BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I choose to unidle.

In “Destruction of the Hours”, replace “one sentence describing a significant or trivial game action that did NOT occur during the dynasty of that Hour” with:-

one sentence naming a Predecessor who idled out during the dynasty of that Hour

Change the Moment of the Eleventh Sun Arc of the First Day to “Paleface idled out”.

Enact a new rule, “Crystal Victory”:-

The number of Settings in a Day are equal to the number of Broken and Lost Hours it has.

If a Player has a number of Quartzes equal to or greater than the number of Settings in a Day, and if that Player is the Guardian of more Hours in that Day than any other Player, then that Player has achieved victory. This is known as a Crystal Victory.

On the Eleventh Sun Arc of the First Day, Mat took advantage of a timed-out proposal with no votes and seized the throne of the Archmage.

Hey, umm… I was going to just let you all know that I probably won’t be on anymore. Ever. So….feel free to delete my account.

Replace the sentence in the rule “The Twelve Arcs” that reads “Each of the one hundred and forty four Hours can be Broken, Focused or Restored.” with

Each of the one hundred and forty four Hours can be Broken, Focused, Restored, or Lost.

Create a new rule called “Destruction of the Hours” as follows:

The Emperor may, as a Daily Action, “destroy an Hour,” which is an Atomic Action with the following steps:

1. The Emperor decreases their Ticks by one.
2. The Emperor posts a Story Post identifying a broken Hour, and including one sentence describing a significant or trivial game action that did NOT occur during the dynasty of that Hour.
3. The Emperor marks the Hour of that dynasty as Lost, marks themselves as its Guardian, and adds the sentence as its Moment.
4. The Emperor increases each other player’s Quartz by one.

In the First Sun Arc of the Third Day, Chivalrybean tracked a giant monster on the radar as it flew into Tokyo.

If a rule exists called “Remembering Hours”, add a paragraph after the second:-

If a Player has Summoned Memories of an Hour, that Hour cannot be Restored until the most recent Summoned Memories of it are more than 24 Real Hours old. A Player may not Summon Memories on an Hour if there is a Story Post that Focused it which is more than 168 Real Hours old.

Also replace “may—only once per any given Hour—award themselves” with:-

may—only once per any given Hour, and within 24 Real Hours of it becoming Restored—award themselves

If the proposal “The Campaign for Real Time” failed, replace “Real Hours” with “Hours (in the real-world sense)” throughout the rule amended.

If any Players have gained Quartzes from the “Remembering Hours” rule, set those Players’ Quartzes to zero.

To “The Twelve Arcs”, add:-

All references to “days” and “hours” in the Core Rules and Appendix are considered to refer to periods of time in the real world, rather than those defined by this rule. If a dynastic rule refers to a “Real Day” or “Real Hour”, it refers to a period of time in the real world rather than the Days and Hours of this rule.

In the Third Sun Arc of the Sixth Day, Sylphrena spotted a container of Unidentified Material in orbit around Europa.

Quincunx and RaichuKFM both idle out after over a week’s inactivity each. Quorum drops to 5.

Add a new rule called “Remembering Hours” as follows:

If an Hour has been Focused but not Restored, any Player may Summon Memories of it in the hopes that it will be Restored. Summoning Memories is an Atomic Action, in which the Player pays 1 Quartz via the GNDT, then leaves a comment on the Story Post for the Focused Hour in question that includes the phrase “I remember.” A Player may only Summon Memories of any given Hour once.

Should an Hour for which a Player has Summoned Memories become Restored, that Player may—only once per any given Hour—award themselves 3 Quartz.

In the Fifth Sun Arc of the Fifth Day, Moonroof unshrouded some machines.

In the Fourth Sun Arc of the Fifth Day, Purplebeard declared mutiny against the Time Buddha from the deck of the Inquisitor.

Enact a new rule, “Time Warp Victory”:-

If a group of three Players have a total of at least 48 Quartzes between them, and if two of those Players have nominated the third as that group’s Governor by making a blog post or comment to that effect, then that Governor has achieved victory. This is known as a Time Warp victory.

When a theme is chosen for a new dynasty as a result of a Time Warp victory, it must be the theme of a Restored Hour.

In Rule 2.4, change the text:

the Player taking this action may award themselves 1 Quartz.

to

the Player taking this action may award themselves 1 Quartz. If no Quartz is awarded in this step, they must make a GNDT comment of “Done focusing”.

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

When there are twenty-four Restored hours among the days’ first six Sun hours, Blognomic enters Hiatus.  The Hiatus lasts 24 hours and then ends, at which point this rule is repealed.

In the rule “Escapement”, change the text “November 11th” to “November 12th”

The fifth sun arc of the sixth day is broken.  During the fifth sun arc of the sixth day, Brendan called for a Day of Observance.

If the proposal “Predisposal” failed, this proposal has no further effect.

To the second paragraph of “The Twelve Arcs”, add:-

Each Hour may have a Predecessor as its Guardian: this is tracked on the wiki page by describing the Hour as “Broken by X” (or Focused or Restored by X), where X is the Guardian’s name.

In “Restoration of the Hours”, replace “The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused, and adds the sentence as its Moment.” with:-

The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused, marks themselves as its Guardian, and adds the sentence as its Moment.

For each Hour which is Focused or Restored, set its Guardian to be the Player who Focused it.

Remove the text “A player may not name themself as a Predecessor.” from the ruleset.

In “Restoration of the Hours”, replace “If the Sentence named only a single Predecessor, and that Predecessor is named in the Moments of no other Hours, the Player taking this action may award themselves 1 Quartz.” with:-

If the Sentence named only a single Predecessor, and that Predecessor is named in the Moments of no other Hours, and that Predecessor is not the Player taking this action, then the Player taking this action may award themselves 1 Quartz.

SharedDVI idles out automatically after eleven days of inactivity. Quorum remains 6.

To the second paragraph of “The Twelve Arcs”, add:-

Each Hour may have a Predecessor as its Guardian: this is tracked on the wiki page by describing the Hour as “Broken by X” (or Focused or Restored by X), where X is the Guardian’s name.

In “Restoration of the Hours”, replace “The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused, and adds the sentence as its Moment.” with:-

The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused, marks themselves as its Guardian, and adds the sentence as its Moment.

For each Hour which is Focused or Restored, set its Guardian to be the Player who Focused it.

Create a new rule “Time Warps” as follows:

Any player may, as a daily action, “create a Time Warp,” by making a Story Post that specifies:
1. The name(s) of at least one other active player designated as Collaborator(s). The post’s author and the designated player(s) are the Collaborators of that Warp.
2. The name of one of the collaborators designated as the Warper.
3. A restored Hour that was focused by one of the Collaborators designated as the Target. The Fourth Dynasty of Josh may not be Targeted.

If each of the named players comment on the post with a FOR vote, then the Time Warp becomes Open.

When the quartzes of any Open Warp’s collaborators total at least 24, that Warp Activates and all Time Warps become permanently Closed. The Emperor must then pass the role of Emperor to the Active Warp’s Warper, and the Dynastic Rules are set to those of the Active Warp’s Target’s dynasty after that dynasty’s first proposal was enacted.

In the Eleventh Moon Arc of the Second Day, Zephyr was sued for $10M for causing another player “aggravated distress, dismay and agitation”.

Add a new Dynastic Rule to the ruleset.  Call it “The Bell Tolls” and give it the following text:

As a Weekly Communal Action that can only be taken on a Monday or Tuesday, a Player may Ring the Bell.  This increases by 1 the Ticks of each Player that did not author a Votable Matter during the previous week.

In the Third Sun Arc of the Fifth Day, Jonah declared himself Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and attempted to seize victory via a coup d’etat, convincing the interNet he had won.

In “Restoration of the Hours”, add a fifth bullet point:

• If the chosen Hour is the only Focused Hour in that Day, or if the Chosen Hour is directly before or after a Restored Hour, then the Player taking this action may award themselves 1 Quartz.

In the Rule “Restoration of the Hours”, change:

anywhere on the internet

to

anywhere on the Web

Append to the end of the Rule “Restoration of the Hours”,

A player may not name themself as a Predecessor.

In the Sixth Sun Arc of the First Day, the Mad King Anthony labeled some Citizens assholes then left the game.

In the rule “Restoration of the Hours”, change the text:

A Predecessor is Vouched For if they are a Player, or if they have posted a public message anywhere on the internet during the current dynasty which contains the word “BlogNomic”

to:

A Predecessor is Vouched For if they have been a Player during the current dynasty, or if they have made a comment on an official post that was posted during the current dynasty, or if they have posted a public message anywhere on the internet during the current dynasty which contains the word “BlogNomic”

I de-idle myself temporarily.  Quorum remains 6.

In the Fourth Sun Arc of the Sixth Day, the Android Josh was placed on Trial for being an Android, and was acquitted.

Hello. Admins, please do not activate the ‘davidystephenson’ account - that was me before I figured out how to log in to this account again.

In the Rule “Restoration of the Hours” remove the text “with non-zero Ticks” from the first sentence “Any player with non-zero Ticks may,...”.

Enact a new rule called “Ending of the Hours” as follows:

If the Emperor’s Ticks are greater than the total Ticks among all Players other than the Emperor, and the current date is December 12th 2016 or later, then: the Clock Has Struck None, and no further game actions may be taken before April 1st, 2017.

If the current date is April 1st 2017 or later, and the Clock Has Struck None, then the Emperor has achieved victory.

Enact a new rule called “A New Day” as follows:

If the Emperor has 144 or more Ticks, and it is neither true that Time is Up nor that the Clock Has Struck None, the player with the most Ticks achieves victory.

Add a paragraph after the first in “Escapement”:-

Each Player has a number of Quartzes, tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to zero.

Insert a new fourth step into “Restoration of the Hours”, after the third:-

If the Sentence named only a single Predecessor, and that Predecessor is named in the Moments of no other Hours, the Player taking this action may award themselves 1 Quartz.

If “Absent Friends” failed, this proposal has no effect.

In “Restoration of the Hours”, replace “The player reduces their Ticks by one.” with:-

The player increases their Ticks by one.

And replace “then any Player may change that Hour from Focused to Restored” with:-

then any Player may change that Hour from Focused to Restored and increase the Emperor’s Ticks by one

Set the Emperor’s Ticks to 48.

Enact a new rule entitled “Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking…” with the following text:

As a Daily Communal Action and Atomic Action a player should increase the Ticks of all players other than the Emperor by one and decrease the Emperor’s Ticks by the total number of players other than the Emperor. If the Emperor’s Ticks would become negative by this action, the whole action is considered invalid and cannot take place.

Also, on enactment, distribute one Tick from the Emperor to each player with zero Ticks.

Append the following text to the Rule “Atomic Actions”:

For the purposes of determining the ordering or legality of game actions the time of an Atomic Action shall be the time that it is completed.

In the Tenth Moon Arc of the Second Day, Bucky ran a diagnostic to see if the Power Manifold was powerful enough to move objects.

The Second Dynasty of coppro began with a rant by ais523, then CallForJudgement, which led to a reform of the timing rules for daily actions to reduce timing scams and grinding.

In the rule “The Twelve Arcs”, replace “can be Broken or Restored” with:-

can be Broken, Focused or Restored

In “Restoration of the Hours”, replace “The player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Restored” with:-

The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused

Then add to that rule:-

If an Hour is Focused and all Predecessors described in its Moment are Vouched For, then any Player may change that Hour from Focused to Restored. (A Predecessor is any human who has ever played BlogNomic. A Predecessor is Vouched For if they are a Player, or if they have posted a public message anywhere on the internet during the current dynasty which contains the word “BlogNomic”.)

Change all Restored Hours to be Focused.

In the Tenth Sun Arc of the Third Day, Bucky’s Dragon consumed a Miracle Elixir.

Create a new rule called “Doomsday Clock” as follows:

If the current date is December 12th, 2016, or later, the Emperor may and should comment “The Pendulum Swings: DICE144” in the GNDT as a Daily Action. If the result of that die roll is higher than the number of Hours which are Restored, then the Emperor may and should delete all rules in the Ruleset except “Ruleset and Gamestate” and replace its text with the following text, run through a rot13 transformation:

Guvf vf gur Ehyrfrg sbe OybtAbzvp, juvpu tbireaf gur Tnzrfgngr bs OybtAbzvp. Arvgure znl or nygrerq. Gurer ner ab Cynlref. OybtAbzvp unf raqrq.

This action is not considered to violate the rules of fair play.

In the rule “The Twelve Arcs”, replace “Each Hour corresponds to the dynasty of the same number as recorded on the ‘Main Page’ of the wiki. ” with:-

Each Hour corresponds to a dynasty, tracked by having the Hour’s name on the State of the Arcs wiki page link to that dynasty’s wiki page. Each Hour may also describe a Moment.

During this proposal’s enactment, each Hour is considered to be numbered consecutively from 1, in the order that they appear this version of the State of the Arcs wiki page. For each Hour, make it correspond to the dynasty with the same number in the Dynastic History section of this version of the wiki main page. (eg. “First Sun Arc: Broken”).

In “Restoration of the Hours”, if it exists, replace the second and third bullet points with:-

2. The player posts a Story Post identifying a broken Hour, and including one sentence describing a significant or trivial game action that occurred during the dynasty of that Hour. Such a sentence should include a link to a blog post or wiki edit where that action occurred, if relevant.

3. The player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Restored, and adds the sentence as its Moment.

Enact a dynastic rule “Modification of Fair Play Rules” with the following text:

In the Core Rule “Fair Play” the rule “A Player should not do any action meant to make the game unplayable (for example, changing multiple keywords to the same word in an ascension address).” should be instead read as “A Player should not change multiple keywords to the same word in an ascension address.”

If the rules “The Twelve Arcs” and “Escapement” exist, then amend the rule “The Twelve Arcs” by adding the following text after “Each of the one hundred and forty four Hours can be Broken or Restored.”:

The initial state of all Hours is Broken.

Each Hour corresponds to the dynasty of the same number as recorded on the ‘Main Page’ of the wiki. One may speak of the Hour of a particular dynasty or the dynasty of a particular Hour with the obvious meaning.

and enacting a new rule “Restoration of the Hours” with the following text

Any player with non-zero Ticks may, as a daily action, “restore an Hour,” which is an Atomic Action with the following steps:

1. The player reduces their Ticks by one.
2. The player posts a Story Post containing at least the number and name of a dynasty whose Hour is broken and one sentence describing that dynasty.
3. The player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Restored.

Enact a subrule to “Escapement”, called “Timekeeper”:-

One Player (or idle Player) may be the Timekeeper, and their identity is tracked privately by the Emperor. The Timekeeper cannot declare victory unless Time is Up. The Timekeeper should conceal the fact that they are the Timekeeper and lie about it if asked.

If there is no Timekeeper, then the Emperor may select any Player (or idle Player) other than themselves to be the Timekeeper, and inform them of this fact. The Emperor should only select an idle Player in this way if they have good reason to believe that Player will unidle during the dynasty.

If the rule exists called “Escapement” and it has a paragraph beginning “If the total Ticks among all Players”, delete that paragraph. Then, if a rule exists called “Escapement”, add the following paragraph to it:-

If the total Ticks among all Players other than the Emperor is greater than the Emperor’s Ticks, and the current date is after November 11th 2016, then: Time is Up, and the Timekeeper has achieved victory.

If a rule by the name is not already present, add a new rule called “Escapement” with the following text:

Each Player, including the Emperor, has a number of Ticks; this is tracked in the GNDT. A Player who has never had their Ticks set before has one Tick.

Set the Emperor’s Ticks to 144.

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

Each Player, including the Emperor, has a number of Ticks; this is tracked in the GNDT. A Player who has never had their Ticks set before has one Tick.

If the total Ticks among all Players other than the Emperor is greater than the Emperor’s Ticks, and the current date is after November 11th 2016, then: the current Dynasty ends, the Emperor ceases to be Emperor, a new Metadynasty begins, and all Dynastic Rules are repealed.

Set the Emperor’s Ticks to 144.

Create a new rule called “The Twelve Arcs”:

There are six Days, comprising a Sun Arc and a Moon Arc. Each Arc further comprises twelve Hours.
Each of the one hundred and forty four Hours can be Broken or Restored.
This information is tracked in the “State of the Arcs” wiki page.

I ask to be unidled.

In “Special Proposal Voting”, replace “then all votes of DEFERENTIAL are instead considered to be” with:-

then all votes of DEFERENTIAL on that Proposal are instead considered to be

Change the Rule “Doomsday Clock” from

December 1st, 2016

to

December 12th, 2016

Unidle me please!

Create a new rule called “Doomsday Clock” as follows:

If the current date is December 1st, 2016, or later, the Emperor may and should delete all rules in the Ruleset except “Ruleset and Gamestate” and replace its text with the following text, run through a rot13 transformation:

Guvf vf gur Ehyrfrg sbe OybtAbzvp, juvpu tbireaf gur Tnzrfgngr bs OybtAbzvp. Arvgure znl or nygrerq. Gurer ner ab Cynlref. OybtAbzvp unf raqrq.

Twelve times twelve emperors have held the nomic throne, and with each exchange of power, their sun wanes further. Surviving players are few, and weakened; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. There is a sense of sapping, crumbling. An inkling that the life of the empire ebbs.

Deep in the grinding heart of time, teeth mesh; an escapement cracks; a tick like a bomb echoes through long halls of abandoned names. There is a brief lull, an anacrusis, before the great bell begins to sound its final warning:

The hour come round at last.

Repeal all Dynastic Rules except “Atomic Actions.” Replace “Mayor” with “Emperor” and “Councillor” with “Player” throughout the Ruleset.

I’ll post an Ascension Address tomorrow, after I think through my current idea. Meanwhile here’s a comment space for anyone who wants to talk about afterthoughts for this Dynasty, which I enjoyed quite a bit. Quincunx and I established our coin-toss alliance a couple weeks ago; where there any other explicit ones in play?

The Charm Party is in Government. I am part of it, and have more Will than any other Councillor. I have achieved victory.

The ballots have been counted.

• Grapnel West: 11 Charm, 1 neutral
• Grapnel East: 6 Down, 2 Charm, 1 Strange
• Northill: 5 Down, 4 Up
• Brucetown: 8 Down, 2 Up
• Anchorage: 7 Down, 3 Charm, 2 Strange
• Fluke Hill: 7 Charm, 2 Down
• Herreshoff: 4 Charm, 3 Down, 1 Up
• The Bowery: 10 Charm, 1 neutral
• Killick: 9 Charm
• Danforth: 5 Down, 3 Strange

No Party is supported by more Constituencies than every other Party, so the Charm Government remains in power.

Brendan and Quincunx, who are part of the Charm Party, gain 1 Will each.

Whoops, hit the button early.