BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

• Judgment - When this card becomes inactive, if a single Reader has five or more Auras, and also more Auras than each other Reader, then that Reader has achieved victory.
• Three of Wands - While active, any Reader whose Fate is lowest or tied for lowest among all Readers may Invoke the Aura of Virtue.
• Nine of Cups - While active, any Reader may Invoke any Aura possessed by another Reader.

• The Moon (reversed) - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.
• Judgment - When this card becomes inactive, if a single Reader has five or more Auras, and also more Auras than each other Reader, then that Reader has achieved victory.
• Three of Wands - While active, any Reader whose Fate is lowest or tied for lowest among all Readers may Invoke the Aura of Virtue.

• The Fool - While active, Readers are not considered to have Power Cards.
• The Moon (reversed) - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.
• Judgment - When this card becomes inactive, if a single Reader has five or more Auras, and also more Auras than each other Reader, then that Reader has achieved victory.

• Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen. (A 1 was rolled.)
• The Fool - While active, Readers are not considered to have Power Cards.
• The Moon - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.

With no posts or comments in over a week, Tantusar is idled out. Quorum drops to 3.

Reword the effect of the Ace of Pentacles to:-

While active, if a Reader has had a Proposal enact in the previous 24 hours, they may gain the Aura of Health.

• Eight of Cups - When drawn, immediately draw another Card.
• Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen. (A 1 was rolled.)
• The Fool - While active, Readers are not considered to have Power Cards.

Add the following new cards to the list in “Drawing”, immediately before the first Arcana Card:-

• Queen of Cups - While active, a Reader may replace a Cup card in their Discards with an Unrevealed Major Arcana card.
• Queen of Wands - While active, if a Reader would gain Auras from a Divination, they may gain 1 additional Aura of their choice.
• Queen of Pentacles - While active, a Reader with the Aura of Health may gain the Aura of Power.
• Queen of Swords - While active, a Reader required to randomly select something (excluding the act of drawing a Card) may instead do so non-randomly.
• The High Priestess - While active, if they have not done so since the most recent Drawing of a Card, a Reader may Cast their Power Card: if that Card has any effect when drawn or when it becomes inactive, those effects occur (in the order they appear on the card) upon Casting it.

Then, in “Face Values”, replace “If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is not a number, then its Rank is 13 and its Suit is Y.” with:-

If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is not a number, then its Rank is 11 (if X is the word “Page”), 12 (if X is “Queen”) or 13 (if X is any other value), and its Suit is Y.

Then, in “Face Values”, replace “All other cards have a Rank of 14 and a Suit of “Arcana”.” with “All other cards have a Rank of 14 and a Suit of “Major Arcana”.”

• Seven of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may swap it with a Card of the same or lower Rank from any Reader’s Discards.
• Eight of Cups - When drawn, immediately draw another Card.
• Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen. (A 1 was rolled.)

Reword the effect of the Page of Wands, if it exists, to:-

While active, a Reader with no Auras may gain the Aura of Health, Riches or Power.

Add the following to the list of Cards, just before the first Arcana Card, numbered appropriately:

1. Page of Cups - While active, as a Daily Action, a Reader may Invoke any Aura.
2. Page of Swords - While active, all Readers are Chosen.
3. Page of Wands - When drawn, if any Readers are Chosen and there are at least as many Unrevealed Cards as there are Chosen Readers, add one Unrevealed Card to the Discard pile of each Chosen Reader. (Start with the highest-numbered Unrevealed Card in this list and the Chosen Reader who appears last in the GNDT table, then work upward, for these assignments.)
4. Page of Pentacles - When this Card becomes inactive, if any Readers are Chosen, those Readers gain the Aura of Virtue; if no Readers are Chosen, instead, all Readers gain the Aura of Virtue.
5. Temperance - While active, no Reader may gain an Aura that at least one other Reader does not already have.

If two Cards would have conflicting effects, and both are equally specific, the Card that appears later in the list above takes precedence.

In “Face Values”, replace “If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is not a number, then its Rank is 13 and its Suit is Y.” with:-

If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is not a number, then its Rank is 11 (if X is the word “Page”), 12 (if X is “Queen”) or 13 (if X is anything else).

Add the following new cards to the list in “Drawing”, immediately after the “nine” cards:-

• Ten of Cups - While active, any Reader may give the Aura of Love to every Reader who does not already have it.
• Ten of Wands - While active, a Reader with a Fate of 10 or more may gain the Aura of Health.
• Ten of Pentacles - While active, a Reader may remove a card from their Discard pile with a Rank of 5 or higher to gain the Aura of Wealth.
• Ten of Swords - While active, no Reader is considered to be Chosen (this overrules all other Cards).
• The Hierophant - While active, the Reader with the highest Fate may veto proposals as if they were the High Arcanist.

• Four of Pentacles (reversed) - While active, if any Reader would lose an Aura, they instead do not lose it.
• Five of Pentacles - While active, a Reader who has no Pentacle cards in their Discard pile may not declare victory.
• Seven of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may swap it with a Card of the same or lower Rank from any Reader’s Discards.

Add the following cards after the cards of rank eight, in “Drawing”:-

• Nine of Cups - While active, any Reader may Invoke any Aura possessed by another Reader.
• Nine of Swords - When drawn, all Reversed cards become Upright; then, any Reader with the Aura of Dreams loses all of their Auras.
• Nine of Pentacles - While active, any Reader may replace a card in their Discard pile with an Unrevealed Pentacle Card of the same or lower Rank.
• Nine of Wands - While active, a Reader with exactly five Auras may gain the Aura of Power.
• The Hanged Man - When drawn, all Upright Major Arcana in the Spread become Reversed. While active, if a Major Arcana card would be drawn Upright, it is instead drawn Reversed.

• Five of Cups (reversed) - When this card becomes inactive, each Reader loses the leftmost card from their Discard pile (if they have any cards in their Discard pile).
• Four of Pentacles (reversed) - While active, if any Reader would lose an Aura, they instead do not lose it.
• Five of Pentacles - While active, a Reader who has no Pentacle cards in their Discard pile may not declare victory.

In the rule “Auras”, add an effect to the aura “Dreams”:-

(The Aura of Dreams cannot be replaced by Invoking.)

• Five of Wands (reversed) - While active, drawing a card becomes a Daily Action instead of a Daily Communal Action.
• Five of Cups (reversed) - When this card becomes inactive, each Reader loses the leftmost card from their Discard pile (if they have any cards in their Discard pile).
• Four of Pentacles (reversed) - While active, if any Reader would lose an Aura, they instead do not lose it.

Add a new card to the end of the list in “Drawing”:-

• Judgment - When this card becomes inactive, if a single Reader has five or more Auras, and also more Auras than each other Reader, then that Reader has achieved victory.

• Six of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, make all other Upright Cards in the Spread Reversed, and make all other Reversed Cards in the Spread Upright (both including the Card that was just drawn).
• Five of Wands - While active, drawing a card becomes a Daily Action instead of a Daily Communal Action.
• Five of Cups - When this card becomes inactive, each Reader loses the leftmost card from their Discard pile (if they have any cards in their Discard pile).

• Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen. (A 2 was rolled.)
• Six of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, make all other Upright Cards in the Spread Reversed, and make all other Reversed Cards in the Spread Upright (both including the Card that was just drawn).
• Five of Wands - While active, drawing a card becomes a Daily Action instead of a Daily Communal Action.

Move the Cards “The Lovers,” “The Moon,” “Wheel of Fortune,” “Death,” and “The World” to the bottom of the list of Cards.

Add the following to the list of Cards, after the Cards of rank seven, numbered appropriately:

1. Eight of Cups - When drawn, immediately draw another Card.
2. Eight of Swords - While active, any Reader who does not have a Sword in their Discard pile may add any Unrevealed Sword to their Discard pile.
3. Eight of Pentacles - While active, if any Reader has a total Rank of Cards in their Divination that is an odd number, that Reader is Chosen.
4. Eight of Wands - When this card becomes inactive, for every Reader who has a Divination but does not have the leftmost Card in that Divination in their Discard pile:  if that leftmost Card is Unrevealed, add it to that Reader’s Discard pile.
5. The Magician - When drawn, move one random Card from each Reader’s Discard pile (where possible) to the High Arcanist’s Discard pile. Then, as long as there are fewer Cards in the High Arcanist’s Discard pile than there are Readers (and any Unrevealed Cards), add a random Unrevealed Card to the High Arcanist’s Discard pile. Then, for each Reader besides the High Arcanist, pick a random Card in the High Arcanist’s Discard pile and move it to the Reader’s Discard pile.

If the Card “Seven of Cups” exists, change the sentence in its description that reads “While active, any Reader may gain the Aura of Dreams and any other Aura.” to

While active, any Reader who does not have the Aura of Dreams may gain the Aura of Dreams and any other Aura.

I am writing this post to announce my intent to become a player of blognomic at this time.
I hope that this arrangement will be to the benefit of all involved.

I shall be playing under the name archon.

To “Divination”, add:-

If a Reader (the “Thwarted Reader”) has a Card in their Divination which also appears in another Reader’s Divination or Discard pile, then the Thwarted Reader may replace that Card in their Divination with a random Unrevealed Card.

Add the following cards after the cards of rank six, in “Drawing”:-

• Seven of Cups - While active, any Reader may gain the Aura of Dreams and any other Aura. When this card becomes inactive, any Reader with the Aura of Dreams loses all of their Auras.
• Seven of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may swap it with a Card of the same or lower Rank from any Reader’s Discards.
• Seven of Pentacles - While active, a Reader may Lift to Replace a Pentacle Card even if they have already done so since the most recent Drawing of a Card.
• Seven of Wands - While active, a Reader may not take actions which affect the Auras or Discards of Readers who have a Wand card in their Discards.
• The Fool - While active, Readers are not considered to have Power Cards.

Add an Aura called “Dreams” to the bulleted list in the rule “Auras”.

In “Discards”, replace “and applied only to them” with:-

and all instances of “Reader” or “Readers” in its ability referred only to themselves

• Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.
• Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen. (A 2 was rolled.)
• Six of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, make all other Upright Cards in the Spread Reversed, and make all other Reversed Cards in the Spread Upright (both including the Card that was just drawn).

• Three of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, any Reader whose fate is highest or tied for highest among all Readers loses any Shadow they have.
• Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.
• Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen. (A 2 was rolled.)

Add the following to the list of Cards, numbered appropriately:

1. Six of Cups - While active, any Reader who is Chosen may, as a Weekly Action, gain one Aura of their choice.
2. Six of Swords - When drawn, trigger any other “when drawn” effects of other Cards already in the Spread (not counting the one that just became inactive).
3. Six of Wands - While active, any Reader with an even number of cards in their Discard pile is Chosen.
4. Six of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, make all other Upright Cards in the Spread Reversed, and make all other Reversed Cards in the Spread Upright (both including the Card that was just drawn).

In “Drawing”, replace “choose to gain the Aura of” with “Invoke the Aura of” throughout, and replace “may gain the Aura of Virtue” with “may Invoke the Aura of Virtue”.

In “Auras”, replace “If a Reader chooses to gain an Aura as a result of an active Card effect, they immediately lose all other Auras.” with:-

When a Reader Invokes an Aura, they may either gain that Aura (if they have no Auras), or replace an Aura they already have with that Aura.

In “Discards”, replace “Add an Unrevealed card of rank zero in the rightmost position of their Discard pile.” with:-

Add any Unrevealed card in the rightmost position of their Discard pile, where its Rank is the lowest Rank among all Unrevealed Cards. (This action may not be taken by a Reader who already has three or more Cards in their Discard pile.)

Add the following to the list of Shadows:

• Tragedy - A Reader with Tragedy may, once per dynasty, put all Unrevealed Cards into any Reader’s Discard pile. A Reader with Tragedy may not make a Declaration of Victory.
• Trepidation - A Reader with Trepidation may, once per dynasty, send a private message to the High Arcanist requesting to see Shadows; the High Arcanist should respond as soon as possible with a list of all active Readers and any Shadows they have. A Reader with Trepidation may not choose to gain an Aura as a result of an active Card effect.

For each Reader who includes the word “shadow” in their EVC on this proposal, as soon as possible after it is enacted, the High Arcanist must select a random Shadow via a private method of their choice and assign it to that Reader.

• The World - When active, any Reader may post a comment on the most recent Spread linking to another web page which links back to that Spread (and which no Reader has previously linked to in this way): upon doing so, they gain the Aura of Acclaim.
• Three of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, any Reader whose fate is highest or tied for highest among all Readers loses any Shadow they have.
• Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.

Add the following cards after the cards of rank four, in “Drawing”:-

• Five of Cups - When this card becomes inactive, each Reader loses the leftmost card from their Discard pile (if they have any cards in their Discard pile).
• Five of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile (which is not this card) may remove that card from their Discards to remove a card of the same or lower Rank from any Reader’s Discards.
• Five of Pentacles - While active, a Reader who has no Pentacle cards in their Discard pile may not declare victory.
• Five of Wands - While active, drawing a card becomes a Daily Action instead of a Daily Communal Action.
• The Lovers - While active, any Reader may give themselves and another Reader the Aura of Love.

In “Discards”, replace “Add an Unrevealed card of rank zero to their Discard pile.” with:-

Add any Unrevealed card to their Discard pile, where its Rank is the lowest Rank among all Unrevealed Cards.

In the description of Three of Pentacles and Three of Wands in the rule “Drawing”, replace “rank” with “fate” (case insensitive).

• The Moon - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.
• The World - When active, any Reader may post a comment on the most recent Spread linking to another web page which links back to that Spread (and which no Reader has previously linked to in this way): upon doing so, they gain the Aura of Acclaim.
• Three of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, any Reader whose fate is highest or tied for highest among all Readers loses any Shadow they have.

To “Discards”, replace “Add an Unrevealed card of rank zero to their Discard pile.” with:-

Add an Unrevealed card of rank zero in the rightmost position of their Discard pile.

And add a new bullet point:

Reposition any card in their Discard pile to become the pile’s leftmost card.

Then after the bulleted list add:-

The leftmost card in a Reader’s Discard pile is their Power Card. At any time, the Reader may choose to act as if their Power Card were active and applied only to them.

In all card effects, replace “card in their Discard pile” with “card in their Discard pile (which is not this card)”.

• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• The Moon - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.
• The World - When active, any Reader may post a comment on the most recent Spread linking to another web page which links back to that Spread (and which no Reader has previously linked to in this way): upon doing so, they gain the Aura of Acclaim.

Enact a new rule, “Earthrise”:

Whenever a card would be Drawn at random and The World is Unrevealed, The World is Drawn instead. If The World is in the Spread, any Reader may repeal this rule.

• Ace of Wands - When active, all Unrevealed cards are considered to have a Rank one lower than their printed Rank.
• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• The Moon - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.

Add the following card to the end of the list in “Drawing”:-

• The World - When active, any Reader may post a comment on the most recent Spread linking to another web page which links back to that Spread (and which no Reader has previously linked to in this way): upon doing so, they gain the Aura of Acclaim.

To the rule “Auras”, add:-

A Reader cannot have more than one of the same Aura at any given time, nor gain an Aura which they have already gained since the most recent Drawing of a Card.

Josh quietly went idle, now Thrawn becomes idle due to inactivity, so quorum drops to 3.

• Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.
• Ace of Wands - When active, all Unrevealed cards are considered to have a Rank one lower than their printed Rank.
• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.

Add a subrule to “Drawing” called “Reverses”:-

Each Card is either Upright or Reversed, defaulting to Upright. If a Card is Reversed, this must be noted in the post or comments of any Spread in which that Card appears. While a Card is Reversed, it is not considered to have any immediate or ongoing effects.

When a Reversed Card no longer appears in the Spread, it becomes Upright.

Add an effect to the Aura of Virtue:

(A Reader with Virtue may Reverse a single Upright card in the current Spread, by commenting on the Spread post to that effect. Upon doing so, they lose the Aura of Virtue.)

• Two of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may choose to gain the Aura of Power at any time.
• Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.
• Ace of Wands - When active, all Unrevealed cards are considered to have a Rank one lower than their printed Rank.

Create a new rule called “Schemes” as follows:

Each Reader may, at any one time, be involved in zero, one or two active Schemes; any given Scheme may involve two or three Readers.

The purpose of a Scheme is to gain its participants standing within the College of Divination. To start a Scheme, as a Daily Action, one of its participants creates a new Story Post with a list of participants, a short description, and a list of criteria (which are either a Suit or Rank of Card). For example:

Story Post: The Tower Scheme by Readername, Othername, and Thirdname

Certain members of the College wish to see it come to pass that the prevailing interpretation of the Tower is disproven, embarrassing its author and accrediting its skeptics. Criteria:

1. A Card of Rank 14
2. A Sword
3. A Card of Rank 0

Each time a Card is drawn via Daily Communal Action, a Scheme may advance if the Card so drawn matches the topmost unmatched criterion in its list. Once a given criterion is matched by a drawn card, it stays matched, and the next criterion is ready for matching. A single Card may only match one criterion per Scheme.

Once all criteria in an active Scheme have been matched, any of its participants may conclude it. To do so, they select a random Aura and add it to the Auras of each participant in the Scheme; this does not cause any of them to lose their other Auras. Once any participant has concluded the Scheme, it is no longer an active Scheme.

All participants in a Scheme must have consented to involvement in it before the Scheme is created; otherwise it is never a valid Scheme.

• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• Two of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may choose to gain the Aura of Power at any time.
• Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.

De-italicise all text in this proposal.

Remove the items “Can”, “May”, “May not”, “Shall” and “Should” from the Glossary.

Remove the items “Daily Action”, “Daily Communal Action”, “Weekly Action” and “Weekly Communal Action” from the Glossary.

Add a new rule to the glossary, entitled Imperatives and Frequencies:

An Action is any activity that the ruleset specifically permits Readers to carry out, and regulates the usage of.

The ruleset regulates the usage of Actions through Imperatives and Frequencies. A Frequency defines how frequently an Action may be undertaken by each Reader. An Imperative defines the circumstances within which Readers can undertake an Action. The keywords used below to describe Imperatives and Frequencies are only keywords in that context when they apply to Actions, as defined in this rule. In all other situations, they take their regular English meaning.

Add a sub-rule to that rule, entitled Imperatives:

Imperatives in use within BlogNomic are as follows:

• Can or May: A Reader is permitted to carry out this Action at any time, with no restrictions beyond those otherwise explicitly defined by the Ruleset.
• Should: A Reader is required to carry out this Action at their first opportunity. The “should” imperative confers flexibility upon the gamestate but not the Reader; a Reader is required to treat the “should” imperative upon an Action that applies to themselves as if it were a “must”, but their failure to do so does not put the gamestate into an illegal state. The failure of a Reader to carry out an Action with a “should” imperative may be the subject of a CfJ, if it cannot otherwise be trivially resolved, but such a CfJ may not present a retroactive remedy.
• Must or Shall: A Reader is required to carry out this Action before they undertake any further Actions (unless the further Action in question is raising a CfJ, per the clause elsewhere in this rule). It is suggested that this Imperative is primarily used for subordinate Actions or steps undertaken in the carrying out of other Actions. If a Reader is subject to two or more “must” imperatives at the same time then they may undertake them in any order that they chose.

The gamestate is in an illegal state if it reflects the results of an Action that was carried out illegally. “Resolving the Illegality” means correcting the illegally carried-out Action and any subsequent Actions that relied upon that Action for their legality or legitimacy. If the gamestate is in an illegal state due to a clear and unambiguous error, and there are no subsequent Actions that would be rendered illegal by correcting that error, and if doing so does not pre-empt a requirement upon the Reader who caused the error to make some form of decision, then any Reader may amend the gamestate to Resolve the Illegality. Otherwise, any Reader should seek to Resolve the Illegality by means of a CfJ If the gamestate has been in an illegal state for seven days due to an Reader’s failure to carry out an action with a “Must” imperative, and no CfJ has been raised that attempts to Resolve the Illegality; or if the gamestate has been in an illegal state for fourteen days, and no CfJ has passed that attempts to Resolve the Illegality; or if a CfJ or Reader Action Resolves the Illegality, then the gamestate ceases to be in an illegal state and the failure to carry out that action is considered legal.

No part of this rule restricts Readers from posting a CfJ, under any circumstances.

In that event that any Imperative is immediately followed by the word “not”, it instead means that the described Action is strictly forbidden under the stated circumstances, or under all circumstances if not further qualified.

Add another new subrule to the rule “Imperatives and Frequencies”, entitled Frequencies:

Frequencies in use in BlogNomic are as follows:

• Daily: A Reader may carry out this Action once per Day, but not more than once in any four-hour period.
• Bi-daily: A Reader may carry out this Action once every two Days, but not more than once in any twelve-hour period.
• Weekly: A Reader may carry out this Action once every Week, but not more than once in any twenty-four-hour period.

Action frequencies may be modified as follows:

• Communal: Any Action that is marked as Communal may only be carried out by a single Reader in the stated Frequency period.
• X-Usage: Any Action that is marked as X-Usage, where X is any integer, may be carried out X times in its Frequency period.

In “Ruleset and Gamestate”, change “The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset” to “The Ruleset and Gamestate must only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset”.

In “Resolution of Proposals”, change “If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and can be failed by any Admin” to “If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and should be failed by any Admin”.

In “Seasonal Downtime”, change “During this time no game actions may be taken” to “During this time game actions may not be taken”.

In “Drawing”, remove “choose to” and “at any time” in items 5, 6 and 7 in the numbered list.

In “Discards”, change “then any Reader may remove all the Cards from each Reader’s Discard pile” to ” then any Reader should remove all the Cards from each Reader’s Discard pile”.

In “Fair Play”, change all instances of “should” in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th bullets to “must”.

In “Divination”, replace “If ever a Reader has all of the Cards in their Divination in their own Discard pile then they may gain the Aura of Luck.” with:

If ever a Reader has all of the Cards in their Divination in their own Discard pile then they may gain a number of Auras equal to the square root (rounding down) of the total Rank of the cards in their Divination, and then remove all cards from their Divination.

In “Auras”, replace “If a Reader chooses to gain an Aura, they immediately lose all other Auras.” with:-

If a Reader chooses to gain an Aura as a result of an active Card effect, they immediately lose all other Auras.

In the rule “Drawing”, after “If there is at least one Unrevealed Card, then any Reader may draw a new Card as a Daily Communal Action” add ” unless they were the last Reader who performed this action”.

Add the following new cards to the list in “Drawing”, immediately after the “three” cards:-

• Four of Cups - When this card becomes inactive, any Reader with a Fate of zero loses all of their Auras.
• Four of Wands - While active, when a Reader would Draw a Card, they may choose to select an Unrevealed Card from their Divination instead of selecting one at random.
• Four of Pentacles - While active, if any Reader would lose an Aura, they instead do not lose it.
• Four of Swords - While active, any card immediately before or after it in the Spread is considered to have no active effect.
• The Moon - While active, any Reader may gain or lose a Shadow by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect.

When this card becomes inactive, all Readers lose all Auras.

• Zero of Wands - Has no effect.
• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• Two of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may choose to gain the Aura of Power at any time.

Create a new rule called “Marks” as follows:

Each Reader may have zero or more Marks; this is tracked in the GNDT. By default, a Reader has no Marks. A Mark is the name of a specific Card. If a Reader has a Mark of a given Card, that Reader may act as if that Card is active at any time.

A Mark does not change that Card’s Revealed or Unrevealed status. Ongoing effects from a Mark apply only to the Reader with that Mark, unless that Card is active in the Spread. A Reader with the Mark of a given Card may not use a Mark to act as if that Card had just been drawn or discarded.

Add the following to the list of Cards in the rule “Drawing,” just before Death, numbered appropriately:

1. Two of Wands - When this card becomes inactive, all Readers gain the Aura of Acclaim.
2. Three of Wands - While active, any Reader whose Rank is lowest or tied for lowest among all Readers may gain the Aura of Virtue.
3. Three of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword in their Discard pile may choose to lose all Auras.
4. Three of Pentacles - When this card becomes inactive, any Reader whose rank is highest or tied for highest among all Readers loses any Shadow they have.
5. Three of Cups - When drawn, randomly roll DICE2 in the GNDT. While active, if 1 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an odd number of characters in their username is Chosen; if 2 was rolled when the Card was drawn, any Reader with an even number of characters in their username is Chosen.
6. Wheel of Fortune - When drawn, choose a different random Unrevealed Card for each Reader and add it to their Discard pile. If there are fewer Unrevealed Cards than Readers, instead, all Cards are removed from all Discard piles.

Replace the word “Virtue” in the description of the Two of Pentacles with the word “Health.”

Change the effects of the Two of Cups, Two of Swords and Two of Pentacles to:-

• Two of Cups - While active, any Reader with a Cup card in their Discard pile may choose to gain the Aura of Riches at any time.
• Two of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may choose to gain the Aura of Power at any time.
• Two of Pentacles - While active, any Reader with a Pentacle card in their Discard pile may choose to gain the Aura of Virtue at any time.

To “Shadows”, add:-

A Reader with no Shadow may Approach a Shadow at any time by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect. Exactly 48 hours after a Reader Approaches a Shadow, that Reader gains that Shadow.

A Reader who has a Shadow or has Approached one should pretend that this is not the case, when communicating with other Readers.

Add a new Aura to the list in “Auras”:-

• Luck. (A Reader with Luck may, when drawing a card for the Daily Communal Action, draw an Unrevealed Card of their choice instead of a random Card. Upon doing so, they lose this Aura.)

Reword the effect of “Treachery” to:-

A Reader with Treachery may, once per dynasty, gain the Aura of Luck. A Reader with Treachery who achieves Victory and makes a successful DoV may not pass the role of High Arcanist to any other Reader.

In “Divination”, change “If ever a Reader has all of the Cards in their Divination in their own Discard pile then they may once gain a Shadow of their choice, by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect, then Shuffling.” to:-

If ever a Reader has all of the Cards in their Divination in their own Discard pile then they may gain the Aura of Luck.

• Death - When drawn, all Readers lose all Auras.
• Zero of Wands - Has no effect.
• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.

Add the following new cards to the list in “Drawing”, immediately after the “zero” cards:-

• Ace of Cups - When active, if a Reader would Draw a Card and there are any Unrevealed Cup Cards, a random card is not selected and a random Unrevealed Cup Card is drawn instead.
• Ace of Wands - When active, all Unrevealed cards are considered to have a Rank one lower than their printed Rank.
• Ace of Pentacles - When drawn, the Reader drawing it selects a random Suit and a random Rank from 3 to 10: if no card exists of that Rank and Suit, that card is added to the list of cards, with an effect of “Has no effect.”.
• Ace of Swords - When active, no Reader may pass the role of High Arcanist to another Reader after a successful DoV.

After “If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is a number, then its Rank is X and its Suit is Y.” add:-

(The word “Ace” is considered to be a number equal to 1.)

And to the end of that paragraph, add:

A Card’s “printed” Rank and Suit are those recorded in this rule.

Repeal the rule “Sleeves”.

Remove “Add the Card that was Removed from the Spread (i.e. the first card from the previous Spread) to their Discard pile.” from the rule “Drawing”.

After the first paragraph of “Discards”, add:-

If they have not done so since the most recent Drawing of a card, a Reader may Lift a card. Upon doing so, they may choose to either:-

• Add an Unrevealed card of rank zero to their Discard pile.
• Replace a card in their Discard pile with an Unrevealed card which is exactly one rank higher than it.

Remove all cards from all Readers’ Discard piles.

In the rule 3.2 “Gamestate Tracking”, change

No entry may be more than one of the following official types of post: Votable Matters, and Idling Post.

to

Any single official post cannot be of two different types of official post unless a rule explicitly states otherwise.

Remove the items “Can”, “May”, “May not”, “Shall” and “Should” from the Glossary.

Remove the items “Daily Action”, “Daily Communal Action”, “Weekly Action” and “Weekly Communal Action” from the Glossary.

Add a new rule to the glossary, entitled Imperatives and Frequencies:

An Action is any activity that the ruleset specifically permits Readers to carry out, and regulates the usage of.

The ruleset regulates the usage of Actions through Imperatives and Frequencies. A Frequency defines how frequently an Action may be undertaken by each Reader. An Imperative defines the circumstances within which Readers can undertake an Action. The keywords used below to describe Imperatives and Frequencies are only keywords in that context when they apply to Actions, as defined in this rule. In all other situations, they take their regular English meaning.

Add a sub-rule to that rule, entitled Imperatives:

Imperatives in use within BlogNomic are as follows:

• Can or May: A Reader can carry out this Action at any time, with no restrictions beyond those otherwise explicitly defined by the Ruleset.
• Should: A Reader should carry out this Action at their first opportunity. The “should” imperative confers flexibility upon the gamestate but not the Reader; a Reader must treat the “should” imperative upon an Action that applies to themselves as if it were a “must”, but their failure to do so does not put the gamestate into an illegal state. The failure of a Reader to carry out an Action with a “should” imperative may be the subject of a CfJ, if it cannot otherwise be trivially resolved, but such a CfJ may not present a retroactive remedy.
• Must or Shall: A Reader must carry out this Action before any further Actions are taken, and their failure to do so would put the gamestate into an illegal position. It is suggested that this Imperative is primarily used for subordinate Actions or steps undertaken in the carrying out of other Actions.

If the gamestate has been in an illegal state for seven days due to an Reader’s failure to carry out an action with a “Must” imperative, and no CfJ has been raised that identifies and seeks to remedy that failure; or if the gamestate has been in an illegal state for fourteen days, and no CfJ that identifies and seeks to remedy that failure has passed, or if the the gamestate is in an illegal state due to an Reader’s failure to carry out an action and that Reader has since become idle due to inactivity without carrying out any subsequent Actions, then the gamestate ceases to be in an illegal state and the failure to carry out that action is considered legal.

In that event that any Imperative is immediately followed by the word “not”, it instead means that the described Action is strictly forbidden under the stated circumstances, or under all circumstances if not further qualified.

Add another new subrule to the rule “Imperatives and Frequencies”, entitled Frequencies:

Frequencies in use in BlogNomic are as follows:

• Daily: A Reader may carry out this Action once per Day, but not more than once in any four-hour period.
• Bi-daily: A Reader may carry out this Action once every two Days, but not more than once in any twelve-hour period.
• Weekly: A Reader may carry out this Action once every Week, but not more than once in any twenty-four-hour period.

Action frequencies may be modified as follows:

• Communal: Any Action that is marked as Communal may only be carried out by a single Reader in the stated Frequency period.
• X-Usage: Any Action that is marked as X-Usage, where X is any integer, may be carried out X times in its Frequency period.

In “Ruleset and Gamestate”, change “The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset” to “The Ruleset and Gamestate must only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset”.

In “Resolution of Proposals”, change “If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and can be failed by any Admin” to “If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and should be failed by any Admin”.

In “Seasonal Downtime”, change “During this time no game actions may be taken” to “During this time game actions may not be taken”.

In “Drawing”, remove “choose to” and “at any time” in items 5, 6 and 7 in the numbered list.

In “Discards”, change “then any Reader may remove all the Cards from each Reader’s Discard pile” to ” then any Reader should remove all the Cards from each Reader’s Discard pile”.

In “Fair Play”, change all instances of “should” in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th bullets to “must”.

To “Face Values”, add:-

If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is a number, then its Rank is X and its Suit is Y. If a Card’s name is of the format “X of Y”, where X is not a number, then its Rank is 13 and its Suit is Y. All other cards have a Rank of 14 and a Suit of “Arcana”.

To “Discards”, add:-

A Reader’s Fate is equal to the total Rank of all cards in their Discard pile.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Scrying:

Each Reader has a Diviniation, which is tracked in the GNDT. A Divination must be either the names of three different Cards, or blank. Divinations default to blank.

As a daily action, a Reader may Scry. To do so, they must first clear any existing Divination they may have, then roll three DICEX, where X is the total number of cards, rerolling any duplicated values. The numbers so rolled indicates, by means of comparison against the numbered list in the rule entitled “Drawing”, the Cards that that Reader must then add to their Divination.

If ever a Reader has all of the Cards in their Divination in their own Discard pile then they may once gain a Shadow of their choice, by sending a direct message to the High Arcanist to that effect, then Shuffling.

• Zero of Swords - Has no effect.
• Death - When drawn, all Readers lose all Auras.
• Zero of Wands - Has no effect.

Quorum drops to 4 since delcooper11 goes idle after a week of inactivity.

Add a new subrule called “Shadows” to the rule “Auras” with the following text:

In addition to Auras, a Reader may have a Shadow, which is not publicly tracked but is known to the Reader themself and the High Arcanist. By default, a Reader has no Shadow. Each Shadow gives the Reader a one-time-use ability as well as a restriction on their actions. The list of Shadows and their effects is as follows:

• Treachery - A Reader with Treachery may, exactly once, when drawing a card for the Daily Communal Action, draw an Unrevealed Card of their choice instead of a random Card. A Reader with Treachery who achieves Victory and makes a successful DoV may not pass the role of High Arcanist to any other Reader.

Change the bulleted list of Cards in the rule “Drawing” to a numbered list.

Rename the Card “Zero of Staves” to “Zero of Swords.”

In “Drawing”, replace “As a Daily Communal Action, any Reader may draw a new Card.” with:-

If there is at least one Unrevealed Card, then any Reader may draw a new Card as a Daily Communal Action.

To “Discards”, add:-

If there are no Unrevealed Cards, then any Reader may remove all the Cards from each Reader’s Discard pile.

• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• Zero of Staves - Has no effect.
• Death - When drawn, all Readers lose all Auras.

Add a new rule called “Auras” with the following text:

Each Reader has zero or more Auras, which are tracked as a text field in the GNDT. By default, a Reader has no Auras. If a Reader chooses to gain an Aura, they immediately lose all other Auras. The list of possible Auras is as follows:

• Health
• Riches
• Love
• Power
• Virtue
• Acclaim

Add to the end of the list in the rule “Drawing” the following Cards (numbered as appropriate):

1. Two of Cups - While active, all Readers may choose to gain the Aura of Riches at any time.
2. Two of Swords - While active, all Readers may choose to gain the Aura of Power at any time.
3. Two of Pentacles - While active, all Readers may choose to gain the Aura of Virtue at any time.
4. Death - When drawn, all Readers lose all Auras.

Rename the zero of Staves to the zero of Swords.

Add a new card to the bulleted list in “Drawing”:-

• Ace of Wands - Invention. While the Ace of Wands is active, Quorum is reduced by 1 for the purposes of enacting any pending proposal whose only effect would be to add one or more Cards to the ruleset.

• Zero of Pentacles - Has no effect.
• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• Zero of Staves - Has no effect.

Rename the zero of Staves to the zero of Swords.

Add a new card to the bulleted list in “Drawing”:-

• Ace of Wands - Invention. While the Ace of Wands is active, the High Arcanist is always considered to be voting FOR any pending proposals whose only effect would be to add one or more Cards to the ruleset.

If Proposal: Bare-Faced Lies failed, this proposal does nothing.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Sleeves:

Each Reader has a Sleeve, in which they may store up to one Card. The Card stored in each Reader’s Sleeve is tracked in the GNDT. Cards in Sleeves are always Revealed.

As a weekly action, each Player may move any Card in their Sleeve to their Discard pile.

As a weekly action, each Reader may Load their Sleeve by rolling DICEX, where X is the number of Unrevealed Cards. The number so rolled indicated the Card that is drawn from the Deck, in the same manner as set out in the rule entitled “Drawing”. The Reader must then add the indicated Card to their Sleeve.

If Proposal: Chewing the Baize passed, revert it.

In the rule entitled “Drawing”, replace “where X is the number of Cards in the Deck” with “where X is the number of Unrevealed Cards”. In the subsequent sentence, change “skipping over any Cards that are currently in the Spread” to “skipping any Cards that are currently Revealed”.

Add a rule to the ruleset as a sub-rule to the rule “Drawing”, entitled “Face Values”:

Each Card can be Revealed or Unrevealed. Unless otherwise stated by the Ruleset, a Card is always Unrevealed. Any Card that is in the Spread or any Discard pile is always Revealed.

Add the following to the numbered list of actions a Reader must undertake upon posting a new Spread, as item #4:

Add the Card that was Removed from the Spread (i.e. the first card from the previous Spread) to their Discard pile.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Discards:

Each Reader has a personal Discard pile, which is tracked in the GNDT.

As a weekly action, a Reader can Shuffle, by removing all Cards from their Discard pile.

In “Drawing”, replace “where X is the number of Cards in the Deck” with:-

where X is the number of Cards in the Deck which are not currently in the Spread

And reformat the bulleted list beneath “The list of Cards is as follows” as a numbered list.

And is replaced by Aname. Quorum remains 4.

If the proposal “The Deal” has not passed, this proposal has no effect.

Add to the rule “Drawing” the following:

As a Daily Communal Action, any Reader may draw a new Card. To do so, they first roll DICEX in the GNDT, where X is the number of Cards in the Deck. The number so rolled indicates the new Card that will be drawn, taken in order starting at the top of the list of cards above, skipping over any Cards that are currently in the Spread. The Reader then makes a new Story Post called “The Spread,” listing the new Spread, which goes in the following order: the second Card from the previous Spread, if any; the third Card from the previous Spread, if any; and the newly drawn Card. Only the latest Spread has any effect on the gamestate.

Upon posting a new Spread, the Reader creating it must take the following actions in this order:

1. Resolve any discard effects from Cards that were in the previous Spread but have become inactive.
2. Resolve any effects from the newly Drawn card becoming active.
3. Adjust the gamestate based on the new set of ongoing effects from the new Spread.

The admin who enacts this proposal must also create a new Story Post called “The Spread” and draw three Cards of their choice from the current Deck, thus creating the first Spread.

Create a new dynastic rule, “Drawing,” as follows:

There exist a number of Cards that govern the influence of the arcane over the gamestate. At any time, up to three distinct Cards may be active, chosen from the list in this rule. A Card may have an immediate effect when drawn (becoming active), an ongoing effect while active, and/or an immediate effect when about to be discarded (becoming inactive).

The set of all cards herein, minus any Cards that are currently active, is the Deck. The set of all Cards that are currently active is the Spread.

The list of Cards is as follows:

• Zero of Cups - Has no effect.
• Zero of Wands - Has no effect.
• Zero of Pentacles - Has no effect.
• Zero of Staves - Has no effect.

Dear Brethren,

It is with humility and gratitude that I accept the burden of becoming spiritual leader to our flock. I take this responsibility with grave importance, and will do my best to uphold the ancient tradition of sacrifice and devotion that has been settled upon my shoulders. Bless you, and bless all our people.

Upon consideration, though, Christianity is a bit silly, and I got a deck of tarot cards for Michaelmas so we’re going to try that instead.

Repeal all Dynastic Rules. Replace “Pope” with “High Arcanist” and “Cardinal” with “Reader” throughout the Ruleset.

A blog post to allow players to discuss the last dynasty, now that the DoV has closed.