I would like to become a Believer,“making it clear” so to speak under rule 1.2

I have no good ideas at the moment, and am just dragging on quorum, so I’ll drop out for a while to recharge the batteries. Quorum drops to 8.

If a rule exists called “Studying”, rename it to “Activity” and reword it to:-

Each Believer is undertaking one Activity, which may be either “Studying” or “Other”. This is tracked in the GNDT in a column titled “Activity”, with “Other” being tracked as “-”. By default, a Believer’s Activity is “Other”.

As a daily action, a Believer may change their own Activity to any valid value.

As a daily action which may only be taken on a Friday, the Auspex should Reward the Studious. Upon doing so, each Believer who is Studying gains Insight equal to the highest Power score among all Cults that they belong to.

To the rule “Infamy”, add:-

Each Cult has a Power score. The Power of an Eminent or Notorious Cult is 3; the Power of an Accepted or Disliked Cult is 2; the Power of a Tolerated or Mistrusted Cult is 1 and the Power of an Obscure Cult is zero.

Add a new rule “Studying”, containing the following:

If a Believer is a member of one or more Cults, they may Study as a weekly action. To Study, a Believer can do one, and only one, of the following: Increase their Insight by 1 if they are a member of a Cult with an Infamy of Tolerated or Mistrusted; increase their Insight by 2 if they are a member of a Cult with an Infamy of Accepted or Disliked; or increase their Insight by 3 if they are a member of a Cult with an Infamy of Eminent or Notorious.

Enact a new rule, “The End of the World”:-

The End of the World is due occur on a date privately tracked by the Auspex; this date is known as Doomsday. Doomsday is a date somewhere between the 15th and 31st of January 2013.

If the current day is on or after Doomsday, the Auspex should - as a daily action - End the World. Upon doing so, if a single Believer has a higher Insight than each other Believer, that Believer achieves Victory; otherwise, the clouds rumble and nothing happens. Either way, the Auspex should announce this event in a blog post - if a Believer achieves victory, their prophecy shall be announced in this blog post.

Upon enactment of this rule, Doomsday shall be set to the value privately noted by the Auspex at the time of writing this proposal. This date was randomly selected as a date between the 15th and 31st of January, with each such date being equally likely to have been chosen.

All active and inactive Believers become members of the Circle of Light.

Just a reminder that per Rule 1.9, “Blognomic goes into hiatus every year on December 24th, and remains in hiatus until December 27th. During this time no game actions may be taken except those described in the rules entitled “Votable Matters,” “Gamestate Tracking” and “Call for Judgement”.”

Happy 14th B’ak’tun, everyone.

DickT and Minkette both go idle after eight days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 9.

Will an admin please unidle me? Thank you

Cpt_Koen, LarrytheTurtle and RaichuKFM falsely accused Josh and Sphinx of being the sole members of The Circle of Light.

Join The Purifying Fire

Replace “Blessings” with “Insight” throughout the ruleset, and then replace “a number of Insight” with “an amount of Insight”.

In the rule “Inquisitions”, replace “the square of half the number of members in its Target” with “ten times the square of half the number of members in its Target”.

Add a subrule to “Artifacts”, called “Removal”:-

As a daily action, a Believer may request to remove a specified number of Artifacts from those collected by a Cult, by sending an Order which announces such an intention, including the name of a Cult that he or she belongs to and specifying the number of Artifacts he or she intends to remove. (This number cannot be less than 1 or greater than 10.) If the Auspex has such an Order, he should process it as follows:-

• If the named Cult has fewer Artifacts than the number specified, then the Believer loses 10 Insight (or, if they have less than 10 Insight, the Believer loses all of their Insight).
• If the named Cult has a number of Artifacts greater than or equal to the number specified, then it loses a number of Artifacts equal to the number specified, and the Believer gains an equal amount of Insight.
• The Order is then deleted.

Upon enactment of this rule, each Believer’s Insight shall be set to their previous Blessings value, multiplied by ten.

Laserboot has made no comments or posts in the past seven days, and becomes idle under Rule 1.2.1. Quorum drops to 9.

In rule “Inquisitions”, after “Reply to the Inquisition with a confirmation of its success”, add the following as a new bullet point:

* Privately inform the sender of the Target’s Prophecy;

Cpt_Koen, LarrytheTurtle and RaichuKFM falsely accused Josh, Clucky, Sphinx and scshunt of being the sole members of The Circle of Light.

In the rule “Cults”, replace “If a Believer sends an Order requesting to join a Cult, and if they are a valid Initiate to it, and if both the Believer and Leader of the Cult are located in the Cult’s Headquarters, then the Believer becomes a member of the Cult and the Auspex should privately inform both the Believer and the Leader of this initiation.” with:-

If the Auspex has an Order from a Believer requesting to join a Cult, and if they are a valid Initiate to it, and if both the Believer and Leader of the Cult are located in the Cult’s Headquarters, then the Auspex should make that Believer a member of the Cult and privately inform both the Believer and the Leader of this initiation.

Add a subrule to “Cults” called “The Auspex”:-

For the purpose of all dynastic rules, the Auspex is not considered to be a Believer.

Upon enactment of this rule, the Cult called “The Establishment” shall cease to exist.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Cults” called “Leaving a cult” reading:

A Believer may, by command, cease to be part of a Cult they are a member of. The Cult to be left has to be specified in that Order.
The Auspex should inform the leader of the Cult as well as the Believer who left the Cult that the Believer left the Cult. After receiving confirmation by the Auspex, the Believer no longer belongs to the Cult he specified in his Order.

If there is no rule called “Enlightenment” create one. Replace the text of the rule “Enlightenment” with

As a weekly action, a Cult’s Leader may attempt an Enlightenment by Command which begins with the text “My brood is most well!”

Upon processing such Command, the Auspex should deem it successful if the sender’s cult contains less Believers than the average (arithmetic mean) number of Believers in all Cults. Otherwise, the Auspex may deem the Enlightenment unsuccessful.

If the Auspex deems an Enlightenment successful, he should:
* Reply to the Enlightenment with a confirmation of its success; and
* Increase the Blessings of its sender by twice the number of members in their cult.

When the Auspex deems an Enlightenment unsuccessful, he should make a blog post exposing the Enlightenment which:
* Names the sender, but not the name or size of their cult; and
* Chastises the sender for their hubris.

Create a new rule “Enlightenment”, reading:

As a weekly action, the leader of a Cult may attempt an Enlightenment by Command which:
* Begins with the text “My brood is most well!”; and
* Names a cult they lead and the number of Believers that belong to it.

Upon processing such Command, the Auspex should deem it successful if:
* There is a cult with fewer members than the sender’s cult; and
* The sender’s cult contains less Believers than Quorum.
Otherwise, the Auspex may deem the Enlightenment unsuccessful.

If the Auspex deems an Enlightenment successful, he should:
* Reply to the Enlightenment with a confirmation of its success; and
* Increase the Blessings of its sender by twice the number of members in their cult.

When the Auspex deems an Enlightenment unsuccessful, he should make a blog post exposing the Enlightenment which:
* Names the sender, but not the name or size of their cult; and
* Chastises the sender for their hubris.

Create a new rule “Sacrifice”, reading:

At any time, any Believer may transfer any number of Blessings less than or equal to the number of Blessings they possess to any other Believer.

Create a new rule “Repentance”, reading:

At any time, any Believer may cease to be a member of any cult by making a post to the Blog beginning with the text “I repent”

Argon14, Kevan and Quirck falsely suspected Josh and Sphinx of being the sole members of The HitchHikers.

Add the following to the end of the rule “Inquisitions”:

If a Believer in a Cult has performed an Inquisition against another Cult, no other member of the first Cult may perform an Inquisition against the second Cult for seven days.

Cpt_Koen, Purplebeard and Scshunt falsely believed Clucky and Josh to be the only members of The HitchHikers.

Josh, Minkette and Laserboot falsely suspected Clucky and Argon14 of being the only members of The Walkers.

Add the following to the current ruleset under the rule “Cults”

A believer may only be the leader of one cult at a time.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Reporting:

Each Leader may chose a scale of exaggeration for their cult, which is a number between minus one and two, and which is reported to and privately tracked by the Auspex. If this rule has been in the ruleset for more than 48 hours, then any Cultist may remove this sentence and the word “not” wherever it appears in the sentence that follows it. The number of members in each Cult, modified by that Cult’s scale of exaggeration, is not tracked next to the Cults’ names in rule 2.1, and this number should not be updated by the Auspex whenever a Cult gains or loses a member. Cults have a scale of exaggeration of zero by default.

The Leader of a Cult may change their Cult’s scale of exaggeration as a weekly action.

Add a subrule to “Cults” called “Initiation Criteria”:

Each Cult may have an Initiation Criteria. This may either be Open, Closed or Partial, defaulting to Closed. If the Criteria is Partial, the Criteria should also contain a list of Believers. If a Cult’s Initiation Criteria is “Open”, then all Believers are valid Initiates to that Cult. If it is “Closed”, then no Believers are valid Initiates to it. If it is “Partial”, then only the named Believers are valid Initiates. If a Believer is already a member of a particular Cult, they are not a valid Initiate to that Cult.

The Leader of a Cult may changes its Initiation Criteria by command.

In the rule Cults, replace “A Leader of a Cult may admit a Believer to that Cult by Command, so long as that Believer has sent an Order requesting such admission, and both the Believer and Leader are located in the Headquarters of the Leader’s Cult.” (if it exists) with:-

If a Believer sends an Order requesting to join a Cult, and if they are a valid Initiate to it, and if both the Believer and Leader of the Cult are located in the Cult’s Headquarters, then the Believer becomes a member of the Cult and the Auspex should privately inform both the Believer and the Leader of this initiation.

If there is not a dynastic rule called “Secret Requirements”, this Proposal does nothing.

Add a new dynastic rule called “Artifacts” and give it the following text

Each Cult has a non-negative integer supply of Artifacts, which are privately tracked by the Auspex and 0 by default.

As a weekly Action, a Cult’s Leader may Search for Artifacts by Command, specifying a valid Location other than Unknown as the Target. Upon processing the Order, the Auspex should increase the Artifacts of that Cult by C*V where C is the half the number of Believers who were both members of the Cult and whose Location was the Target at the time the Order was sent, rounded down, and V is the Extradition Value of the Target. The Auspex should then send a Private Message to the Leader of the Cult informing them of how many Artifacts were earned. The Auspex should process Orders to Search for Artifacts in the order received.

The Extradition Value of a Location is the position of the Location in an ordered List of all Locations other than Unknown, kept privately by the Auspex. After processing an Order to Search for Artifacts, the Location searched moves to the Bottom of the list (and so has an Extradition Value of 1). If there is a Location other than Unknown which is not in the ordered List, the Auspex must place it in a random position in the List before processing any Orders to Search for Artifacts. He should not use the GNDT for this calculation, but instead another random device of his choosing.

Add a subrule to “Locations”, called “Traits”:-

Each Location may have a single Trait. Traits are either Ordered or Chaotic in nature: the Ordered Traits are “Crowded” and “Secured”, and the Chaotic Traits are “Damaged” and “Lacking”.

The Traits of Locations which currently have Traits are:-

* The Museum: Lacking
* The Observatory: Damaged
* The Protest Camp: Crowded

If a Cult has two members in the same Location, its Leader may - as a daily action - send a Private Message to the Auspex announcing the Cult’s intention to add or remove one Trait from that Location (optionally describing the flavour text of how they will achieve this). Upon processing such a message, the Auspex must add or remove the specified Trait if it is possible to do so, then make a blog post announcing the change (or attempted change), and the Cult responsible for it. Upon doing so, that Cult’s Infamy increases by one level if it added a Chaotic Trait or removed an Ordered one; it decreases by one level if it added an Ordered Trait or removed a Chaotic one.

If no Locations have traits, the Auspex should select a random Location and assign it a random Trait.

Before “Cults are, by default, Obscure.” in the rule “Infamy”, add:-

If a Notorious Cult would gain a level of Infamy, it remains Notorious; if an Eminent Cult would lose a level of infamy, it remains Eminent.

If there does not exists a rule named “Inquisitions”, then this Proposal has no effect. Otherwise:

Replace in the rule “Inquisitions” the text:

When the Auspex receives an Inquisition, if:
* The sender or either of the Collaborators is a member of the Target;
* The List of Heretics includes a Believer not in the Target; and
* There is a believer that is a member of the Target who is not named in the List of Heretics;
He may deem it unsuccessful. Otherwise, he may deem it successful.

with the text:

When the Auspex receives an Inquisition, if either of the following three conditions is true, then they may deem the Inquisition unsuccessful:
* The sender, or either or both of the Collaborators, belongs to the Target;
* The List of Heretics includes a Believer who does not belong to the Target;
* There exists a Believer who belongs to the Target but is not named in the List of Heretics.
If none of those three conditions is true, then the Auspex may deem the Inquisition successful.

Replace in the rule “Inquisitions” the text:

If the Auspex deems an Inquisition unsuccessful, he may make a blog post exposing the Inquisition which:

with the text:

When the Auspex deems an Inquisition unsuccessful, they should make a blog post exposing the Inquisition. That blog post should:

Replace in the rule “Inquisitions” the text:

If the Auspex deems an inquisition successful, he may:

with the text:

When the Auspex deems an Inquisition successful, they should:

Or else.

Rename the rule “Secret Orders” to “Secret Requirements”.

Add a new subrule to “Cults”, called “Orders”:-

Believers may send Private Messages to the Auspex at any time; these are known as Orders. If a rule says that the Leader of Cult may do something “by Command”, then the action performable by Command may be requested by submitting an Order with this precise instruction; the action described may then be performed by the Auspex, while the Order exists - upon the Auspex performing such a Command, the Order ceases to be an Order. This is the only way by which an action performable “by Command” may be performed.

If an Order is more than 48 hours old, it ceases to be an Order.

Replace “secret action” with “Order” throughout the ruleset.

Replace “form a new Cult by sending a Private Message to the Auspex” with “form a new Cult by submitting an Order”.

Replace the text beginning “Believers may send Private Messages…” and ending “...and delete both messages.” with:-

A Leader of a Cult may admit a Believer to that Cult by Command, so long as that Believer has sent an Order requesting such admission, and both the Believer and Leader are located in the Headquarters of the Leader’s Cult.

Replace the paragraph beginning “If the Auspex has a Private Message…” with:-

The Leader of a Cult may add, remove, or modify a Secret Requirement of that Cult, by command. Upon processing such a Command, the Auspex should send a Private Message to all members of that Cult, listing its new Secret Requirements.

If the proposal “Passing the Torch” enacted, replace the text it added to the ruleset with:-

A Leader of a Cult may transfer his or her leadership to any other Believer in that Cult, by Command, so long as that Believer has sent an Order accepting such a transfer. Upon processing such an action, the nominated member becomes the Leader of the Cult, in place of the previous Leader.

If the text “A Cult Leader may at any time PM the Auspex and disband his cult and have the name of the cult removed from the wiki.” exists in the ruleset, replace it with:-

The Leader of a Cult may disband that Cult by command. When a Cult is disbanded, it ceases to exist.

If the rule “Philosophical Realignment” exists, replace “Private Message” with “Order” throughout it.

If a rule exists called “Inquisitions”, replace “sending Auspex a private message” with “submitting an Order” within in.

After the first sentence of the rule “Cults”, add:-

The Leader of a Cult is considered to belong to that Cult.

Strange lights in the night sky signal the arrival of The HitchHikers.

Enact a new rule ‘Philosophical Realignment’:

If the Auspex has a Private Message from a Believer (the Usurper) in a Cult (the Fiefdom), and all the following requirements are met:
* The Usurper is not the Leader of a Cult with the same Headquarters as the Fiefdom,
* The Usurper is a member of the Fiefdom,
* The Usurper’s Location was the Fiefdom’s Headquarters at the time the Private Message was sent,
* The Location of the Fiefdom’s Leader was not the Fiefdom’s Headquarters at the time the Private Message was sent,
* The Private Message indicates that the Usurper believes that the Leader of the Fiefdom has violated a Secret Requirement of the Fiefdom, and
* The Auspex agrees that the Secret Requirement was violated by the Leader in that manner,
* The Private Message was sent within 48 hours of the violation.
then the Auspex may delete the Private Message and change the Leader of the Fiefdom to the Usurper. When he does so, the former Leader is removed from the Fiefdom, and the former Leader and all members of the Cult are to be informed that the Usurper has assumed leadership of the Cult.

Create a new rule, “Blessings”, with the text:

Each Believer has a number of Blessings, tracked in a GNDT column of the same name.

Create a new rule, “Inquisitions”, with the text:

As a weekly action, any Believer may perform an Inquisition by sending Auspex a private message that:
* Begins with the text “A charge of heresy as such:”;
* Names two Believers other than the sender as Collaborators;
* Names a single Cult as its Target; and
* Includes a single List of Heretics composed of Believers.

When the Auspex receives an Inquisition, if:
* The sender or either of the Collaborators is a member of the Target;
* The List of Heretics includes a Believer not in the Target; and
* There is a believer that is a member of the Target who is not named in the List of Heretics;
He may deem it unsuccessful. Otherwise, he may deem it successful.

If the Auspex deems an Inquisition unsuccessful, he may make a blog post exposing the Inquisition which:
* Names the sender and collaborators as the Inquisitors, but does not identify them as sender or collaborator; and
* Names the Target and the Believers in the List of Heretics.

If the Auspex deems an inquisition successful, he may:
* Reply to the Inquisition with a confirmation of its success; and
* Increase the the Blessings of the sender and both Collaborators by the square of half the number of members in its Target.

I unidle. Quorum is now 10.

Add the following to the current ruleset to the current rule entitled “Cult”:

A Cult Leader may, as a weekly action, with the collaboration of a member of his cult who must also PM the Auspex confirming his collaboration, PM the Auspex informing him of a change in leadership in the Cult. The Leader may pass his leadership to any willing member of his Cult. The member then assumes leadership of the cult, and the former Leader becomes a normal member.

The sickly and litter-strewn trees of the financial district are full of new life this evening. Carved and sealed cleanly into the bark is the symbol of The Children of Gaia.

Add the following to the existing ruleset at the end of the rule entitled “Cult”:

A Cult Leader may at any time PM the Auspex and disband his cult and have the name of the cult removed from the wiki.

Only the Circle of Light can save you.

Join today to hear the TRUTH about the future… and what part you will play in it.

To the rule “Cults” add a subrule “Idle Cults” with the following text:

If all members of a Cult are idle, the Auspex may delete that Cult (by deleting its list entry in the rule “Cults”).

Enact a new subrule of the rule “Cults”, named “Idle Leaders”

If there is only one believer belonging to a Cult and that Believer becomes idle, that Cult is deleted by deleting its list entry in the rule “Cults”

Add a subrule to the rule called Cults, entitled Limitations:

If the number of Cults is greater than Quorum, no additional Cults may be created.

In the rule “Infamy”, replace “The Infamy of a Cult may be tracked in the GNDT; for the purposes of this, Cults may be set up and tracked in the GNDT.” with:-

The Infamy of a Cult is tracked in the rule “Cults”.

In the rule “Cults”, replace “The Names of existing Cults are:-” with:-

The Names and Infamies of existing Cults are:-

...and update the “Cults” rule to include the Infamy of each Cult, after its name, in brackets.

Also remove “until its Headquarters are moved” from the rule “Infamy”.

Chalked on the brick at significant street corners is the symbol some might recognise as that of The Shadow Church of the Time Zombies.

Police remain baffled by the break-in at the museum, but talk among the city’s antiquarian booksellers mentions, in hushed tones, The Midnight Crew.

To the rule “Cults”, add to the beginning of the final paragraph:-

Believers may send Private Messages to the Auspex at any time.

Add to the current ruleset a rule entitled Convert Ye Heathen, Convert!

As a weekly action, the leader of a cult may attempt to convert a member of a cult that is not of the cult leaders own cult, and add that cult member to his own cult. The cult leader may also convert a believer that does not currently belong to a cult. This is done by PMing the Auspex informing him of an impending roll, and then rolling a DICE10 in the GDNT, if the roll comes up 1-9 the converting has failed and nothing happens, if it comes up as a 10 then the converting was successful and the cult leader must PM the Auspex informing him of the change. The Auspex will them PM the believer, informing him of the change. To maintain anonymity, the admin will create a dummy GDNT profile, and give the password to the current cult leaders to use. The cult leader can choose to use his own GDNT profile if he wishes to be known as the cult leader. The newly converted cult member may as a daily action attempt to escape the new cult by rolling a DICE10, if the dice roll comes up as a 1 then he may escape, and may follow the existing ruleset to join a new cult. If the converted cult member does not follow the secret requirement as outlined by the cult leader, then he may not attempt to escape the cult as a daily action.

Enact a new rule, “Honour Among Thieves, Or Something Like That”:

The Auspex shall evaluate all secret actions with good faith, and in particular should follow the following guidelines where unusual or exceptional conditions do not apply:
* The Auspex should not decline to allow an optional action except where the action is clearly an abuse of process (such as a scam related to the timing of multiple actions sent to the Auspex at once), beyond a simple scam or loophole in the rules.
* The Auspex should evaluate all secret actions in the order in which they are received. Where more than one Private Message is required for a single secret action, it should be considered to be received when the last message required is received.
* If confronted with a Private Message which contains multiple secret actions which are mutually exclusive (due to deleting the message, for instance), the Auspex should evaluate them in a top-down manner.
* The Auspex should evaluate all secret actions within 48 hours of receiving them, and should make a blog post if he anticipates that he will be unable to do so at any point.
* If the Auspex believes that a secret action cannot be performed due to a clerical error on the part of the Believer attempting to perform it (such as including two mutually exclusive actions in a single Private Message), the Auspex should inform the Believer of this fact.
* If the Auspex does not perform a secret action, including by choice or due to it being illegal, but not because it requires multiple Private Messages which have not all been received, the Auspex should delete the Private Message containing it and inform the Believer of the decision not to perform the action, but (except as otherwise indicated in these guidelines) should not inform the Believer the reason why it was not performed.

The Auspex may delete any of his Private Messages at any time.

Proposals authored by the Auspex whose effects would be limited to amending this rule do not count towards the Auspex’s usual limit of 2 proposals pending at once, and such proposals may be Enacted notwithstanding that they are not the oldest proposal in the queue (but all other requirements must still be met).

In the rule “Cults”, remove the text ” - within 48 hours of receiving the request -”.

Substitute for the following for the second paragraph of the rule “Secret Orders” except, if the proposal “Watch Your Back” was enacted, for the last sentence:

If the Auspex has a Private Message from the Leader of the Cult indicating that the Leader wishes to add, remove, or modify a Secret Requirement, and no such message from that Leader was received in the 48 hours prior, the Auspex may perform the desired change to the Secret Requirements of the Cult. If he does so, he shall delete that Private Messages and inform each Member of the Cult of the change to the Secret Requirements by Private Message.

Enact a new rule ‘Philosophical Realignment’:

If the Auspex has a Private Message from a Believer (the Usurper) in a Cult (the Fiefdom), and all the following requirements are met:
* The Usurper is not the Leader of a Cult with the same Headquarters as the Fiefdom,
* The Usurper is a member of the Fiefdom,
* The Usurper’s Location was the Fiefdom’s Headquarters at the time the Private Message was sent,
* The Location of the Fiefdom’s Leader was not the Fiefdom’s Headquarters at the time the Private Message was sent,
* The Private Message indicates that the Usurper believes that the Leader of the Fiefdom has violated a Secret Requirement of the Fiefdom, and
* The Auspex agrees that the Secret Requirement was violated by the Leader in that manner,
* The Private Message was sent within 48 hours of the violation.
then the Auspex may delete the Private Message and change the Leader of the Fiefdom to the Usurper. When he does so, the former Leader is removed from the Fiefdom, and the former Leader and all members of the Cult are to be informed that the Usurper has assumed leadership of the Cult.

Add “No action taken before a member is made aware of a Secret Requirement should be considered a violation of that Secret Requirement.” to the end of the second paragraph of the rule “Secret Orders”

Add “Private Message”  list of Keywords with the description

A message sent via Blognomic’s Private Messages system at blognomic.com.

In the rule “Secret Orders”, if the text “and may rejoin the Cult” exists, replace it with “and may not rejoin the Cult”

There is word on the street that The Walkers are among us.

New and cryptic symbols are gradually appearing on the public tourist maps across the city. The Cartographers are in town.

Conflicting rumours report that both The Fellowship of the Flame and The Purifying Fire are behind the spate of nighttime arson attacks across the city.

All text-changing and ignoring operations defined in the next paragraph ignore the next paragraph for their purpose.

If the proposal “No overstuffed GNDT” failed, ignore the text of this proposal, between [NOG_Passed] and [/NOG_Passed].
If the proposal “No overstuffed GNDT” passed, ignore the text of this proposal between [NOG_Failed] and [/NOG_Failed]
If the proposal “Free Personality Test Inside” failed, ignore the text between [FPTI_Passed] and [/FPTI_Passed] in this proposal.
If the proposal “Free Personality Test Inside” passed, but the proposal “The End is Near” failed, ignore the text between [FPTI_Passed] and [/FPTI_Passed] in this proposal.
If the proposal “Free Personality Test Inside” passed, and the proposal “The End is Near” passed, ignore the text between [FPTI_Failed] and [/FPTI_Failed] in this proposal.

[NOG_Passed]
If there is a rule entitled “Infamy”, in that rule replace

The Name and Infamy of each Cult is tracked in the Wiki page “Cults”.

with

The Infamy of each Cult is tracked in the Wiki page “Cults”.

[/NOG_Passed]

[NOG_Failed]
Create a wiki page “Cults” and blank it.
If there is a rule entitled “Infamy”, in that rule replace

The Infamy of a Cult may be tracked in the GNDT; for the purposes of this, Cults may be set up and tracked in the GNDT.

with

The Infamy of a Cult is tracked in the wiki page “Cults”

[/NOG_Failed]

[FPTI_Passed]
In the rule “Cults”, replace

The Leader and Prophecy of a Cult are tracked privately by the Auspex.

with

The Leader, Prophecy and Headquarters of a Cult are tracked privately by the Auspex. The Name of each Cult, together with other information, as specified by other rules, is tracked in the wiki page “Cults”.

[/FPTI_Passed]

[FPTI_Failed]
In the rule “Cults”, replace

The Leader and Prophecy of a Cult are tracked privately by the Auspex.

with

The Leader and Prophecy of a Cult are tracked privately by the Auspex. The Name of each Cult, together with other information, as specified by other rules, is tracked in the wiki page “Cults”.

[/FPTI_Failed]

If the Proposal “Infamy, Infamy, They’ve All Got It In For Me” fails, this proposal does nothing.
Create a Wiki Page entitled “Cults” and blank that page.
In the rule “Infamy”, replace

The Infamy of a Cult may be tracked in the GNDT; For the purposes of this, Cults may be set up and tracked in the GNDT.

with

The Name and Infamy of each Cult is tracked in the Wiki page “Cults”.

If the proposal “Infamy, Infamy, They’ve All Got It In For Me” failed, this proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Infamy” change every appearance of “Unknown” to “Obscure”.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Infamy:

Each Cult has an Infamy, which may be one of the following, in order of increasing Infamy:

Eminent
Accepted
Tolerated
Unknown
Mistrusted
Disliked
Notorious

Cults are, by default, Unknown. The Infamy of a Cult may be tracked in the GNDT; for the purposes of this, Cults may be set up and tracked in the GNDT.

Locations have an Infamy Tolerance; any Cult whose Infamy exceeds the Infamy Tolerance of the location of its Headquarters may not accept new Members until its Headquarters are moved. The Infamy Tolerances of Locations are as follows:
*The Cathedral and the University: Unknown
*The Museum, The Observatory, and The Library: Mistrusted
*The Hospital: Disliked
*The Protest Camp, The Back Streets and The River: Notorious.

Bright, spraypainted circular symbols spread out along the darker, less-observed walls of the city. The Circle of Light has been formed.

If the proposal “The End is Near” failed, this proposal has no further effect.

In the Rule “Cults”, replace “a Leader (any Believer or Idle Believer)” with:-

a Leader (a Believer or Idle Believer), a Headquarters (a Location)

And replace “specifying the Name of that Cult, and its Prophecy. If that Believer is not already the Leader of a Cult” with:-

specifying the Name of that Cult, its Headquarters (any Location other than “Unknown”) and its Prophecy. If that Believer is located in the proposed Headquarters and is not already the Leader of a Cult

And replace “the Believer as its Leader, and the Prophecy specified” with “the Believer as its Leader, the specified Location as its Headquarters and the Prophecy specified”.

Replace “and a Private Message from the Leader of that Cult permitting the Believer to join” with:-

and a Private Message from the Leader of that Cult permitting the Believer to join, and both the Believer and Leader are located in the Headquarters of the Leader’s Cult

Enact a new rule, “Known Unknowns”:-

If a Cult has a Headquarters of Unknown and its Leader has a Location other than Unknown, the Auspex may update its Headquarters to that Location and privately inform the Leader of this change. Believers may not be admitted to a Cult that has a Location of Unknown.

If no Cults have a Location of Unknown, the Auspex may repeal this rule.

If any Cults exist, their Headquarters shall be set to the Location of their Leader. If a Cult has a Location of Unknown, all of its members other than its Leader shall be removed from that Cult.

If Proposal: Kevans Rules of Order passed, change “If he chooses to do so, the violating member is removed from the Cult and may rejoin the Cult” to “If he chooses to do so, the violating member is removed from the Cult, although they may thereafter apply to rejoin the Cult as set out in the rule entitled “Cults”“.

Enact a new Rule, “Locations”:-

Each Believer has a Location, tracked in the GNDT. (A Believer is said to be “located” in their Location, or simply “in” or “at” it.) Each Believer defaults to a Location of “Unknown”.

Valid Locations are: The Cathedral, The Museum, The Observatory, The Library, The University, The Hospital, The Protest Camp, The Back Streets and The River. “Unknown” is also a valid Location, tracked in the GNDT as “-”.

As a daily Action, a Believer may change their own Location to any valid Location (except for “Unknown”).

If there is not a rule called “Cults”, this proposal does nothing.

Add a subrule to “Cults” called “Secret Orders” and give it the following text

Each Cult may have one more more Secret Requirements for its members. When a Believer joins a Cult, the Auspex should send him the current Secret Requirements for that Cult via private message.

If he has not done so in the past 48 hours, The Leader of a Cult may add a Secret Requirement to their Cult, remove a Secret Requirement, or change a Secret Requirement by PMing the Auspex of this change. The Auspex may - within 48 hours of receiving the request - confirm the Secret Requirement and inform each Member of the Cult the new requirement by private message. If the Auspex does not do so, the action is not considered successful and the Secret Requirements for the Cult remain as they originally were.

If the Leader of a Cult believes that another Believer who is a member of that Cult has violated one of the Secret Requirement, he may send a PM to the Auspex declaring which Secret Requirement he believes the Cult Member has violated, and why. The Auspex may, within 48 hours of receiving the request, agree with the violation. If he chooses to do so, the violating member is removed from the Cult and may rejoin the Cult. The Auspex must PM both the Leader and the violating Believer about the removal.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled “Skepticism”, containing the following:

Each Believer has a Skepticism stat, tracked in the GNDT, defaulting to 5. Any time a Believer is admitted into a Cult, they must decrease their Skepticism by one.

Hello, may I play?

Mink

Quorum rises to eight.

If there exists a rule named “Cults”, then insert a new paragraph before the last paragraph of that rule, reading:

Whenever the Auspex creates a new Cult by adding its name to the list above, they should inform all Believers by making a blog post stating that a new Cult has been created, and specifying the name of that Cult.

Enact a new rule “Cults”:-

Each Believer belongs to zero or more Cults. These allegiances are tracked privately by the Auspex.

Each Cult has a Name (up to seven words), a Leader (any Believer or Idle Believer) and a Prophecy concerning the end of the world (a sentence). The Leader and Prophecy of a Cult are tracked privately by the Auspex. The Names of existing Cults are:-

* The Establishment.

As a daily action, a Believer may attempt to form a new Cult by sending a Private Message to the Auspex specifying the Name of that Cult, and its Prophecy. If that Believer is not already the Leader of a Cult, the Auspex may - within 48 hours of receiving the request - create a new Cult by adding its Name to the list above; the Cult is created with the Believer as its Leader, and the Prophecy specified.

If the Auspex has both a Private Message from a Believer asking to join a Cult, and a Private Message from the Leader of that Cult permitting the Believer to join, then the Auspex may admit that Believer to that Cult, inform both the Believer and the Leader that this has happened, and delete both messages.

Upon enactment of this rule, the Cult known as “The Establishment” shall be created with the Auspex as its Leader and the Prophecy that the Auspex privately noted at the time of writing this proposal.

A cold night at the tail end of the Mesoamerican Long Count’s 13th b’ak’tun. Cryptic flyposted photocopies spread wide across the city, fluttering on lampposts and building-site hoardings, their cheap, close-set prophecies growing illegible in the rain. Tents and placards cluster outside the cathedral, the city museum remains closed and dark after a burglary in its antiquities wing, and high on the hill behind the city, against a blank grey sky, the observatory is in flames.

Rename “Crook” to “Believer” and “Mastermind” to “Auspex”.

Please could I be unidled - I’d like to part of the next dynasty.

Thanks

I hereby request to be added as a new player at an appropriate time.

Kind regards

Please forgive the self-indulgence of this.

So that dynasty felt massively un-fun to me, and I’m not sure that it was fun for the other players either. The whole dynasty garnered a total of six proposals that weren’t authored by me or Kevan, and while I didn’t keep track of GNDT activity the lack of engagement with the Mark mechanic leads me to believe that the overall level of engagement wasn’t high. While 9 active players at the end isn’t a record low, it also doesn’t speak of massive excitement. It follows a bit of a trend of disappointing dynasties, and generic inquiries into why this isn’t haven’t been helpful. So I wondered if it would be worth having a bit of a post-mortem on this one, to talk about what could have been done to make it something players wanted to engage with, wanted to make proposals for, and felt enthused by.

Please, be brutal. What could have saved this dynasty?

I seem to have the Car with the highest Raciness.

Looks like Clucky’s skipped town for Mexico. Quorum drops to 5.

Add the following to the rule “Garage”:

A Crook may, as a weekly action, attempt to Pick a Lock. To Pick a Lock, a Crook must reduce their Cash by $20 and roll DICE:6 in the GNDT. Upon a roll of 2, 3, or 4, nothing happens. On a roll of 5 or 6, the Crook may add the name of any Crook to their “Keys” field. On a roll of 1 the Crook must remove all names from their “Keys” field.

Argon14 has heinously preformed indenty theft against me and I demand Legal Justice be inacted against him.

In the rule “Illegal Street Race”, replace “A Car’s Raciness is calculated by subtracting that Car’s Heat from one of its Chassis, Transmission and Engine, setting that statistic to 1 if the result is less than 1, then multiplying those three statistics together.” with:-

A Car’s Raciness is calculated by subtracting that Car’s Heat from whichever of its other Stats is highest (with the alphabetically earliest tied Stat being chosen in the event of a tie), setting that statistic to 1 if the result is less than 1, then multiplying its Chassis, Transmission and Engine together.

A crook can pay $50 as a bribe to add 1 to any DICE roll, he can do this up to 3 times per ROLL considering you have enough money to do so. Each time a crook attempts a bribe, he must also roll a DICE20, if it is 19 or 20 the bribe has failed and the crook loses all of his money.

I hereby request to be added as a new player to the current dynasty.

As a crook, he can pay $50 as a bribe to add 1 to any DICE roll, he can do this up to 3 times per ROLL considering you have enough money to do so. Each time a crook attempts a bribe, he must also roll a DICE20, if it is 19 or 20 the bribe has failed and the crook loses all of his money. 1-17 and the bribe has succeeded.

We’re going to need guns to pull off the big score, and I know somewhere that has lots of them - Fort Nevada Army Base. You may think it’s crazy, the eight of us going up against the army, but that’s not crazy - three of you going up against the army base is crazy. Crazy like a fox.

This job requires no more than 3 Crooks, at least one of whom has a Gym with a stat bearing their name with a value of at least 5, and who have access to a car with an engine of 4 and a combined total of at least $100 in the bank, for incidental bribes.

The reward will be a fuel manifold worth $270 and $110 in cash.

I request to be added as a new player to the current dynasty.

All pending Marks have been failed.

Add the following to the rule “Garage”:

A Crook may, as a weekly action, attempt to Pick a Lock. To Pick a Lock, a Crook must roll DICE:6 in the GNDT. Upon a roll of 2, 3, or 4, nothing happens. On a roll of 5 or 6, the Crook may add the name of any Crook to their “Keys” field. On a roll of 1 the Crook must remove all names from their “Keys” field.

I request to be added to the current dynasty as a new player.

In the rule “Marks”, replace “The Mastermind may resolve any Mark which is more than 48 hours old by randomly selecting a Squad from those Squads who are collaborating against that Mark, and whose members meet the requirements of the Mark; this Squad completes the Job. If no Squads meet the requirements, the Job fails. The Mastermind must then make a comment to the Mark post announcing the result.” with:-

If a Mark is more than 48 hours old, the Mastermind may resolve it. Any Squad collaborating against the Mark whose members meet the requirements of that Mark are considered to be Effective Squads for the purposes of that Mark. Upon resolving the Mark:

• If one or more Effective Squads exist for the Mark, then the Mastermind must select one of them at random; this Squad completes the Job.
• If no Effective Squads exist for the Mark, then the Job fails.

The Mastermind must then make a comment to the Mark post announcing the result.

In the rule “The Garage”, replace “If a Crook Cuts a Key, they may add their name to the “Keys” field of a single Crook.” with:-

If a Crook Cuts a Key, they may give a copy of any one Key they currently hold to any Crook.

In the rule Identity Theft Replace

If the Mastermind agrees that Identity Theft has taken place then he should indicate agreement with a FOR vote on the post

with

If the Mastermind agrees that Identity Theft has taken place then he should indicate agreement with a FOR vote on the post within 24 hours of the post being made

Clucky brazenly stole my identity in the comments to this post. Make him eat street justice, boss.

Why, twice in as many days, I just don’t know…

I request Legal Justice against that cad Clucky.

I, Quirck, have been subject to identity theft of the worst kind! Murphy has done terrible terrible things on my behalf and must pay! He has stolen my keys, stolen my money, stolen my dog and stolen my life! I request Street Justice for these crimes against me and my family!

04/12 13:33 (UTC) - Murphy
  Quirck’s Cash = 50 (was 100)
(Should have shredded that credit card bill. (How did Wak lose >$50?))

  Murphy’s Cash = 75 (was 25)
(mine!)

  Quirck’s Keys = Murphy
(more ID theft)

  Murphy’s Cash = 0 (was 75)
(Buying and using a Respray Kit. Quirck, you don’t mind watching this for me, do you?)

Mentioning this here, since reverting things across the GNDT/wiki might be unclear, but I think this last step is illegal - Murphy doesn’t have a key to Quirck’s garage (Quirck has a key to Murphy’s; presumably Murphy meant to force Quirck to cut a key, but accidentally cut a key for Quirck). Is that right?

But yes, also a good point that Clucky should only have been able to transfer $50 from Wakukee after stealing his identity, not $50. (“A Crook [may] not transfer more than $50 to the same Crook during any week.”) Are we missing something there?

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Illegal Street Race:

There is an illegal street race scheduled for Thursday 13th December 2012. On of after that day, the Crook whose Car has the highest Raciness has achieved victory.

A Car’s Raciness is calculated by subtracting that Car’s Heat from one of its Chassis, Transmission and Engine, setting that statistic to 1 if the result is less than 1, then multiplying those three statistics together.

A Crook may expend 1 Explosives from a Lab in a Garage that they have access to, to increase the Engine of a Car that they have access to by 1.

A Crook may expend 2 from the Stat that bears their name in any Gym that they have access to to improve the Chassis of any Car that they have access to by 1.

On Wednesday 12th December 2012, a Crook may expend 1 Narcotics from a Lab in a Garage that they have access to increase the Heat of a Car that they have access to by 2.

Scshunt and Wakukee idle out after 11 and 13 days of inactivity respectively. Quorum drops to 4.

Reword the rule “2 Fast, 2 Furious” to:-

If the game is in a State of Con, then the Mastermind may, as a daily action, Stage a Heist. Upon doing so, if a single Crook who has a role also has a higher Attention score than each other Crook who has a role, then that Crook achieves victory.

Afraid I really don’t follow the current State of Con mechanic, particularly the “if players have a very low Mark-completion score on average, then the player who didn’t even try to complete any Marks wins” bit. Cutting it back to the “highest Mark-completion wins” condition, removing the “but only if everyone else also completed around 8 Marks” and clarifying ties.