Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] New Brooms

Quorums 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 31 Dec 2015 13:29:23 UTC

Add Kevan and Quirck to the Terminations Committee.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Proposal: Push Upstairs

Passes 2-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 31 Dec 2015 13:28:06 UTC

To “Committees”, add:-

Every Committee has the Power to Promote a member of its own Committee. To Promote a Clerk is to remove them from the Committee which Promoted them, and to add them to a Committee which has one fewer Seats than the Committee which Promoted them. This Power is Regulated.

Remove “, in addition to their existing Power,” from the rule.

Proposal: Wage Avoidance

Passes 2-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 31 Dec 2015 13:26:45 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Investment”:-

The Investment Committee has five seats. Its Power is to remove 1 Money from every Clerk (to a minimum of zero).

Perhaps we do all have too much money.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Proposal: [Motion F] Back to Work

Fewer than a Motion Quorum of Finance Committee members not voting against. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 29 Dec 2015 16:54:53 UTC

Pay every Clerk who has not already been Paid in the current week.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Reminder

Per rule 1.9, the game is now on break until December 27th.

Happy hiatus, everyone!

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] Fiscal Responsibility

Fails 1-2. — Quirck

Adminned at 28 Dec 2015 12:21:48 UTC

Add Tantusar to the Finance Committee.

Proposal: [Motion S] Downsizing

Reached quorum 3 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 22 Dec 2015 11:41:01 UTC

In the Executive Committee rule, replace “at least seven Employees” with “at least six Employees”.

Archoff

Archon idles after a week of inactivity. Quorum remains 3, Motion Quorum for the Supply Committee remains 2, and Motion Quorum for the Finance Committee drops to 1.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] Mandatory Fun

Reached quorum 3 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 21 Dec 2015 09:26:20 UTC

Add Josh, Kevan, Quirck and Tantusar to the Welcoming Committee.

Afraid I can’t risk adding Archon as well, as they’d send the Motion Out of Scope if they idled out (and they’re currently a day away from doing so).

Proposal: Motion Monopoly

Self-killed. — Quirck

Adminned at 19 Dec 2015 18:23:44 UTC

From the rule 2.2.1 “Resolution”, remove “it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, “.

Otherwise it can be argued that Executive Committee cannot award victory.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] Objection Objected To

Timed out 2 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 21 Dec 2015 09:25:10 UTC

Add Quirck, Josh and Tantusar to the Legal Committee.

New and improved formula for increased protein.

Proposal: What’s Good for Ford

Quorums 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 19 Dec 2015 12:40:09 UTC

In the rule “Executive”, replace “Its Power is to mandate that a single Clerk, who may not be a Clerk who is sitting on the Executive Committee, has an Executive Washroom Keycard.” with:-

Its Power is to mandate that a single Clerk has achieved victory, so long as there are at least seven Employees. (A Clerk is an Employee if they are not Idle; an Idle Clerk is an Employee if they went Idle within the previous seven days.)

Wiring in a victory condition, and requiring an active player base to trigger it (rather than otherwise encouraging a stagnant one by default), to see what happens. Awkward bracket clause is to prevent tactical idling to deny a win.

Proposal: [Motion R] Objection Sustained

Vetoed by Chairpersion. — Quirck

Adminned at 19 Dec 2015 12:37:56 UTC

Add Quirck, Kevan and Tantusar to the Legal Committee.

Early Holidays

Murphy and RaichuKFM have failed to post or comment in over a week, and both idle out. Quorum drops to 3. The Finance and Supply Committee Quorums also drop to 2, and Recruitment to 3.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Proposal: Doughnut Run

Passes 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 19 Dec 2015 12:37:13 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Welcoming”:-

The Welcoming Committee has six seats. Its Power is to award X Money to any number of Clerks, where X is the number of Clerks who have unidled or joined the game since the Welcoming Committee last awarded any Money in this manner (or since this rule enacted, if the Committee has never awarded any Money in this manner).

Proposal: [Motion F] Another Dollar

Passes 1-0. I consider Kevan’s and Josh’s votes valid but ignored, so it can be passed. — Quirck

Adminned at 19 Dec 2015 12:34:32 UTC

Pay every Clerk who has not already been Paid in the current week.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Proposal: T-1000

Timed out 2 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 18 Dec 2015 11:18:25 UTC

In the Terminations Committee rule, replace:

Its Power is to remove a single Clerk from a single Committee, other than the Terminations Committee, unless that Committee does not have more Members than Seats.

with:

Its power is to remove a single Clerk from a single Committee.

Powering up the Terminations Committee, which hasn’t had much interest.

Proposal: [Motion R] Peak Performance

Timed out 3 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 18 Dec 2015 11:17:20 UTC

Add Quirck, Kevan and Josh to the Performance Committee.

The three most active players.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Proposal: [Motion S] Leather Swivel Chair

Passes 2-1. — Quirck

Adminned at 14 Dec 2015 16:00:44 UTC

Make Kevan the Chairperson of the Supply Committee.

If this passes, I’ll transfer 0.7 Money to each member of the Supply Committee who voted for it.

Proposal: I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today

Passes 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 14 Dec 2015 15:59:23 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Performance”:-

The Performance Committee has five seats. Its power is to remove a single Clerk from a single Committee, provided that a Motion from the named Committee has enacted or failed within the previous week as a consequence of being open for voting for at least 48 hours, and that the named Clerk was a member of the named Committee when the Motion was posted, and that the named Clerk cast no vote on that Motion. (This power does not apply to Motions posted before the 12th of December 2015.)

Replace “A number of Committees exist, and are listed as subrules to this rule.” with:-

A number of Committees exist, and are listed as subrules to this rule, in alphabetical order by title.

Rearrange the subrules of “Committees” into alphabetical order by title.

Friday, December 11, 2015

Proposal: 20,000 Beleagues under the Sea

Passes 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 13 Dec 2015 16:03:42 UTC

Remove the text “If the Director vetoes a Motion originating from a Committee which he is not the Chairperson of, he becomes Beleaguered” from the ruleset, and replace it with “The Director may only become Beleaguered as a result of a CfJ. A CfJ to make the Director Beleaguered should be raised if the Director ever Vetoes Motion arising from a Committee of which he is not the Chairperson.”

The veto power is there for a reason; occasionally it is needed to avert game-breaking scams. Let’s not put the Director in a position where he has an unavoidable conflict of interest.

Proposal: Locked in the Washroom

Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 12 Dec 2015 08:55:15 UTC

In “The Director”, replace “the Director may not take a dynastic action until he has chosen and set an Appraisal score for that Clerk” with

the Director may not take an action defined by any other dynastic rule until he has chosen and set an Appraisal score for that Clerk

Painted myself into a bit of a corner here if I “cannot take a dynastic action until after I have taken the following dynastic action”. (Although “dynastic action” isn’t actually defined anywhere.)

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Proposal: The Big Chair

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Dec 2015 09:36:00 UTC

In “Committees”, replace “The Chairperson of a Committee is considered to be the Director for Motions originating from that Committee, unless that Motion is to elect a Chairperson.” with:-

If a Motion originating from a Committee does not propose to elect a Chairperson, then the Chairperson of that Committee may veto it as if they were the Director, and votes of DEFERENTIAL on that Motion are considered to be the same as that of its Committee’s Chairperson, instead of the Director. (The previous sentence does not apply to Motions originating from a Committee whose Chairperson is the Director.)

In the rule “The Director”, if it exists, replace “If the Director vetoes a Motion, he becomes Beleaguered.” with:-

If the Director vetoes a Motion originating from a Committee which he is not the Chairperson of, he becomes Beleaguered.

Remove the paragraph beginning “This rule does not apply to Clerks who are acting” from the ruleset, if it exists. Remove any sentence beginning “(To clarify, both the actual Director and the Chairperson may” from the ruleset.

Sharper cleanup - dropping the “considered to be the Director” clause and just naming the two powers that the Chairperson gets. And allowing me to veto Motions of any Committees that I’m chair of, if that’s how it’s working.

Proposal: Let’s fix what’s broken

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Dec 2015 09:33:35 UTC

At the end of the third paragraph of Committees, add:

(To clarify, both the actual Director and the Chairperson may Veto a Motion, but only the Chairperson’s vote is counted when calculating Deferential votes.)

Proposal: The only time…

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Dec 2015 09:33:24 UTC

If the proposal OFVETO failed, this proposal does nothing.

Add to the the rule The Director:

This rule does not apply to Clerks who are acting as the Director as described in the rule Committees, unless that Clerk would still be the Director otherwise. (To clarify, the actual Director must still record an Appraisal of these Clerks, and can become Beleaguered and reveal that a player has achieved victory, but anyone acting as the Director, such as Chairpeople during a Motion, can not.)

Preventing Motions from Beleaguering innocent Chairpeople.

Proposal: [Motion R] Demand and Supply

Quorums 4-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 12 Dec 2015 12:05:20 UTC

Appoint Josh, Kevan, RaichuKFM and Archon to the Supply Committee.

Proposal: OFVETO

Reached quorum 5 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Dec 2015 09:34:15 UTC

Enact a new rule, “The Director”:-

Each Clerk may have a unique Appraisal score between 0 and 100, tracked privately by the Director and indicating how much the Director would like that Clerk to lead the next dynasty. If any Clerk has no Appraisal score, the Director may not take a dynastic action until he has chosen and set an Appraisal score for that Clerk.

If the Director vetoes a Motion, he becomes Beleaguered.

If the Director has achieved victory and is not Beleaguered, he may reveal the name of the Clerk with the highest Appraisal score: upon doing so, that Clerk achieves victory.

Clarifying my role in this dynasty: I can win, and the victory goes to the person I’d most like to see run a dynasty - who I have to choose in advance, making collaboration with me less appealing in the endgame. And I can veto Motions, but at great cost. (In practice I should never have to, since they are currently all safely defined subsets of game actions, and should probably remain so.)

Bear Market

ShareDVI hasn’t posted or commented in over a week, and goes idle. Quorum drops to 4, and the Motion Quorum of the Recruitment Committee remains 4.

Proposal: [Motion R] Restructure

Quorums 1-4. — Quirck

Adminned at 12 Dec 2015 12:03:56 UTC

Appoint Josh, Kevan, ShareDVI and archon to the Terminations Committee.

Proposal: [Motion F] a reward for singularity of purpose

Fails 1-1. — Quirck

Adminned at 12 Dec 2015 12:03:03 UTC

Elect archon as the chairperson of the finance committee.

i am the only person who has devoted themselves exclusively to the good of the finance committee. i think that this means i will be the most capable chair for this committee (during the rare hours i pay attention.).

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] The Inaugural Election of a Top Man: The Motion Picture

Reached Motion Quorum of the Recruitment Committee, 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Dec 2015 12:57:55 UTC

Elect Tantusar as Chairperson of the Recruitment Committee.

Now a motion for added… Fibre?

Proposal: Bakshish

Number of Clerks not voting AGAINST is less than Quorum (3 votes to 4). Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Dec 2015 18:22:55 UTC

Add a new subrule to “Money”, entitled “Petty Cash”:

Petty Cash is tracked in the GNDT as if it were a Clerk. It may only have a value held in its “Money” column. Clerks may transfer Money from Petty Cash to themselves or vice-versa at any time.

Add a new subrule to “Committees”, called “Investigations”:

The Investigations Committee has one seat. Its Power is to name a Clerk who has transferred money directly to another Clerk, specify what was given in exchange, and move the Money from the Clerk who received it to Petty Cash.

Add a new subrule to “Committees”, called “Club”:

The Club Committee has three seats. Its Power is to take 1 Money from each Clerk not on the Club Committee and add it to Petty Cash.

Proposal: [Motion F] Golden Handshake

Reached Finance Committee Motion Quorum, 3 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Dec 2015 12:55:56 UTC

Pay every Clerk who has not already been Paid in the current week.

This would just be Josh (at the time of writing), who missed out on the earlier payday this week through being idle.

Proposal: [Motion R]

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Dec 2015 12:55:19 UTC

Make the Clerk known as Josh the Chairperson of the Recruitment Committee.

I will transfer 0.5 Money to the author of each of the first four EVs in favour of this proposal when it resolves, provided that the author in question does not have a current FOR vote on another Clerk’s nomination for the same post.

Proposal: Sit Up and Shut Down

Adminned at 10 Dec 2015 18:21:41 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Legal”:-

The Legal Committee has eight seats. Its Power is to add or remove the sentence “This Committee is Under Investigation.” to or from any Committee. (Whenever a Motion enacts from a Committee which is Under Investigation, every Member of that Committee loses 1 Money, to a minimum of zero.) This Power is Regulated.

Reached quorum 5 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Fired

Aname becomes idle after 7 days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 4.

Proposal: Kickbackstarter

Reached quorum 4 votes to 2. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Dec 2015 18:20:37 UTC

To the rule “Money”, add:-

Money values may be non-integer, to one decimal place.

Proposal: The Inaugural Election of a Top Man

Self-killed. (Was 3-1) - Tantusar

Adminned at 09 Dec 2015 22:16:29 UTC

Elect Tantusar to the position of Chairperson of the Recruitment Committee.

Proposal: [Motion R] Balancing Act

Self-killed. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 09 Dec 2015 21:09:14 UTC

Add the Clerks Aname, Archon, and RaichuKFM to the Terminations Committee.

Add the Clerks Tantusar, ShareDVI, and Murphy to the Supply Committee.

Why this configuration? It avoids a large overlap between Terminations and Recruitment, and buffing up our Clerks’ Committee memberships to at least two; myself and Murphy being added because otherwise the Motion Quorums would be a joke, and I think it’s more interesting if Kevan’s in less Committees.

Proposal: The Gravy Train

Quorums 5-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 09 Dec 2015 00:23:09 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Bonus”:-

The Bonus Committee has seven seats. Its Power is to Incentivise any number of Clerks who have not already been Incentivised in the current week: when a Clerk is Incentivised, they gain 1 Money.

Proposal: [Motion F] Payday

Quorums 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 09 Dec 2015 00:21:40 UTC

Pay every Clerk who has not already been paid in the current week.

Since we can file Motions on behalf of Committees we don’t belong to, let’s wake the Finance Committee up.

Proposal: I’d Like To Call This Meeting To Order

Reaches quorum and passes 5-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 08 Dec 2015 19:15:55 UTC

Add to the rule Committees, before the subsections:

Every Committee, in addition to their existing Power, has the Power to elect a Chairperson of their Committee. Only one member of a Committee may be its Chairperson at any one time; if another Clerk is elected, the previous Chairperson will lose their title. A Clerk may not be the Chairperson of more than one Committee. The Chairperson of a Committee is considered to be the Director for Motions originating from that Committee, unless that Motion is to elect a Chairperson. The Chairperson of a Committee is tracked in the GNDT using an asterisk (*) to the right of the corresponding Letter in the Committees field.

Amend the rule Committees | Finance to read:

The Finance Committee has five seats. Its Power is to Pay every Clerk who has not already been Paid in the current week: when a Clerk is Paid, they gain 3 Money. If a Clerk who is a Chairperson is Paid, they gain an additional 1 Money.

In the rule Motions, replace all instances of the word “Reader” with “Clerk”.

Monday, December 07, 2015

Proposal: Downsizing

Reaches quorum and passes 5-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 08 Dec 2015 18:33:42 UTC

Enact a new subrule of the rule “Committees”, named “Terminations”, containing the following text:

The Terminations Committee has six Seats. Its power is to remove a single Clerk from a single Committee, other than the Terminations Committee, unless that Committee does not have more Members than Seats. This Power is Regulated.

Just a thought. I think there should probably be a monetary compensation for being removed from a Committee, I just don’t know how much.

This could be dangerous if it gets a lot of overlap with the Supply Committee, assuming they both pass, but it should be possible to avoid that.

Proposal: Musical Chairs

Reaches quorum and passes 5-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 08 Dec 2015 18:30:54 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Supply”:-

The Supply Committee has five seats. Its Power is to increment or decrement any number (whether a numeral or a word) in any subrule of “Committees”, to a minimum of zero. This Power is Regulated.

Sunday, December 06, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] Murphy’s Law

Reaches quorum and passes 3-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 08 Dec 2015 06:55:55 UTC

Add Murphy to the Recruitment Committee.

In order to bump the Committee’s Motion Quorum up to four - three seems a little low for such a core part of the game.

Proposal: Slow Motion

Reaches quorum and passes 5-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 08 Dec 2015 07:14:04 UTC

To the second paragraph of “Motions”, add:-

If a Committee’s Power is described as Regulated, then a single Motion may not propose more than one instance of that Power.

To the “Executive” rule, add:-

This Power is Regulated.

Probably useful to define some Committee Powers as once-per-Motion.

Saturday, December 05, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] Ministry of Finance

Quorums 3-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 06 Dec 2015 11:14:04 UTC

Add the Clerks Aname, Archon, Murphy, and RaichuKFM to the Finance Committee.

If Quirck is not a Member of the Finance Committee, add Quirck to the Finance Committee.

Let’s show the others some goodwill, no?

Proposal: JoshCorp Best Practice

Timed out 2 votes to 1, with 2 unresolved DEFs. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 07 Dec 2015 20:02:51 UTC

In the “Finance” rule, replace “when a Clerk is Paid, they gain 1 Money per Committee that they are a member of” with:-

when a Clerk is Paid, they gain 3 Money

If Josh posted a comment of “Told you so.” on this proposal, unidle him.

Sad to see Josh idling out over this. (“It’s softly snowbally (the more committees you’re on, the more money you have to bribe with, the more committees you can get into) and it’s really harshly pejorative against unidling players. Better a flat salary, I think, with maybe a side-game bonus structure.”) This amendment might not be the best way of implementing a flat salary alternative, but we should see if a quorum feel the same way as Josh and nip Finance in the bud if so.

Friday, December 04, 2015

Proposal: [Motion R] Minister of Finance

Self-killed. — Quirck

Adminned at 06 Dec 2015 11:12:06 UTC

Add the Clerk named Quirck to the Finance Committee.

I promise to keep vigilant watch over the state treasury and stop any attempts to inexpediently squander it.

Proposal: It’s Only Payroll (But I Like It)

Quorums 5-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 04 Dec 2015 23:54:43 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Money”:-

Each Clerk has an amount of Money, defaulting to 5 and tracked in the GNDT. Clerks may give any amount of their Money to other Clerks at any time.

Enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Finance”:-

The Finance Committee has five seats. Its Power is to Pay every Clerk who has not already been Paid in the current week: when a Clerk is Paid, they gain 1 Money per Committee that they are a member of.

If the Proposal “[ambiguous]” failed, then to the first paragraph of “Committees”, add:-

A Committee’s Letter is the first letter of its Name.

If the Proposal “[ambiguous]” passed, replace “a list of the first letters of the Names of those Committees” with “a list of the Tracking Codes of those Committees”, “This letter/s is known as it’s Tracking Code.” with “A Committee’s Tracking Code is the first letter of its Name.” and “where X is the Letter of a Committee” with “where X is the Tracking Code of a Committee”, throughout the ruleset.

Adding a resource to bribe each other with, and fixing either my bug (that Letters aren’t defined) or Tantusar’s bug (that Tracking Codes are defined but Motions don’t use them, and the GNDT is still tracking “first letters”).

Friday, December 04, 2015

Proposal: King of Pentacles

Quorums 6-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 04 Dec 2015 21:05:09 UTC

If a rule called “Executive” exists, repeal it. Then enact a new subrule of “Committees”, called “Executive”:

The Executive Committee has one seat. Its Power is to mandate that a single Clerk, who may not be a Clerk who is sitting on the Executive Committee, has an Executive Washroom Keycard.

Replacing Josh’s proposed victory condition with a meaningless placeholder, so that Committee rules don’t have to be scrupulously watertight just yet.

I idle

Thanks for a good dynasty, everyone! I’ll be back in 2016. Quorum drops to 5.

Proposal: [ambiguous]

The number of Clerks who are not voting AGAINST it is less than Quorum: 2-4. — Quirck

Adminned at 04 Dec 2015 21:02:41 UTC

If there is not a rule titled Committees, this Proposal does nothing.

Append to the end of the second paragraph of the rule Committees:

This letter/s is known as it’s Tracking Code. In the event that more than one Committee has the same Tracking Code, then, for each conflicting Committee after the first created, use the first two letters of that Committee’s Name as its Tracking Code instead. In the event that there are still conflicting Tracking Codes, repeat the process with the conflicting Committees, increasing the number of letters used until no conflicts remain.

LOOK WHOS BACK ALL OF A SUDDEN. ITS ME.

Should be able to stay up-to-date with this Dynasty.

Unidling

I join the Unidling Committee. I sit.

Unidling me

I fill all necessary forms in three copies for the Unidling Comittee

Let’s try this again

Proposal: The PA Network

Self-killed. Josh

Adminned at 04 Dec 2015 09:20:21 UTC

If Proposal: Largely Ignored Jugs of Water failed, this proposal does nothing.

Otherwise:

Add a new sub-rule to the rule “Committees”, entitled “Scheduling”:

The Scheduling Committee has a number of seats that is equal to the Motion Quorum of the Recruitment Committee. Its Power is to add new Committees to the ruleset.

Proposal: It’s not about the destination

Self-killed. Josh

Adminned at 04 Dec 2015 09:20:09 UTC

If Proposal: Largely Ignored Jugs of Water failed, this proposal does nothing.

Otherwise:

Add a new sub-rule to the rule “Committees”, entitled “Executive”:

The Executive Committee has one seat. Its Power is to mandate that a single Clerk, who may not be a Clerk who is sitting on the Executive Committee, has achieved Victory.

Amend the rule entitled “Recruitment” to read as follows:

The Recruitment Committee has 10 Seats. Its Power is to add a single Clerk to a single Committee (other than the Executive Committee), unless this would result in that Committee having more Members than Seats.

Proposal: Poetry in Motion

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 04 Dec 2015 00:03:10 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Motions”:-

If a Proposal’s title includes the string “[Motion X]”, where X is the Letter of a Committee, then it is a Motion, and is considered to originate from that Committee.

A Motion originating from a Committee should only propose changes to the ruleset or gamestate which are instances of that Committee’s Power. If a Motion does not, then it is considered to be Out of Scope.

If a Motion has any non-Veto Votes from Clerks who are not Members of the Committee it originates from, then those Votes are ignored.

Motions are not considered to be Proposals for the purposes of the rule “Resolution of Proposals”. They neither count towards nor are restricted by the Proposal posting limit in the rule “Proposals”, but a Clerk may not post more than one Motion per day.

Enact a subrule of “Motions” called “Resolution”:-

Motion Quorum for a Motion is a Quorum of the Members of the Committee that the Motion originated from.

The oldest pending Motion may be enacted by any Admin (by updating the Ruleset and/or Gamestate to include the specified effects of that Motion, and then setting that Motion’s status to Enacted) if either of the following is true:

  • It has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Motion Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, is not Out of Scope, and has not been Vetoed or Self-Killed.
  • It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, more valid Votes cast on it are FOR than are AGAINST, is not Out of Scope, and it has not been Vetoed or Self-Killed.

The oldest pending Motion may be failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:

  • It is Out of Scope.
  • It has been Vetoed or Self-Killed.
  • The number of Readers who are Members of its originating Committee and who are not voting AGAINST it is less than Motion Quorum.
  • It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and cannot be Enacted.

Proposal: Largely Ignored Jugs of Water

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 03 Dec 2015 23:59:08 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Committees”:-

A number of Committees exist, and are listed as subrules to this rule. Each Committee must be identified by a Name (whose first letter is unique among Committees), must have a specific number of Seats, and may have a Power.

Each Clerk may be a Member of one or more Committees, tracked in the GNDT as a list of the first letters of the Names of those Committees, and defaulting to belonging to none.

Enact a new subrule to “Committees”, called “Recruitment”:-

The Recruitment Committee has 10 Seats. Its Power is to add a single Clerk to a single Committee, unless this would result in that Committee having more Members than Seats.

Add every Clerk who voted FOR this proposal to the Recruitment Committee. (If more than 10 Clerks voted FOR this proposal, select 10 of them at random and add them instead.)

Ascension Address: Your New Office

Pushing open the door with the blank nameplate, you find yourself in a new but identical windowless office, on what feels like a higher floor. On the cheap grey desk sits a manila folder announcing proposed changes to the organisation’s committee system, and a red and a green pen. In the wastepaper basket, some coffee-stained memo paper and a colourful deck of cards. A wall clock ticks.

Change “Reader” to “Clerk” and “High Arcanist” to “Director”.

The intention here is to try for a dynasty without any instantaneous actions, to see what happens - all game actions should be in the form of proposals to amend the gamestate, with the main mechanic being “committee” proposals which can only be voted on by the subset of players who belong to that committee. (Basic structure lifted from Reiner Knizia’s pawns-and-squares Quo Vadis, where players vote and bribe one another into the next space in a branching maze of committees.)

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Reshuffling

A blog entry for any post-dynastic commentary. Not sure how much time I’ll have today to post an ascension address (I wasn’t expecting Judgement to stay upright in the Spread, so didn’t prepare anything), but I’ll start the new dynasty tonight or tomorrow.

Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Declaration of Victory: Judgement Day

Quorums 6-0 with no against votes. — Quirck

Adminned at 02 Dec 2015 10:46:25 UTC

When the Judgement card left the Spread earlier today, I met its condition of “five or more Auras, and also more Auras than each other Reader”, and hereby declare victory.

Story Post: The Spread

  • 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.
  • 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.

Kevan has achieved victory. Congratulations!