BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I, dbdougla, would like to be added as a commoner as soon as is convenient to an admin.

Add a new paragraph to the rule “2.2 Inventions” with the following text:

A Commoner can, at will, dismantle an Invention he owns, by regaining half of the Invention’s Composition (rounded down), raising his income by the Invention’s Power Requirement, and removing the Invention from the wiki page [[Inventions]]. The Invention is no longer considered owned by the Commoner who dismantled it.

Add a new paragraph to the rule “2.2 Inventions” with the following text:

A Commoner can, at will, dismantle an Invention he owns, by regaining half of the Invention’s Composition (rounded down), raising his income by the Invention’s Power Requirement, and removing the Invention from the wiki page [[Inventions]]. The Invention is no longer considered owned by the Commoner who dismantled it.

Add a subrule named “Trading” to rule 2.1 “Commoner’s Economy”, as follows:

There is a page on the Wiki called “Trading Post”. That page may only be edited in manners allowed by the Ruleset.

There are 2 sections on that page: “One-Time Trades” and “Conditional Trades”. If there is no list in either section, any Commoner may create one. In such a list, each list point is a “Trade Offer”.

“Trade Offers” are defined as sentences defining the ressources asked for, defined as “Sought Ressources”, and the ressources offered, defined as “Offered Ressources”. “Trade Offers” must contain the name of the Commoner making the offer, and can also contain a “Condition”. For example, both “Roujo is offering 10 Wood and 2 Caffeine in exchange for 10 Coal and 2 Gems” and “I, Keba, am willing to trade 10 of my Gems for 20 of your Coal if I have at least 30 Gems” are valid “Trade Offers”.

Any Commoner may make a “Trade Offer” by adding it to either section as a list item in that section. Only “Trade Offers” with a “Condition” may be added to the “Conditional Trades” section.

Any Commoner may agree to a “Trade Offer” if all of the following are true:
- They have enough of the “Sought Ressources” to complete the “Trade Offer”;
- The Commoner who made the offer has enough of the “Offered Ressources” to complete the “Trade Offer”;
- If the “Trade Offer” is in the “One-Time Trades” section, the offer has not been completed yet, and;
- If the “Trade Offer” is in the “Conditional Trades” section, the “Condition” is true.
They then complete the offer by doing all of the following, in that order:
- Adding ” - Completed by [Name 2]” to the end of the “Trade Offer”, where [Name 2] is their own name;
- Reducing their “Sought Ressources” by the amounts defined in the “Trade Offer”;
- Reducing the “Offered Ressources” of the Commoner who made the “Trade Offer” by the amounts defined in that “Trade Offer”;
- Increasing their “Offered Ressources” by the amounts defined in the “Trade Offer”, and;
- Increasing the “Sought Ressources” of the Commoner who made the “Trade Offer” by the amounts defined in that “Trade Offer”;
The “Trade Offer” is then considered completed.

Any Commoner may remove a “Trade Offer” from the page if it was added by them.

 

Add to rule 2.2:

Commoners can transfer their own inventions to other Commoners, at will.

 

Create a rule called “Commoner Actions” with the following:

Commoners are capable of taking several actions (listed in subrules in this rule.)  Actions must have either a percentage based chance of failure (and a resulting penalty) or consume a certain amount of resources to perform.  A Commoner is capable of up to 3 actions in a week.  Each individual action shall be counted as a Weekly Action.

Replace the second paragraph of Rule 2.1 (Commoner’s Economy) with:-

As a weekly action, a Commoner can Scavenge; this increases his Coal by his Income, and is impossible if it would reduce a Commoner’s Coal to less than 0. When Scavenging, a Commoner may also choose two different items from the following list, and gain the Resources listed in each item:-

• 10 Iron
• 10 Wood
• 5 Quicksilver
• 5 Caffeine
• 3 Cogs
• 1 Gem

If “This product was not tested on animals” passed, add “2 Guinea Pigs” to that list, before “1 Gem”.

Upon enactment of this proposal, halve the Quicksilver and Caffeine of each Commoner (rounding down), cut each Commoner’s Cogs by two thirds (rounding down) and divide each Commoner’s Gems by 10 (rounding down).

If a Furnace exists as a Part, change its Cost from “7 Cogs and 3 Iron” to “3 Cogs and 3 Iron”. If the Cog Mold exists, change its Cost from “7 Iron and 3 Cogs” to “7 Iron and 1 Cog”.

In Rule 2.2 (Inventions), replace “which applies to all Inventors who own an Invention with that Part” with “which may affect any aspect of the game”.

Create a subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called “Electromagnetic Coil”:-

Cost: 5 Iron, 5 Quicksilver, 2 Cogs Power Requirement: 20

When Scavenging, the owner of an Invention which has an Electromagnetic Coil additionally gains 3 Iron, as the device picks up stray fragments from the environment.

Create a subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called “Precision Lens”:-

Cost: 10 Iron, 2 Gems, 1 Cog Power Requirement: 15

The owner of an Invention fitted with a Precision Lens spends one less of each type of Resource he or she would spend during the creation of an Invention.

Create a subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called “Teak Panelling”:-

Cost: 5 Wood Power Requirement: 0

If an Invention is created with Teak Panelling, any amount of its Iron costs may instead be paid with Wood.

Create a subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called “Basic Heatsink”:-

Cost: 10 Iron Power Requirement: -10

These curved fins of metal have no effect beyond their negative Power Requirement. If an Invention with a Heatsink would have a Power Requirement lower than 0, its Power Requirement is instead 0.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Furnace”:

Cost: 7 Cogs and 3 Iron
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: At any time, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Part may decrease their Cogs by any number (the Amount) and increase their Iron by the Amount, minus one; this action may not be taken if this would set a Commoner’s Cogs to an illegal value.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Cog Mold”:

Cost: 7 Iron and 3 Cogs
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: At any time, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Part may decrease their Iron by any number (the Amount) and increase their Cogs by the Amount, minus one; this action may not be taken if this would set a Commoner’s Iron to an illegal value.

I’ll just hold up the queue otherwise.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “vehicles”, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Vehicular”:

Cost: 10 Quicksilver
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: The Income of any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property is considered to be doubled for the purposes of Scavenging.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Vehicular” with “Propeller” and “Property” with “Part”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “pocket”, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Pocket-Sized”:

Cost: 15 Iron
Power Requirement: 30
Effect: Any Invention with this Property does not count towards the three-Invention limit.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Pocket-Sized” with “High-Pressure Casing” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “bombs”, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Damaging”:

Cost: 10 Iron
Power Requirement: 25
Effect: As a weekly action, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property may Attack. To do this, they select another Commoner and a type of Resource. They roll DICE20 if the selected Resource was Coal and DICE5 otherwise. The selected Commoner has their amount of the selected Resource decreased by the result of the roll, unless this would bring it below zero, in which case it is set to zero.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Damaging” with “Weapon” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “mold” and “Every Cog Has Its Day” passed, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Shaping”:

Cost: 7 Iron and 3 Cogs
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: At any time, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property may decrease their Iron by any number (the Amount) and increase their Cogs by the Amount, minus one; this action may not be taken if this would set a Commoner’s Iron to an illegal value.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Shaping” with “Cog Mold” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”. If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the phrase “make it weekly”, replace “At any time” with “As a weekly action”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “furnace” and “Every Cog Has Its Day” passed, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Melting”:

Cost: 7 Cogs and 3 Iron
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: At any time, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property may decrease their Cogs by any number (the Amount) and increase their Iron by the Amount, minus one; this action may not be taken if this would set a Commoner’s Cogs to an illegal value.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Melting” with “Furnace” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”. If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the phrase “make it weekly”, replace “At any time” with “As a weekly action”.

Create a Dynastic Rule Called “Proposal Grind Count” with text “1”

Create a new rule, “Flavour rewards”:

When voting on a proposal, Commoners should include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) in comments in which they vote, if they think the proposal is particularly flavourful or has good flavour text; this is not a voting icon, but can be used additionally to voting icons in the same comment. Within 48 hours of a proposal being enacted or failed, its author can increase his own Coal by the number of EVCs on that proposal that include arrow items, excluding EVCs by the proposal’s author but including EVCs by the Mad Prince, but only if he has not performed this action with respect to that proposal before.

Create a new rule, “Flavour Rewards”:

When voting on a proposal, Commoners should include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) in comments in which they vote, if they think the proposal is particularly flavourful or has good flavour text; this is not a voting icon, but can be used additionally to voting icons in the same comment. Within 48 hours of a proposal being enacted or failed, its author can increase his own Coal by the number of EVCs on that proposal that include arrow items, excluding EVCs by the proposal’s author but including EVCs by the Mad Prince, but only if he has not performed this action with respect to that proposal before.

Fixing a bug pointed out by Rodlen; now it counts arrowed comments, rather than arrows themselves.

Create a new rule, “Flavour Rewards”:

When voting on a proposal, Commoners should include an arrow icon (:ARROW:) in comments in which they vote, if they think the proposal is particularly flavourful or has good flavour text; this is not a voting icon, but can be used additionally to voting icons in the same comment. Within 48 hours of a proposal being enacted or failed, its author can increase his own Coal by the number of arrow icons included in EVCs on that proposal, excluding EVCs by the proposal’s author but including EVCs by the Mad Prince, but only if he has not performed this action with respect to that proposal before.

Add to the list of resources “Guinea Pigs”. To the end of the paragraph beginning “As a weekly action, a Commoner can Scavenge…” add “If the Commoner chooses to increase his Guinea Pigs, he increases it by 2 instead of 10.”

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “vehicles”, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Vehicular”:

Cost: 10 Quicksilver
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: The Income of any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property is considered to be doubled for the purposes of Scavenging.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Vehicular” with “Propeller” and “Property” with “Part”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “pocket”, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Pocket-Sized”:

Cost: 15 Iron
Power Requirement: 30
Effect: Any Invention with this Property does not count towards the three-Invention limit.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Pocket-Sized” with “High-Pressure Casing” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “bombs”, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Damaging”:

Cost: 10 Iron
Power Requirement: 25
Effect: As a weekly action, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property may Attack. To do this, they select another Commoner and a type of Resource. They roll DICE20 if the selected Resource was Coal and DICE5 otherwise. The selected Commoner has their amount of the selected Resource decreased by the result of the roll, unless this would bring it below zero, in which case it is set to zero.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Damaging” with “Weapon” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “mold” and “Every Cog Has Its Day” passed, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Shaping”:

Cost: 7 Iron and 3 Cogs
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: As a daily action, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property may decrease their Iron by any number (the Amount) and increase their Cogs by the Amount, minus one; this action may not be taken if this would set a Commoner’s Iron to an illegal value.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Shaping” with “Cog Mold” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”.

If at least half of all EVCs on this proposal include the word “furnace” and “Every Cog Has Its Day” passed, do the following:

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 “Inventions”, titled “Melting”:

Cost: 7 Cogs and 3 Iron
Power Requirement: 20
Effect: As a daily action, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Property may decrease their Cogs by any number (the Amount) and increase their Iron by the Amount, minus one; this action may not be taken if this would set a Commoner’s Cogs to an illegal value.

If “Parts and Labour” passed, replace “Melting” with “Furnace” and “Property” with “Part”. If “Of Metals” passed, replace “Iron” with “Copper”.

In the “Commoner’s Economy” Rule, replace

an amount of Coal (a number defaulting to the median value among Commoners, or 50 if the median would be undefined), and amounts of

with

and amounts of Coal,

and replace

(numbers defaulting to the median value among Commoners, or 0 if the median would be undefined)

with

(numbers defaulting to the median values among Commoners, rounding up to an integer if necessary)

.

Throughout the Ruleset, replace any instances of “Inventors” with “Commoners”.

Add a new dynastic rule called “Royal Blood” with the text “For purposes of all dynastic rules, the Mad Prince is not considered a Commoner unless it is explicitly stated otherwise.”

Nausved goes idle. Quorum remains 15.

Add a new rule, Arrows:

If at least half of the EVCs on an enacted proposal contain the voting icon, then the proposer of that proposal may once increase any one of their resources by 5 within 24 hours of its enactment.

If at least half of the EVCs to this proposal contain the phrase “long-term benefits”, then replace “any one of their resources by 5 within 24 hours of its enactment” with “their income by 2 within 24 hours of its enactment.

In the rule “Commoner’s Economy”, replace “Caffeine, and Gems” with “Caffeine, Cogs and Gems” in both instances.

Replace “Property” with “Part” (and “Properties” with “Parts”) throughout the rule called “Inventions”. Also replace “Cost” with “Composition”.

After having done so, replace “by spending its Composition” with “by spending Resources equal to the total Compositions of every Part in the Invention”.

If proposal Life after Science passes, replace “Iron” with “Copper” and drop any reference to “Wood”.

I unidle. Quorum remains 15.

Create a rule called “Inventions” with the following:

Each Commoner owns 0 or more Inventions, tracked on the wiki page [[Inventions]] (updating that page should only be done to take an action, to revert a mistaken update, or to change it to match the actual gamestate, as with the GNDT); each Commoner starts with 0 Inventions. An Invention has one or more Properties, listed in subrules of this rule; a Property has a Cost, which is any amount of Resources, a Power Requirement, which is a number, and an Effect, which applies to all Inventors who own an Invention with that Property. No Invention may have more than one of the same Property, but two Inventions may share Properties. An Invention itself also has a Power Requirement, equal to the total Power Requirements of its Properties, plus the square of the number of Properties it has, plus five times the number of different Resources involved in its Cost.

A Commoner can create an Invention, with a set of existing Properties of his choice, in their own possession by spending its Cost, spending its Power Requirement in Coal, and reducing his income by its Power Requirement; after doing so, he must edit the [[Inventions]] wiki page to specify the Invention and that he owns it; this is known as Inventing. A Commoner cannot Invent if he owns 3 Inventions already, however, nor if any of the Resource spending would be impossible or illegal due to leaving his Resources holdings at illegal values.

Create a rule, “Inventions”:

Each Commoner owns 0 or more Inventions, tracked on the wiki page [[Inventions]] (updating that page should only be done to take an action, to revert a mistaken update, or to change it to match the actual gamestate, as with the GNDT); each Commoner starts with 0 Inventions. An Invention has one or more Properties, listed in subrules of this rule; a Property has a Cost, which is any amount of Resources, a Power Requirement, which is a number, and an Effect, which applies to all Inventors who own an Invention with that Property. No Invention may have more than one of the same Property, but two Inventions may share Properties. An Invention itself also has a Power Requirement, equal to the total Power Requirements of its Properties, plus the square of the number of Properties it has, plus five times the number of different Resources involved in its Cost.

A Commoner can create an Invention, with a set of existing Properties of his choice, in their own possession by spending its Cost, spending its Power Requirement in Coal, and reducing his income by its Power Requirement; after doing so, he must edit the [[Inventions]] wiki page to specify the Invention and that he owns it; this is known as Inventing. A Commoner cannot Invent if he owns 3 Inventions already, however, nor if any of the Resource spending would be impossible or illegal due to leaving his Resources holdings at illegal values.

Create a rule, “Commoner's Economy”:

Each Commoner has an Income (a number which can be positive, negative, or zero, and defaults to 50), an amount of Coal (a number defaulting to the median value among Commoners, or 50 if the median would be undefined), and amounts of Iron, Wood, Quicksilver, Caffeine, and Gems (numbers defaulting to the median value among Commoners, or 0 if the median would be undefined). Coal, Iron, Wood, Quicksilver, Caffeine, and Gems are collectively known as Resources.

As a weekly action, a Commoner can Scavenge; this increases his Coal by his Income, and two of his other Resources of his choice by 10 each. Scavenging is impossible if it would reduce a Commoner's Coal to less than 0.

Commoners can transfer their own Resources to other Commoners, at will.

In the Glossary, change

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).

to

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); to gain X of a numeric value “V” means to add X to V; and to transfer X of a numeric value “V” from A to B means to subtract X from A's V and add the amount A's V was reduced by to B's V. Unless otherwise specified, a rule that allows Commoners to transfer a numeric value only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to another Commoner (of their choice unless otherwise stated).

Wednesday March 4, 1908

My television almost overboiled at the news; King Anthony has gone missing! He apparently never returned from his airship trip to the New World. There's no sign of what happened to the ship as yet, but I fear that it may have been captured by pirates. Or maybe the King himself was assassinated by ninjas (who else could get past his bodyguards)? Nobody really knows; I hope he's found safe and well soon.

Saturday March 7, 1908

Still no sign of the King as yet. Prince Ais523 has been appointed as the regent, to look after the kingdom in the King's absence. I hear he has plans to improve our industrial might; life is good at the moment, but a bit boring; today was yet another case of sorting through quota forms, working out how Lord Cartlesham should best allocate the coal and food. Nothing ever seemed to change under his rule! Not that anything really needed changing. Still, even though I'd rather be doing something else, this is what I was told to do and I have to do it; and my weekly coal ration was distributed today, at least, so I can go buy some more gadgets, and keep Fluffy my steam-powered cat running; she's so cute and fun to play with, and if she gets annoying I can just turn her off! Bit expensive on the coal, though.

Monday March 23, 1908

Apparently, one of the Prince's projects is starting today! I hear he's planning to start drilling in Northumberland; of course, it's likely he's just looking for more coal, but I wonder if he has something more interesting in mind? It would be nice if some actual innovation went on nowadays. I've been experimenting myself along those lines, actually; I'm wondering if it might be possible to use lightning for something, rather than steam? I'll have to find someone who knows about magic to ask.

Thursday April 2, 1908

I visited my brother, who lives up in Morpeth, yesterday; it was a long train journey, but worth it, just to catch up on the news. I saw the drill for myself; it isn't an ordinary drill, it must be at least a mile high, and they're still building it! It's dominating the sky for miles around, swirling with iron and wood and glowing with magic and spurting steam. My brother said that Prince Ais523 is planning to dig all the way through the Earth! I think he was joking, though.

Also shocking is the conditions he has to work under. Clearly, corners are being cut by the local Lord; the train actually derailed near the end of the journey (luckily, nobody was seriously hurt), but I don't expect that sort of disregard for the health of his workers. The state of the coal ration here is in tatters, too; sometimes people are only getting three or four lumps to last a whole week. I'm glad our Lord Cartlesham isn't like that; I'm worried that the new regent isn't able to keep control of greedy Lords.

Monday November 30, 1908

Things are getting worse. Lord Cartlesham is still managing to give us our regular coal rations, but I hear it's a real strain on his resources; relations between the various Lords have deteriorated badly, and nobody can make them work together, each of them carving out their own despotic reign. Prince Ais523 is doing nothing about it, but continuing to work on absurd projects of his own; I've heard that he bought an island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, and is building a tower high enough to reach the moon! I can't quite belive it myself, but it's apparently true; one of my friends can see the building sight from his farscrying glass, and that's never failed before. Apparently in a few weeks it might even be high enough for me to see it too.

Sunday November 21, 1909

I fear that this country is collapsing. Trade between this fief and the adjacent ones have all but stopped; and Lord Cartlesham has set nearly everyone working on the coal mines, in order to keep our coal rations at the same level. So now, we still have what scant coal we had before, but there's nothing to buy with it. Science is slipping out of our grasp, and the world is going back in time; while we can still power what devices we have left easily enough, there is nobody to hire to repair them. Fluffy sprang a leak; I miss her :(. It's worse knowing she could easily be playing with me once more, if only there was a skilled inventor around. It's motivated me to continue my work to learn science myself. If only I could get those lightning stones working!

I hear fearful tales from the surrounding land, though. A new sort of mechanized automaton is walking around, collecting taxes, killing anyone who disagrees with them, and conscripting people to work on yet another of Prince Ais523's insane projects. They listen to no reason, but merely carry out the word of his orders. What madness can have lead to this?

Thursday January 13, 1910

I today awoke to a horrible shock: it seems Lord Cartlesham failed to wake this morning. The police arrived, and they concluded that the old man had died in his sleep, but after talking to some of his servants, it seems they suspected something more sinister.

The executor of the will is due to arrive shortly, and he will arrange for oversight of the manor. I have made great progress with my lightning stones; I hope that this does not interrupt my coal ration. It was due today, but hasn't arrived yet.

Friday February 25, 1910

There was police activity at Cartlesham Manor today. It seems that what we had long suspected, that the death of Lord Cartlesham was no accident, was confirmed; and it turned out to all be the fault of his younger son, Anonyman! Apparently, we work under Sir Flurie now. I wonder if he will be a light in the darkness, as Lord Cartlesham was?

Still no coal ration today. My stores are running low, and I've had to resort to copying my diary on to paper the old-fashioned way to not lose a record. I doubt I'll ever again have steam to power my notepad; in fact, I fear that even heating through the cold winter months may soon be a problem.

Saturday February 26, 1910

I did not get long to see the aftermath of the promotion of Sir Flurie to a Lord. Just one day after he inherited Lord Cartlesham's estate, a team of machines, spouting steam as they walked, broke down the door of Cartlesham Manor and threw Lord Flurie out. I found him unconcious, stripped of his title, lying at the side of the road; it seems that the fief has been taken over by Mad Prince Ais523 himself, and Lord Flurie has been stripped of his title.

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Repeal all dynastic rules. (I rather wanted to keep the G-man rule, but instead it probably just needs reproposing; keeping it in its current form would mean that I could be contacted via Kevan's email address.)
Change “Guest” to “Commoner” and “Executor” to “Mad Prince”.

This post is just being made to inform the BlogNomic community that I am officially passing the mantle on to ais523. Expect his AA shortly.

Signing up ready to start in the next dynasty.

I have achieved victory in accordance with Rule 2.11.1 by correctly identifying the active and idle murderers.

In Rule 2.11.1 “Calling the Police” replace “As a weekly action, if the Lights are On and if Daybreak has not yet occurred, ” with

As a weekly action, if the Lights are On and if neither Daybreak has occurred nor the police has already arrived (as seen by a blog post written by the Executor),

In the Glossary, replace

No action may be taken which would require setting a gamestate variable to an illegal value.

with

A Guest who has a choice in whether to take an action defined by a dynastic rule may not take that action if both of the following conditions are true: a) the action’s effects are limited to changing values tracked in the GNDT and/or similar gamestate-tracking entities (such as a wiki page), and b) the action would change one of those values to an illegal value.

If the keyword “Guest” has been replaced by a different keyword since this proposal was created, then change “Guest” in the replacement to whatever the keyword “Guest” was replaced with.

I am now a late arrival.

As a pale glow begins to light the sky over the village, a black police van pulls up in the driveway of Cartlesham Manor. Four uniformed officers step out onto the gravel, and spring up the front steps to the heavy double doors, which the Apothecary opens for them. One policeman heads straight for the lounge, another for the library, and the Diplomat and Professor are marched out in handcuffs. Through the grille of the van window, the Attorney arrested during the night glares out at the lights of the manor. And in a distant town square, the door to an Executor’s office is kicked open.

Alethiophile, Anonyman and Darth Cliche were the murderers at Cartlesham Manor. Flurie correctly identified them in a phonecall to the police, and has achieved victory.

Wakukee hasn’t posted or commented for another full week, and is idle again. Quorum drops to 14.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.5 “Bloodline”, titled “Information Leak”:

As the reading of Lord Cartlesham’s will draws closer, the Guests are beginning to draw conclusions on who will inherit the lord’s fortune.  Once per day, if Daybreak has not occurred, the Executor may privately generate a random number between 1 and the number of Guests who are not Dead, Missing or Arrested (hereby known as Candidates). If the Executor does so, they must then edit the ‘Bloodline Board’ post (http://blognomic.com/archive/degree_of_relation_board/) to contain the name and numerical degree of relation of the Candidate corresponding with that number (when reading downward from the top of the GNDT list).

Creates a new dynastic rule numbered 2.5.5 and entitled “Information Leak” as follows:

As the reading of Lord Cartlesham’s will draws closer, the Guests are beginning to draw conclusions on who will inherit the lord’s fortune.  Once per day, if Daybreak has not occurred, the Executor may privately generate a random number between 1 and the number of Guests who are not Dead, Missing or Arrested (hereby known as Candidates). If the Executor does so, they must then edit the ‘Bloodline Board’ post (http://blognomic.com/archive/degree_of_relation_board/) to contain the name and numerical degree of relation of the Candidate corresponding with that number (when reading downward from the top of the GNDT list).

 

Thunder rumbles over the hills, and it starts to rain heavily, water pouring over the crumbling slate of the rooftops. Lightning strikes an outlying turret of Cartlesham Manor, and the rooms and corridors fall dark. As the cold and damp permeates the building and the wooden floorboards groan, the door to the lounge becomes jammed.

The Lounge cannot be entered or exited for 24 hours.

Struggling to shift the fallen bookcase away from the door, the guests in the Master Bedroom inadvertently lean it back against the polished-brass stem of a light fitting, which bends and snaps. There is a bright flash, and the fuses blow. Trailing a few embers, the bookshelf tilts back against the door with a heavy thump.

The Master Bedroom cannot be entered or exited for 24 hours.

Greetings all,

Perhaps not the best of timing, but I have arrived.

In 2.6 Lights, add the following:

When the Lights go Off, the Executor rolls DICE3 for each Poisoned player. If the result is 1, that player’s status is changed to Dead.

There are further explosions from the deathtrap that is Cartlesham Manor kitchen. There is a whistling, whipping sound as the rope snaps in one of the dumbwaiters, sending a counterweight into the basement and a forgotten tureen of lobster bisque hurtling up through the walls of the house. It crashes out in the master bedroom, toppling a bookshelf which falls and blocks the only door in and out of the room.

The Master Bedroom cannot be entered or exited for 24 hours.

In Rule 2.11, replace “Daybreak occurs at 00:01 on March 1st 2010” with:-

Daybreak occurs at 23:55 on February 28th 2010

And in Rule 2.11.1, replace “As a weekly action, and if the Lights are On” with:-

As a weekly action, if the Lights are On and if Daybreak has not yet occurred

In rule 2.6 Lights, add the following to the list of Dark Actions:

Poison a drink When the Lights are turned On, for each Poison a drink action taken in a room, the Executor randomly changes the status of an Alert player inhabiting the room to Poisoned, if any exist. Guests who are not Murderers may only Poison as the final action on their Dark List.

Set the non-Dead non-Arrested non-Missing Guest with the lowest Relation to be Missing, and their Actual State to whatever it is at the moment.

There the Housewife hasn’t commented since February 12th, and goes idle. Quorum drops to 14.

Also, the GNDT cookie problem is now fixed and we’re back to the default voting icons.

Change Rule 2.9- Incidents, to read as follows:

As a daily action, and if the Lights are On, the Executor may announce an Incident. He does this by randomly selecting two items from the following list (in whatever manner deemed suitable by him), updating the gamestate as specified, and posting a blog entry announcing its occurrence, unless both items 4 and 5 are selected from the below list.

  1. The lights go out.
  2. Some kind of accident or revelation occurs in a randomly-selected room. If there are any Guests in that room, one of those Guests is selected at random and becomes Stunned or Terrified.
  3. The door to a random room jams, and that room may not be entered or exited for 24 hours.
  4. No effect
  5. No effect

Something started whirring and grinding in the kitchen when the lights came back on, and whatever it was has just burst into flame, scattering broken glass and blowing the lights in the process. The kitchen cannot be entered for 24 hours.

Add the following to the end of the first bullet point list in rule 2.2 Life and Death:

*If a Guest is Asleep and would become Wounded, the Executor shall roll DICE2.  If the result is a 1, the Guest becomes Dead.  If the result is a 2, the Guest becomes Wounded and the die is not rerolled.

Add the following to the end of the first bullet point list in rule 2.2 Life and Death:

*If a Guest is Asleep and would become Wounded, the Executor shall roll DICE2.  If the result is a 1, the Guest becomes Dead.  If the result is a 2, the Guest becomes Wounded.

The missing chauffeur Truman Capote hasn’t made a comment since the 12th of February, and is now idle.

In rule Calling the Police, change “a list of Guests” to “a list of Guests and/or idle Guests”

Replace “If the Lights are Off and the Executor has no unprocessed Dark Lists and has received no Dark List in the past 24 hours, they may make a post stating that the Lights remain Off.” with “If the Lights are Off and the Executor has no unprocessed Dark Lists and has received no Dark List in the past 12 hours, they may make a post stating that the Lights remain Off.” in the rules.

Well, someone killed the maid after he brought me to the Basement.

You glimpsed someone murdering the Maid. It was either the Admiral, the Banker, the Diplomat, the Professor, a Stranger, the Vicar or - and this can’t be right, but it did look a lot like you - yourself…

You heard a padding noise as someone left the Basement.

Vell, zis eez a clue.  Kind of.

 

In Rule 2.6 - Lights replace the text “Move to another room on any floor. As above, except this action may only be taken by the Detectives, the Murderers and the Servants, who all have a better knowledge of Cartlesham Manor.” with the following:

Move to another room on any floor. As above. The Executor shall privately roll a four-sided die. On a 4 the Guest slips on the stairs and becomes Wounded. If the destination floor is above the current floor, the Location of the Guest does not change. If the destination floor is below the floor, the Guest’s new Location is the target one. This rule does not apply to the Detectives, the Murderers and the Servants, who all have a better knowledge of Cartlesham Manor and can move to another room on any floor without the risk of slipping.

 

In Rule 2.14, replace “Their Degree of Relation is set to a new value between 1001 and 2000. This value shall be randomly chosen by the Executioner.” with:-

Their Degree of Relation is increased by 1000, rounded down to the nearest 1000, then increased by a random number (chosen by the Executor) between 1 and 999.

In Rule 2.6 “Lights” replace “Repair the fusebox. This Dark Action may only be taken in the Basement. Upon repairing the Fusebox, the Lights come back On and the remainder of the current Dark List is ignored. The Executor must privately notify the Guest who has repaired the Fusebox, that he did so.” with:

Repair the fusebox. This Dark Action may only be taken in the Basement. Upon repairing the Fusebox, the Lights come back On and the remainder of the current Dark List is ignored. The Executor must privately notify the Guest who has repaired the Fusebox, that he did so. The Physician is able to repair the Fusebox everywhere.

Throughout the ruleset, replace “non-Dormant” and “not Dormant” with “Alert”.

To the first paragraph of Rule 2.2, after “If a Guest is not Dead, they are considered to be Alive.”, add:-

If a guest is Healthy, Wounded or Poisoned, they are considered to be Alert.

In the subrule “Calling the Police” (of Rule 2.11 “The Reading of the Will”), if it exists, replace “a Guest who is in the Parlor and who has never been a Murderer may telephone Scotland Yard” with:-

a non-Dormant Guest who is in the Parlor and who has never been a Murderer may telephone Scotland Yard

Dear friends,

I apologize for the tardiness, but I have arrived.

In the rule “Dawn Raid”, if it exists, replace “a Guest who is in the Parlor and who has never been a Murderer may telephone Scotland Yard” with:-

a non-Dormant Guest who is in the Parlour and who has never been a Murderer may telephone Scotland Yard

The house is quiet, the lights remain off. In the darkness, the Housewife crashes into an ornament-heavy occasional table and injures herself, the Gangster cracks his head on a bookshelf and begins to feel a little woozy, and the injured Inventor collapses onto a carpet somewhere, drifting off to a comforting sleep.

Any Guest who has already submitted a Dark List can now submit their next one.

I’m giving up internet (with a few exceptions) for Lent, so I’m going idle, and I’ll see y’all in April.

Unidle me please.

Hi there.

I come back as a Late Arrival. One day later and I would get problems ;)

After posting this, Ill change the GNDT: Im a Physician now. If anyone wounded wants to be healed: I would do so. :) As there is no money in this game, you can pay me with information, if you want. ;)

Enact a new subrule to Rule 2.11 (The Reading of the Will), titled “Calling the Police”:-

There are suspicions that the Executor orchestrated Lord Cartlesham’s murder with the help of several accomplices, and this revelation would render the will void if proven.

As a weekly action, and if the Lights are On, a Guest who is in the Parlor and who has never been a Murderer may telephone Scotland Yard with his or her suspicions regarding Lord Cartlesham’s death. To do this, they must make a GNDT comment of “Using the telephone” and send a telegram to the Executor with a list of Guests - this is known as a Suspect List.

Upon receiving a Suspect List, if the list includes the name of every Guest who has been a Murderer this Dynasty (including idle Guests), and does not include the name of any Guests (including idle Guests) who have never been a Murderer this Dynasty, then the Executor shall announce this correct identification to the weblog, naming the Guest who made the phonecall. The Executor shall change the state of any Murderers currently in the Manor to “Arrested”, and the Guest who made the phonecall achieves victory.

In Rule 2.2, add “Arrested” to “Healthy, Poisoned or Dead” and “Healthy, Restrained or Dead” (so that Poisoned and Restrained Guests can still be Arrested).

I don’t really want to unidle for another couple of days, but there’s a rule in the pipeline that would prevent me from doing so.

In the first paragraph of Rule 2.13 (The Safe) add the following sentence after “This action cannot be performed more than once daily.”

If the Combination is incorrect, the Executor shall provide the requesting Guest with a number indicating how many numbers are correct and in the correct position.

Hi, I’d like to take part in the current dinasty.
Thanks!

Enact a new subrule to Rule 2.5, called “Fake Invitations”:-

If a Guest joins the game or unidles after the 18th of February 2010, they shall be counted as “Missing” for the purpose of Rule 2.11 (The Reading of the Will).

Wakukee hasn’t posted or commented since February 8th, and idles out. The front door slams. Quorum drops to 13.

Replace the second paragraph of rule 2.4 with the following:

If there are ever fewer than two Detectives, the Executor may privately generate a random number between 1 and 5. If the number is between 1 and 4, the Executor may privately select a random player (from those who are neither Murderers nor Detectives) and privately email them with an offer to make them into a Detective. If they accept, and if the Executor honours their acceptance, then they become a Detective.

If there are ever fewer than two Murderers, then the Executor may privately generate a random number between 1 and 3. If that number is between 1 and 2, then the Executor may privately select a random player (from those who are neither Murderers nor Detectives) and privately email them with an offer to make them into a Murderer. If they accept, and if the Executor honours their acceptance, then they become a Murderer.

If 50% or more of EVCs to this Proposal contain the phrase “Insight is immortal”, then only the second paragraph of this Proposal is added to the Ruleset.

In Rule 2.4 (Cat and Mouse), remove the paragraph beginning “If there are ever fewer than two Murderers or fewer than two Detectives”.

Reword Rule 2.11 (The Reading of the Will) to:-

One of the Guests may be the Rightful Heir. If a Guest has already become the Rightful Heir, further Guests cannot become the Rightful Heir.

If at any time only one Guest is not Dead, Missing or Arrested, they become the Rightful Heir.

Daybreak occurs at 00:01 on March 1st 2010. At Daybreak, the Guest with the lowest degree of relation (excluding Guests who are Dead, Missing or Arrested) automatically becomes the Rightful Heir. The Executor may announce the Rightful Heir’s identity at any point after this time. Once Daybreak has passed, any game effect which would render a Guest Dead, Missing or Arrested instead has no effect, and if the Lights are Off, the Executor may turn the Lights On.

If a Guest is the Rightful Heir, they have achieved Victory.

Disastrous things continue to unfold in the empty kitchen. Unseen by the guests, a slowly spreading pool of golden syrup drips over the edge of the marble worktop, and begins to patter into an empty and misplaced power socket. Across the manor, the lights go out.

There is a drawn-out creak as the basement trapdoor swings slowly shut of its own accord. With a click, the basement cannot be left or entered for 24 hours.

In rule 2.2 “Life and Death” replace

Each Guest at Cartlesham Manor can be either Healthy, Stunned, Wounded, Poisoned, Restrained, Terrified, Arrested, Asleep, Missing or Dead (as tracked in the GNDT). All Guests start the game Healthy. If a Guest is not Dead, they are considered to be Alive. If a Guest is Dead, Stunned, Restrained, Terrified, Arrested, Asleep or Missing, they are considered to be Dormant.

with

Each Guest at Cartlesham Manor can be either Healthy, Stunned, Wounded, Dying, Poisoned, Restrained, Terrified, Arrested, Asleep, Missing or Dead (as tracked in the GNDT). All Guests start the game Healthy. If a Guest is not Dead, they are considered to be Alive. If a Guest is Dead, Stunned, Dying, Restrained, Terrified, Arrested, Asleep or Missing, they are considered to be Dormant.

At the end of the first bulleted list add “If a guest is Dying and would become either Stunned or Wounded, they instead become Dead, If a guest has been Dying for the last 72 hours they become Dead”

In the rule 2.6 “Lights” replace the sentence

if the Target is present in the same room as the bludgeoning Guest, the Target becomes Wounded. (Unless the Target was Restrained, in which case they become Dead.)

(if it exists) with

if the Target is present in the same room as the bludgeoning Guest, the Target becomes Stunned. (Unless the Target was Restrained, in which case they become Wounded.)

In rule 2.7.2 “Functions of Roles” add the following to the ‘physician’ section: “If the Physician is in the same room as a Guest who is Dying (other than the Physician himself), then as a daily action, the Physician may change that Guest’s state to Asleep.”

 

To the second list of Rule 2.2 “Life and Death” add

If they are Restrained, they become Dead.

Closing a trapdoor to sketch the final curve of a chalk circle across the floorboards, the Spiritualist inadvertently traps himself in the dusty attic of the mansion. The attic cannot be entered or exited for 24 hours.

In Rule 2.6, replace “A Dark List may not contain more than one Heavy action. This list is known as a Dark List.” (if it is present) with “This list is known as a Dark List. A Dark List may not contain more than one Heavy action.”

NonnoNaz is now idle. Quorum remains 14.

Each Guest has a Secret that is known to one other Guest (randomly chosen) and also knows the Secret of one other person (also randomly chosen). As a daily action, a Guest may choose to Reveal a Secret that they are privy to. The random choices are to be set up so that every guest gets knowledge of exactly one other Guest’s secret.

Replace all instances of “three times” in rule “Lights” with “two times”.

Add the following after the sentence “If the Lights are Off and the Executor has any unprocessed Dark Lists in his email inbox which were sent since the Lights last went Off, and whose sender is not Dormant, he may select one of these Lists at random and process it.” in rule 2.6 Lights:

The chances of a murderer’s Dark List to be chosen in this way is three times that of other Dark Lists’.

If more than half of the EVC’s to this proposal contain the symbol ‘#’, add the following instead (even if a Heavy Action isn’t defined in the ruleset):

The chances of a Dark List containing a Heavy Action to be chosen in this way is three times that of other Dark Lists’.

Add a new Dark List Action:-

Clumsily bludgeon a named Guest (known as the Target) that they share a room with. This is a Heavy action. Upon taking this Action, if the Target is present in the same room as the bludgeoning Guest, the Target becomes Wounded. (Unless the Target was Restrained, in which case they become Dead.) This action always makes a Thudding Noise in the room.

Throughout Rule 2.6, replace all occurrences of “, and a Dark List may contain only one [blank] action” (where “[blank]” is any word) with “; this is a Heavy action”.

Before “This list is known as a Dark List.”, add:-

A Dark List may not contain more than one Heavy action.

Another shelf collapses in the kitchen, and a dozen two-kilo cans of corned beef and powdered milk roll loudly across the work surface, clattering into a dented pile in front of the main door. Nausved, who was leaning on the other side of the door at the time, is naturally terrified.

The Kitchen cannot be entered for 24 hours.

Set Ornithopter’s Status to Healthy.

In the rule 2.13.1 “Combination Lock”, replace

The Executor shall then inform all Guests in the Lounge

with

The Executor shall then inform all Guests who were in the Lounge when the search request was made

Looks like I mixed up the Dark Lists when they got split over three days; Digibomber was actually hiding in the Bathroom at the time of the murder, and so escaped his fate. (This doesn’t affect anything Put may or may not have seen, as a Murder attempt is glimpsed irrespective of whether the target is still there.)

Unrelatedly, Alethiophile and Dustin idle out after seven days of inactivity.

I have returned from my vacation and subsequent business trip. Kindly un-idle me, if you would.

Enact a new subrule to Rule 2.5 (Bloodline) called “Family History”:-

If they have not already done so earlier in the Dynasty, a Guest (known as the Relative) may send a telegram to the Executor to reflect on whether he or she has a direct family connection to another Guest. Upon receiving such a telegram, the Executor shall select a random non-Dead, non-Arrested Guest whose degree of relation is lower than that of the Relative, and privately inform the Relative of the selected Guest’s identity.

If the Guest with the lowest degree of relation contacts the Executor in this way, the Executor will instead respond informing them that they believe themselves to be the next in line to the inheritance.

Set Purplebeard’s Status to Restrained, and his Location to the Basement.

If at least half of all EVCs on this Proposal contain the phrase “arrest this man”, set Purplebeard’s Status to Arrested.

To the end of Rule 2.6 (Lights), add:-

Upon doing so, a random non-Dormant Guest becomes Stunned, after stumbling around in the darkness for so long. Then, a random non-Dormant Guest becomes Wounded. Finally, a random non-Dormant Guest becomes Asleep.

Anybody know why the main page was screwed up last night? How was it fixed?

Hi there,

I tried to post with this content:

For some reason, I cannot comment to my killed Proposal. As there were questions asked to me, Id like to answer here. Also there need to be space for discussion why this mysterious Server Error happened. The question “Is Purplebeard a murderer and needs to be arrested should not be discussed here. I (or someone else) will create a Crisis-Proposal, when one of these lazy Servants turns the light on…

At first, I am sorry for this wrong Proposal. I did not remember the “A Crisis may not be proposed or enacted while the Lights are Out.”  part of the Ruleset…

> Did you keep this post open in your browser for eight or so hours before posting it, incidentally, Keba? I’m fairly sure it wasn’t there the last time I read the blog last night, and nobody seems to have commented during the eight hours it was open.

No, after I have proposed my fix, I read some comments and then I wanted to propose a Crisis. The “Publish” tab was not open for more than 15 minutes, I think. I dont know whats the Problem with the time there, I proposed it at ~0.30 GMT. Additionally, I have not changed the Date directly.

Kind regards, Keba.

It did not work. I hope this Post will be seenable and right. If it is, the problem will be fixed, I think. If not, well, then its time for blognomic to use a good blog engine *hide*

The manor has fallen eerily quiet, the silence broken only the whistling of the wind and the occasional cry of a distant owl.

(Under Rule 2.6, I have received no Dark Lists in the past 24 hours, and we are now into another phase of the Lights being Off.)

In Rule 2.5 Bloodline replace “If two Guests should ever have the same degree, the Executor should choose one of those Guests at random and raise or lower their degree by 1.” with

If two Guests should ever have the same degree, the Executor should choose one of those Guests at random and raise their degree by 0.5.

Greytyphoon goes idle. Quorum remains 15.

Enact a new subrule to Rule 2.3 (Crises), called “Taking Action”:-

If a Crisis would result in a Guest’s health state being altered, it can only be enacted if each of the Guests whose health state is being altered is present in the same Room as a Guest who voted FOR the Crisis.

If a Crisis would result in a Guest becoming Restrained or Arrested, it instead requires two of the Guests who voted FOR the Crisis to be present in the same Room as each Guest who is becoming Restrained or Arrested.

If a Crisis would result in a Guest becoming Arrested, it additionally requires one of the Guests who voted FOR the Crisis to be present in the Parlor (to make the phonecall to the police).

Also, to Rule 2.3, add:-

If a proposal would have no effect other than changing the health states of one or more Guests, the Executor may edit its title to make it into a Crisis.

Set Purplebeard’s Status to Restrained, and his Location to the Basement.

If at least half of all EVCs on this Proposal contain the phrase “arrest this man”, set Purplebeard’s Status to Arrested.

Set alethiophile’s status to Healthy and Location to “Parlor”.

Add the following to the list of Dark List actions:
*A Guest may attempt to hide. The Executor shall determine if the hiding was successful with a 50% chance, and if it was, the guest becomes Missing. This action makes a clumping noise.
*A Guest who became missing due to hiding can unhide. Their statistics are set to what they were immediately before the guest last went hidden. This action makes a stomping noise.

In Rule 2.6 (Lights), after “Upon taking this Action, if the Target is present in the same room as the Murderer, the Target becomes Wounded.”, add:-

(Unless the Target was Restrained, in which case they become Dead.)

The wind howls, and somewhere in the gardens of Cartlesham Manor, an oak branch drops clean through the cables of the gazebo lighting. As the ancient wiring sparks and burns through, the entire house is plunged into darkness. In the stumbling confusion, a chaise longue in the library becomes wedged under the doorhandle, blocking the room for 24 hours.

(Note that the Master Bedroom also cannot be entered or left until 9:10pm on Saturday night.)

In the Rule “Bloodline” remove “or lower” in the last sentence.

Something unexpected has gotten into the workings of the pipe mail system. One of the intake pipes above the door to the master bedroom becomes jammed, and small brass rivets pop onto the carpet. With a creak, the wire guttering splits in two, one half blocking the only door in and out of the bedroom. The Master Bedroom cannot be entered or exited for 24 hours.

Meanwhile, in the empty kitchen, an industrial-sized tin of powdered egg rolls from a shelf, injuring nobody.

Could an admin idle me, please?

If the proposal “Small Fix” passes, add to the end of the rule “Bloodline” the following:

A guest may never have a degree of relation lower than 1.

Rewrite the rule “Bloodline” so that it reads:

Each Guest has a degree of relation to Lord Cartlesham, represented as a number and tracked privately by the Executor. The Guest with the lowest degree of relation is Lord Cartlesham’s next of kin.

If a Guest has no degree of relation defined, the Executor may privately assign a uniformly randomly-selected degree between 1 and 1000 to that Guest. If two Guests should ever have the same degree, the Executor should choose one of those Guests at random and raise or lower their degree by 1.

Enact a new subrule to Rule 2.5 (Bloodline), entitled “Surnames”:-

Each Guest has a Surname, which can either be “Cartlesham”, or a name taken from this version of a list of Wodehouse surnames on the BlogNomic wiki.

All Guests start with a surname of Cartlesham. If a Guest ever has a degree of relation above 1000 yet still has a surname of “Cartlesham”, the Executor shall change that Guest’s Surname to a random name given in the list mentioned previously.

In the Rule 2.14 (Late Arrivals), replace “set all their statistics in the GNDT” with:-

set all their statistics in the GNDT (except Surname)

If the proposal “Not From Round These Parts” passed, add to the bulleted list in Rule 2.14:-

• They must choose and adopt a Surname other than “Cartlesham”, from the list given in the “Surnames” rule.

Pressing what they mistakenly believe to be a switch for a reading lamp in the parlour, a guest inadvertently activates the room’s security system. The doors click shut, and the entire house is plunged into darkness.

(Guests cannot enter or leave the Parlour for 24 hours.)

I don’t have the time to update the GNDT right now; I’ll do it later.

Did Kevan ever fix that bug, by the way?

In Rule 2.14, replace “Their Degree of Relation is set to a new value that is between their previous degree of relation and 1250.” with:-

Their Degree of Relation is set to a new value between 1001 and 2000.

Create a Dynastic Rule titled “Personal Keys” with the following text:

Each Guest has a personal family key, which was given to them due to Cartlesham family tradition. These keys are named after them. A ‘matching key’ to something is defined as a key with the same name as that something.

Create a Dynastic Rule titled “The Fusebox” with the following text:

Lord Cartlesham treasured his family, and tried to engrave as much of it into his possessions as possible. His fusebox is no exception. The fusebox has a chain of switches in it, which are sealed by specialised locks. These switches are named after each Guest.
These switches can be either set to ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’. Their state is privately tracked by the Executor.

Whenever the lights go out, all the fusebox switches are set to ‘OFF’ and the Executor shall choose randomly (in whatever manner deemed suitable by him) four fusebox switches; The first three of these switches may be referred to as ‘vital’ switches, while the last one is a ‘dead’ switch.

If after the change of any of the switches’ state all the vital switches are set to ‘ON’ and the dead switch is set to ‘OFF’, the Lights come back On and the remainder of the current Dark List is ignored.

Put the following in the place of the Dark Action “Repair the fusebox” in Rule 2.6 Lights:

Switch a fusebox switch. If they are in the Basement, each Guest may, as a Dark Action, switch a switch they have the matching key to. They may switch it to ‘ON’, ‘OFF’ or ‘MANIPULATE’. If they switch it to ‘MANIPULATE’, it’s state is set to ‘OFF’ but the states of the fusebox switches with names which precede and follow the name of the switch in alphabetical order are set to their inverse (‘ON’ set to ‘OFF’, or ‘OFF’ set to ‘ON’).

In the subrule “Combination Lock” under the rule “The Safe”, replace

If the state of the Safe is Closed, as a weekly action, a Guest in the Lounge may inform the Executor that they wish to search the Lounge for clues for the Combination.

with

If the state of the Safe is Closed and the lights are on, as a weekly action, a Guest in the Lounge may inform the Executor that they wish to search the Lounge for clues for the Combination.

Idling picking at the wood of the mantlepiece with his straight-edged razor, the Gangster inadvertently shaves the insulation from a lighting cable. He crumples onto the hearth rug, stunned, as the lights fail.

Add a new subrule of Rule 2.2 (Life and Death), called “Poison”:-

The Food and Drinks in Cartlesham Manor may each be either Poisoned or Safe. Both start as Safe. Whenever an Incident occurs, if any Guests are Poisoned, the Executor shall select one of those Guests at random. That Guest becomes Dead.

After the first paragraph of Rule 2.7.2 (Functions of Roles), add:-

Performing actions around the house can be thirsty work. If the Drinks are Poisoned when a Guest exercises a power from this rule, the Executor may change that Guest’s Status to “Poisoned”, within 24 hours of the power being exercised.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.8 (Manor Plan) called “Dining Room”:-

As a weekly Action, if a non-Dormant Guest is alone in the Dining Room and the Lights are On, they may Serve Dinner by posting a blog entry to that effect. Upon doing so, every Guest in the Dining Room becomes Healthy. If the Food is Poisoned, the Executor may change to “Poisoned” the Status of any Guest who was in the Dining Room at the time when Dinner was Served, with 24 hours of Dinner being Served.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.8 (Manor Plan) called “Dining Room”:-

As a weekly Action, if a non-Dormant Guest is in the Kitchen and the Lights are On, they may restock the larder by posting a blog entry to that effect. Upon doing so, the Food and Drinks both become Safe unless the Guest taking this action is a Murderer, in which case they both become Poisoned.

Make the second paragraph of Rule 2.5.1 (Genealogy) into a subrule of Rule 2.8 called “Study”.

Make the first paragraph of Rule 2.5.1 (Genealogy) into a subrule of Rule 2.8 called “Library”.

Repeal Rule 2.5.1.

To the list of actions in Rule 2.6, add:-

• Poison food or drinks. This action may only be taken by a Murderer, and only taken in the Kitchen. A Dark List may contain only one Poison action. The Murderer must specify whether Food or Drinks are being poisoned; upon doing so, those items become poisoned. Taking this action makes a Glugging Noise.

 

Reword the text “As above, except this action may only be taken by the Detectives, the Murderers and the Servants, who all have a better knowledge of Cartlesham Manor” in the rules to “As above, except this action may be taken only once in a single dark list, except by the Detectives, the Murderers and the Servants, who all have a better knowledge of Cartlesham Manor. By these people it may be taken several times in a single list.”

It’s just Javascript, right? This would have the advantage of all updates to it being “automatically” applied to everyone, instead of requiring a new download.