BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

In this Defamation case, X Express is suing Anne Chamberlain over her public statements about the propriety of the elder Morgan’s role within the company.

In this Personal Injury case, Anne claims that she threw out her arm during routine use of Bananasoft’s flagship Bananaphone.

Add a paragraph after the first bulleted list in “Cases”:-

Within the comments of a Case, FOR icons represent solidly researched arguments and AGAINST icons represent underhanded tactics. Making a comment on a Case is considered to be a dynastic action.

Add a bullet after the second bullet in the Closing a Case list:-

For each Party in the Case whose Attorney made a comment on the Case’s blog post which included an AGAINST icon, decrease that Party’s Guilt for this Case by 1 (to a minimum of zero) and decrease that Attorney’s Integrity by 1 (to a minimum of zero).

In “Cases”, replace “If the oldest Open Case has been Open for more than 48 hours, the Judge may close it as an atomic action” with:-

If nobody has posted a voting icon in a comment on the oldest Open Case in the previous 24 hours, and if the Case is more than 24 hours old, then the Judge may close that Case as an atomic action

In “Cases”, replace “If the oldest Open Case has been Open for more than 48 hours, the Judge may close it as an atomic action” with:-

A Case is Complete if it has been Open for more than 48 hours, or if the Attorney of each of its Plaintiffs has included a voting icon in a comment on the Case’s post. If the oldest Open Case is complete, the Judge may close it as an atomic action

In “Cases”: replace all instances of “secretly randomly” with “randomly” within the first four bullet points in the steps for creating a Case.

In “Cases”: replace all instances of “randomly” with “secretly randomly” within the first four bullet points in the steps for creating a Case. Consider any blog entries that would have been valid Cases under this change to be valid Cases.

Add to the rule “Cases”:

As an atomic action, once per party per case, a lawyer may “Dig up Dirt” for a case in which he represents Party by making a comment on the case including the text “Dig up Dirt”, paying $20,000 from the slush fund, and rolling DICE3 in the GNDT. If the roll is a one, the guilt of the party they do not represent increases by 2.

In “Cases”, add a bullet point before “Comment on the Case’s blog entry mentioning its Winner and Fine”:-

* If the Case’s Accusation is Murder, the Defendant is an Adult and the Defendant is the Loser of the Case, then any other Open cases featuring the Defendant as a Plaintiff are immediately closed, and the Defendant is removed from the list of Clients.

To the rule “Attorney Stats”, add:-

The terms “Attorney” and “Lawyer” are considered to be synonyms.

In this Defamation case, the principals of Goldberg Technology assert that Benjamin’s false claims about their primary technology were meant to scuttle a deal, brokered by the deceased, providing the firm with access to capital.

In this Personal Injury case, Isabel Chamberlain is accusing James Chamberlain of intentionally striking her with his car while leaving a tense get-together earlier this year at the elder Morgan Chamberlain’s primary home.

In the rule named “Clients”, after the list of Clients, add the following:

Additionally, every Attorney who has Set Up Shop is a Client with class ‘Adult’.

In the rule named “Cases”, change “Randomly select a Client as its Plaintiff” to “Randomly select a Client (other than an Attorney) as its Plaintiff” and change “Randomly select a Client (excluding the Plaintiff and all States) as its Defendant” to “Randomly select a Client (excluding the Plaintiff, all Attorneys, and all States) as its Defendant.” Also in the rule named “Cases”, change every instance of “Money” to “Worth”.

Rewrite the rule named “Attorney Stats” to the following:

Each Attorney has a Worth (being a dollar value, defaulting to $0) and a Reputation (being Impeccable, Respected, Decent, Suspicious, Corrupt or Unknown and defaulting to Unknown).

If they have not already done so this dynasty, an Attorney may Set Up Shop by setting their Reputation to any value other than Unknown, and then setting their Worth to $12,000 minus ($2,000 times their Villainy).

If a Lawyer has never Set Up Shop, they may not take dynastic actions outside of this rule.

Then, if the proposal named “Slush Puppy” (specifically, this one), passed, re-apply its effect as if it were enacted again.

If any Attorney Set Up Shop before this proposal passed, revert it (so that they are no longer considered to have Set Up Shop during this dynasty).

Hello. Quorum remains 4.

To the end of “Cases”, add:-

If the oldest Open Case has been Open for more than 48 hours, the Judge may close it as an atomic action with the following steps:

* For each Party in the Case whose Attorney made a comment on the Case’s blog post which included a FOR icon, decrease that Party’s Guilt for this Case by 2 (to a minimum of zero)
* Select the Winner of the Case as being whichever of its two Parties has the lowest Guilt (if their Guilts are equal, this is resolved at random); the other Party is the Case’s Loser.
* Establish the Fine as being 10% of the Worth of the Loser of the Case (rounding down)
* Decrease the Worth of the Loser of the Case by the Fine
* Increase the Worth of the Winner of the Case by 90% of the Fine
* If the Winner is represented by any Attorneys who made a comment on the Case’s blog post which included a FOR icon, increase each of those Attorneys’ Money by 10% of the Fine
* If the Winner is represented by any Attorneys who did not make a comment on the Case’s blog post which included a FOR icon, increase each of those Attorneys’ Slush Fund by 10% of the Fine
* Comment on the Case’s blog entry mentioning its Winner and Fine
* Mark the Case as Closed

If the proposal “Slush Puppy” failed, delete the bullet point containing the term “Slush Fund”.

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

Each Attorney also has a Slush Fund, being an amount of dollars tracked privately by the Judge.

In “Clients”, replace

At any time, the Judge may process a request chosen at secretly-random from all unprocessed requests that they have received.

with

At any time (except on Saturday or Sunday), the Judge may process a request chosen at secretly-random from all unprocessed requests that they have received.

Enact a new rule, “Attorney Stats”

Each Attorney has an amount of Money (measured in dollars) and an amount of Integrity (a number), both tracked in the GNDT and both defaulting to zero.

If they have not already done so this dynasty, an Attorney may Set Up Shop by setting their own Money and Integrity to values where the total of their Money and one thousand times their Integrity does not exceed 10,000.

If a Lawyer has never Set Up Shop, they may not take dynastic actions outside of this rule.

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

A Client’s Villainy is a numerical value equal to the position that their Reputation appears in the bracketed list of Reputations in this paragraph.

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

The Parties of a Case are its Plaintiff and its Defendant. Each Party of a Case has an amount of Guilt within that Case, tracked privately by the Judge.

Add three new bullet point after the fourth in Cases:-

* Assign an amount of Guilt for this Case to each of the Case’s Parties, where the amount chosen is a secretly random number between 0 and the Party’s Villainy.
* If both Parties’ Guilts for a Case are equal, increase one of them (chosen at secretly random) by 1.
* For every Attorney who represents a Party in the Case, privately inform that Attorney of the Guilt for that Party in this Case

If any Cases already exist, set the Guilts of both their Parties for that Case to 0 and enact a new rule called “Just One More Thing”:-

If both Parties of a Case have a Guilt of zero, the Judge may assign an amount of Guilt to each of the Case’s Parties for that Case, where the amount chosen is a secretly random number between 0 and the Party’s Villainy. (If both Parties’ Guilts for a Case are equal, the Judge must increase one of them (chosen at secretly random) by 1.) Then, for any Attorney who represents a Party in that Case, the Judge must privately inform that Attorney of the Guilt for that Party in that Case.

If no Cases have a Guilty of zero for both Parties, the Judge may repeal this rule.

I would like to join this Nomic
-Jacob

Add a new rule entitled “Lawyer Points” as follows:

Each Attorney has a number of Lawyer Points, which is a numeric value tracked in the GNDT, and which may be referred to as LP. If an Attorney’s Lawyer Points have never been set before, their LP value defaults to 10.

Add four Clients to the Pool:-

* X Express: Respected Business; Worth $1,000,000
* Goldberg Technology: Decent Business; Worth $1,000,000
* Bananasoft: Suspicious Business; Worth $1,000,000
* Mortis Maximis: Corrupt Business; Worth $1,000,000

Enact a new rule, “Cases”:-

Each Case has a Plaintiff (a Client), a Defendant (a Client) and an Accusation (which may be either a Crime or a Complaint). Cases may be Open or Shut, defaulting to Open. If the Plaintiff is a State, the Case is a Criminal one; otherwise it is a Civil one.

Crimes are Arson, Burglary, Murder, Perjury and Jaywalking. Complaints are Personal Injury, Defamation, Negligence, Malpractice and Unpaid Debt.

If there are fewer than two Open Cases, the Judge may create a Case as an atomic action with the following steps:
* Randomly select a Client as its Plaintiff
* Randomly select a Client (excluding the Plaintiff and all States) as its Defendant
* If the Case is Criminal, randomly select a Crime as its Accusation
* If the Case is Civil, randomly select a Complaint as its Accusation
* Post a blog entry describing this Case: this post tracks the state of Case

If any Attorneys represent Clients, they no longer represent those Clients.

Reword “Clients” to:-

A Client is an entity with a Name, a Class (being either Adult, Child, Business or State), a Worth (being a dollar value) and a Reputation (being Impeccable, Respected, Decent, Suspicious or Corrupt).

A Pool of Clients exists as follows:

• Casey Chamberlain: Suspicious Adult; Worth $1,000,000
• Morgan Chamberlain: Impeccable Adult; Worth $900,000
• Benjamin Chamberlain: Respected Adult; Worth $800,000
• Elizabeth Chamberlain: Respected Adult; Worth $700,000
• Isabel Chamberlain: Decent Adult; Worth $600,000
• James Chamberlain: Decent Adult; Worth $600,000
• Joshua Chamberlain: Suspicious Adult; Worth $700,000
• Anne Chamberlain: Suspicious Adult; Worth $800,000
• Robert Chamberlain: Corrupt Adult; Worth $900,000
• State of Connecticut: Impeccable State; Worth $100,000,000

Each Attorney represents a set of Clients, defaulting to none. Which Clients an Attorney represents is tracked privately by the Judge.

As a weekly action, an Attorney may take on a new Client by privately making a request to the Judge which specifies a set of Clients by the stats listed in the Pool (eg. “all Business Clients worth above $750,000”, “all Clients with the surname Chamberlain”, “Morgan, James, Anne or State of Connecticut”). At any time, the Judge may process a request chosen at secretly-random from all unprocessed requests that they have received. When such a request is processed, if the specified set includes any Clients (excluding non-State Clients who are already represented by other Attorneys), a secretly random one of those Clients is added to the set of Clients that the requesting Attorney represents. The Attorney is then privately informed of the outcome of their request.

Add a new rule, “Actions”, with two subrules:

“Unauthorized”, reading:

Dynastic actions described in this rule are, unless otherwise specified, not Authorized.

An Attorney (the Discoverer) may request Discovery of another Attorney (the Discoveree), by posting publicly on the blog to this effect. The Judge should then privately message the Discoverer with a randomly chosen Client of the Discoveree’s.
This action is Authorized if the Discoverer represents the State.

“Authorized”, reading:

Dynastic actions described in this rule are, unless otherwise specified, Authorized.

If an Attorney believes that another Attorney has performed an action that was not Authorized at the time it was performed, they may file an Injunction against that action by posting publicly on the blog to this effect.

The Filing of an Injunction by an Attorney representing the State is not Authorized.

Add a new rule, “Clients”:

The types of potential Clients that an Attorney can represent are: an Ex-spouse, a Child, a Business partner, or the State.

Each Attorney represents a set of Clients, defaulting to none. Which Clients an Attorney represents is tracked privately by the Judge. This set of Clients is a subset of the set of types of potential Clients.

An Attorney may take on a new Client of a specific type by privately making a request to the Judge for that type of Client. After the request is made, that type of Client is added to the set of Clients that the requesting Attorney represents.

Some relevant selections from the obituary:

Morgan Chamberlain IV, Connecticut financier, passed away on the 22nd of November, after a brief illness. They were 83.

Shortly after a string of high-profile business successes in the late 1980s, Morgan retired from public view and began a reclusive life. Public records show that Morgan remained in Connecticut for the rest of their life, but specifics of their whereabouts remained unknown outside of the Chamberlain family.

Dr. Chamberlain is survived by a spouse, Casey, of four years; eight children: Morgan, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Isabel, James, Joshua, Anne, and Robert, all from previous marriages, and twelve grandchildren.

Meanwhile, within the newly-reconstructed City Hall: Case number 2018-1022, regarding the estate of Morgan Chamberlain IV, begins to be heard. The courtroom is already at capacity with lawyers representing parties who would love to materialize any claim they have on the sizeable fortune of the deceased.

Replace “Activist” with “Attorney” and “Veteran” with “Judge”.

Out of curiosity: were there any other alliances going besides mine with Trigon? Did derrick reveal their loyalty to anyone else?

Well, despite the… sizable… number of infiltrators, we (meaning I and maybe derrick) got lucky and were able to pull off the plan. Although I’m not happy it came to burning down City Hall, it was hard not to roll with it when we brought the firebomb detonators and the first room we saw was the firebomb storage room. Now I think it’s time for me to lay low for a while; you can all thank me for not exposing you in my report. Which was on purpose, I promise.

My numbers check out the same as those in Trigon’s post. I have more impact than any other Activist, and it is the Aftermath, and so I have achieved victory.

After the raid on city hall, five names began to be whispered among the people.

By a small margin, the name whispered the most was…

pokes.

(Please comment away.)

I file the following report:

62998210c67cb2a4bd425a1b3d0a83f5

If the proposal “Backdating the Email” has not been resolved, fail it.

In “The Plan”, replace “21st of November 2018” with “22nd of November 2018”.

Add a new rule, “Radio Silence”:-

If it is the 21st of November, the only dynastic action which may taken by Activists is Filing a Report. Any hash included in a blog comment made on the 21st of November is considered to be a Filed Report.

High on the green glass walls of City Hall, a cleaning team expertly removes a blastproof window frame from the outside and slips through to one of the emptier floors. Within ten minutes, the building is in flames.

With a banner roll of 7, security is much laxer than we might have anticipated, and the Plan is a success!

To “Reports”, add:-

If a Filed Report (the Copy) has the same hash as a Report that was Filed earlier than it, then the Copy may not be Revealed.

Consider the last Report filed by each Activist in the comments of this post to have been filed before The Big Day.

In the final minutes before the big day, I call a montage. Following that, I call another montage. Each montage increases the chance of success by 9%, for 18% total.

Brendan, change activity to training!

Trigon, change activity to Recon.

I am calling a meeting. We have few days left to plan our actions!

Chance of success increases by 15%!

Everyone get ready for the next stage!

Repeal the rule “Locations”.

Trigon, change activity to Recon.

Pokes, I order you to change activity to planning.

Move the contents of “Suspicion” to the end of “Heat” rule, and rename that rule to “Heat and Suspicion”.

Add to that rule:-

If an Activist’s name is listed as part of the Team, then they may - at any time - increase their Heat by 1 to lower another Activist’s Heat by 1, or increase their Suspicion by 1 to lower another Activist’s Suspicion by 1.

Set the Team of the Plan to “Brendan, Derrick, Kevan, Pokes and Trigon”.

Set the Cover Story of the Plan to “X Express Window Cleaning.”

Set the Date of the Plan to the 21st of November 2018.

Since Pushing the Deadline is about to give us two long weeks to change our mind on Pokes’ undiscussed demand that we use force, I begin handing out the petrol bombs.

In “Orders”, replace “where [X] is a valid activity” with “where [X] is a valid activity other than Leading”.

Add to the rule “The Speaker”:-

If an Activist is named Kevan or Trigon, they may - once per dynasty - reduce their own Suspicion by 1.

Trigon, Change Activity to Leading.

Set the date of the plan to 30th of November, 2018.

Now that I can do this more constructively: Kevan - Construct Weapons!

In “The Big Day”, replace “The accuracy of the most recent Report filed by the Activist.” with:-

+X, where X is twice the accuracy of the most recent Report filed by the Activist.

Enact a new rule entitled “Story Submission” with the text:

Any player can submit a Prospective Cover Story (PCS) by posting an entry in the “Story Post—Votable Matter” category with the text “[PCS]” in the title. When a PCS is Enacted, the “Cover Story” field in the rule “The Plan” is modified to the body of that post.

An admit can fail any PCS if the player who submitted it has submitted another one more recently.

Amend the rule “The Big Day” by:

1. adding a paragraph after the paragraph beginning “If no Activist has Raised the Banner” containing the following text:

   If no Admin has Chosen a Cover Story, any Admin can do so by first failing each Prospective Cover Story, if the player who submitted it has submitted another one more recently; then creating a blog post containing the list of Prospective Cover Stories and the (number of votes for, after evaluating Deferentials * number of votes against, after evaluating Deferentials); then selecting the PCS with the highest such value and Enacting it. If multiple such PCSes exist, the one to be Enacted is the one submitted earlier

2. adding a new item to the list after the final one with the following text:

   +3 if the Cover Story field of The Plan was set by a Prospective Cover Story they submitted.

If any Activists are Trusted, set the Plan’s Team to a comma-separated list of all Trusted Activists. (An Activist is Trusted if their name appears in comments by a quorum of different Activists on this proposal; otherwise they are not Trusted.)

Add a bullet point to “The Big Day”:-

* +2 if the Activist is listed as part of the Plan’s Team

Remove the Order “Photograph” from the list of orders

Add to the list of orders:

[*]Construct [X]: The Activist has taken a Build action that added [X] to the plan’s equipment, where X is “Placards”, “Weapons”, or “Tech”; or that the Plan’s chance for success is not less than 25%

Kevan. Photograph.

Enact a new rule, “Scrambling”:-

An Activist may call to Scramble, at any time, by making a blog comment to that effect. An Activist should only call to Scramble if they feel that a piece of revealed, hidden information was outside of their own expectation of what that information could have been. If a quorum of Activists have called to Scramble, then no Activist is ever considered to have ever achieved victory in the current dynasty.

The action of calling to Scramble may be taken during Hiatus, may be taken during the Big Day and may be taken while the Aftermath is in effect.

To the end of “The Big Day”, add:-

If the Veteran has achieved victory, he may nominate an Activist: that Activist achieves victory.

Add to the bullet points after “an Activist’s Impact is an integer which may go below zero and which can be calculated by summing the following factors for that Activist”:

* +1 if the Activist’s loyalty is different from all other Activists’ proven loyalties.
* -1 if the Activist’s loyalty is the same as two or more other Activists’ proven loyalties.

Remove the “+2 if the Activist filed an accurate Tip in the comments of the post at the following URL: https://blognomic.com/archive/whet_your_alibis” bullet point from The Big Day.

In “The Speaker”, replace “If they make a comment with “command denied” or do not comply with the command within 48 hours, they have rejected the command and gain 1 suspicion. ” with:

If the Commanded Activist makes a comment with “command denied” or does not comply with the command within 48 hours (excluding any periods of time during which dynastic actions are not allowed), they have rejected the command: any Activist may increase the Commanded Activist’s 1 Suspicion for this (if no Activist has already done so for this rejection).

Since Kevan proposed that we construct, I think we found our first volunteer. Kevan: Change Activity to Construction!

The bullhorn passes to Brendan.

Trigon, I order you to change activity to planning.

Change:

If an Activist has been Leading for 48 hours or more

To:

If an Activist has been Leading for 48 or more hours during which dynastic actions are allowed

I command Brendan. My order is as follows: Change activity to Training

Change:

If a meeting has been called but a montage has not been called

To:

If a meeting has been called but a montage has not been called OR if only one montage has been called and there are less than 6 activists

I Build.

In “The Speaker”, replace:-

any Activist may change that Activist’s Activity to no activity.

with:

any Activist may increase that Activist’s Suspicion by 1 and change that Activist’s Activity to no activity.

Add to the bullet list in “The Big Day”:-

*-1 for each point of Suspicion that the Activist has

Enact a new rule, “Weekends”:-

Dynastic actions may not be taken on Saturdays or Sundays.

As Speaker, I give an order to “Change Activity to Planning” to the activist known as “pokes”.

Set Brendan’s Activity to Absence, and increase Brendan’s Heat by 1.

To “Activities”, add:-

An Activist who is pursuing Construction may Build by posting a blog entry to this effect, gaining 1 Heat, and changing their Activity to Absence. This increases the Plan’s chance of success by 5% if it is less than 25%. When an Activist Builds, they may add the word “Placards”, “Weapons” or “Tech” to the Plan’s Equipment (removing the word “undefined” if it is there).

If the Plan’s Equipment includes the word “Weapons”, an Activist who is pursuing Training may Spar by posting a blog entry to this effect and changing their Activity to Absence. This increases the Plan’s chance of success by 5%.

To the Impact bullet list in “The Big Day”, add:-

* +1 if the Plan’s Equipment includes Weapons and the Activist is a Militant or a Spook
* +1 if the Plan’s Equipment does not include Weapons and the Activist is a Protestor or a Cop

In “The Plan”, set the Date to 19th November 2018.

If the proposal “Wait for Me!” has passed, add to the rule “Activities”:

If a meeting has been called but a montage has not been called, and the conspiracy is primed and ready, any activist may call a montage.

else add to the rule Activities:

If a meeting has been called but a montage has not been called, any activist may call a montage.

Add to the rule “Activities”:

Recon, Training, Construction, and Sabotage and considered preparatory actions.

When a montage is called, The plan’s chance of success is increased by X%, where X is the number of activists pursuing a preparatory action times the number of unique preparatory actions currently pursued by activists.

Create a rule named “Readiness”:

Each activist has a posture tracked in the GNDT which is either ready or unready and defaults to ready. If a Quorum of activists is ready, the conspiracy is “primed and ready”. An activist may change their posture as a daily action.

Add to the list of valid orders:

*Hurry Up: The activist’s posture is “ready”
*Slow Down: The activist’s posture is “unready”

change:

If no Activist has yet done so this dynasty,

to

If no Activist has yet done so this dynasty and the conspiracy is “primed and ready”,

I have taken photos of city hall, and at great personal risk to myself.

fortunately, I’m a good runner.

In “The Big Day”, replace “-2 if the Activist has no Identity, or set their Identity for the first time within the past 10 days” with “-7 if the Activist has no Identity, or set their Identity for the first time within the past 10 days”.

Replace “an Activist’s Impact can be calculated” with “an Activist’s Impact is an integer which may go below zero and which can be calculated”.

Derrick. If you think storming City Hall is such a good idea, let’s have a Photograph or two of the building’s entrances and exits.

Derrick timed out as our group’s Leader after 48 hours of declining to do any leading.

As your new Leader, I informally request that either Derrick or Brendan changes their vote on “It’s Either This or McDonald’s”, to prevent it from passing, as fighting City Hall strikes me - and, I’m sure, any Activist who failed to submit a Whet Your Alibis tip - as a foolhardy plan.

If “McDonald’s” becomes enacted, I’ll consider issuing a punitive Order to balance the personal advantage that these players seem likely to receive from it.

In “The Big Day”, replace “If the Aftermath is in effect and if a single Activist has a higher Impact than every other Activist, then that Activist receives news coverage.” with:-

If the Aftermath is in effect and if a single Activist has a higher Impact than every other Activist, then that Activist achieves victory. If the Aftermath is in effect and if multiple Activists are tied for highest Impact, that tie is broken by lowest Suspicion; if still tied it is broken by lowest Heat; if still tied it is broken by whoever was most recently Leading; if still tied then any Activist may resolve it at random (if no Activist has already done so) - the winner of such a tie achieves victory.

In “The Big Day”, replace “If it is the Big Day, then the only dynastic actions that can be taken by Activists are the Revealing of Reports and the Proving of Loyalties.” with:-

If it is the Big Day, then the only dynastic actions that can be taken by Activists are the Revealing of Reports, the Proving of Loyalties and the Raising of the Banner.

Add a paragraph after the second:-

If no Activist has Raised the Banner, any Activist may do so by rolling DICE100 and making a blog post describing the result. If the result is less than or equal to the Plan’s Chance of Success, then the Day is Won; if it is greater than the Plan’s Chance of Success then the Day is Lost.

To the bullet list in that rule, add:-

* +3 if the Day is Won and the Activist is a Protestor or Militant
* +3 if the Day is Lost and the Activist is a Cop or a Spook

Amend the rule “The Plan” to define The Location as City Hall.

Add to the bulleted list of impact factors in the rule “The Big Day” the following:

• +1 if the Activist is a Protestor.