BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Upon enacting this proposal, the Doctor shall perform a Z quantity of DICEX rolls where where X={Villagers with the Symptom Death} and Z=floor(X/2). Rolls shall be performed in sequence until unique X values occur.

Each villager exhibiting the Death symptom (DEADVIL) shall be inherently included in the dice rolls, per above.

DEADVILs’ indices for the sake of the above shall be enumerated based on their default position in the GNDT.

Upon a DEADVIL’s index being rolled by the Doctor, the respective DEADVIL shall have the Symptom of Death removed as a symptom they exhibit.

In the rule Symptoms change:

A Villager exhibiting Eternal Torment should, in every blog comment they make

to

Visible. A Villager exhibiting Eternal Torment must, in every blog comment they make

More silver bark! Its all the rage right now!

EDIT: (that means I eat some!)

Eating some wolfsbane, doctor attend. Nourishing, but bland.

As a daily action, a villager displaying the symptom of Wolf Form may declare that they are biting another villager who is Near to them. This must be done either in a blog post or in a private message to both the bitten villager and the doctor. That bitten villager then immediately gains the disease Lycanthropy. If they did not yet have that disease before being bitten, the bitten villager must not take any game actions from the moment they gain Lycanthropy until the end of that day.

Under the “Symptoms” section from “Diseases” change “Visible. If a Villager would gain this Symptom while at Home, or on a day other than Friday, they instead do not gain this Symptom.” to

Visible. A Villager can only gain this symptom if the time is between the hours of 20:00 and 5:00 UTC. A Villager who has the symptoms Back Hair and Headache and have the disease Lycanthropy automatically gains this symptom if the time is between the hours of 20:00 and 5:00 UTC. If the time is between 5:01 to 19:59 UTC, a Villager with this symptom automatically loses Wolf Form.

In “Locations”, replace “may add a random plant (Mandrake, Nightshade, Red Cap, Silver Bark or Wolfsbane) to their inventory” with:-

may add a random Plant to their inventory

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

A Villager’s Micromori value is equal to their number of Memento Mori multiplied by a million, minus 100,000 for each Disease they have, minus 50,000 for each Symptom they are exhibiting, plus 10,000 for each Remedy they were carrying at the start of the most recent Doctor’s Rounds.

In “Endgames”, replace “the number of all memento mori is disclosed and the villager with the most memento mori has achieved victory” with:-

the Villager with the highest Micromori value is Remembered. (Any ties for this are broken randomly.)

Then replace “the Villager with the most Memento Mori is Remembered. (Any ties for this are broken according to fewest Symptoms.) ” with:-

the Villager with the highest Micromori value is Remembered. (Any ties for this are broken randomly.)

Perhaps they were an urgent messenger from the city, perhaps they were a brigand lost on the mountain roads, but whoever Card was, they have died of starvation at the gates of Zahndorf. In the depths of the forest, Quincunx develops a cough.

To the section “Lycantrophy”, add

A villager displaying the symptom of Wolf Form may declare in a blog post or a private message to the Doctor that they are biting another villager who is Near to them. That bitten villager then immediately gains the disease Lycantrophy.

Using well water on Derrick.  Doctor?

If this proposal passes, replace all instances of TIME with the date and the time of midnight. Example “Sunday, 26th, February 2017 00:00:00 UTC”

Add to the “Remedies” bullet list Silver Butterknife and to the section

Silver Bark and Silver Butterknife are Silver; other Remedies are not. During the Doctor’s Rounds if a Villager has the Symptom of Wolf Form and at least one Silver Remedy in their inventory that Villager has has the follow atomic actions preformed by the Doctor:
1. A 10% chance that Lycanthropy and Wolf Form are removed from the Villager.
2. If the Villager had Wolf Form and it was removed in the last action, a separate 20% chance that the Villager gains the symptom Death.
These actions are also preformed if a Villager with Lycanthropy becomes the Taker of a Silver Remedy. A Silver Butterknife is not removed from a Villager’s inventory when used but it can only be used once every 12 hours starting from TIME. Silver Butterknife cannot cause nor cure diseases in any way other than the atomic actions listed in this paragraph.

Change The Market text to

A Villager at the Market may swap two units of the same Remedy in their inventory (other than Well Water) for a single unit of any Remedy other than Silver Butterknife, at any time. A Villager at the Market may also swap out three Silver Bark for one Silver Butterknife at any time.

In the “Spectral Actions” section change “As a daily action, a Dead Villager who is not exhibiting Eternal Torment may move a Remedy from one Villager’s inventory to another Villager’s inventory.” to

As a daily action, a Dead Villager who is not exhibiting Eternal Torment may move a Remedy from one Villager’s inventory to another Villager’s inventory. A Dead Villager may not move a Silver Remedy to a Villager’s inventory if the Villager whose inventory they are moving the Remedy into has the symptom Wolf Form and that latter Villager is also not on The Road.

In the “Locations” section add to the Road

As a daily action a Villager on the Road may add a Dandelion to their inventory.

In the “Remedies” list add Dandelion, replace “Mandrake, Nightshade, Red Cap, Silver Bark and Wolfsbane are Plants;” with

Mandrake, Nightshade, Red Cap, Silver Bark, Dandelion and Wolfsbane are Plants;

Hello, I intend to join this nomic game.

I consume silver bark.

Add a new rule, “Other Rituals”:

A Villager at the church carrying Remedies of one each of Salt, Well Water, and Nightshade may remove all of them to perform a Saltwater Ritual by making a blog post indicating this. When a Villager performs a Saltwater Ritual, they gain the symptom Death, and all Villagers without the symptom Death are cured of the Black Death.

It’s squeaky.

(Using nightshade on self. Doctor please attend.)

Flagging this for everyone’s attention: during the most recent Doctor’s Rounds, I mistakenly give Quincunx the Cough symptom in the GNDT. Quincunx does not in fact have a Cough. Apologies for the mis-step.

The villager named Viv will gain the symptom “dead”

The wolf trots to the market with red cap and water, and applies the combination to Derrick. Then sneezes sadly.

(using red cap and well water on derrick, doctor please attend)

Quirck idles out after seven days of inactivity. Quorum remains 5.

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

A Villager’s Micromori value is equal to their number of Memento Mori multiplied by 100, minus 10 for each Disease they have, minus 5 for each Symptom they are exhibiting, plus 1 for each Remedy they were carrying at the start of the most recent Doctor’s Rounds.

In “Endgames”, after “the number of all memento mori is disclosed and the villager with the most memento mori has achieved victory” (if that text is there), add:-

the Villager with the highest Micromori value is Remembered. (Any ties for this are broken randomly.)

Then replace “the Villager with the most Memento Mori is Remembered. (Any ties for this are broken according to fewest Symptoms.) ” with:-

the Villager with the highest Micromori value is Remembered. (Any ties for this are broken randomly.)

doctor attend

Crows peck and scrape at the ground. Another day passes in Zahndorf.

The wolf curls up in the forest. It’s been feeling like somehow it’s doing more harm than good in this world, and it’s been dreaming of a life of blazing fireplaces, companionship and food that isn’t weeds.

Add to section Endgames:

If more than one villager are not dead and none of the living villagers have the Black Death, the doctor must announce this game state in a blog post. If all the villagers that are not dead agree to declare the village cured in the comments of that post, the number of all memento mori is disclosed and the villager with the most memento mori has achieved victory.

I consume my recently obtained silver bark!

doctor, please attend

“Orkboi! I hear you’ve been advocating that everyone gets enough red cap!”

I use red cap on Orkboi

Add to the Rule “The Doctor’s Rounds”:

Each Sunday, the Doctor shall make a blog post containing a listing of all existing Spirit-Spiritmaster relationships and the corresponding Villagers.

This whole situation has me acting a bit weird. Feeding Quincunx some red cap… whether he wants it or not.

All my childhood spent hearing tales of the great beast, the family curse. Dreams of wild majesty.
No one told me I’d feel the urge to fetch sticks in the park.
Jumping out of the well, happily eating up the wolfsbane, shaking myself next to Orkboi who gets splashed with well water.

(Using well water on Orkboi, Doctor please attend)

Wouldn’t it be funny if Wolf’s Bane did something to wolves? Feeding Wolfsbane to Viv. Doctor attend.

Add to “Spectral Actions”:

When a Dead Villager has a visible symptom, and the visible symptom has an associated rule recommending the inclusion of a string in every blog comment, the Dead Villager should include the string in every blog comment.

Derrick will be moved back to the forest, nothing having happened since the first illegal action having happened

Change Derrick’s inventory to “red cap”

Change the action of combining and consuming red cap and silver bark to just eating silver bark.

Derrick Spent all night frantically looking for silver bark, sure he would not make it to the next morning. Surely that wolf could not have had his best interests at heart, and he must have the disease again. All he finds is mandrake. But that’s a lot of mandrake! He can trade!

Rushing to the market place, he unloads his cargo, and has the precious silver bark! Ghosts have been active recently, and he doesn’t want the red cap stolen… He combines his ingredients and eats them!

Crows lope through the village streets, and another day passes in Zahndorf.

Change the game state:

For all Villagers with the Symptom of Death, remove this Symptom. For all Villagers that do not contain the Symptom of Death, add it each Villager.

Using Red Cap on Quincunx.
Doctor, please attend…

I’m eating some Silver Bark I found.
I’m not exactly sure how nutritious it is, but it’s better than nothing.

Padding through the forest, eating Nightshade.
Curling up for a nap by someone’s cooling campfire.

Doctor, please attend.

Using well water on Derrick. Hospitality! Celebration.
Sorry I might be overexcited about visitors it’s a thing recently also the wagging sorry hello

Doctor?

Found some silver bark, and now I’m eating it. Doctor?

In “Locations”, replace “A Villager who is not on the Road or who has at least one visible symptom, or both” with “A Villager who is not on the Road”.

If the text was not changed by the proposal “Weeds”, in “The Doctor’s Rounds”, replace “For every non-Dead Villager who has neither Eaten nor been on the Road during the previous two Intervals” with “For every non-Dead Villager who has not Eaten during the previous two Intervals”.

Using Red Cap on Derrick.
Glad you made it!
Doctor, please attend.

Ran into the forest and ate the bark off a tree. Hoping to cure this nasty cough.

Eating Wolfsbane. It smells weird.
Doctor,  please attend.

In “Locations”, add to the Road:-

As a daily action, a Villager on the Road may add a Weed to their inventory.

Then replace the word “Weed” in that rule with the name of a random Plant.

In “The Doctor’s Rounds”, replace “has neither Eaten nor been on the Road during the previous two Intervals” with:-

has not Eaten during the previous two Intervals

Add a new subrule to “Locations”, called “Roadside Plants”:-

If the Remedy named in the Road action rule Cures a Disease, the Doctor may replace that Remedy’s name in that action rule with the name of a secretly random Plant, chosen from those which do not Cure any Diseases. The Doctor may repeal this rule if the Remedy named in the Road action rule does not Cure a Disease, or if all Plants Cure Diseases.

Lean times in Zahndorf. Quirck has neither eaten nor been on the road during the past two Intervals (they last ate on the 14th), and starves to death.

Consuming wolfsbane, doctor attend.

Insert into the section “The Doctor’s Rounds” as fourth item in the bulleted list:

For every Villager whose current location is “Home”, giving that villager the disease “The Pox”.

Somewhere not too far outside the village’s gates, the howl of a mountain wolf echoes across the valley.

The new rule “The Bet” can be read in a couple of ways. Since triggering it under the superficially intended reading would reveal secret information, I thought I’d check which interpretation was intended by its proposer, and (perhaps more importantly) what an informal consensus thinks.

From the rules, we’ve got:

• Cuddlebeam gains Eternal Torment “if any remedy has the potential to Cure the Black Death”.
• “Each Remedy has the potential to Cure one Disease”
• “When a Remedy is Tested, there is a 50% chance that the Remedy now Cures a random Disease”

If a Remedy exists which has been Tested and was found not to Cure a random Disease, does it still “have the potential” to Cure the Black Death? (In plain English every Remedy has the potential to do anything, because we’re playing Nomic, but even regarding it as a strict keyword and reframing it as something more like “each remedy has an empty cure slot”, do such test-failed Remedies still “have the potential”?)

Quincunx looks hungry. Force feeding him Red Cap for no apparent reason. Doctor please respond.

I’m not actually Dead, nor do I have any sympthoms, please remove them all.

In Diseases, Death, it says:

A Villager who is exhibiting the symptom of Death is considered to be Dead.

A Dead Villager who is not the Doctor may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except those in the rule “Spectral Actions”.

Exhibiting is an action, because “to exhibit” is a verb which involves exposing or offering to view (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exhibit). For example, replace the verb “to exhibit” with “to dance” to make it more intuitive. I can’t choose to stop doing it due to the removal of the “mays” back then, but I’m still compelled to do it . For example, a person who compulsively coughs, has to cough all the time. They have no choice in coughing or not, and coughing is an action, and in the game’s flavor context, coughing is the act of exhibition of a symptom called “Cough”. However, due to that I’m Dead, I can no longer exhibit because its an action (of the dynastic kind), therefore, I can no longer be considered to be Dead.

So, oddly, I can’t be considered to be dead if I become dead.

As I’m not Dead, I can take dynastic actions. I also don’t employ my right to have diseases (either because I can’t and/or I simply choose not too employ it at any applicable moment, whichever works for the purpose of losing all symptoms/diseases). Such a right is exposed in “Diseases”:

Each Villager has zero or more Diseases, tracked privately by the Doctor.

As I no longer have Diseases, I would no longer have any Symptoms, because Symptoms belong to the Diseases I possess, as exposed in Diseases:

Each Disease has a number of Symptoms, listed in order from earliest to latest.

-> Diseases HAVE symptoms. Diseases are effectively a kind of inventory or “bag” that contain my Symptoms, because I, as a villager can’t HAVE Symptoms. I can exhibit them though. And the ones that I exhibit are the ones that my Diseases have.
and, in Doctor’s Rounds:

[...] that Villager gains the earliest Symptom of that Disease which they do not already exhibit

I gain Symptoms, which would need to be stored in my inventory of Diseases, because Villagers can’t HAVE Symptoms, but they can HAVE Diseases (and they merely exhibit the Symptoms found in the Diseases that they have as exposed earlier).

You could argue that since Symptoms are in my “bag” of Diseases, that I “have” them too, but that’s never explicitly stated, and I can have someone else’s stuff in my “bag”, because its merely a container. I have or “possess” the container (Disease), but not what the container contains (Symptoms). But my container has/possesses its contents, which are things that I could exhibit.

Henceforth, I wish to have recognized that I no longer have any diseases nor Symptoms (such as Death).

In the section locations add a paragraph:

As a daily action, a non-dead villager may change the location of a dead villager near them to “church”.

Add to the list of Symptoms in “Diseases”:

Eternal Torment. Visible. A Villager exhibiting Eternal Torment should, in every blog comment they make, include a string of at least 10 characters comprised of any number of “A” characters, followed by any number of “R” characters, followed by any number of “G” characters, followed by any number of “H” characters.

In “Spectral Actions”, change “a Dead Villager may move a Remedy” to “a Dead Villager who is not exhibiting Eternal Torment may move a Remedy”.

In “The Doctor’s Rounds”, change “and which is not Death” to “and which is not Death or Eternal Torment”.

Add a new rule, “The Bet”:

At any time, the doctor may take the following actions in sequence as an atomic action, if any remedy has the potential to Cure the Black Death:
* Add the symptom Eternal Torment to the Villager named Cuddlebeam.
* Repeal this rule.

At any time, the doctor may take the following actions in sequence as an atomic action, if no remedy has the potential to Cure the Black Death:
* Remove all Diseases from the Villager named Cuddlebeam.
* Remove all Symptoms from the Villager named Cuddlebeam.
* Set the Villager named Cuddlebeam’s location to the Road.
* Repeal this rule.

Strolling down to the marker,  meeting Orkboi. Offering him a snack.
(Using Red Cap on Orkboi. Doctor, please attend.)

Add to the list of Symptoms in “Diseases”:

Eternal Torment. Visible. A Villager exhibiting Eternal Torment should, in every blog comment they make, include a string of at least 10 characters comprised of any number of “A” characters, followed by any number of “R” characters, followed by any number of “G” characters, followed by any number of “H” characters.

In “Spectral Actions”, change “a Dead Villager may move a Remedy” to “a Dead Villager who is not exhibiting Eternal Torment may move a Remedy”.

In “The Doctor’s Rounds”, change “and which is not Death” to “and which is not Death or Eternal Torment”.

Add a new rule, “The Bet”:

At any time, the doctor may take the following actions in sequence as an atomic action, if any remedy has the potential to Cure the Black Death:
* Add the symptom Eternal Torment to Cuddlebeam.
* Repeal this rule.

At any time, the doctor may take the following actions in sequence as an atomic action, if no remedy has the potential to Cure the Black Death:
* Remove all Diseases from Cuddlebeam.
* Remove all Symptoms from Cuddlebeam.
* Set Cuddlebeam’s location to Home.
* Repeal this rule.

Add to “Symptoms”:

Suicide is a common way of dealing with the horrible circumstances that surround Zahndorf. A Villager may grant themselves the symptom “Death” at any time.

We need to come up with a endgame that measures if everyone has been cured, and if there is a winner in that case. Does anyone have any thoughts?

I consume nightshade

An uneventful day passes in the village.

In “The Doctor’s Rounds”, replace

For each Disease a Villager has which they do not already exhibit all the Symptoms of, tossing a coin: on heads, that Villager gains the earliest Symptom of that Disease which they do not already exhibit.

with

For each Disease a Villager has which they do not already exhibit all the Symptoms of, rolling a 6-sided die: Unless the roll is a 6, that Villager gains the earliest Symptom of that Disease which they do not already exhibit.

In “The Doctor’s Rounds”, remove “which may only be taken on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays”.

Consuming Silver bark. Doctor please attend.

Upon the enactment of this proposal, grant all who voted “FOR” for it the Symptom “Confusion”.

Add as a bullet in Doctor’s Rounds before the last bullet

If the Doctor himself is Dead, then he Mauls a random Near Villager to him (if there are any available), granting them Death.

I am rummaging in my pack for food when he sees a bunch of mandrake. That’s odd. Where did it come from? Well, its worth trying a bite.

I consume the mandrake.

Chowing down on some Nightshade. Doctor please apply effects.

I’m taking a Silver Bark.

Having a fry-up.
Using silver bark on myself.

I combine leeches and red cap and use them on Quincunx.
Doctor, please attend

A light snow begins to fall across the village. Outside the gates, a cough is heard.

In the rule The Doctor’s Rounds, move the following rules text

Inform any Villager displaying the symptom of Confusion of one random property pertaining to one remedy. This remedy must be chosen at random by the Doctor from the remedies currently carried in the location of that villager

to become the first item in the bulleted list in this rule.

Replace the strings of letters “stand” and “Stand” (even where they appear inside other words) with “Spirit”, throughout the dynastic ruleset.

Move all the text from within the section “Church” into the section “Spectral actions”, appending it there.

Add to Spectral Actions:

Remedies are the basic “fuel” that Stands employ to empower their spectral bodies to pull off supernatural feats.

A Stand may declare that it’s in a Guardian Stance by making a blog post announcing this and removing a Remedy from its inventory. During this time, if its Near its Standmaster, the Standmaster cannot be targeted by other Villagers (except the Doctor) through dynastic mechanics, nor get infected by contagious diseases, unless the Standmaster explicitly allows them to do so in a blog post. A Stand loses its Guardian Stance if its no longer Near its Standmaster.

A Stand may Break a Near Stand’s Guardian Stance (and thus, remove it) by sacrificing one of their own Remedies for this purpose.

Add to Spectral Actions:

Remedies are the basic “fuel” that Stands employ to empower their spectral bodies to pull off supernatural feats.

A Stand may declare that it’s in a Guardian Stance by making a blog post announcing this and removing a Remedy from its inventory. During this time, if its Near its Standmaster, the Standmaster cannot be targeted by other Villagers (except the Doctor) through dynastic mechanics, nor get infected by contagious diseases, unless the Standmaster explicitly allows them to do so in a blog post. A Stand loses its Guardian Stance if its no longer Near its Standmaster.

A Stand may Break a Near Stand’s Guardian Stance (and thus, remove it) by sacrificing one of their own Remedies for this purpose.

Add to Locations:

Through a simple ritual, a Standmaster may call forth their guardian spirit. A Standmaster may Summon their Stand to their current location (thus, moving them to that location) by removing a Remedy from their Inventory.

A faint chill in the air signifies that the Doctor has once again completed his rounds of the village.

Eating some Mandrake. I’m hungry.

Using Mandrake on myself. Doctor, please respond.

Add to the rule “Symptoms”:

A villager who becomes part of a stand-standmaster relationship immediately gains the symptom “confusion”.

Any villager who is part of a stand-standmaster relationship at the time that this rule becomes active, immediately gains the symptom “confusion”.

Repeal the rule “Hunger”.

To “The Doctor’s Rounds”, add a new step before the final one:-

• If the current date is after the 13th of February 2017: For every non-Dead Villager who has neither Eaten nor been on the Road during the previous two Intervals, giving that Villager the symptom “Death”.

Add to the end of that rule:-

The period between two consecutive Doctor’s Rounds is known as an Interval.

To “Remedies”, add:-

Mandrake, Nightshade, Red Cap, Silver Bark and Wolfsbane are Plants; other Remedies are not. When a Villager is the Taker of a Plant, or of a combination Remedy containing a Plant, they are considered to have Eaten at that time.

In the sub-rule Death change:

A Dead Villager who is not the Doctor may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except those in the rule “Spectral Actions”

to

A Dead Villager who is not the Doctor may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except those in the rule “Spectral Actions” or those actions that explicitly allow the dead to perform.

Add a new rule titled “Hunger”:

Each Villager has a time that they last ate, tracked in the GNDT and referred to as “Last Meal”. If the current time is 120 hours after a villager’s Last Meal, they gain the symptom Death.

When a villager is the Taker of Mandrake, Nightshade, Red Cap, Silver Bark or Wolfsbane, or a combination remedy containing one of these ingredients, their Last Meal becomes the current time.

A villager whose location is the Road may update their Last Meal to the current time at any time.

In “Remedies”, change

by making a blog post announcing this.

to

by making a blog post (which may not be edited) announcing this.

Set each villager’s Last Meal in the GNDT to Feb. 8, 12:00 UTC.

Hey! somebody stole my Leeches!

Because I’d like to take more inspirations from it into Stand mechanics proposals, but I don’t want to make references that might make some people feel excluded from not knowing what this is all about.

I’m super familiar with Jojo btw lol, Part 4 (Diamond is Unbreakable) is my favorite.

In “Locations”, replace “if they both privately communicate so to the doctor” with:-

if they both privately communicate so to the Doctor, and if the not-dead Villager was in the Church at the time of their communication

For each Stand-Standmaster relationship where the Standmaster was not in the Church at the time they communicated such an intention to the Doctor, that relationship becomes broken.

To the section “endgames”, add:

If all villagers are either dead or do not have the disease “black death”, the villager with the most momento mori is remembered, be they dead or alive.

In Spectral Actions, add:

A Stand without a Stand Power may obtain one by privately communicating such a feat to the Doctor and their Stand Master, along their choices of Range, Effect and a unique Name (one that another Stand Power doesn’t have yet) for their Stand Power.

A Stand Power’s Name is up to 20 characters long and contained in brackets, for example “[Sheer Heart Attack]” or “[The World]”.

The church bell echoes through the empty streets of Zahndorf.

To the end of the paragraph starting with “A Villager may remove a Remedy…” in the rule section Remedies, add the following:

A villager may “credit” a dead villager when using the remedy, by declaring so in their post. The dead villager so referenced is considered credited”. Each time a dead villager is credited they gain one momento mori.

All momento mori possessed by players when this is enacted are multiplied by three.

The line

“Whenever a Villager catches the Black Death, all Villagers Near to them who already had the Black Death gain one Memento Mori”

is replaced with:

Whenever a Villager catches the Black Death, all Villagers Near to them who already had the Black Death gain three Memento Mori

As the penultimate bullet point item in the section headed “The Doctor’s Rounds” insert:

Inform any Villager displaying the symptom of Confusion of one random property pertaining to one remedy. This remedy must be chosen at random by the Doctor from the remedies currently carried in the location of that villager.

If the proposal “Villager-Dead Villager bond” hasn’t passed yet, change:

A not dead villager and a dead villager may become a Stand Master (also referred to as “Standmaster”) and a Stand respectively to each other if they both privately communicate so to the doctor

to

A not dead villager at the Church and a dead villager may become a Stand Master (also referred to as “Standmaster”) and a Stand respectively to each other if they both privately communicate so to the doctor.

I think right now we are standing around waiting for people to die, and people have a half-life of four doctor’s rounds. I think we should add rules and mechanisms to hasten the game-play.

Ideas include:
more doctor’s rounds—though this has the possibility to be a burden to the good doctor.
The possibility for a second symptom if you pick up a first.
Spectral Actions that gain either hasten/delay death or add more Memento Mori. Yes, this creates a double game in which specters try to gain points and hope the last two villagers die at once, while the living villagers

Any thoughts? thought I’d state this explicitly rather than just trying to pass a bunch of rules with that intent.

To “Church” in “Locations”, add:

Zahndorf’s church has a sacred, mysterious ritual which villagers may perform, which allows to create a bond between themselves and the dead, creating a special guardian spirit relationship. A not dead villager and a dead villager may become a Stand Master (also referred to as “Standmaster”) and a Stand respectively to each other if they both privately communicate so to the doctor. The doctor should reply to such requests with a confirmation that the standmaster-stand bond has been created (thus, the live villager becomes the “standmaster” and the dead villager the “stand”). When the stand master dies (acquires death), or the stand becomes alive again (loses death), the stand-standmaster relationship is broken.

Any Villager who is already in a standmaster-stand bond may not opt to be in another one.

Hello Bognomic, it is my intention to become a villager. My last appearance in these lands was during the first dynasty of Joranj (February 2004).

In the sub-rule Death under the rule Diseases, change:

A Dead Villager who is not the Doctor may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except those in the rule “Spectral Actions”.

to

A Dead Villager who is not the Doctor may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except this rule and those in the rule “Spectral Actions”.

In “Fair Play”, replace “A single person should not control more than one Villager within BlogNomic.” with:-

A single person should not control more than one non-Idle Villager within BlogNomic, and should announce publicly if they control both a non-Idle Villager and any Idle Villagers.

A crow calls and the church bell tolls once. Outside the gates, Cuddlebeam slumps down at the roadside, dead.

In locations, change

A Villager who is not on the Road may change their own Location once per day.

to

A Villager who is not on the Road or who has at least one visible symptom, or both, may change their own location once per day.

At the end of the Rule Symptoms, and at the end of the Subrule Death, add:

A Villager who unidles immediately gains the symptom “dead”. This does not give the villager any diseases, and occurs even if they have the symptom “Wolf Form”

In the section: Locations, the text:

Two Villagers are considered to be Near to one another if they share a Location, and if that Location is not “Home”.

will be replaced with

Two Villagers are considered to be Near to one another if they share a Location, and if that Location is not “Home” or “The Road”.

In “Gamestate Tracking”, replace “A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following exception: Whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish.” with:-

A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following two exceptions: Firstly, whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish. Secondly, if a post by a Villager who has been a Villager for fewer than seven days contains the word “Proposal” in its title, but is not a Proposal, and if it has been posted for less than an hour, then any admin may change it to be in the Proposal category.

In the section: Locations, the text:

Two Villagers are considered to be Near to one another if they share a Location, and if that Location is not “Home”.

will be replaced with

Two Villagers are considered to be Near to one another if they share a Location, and if that Location is not “Home” or “The Road”.

Add to “Stories” in “Remedies”

If two villagers privately inform the doctor that they wish to listen to the other’s family tale, the doctor should privately reply to the two villagers with the information contained in the other villager’s family tale (i.e. a remedy and its effect).

Upon the enactment of this proposal, the villagers at the road have their location changed to home.

I employ my most exceptional, beautiful and legend-renowned ability: my ability to drink a unit of Water.

Doctor please respond appropriately.

I will be joining the game .Yes, It appears I start out on the outside of the town. That’s a problem. On the other hand, I’m completely disease free.

If “Party of One” has not been enacted, append to the rule “locations”:

A Villager is alone if they are the only Villager at that Location or all other villagers at that location are dead.

Crows begin to gather in the treetops around Zahndorf. In the town square, Matt collapses against the village well, dead.

If the “Accident & Emergency” CfJ hasn’t enacted or failed yet, enact it.

In the rule “Death”, remove “, nor take any action which would alter his own inventory of Remedies”.

Remove “A Villager exhibiting Death may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except those in the rules “Spectral Actions” and “The Doctor’s Rounds”.” from “Symptoms”, and remove the first sentence of “Spectral Actions”.

Add a subrule to “Symptoms” called “Death”:-

A Villager who is exhibiting the symptom of Death is considered to be Dead.

A Dead Villager who is not the Doctor may not take actions defined by dynastic rules, except those in the rule “Spectral Actions”.

If the Doctor is Dead, he may not take actions defined in the rule “Locations”, nor take any action which would alter his own inventory of Remedies.

Add a subrule to “The Doctor’s Rounds”, titled “Weekend Surgery”:-

If it is the 4th or 5th of February and no Rounds were performed on the 3rd of February, the Doctor may perform his Rounds as if it were a Friday. The Doctor may repeal this rule at any time.

The Doctor’s responses to Misery and Cough (and their immediate effects) shall be retroactively considered to have been legal actions, taken at the time the comments were made.

If the Doctor does not have the Symptom of Death, he gains it.

After the Doctor’s Rounds of today (Friday), please unidle me

To the section Spectral Actions, add:

A dead villager in any location but the Road may change their location to the Church.

Upon enacting this proposal, change the Game State to remove the Symptom of Death from the Doctor.

Matt combines Wolfsbane and Mandrake. Matt then uses the concoction on himself.

Append to the rule Locations:

A Village is alone is they are the only Villager at that location.

To the rule “Diseases”, add:

If a villager would gain a new Symptom of the Black Death while they are displaying the Symptom of Wolf Form, they do instead not gain that new Symptom.

To the rule “Diseases”, add:-

Villagers should not reveal their own non-Visible Symptoms to other players, nor what Diseases they think they might have, and may lie about these things in conversation.

Opening a general discussion post, since things are getting oddly quiet for a secret-information social-deduction dynasty. What next for Zahndorf, Villagers? How are we all feeling? What concerns and hopes and dreams do you have today?

To “Spectral Actions”, add:-

A Villager who is exhibiting the symptom of Death is considered to be Dead.

As a daily action, a Dead Villager may move a Remedy from one Villager’s inventory to another Villager’s inventory.

A cold wind twists through the village. In the abandoned surgery, Pokes slumps forward onto the cluttered mixing table, dead.