BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Enact “back to the basics” if it hasn’t been enacted.

Nullify any actions that happened between 31 Jan 2018 20:48:20 UTC and the enactment of this CfJ which were resultant of a combo or depend upon the results of a combo.

Repeal “Combos”

Step 1: Create a Combo Post with a title of “[Combo] Termination Attempt” with the content of:

Set Poke’s Alertness to zero [Poke’s Alertness is 4 -> Poke’s Alertness is 0].

Step 2: The next second, create a Combo Post which has the same content and title as this Combo Post, if it’s still before the 2nd of February 2018.

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What this Combo would do is to make a Combo Post (which would likely fail) to then make a copy of itself to try again the next second.

It’s going to basically try again and again and again over time, until it eventually works (which it will, if Pokes doesn’t take an item from the crate), or it just shuts itself down at the 2nd of Feb.

Create a new rule called “Secret Stash” with the following:

Each Resident has an amount of Conspiracies and Gossips, which are integers which are tracked privately by the Government. As a Craction, a Resident can pay 1 Health to gain one Conspiracy or one Gossip, along privately informing the Government of that choice, as they have a trip to the drug-smog laden lower ends of the neighborhood to have a short consult with certain people.

A Resident can pay five Conspiracies to steal one Unattended Supply of their choice from another Resident by making a blog post for this purpose. An Unattended Supply is one which is not in a Resident’s Hands.

A Resident can pay five Gossips to privately request to know all of the Conspiracy and Gossip counts of other Residents from the Government, who shall reply with this information to them in a timely fashion.

A Resident can pay two Conspiracies and two Gossips along a guess of how much Gossip and Conspiracies another Resident has, to the Government in private (and such a Guess cannot involve both 0 Gossip and 0 Conspiracies simultaneously as the guessed amounts). In a timely fashion, the Government shall reply to this guess with if its correct or not. If its correct, that Resident can lower their target Resident’s Alertness and Health by 3 by making a blog post for this purpose.

If the Government votes Against this proposal, it does nothing.

Add a new Supply to “Supplies”:-

• Money

Add a new rule, “Victory”:-

When a Crate is discarded, if a single Resident has five slots each containing one Money Supply, then that Resident alone has bought their way out of the city, concealed on a delivery truck, and has achieved victory.

If “Graveyard Slot” passed, replace “has five slots each containing one Money Supply” with “is carrying five Money Supplies” in the rule created above.

Undo the effects of “[Core] The Key to Keywords” if it has passed.

Add to the list of words in the Rule “Keywords” an entry for the word “Keyword” itself, as per the following:

Keyword
A word which is given an explicit definition in the ruleset (such as the words listed in the rule “Keywords”), or a word which, via thematic context found in the Ruleset and for the purposes of gameplay, have a different meaning than the one found in conventional English. (For example, “the player casts a Fireball” doesn’t mean that they do so in real life as per the usual English use of the word, but rather, perform a formal action which just has the fantasy aesthetics of that).

Derrick idles out automatically after a week’s inactivity. Quorum remains 5.

Rename “Body” to “Inventory” and replace its text with:-

Each Resident has an Inventory of Supplies that they are carrying, tracked as a list in the GNDT field “Inventory”. A Resident may carry up to five Supplies in their Inventory.

One Supply in each Resident’s Inventory may be Wielded (recorded with an exclamation mark after the Supply’s name in the Inventory), and any number of Clothing Supplies in a Resident’s Inventory may be Worn (recorded with an asterisk after the Supply’s name in the Inventory); by default, Supplies are neither Wielded nor Worn. A Resident may change which Supplies they are Wielding and/or Wearing, as a Craction.

A Clothing Supply may have a worn body location (listed in brackets after “Clothing” as part of their description); a Resident cannot wear more than one Supply at the same time with the same body location.

A Resident can remove a Supply from their inventory and throw it away. This action removes the Supply from the game.

Replace “A Hard-Hat in a Resident’s Head Slot reduces every instance of Cranial Damage to that Resident by 1.” with:-

Clothing (Hat). If a Resident is wearing a Hard-Hat, every instance of Cranial Damage to them is reduced by 1.

Replace “Structural. Fibreboard in a Resident’s Torso Slot reduces every instance of Bludgeoning Damage to that Resident by 1.” with:-

Structural, Clothing (Body). If a Resident is wearing Fibreboard, every instance of Bludgeoning Damage to them is reduced by 1.

Reword the effect of “Backpack” to:-

If a Resident is carrying any Backpacks, they may carry up to eight Supplies instead of five.

Remove the text “Can be stored in a Belt slot.” from the ruleset. Replace “When in a hand slot the User may” with “The User may”. Replace “removed from the hand slot” with “removed from the User’s inventory”. Replace “If the possessor of the hands slot holding the box also has a lockbox key in a slot they own” with “If the carrier of a Lockbox also carries a Lockbox Key”. Replace “one of their own hand slots” with “their own inventory”.

Replace “A User with a Crowbar in one of their Hand Slots may” with “A User wielding a Crowbar may”. Replace “A Resident with one or more Binoculars in their hand slots” with “A Resident wielding Binoculars”

In “Knocking Out”, replace “slots” with “inventories” throughout.

Replace “The User of a Supply is the resident who owns the slot that the supply occupies.” with:-

The User of a Supply is the resident who is carrying it.

Replace “add a Fibreboard to an empty hands slots of all Residents with the same priority as them.” with:-

add a Fibreboard to the inventory of all Residents with the same priority as them.

Replace “Putting it into either of that Resident’s hand slots.” with:-

Putting it into that Resident’s inventory.

If “building stuff” passed, replace “that isn’t in a slot” with “that isn’t in a Resident’s Inventory”; replace “add it to a slot you own” with “add it to your Inventory”; replace “add a Comfy Chair into one of their slots” with “add a Comfy Chair into their Inventory”; replace “when they have Fabric their hands slot” with “when they are wielding Fabric”; replace “gains 3 Health if this is in the legs slot” with “gains 3 Health if this is in their Inventory”; replace “add a Nailed Board to a slot they own” with “add a Nailed Board to their Inventory”; replace “as long as the User has this item in their hands slot” with “as long as the User is wielding this item”.

Reword the Nailed Board effect (if it exists) to:-

Structural. A User wielding a Nailed Board may take a Craction to deal 3 Damage to a Resident that they have a Violent Stance towards.

If “Planned Obsolescence” passed, replace “it is removed from its slot” with “it is removed from its carrier’s Inventory”.

Populate each Resident’s Inventory with the items that were in their Slots immediately prior to this proposal’s enactment. Then, for each Resident: if they have any Hard-Hats set one of them to Worn; if they have any Fibreboards set one of them to Worn; if they had any items in their Hands immediately prior to this proposal’s enactment, set a random one of those items to be Wielded.

A cold winter morning, and the lobby takes delivery of a faded and densely packed emergency crate:

Cuddlebeam and PineTreeQ are first on the scene again.

In “Supplies”, replace “Supplies are defined as the items on the following list, each having a name and optionally an effect:” with:

Supplies are defined as the items on the following list, each having a name, a default Quality Level in parentheses (if applicable) and optionally an effect:

Replace “Hard-Hat:” with:

Hard-Hat (10):

Replace “Crowbar:” with:

Crowbar (10):

Replace “Fibreboard: with:

Fibreboard (10):

Add a “Quality Level’ sub rule before the “Crates” sub rule containing:

Certain items have a Quality Level, or QL, noted in parenthesis after the item’s name. A Quality Level is an integer ranging from 0 to 10. When an item has a QL, that item’s QL is reduced by 1 each time the item’s effect is applied. If an item’s QL falls to 0, it is removed from its slot and ceases to exist.

Amend “A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word.” to:

A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word, and the list below of words are definitions of keywords.

Add to Supplies

Blueprints: Consumable. Randomly choose a Supply that isn’t in a slot already with the text Blueprints in its name and add it to a slot you own. If no such Supply exists, the User burns the blank blueprint paper and does the same effect as Kindling.

Comfy Chair Blueprints: Structural. If the User has a Sewing Kit, Toolbox, Wood and Fabric they may as a craction destroy 1 Wood and 1 Fabric that they have, along with these Blueprints, to add a Comfy Chair into one of their slots.

Fabric: Other Residents are considered to have a Violent stance towards the User when they have Fabric their hands slot as the red cape the User holds enrages them.

Comfy Chair: Structural. When the Government makes a Crate post the User gains 3 Health if this is in the legs slot.

Wood: If the User took a Kindling they may, as a craction destroy their Wood and pick 2 other Residents which are different. The chosen Residents gain 1 Alertness while the User gain 3.

Nails:

Toolbox: When the User takes Wood or Nails from a crate and they already have Nails or Wood (and vice versa), the User may destroy the Nails and Wood to add a Nailed Board to a slot they own.

Nailed Board: Structural. The User may, as a Craction, choose a Resident they have a violent stance towards. Then they choose a slot and hit them with the board, dealing 3 damage to that slot.

Sewing Kit:

Rope: As a craction the User may choose a Resident who is Violent towards them and bind their hands. The bound Resident may not take actions that will lower the User’s Health as long as the User has this item in their hands slot. Only 1 Resident can be bound per Rope.

Change “item from the current pool of possible Supplies” to

item from the Supplies that can appear in a Crate

Replace “When an item listed as Consumable would be put into a hand slot, it is instead not put into that slot, and the Resident whose slot it is may apply its effect at that time (with themselves as its User).” with:-

As a Craction, a Resident may remove a Consumable item from one of their own hand slots to apply that item’s effect (with themselves as its User). Such a Craction is known as a Consumption Craction.

In “Crates”, replace the “Choose whether or not to take one Craction that they are able to take.” bullet point with:-

• Optionally taking a Consumption Craction of the item taken during this atomic action, if that item is Consumable.
• Taking any Craction that the player taking this atomic action is able to take.

Remove “A Craction is an action that is taken as the last step of taking an item from a Crate.” from the ruleset.

In “Crates”, replace “has been able to take an item from a particular Crate for the past 36 hours” with:-

has been able to take an item from a particular Crate for the past 24 hours

Torchlight flashes across the grimy lobby doors one evening, and a new crate is delivered:

Cuddlebeam spies the lights of the truck long ahead of everyone else, but an overcaffeinated PineTreeQ races down the stairs to arrive in the lobby at the same instant.

Change “When an item listed as Consumable would be put into a hand slot, it is instead not put into that slot, and the Resident whose slot it is may apply its effect at that time (with themselves as its User).” to

An item listed as Consumable may be consumed (If possible) as a Craction, destroying the item and enacting the effect.

Change the description and name of Tinned Food to:

Canned Food: If the user has a Can Opener, they may replace this item with Food, discarding the Canned Food.

Change “Choose whether or not to take one Craction that they are able to take.” to:

Choose whether or not to take from 0 up to 3 cractions that they are able to take.

Change, in the description of Lockbox, “Between 1 and 6” to:

Any number below 7 and above 0

Change “As a Craction which can only be taken in the same atomic action as removing the last item from a Crate, a Resident may add a Fibreboard item to their hands slot.” to

As a Craction which can only be taken in the same atomic action as discarding a Crate, a Resident may add a Fibreboard item to their hands slot.

If the Government votes AGAINST this proposal, it does nothing. (This is a proposal which requires them to do a certain job)

Create a new rule called “Survivor Court” with:

Upon the death of a Resident, the Government shall and can make a “Survivor Court” Blogpost for them. Residents may vote for a certain Resident in this Blogpost by making a comment in the format of “[X]”, where X is the name of the Resident they are voting for. Votes cannot be changed.

Once Quorum amount of votes for a person has been reached within 48 hours at a certain Survivor Court post, that person is Tortured. If the Tortured person was the one to kill (inflict the action which caused their Health to go from a non-zero value, to zero; AKA “the killing blow”) the Resident that the Survivor Court was called for, the Tortured person’s Health is set to zero as they commit suicide. However, if the Tortured person was NOT the person to kill the Resident in question - nothing happens to the Tortured person as they manage to keep sane by gripping onto their honor. However, when that happens, true murderer then undergoes a twisted killer’s ecstasy because they got away, and gain 5 Alertness and 5 Health.

After immediately after 48 hours have passed, the Survivor Court Blogpost ceases to be in play.

Create a new item as per the following:

- Poison: As a Craction, you can privately communicate to the Government that you Poison a Resident. When the Government spawns the next Crate, the Poisoned Resident’s HP will be lowered by 3, and will ceased to be Poisoned. The Poison status of a Resident is secretly tracked by the Government. Residents can only be Poisoned or not Poisoned - further Poisoning attempts on an already-Poisoned target does nothing.

Change “As a Craction which can only be taken in the same atomic action as removing the last item from a Crate, a Resident may add a Fibreboard item to their hands slot.” to

The Resident which causes the Crate to be empty or eligible to be discarded can do the following as a Craction: discard the crate and then add a Fibreboard to an empty hands slots of all Residents with the same priority as them.

If “A Resident’s Priority is a non-integer number equal to” exists in the ruleset change it to

A Resident’s Priority is a rational number equal to

Make a new rule “Self-Failed” with the text

For the purposes of rule 1.5, but not its subrules, a self-killed proposal is not pending; however Residents are still limited to making 3 proposals a day.

If “Norwegian Blue” has passed
Change “If a Crate contains a number of Supplies equal to or less than the number of Sleeping Residents who have not yet taken an item from it, then any Resident may post a comment to the Crate post announcing that the Crate is being discarded: upon doing so, any Supplies still inside the Crate cease to exist.” to

If there exists a non-Empty Crate and every non-Sleeping non-Knocked Out Resident has taken an item from that Crate, then any Resident may post a comment to the Crate post announcing that the Crate is being discarded: upon doing so, any Supplies still inside the Crate cease to exist.

Otherwise
Change “If a Crate contains a number of Supplies equal to or less than the number of Sleeping Residents who have not yet taken an item from it, then any Resident may post a comment to the Crate post announcing that the Crate is being discarded: upon doing so, any Supplies still inside the Crate cease to exist.” to

If there exists a non-Empty Crate and every non-Sleeping Out Resident has taken an item from that Crate, then any Resident may post a comment to the Crate post announcing that the Crate is being discarded: upon doing so, any Supplies still inside the Crate cease to exist.

create a new rule named “Permissions” with the text

Rules that describe actions do not allow a Resident to modify the gamestate of another Resident, unless that rule specifically mentions other Residents by using the text “another Resident”, ” other Residents” or ” all Residents”.

Change “Pick any pair of Residents who have the same Priority” to

Out of all Residents, pick two who have the same Priority

Change “If a Recipient has been” to

If another Resident has been

Change “The Resident you are Trusting towards” to

The other Residents you are Trusting towards

If it exists in the ruleset change “A User with a Crowbar in one of their Hand Slots may take a Craction to deal 2 Cranial Damage to a Resident that they have a Violent Stance towards.” to

A User with a Crowbar in one of their Hand Slots may take a Craction to deal 2 Cranial Damage to another Resident that they have a Violent Stance towards.

Reword “Death” to:-

A Resident with a Health (before or after Bonuses) of zero is Knocked Out. A Knocked Out Resident may not take dynastic actions.

If a Resident is Knocked Out when the Government makes a Crate Post, then the post’s Crate may - instead of the contents it would usually be generated with - contain all items from all the slots of all Residents who are Knocked Out at the time of the Crate’s creation (those items being removed from the slots they are in). Such an alternate post is known as a Drop Post, and the Residents who were Knocked Out at the time of its creation are its Droppers.

Rename the rule to “Knocking Out”.

In “Stats”, replace “A Resident with an Alertness of zero (before or after applying Bonuses) is Sleeping. If no non-Empty Crate exists, a Resident who is Sleeping may increase their Alertness by 1.” with:-

A Resident with an Alertness or Health of zero (before or after applying Bonuses) is Sleeping. If no non-Empty Crate exists, a Resident who is Sleeping but not Knocked Out may Wake Up by setting their Alertness to 1.

In “Crates”, replace “The Government may, and should, also then halve the Hangover of all Residents, rounding toward zero.”:-

The Government may, and should, also then halve the Hangover of all Residents, rounding toward zero, and then (if the post just made was not a Drop Post) increase the Health of every Knocked Out Resident who was a Dropper of the most recent Drop Post by 6, increase their Hangover by 10 and set their Alertness to 1.

In “Social”, replace “The Resident you are Trusting towards may use a Craction to transfer Supplies from you to themselves.” with:-

If you are not Knocked Out, then the Resident you are Trusting towards may use a Craction to transfer Supplies from you to themselves.

Add to “Stats” the following:

A Resident who would be inflicted damage (after considering damage reductions) by another who has less Hangover than them is dealt that amount of damage +1 instead (and would it be applied, this bonus only applies once for each attack).

Add to “Social”:

Each Saturday and Sunday of a week is the Weekend. Once per Weekend, a Resident can change one of their Stances to someone to “Neutral”, by making a blog post for this purpose and gaining 10 Hangover.

And amend, if it exists,  “A Resident’s Priority is a non-integer number equal to their Alertness plus one hundredth of their Health.” to:

A Resident’s Priority is a rational number equal to their Alertness plus one hundredth of their Health, at the moment that the latest Crate was spawned.

And amend, if it exists, “Each Resident has a Priority, which is a rational number that can be 0 or larger, tracked in the GNDT equal to their Alertness minus their Hangover plus one hundredth of their Health.” to:

Each Resident has a Priority, which is a rational number that can be 0 or larger, tracked in the GNDT equal to their Alertness minus their Hangover plus one hundredth of their Health, at the moment that the latest Crate was spawned.

To “Stats”, add:-

When a Resident is dealt Damage, their Health is decreased by that amount.

Reword the Crowbar effect to:-

A User with a Crowbar in one of their Hand Slots may take a Craction to deal 2 Cranial Damage to a Resident that they have a Violent Stance towards.

Reword the Hard-Hat effect to:-

A Hard-Hat in a Resident’s Head Slot reduces every instance of Cranial Damage to that Resident by 1.

Reword the Fibreboard effect to:-

Structural. Fibreboard in a Resident’s Torso Slot reduces every instance of Bludgeoning Damage to that Resident by 1.

Change “Stance with” to “Stance towards” throughout the ruleset.

Add to the ruleset a rule called “Religion” with the following:

A Resident may, instead of rolling a DICEX in the GNDT (where X is some integer), use a value of their choice among the possible rollable values of that DICEX to count as the rolled value, if they pay 3 Health to do so, as they perform an eldritch ritual. This payment is a “Ritual Payment”.

Add the following to Supplies:

Lockbox: If the possessor of the hands slot holding the box also has a lockbox key in a slot they own, and they choose to open the lockbox as a craction, roll a DICE9 in GNDT and enact the corresponding option to that number:
Between 1 and 6. The lockbox contains a randomly chosen (by dice roll in GNDT) item from the current pool of possible Supplies (The lockbox is destroyed).
7. The lockbox is empty, causing it to be destroyed without consequences.
8. The lockbox is trapped with explosives and the resident who opened the lockbox loses 3 health (this damage being directed at the torso). The lockbox is destroyed along with the lockbox key.
9. The lockbox is trapped with gas and the resident who opened the lockbox loses 2 alertness and gains 20 hangover. The lockbox is destroyed.

Lockbox Key: Used to open a Lockbox.

Remove “A Resident’s Priority is a non-integer number equal to their Alertness plus one hundredth of their Health.”

Add the following to Stats

Each Resident has a Priority, which is a rational number that can be 0 or larger, tracked in the GNDT equal to their Alertness minus their Hangover plus one hundredth of their Health.

For each instance of “X Hangover” in the ruleset where X is an integer, halve that number.

Change “Each Resident has a Hangover Level (or “Hangover”), which is an integer that can be negative, tracked in the GNDT in the Alertness column after the alertness stat separated with a minus symbol, and defaulting to 0.”

Change “As a Craction which can only be taken in the same atomic action as removing the last item from a Crate, a Resident may add a Fibreboard item to their hands slot.” to

The Resident which causes the Crate to be eligible to be discarded can do the following as a Craction: discard the crate and then add a Fibreboard to an empty hands slots of each Resident with the same priority as them.

If “Don’t Swallow The Cap” has not passed do the following:
Change “If a stat in this rule (ignoring Bonuses) would be increased above ten, it instead becomes ten.” to

If a stat in this rule (ignoring Bonuses and besides Priority) would be increased above ten, it instead becomes ten.

There are monsters lurking in this city, dangerous ones - which attack when there few enough pesky humans around to try to stop them.

Once per dynasty and as a Craction, and if there are no Monsters, you can Go Into Hiding by making a blogpost for this purpose, which contains a choice of two Monster Powers, listed below.

- Acid Spitter: Once per Stomp, Choose a Quorum amount of Residents. They gain 20 Hangover each.
- Swordfingers: Once per Stomp, Choose a Quorum amount of Residents. They lose 2 Health each due to head trauma.
- Bulky: Your Stamina starts at 6, instead of 4.
- Woundlicker: Once per Stomp, gain 1 Stamina.

Once that blogpost is made, its Monster, along its two chosen Monster Powers, comes into play.

A Monster is controlled by the Resident who made the blogpost to create it, and that Resident cannot perform any Dynastic actions other than those described in this rule, until the Monster in question is removed from play.

Monsters start with 4 Stamina. Monsters and their personal variables are tracked on the Residents wikipage.

A Monster may Stomp once every 36 hours by paying 1 Stamina and making a blog post for this purpose. Upon doing so, all Residents except the one in hiding (the one controlling it) lose 1 Health.

A Resident with a Weapon (one that can “hit another resident”, like a Crowbar) can make a Monster lose 1 Stamina, once every Stomp by making a comment at that Stomp’s post.

If a Monster has been in play for more than 7 days, any Resident can set its Stamina to 0.

When a Monster’s Stamina reaches 0, they are removed from play.

Add the above as a new rule with the name “Monsters”

A fresh crate is shoved into the lobby, some of its contents looking a little dented:-

Cuddlebeam spotted the delivery truck long before anyone else, and was already waiting at the lobby desk.

Change “A Resident’s Priority is a non-integer number equal to their Alertness plus one hundredth of their Health.” to

A Resident’s Priority is a real number that can be 0 or larger, equal to their Alertness minus one tenth of their Hangover plus one hundredth of their Health.

Remove “Fibreboard: Structural. When worn in the torso a resident has a damage reduction of 1 to any torso related injury.”

Append to Supplies

The following list of Supplies are not included in the random selection when the Government rolls for the contents of a crate.
Fibreboard: Structural. When worn in the torso a resident has a damage reduction of 1 to any torso related injury.

Change “As a Craction which can only be taken in the same atomic action as removing the last item from a Crate, a Resident may add a Fibreboard item to their hands slot.” to

As a Craction, the last non-sleeping Resident for a given crate with the lowest priority may discard the crate and then adds a Fibreboard to one empty hands slots to each Resident with the same priority as them.

Turn any Fibreboards that were randomly included in a crate into Hard-Hats.

In “Stats”, replace “If a stat in this rule (ignoring Bonuses) would be increased above ten” with:-

If a Resident’s Alertness or Health would be increased above ten (ignoring Bonuses)

In Supplies, replace “If the User has a Can Opener, they gain 1 Health and lose 1 Alertness.” with:-

If the User has a Can Opener, they gain 1 Health, lose 1 Alertness and lose 8 Hangover.

Add an item to the Supplies rule:-

• Airhorn: Consumable. Pick any pair of Residents who have the same Priority and who both have a Health of 2 or more: select one of them and reduce their Health by 1. (If they have different Hangover values, you must select the one with the higher Hangover.) You may then repeat this action up to 10 times.

Add a new rule called “Favors” with the text:

Each resident has a number called “Bribes” which defaults to zero as is tracked in the GDNT. Any item can be destroyed to gain the owner one Bribes.

A Favor is a game object from that following list, which has an owner, effect, and level.

If a resident owns a Favor, it is listed in their section of the Residents wiki page, along with its level. The effect of that Favor will apply to that Resident for as long as they have it.

Favors start out as belonging to no-one, with a level of 1. Any player can steal a favor by paying X bribes, where X is a number greater that the level of that Favor. X becomes the new level of that Favor.

Favors:

•First in line: The Owner’s Priority is +inf.
•Anti-Desecration: If the Owner becomes Dead, all their supplies are destroyed before the “Corpse” Page is posted.
•Hold My Supplies: The government has an inventory which is stored at the top of the Residents wiki page. If it has less than 3 supplies in it, the Owner may add one of their items to it. At any time they may move any of those supplies in to their hands slots and optionally perform a crataction.
•Double Dip: The Owner may take two Supplies instead of one from the crate when it is your turn.
•Wingman: The Owner may choose one other resident they are romantic with. That resident becomes romanic to The Owner, and cannot change that status, until the owner of this Favor changes.

Change the following under “Supplies”

Backpack: When not in a torso slot the User may not interact with the Backpack slots.

to

Backpack: When in a hands slot the User may interact with the Backpack slots.

If the proposal “One man’s trash is another man’s turtle shell” failed, this proposal has no further effect.

Remove “If a resident is the last to take an item from the crate, they may also obtain the empty crate itself, as a supply in any slot, as a Craction. This can happen once per crate.” from the ruleset.

Replace the “Empty Crate” supply in the ruleset and gamestate with:-

Fibreboard: Structural. When worn in the torso a resident has a damage reduction of 1 to any torso related injury.

Add a paragraph to “Supplies”:-

As a Craction which can only be taken in the same atomic action as removing the last item from a Crate, a Resident may add a Fibreboard item to their hands slot.

Replace “randomly-chosen items from the Supplies list” with “randomly-chosen non-Structural items from the Supplies list”.

Change the first two bullet points of the “Crates” rule back to:-

• The item is in that Crate.
• The Recipient has not already taken an item from that Crate.

The lobby doors crash open as a fresh crate is delivered:-

Axemabaro and Cuddlebeam are first down the stairs.

Add a sub rule called “Smuggled Items” to the rule Supplies, with the following text:

Bribes is a number, tracked at the top of the “Residents” wiki page.

When the Government makes a Crate post, they also must roll a DICEX, where X is Bribes+1. The Create post lists this number of smuggled items, which are randomly chosen from the following list of supplies.

A Resident (the “Recipient”) may take a Smuggled item from a Crate by posting a comment to its post announcing their choice, but only if:-

•The item is in that Crate.
•The Recipient has not already taken a Smuggled item from that Crate.

Taking a smuggled item from a crate is done in the same way as taking a normal item.

The Smuggled items are:

•Cigarets: Consumuable. Th

To “The Government”, add:-

If the Government has a Vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, that Vote is instead considered to be valid and either FOR (if more Residents have voted FOR the proposal than have voted AGAINST it) or AGAINST (in all other cases).

Add as a paragraph to “Stats”:

Each Resident has a Hangover Level (or “Hangover”), which is an integer that can be negative, tracked in the GNDT as “Hangover”, and defaulting to 0.

Replace

Food: Consumable. The User gains 1 Health and loses 1 Alertness.
Water: Consumable. If the User has a Health below 3, they gain 1 Health.
Energy Drink: Consumable. The User gains 1 Alertness.

with

Food: Consumable. The User gains 1 Health, loses 1 Alertness, and loses 8 Hangover.
Water: Consumable. If the User has a Health below 3, they gain 1 Health. The User loses 4 Hangover.
Energy Drink: Consumable. The User gains 1 Alertness and gains 10 Hangover.

Replace

“Pills: Consumable. The User gains 2 Alertness but loses 1 Health.” with “Pills: Consumable. The User gains 3 Alertness, loses 1 Health, and gains 40 Hangover.”

At the end of the last sentence of the first paragraph of Crates (“The post lists a number of randomly-chosen items from the Supplies list which are inside the Crate; that number is equal to the number of Residents at the time of posting.”), add:

The Government may, and should, also then halve the Hangover of all Residents, rounding toward zero.

Add the following as a Craction in the “Crates” section:

If a resident is the last to take an item from the crate, they may also obtain the empty crate itself, as a supply in any slot, as a Craction. This can happen once per crate.

Add the following as a Supply:

Empty Crate: When worn in the torso a resident has a damage reduction of 1 to any torso related injury. The resident also has a damage reduction of 1 against all attacks from an attacker with a lower alertness value.

Modify the first two bullet points under “Crates” to the following:

A Resident (the “Recipient”) may take an item from a Crate by posting a comment to its post announcing their choice, but only if:-

The item is in that Crate, or in the event that there are no items in the crate an Empty Crate is obtainable only once per crate for the last person to take an item from the crate.
The Recipient has not already taken an item from that Crate and the item being received is not the Empty Crate.

If “This hand is my hand” has passed change “The destination slot does not belong to a Resident who is Suspicious towards them.” to

The destination slot belongs to them.

If “This hand is my hand” has not passed do the following things:
change “A Resident can move a Supply into any slot it can be in from an existing slot.” to

A Resident can move a Supply into any slot it can be in from an existing slot, provided both slots belong to the Resident which is moving the Supply.

Undo any changes that involved Residents moving Supplies to slots which don’t belong to them.

Hiya! I’m samzeman (sam’s fine but samzeman is more precise, I have no preference), and I’d like to join the game

In the Supplies rule, after the list of supplies, add the text:

The User of a Supply is the resident who owns the slot that the supply occupies.

Replace “A Resident can move a Supply into any slot it can be in from an existing slot. If a slot already has a Supply when a new one is moved into it, the former Supply falls on the floor and no longer occupies any slot.” with:

A Supply may only be placed in an empty slot.

At any time a Resident can move a Supply into any slot it can be in from another slot, provided the following conditions are met:
- The source slot belongs to the them.
- The destination slot does not belong to a Resident who is Suspicious towards them.

A Resident can remove a Supply from any of their slots and throw it away. This action removes the Supply from the game.

Undo the effects of any actions that were taken before the enactment of this proposal that involves taking Supplies from another Resident who is not trusting you or using a supply that is in another Resident’s slot.

Add to the ruleset the following rule called “Character Development”:

Once ever and by making a post for this purpose, Residents can gain a “Character Development” of their choice - one of the effects listed below. A Resident has by default no Character Development and each Resident’s Character Development is tracked in a GNDT column called “Char. Devel.”.

-Thinking outside the Box: You have ascended above the crates and worldly possessions. Triple your Health and Alertness. You lose all of your items, and any items you gain are removed from play.
-Worth a Billion Box: Gain three non-Unique Supplies of your choice.
-Professional Boxer: Instead of taking a Supply from a Crate, you can slam someone with the box itself, making them lose 2 Alertness.
-Boxed In: Declare a Favorite Item in the Character Development post which would make you gain this. You always, instead of taking a Supply from a Crate, gain another instance of your Favorite Item, if it is possible to do so.
-Jack-in-the…: You’ve got tricks to always be nimble and quick. Instead of taking an item from a Crate, you can set your Alertness to be half the amount (rounding down) of Alertness that another Resident has.

Make a new rule “Ticks” with the text

Interpret any comment on a proposal containing the text “tick”, “cross” or “tic” and “green” as a in addition to its other meanings.
Interpret any comment on a proposal containing the text “tick”, “cross” or “tic” and “red” as an in addition to its other meanings.

Add to the list of Supplies the following:

- Keys to the K-Van:  Unique. While you have this item, you can transfer one of your items to any other Resident.
- The Mabaro Axe:  Unique. If this is in a hand slot the User may take a Craction to hit another Resident on the head for 1 damage.
- Pine Tree of Q: Unique. This special Pine Tree provides you with a portable hiding spot. Those with less Alertness than you cannot attempt to attack you (for example, using a Crowbar or the sort against you).
- Credit Card:  Unique. Consumable. This item becomes a non-Unique Supply of your choice upon use. 
- Poke:  Unique. Consumable. Delicious Hawaiian salad. Gain 5 Health upon use.
- Keys to the derrick: Unique. ASAP after taking a Supply from a Crate, you can remove that Crate post from play entirely by making a comment at that Crate for this purpose. Can only be used twice.
- Becko™ Dye: Unique. Consumable. This amazing hair dye will allow you to look just like your favorite celebrity - or anyone else! Upon use, set everyone’s Stance towards you to be the same as they have to a Resident of your choice.
- CuddleBean™: Unique. Consumable. Oxytocin drug for palliating autism. Gain 5 Alertness upon use.

Add to the “Supplies” rule:

Only one instance of a Unique item can exist in play at any given time. If a Unique item would be spawned into a Crate while an instance of that Unique item already exists, it is re-rolled to be something else.

In “Social”, replace “The Resident you are Trusting towards may transfer Supplies from you to themselves.” with:-

The Resident you are Trusting towards may use a Craction to transfer Supplies from you to themselves.

Replace “The Resident you are Romantic towards may use your Alertness value instead of their own, for the purpose of other mechanics which require a certain Alertness value.” with:-

The Resident you are Romantic towards may, as a Craction, set their Alertness value to be equal your own (ignoring Bonuses).

In “Crates”, replace “who has a higher Alertness” with “who has a higher Priority”.

Rename the “Money” item to “Kindling” throughout the ruleset and gamestate, and remove the text “with the useless paper” from the ruleset.

Rename the “Briefcase” item to “Fuelcan” throughout the ruleset and gamestate.

Change “Take a Craction.” to

Choose whether or not to take one Craction that they are able to take.

Change “A Craction is an optional action” to

A Craction is an action

Add to the supply list

Briefcase: When in a hand slot the User may take a Craction to replace an item inside the Crate with Money. After taking the Craction the Briefcase is removed from the hand slot.

Add to the last step of the only dynastic atomic action

Take a Craction.

Append to “Crates”

A Craction is an optional action that is taken as the last step of taking an item from a Crate.

change “can be stored in a belt slot or a backpack slot. A resident with a crowbar in their hand slot may consume it to reduce another resident’s health by 2 if they have a violent stance towards that resident. This damage is lessened to 1 if the target has a hard hat in their head slot.” to

If this is in a hand slot the User may take a Craction to hit another Resident that they have a violent stance towards on the head for 2 damage.

Create a rule called “Monster Rules” with:

The monstrous being that lurks in this city has a great amount of influence in it. For one week, starting when this text has been added to the ruleset, Residents may propose an image to be added to this rule (via the usual Proposal mechanics). These images added shall be interpreted as rules.

Add to the list of supplies

 
• Crowbar: can be stored in a belt slot or a backpack slot. A resident with a crowbar in their hand slot may consume it to reduce another resident’s health by 2 if they have a violent stance towards that resident. This damage is lessened to 1 if the target has a hard hat in their head slot.

Make a new rule named “Death” with the text

If at any time a resident’s health becomes 0 that resident is considered dead and all other residents become neutral towards the dead resident. A dead resident may not take any supplies from crates nor preform any actions with their supplies. When a resident is dead either that resident or the Government must make a blog post titled “Corpse”. This posts acts like a crate post but the contents are all the supplies in the dead resident’s slots. Whenever a resident takes an item from this crate, the corresponding item is removed from the dead resident’s slot. Once all of a dead resident’s slots are empty they may make a blog post declaring themselves alive, resetting their alertness and health to the default values. That resident is not longer considered dead.

Add a new paragraph after the first of “Crates”:-

A Resident’s Priority is a non-integer number equal to their Alertness plus one hundredth of their Health.

Then replace “There is no other Resident who has a higher Alertness than the Recipient” with:-

There is no other Resident who has a higher Priority than the Recipient

A squeal of brakes, a blast of megaphone instructions, and the building’s lobby doors are pulled open just long enough to drag a new crate through:-

Axemabaro, card and Cuddlebeam are first on the scene.

Add some Supplies to the Supplies rule:-

• Pills: Consumable. The User gains 2 Alertness but loses 1 Health.
• Tinned Food: Consumable. If the User has a Can Opener, they gain 1 Health and lose 1 Alertness.
• Can Opener: Can be stored in a Belt slot.
• Binoculars: Can be stored in a Belt slot. A Resident with one or more Binoculars in their hand slots receives a +2 Bonus to their Alertness.

Add to “Supplies”:-

If an item gives a Bonus to a stat, that stat is increased or decreased by that amount while the condition described is true: this is tracked in the GNDT by noting that modifier after the value (eg. a stat of 5 with separate bonuses of +2 and +1 from items would be listed as “5+2+1”).

In “Stats”, replace all instances of “a stat in this rule” with “a stat in this rule (ignoring Bonuses)”.

If “A Resident with an Alertness of zero is Sleeping.” exists in the ruleset, replace it with “A Resident with an Alertness of zero (before or after applying Bonuses) is Sleeping.”

In “Crates”, replace “no other Resident who has a higher Alertness than the Recipient” with “no other non-Sleeping Resident who has a higher Alertness than the Recipient”.

In the sentence beginning “Each Resident has a level of Alertness”, replace “defaulting to zero” with “defaulting to 1”.

Change “on the Residents wikipage, with a section for each Resident and detail what Slot that Supply is in” to

in the GNDT, where the column is named after the slot type

Add to the list of supplies

Backpack: When not a torso slot the User may not interact with the Backpack slots. A Backpack has three Backpack slots, tracked after where the Backpack appears, using a comma separated list enclosed in curly braces.
Money: Consumable. The User makes a fire with the useless paper and chooses another Resident. The chosen and the User both gain 1 Alertness.

If Tragicomedy has passed do the following”
Add to the list of supplies

The Bird: Consumable. The User may choose to change any number, including 0, of Resident’s, and which Resdients those are, Stance towards them to Suspicious.

If “The Line Starts Here” enacted, this proposal has no further effect.

To the first paragraph of “Stats”, add:-

A Resident with an Alertness of zero is Sleeping. If no non-Empty Crate exists, a Resident who is Sleeping may increase their Alertness by 1.

Before the final paragraph of “Crates”, add:-

If a Recipient has been able to take an item from a particular Crate for the past 36 hours, but has not done so, then any Resident may set that Resident’s Alertness to zero.

To the final paragraph, add:-

If a Crate contains a number of Supplies equal to or less than the number of Sleeping Residents who have not yet taken an item from it, then any Resident may post a comment to the Crate post announcing that the Crate is being discarded: upon doing so, any Supplies still inside the Crate cease to exist.

Add 1 to every Resident’s Alertness.

Make a new rule titled “Qing” with the text

Each Resident has a Penalty, which is an integer between 0 and 24 tracked in the GNDT. If a number of hours equal to a Resident’s penalty has passed since that Resident had the opportunity to take an item from a Crate, that Resident is skipped for the purposes of that Crate and no longer needs to take an item. A Resident who is skipped has their Penalty reduced by 25%. Supplies cannot alter a Resident’s Penalty.
A Resident may make an Absent blogpost which detail either a time interval or a number of future crates where if it becomes their turn to take an item they’ll voluntarily skip their turn. Resident’s whose turns were skipped in this manner do not have their Penalty altered when skipped. The author of that blogpost may void it by making a comment containing “HERE!”

In Crates append

For a Crate, once all Residents either take an item or were skipped the Government randomly assigns remaining items to Residents which were skipped. The taking action is considered to have been done by that particular Resident but is performed by the Government.

Add to the Ruleset a rule called “Social” with the following:

Each Resident has a Stance with each other Resident, defaulting to “Neutral”. Stances are all tracked on the Residents wikipage. At-will, a Resident can change their Stance with another Resident to another, if their former Stance was “Neutral”. The Stances possible (and their effects, if any) are the following:

- Neutral:
- Trusting: The Resident you are Trusting towards may transfer Supplies from you to themselves.
- Suspicious: The Resident you are Suspicious towards may not transfer to you Supplies.
- Romantic: The Resident you are Romantic towards may use your Alertness value instead of their own, for the purpose of other mechanics which require a certain Alertness value.
- Violent: The Resident you are Violent towards cannot change their Stance towards you to be anything else than also Violent.

Amend “and it describes a Crate” to:

and it describes a Crate - which can be stated to be a Government Crate or a Black Market Crate

Amend “There is no other Resident who has a higher Alertness than the Recipient, and who has not yet taken an item from that Crate.” to:

There is no other Resident who has a higher Alertness (or Sneakiness instead, in the case of a Black Market Crate) than the Recipient, and who has not yet taken an item from that Crate.

Add to “Stats”:

Each Resident has a level of Sneakiness, being an integer value tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to zero.

Once ever, and if only Empty or no Crates exist, a Resident can raise their Sneakiness and Alertness by amounts which total up to 20. For example, gain 8 Sneakiness and 12 Alertness.

To “Supplies”, add:-

When an item listed as Consumable would be put into a hand slot, it is instead not put into that slot, and the Resident whose slot it is may apply its effect at that time (with themselves as its User).

Change the effects of Food, Water and Energy Drink to:-

• Food: Consumable. The User gains 1 Health and loses 1 Alertness.
• Water: Consumable. If the User has a Health below 3, they gain 1 Health.
• Energy Drink: Consumable. The User gains 1 Alertness.

If the proposal “Staying Alive” failed, remove the last sentences from the Food and Water bullet points.

Remove the “Optionally apply its effects.” bullet from the ruleset, if it exists.

If any Residents have Consumable Supplies in their Slots, remove those Supplies. If any Residents gained and/or lost Alertness or Health as a result of consuming Supply items from hand slots, undo those gains and losses.

If Miscellany 1 has not passed replace “When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, they may immediately apply its effect (with themselves as its User), and a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate. That item then goes into one of their hand slots, choosing an empty one if possible.” with

Taking an item from a Crate is an atomic action that consists of the following:
*Posting a comment in the relevant Crate blogpost stating which item is taken.
*Optionally apply its effects.
*Putting it into either of that Resident’s hand slots.
When this action has begun a single instance of that item is no longer considered to be part of the Crate.

otherwise replace “When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate. That item then goes into one of their hand slots, choosing an empty one if possible.” with

Taking an item from a Crate is an atomic action that consists of the following:
*Posting a comment in the relevant Crate blogpost stating which item is taken.
*Putting it into either of that Resident’s hand slots.
When this action has begun, a single instance of that item is no longer considered to be part of the Crate.

The residents gather around the meagre-looking supply crate that was delivered yesterday, and tear away the plastic wrap. The following items spill out across the lobby floor:

Everyone’s just woken up and is at zero Alertness right now, so help yourselves.

Add to “Stats”:-

Each Resident has a level of Health, being an integer value tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to 8.

If a stat in this rule would be reduced below zero, it instead becomes zero. If a stat in this rule would be increased above ten, it instead becomes ten.

Change the effects of Food and Water to:-

• Food: The User gains 1 Health and loses 1 Alertness.
• Water: If the User has a Health below 3, they gain 1 Health.

If “Miscellany 1” passed, change their effects to:-

• Food: This Supply may be eaten by a Resident when it is in one of their hand slots. When it is eaten, it is destroyed, and the eater gains 1 Health and loses 1 Alertness.
• Water: This Supply may be drunk by a Resident when it is in one of their hand slots. When it is drunk, it is destroyed, and the drinker gains 1 Health if their Health was below 3.

If any Resident took Food from a Supply Crate while this proposal was pending, and if “Miscellany 1” failed, increase those Residents’ Health by 1 and decrease their Alertness by 1.

Replace “Each Resident has the following Slots where only appropriate Supplies can be put into those Slots—the head Slot can only hold supplies that go on heads, anything which can be held can go into hand slots, etcetera.” with “Each Resident has the following Slots:”

Replace “When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, they may immediately apply its effect (with themselves as its User), and a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate. That item then goes into one of their hand slots, choosing an empty one if possible.” with “When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate. That item then goes into one of their hand slots, choosing an empty one if possible.”

Replace “Energy Drink: The User gains 1 Alertness.” with “Energy Drink: This Supply may be drunk by a Resident when it is in one of their hand slots. When it is drunk, it is destroyed, and the drinker gains 1 Alertness.”

Amend
“2 hand slots
2 arm slots
1 head slot
2 leg slots
2 feet slots
1 torso slot
1 face slot
1 pack slot
1 belt slot
1 neck slot” to

2 hand slots
1 head slot
1 legs slots
1 shoes slot
2 torso slot
1 belt slot
1 face slot

Add to the ruleset the rule “Big Freddy” with the following:

“Big Freddy” is an affectionate nickname for what seems to be a massive colony of these… Beings... acting as a single, combined entity - grabbed and fused onto each other to make arms and even brutally spewing members of “itself” to use as some sort of attack.

Our chemical attacks so far have kept it dazed - and we’re using the sewers as an improvised cage and gas chamber for this purpose. But, it’s adapting. Changing.

Two weeks after this ruletext has been added to the ruleset, the Government shall secretly (in a timely fashion) write a set of rules for Big Freddy along a blog post for this purpose, which also states the wordcount of the set of rules they made. One week after that, the Government (in a timely fashion) shall make a blog post announcing the arrival of Big Freddy and those rules they previously made in secret then becomes text in this rule, below this sentence.

Amend
“2 hand slots
2 arm slots
1 head slot
2 leg slots
2 feet slots
1 torso slot
1 face slot
1 pack slot
1 belt slot
1 neck slot”

to:

1 hand slot, 1 head slot, 1 leg slots, 1 torso slot, 1 extra slot

I have unidled myself.

Enact a new rule, “The Government”:-

For the purposes of dynastic rules, the Government is not considered to be a Resident.

If a rule name Supplies exists, add to the list

Hard-Hat: The User has 1 damage reduction to head related trauma when this Supply is in their head slot.

and change “When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, they may immediately apply its effect (with themselves as its User), and a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate.” to

When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, they may immediately apply its effect (with themselves as its User), and a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate. That item then goes into one of their hand slots, choosing an empty one if possible.

Add a new rule “Body”

Each Resident has the following Slots where only appropriate Supplies can be put into those Slots—the head Slot can only hold supplies that go on heads, anything which can be held can go into hand slots, etcetera.
2 hand slots
2 arm slots
1 head slot
2 leg slots
2 feet slots
1 torso slot
1 face slot
1 pack slot
1 belt slot
1 neck slot
Each Slot can only hold 1 Supply. Supplies that are in Slots are tracked on the [[Residents]] wikipage, with a section for each Resident and detail what Slot that Supply is in. A Resident can move a Supply into any slot it can be in from an existing slot. If a slot already has a Supply when a new one is moved into it, the former Supply falls on the floor and no longer occupies any slot.

Enact a new rule, “Stats”:-

Each Resident has a level of Alertness, being an integer value tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to zero.

Enact a new rule, “Supplies”:-

Various Supplies are being delivered to the Residents by a well-meaning Government. Supplies are defined as the items on the following list, each having a name and optionally an effect:-

• Food
• Water
• Energy Drink: The User gains 1 Alertness.

Add a subrule to “Supplies” called “Crates”:-

If no non-Empty Crate exists, the Government may make a blog post describing the delivery of a supply crate; this is known as a Crate post, and it describes a Crate. The post lists a number of randomly-chosen items from the Supplies list which are inside the Crate; that number is equal to the number of Residents at the time of posting.

A Resident (the “Recipient”) may take an item from a Crate by posting a comment to its post announcing their choice, but only if:-

• The item is in that Crate.
• The Recipient has not already taken an item from that Crate.
• There is no other Resident who has a higher Alertness than the Recipient, and who has not yet taken an item from that Crate.

When a Resident takes an item from a Crate, they may immediately apply its effect (with themselves as its User), and a single instance of that item is then no longer considered to be part of the Crate.

If a Crate has no Supplies inside it, then that Crate is Empty.

Day ten of the lockdown, and the military still escort cautious hazmat patrols through the empty streets of the city, searching and scanning for traces of contamination from the security breach at the nearby research facility.

An open-backed truck pulls up at a tower block near the city centre, and a team in military fatigues jump out over the sides. They drag a plastic-wrapped supply crate down from the truck and across the street, and with some barked calls to the block’s residents to stay back, they unhook the hazard tape from the building’s doors for just long enough to shove the crate into the lobby.

The doors resealed, the truck guns its engine and roars off to another part of the city.

Rename “Director” to “Government” and “Failed Specimen” to “Resident”.

At 56km and with all Heroic Actions performed, I have achieved victory.

Cresting the hill in a stolen station wagon, I speed out into the open country, a dozen more unrevealed mutations swirling beneath the surface of my humanlike skin, and a thousand clones of myself in a box on the back seat.

Increase the distance of each Failed Experiment that voted FOR this proposal by 24.

Using my extra long arms I reach through the window, grab and pocket the vials with my still developing family in them.

I tiptoe through security and grab a lockbox brimming with dry ice from one of the empty lab rooms.

My legs stretch and curve slightly beneath my stolen disguise, as delayed aspects of my experimental phenotype begin to kick in.

Replace “1d3” with “DICE3” throughout the ruleset if it’s still there anywhere.

Replace “rolling a DICE3 and paying 2 HP. If that roll gives a value of 2 or 3, reduce their HP by 6.” with:-

gaining 20 Hunger and reducing their target’s HP by 6.

Replace “rolling a DICE3 and increasing their own Suspicion by 20. If that roll gives a value of 2 or 3, reduce their HP by half its current amount.” with:-

gaining 20 Hunger and reducing their target’s HP by half its current amount.

Replace “escape the nets by rolling DICE3. On a roll of 3, their Suspicion is set to 75. If your current Captured state has lasted more than 72 consecutive hours, performing this action also sets your Suspicion to 75.” with:-

escape the nets by gaining 20 Hunger and setting their Suspicion to 75. If your current Captured state has lasted more than 72 consecutive hours, performing this action has no Hunger cost.

Replace “1d3” with “DICE3” throughout the ruleset. Undo the effects of any game actions that required a roll of 1d3, that occurred between this proposal being proposed and it enacting.

Change “As a daily action, a Dead Failed Experiment may set all of their GNDT variables and their Abilities to the default values that a new Failed Experiment would have if they joined at that moment, except for their distance which is not modified. ” to

As a daily action, a Dead Failed Experiment may set all of their GNDT variables and their Abilities to the default values that a new Failed Experiment would have if they joined at that moment, except for their distance and HP which are not modified.

Once per dynasty a Dead Failed Experiment may gain the Spirit Form Ability without paying its manifest cost.

PineTreeQ idles after 8 days of inactivity. Quorum remains 4.

And then I set my suspicion to 60 which I reduced with Warning Call.

I think that’s all I have to do for this action!

In “Endgame”, remove “Performing this action makes you achieve victory.”

Add a new paragraph to the rule:-

A Failed Experiment who has performed the heroic actions of Understand the Truth, Save your Family and Escape has achieved victory. A Failed Experiment who has not performed all three of these heroic actions has not achieved victory, and a Pending DoV by a Failed Experiment who has not performed all three of these heroic actions may be Failed by any Admin at any time.

Approaching a monstrous, hunched figure on the road, I follow its triple-eyed gaze to the horizon and finally appreciate the nature of this world far beyond the laboratory.

I flee!

This is my post for the Heroic Action “Escape” as per Endgame.

In “Clarifications” add the following item to the “Rules and Proposals” list:

When applying a proposal step, an admin is simply updating the ruleset or gamestate to reflect the changes described in that step. They are not considered, for the purpose of the ruleset, as the entity who is performing those changes.

In “Keywords”, for both the “Core Proposal” and “Dynastic Proposal” entries, replace “A Proposal which mandates changes that” with:

A Proposal which describes changes that

Add three abilities to the “Abilities” rule:-

• Warning Call (Manifest 25): As a daily action, you may gain 5 Hunger to add or remove 10 Suspicion to or from any Nearby Failed Experiment.
• Mimic (Manifest 10): When acquiring an Ability which is possessed by a Nearby Failed Experiment, you may consider that Ability’s Manifest cost to be half of its usual value.
• Long Arms (Manifest 15): You may consider your Distance to be 1 greater or less than its current value, when performing a Heroic Action.

In “Capture”, replace “On a roll of 2 or greater” with “On a roll of 3”.

Add a special case rule, “No Orphan Variables”:

An Orphan Variable is a dynastic gamestate variable which has neither a location in which it’s tracked, nor a manner in which it it can be determined from other gamestate variables, specified in the Ruleset.

A Failed Experiment may not take any dynastic actions that are contingent on the specific value of an Orphan Variable.

Set this rule to be active.

Add to “Endgame”:

Which Heroic Actions a Failed Experiment has performed are tracked on the Failed Experiments wiki page, by adding (UT), (SF), or (E), respectively, after the name of the Failed Experiment.

Any performances by Cuddlebeam of the heroic actions “Save your Family” and “Escape” are no longer considered to have happened.

If any Declarations of Victory by Cuddlebeam are pending, fail them.

This is my post for the Heroic Action “Save your Family” as per the Endgame rule.

Add a special case rule, “No Orphan Variables”:

An Orphan Variable is a dynastic gamestate variable which has neither a location in which it’s tracked, nor a manner in which it it can be determined from other gamestate variables, specified in the Ruleset.

A variable that is specified as being privately tracked by one or more Failed Experiments is not an Orphan Variable.

A Failed Experiment may not take any dynastic actions that are contingent on the specific value of an Orphan Variable.

Set this rule to be active.

Add to “Endgame”:

Which Heroic Actions a Failed Experiment has performed are tracked on the Failed Experiments wiki page, by appending UT, SF, or E, respectively, to the name of the Failed Experiment.

ATMunn idles after 11 days of inactivity quorum remains 4.

In “Capture”, replace “The values the GNDT tracks of a Captured Failed Experiment cannot be changed by any other Failed Experiment, and the only action in the dynastic ruleset they are allowed to perform is the following:” with:-

The values the GNDT tracks of a Captured Failed Experiment cannot be changed as a result of an action in the dynastic ruleset, and the only action in the dynastic ruleset a Captured Failed Experiment is allowed to perform is the following:

Set Cuddlebeam’s Distance to 15.

Cuddlebeam’s performance of the heroic action “Understand the Truth” on the 4th of January 2018 is no longer considered to have happened.

Repeal “Group Spirit” and “Cranky Grasstooth”. Remove the “Lone Wolf” ability from “Abilities”.

Repeal “Orphan Variables”

If the game is in Hiatus, end Hiatus.

If any actions were take between 4th of Jan 2018 and the enactment of this CfJ, inclusive, were done in Haitus and broke no rules other than being done in Haitus, make them legal.

If Cuddlebeam is The Director, remove that title from Cuddlebeam and make Diabecko The Director.

Append to the second paragraph of Gamestate Tracking

An offical blog post that has the status of Enacted or Failed cannot change categories. An official blog post’s status may never be altered except in accordance with the rules that define that official post.

Fail the DoV CuddleSkip.

As I gaze upon the civilization beyond, my mind is filled with inspiration!

This is my blog post for “Understand the Truth” as per Endgame.

Change “Upon doing so, the game immediately goes into Hiatus”
“If the game is not already in Hiatus and there is a pending DoV, the game immediately goes into Hiatus”

Method Summary: Proposal -> changed category into DoV via Alteration -> DoV’s Pending status changed to Enacted via Alteration, all done really quickly.

The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.

An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than six hours old and either no Failed Experiment has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) if all comments on it contain no voting icons; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset.

Alter means to change in plain english, to make an alteration (whichever it may be).

The plain use aside, it is also heavily implied that it is in fact a generic, “anything”, change, by necessity in the first quote (doesn’t work for all circumstances of the game otherwise), and by implication in the second one (mentions that the category can’t be changed, when category-changing doesn’t exist as an explicit ability players have - unless we consider that “may be altered” grants it, in which case, it must be a generic “anything” change.)

So, during that time-frame where I can “alter” an official post, I can do anything with it. I also did it all under 15 minutes, because otherwise the category-changing restriction kicks in.

As for actually accessing the formal data to use these Alteration powers upon, I used the Orphanage (most notably, the Pending/Enacted status are tracked on blog posts, but the Orphanage lets me bypass that).

https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Orphanage

For gamestate which is tracked in a specific place (such as the GNDT or a wiki page), any alteration of that gamestate as a result of a Failed Experiment’s action is (and can only be) applied by editing that data in that place.

An Orphan Variable is a gamestate variable which, if it weren’t for this rule, wouldn’t be tracked on neither a wiki page nor the GNDT. A Orphanage wiki page exists, which tracks Orphan Variables, and when an Orphan Variable’s value is changed, its is recommended to be performed along a blog post which states that it has been changed.

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There is also no Hiatus, because I do not believe I have achieved victory (and I’m not using the clause in “Victory and Ascension” create the DoV anyways).

Explanation above.