my workbench and removing an X from the end.

I SHOULD probably know this, but is there any reason as to why my computer does not want to display the javascript function which makes the idle and unregistered idle players collapse? It works o most computers, but this one just doesn’t seem to “like” it. Am I missing a program I need installed?

I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding the mechanics of using the random DICE feature. Is there a FAQ or tutorial somewhere? I want to incorporate a random aspect to a spell. Thanks.

I know you have all been awaiting my arrival, but you may now relax. I, tecslicer, the hero of Cimonomic, the silent one of FRC, the one who looked at Agora, and ran, I am here.

Add a new Rule to the Ruleset.  Call it “Tables and Food” and give it the following text:

As referenced in Rule 2.8 The Buddy System, each set of Partners shares a table. This is represented by the Table column of the GNDT.

The table column records the number of Food Items on a given Apprentice’s table. A table initially has a number of items equal to the length of the longer Workbench of any Apprentices sharing the table.

Food may be Eaten or Served, resulting in the reduction or addition of food items on a table.

As a daily action, but not more than once in 8 hours, an Apprentice may Eat one item of food from their own table, provided that this would not result in an empty table.

As a daily action, but not more than once in 8 hours, an Apprentice may Serve one item of food to any table.

Should any situation result in two Partners having an unequal table, such as from a Partner swap, the value shall default to the larger table status.

Should any situation result in an Apprentice not having a valid table, re-initialize the table.

If any player does not have a Partner, they initially get a table to themselves.

If OddRon is idle, the GNDT needs to be updated.

I have created a new member group, Spam, for accounts we deem to be spam. These accounts have no privileges, they can’t even post, but are kept around such that we can notice any trends in them which we can use to deal with them in the future. Please place spam users into this group rather than deleting them.

OddRon goes idle. Quorum remains at 6.

Edit: Actually, it looks like quorum drops to 6. Someone miscounted the previous number of players, possibly when adding nooneimportant, and frogot to update quorum.

1. We are not miners.
2. We are not Chinese.
3. We do not speak Chinese.
4. Some of us are Americans and therefore irrationally hate China and want it to be nuked. Bad target audience.

Yep, this one was spam too.

Add the following to the end of Rule 2.5.1 “Basic Spells”:

The spell Melting Pot has “SOUP” as its Activation Sequence. Its Effect is “Choose two Apprentices. They Become Partners.”

Fail any pending proposals, other than this one, which would create a Spell with “SOUP” as an Activation Sequence.

Amend section 2.5.1 “Basic Spells” to include the following text at the bottom:

The spell Melting Pot has “SOUP” as its Activation Sequence. Its Effect is “Choose two Target Apprentices. Targets shall have the values of their partner columns swapped. Targets’ former partners shall also have the values in THEIR partner columns swapped, so as to reflect the new partner pairs. These value changes have the effect of changing Partners. This spell shall not affect the partner status of the Artisan. This spell shall not make any Apprentice their own partner. This spell may leave one or more Apprentices without a partner.”

The spell Melting Pot has “SOUP” as its Activation Sequence. Its Effect is “Choose two Apprentices. They Become Partners.”

Amend section 2.5.1 to include the following text at the bottom:

The spell Melting Pot has “SOUP” as its Activation Sequence. Its Effect is “Choose two Target Apprentices. Targets shall have the values of their partner columns swapped. Targets’ former partners shall also have the values in THEIR partner columns swapped, so as to reflect the new partner pairs. This value change has the effect of changing Partners. This spell shall not affect the partner status of the Artisan or the Caster of this spell. This spell shall not make any Apprentice their own partner. This spell may leave one or more Apprentices without a partner.” This is a Daily Action.

Amend section 2.5.1 to include the following text at the bottom:

The spell Melting Pot has “SOUP” as its Activation Sequence. Its Effect is “Choose a Target Apprentice who currently has a partner. Change the the Original Value in the Partner column of Target Apprentice to any other valid Replacement Apprentice. Replacement Apprentice shall have their partner column updated accordingly. The Jilted Apprentice shall be the Apprentice who was previously partners with the Target Apprentice. The Jilted Apprentice shall have their Partner column updated to reflect the value that the Replacement Apprentice had immediately prior to the casting of this spell.  This spell shall not effect the partner status of the Caster or the Artisan.This spell shall not make any Apprentice their own partner.” This is a Daily Action.

I wouldn’t expect anyone to be too excited about this.

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

Each Apprentice, with the possible exception of the Artisan, shares a table with one other Apprentice.  This is tracked in the Partner column of the GNDT.

If at any time a non-Artisan Apprentice would not have another Apprentice as their Partner, that Apprentice’s Partner becomes the Artisan (if the Artisan doesn’t have a Partner) or the Artisan’s Partner (if the Artisan does have a Partner).  In the latter case, the Artisan ceases to have a Partner.  Either way, that Apprentice’s new Partner’s Partner becomes that Apprentice.

Whenever a Rule causes two different Apprentices to “Become Partners”, each of those two Apprentice’s Partner statistics is set to the other.  Then those Apprentice’s former Partners’ Partner statistics are set to each other.

For each Apprentice in an even-numbered position in the GNDT, set their Partner to the Apprentice below them in the GNDT if possible.  For each Apprentice in an odd-numbered position in the GNDT, set their Partner to the Apprentice above them in the GNDT if possible.  If any Apprentice doesn’t have a Partner afterwards, set their Partner to the Artisan and the Artisan’s Partner to them.

Amend Rule 2.2 Runes so that it reads:

There exist objects called Runes, each represented by a single letter that is the Rune’s Value. A sequence of Runes has a Value that is the sequence of letters corresponding to the Values of its component Runes. A Rune or sequence of Rune may be referred to by its Value.

A Rune Chain is a sequence of consecutive Runes.

Runes are subdivided into Consonants, Vowels and non-Vowel non-Consonant Damaged Runes: The legal Values for Consonants are ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘F’, ‘Þ’, and ‘K’. The legal Values for Vowels are ‘A’, ‘O’ and ‘U’. The only legal Value for Damaged Runes is ‘X’.

“No Rune can have a value other than ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘A’, ‘O’, ‘X’, ‘U’, ‘F’, ‘Þ’, or ‘K’.”

Add the following to the end of Rule 2.4 Unstable Runes:

The Consonant ‘F’ is considered Unstable. If any Apprentice has the consecutive subsequence “STAR” in his Workbench, as a daily action (and so long as that Apprentice does not take any other daily action during that Day that involves making changes to his own Workbench), that Apprentice may substitute “FFFF” for the “STAR” consecutive subsequence in his workbench. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ruleset, an Apprentice may only voluntarily obtain instances of the Consonant ‘F’ to his workbench by operation of the previous sentence. This action is known as F-Transmutation and is considered a type of Transmutation for the purposes of the rules.

The Consonant ‘Þ’ is considered Unstable, and my also be represented by ‘Th’. If any Apprentice has the consecutive subsequence “FORK” in his Workbench, as a daily action (and so long as that Apprentice does not take any other daily action during that Day that involves making changes to his own Workbench), that Apprentice may substitute “ÞÞÞÞ” for the “FORK” consecutive subsequence in his workbench. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ruleset, an Apprentice may only voluntarily obtain instances of the Consonant ‘Þ’ to his workbench by operation of the previous sentence. This action is known as Th-Transmutation and is considered a type of Transmutation for the purposes of the rules.

The Consonant ‘K’ is considered Unstable. If any Apprentice has the consecutive subsequence “FAST” in his Workbench, as a daily action (and so long as that Apprentice does not take any other daily action during that Day that involves making changes to his own Workbench), that Apprentice may substitute “KKKK” for the “FAST” consecutive subsequence in his workbench. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ruleset, an Apprentice may only voluntarily obtain instances of the Consonant ‘K’ to his workbench by operation of the previous sentence. This action is known as K-Transmutation and is considered a type of Transmutation for the purposes of the rules.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.5, called “Victory Spell”:

The Victory Spell has “FUÞARK” as its Activation Sequence. Its effect is “You achieve victory.”

The idea is to make F, Þ, and K runes, which are all difficult to get (similar to U).

Then, a FUÞARK spell which causes victory.

Hi there! I’ve just read about Nomic and I decided to join, I hope I’ll learn enough to be able to play with you :) So far I’ve read the rules but I’m still full of doubt :), for example, so far there is no way to win in this dinasty, am I correct? And when should I start my time to 7, next monday? When should I appear in the GNDT list?

I find this Nomic concept very funny :)

Idle me please.

The notice in our Sidebar is weird. I think it’s because there are 0 Pending Proposals.

Rodlen goes idle. Quorum drops to 6.

E may be gone from the sidebar and GNDT, but e’s still active. I “render a Apprentice idle”.
Quorum is 7.

Add the following to “Basic Spells”:
Spell: Animation
Activation sequence: “PUPA”
Effect.  Creates a non-Apprentice entity, called a “Golem” which shall be added to the GNDT order in such ordered position as the Apprentice who casts it (such Apprentice, the “Master”) directs.  The Golem shall be named %(G) (with “%” being substituted with the name, or an abbreviation of the name, of its Master.  A Golem has the Ward that its Master had at the moment of the Golem’s creation, and has an initial Workbench consisting of a single “X” rune.  Any action or effect that would result in changing a Golem’s Workbench instead destroys the Golem.

arthexis goes idle. Quorum drops to 7.

Add the following to Rule 2.5.1 Basic Spells:

Extra Slot has “PROPOS” and “PROPU” as its Activation Sequence. Its Effect is “You may make a Proposal even if it would normally be illegal.”

If at least half of EVCs on this proposal contain the text “shorter sequence”, change the text:

“PROPOS” and “PROPU” as its Activation Sequence

to:

“PROP” as its Activation Sequence

1. We need to change the admin permissions so that admins can delete accounts. Currently we have NOT resolved the issue I found with the Captcha accepting the correct word for any image rather than just the one that appears, so we are under attack by spam accounts. Admins need to be able to delete these accounts. There is currently a way for admins to do this ANYWAY, but it is needlessley complicated and, I believe, due to an error in EE. It is simplest just to give admins the ability to delete accounts,

2. Media wiki update. Did we ever get that done? We should.

3. Admins should be able to edit comments. It is technically illegal, but sometimes needed; for spam and profanity.  There is a way to due it, but it is only possible from certain screens, and most likely due to an error in EE. It is easiest just to allow it officially.

Add the following immediately after the point reading “Instead of deleting content from a blog post which has at least one comment, the content should either be struck through with strike tags, or replaced with a link to a copy of the same content on the wiki.” in rule 1.10 Fair Play:

An Apprentice may not edit his own blog post if it has one or more comment and/or has been open for 5 or more minutes.

In the list under “Manipulating a Workbench” in Rule 2.3 Workbench:
Change the action

Add any Vowel or Consonant to the start of the Workbench and then remove the last Rune of the Workbench

to

Add any stable, non-damaged Rune to the start of the Workbench and then remove the last Rune of the Workbench

Add the following text to the end of the Rule entitled “Basic Spells”:

The spell Fireball has “TOAST” as its Activation Sequence.  Its Effect is “Make a comment in the GNDT of the form ‘NAME DICEX’ where NAME is the name of an Apprentice and X is the number of Runes on that Apprentice’s Workbench.  Change the Rune on that Apprentice’s Workbench with a position equal to the result of the DICE roll to ‘X’
The spell Expand Workbench has “STOAR” and “STOU” as its Actication Sequences.  Its Effect is “Replace the O in the Rune Chain used to cast this spell with OO”.
The spell Ranged Manipulate has “PORT” as its Activation Sequence.  Its Effect is “Manipulate the Workbench of another Apprentice”.

In the list under “Manipulating a Workbench” in Rule 2.3 Workbench:
Change the action
“Add any Vowel or Consonant to the start of the Workbench and then remove the last Rune of the Workbench”
to
“Add any stable, non-damaged Rune to the start of the Workbench and then remove the last Rune of the Workbench”

Oh great ones, I have traveled from afar to learn the secrets of runic manipulation…

Change yuri_dragon_17’s username to Ienpw III.

In the Rule entitled “Workbench”, change the text

An Apprentice’s Workbench is initially “XXXXX”

to

An Apprentice’s Workbench is initially a sequence of “X” runes that has the same length as the third-longest Workbench among other Apprentices

And add the following item to the end of the list in the same rule:

Add an X to the start of the Workbench, only if there exist three longer Workbenches.

Add a New Dynastic rule to the Ruleset and call it “Circle of Protection” and have it read as follows:

Each Apprentice has a Circle of Protection surrounding their Workbench. This Circle of Protection must be activated by a Spell in reference to Rule 2.5. Each Circle has a corresponding Spell, in which no two Spells can have the same Rune Sequence, each with unique Effects. As a weekly action, each Apprentice may activate a Circle of Protection by casting it’s corresponding Rune Sequence. In addition, each Apprentice may only have one Circle active. Once an Apprentice activates his or her Circle, that Circle lasts until the end of the week. After that week, Each Apprentice has a chance to activate a new Circle of Protection. There exists a column in the GNDT entitled “Circle” which tracks each Apprentice’s Circle.

Has anyone had it recently? Or is it gone?

Add two Damaged Runes (‘X’) to the right side of the Workbench of each Apprentice who presently has exactly five Runes in his Workbench, so as to increase the number of Runes in each such Workbench to seven.

Add the following text to the end of the Rule entitled “Basic Spells”:

The spell Fireball has “TOAST” as its Activation Sequence.  Its Effect is “Make a comment in the GNDT of the form ‘NAME DICEX’ where NAME is the name of an Apprentice and X is the number of Runes on that Apprentice’s Workbench.  Change the Rune on that Apprentice’s Workbench with a position equal to the result of the DICE roll to ‘X’
The spell Expand Workbench has “STOAR” and “STOU” as its Actication Sequences.  Its Effect is “Add a Damaged Rune to the end of your Workbench”.
The spell Ranged Manipulate has “PORT” as its Activation Sequence.  Its Effect is “Manipulate the Workbench of another Apprentice”.

Add two Damaged Runes (‘X’) to the left side of the Workbench of each Apprentice who presently has exactly five Runes in his Workbench, so as to increase the number of Runes in each such Workbench to seven.

I formally request to become an admin. In addition, I also request, if granted, a current admin to teach me how to be a good admin.

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

Each Apprentice may have a single enchantment affecting their bench, tracked in the GNDT under the “Ward” column.  The legal values for a Ward are:

Null
Suppressive
Hardened
Trapped

An Apprentice’s Ward defaults to Null.

An Apprentice with a Suppressive Ward cannot Cast or be affected by any Spells.  Whenever their Workbench is Manipulated, their Ward becomes Null.

An Apprentice with a Hardened Ward cannot Cast or be affected by any Spells.  Whenever their Workbench is Manipulated, their Ward becomes Suppressive.

If an Apprentice with a Trapped Ward has their Workbench changed by another Apprentice, their Ward becomes Null and that other Apprentice has the first Rune in their Workbench changed to ‘X’.

Append the following text to the to the Rule entitled “Basic Spells” if it exists:

The Spell “Panic” has “SOS” as its Activation Sequence.  Its Effect is “Your Ward becomes Suppressive unless it is already Hardened.”

The Spell “Booby Trap” has “TRAP” as its Activation Sequence.  Its Effect is “Your ward becomes Trapped.”

Set each Apprentice’s Ward to “None”.  Set the Artisan’s Ward to “Trapped”.

Add the following to rule 1.8, “Dynasties”:

The Artisan may resign, provided he finds another Apprentice to become a new Artisan. The Artisan must then make a post to the blog, stating his resignation, and the name of the new Artisan, who becomes Artisan at the moment the post was created.

If there is a rule that lists spells, add the following Subrule to it, and call the subrule “Food”:

There is a spell with an activation of POTROAST. If anyone casts this spell, then a Potroast is held.

Add a new item to the list of permitted actions in rule 2.3:

* Grind a spell into a powder as per the relevant rule below.

Add the following rule to the ruleset, entitled Powder:

Powders are Rune Chains that have been ground down into a dust. They are tracked in the GNDT under Powders.

Any Apprentice whose Workbench contains a Rune Chain that has the same Value as a Spell’s Activation Sequence may, provided that they have not Cast that Spell within the preceeding 24 hours, grind that spell into a Powder. Doing so changes all of the runes in the Rune Chain into Xs but allows the Apprentice to add a Powder with that Rune Chain to the relevent column in the GNDT.

A Powder can be used at any time to Cast the spell whose Activation Sequence it spells out. Using the Powder in this way destroys the Powder. An Apprentice may have no more than 4 Powders at a time; if they complete and action that would give them more than this number then they must discard Powders until they are within this restriction.

The Rune Chain of a Powder may not be changed or amended under any circumstances.

Add a new column to the GNDT, entitled “Powder”.

I hereby go idle. Quorum drops to seven.

Part 1:
In the rule “Runes”, amend the sentence that read: “The only legal Value for Damaged Runes is ‘X’.” so that it reads “The only legal Values for Damaged Runes are “X” and “Q”. 
Add “Q” to the list of runes in the sentence in that rule that begins “No Rune can have a Value other than…”

Part 2: If there is a subrule to the rule entitled “Spellcasting” that lists Spells, add the following to that subrule:
Contaminate has “RUST” as its activation sequence.  Its Effect is Choose two different Apprentices.  With respect to the Workbench of each of these Apprentices, choose any one of three rightmost Runes in such Workbench and replace it with a ‘Q’.”

Part 3:  Add a new rule entitled “Contamination”, as follows:

The ‘Q’ Damaged Rune is generally regarded as an undesirable contaminant.  An Apprentice who has at least one ‘Q’ in his Workbench is regarded as Contaminated.  If at least two Days have elapsed since any ‘Q’s have been added to a given Apprentice’s Workbench by any means (and that Apprentice is still Contaminated), [and if the Contaminated Apprentice has a Time of at least 2], then any Player may replace any Rune in that Contaminated Apprentice’s Workbench that is adjacent to a ‘Q’ with a ‘Q’.

Part 4: If the proposal “Less Grinding, More Carving” fails, then delete the bracketed text in part 3 and replace the text “If at least two Days” in part 3 with “If at least three Days”.

Add a new subrule to the rule entitled “Spellcasting”.  Call it “Basic Spells” and give it the following text:

The following spells exist, as per this Rule’s superrule.

Rune Swap has “OPT” as its activation sequence.  Its Effect is “Exchange the positions of two Runes in your Workbench”.

Cleanse has “SOAP” as its activation sequence.  Its Effect is “Choose an Apprentice.  Move all Damaged Runes in that Apprentice’s Workbench to the end of their Workbench, leaving the relative order of the other Runes unchanged.

Reverse Manipulation has “POP” and “POPS” as its activation sequences.  Its Effect is “Remove the first Rune from your Workbench, then add any Consonant to the end of your Workbench.”

This post is currently here to remind me to fill it out. I had some serious reflections on things we need to do with certain admin permissions and teaching admins more effectively, but about half an hour’s work typing was erased as I was making some finishing touches thanks to pressing backspace and going back a page rather than deleting a character. : |. I’ll fill it back out in a simplified form in a day or two. Don’t have time now.

Add the following sentences to Spellcasting:

Each spell has a difficulty level. Apprentices may not cast spells with Difficulty higher than their Intelligence, a stat which is tracked in the GNDT, and which has a default value of 5.
All spells are to be listed in the following format:

Name:
Difficulty:
Activation Sequence(s):
Effect(s):

Add a subrule to “Spellcasting” and call it “Basic Spells”:

Name: Lesser Sort
Difficulty: 5
Activation Sequence(s): SORT
Effect(s): The Apprentice may change the order of their workbench to either alphabetical or reverse-alphabetical order, leaving X runes in their place.

Name: Sap
Difficulty: 5
Activation Sequence(s): SAP
Effect(s): The Apprentice may change all of their X runes to the value of any single other rune that is in the workbench of another Apprentice. Then they transform all of the other Apprentice’s runes that share that value to X.

Name: Pot Roast
Difficulty: 1
Activation Sequence(s): POTROAST
Effect(s): The Apprentice may create a Pot Roast in their possession.

Set all Apprentices’ Intelligence values to the initial.

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

Each Apprentice has a numerical “Time” statistic tracked in the GNDT.  New Apprentices have 0 Time.  As a weekly action, each Apprentice may set their Time to 7.

If a game action is a Timed Action, each Apprentice may spend one Time in order to take that action.  Each Apprentice may perform no more than two Timed Actions in any 24-hour period.

In the Rule entitled “Workbench”, replace the text

As a daily action

with

As a Timed Action

Part 1:
In the rule “Runes”, if there is a sentence that reads: “No Rune can have a value other than ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘A’, ‘O’ or ‘X’.”
amend it so that it reads:
“No Rune can have a value other than ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘A’, ‘O’, ‘X’ or ‘U’.”

Part 2:
At the end of the rule “Workbench”, add a new bullet point reading:

* Engage in Transmutation, to the extent permitted under the rule “Unstable Runes”.

Part 3:
In the rule “Unstable Runes”, change the phrase “If any Apprentice has the sequence” to “If any Apprentice has the consecutive subsequence”; change the phrase “for the “AAOO” or “AOOA” sequence” to “for the “AAOO” or “AOOA” consecutive subsequence”
Part 4: Add the following sentence to the end of the first paragraph of the rule “Unstable Runes”: “This action is known as Transmutation”.

Why don’t the voting icons work?

Someone needs to go through the templates and replace all .gif with .png . I’m afraid I don’t have time right now.
This will update the voting icons.

Will very briefly be broken while I replace them.

In the Rule entitled “Runes”, change the text

A Rune may be referred to by its Value.  A sequence of Runes may be referred to by the sequence of letters corresponding to the Values of its component Runes.

to

A sequence of Runes has a Value that is the sequence of letters corresponding to the Values of its component Runes. A Rune or sequence of Rune may be referred to by its Value.

A Rune Chain is a sequence of consecutive Runes.

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

There are a number of Spells, listed in this Rule and its subrules.  Each Spell has one or more Activation Sequences, each of which is a Rune sequence containing one or more Vowels and no Damaged Runes.  Each Spell also has an Effect. 

Any Apprentice whose Workbench contains a Rune Chain that has the same Value as a Spell’s Activation Sequence may Cast that Spell.  Upon doing so, he must select one such Rune Chain, change the last Rune in that Rune Chain to a Damaged Rune, then perform the Spell’s Effect.

No two Spells may have the same Activation Sequence.  A spell cannot be Cast if its Effect could not be performed.

In rule “Workbench”, after the sentence “As a daily action, an Apprentice may Manipulate their Workbench.” add the following text:

Each of those actions has a Verb that represents it (listed as the first word in it’s description), and which may be used instead of the full text of the action.

Then replace the list of actions on that rule with the following list:

Etch: Add any Vowel or Consonant to the start of the Workbench, then remove the last Rune of the Workbench
Turn: Swap the first and last Runes of the Workbench
Fuse: Remove any Rune from the Workbench then add a Damaged Rune at the end or start

Add the following rule to the ruleset, entitled Meta Magic:

Spells can be cast vertically as well as horizontally. If the GNDT workbench records for several consecutively-listed Apprentices, when read vertically from top to bottom using runes in the same workbench position, forms a configuration that would - if it were found horizontally in a single Apprentice’s workbench - have an effect as defined elsewhere in the ruleset, then it forms a meta-magical structure.

Any Apprentice whose workbench contains a rune that is part of a meta-magical structure may apply the effect (which will be the same as the horizontal equivalent of that rune combination) of that structure on all of the players whose runes form a part of that meta-magical structure, including themselves. This effect may not be invoked for a meta-magical structure any more often than its horizontal equivalent.

All rune sequences that we deal with this Dynasty are likely to be finite in length, so I think we can agree that it will be unnecessary to ever specify “finite sequence” from here on.  We will, however, be needing to refer to one sequence being “inside” another, and the simplest way of doing this is to borrow the terminology of “subsequence”.  A sequence is just a set (that’s allowed to have repeating runes) that has an order.  So a subsequence just means any subset that has the same relative order.

Original sequence:  PROSTAXUP

Example subsequences:  PUP, ROT, PROSTAXUP, TAX, PP

Not subsequences:  ROAST (the A is out of order), SS (there aren’t 2 copies of S in the original sequence), SORP (it appears backwards in the original, but that doesn’t count)

This notion of subsequence does not inherently carry any assumption that the subsequence appears _consecutively_ in the original sequence, but it’s simple enough to just say “consecutive subsequence” if that’s what you mean.  If that’s too cumbersome, I suggest defining “subword” or similar to mean just that.

I think it’s perfectly fine to have a mixture of consecutive and not-necessarily-consecutive requirements for various things.  Consecutive requirements can lead to more powerful effects, for example, since they’re harder to assemble.  Non-consecutive requirements could also be interesting, since a clever player might be able to have several options available at once, without committing to any of them.

For now, I’m just wondering what people have been assuming when they write proposals (or vote on proposals), so I can make a reasonable proposal with definitions, and which doesn’t mess up anyone’s intent.  In particular:

*Kevan’s amulets proposal specifies a group from “either the start or the end” and “in the same order”, so it’s clear what e intended.
*My SAP and SORT rule looks for not-necessarily-consecutive runes, but the effect of SAP is not very powerful, and SORT is only somewhat powerful and requires 4 out of 5 workbench slots to pull off (which probably makes you an appealing SAP target).  But I don’t mind changing it if there are a bunch of you who assumed I meant consecutive, and would have voted AGAINST had you known.
*Bucky has a spellcasting draft that just says “subsequence”, which I think is good, and leaves the door open for some spells (maybe even a majority) that specifically require consecutive subsequences.
*spikebrennan has told me that he meant only for consecutive “AAOO” or “AOOA” to be able to change into “UUUU” in eir unstable runes proposal.

Part 1:
Add a rule entitled “Definitions”, as follows:

The term “Sequence” means an expressly-designated series of one or more consecutive Runes from left to right, without intervening Runes.  For example, given a Workbench that consists of the Runes “PRSTAX” (from left to right), the Sequences “S”, “PRS”, “RSTAX” and “TA” exist in that Workbench, but the Sequence “PST” does not (due to the intervening ‘R’), nor does the Sequence “ATSR” (since the Runes are not in the Workbench in that order from left to right).

Part 2: Wherever the term “subsequence” appears in the Ruleset, change it to “Sequence”.

When’s the last time we had a non-grindy dynasty? I’d like to look at its final ruleset for ideas.

If there is a rule entitled “Runes” that contains the sentence “The legal Values for Vowels are ‘A’ and ‘O’.”, then change that sentence so that it reads:

“The legal values for Vowels are ‘A’, ‘O’ and ‘U’”.

Add a Rule entitled “Unstable Runes”, as follows:

The Vowel ‘U’ is a special magical element, not found in nature and only obtainable through the artificial process of transmutation.  If any Apprentice has the sequence “AAOO” or “AOOA” in his Workbench, then as a Daily action (and so long as that Apprentice does not take any other daily action during that Day that involves making changes to his own Workbench), that Apprentice may substitute “UUUU” for the “AAOO” or “AOOA” sequence in his workbench.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ruleset, an Apprentice may only voluntarily obtain instances of the Vowel ‘U’ to his workbench by operation of the previous sentence.

The vowel ‘U’ has a short half-life.  If an Apprentice (the “U-bearer”) has one or more ‘U’ runes in his Workbench then any Apprentice may change the rightmost ‘U’ in the U-bearer’s Workbench to ‘X’ (this process is called “U-Decay”), so long as the Apprentice making that change makes a comment to the GNDT expressly indicating that he has done so, whereupon a minimum of three (3) Days must elapse before the U-bearer’s Workbench may again be subjected to U-Decay.

Apathetic Lizardman in, ais out. Quorum is relentless at 8.

Could somebody idle me please? Based on the proposal that’s just passed, this dynasty’s going to be another grindy disaster, and I don’t want to be a part of it.

And the voting icons, too. They’re all here.

Please unidle me.

If a rule called “Workbench” exists, create a new sub-rule under it called “Mastery”:

Whenever an Apprentice “Steps Forward”, that Apprentice removes a single rune of their choice from their Workbench, then adds two damaged Runes at the end of their Workbench (this causes the number of runes on their Workbench to increase by one). An Apprentice can only Step Forward when explicitly allowed by the Rules, and never more than once a day.

For each three EVCs on this Proposal that contain the words “Show us the Way” add one Damaged Rune at the end of the Artisan’s Workbench.

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

There are a number of Spells, listed in this Rule’s subrules.  Each Spell has one or more Activation Sequences, each of which is a Rune sequence containing one or more Vowels and no Damaged Runes.  Each Spell also has an Effect. 

Any Apprentice whose Workbench contains a Spell’s Activation Sequence may Cast that Spell.  Upon doing so, he must select a subsequence of his Workbench with a Value that is the Activation Sequence, change the last Rune in the selected subsequence to a Damaged Rune, then perform the Spell’s Effect.

No two Spells may have the same Activation Sequence.  A spell cannot be Cast if its Effect cannot be performed.

Can I be unidled please?

Apologies for the extreme delay in fixing the problems here; I didn’t see the e-mail about the problem until 5:00 pm Central, and wasn’t home to fix it until 9:30 pm Central.

In its template preferences, ExpressionEngine lets you save its templates as text files on your server if you desire. Back when I was building blognomic.com I certainly did desire, so most of them were set to save as files. But all templates, including ones saved as files, are stored in the database as well.

Apparently the Index file somehow got out of sync with the database; the file was empty, even though the Templates tab in the admin showed perfectly good content. I pasted the database’s template into the file, and it worked.

I’ve disabled the sync-to-file option on all templates, so I hope this problem doesn’t rear its head anymore. I’m very sorry for the extended outage.

If (and only if) there exist Dynastic Rules called “Runes” and “Workbench”:

Create a Dynastic Rule called “Spell Chains” with no text.

Create a subrule to “Spell Chains” called “SAP” with text

If an Apprentice’s Workbench contains “SAP” as a subsequence, he may choose a single non-Damaged rune (the target rune) appearing in the Workbench of another Apprentice, then simultaneously replace a single occurrence of “SAP” in his own Workbench with 3 occurrences of the target rune, and replace the target rune with the Damaged Rune “X”.

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Create a subrule to “Spell Chains” called “SORT” with text

If an Apprentice’s Workbench contains “SORT” as a subsequence, he may rearrange the ordering of the Runes in a single Apprentice’s Workbench so that the non-Damaged Runes are in alphabetical order from left to right, while keeping the positions of any Damaged Runes the same (The sequence “XXASXOOXTOX” would become “XXAOXOOXSTX”, for example).  After doing this, if the Apprentice’s Workbench still contains “SORT” as a subsequence, he must immediately choose and replace each of 2 runes in a single occurrence of “SORT” in his own Workbench with the Damaged Rune “X”.

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If “Get your runes in a line (take 2)” failed, this proposal has no effect.

Add a new Dynastic rule, called “Amulets”:-

An Amulet is a block of wood carved with between one and three Runes. Each Apprentice may carry a number of Amulets in their inventory, tracked in the GNDT under the column “Amulets” - each Amulet is represented by a string of Runes, and they are separated by spaces.

As a daily action, an Apprentice may Carve an Amulet, by removing a group of up to three Runes from either the start or end of their Workbench. If none of these Runes are “X”, the Apprentice may add one Amulet made from those same Runes, in the same order, to their inventory.

Add a new bullet to the list of “manipulating the workbench” actions:-

Cut a fresh piece of wood; this replaces the Runes of their workbench with “XXXXX”.

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

There exist objects called Runes, each represented by a single letter that is the Rune’s Value.  A Rune may be referred to by its Value.  A sequence of Runes may be referred to by the sequence of letters corresponding to the Values of its component Runes. 

Runes are subdivided into Consonants, Vowels and non-Vowel non-Consonant Damaged Runes:
The legal Values for Consonants are ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’ and ‘T’.
The legal Values for Vowels are ‘A’ and ‘O’.
The only legal Value for Damaged Runes is ‘X’.

No Rune can have a value other than ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘A’, ‘O’ or ‘X’.

Add another new Dynastic Rule to the Ruleset.  Call it “Workbench” and give it the following text:

Each Apprentice has a single sequence of Runes tracked in the GNDT under the column “Workbench”.  An Apprentice’s Workbench is initially “XXXXX”. 

As a daily action, an Apprentice may Manipulate their Workbench.  Manipulating a Workbench is defined as taking one action from the following list:
*Add any Vowel or Consonant to the start of the Workbench and then remove the last Rune of the Workbench
*Swap the first and last Runes of the Workbench

Set each Apprentice’s Workbench to its initial value.  Set the Artisan’s Workbench to “PROSTAX”

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

There exist objects called Runes, each represented by a single letter that is the Rune’s Value.  A Rune may be referred to by its Value.  A sequence of Runes may be referred to by the sequence of letters corresponding to the Values of its component Runes. 

Runes are subdivided into Consonants, Vowels and non-Vowel non-Consonant Damaged Runes:
The legal Values for Consonants are ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’ and ‘T’.
The legal Values for Vowels are ‘A’ and ‘O’.
The only legal Value for Damaged Runes is ‘X’.

No Rune can have a value other than ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘A’, ‘O’ or ‘X’.

Add another new Dynastic Rule to the Ruleset.  Call it “Workbench” and give it the following text:

Each Apprentice has a single sequence of Runes tracked in the GNDT under the column “Workbench”.  An Apprentice’s Workbench is initially “XXXXX”. 

As a daily action, an Apprentice may Manipulate their Workbench.  Manipulating a Workbench is defined as taking one action from the following list:
*Add any Vowel or Consonant to the start of the Workbench and then remove the last letter of the Workbench
*Swap the first and last letters of the Workbench

Set each Apprentice’s Workbench to its initial value.  Set the Artisan’s Workbench to “PROSTAX”

“I am sooo going to Hell for this”

“I thought you were headed there already”

“Are you trying to make me look like an idiot?”

“Of course not!  It’s a reflex by now”

“Ahem…”

“You are here to learn how to sculpt magic.  To those of you who think they can make magic by waving their hands and shouting nonsense, pick up your marbles and go home.  True magic is shaped with hammer and chisel over a period of days.”

“These six runes here are the foundation of all magic.  Learn their every detail.  Make each stroke carefully and incisively – using an imperfect rune in a spell chain is a grave mistake you won’t make twice.  And pay attention to what you’re doing.  If I nick someone for knapping on the job, I will get tuff on my unfortunate quarry…”

Repeal all Dynastic Rules except for “King Anthony’s Crown”.  Change “Player” to “Apprentice” and “Leader” to “Artisan” throughout the ruleset.

From the Ruleset:

“Each Dynasty is headed by a single Player, known as the Leader”

“When a DoV passes, all other active DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the Player who made the DoV as its Leader.”

“The Hiatus continues until the new Leader posts an Ascension Address to the BlogNomic weblog”

“The current Leader is Kevan.”

The GNDT log hasn’t been archived since the start of my previous dynasty.  Would Kevan (or someone else who knows how) kindly back it up and clear it?

All Players are either Yellow or Orange and I have the highest score of any Yellow player.  As the highest Orange score is Kevan, who is the Leader, I win.

Jumping on the bannedwagon

Change Qwazukee’s Team to Yellow.

Increase Qwazukee’s score by 10.

Quick, comrades! We must side with Kevan!

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Wait… those aren’t comrades. Those are The Voices. Silly me.

I would like some points.

Add a new Subrule to the Rule entitled “Team Politics”.  Call it “Friendly Visit [3 Points]” and give it the following text:

As a weekly action, a Player may change their Team to any Team that is Friendly with their current Team.

Upon enacting this proposal, the enacting admin must perform the following actions in order:

1. Blank the team assignments for all players in the GNDT.

2. Remove four of the teams at random from the rule 2.8, changing any reference to the number of teams as necessary.

3. If the title of any rule contains, in brackets, the name of a team removed from the ruleset by this proposal, then remove the name of that team from that rule’s title.

4. Re-assign all players to the three remaining teams, at random.

Enact a new Rule as a subset of Rule 2.8 (Teams), called “Team Branding [6 Points]”:-

As a daily action, a Player may add a single bracketed Team name to the title of any Dynastic Rule. If the Rule’s title would then have more than one bracketed Team name, they may erase all but one bracketed Team name from that Rule’s title.

Wooble hasn’t voted or commented since the 27th, and goes idle. Quorum remains seven.

Enact a new subrule to Rule 2.8 (Teams), called “Team Merger”:-

As a weekly action, a Player may propose a Team Merger by posting a blog entry with a subject “Team Merger: A into B”, where “A” is the Team of the Player, and “B” is a Team which has more members than the Player’s Team. Members of each team may comment on this blog entry using voting icons. As soon as every member of Team A and at least one member of Team B has left a FOR voting icon on the post, all members of Team A are moved to Team B. Each player moved in this way is awarded 10 points.

Once the members have been moved, or if the Team Merger post has existed for more than 48 hours, the Team Merger ends, and further comments may not be added to it.

The winner of this subgame will be the player of the subgame who has the highest “points over the last 7 days” score in the Flickr game Noticings, at 5pm GMT on Friday the 6th of November 2009. A player must link to their Flickr account when they join the subgame. Players who join the subgame after 12pm Wednesday or fail to specify their Flickr account within 24 hours of joining are not eligible to win. If a photo breaks the rules given at noticin.gs/rules, its score shall be deducted from that player’s Noticings score before determining a winner.

To play the game, you’ll need a Flickr account. (Kevan is already playing, but has no points yet this week.)

This Subgame has a stake of five points.

Add a new dynastic rule called “Old Sarum”, as follows:

A proposal is subject to Team Voting if any of the following is true with respect to that proposal:
- the text of the proposal unambiguously states that the proposal shall be subject to Team Voting; or
- the proposal would not directly change the ruleset.
(Note that Declarations of Victory and Calls for Judgment are not proposals and, as such, are never subject to Team Voting).
A “Team Vote” of a given team with respect to a proposal that is subject to Team Voting is: (A)  “FOR” if a majority of the members of that team who cast votes on that proposal included “FOR” votes in their EVC for that proposal; and (B) “AGAINST” if a majority of the members of that team who cast votes on that proposal included “AGAINST” votes in their EVC for that proposal; and (C) an abstention, if the number of “FOR” votes and “AGAINST” votes cast by team members in their respective EVCs are evenly divided, or if no members of that team cast votes on that proposal.

If a proposal is subject to Team Voting, then notwithstanding the normal voting rules that relate the enactment or failing of proposals, the proposal shall be enacted if there are more Team Votes “FOR” the proposal than Team Votes “AGAINST” the proposal; and failed otherwise.

The enactment or failure of proposals (as opposed to the operation of the proposal itself in accordance with the proposal’s terms) that are subject to Team Voting shall not, in and of itself, result in points being awarded or taken away, anything to the contrary in the Ruleset notwithstanding.

Wakukee goes idle.

In the Rule entitled “Elections (red)”, change the text

shall become the Leader of Blognomic. This rule shall be updated to reflect the new Leader.

to

shall achieve victory. This rule shall be updated on ascension to reflect the new Leader.

Add “[Sponsored by Kevan]” to the title of Rule 2.10.1 (Bought Veto).

In Rule 2.4.2, replace “Those rules are known as sponsored rules.” with “Rules with such text are known as sponsored rules.”

Create a new rule, “Victory [251 points]”:

As a weekly action, any player may declare victory.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.8 “Teams (Indigo)”, titled “Even Teams [2 Points]”:

If, at any time, a Team (called the Army) contains at least a Quorum of Players, any Player (called the Switcher) may change the team of any Player (called the Immigrant) in the Army to any other Team.

If at least half of the EVCs on this Proposal contain the text “colorless” and/or “colourless”, the new rule does not become a team rule.

Create a new rule, “Victory [250 points]”:

As a weekly action, any player may declare victory.