Add a subrule to the rule “Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid”. Call it “Inverted Fingerprint” and give it the following text:

As soon as is practical after transferring Suspicion via Blameshifting, the Mindjacker who transferred the blame shall privately message the recipient of the Suspicion with a part of their Symbol Name that they have not disclosed to that recipient since acquiring their current Symbol Name, along with the phrase “framed you”. If they have already disclosed their entire current Symbol Name to a given recipient, they may not Blameshift to that recipient.

Mindjackers may not include the phrase “framed you” in messages sent under the rule “Near-Field Psyonics”.

Disruptiveness: 1 Potency + 8 Suspicion = 9 Disruptiveness

Psyonic signals reverberate through the Wall. It’s obvious that it’s happening, but less obvious is its origin. Can they trace it back to me?

In the rule “Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid”, add a subrule named “Memetic Injection” and give it the following text:

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker may perform a Memetic Injection, if they have not done so since the beginning of this dynasty. A Memetic Injection is an action in which the Mindjacker chooses a Tier Rule which does not currently have any mention of Memes and adds the text “As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it.” to that Tier Rule.

In the subrule “Reality Enforcers”, add the following bullet to the list:

* Memetic Injection* confers 1 Suspicion per Tier chosen in the action.

Throughout the dynastic ruleset, and in Proposal: Under Their Noses if it is still pending, change all instances of the word “disruptiveness” to “disruption”.

I saw someone today whole spectral aura was green. Just green. Not hypervert, not chromalime, not even an n-dimensional tealsselation grid. Just green. Who doesn’t know how to make their spectral aura hypervert? A new trend maybe?

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Cetus can be seen in the infrared spectrum.

Lemon was Detected launching a Hunter/Seeker; she must now act according to ROUTINE. The current Astrology Reading is Launch a Hunter/Seeker and Ascend.

In the rule “Turnabout”, replace the following:

A Mindjacker with a Symbol Name counts as an Avatar for the purpose of determining what messages appear in the Ascendant’s response to other Mindjackers’ Psychic Ping if and only if they have had the same Symbol Name since the Psychic Ping was posted.

with:

A Mindjacker with a Symbol Name counts as an Avatar for the purpose of determining what messages appear in the Ascendant’s responses to Astromantic Rituals, Psychic Pings, Tasting the Quantum Soup, and Resonance Testing if and only if they have had the same Symbol Name since the action was performed.

If a Mindjacker’s Symbol Name is included in an Extrasensory Assassination message, they lose their Symbol Name and the Ascendant forces them to Descend once. Then, the Ascendant should generate a Portent stating the lost Symbol Name, the name of the Mindjacker who held it, and the name of the Mindjacker who performed the Extrasensory Assassination who caused it to be lost.

Append the following paragraph to the rule “Spectrographers”:

For 10 hours following a Superencryption, any Actions carried out by Mindjackers that were chosen in that Superencryption do not generate Disruptiveness scores.

In the same rule, replace “plus the acting Mindjacker’s Suspicion” with “plus the acting Mindjacker’s Suspicion at the time that Action was performed”.

> Changed my Occupancy Tier to Tier 2 (Disruptiveness: 1 Potency + 5 Suspicion = 6)
> Launched a Hunter/Seeker (Disruptiveness: 5 Potency + 5 Suspicion = 10)

I send a psychic ping through the protoplasm that my level 4 status grants access to.

Spectrographer Guild discipline seems to have broken down completely and now Mindjackers are pouring back through whatever reality jump points they can find. The amount of data is almost overhwhelming…

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Can Leonis help you make sense of this?

As the reality-wide Spectographer Guild lockdown reaches its 4th day, Mindjackers are starting to chaff and perhaps some of them are getting careless. What started as a bar scuffle ended up with pocket tachyon diffusers being drawn - but to the best of the knowledge of anyone in Tier 1, tachyon diffusers can’t be smaller than a small moon. What gives?

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May Ursida guide you.

The temperature in the cosmic soup just increased system-wide by 0.0001 Kelvin. It might not sound like much but for a reality-sized soup to increase by a uniform temperature in one go is… unusual. Perhaps, as Day 3 of the reality-wide lockdown continues, the Spectrographer’s Guild is focusing its resources?

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Day 2 of the reality-wide lockdown. This morning an old lady buying groceries was bundled into the back of a van that left five-dimensional exhaust fumes; a converted Matterium engine?

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The stars of Felina snine in the night.

Today the Spectrographer’s Guild announced that they were flooding the Tiers to search for the lower-reality intelligencies that were attempting to Ascend. Everyone is laying low but perhaps that’s making the Spectographers themselves easier to spot… Is this mass of protein bubbles on Tier 4 a naturally occuring phenomenon, or is someone stirring the pot?

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The stars of Lupis guide you…

I make my way to an intelligence hub and begin bargaining with the resident branch of the global superintelligence. This is a bit nerve-wracking — I can feel the Wall’s surveillance system crawling through all of the data I send downstream, and all of the sensory data I receive back through my conduit. If I’m lucky, my encryption will hold, and no Spectrographer will lay eyes on this data. If I’m lucky.

With much greater hurriedness than I would have mustered before, I convince the superintelligence to put together a Hunter/Seeker Algorithm with the following specifications:
Hunter Criterion: Object Name [Tower]
Hunter Criterion: Occupancy Tier [6]
Seeker Criterion: Home Tier [8]

In the rule “Astromancy”, replace the text “not Potent” with “Baseline”.

In the rule “Reality Enforcers”, move the text “Changing one’s Anchor confers 1 Suspicion per Level of the Mindjacker performing the action.” to its own bullet point immediately below the bullet point it’s current in.

In the rule “Spectographers”, replace the text “they must make a post” with “they must make a Story Post”.

This time, when I return to the alley where I met with my Techno-Witch contact, I realise the entire city is empty and decrepit. How did this happen? How long ago was I last here? After traversing the higher planes of reality, I feel out of touch with the world that was once my home. To me, its troubles are paper thin; almost transparent. But this spot is still the best spot for a ritual on the entire continent. I set up the equipment myself and, with my telescope, magnify the sky above a millionfold. Tonight, I’m looking for stars that are extremely small, or even microscopic.

The entity has a spectrail of purple and pink in a zone where red and blue are usually favoured. A statement, or just a sloppy mistake by a careless visitor?

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I last Ascended 13:24, June 21, 2023
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=23576

It is an Agenda Item to have a Mindjacker of equal or higher Level as one’s Anchor.
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=23618

It is an agenda item to increase another Mindjacker’s Suspicion from 9 or less to 10 or more.
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=23617

It is an Agenda Item to perform a Superencryption in which the Mindjacker performing the Superencryption chooses the maximum allowed number of Mindjackers or the number of non-Idle Mindjackers - 1, whichever is smaller, and is not among the Mindjackers chosen.
https://blognomic.com/archive/superencryption

It is an Agenda Item to author a proposal while being the author of another pending proposal that is at least four hours old.
https://blognomic.com/archive/ontological_guardians
https://blognomic.com/archive/objects_in_mirror_realities_are_closer_than_they_appear

It is an Agenda Item to send an Echo that includes information one has never sent in an Echo before.
I sent an Echo to Raven1207 with the response from the Ascendant after these two actions:
Astromantic Ritual: https://blognomic.com/archive/astromantic_ritual_tier_51
Psychic Ping: https://blognomic.com/archive/psychic_ping2

In the rule “Forkable Actions”, change

This second performance is not itself Forkable

to

This second performance is not itself Forkable and is never Suspicious.

If “Ontological Guardians” is not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

Move the subrule “Ontological Guardians” from the rule “Tier 6: The Wall” to the rule “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean”

Add the following as a subrule of “Tier 6: The Wall” called “Matterium Smuggling”:

As an Existential Action, any Mindjacker who meets the Smuggler’s Criterion may Smuggle. Smuggling is an Atomic Action with the following steps:
* Set their Level to 4.
* Gain 2 Matterium.
* Set their Suspicion to 7.

The stars of Felina will guide me.

Uphold that the Mindjacking carried out by Bucky at 16:19:00 on 27 June and the subsequent Ascending were not illegally carried out on the basis of Bucky’s Suspicion score.

If either Proposal: Too Tangled or Call for Judgment: Palatable potency were enacted, then this CfJ has no effect.

In the rule “Astromancy”, replace “not Potent” with “Baseline”.

In the rule “Reality Enforcers”, remove the bullet point reading “Any action whose Potency or Potent status is referred to by that action’s rules grants Suspicion equal to its Potency.” and add the following bullet points to the list.

* An Astromantic Ritual grants Suspicion equal to the Potency of the Mindjacker who performs it.
* Resonance Testing grants Suspicion equal to the Potency of the Mindjacker who performs it.
* Skywriting grants Suspicion equal to the Potency of the Mindjacker who performs it.
* Blameshifting grants Suspicion equal to the Potency of the Mindjacker who performs it.

In the same rule, change “Superencryption grants 2 Suspicion.” to “Superencryption grants 2 Suspicion plus Suspicion equal to the Potency of the Mindjacker who performs it.” and “Extrasensory Assassination grants 4 Suspicion.” to “Extrasensory Assassination grants 4 Suspicion plus Suspicion equal to the Potency of the Mindjacker who performs it.”.

Then, reorder the list of Suspicious Actions to the order that they appear in the ruleset, with the earliest at the top and the latest at the bottom.

One of the single-celled organisms in the soup is trying to absorb another in an attempt to become multi-cellular. This is a hard taboo on this level; the protoplasmic police swooped in but the cell in question had fully dissolved by the time they got there. A mundane criminal, or something worse?

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In the rule Mindjacking, immediately after “marking it with a FOR symbol”, add “(and specifying the Home Tier of the named Avatar)”.

In the same rule, change “Ascends” to “sets their Level to either: the Home Tier of the named Avatar; 5; or one greater than the performing Mindjacker’s currently Level, whichever is lowest while still being higher than the erstwhile Level of the Mindjacker performing the action”.

Uphold that the Mindjacking carried out by Bucky at 16:19:00 on 27 June was not illegally carried out in the basis of Bucky’s Suspicion score.

If Proposal: Too Tangled was enacted then this CfJ has no effect.

In the rule Reality Enforcers change the bulleted list to read:

* Resonance Testing* confers 0 Suspicion
* Astromantic Rituals and Tasting the Quantum Soup each confer 1 Suspicion. Changing one’s Anchor confers 1 Suspicion per Level of the Mindjacker performing the action.
* Mindjacking and Superencryption* each confer 2 Suspicion.
* Extrasensory Assassination* confers 4 Suspicion.
* Resonance Testing may have a variable Suspicion cost based on its outcome; see the relevant rule for more information.
* All Actions in this list with an asterisk immediately after their name generate additional Suspicion equal to their Potency.

In the rule “Tier 6: The Wall”, rename the subrule “Caretaker” to “Ontological Guardians”. Replace the text in the subrule “Ontological Guardians” with the following text:

Every Avatar has a Designation, which defaults to empty. For each Occupancy Tier listed in the table below, whenever there is at least one Avatar with that Occupancy Tier, the Ascendant shall set the Avatar’s Designation to the Designation value in that table row if the Avatar’s current Designation is empty and no other Avatar already has that same Designation. If there is more than one Avatar that would meet this criteria, the Ascendant shall privately randomly choose one of the Avatars meeting this criteria.

Whenever an Avatar’s Designation changes from empty to a Designation from the table below, the Ascendant shall generate a Portent with the format described in the Portent column for the table row containing that Designation, where (date) is the current date and (sign) is the Avatar’s star sign. Immediately after a Mindjacker ascends from Mindjacking an Avatar with a Designation from the table below, add the amount indicated in the Matterium column for the table row containing that Designation to that Midjacker’s Matterium.

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| 4 || Messenger || “On (date), Neptune crossed the cusp of (sign)” || 1
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| 5 || Enforcer || “On (date), Mars was in retrograde during the sign of (sign)” || 2
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| 6 || Caretaker || “On (date), Mercury moved into (sign)” || 4
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| 7 || Overwatcher || “On (date), the outer planets aligned in the sign of (sign)” || 6
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In the rule “Reality Enforcers”, remove the list entry that reads

Any action whose Potency or Potent status is referred to by that action’s rules grants Suspicion equal to its Potency.

and replace it with one that reads

Resonance Testing grants Suspicion equal to the performer’s Potency for the Resonance Testing.

The stars of Draco will guide me.

Add a new subrule to the rule Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness, called Hunter-Seeker Algorithm, with the following text:

As a Forkable Existential Action, a Mindjacker may Launch a Hunter/Seeker. Launching a Hunter/Seeker entails making a post in the Story Posts category with the following characteristics:
* It’s title must be the phrase Hunter/Seeker
* It must specify two Hunter criteria, which must be two of the following: a specific named Object from a Symbol Name; a specific Home Tier; a specific Occupancy Tier.
* It must specify one Seeker criterion, which must be the criteria that was not selected as a Hunter criteria.

As soon as possible after a Hunter/Seeker post has been made, the Ascendant should identify whether any Avatars meet both of the Hunter criteria. If they do not then they should respond to the Launch a Hunter/Seeker post with the phrase “The algorithm dissolves between realities”. If there are any Avatars that meet both Hunter criteria then the Ascendant should randomly select one and change its gamestate such that it matches the Seeker criterion as well; they should then generate a Portent in the format of “x has been reprogrammed”, where x is their full Symbol Name. Any Avatar whose gamestate has been amended in this way may not have their gamestate amended again by any means (including being destroyed as a result of a successful Mindjacking) until the next time Observatory Report is posted.

Add the following to the list in the rule Reality Enforcers:

Launching a Hunter/Seeker grants 3 Suspicion.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid, called Harder Hunters:

When a Mindjacker is Launching a Hunter/Seeker, they must include a third Hunter criterion: a specific Star Sign.

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At 10h47 on 20 June there were 9 Avatars
Gigantic Blurry White Jewel was incongruous under the stars of Panthera
Immense Glowing Cyan Star was incongruous under the stars of Serpenta

All of the minds in the dreamscape shift uncomfortably as a high-pitched sound - one that they don’t have the receptors to fully experience - cuts through, like metal being torn by hand.

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Draco guides you.

Append the following to the rule “Avatar Activity”:

The Ascendant can and should make up to five Activity Reports in a row within the span of one hour, but they must remove this sentence from the Ruleset immediately after the last of these Activity Reports is posted.

In the rule “Anchors”, after “a Mindjacker may change their Anchor to be the name of another Mindjacker whose Level is exactly equal to their own”, add “or change it to be empty.”

Append the following paragraph to the rule “Astral Disjunction”:

It is an Agenda Item to have an empty Anchor.

Add the following as a subrule of “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean”, called “Echoes”

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker can send a single private message (called an Echo) to another Mindjacker with a Level lower than their own. An Echo must be clearly marked as such, and must contain the names of two different actions in the following list, as well as all of the details described in each action’s list entry, separated from one another for clarity:
* Astromantic Ritual: A link to an Astromantic Ritual post made within the last 3 days and the full text of the private message sent by the Ascendant in response to that Astromantic Ritual.
* Psychic Ping: A link to a Pyschic Ping post made within the last 3 days and the full text of the private message sent by the Ascendant in response to that Psychic Ping.
* Tasting the Quantum Soup: The exact time and date of a message sent to Taste the Quantum Soup within the last 3 days, and the full text of the private message sent by the Ascendant in response to that message.
* Resonance Testing: The exact time, date, and text of a message sent to Resonance Test within the last 3 days, and the full text of the private message sent by the Ascendant in response to that message.

It is an Agenda Item to send an Echo that includes information one has never sent in an Echo before.

In the rule “Levels of Reality”, after “with links to prior gamestate demonstrating that completion where necessary”, add “(or, if links aren’t applicable, as much information about the action as is necessary to identify it specifically)”.

A prophet has gathered a following preaching that horoscopes are not the way in which the random seed of the universe is to be interpreted, but actually Myers-Briggs types are, and that society should be ordered into rigorous castes in which ENTPs are afforded all wealth and status while ISFJs are good only for meaningless and meanial labour. An Avatar, or just an idiot?

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I call upon Astromancy to reveal something Small or something Shadowy

In the subrule “Weaponised Psyonics”, add the following text at the end of the first paragraph:

If any of the Symbol Names in the private message do not match an existing Avatar at the time the private message was sent, the Ascendant shall, as soon as is practical after receiving the message, generate a Portent containing the the name of the Mindjacker who sent the private message and any flavour text of the Ascendant’s choosing, except that the flavour text for this Portent must not contain the name of any other Mindjacker.

I am Level 5

Bucky have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!
lemon have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!
Raven1207 have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!

The stars of Draco will guide me.

The stars of Draco will guide me.

Same alley, same table. The Techno-Witch expects me now, and expects my payment, too: a small hard drive full of advanced encryption algorithms from another reality. I tell her about my most recent dream — an Immense wall bisecting the supercosmos, patrolled by Shadowy spectrographers and hunter-killer security daemons running on the source code of spacetime itself. I don’t think she believes me that it’s a dream, but I don’t ask her. She knows what to do.

lemon and JonathanDark have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!

Chiiika becomes idle after 8 days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 3.

Repeal the dynastic rule “Neural Strain”.

Remove the text ” plus a number of hours equal to that Mindjacker’s Neural Strain” from the rule “Levels of Reality”.

Move the sentence “As a Forkable Existential Action a Mindjacker may increase their Matterium by 1” to the beginning of the rule Tier 9: The True Reality.

Repeal the rule Tier 8: Non-Euclidan N-Dimentional Spectrum.

In the rule name Tier 9: The True Reality change the 9 to an 8. In the same rule change “No Mindjacker whose Level is 9” to “No Mindjacker whose Level is 8”. In the rule Memes, change “Level 9” to “Level 8”.

If any Avatar or Mindjacker has a Home Tier or Level of 9, change it to 8.

A thought rings across the Psychic Dreamscape, carrying with it a simple question and the statement that I am level 3.

There has been an outbreak of mundanity in the Dreamscape. A whole sector where the dreams they have are prosaic - dreams of a techno-witch landscape in which people are doing their washing up, or driving cars within the speed limit, or thinly slicing celery stalks. Boredom is not unheard of, even in the dreaming, so it could be nothing. But it could also be something.

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The stars are in Felina. A ripple has been felt in Tier 3.

The electric currents surging through the endless quantum soup that constitues True Reality on Tier 4 have taken to routing around a particularly dense cluster of harsh methane-producing bacteria. These bacteria seem to have been stimulated by the direct - almost directed? - development of a polyp with quantum energy processing capabilities. Evolution at work? Perhaps…

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Add the following as a subrule of “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup” called “Quantum Flavour”:

As an Existential Action called Tasting the Quantum Soup, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant the statement “I sample the Quantum Soup. How does it taste?”. As soon as is practical after receiving such a message, the Ascendant should respond with “You taste (x) possibilities.” where (x) is the number of Avatars and Mindjackers that currently exist whose Home Tier is higher than the recipient Mindjacker’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not.

Append the following to the list of Suspicious Actions:

* Tasting the Quantum Soup grants 1 Suspicion.

Add the following as a subrule of “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup” called “Quantum Entanglement”:

As an Existential Action called Entangling, a Mindjacker may spend 1 Matterium and make a comment containing the phrase “Quantum Entangling” on another Mindjacker’s Mindjacking that has not yet been Manifested or Entangled. A Mindjacking that has had an Entangling comment posted on it is called an Entangled Mindjacking.

If an Entangled Mindjacking is Manifested and marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant, the Mindjacker who posted the Entangling comment earns 3 Matterium.

If an Entangled Mindjacking is Manifested and marked with an AGAINST symbol by the Ascendant, the Mindjacker who posted the Entangling comment has their Suspicion reduced by 1, and the Mindjacker who posted the Entangled Mindjacking has their Suspicion increased by 1.

In the rule Avatar Activity, to the end of the first bullet point, add:

For each Tier between the Tier that was its Occupancy Tier at the start of this action and its new Occupancy Tier (inclusive of the latter but exclusive of the former), see if a Ripple is generated; a Ripple has a 50% chance, secretly-randomly determined, of being generated in any Tier where the Careless Mover’s Star Sign corresponds to a higher-numbered Tier.

Add the following to the end of the last bullet:

, as well as any Ripples generated as part of this Atomic Action.

Redtara decides to settle with the level of reality where they’re at, going idle after 7 days of inactivity. Quorum is unchanged.

A great catastrophe affects the Dreaming but the dreamers swiftly assume new configurations to bear the load. Something about the dream feels wrong, however, like an attempt is being made to somehow steer it in an unnatural direction. An aftereffect of the shock, continuing to ripple out? Or a careless mover at work?

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The psychic ping is almost completely undetectable through the cacophony of the sonic waveform ocean. With the neuroelectric formula I learned in Tier 3, however, I can sift through the noise to hear the psyonic resonance.

In a darkened alley, on a plastic folding table, I meet with a Techno-Witch and pay in stolen high-grade circuit boards. I tell her about a dream I had recently — an ocean made of soundwaves, populated by advanced squid-like beings. I ask her if, in the world of my dream, there are any noteworthy squids who are Microscopic or Reflective.

In the rule “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”, change

It is an Ascension Criterion for Tier 3 that the Mindjacker who is Ascending must have a Trigger whose “if” clause is possible for at least one other Mindjacker to satisfy.

to

It is an Ascension Criterion for Tier 3 that the Mindjacker who is Ascending must either have a Trigger whose “if” clause is possible for at least one other Mindjacker to satisfy, or have had another Mindjacker Activate their Trigger in the last 48 hours.

How did we lose that gravball pickup? Venus is in Orichalum and I was wearing my lucky underwear, my match-day socks AND the pendant my astrologer told me would bring me certain victory. It was that one girl on the other team… huh. Now I think about it, did she really move that fast?

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The stars of Serpenta torment you.

Add the following to the end of the rule “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality”:

It is an Agenda Item to have a Level lower than the lowest among other Mindjackers.

I last Ascended 21:35, June 19, 2023
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=23563

It is an Agenda Item to have a Mindjacker of equal or higher Level as one’s Anchor.
Note that this one says “have”, not “set”, so there’s no Action to perform, it just needs to be true at the time.
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=23575

It is an agenda item to increase another Mindjacker’s Suspicion from 9 or less to 10 or more.
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=23565

It is an Agenda Item to perform a Superencryption in which the Mindjacker performing the Superencryption chooses the maximum allowed number of Mindjackers or the number of non-Idle Mindjackers - 1, whichever is smaller, and is not among the Mindjackers chosen.
https://blognomic.com/archive/superencryption_spreading_the_love

It is an Agenda Item to author a proposal while being the author of another pending proposal that is at least four hours old.
https://blognomic.com/archive/tightly_packed_agenda
https://blognomic.com/archive/lurkers_below_the_horizon

In the rule “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”, add a subrule called “Psychic Umbrella”.

In the subrule “Encryption”, cut the sentence that begins with “It is an Agenda Item” out of that subrule and paste it into the subrule named “Psychic Umbrella”.

Raven1207 have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!
redtara have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!
Chiiika have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!

Add the following to the end of the text of the rule Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean:

No Mindjacker may elect to remove their Trigger other than as a result of its Activation.

Add the following to the end of the text of the rule Tier 6: The Wall:

No Mindjacker may edit their Trigger.

In the rule “Reality Enforcers”, change “Any Potent action” to “Any action” and change “described quantity of Suspicion” to “described quantity (or quantities, if multiple apply) of Suspicion”.

Uphold all actions and changes to the gamestate performed this Dynasty which were illegal but would have been legal if the above changes had been in effect at the time they were performed.

If https://blognomic.com/archive/master_of_memes was not enacted, add the following to the list in the rule “Memes”:

The meme “tubicinate” is associated with Level 9.

Add the following text to “Tier 9: The True Reality”:

As a daily action, if no Mindjacker holds the Meme for this Tier, any Mindjacker whose name does not appear in the Memetic Exclusion list may acquire it. Immediately after changing their Level to 9 via Memetic Tunneling, a Mindjacker must add their name to the Memetic Exclusion list and then lose every Meme they have.

The Memetic Exclusion list is as follows. Any Mindjacker whose name appears in this list cannot acquire the Meme “tubicinate” by any means.
* Josh

Add the following as a subrule of “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean” called “Waveform Resonance”:

As an Existential Action called Resonance Testing, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant with a number of Symbol Names up to their Potency and a request to see the resonance information of the name(s). As soon as is practical after receiving the message, the Ascendant shall respond with the following information for each Symbol Name in the message:
* Whether it is the Symbol Name of an existing Avatar.
* If it is the Symbol Name of an existing Avatar, the current Home Tier and Occupancy Tier of that Avatar.

Immediately after responding to a Resonance Testing message, the Ascendant shall increase the Suspicion of the Mindjacker who sent that message by 1 for each Symbol Name in that message that was not the name of an existing Avatar.

Add the following to the list in the rule Memes:

The meme “hyperbola” is associated with Level 8.
The meme “eudaimonia” is associated with Level 9.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Tier 8: Non-Euclidan N-Dimentional Spectrum, entitled Far Downstream Influence:

As a Forkable Potent Existential Action, a Mindjacker may spend 3 Matterium to change a single Meme to a single other word that does not appear in the ruleset or in any pending Proposal, acquire that Meme, and then award that Meme to a single other randomly selected Mindjacker.

A rapid stream of pings around the network towers in the Oort cloud suggest a rapidly-moving consciousness; a child, perhaps? Or a presence that has not yet learned the trick of slowly expanding and contracting the periphery of the self?

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It moves through the nodes in the pattern of the constellation of Felina…

If the Proposal “Becoming 1337” is not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the subrule “Turnabout”, replace this text:

Mindjackers have a publicly tracked Occupancy Tier, which is Tier 0 or the Tier of an existing Tier Rule, and defaults to Tier 0.

with this text:

Mindjackers have a publicly tracked Occupancy Tier, which the Tier of an existing Tier Rule, and defaults to Tier 1.

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At 17h56 on 16 June there were 10 Avatars
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Disturbances have been reported in tiers 1, 2 and 5, consistent with behaviour from those with star signs Avis, Cetus and Felina

An epidemic has broken out of people walking under ladders and facing almost a decade of bad luck; it seems like someone somewhere is fiddling with some variables.

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The stars of Felina may guide you.

The stars of Lupis will guide me.

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No Mindjacker may carry out any Existential Action or Weekly Action defined in the rules and subrules with a Tier Level of 1, 2, 3, or 4.

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Mindjackers may only carry out an Existential Action or Weekly Action defined in the rules and subrules with a Tier of 1, 2, 3, or 4 if its Tier is their Occupancy Tier or if they are Enlightened. No Mindjacker is Enlightened.

Add a new subrule to that rule. Call it “Turnabout” and give it the following text:

Each Mindjacker may or may not have a Symbol Name. This is secretly tracked by the Ascendant. If a Mindjacker of level 6 or higher lacks a Symbol Name, the Ascendant can assign them a Symbol Name that is different from any other Symbol Name currently in use and notify them privately of their new Symbol Name. The Ascendant should assign the Symbol Name when there are no non-Manifested Mindjackings.

If a Mindjacker’s Symbol Name changes, or they lose their Symbol Name entirely, the Ascendant shall notify them of their new Symbol Name or lack thereof.

Mindjackers have a publicly tracked Occupancy Tier, which is Tier 0 or the Tier of an existing Tier Rule, and defaults to Tier 0. As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker who has received their Symbol Name may change their Occupancy Tier to any Tier from Tier 1 to Tier 5, inclusive. Mindjackers have a Home Tier equal to their level.

A Mindjacker with a Symbol Name may be subjected as an Avatar would to another Mindjacker’s Mindjacking, with the following modifications:
* They count as having every star sign.
* If they would be destroyed, they instead lose their Symbol Name and the Ascendant forces them to Descend twice.

A Mindjacker is not affected as an Avatar would be by their own Mindjacking attempt.

A Mindjacker with a Symbol Name counts as an Avatar for the purpose of determining what messages appear in the Ascendant’s response to other Mindjackers’ Psychic Ping if and only if they have had the same Symbol Name since the Psychic Ping was posted.

No Mindjacker with a Symbol Name counts as an Avatar for the purpose of Portents generated by the rule “Portents”.

The stars of Felina will guide me.

Add the following to the end of the list in Memes:

The meme “cephalopod” is associated with Level 5.
The meme “embrasure” is associated with Level 6.
The meme “polyominoes” is associated with Level 7.

In the rule Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean, after “in any other dynastic rule”, add:

(once if it appears multiple times)

Add the following to the text of the rule Tier 6: The Wall:

No Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it, as a daily action.

Add the following to the text of the rule Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid:

As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it; if they do, and it doesn’t already appear, they must add the phrase “As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for Tier 7 may acquire it” to the text of the rule Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness.

Add the following as a subrule of “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup” called “Quantum Deception”:

As a Forkable Existential Action called Quantum Deception, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant an instruction to generate a specific Portent based on a single sentence enclosed within quotes. The Ascendant shall, as soon as is practical after receiving the message, generate a Portent which matches the sentence enclosed in quotes (but with the quotes removed). If the new Portent is identical to an existing Portent that has not been mentioned in a previous Observatory Report, the Ascendant must also increase the Neural Strain of the Quantum Deceiving Mindjacker by 1.

In the rule Levels of Reality, change the paragraph which starts “An Agenda Item is a task defined as such by Dynastic Rules” to read as follows:

An Agenda Item is a task defined as such by Dynastic Rules, outside of flavour text. A Mindjacker who has completed a number of distinct, currently existing Agenda Items greater than or equal to their level since the last time they Ascended (or, if they have never Ascended, since the first moment they weren’t idle during the current dynasty), and who meets any other restrictions on Ascending, may Piggyback, which is an Atomic Action with the following steps:
* Make a Story Post outlining the Agendas that they are claiming to have completed in order to carry out this Piggybacking, with links to prior gamestate demonstrating that completion where necessary
* Ascend

A meme evoking nostalgia for a time that never occurred jolts through the collective synapse. An unexplained phenomenon, or perhaps the movement of a careless entity…

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Felina is ascendant.

In the rule “Near-Field Psyonics”, replace “blog post” with “Story Post”.

Append the following paragraph to the rule “Levels of Reality”:

If the Ascendant is required or recommended by the ruleset to perform multiple actions “at their earliest opportunity”, “as soon as is practical”, or similar, they should perform these actions ordered chronologically by when the actions or events that prompted each one took place (i.e. the action which was prompted at the earliest point in time should be taken first).

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Broader Triggers”:

It is an Agenda Item to Activate a Trigger in such a way that its “then” clause has no effect.

My Level is 3

From deep in the remote edges of the field of the pyschic dreamscape comes a discordant image - an intense sensation of cold coupled with a profound experience of envy, in a way that sits very uneasily and suggests a lack of familiarity with dreamscape etiquette. Could it be?

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My level is 4. From deep within the protoplasmic quantum soup, a psychic ping emanates.

I perform a psychic ping. My level is 3.

Change the text of the rule “Tier 9: The True Reality” to the following:

No Mindjacker whose Level has been 9 or higher for at least 24 hours has achieved victory.

If more than one Mindjacker is simultaneously considered to have achieved victory by having been level 9 for at least 24 hours, apply the following criteria to only those Mindjackers, in the order listed below:
* The Mindjacker who has spent the most Matterium in this dynasty achieves victory
* If multiple Mindjackers have spent the most Matterium in this dynasty, the Mindjacker who has had 9 as their Level for the most time in this dynasty achieves victory

Add a subrule to the rule “Tier 6: The Wall”. Call it “Caretaker” and give it the following text:

At any given time up to one Avatar with occupancy tier 5 or 6 may be designated as the Caretaker. If there is no Caretaker, the Ascendant may appoint one and generate the Portent “On (date), Mercury moved into (sign)” where (date) is the current date and (sign) is the new Caretaker’s star sign.

Immediately after a Mindjacker ascends from Mindjacking the Caretaker, that Mindjacker receives 4 Matterium.

Add a subrule to the rule “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup” called “Matterium Mechanics” and give it the following text:

A Mindjacker may Cast Chaff as an Existential Action that costs one Matterium, plus an additional Matterium for each time they have already Cast Chaff this week. When a Mindjacker Casts Chaff, they lose one third of their Suspicion, rounded up.

lemon have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!

Add a new subrule to the rule Avatars, called Soulcycling:

The Ascendant may at any time carry out an action called Soulcycling. Soulcycling is an atomic action with the following steps, with all random selections being carried out secretly:
* Randomly select 7 extant Avatars;
* Change their Home Tier to a random legal value;
* Change their Occupancy Tier to a random legal value;
* Randomly select 3 of the Avatars thus amended;
* Change their Star Signs to a random legal value;
* Generate a Portent with the text “Disturbances have been reported in tiers x, y and z, consistent with behaviour from those with star signs a, b and c” where x, y and z are the new Occupany Tiers of the randomly selected 3 Avatars and a, b and c are their star signs, both in random order;
* Repeal this rule.

A post on social media from someone who *swears* she saw a man in the supermarket pull up some kind of front-end coding interface and then disappear, right in the middle of the produce aisle. Worth investigating?

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The stars are Leonis.

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

Change the text of the rule “Tier 9: The True Reality” to the following:

No Mindjacker whose Level has been 9 or higher for at least 24 hours has achieved victory. If more than one Mindjacker is simultaneously considered to have achieved victory, instead only the Mindjacker who has spent the most Matterium in this dynasty (or, in the event that that criteria is also tied, the Mindjacker who has had 9 as their Level for the most time in this dynasty) achieves victory.

Chiiika have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

They say “a rolling stone gathers no moss”, so when all of the rolling stones in a village start acceleratingly accreting moss you know that something must be up.

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If Call for Judgment: The Human Error in Our Stars was not enacted then enact it. Then, in the rule Mindjacking, change:

At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if (x) is the Symbol Name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y) whose Home Tier is higher than the author’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not; otherwise they shall mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

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At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall Manifest this Mindjacking by marking it with a FOR symbol if (x) is the Symbol Name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y) whose Home Tier is higher than the author’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not; or, otherwise, an AGAINST symbol.

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Once a Mindjacking has been legally marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it cannot be marked with another symbol.

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Once a Mindjacking has been correctly Manifested it cannot be Manifested again.

Remove the text “if one has any Matterium,” from the rule Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean.

make lemon an admin.

Reword the rule “Mindjacking” to the following:

A Mindjacker may carry out a Mindjacking as an Existential Action. A Mindjacking is the act of making a post in the Story Post Category with the title Mindjacking: (x), where (x) is a flavour-text string of its author’s choice; the contents of the post should be “The stars of (y) will guide me.”, where (y) is a Star Sign. At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if (x) is the Symbol Name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y) whose Home Tier is higher than the author’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not; otherwise they shall mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

A Mindjacker whose Mindjacking has been legally marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant then Ascends and the Avatar named in the Mindjacking is destroyed. Immediately after Ascending this way, the Mindjacker’s Suspicion is set to 3.

Once a Mindjacking has been legally marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it cannot be marked with another symbol.

Destroy all Avatars whose Symbol Names have appeared in Mindjackings which were marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant.
Consider Bucky to have Ascended, then set his Suspicion to 3; then consider lemon to have Ascended, then set her Suspicion to 3.

Add a subrule to the rule “Portents” called “Retractions”, with the following text:

The Ascendant may generate any Portent at any time, and Portents generated this way that are not otherwise authorized nor required are considered Glitched. Whenever the Ascendant is aware that they have generated a Glitched Portent with no corresponding Retraction, they shall generate another Portent as a Retraction stating that the Gitched Portent in question is unreliable.

The Ascendant should not deliberately create Glitched Portents.

Destroy all Avatars for whom no Activity Report prior to this proposal’s posting has contained all four of the words in their Symbol Name.
Destroy all Avatars whose Symbol Names have appeared in Activity Reports which were marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant.

Reword the rule “Mindjacking” to the following:

A Mindjacker may carry out a Mindjacking as an Existential Action. A Mindjacking is the act of making a post in the Story Post Category with the title Mindjacking: (x), where (x) is a flavour-text string of its author’s choice; the contents of the post should be “The stars of (y) will guide me.”, where (y) is a Star Sign. At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if (x) is the Symbol Name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y) whose Home Tier is higher than the author’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not; otherwise they shall mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

A Mindjacker whose Mindjacking has been legally marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant then Ascends and the Avatar named in the Mindjacking is destroyed. Immediately after Ascending in this way, the Mindjacker’s Suspicion is set to 3.

Once a Mindjacking has been marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it cannot be marked with another symbol.

If, since this Proposal was posted, any Mindjacker (excluding lemon and Bucky) has Ascended as a result of a Mindjacking which named an Avatar whose Symbol Name already appeared in a previous Mindjacking which was marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant, revert all such Ascensions, returning that Mindjacker’s game variables to what they were immediately preceding the Ascension.

In the rule “Mindjacking”, replace “At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant should mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if x is the symbol name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y), otherwise they should mark it with an AGAINST symbol.” with “At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if x is the symbol name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y), otherwise they shall mark it with an AGAINST symbol.” and in the sentence “A Mindjacker whose Mindjacking has been marked with the FOR symbol by the Ascendant then Ascends and then their Suspicion is set to 3 after this Ascension.” add the word “legally” before “marked”.

Consider Bucky to have Ascended, then set his Suspicion to 3; then consider lemon to have Ascended, then set her Suspicion to 3.

A good sign of an avatar is someone who too flamboyantly knows too much - someone living out a power fantasy, where they have all the money, all the prestige, for no effort. Here are three corporate CEOs who seem to have almost outrageous luck; which one could be an Avatar?

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The stars of Ursida should guide you…

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

lemon have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Reality Enforcers”:

It is an agenda item to increase another Mindjacker’s Suspicion from 9 or less to 10 or more.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”. Call it “Guilt Implantation” and give it the following text:

As a Forkable weekly action called Blameshifting, a Mindjacker may transfer one of their Suspicion to another Mindjacker of a level between 3 and their own, inclusive.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean” as a new paragraph:

It is an Ascension Criterion for Tier 5 that if one has any Matterium, one’s Suspicion plus one’s Matterium does not exceed twice one’s Level. This Ascension Criterion is known as the Smuggler’s Criterion.

If the rule “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup” contains the phrase “a quality of Matterium”, change it to “a quantity of Matterium”.

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The stars of Leonis will guide me.

In the subrule “Encryption”, add the following text to the end of the paragraph:

It is an Agenda Item to perform a Superencryption in which the Mindjacker performing the Superencryption chooses the maximum allowed number of Mindjackers or the number of non-Idle Mindjackers - 1, whichever is smaller, and is not among the Mindjackers chosen.

Did that person just…? That can’t be right, their horoscope gives them no latitude at all for that kind of thing.

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Feels more like a Leonis thing to have done, don’t you think?

At 15h33 on 9 June 2023 there were 10 Avatars.

The stars of Ursida will guide me.

In the subrule “Reality Enforcers”, replace this text:

Changing one’s Anchor grants 1 Suspicion.

with this text

Changing one’s Anchor grants 1 Suspicion per Level of the Mindjacker performing the action.

In the rule “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness”, add a subrule named “Astral Connection” and give it the following text:

Whenever a Mindjacker has a non-empty Anchor, that Mindjacker and the Mindjacker whose name matches that Anchor are said to be in an Astral Connection. It is possible to be in more than one Astral Connection at a time. Whenever one of the Mindjackers in an Astral Connection Ascends and afterwards has a Level exactly one greater than the other Mindjacker in that same Astral Connection, the Mindjacker with the lower Level in that Astral Connection is considered the Astral Terminus of that Astral Connection. If the Astral Terminus’s Level is ever not exactly one less than the other Mindjacker’s Level in that Astral Connection, the Astral Terminus is no longer considered the Astral Terminus of that Astral Connection. As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker who is an Astral Terminus may Ascend, subject to the rules regarding Ascension Criteria, and immediately set their Suspicion to 5 after Ascending.

In the rule “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”, add a subrule named “Astral Disjunction” and give it the following text:

A Mindjacker whose name is the Anchor for another Mindjacker may choose to Sever Connection as an Existential Action if their Level is equal to the Level of the other Mindjacker. The Mindjacker who performs this action gains 3 Suspicion and sets the other Mindjacker’s Anchor to empty. This action does not increase the Suspicion of the other Mindjacker.

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

Add the following as a subrule of “Levels of Reality” called “Neural Strain”:

Mindjackers can accumulate Neural Strain, which represents their immaterial mind suffering damage or struggling to adapt to more complex realities. Each Mindjacker’s Neural Strain is publicly tracked as a non-negative integer that defaults to 0. If a Mindjacker’s Neural Strain is higher than twice their Level, that Mindjacker can reduce their Neural Strain to twice their Level as an Existential Action called Decompressing.

In the rule “Levels of Reality”, after “once every ten hours”, add “plus a number of hours equal to that Mindjacker’s Neural Strain”.

Add a new subrule to the rule Levels of Reality, called Detectedness:

Each Mindjacker has publicly tracked Observations, defaulting to an empty set. An Observation must be one of the strings outlined in this rule. When a Mindjacker has an Observation, all effects of that Observation are applied to them at all times. A Mindjacker may not have the same Observation twice at the time time; if they would gain an Observation that they already have, they instead gain no Observation.

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker may spend 1 Matterium to loose a single Observation of their choice. Any Mindjacker who has had a given Observation for five consecutive days may loose that Observation.

The valid Observations and their effects are as follows:
CLUSTERING: This Mindjacker may not have a Level that is the same as the Level of any other Mindjacker; if they do then they may and must Descend until they are either not on the same Level as another Mindjacker, or have a Level of 1.
ROUTINE: While any Mindjacker has the ROUTINE Observation, the Ascendant may include an Astrology Reading (which is the name or identifying characteristics of two Existential Actions, randomly selected) in the daily Activity Report. If there is a most recent Astrology Reading then the only Existential Actions that a Mindjacker with this Observation may carry out are those listed within it.
BLOCKADE x: When this Observation is acquired by a Mindjacker, a random Tier number is generated and appended to its name in the place of ‘x’. The Mindjacker with this Observation cannot carry out any Existential Action or Weekly Action defined in the rules and subrules with that Tier Level.
PRESSURED: If the Mindjacker with this Observation has a Meme then they lose both this Observation and that Meme (if they have multiple Memes they lose one at random).

Add the following to the rule Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid:

The Ascension Criterion for this Tier is that the Mindjacker must have at least one Observation.

If Proposal: Mindjacker Hunters was enacted, in the rule Avatar Activity, after the text “if it is then the action is Detected”, add the following:

, and the Ascendant should randomly select an Observation and apply it to the Mindjacker that carried out that Action.

The movement of an entity makes the hair on your arms stand up; something is subtly wrong on Tier 1.

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In the rule “Near-Field Psyonics” change “a random other word” to “a secretly chosen random other word” and “the Symbol Name of a random Avatar” to “the Symbol Name of a secretly chosen random Avatar”

Add a new subrule to the dynastic rule “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup”. Call it “Side Channel Leakage” and give it the following text:

When a Mindjacker performs a Potent Psychic Ping, the Ascendant shall generate a Portent identical to the first rule-required sentence in their response to that Psychic Ping, provided that it is not identical to an existing Portent.

Add a new subrule to the dynastic rule “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean”. Call it “Portent Backdoor” and give it the following text:

It is an agenda item to post a comment on the most recent Observatory Report while it contains one’s name, while one’s name does not also appear in the Ruleset.

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Tier 6: The Wall, called Spectrographers:

Each Avatar whose Home Tier is 6 or higher is also a Spectrographer. Spectrographers are residents of higher tiers of reality who are aware that intelligences from lower Tiers are using Mindjacking to attempt to ascend to the true reality, and who are trying to prevent them from succeeding.

Whenever a Mindjacker carries out any Existential Action they must work out that Action’s Disruptiveness. Its Disruptiveness is defined as followed: the Potency of that Action, plus the acting Mindjacker’s Suspicion, multiplied by two if it was performed twice due to being Forkable. Whenever a Mindjacker performs an Action that generates a Disruptiveness score they must make a post describing that action and detailing its Disruptiveness score; if a Mindjacker makes multiple such actions in a single day then they can amalgamate those updates into a single post.

In the rule Avatar Activity, rewrite the last bullet point as follows:

* For each Action that has been carried out with a Disruption score that has not been Examined, Examine it, where ‘Examining’ entails checking whether there is an Spectographer whose Occupancy Tier is the same Tier as the Level of the Mindjacker who carried out the Action and, if there is, rolling DICE20 and assessing whether the result is lower than the Action’s Disruption Score; if it is then the action is Detected.
* Make a story post with a title of Activity Report: x, where x is the Occupancy Tier of the Careless Mover, and which contains the randomised list of words, along with the Star Sign of the Careless Mover; also include any Detected Actions that were Examined as part of the production of this Report.

Add the following as a subrule to “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality” called “Astromancy”:

A Mindjacker may carry out an Astromantic Ritual, which is an Existential Action, by making a Story Post with the title Astromantic Ritual: x, where x is a Tier of the Mindjacker’s choice. The contents of the post must include exactly two words from the Symbol Name Parts table, or exactly three if the Astromantic Ritual is not Potent.

As soon as is practical after an Astromantic Ritual, the Ascendant shall privately message the Mindjacker who performed it with each entry off the following list that applies:
* The message “The stars are dull and lifeless.” if there are no Avatars with “Star” in their Symbol Name whose occupancy Tier appeared in the title of the Astromantic Ritual post.
* For each Symbol Name Part word mentioned in the Astromantic Ritual post, a response reading “You spy a (word) star.” if at least one Avatar exists whose occupancy Tier appeared in the title of the Astromantic Ritual post, and whose Symbol Name includes both the mentioned word and the word “Star”; or “No (word) stars can be seen.” if no such Avatars currently exist. Here, (word) shall be replaced with the mentioned word.

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

We’ve picked up a Careless Mover in the Techno-Witch Reality. Here’s what we know: they have the Leonis star sign and some of the following characteristics:

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Change the entire content of the Dynastic rule “Memes” to:

Each Mindjacker has a publicly tracked set of Memes, which are strings of text; by default they have none. A Meme represents an understanding or affinity with the essential nature of a specific Tier or, equivalently, Level. As an Existential Action called Memetic Tunnelling, a Mindjacker with a Meme in their set that this rule associates with a specific Level may set their Level to the Level associated with that Meme. A Mindjacker may not Memetic Tunnel in a way that does not change their Level.

The meme “experimental” is associated with Level 1.
The meme “introspection” is associated with Level 2.
The meme “hypnagogia” is associated with Level 3.
The meme “eukaryotic” is associated with Level 4.

Set each Mindjacker’s memes to the empty set. Remove from the dynastic rules all sentences that begin with “The Meme for this Tier”.

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The stars of Ursida will guide me.

Pokes idles out after seven days of inactivity (meaning that they’ll time out at four days, next dynasty).

I’ll also idle myself as I’m not really keeping up with this one.

Quorum drops to 5.

The stars of Ursida will guide me.

Remove the text strings from all Mindjackers’ Meme tracking fields on the wiki page Reality. Set the Levels of Bucky and JonathanDark to 2. Set Bucky’s Memes to 1. Return the text “As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it; if they do then they may, if they wish, remove this sentence from the ruleset.” to the dynastic rules after the sentence “The Meme for this Tier is “hypnagogia”.”.

In the rule Levels of Reality, change “Whenever a Mindjacker Ascends their Level increases by 1, and when they Descend their Level decreases by 1” to:

Ascending is an Existential Action that entails increasing the actor’s Level by 1; Descending entails descreasing the actor’s Level by 1. A Mindjacker may only Ascend or Descend when permitted by other clauses in the Ruleset.

In the rule Memes change “may Ascend to that Tier, as if they met the Ascension Criteria of every intervening Tier” to:

may set their Level to the same number as the Tier of that Meme

If any Mindjacker has Ascended in a way that was not compliant with the wording of the ruleset following the enactment of the above clauses in this proposal between the time when it was posted and the time when it was enacted, revert that Ascension and any Tier Actions taken by that Mindjacker that relied upon the higher Level being true.

The stars of Felina will guide me.

Tier 1:
Large
Blurry
Figure
Reflective
Grey
Cyan
Shadowy
Immense
Disc
Small
Magenta
Disc

Tier 2:
Grey
Glowing
Immense
Shadowy
Disc
White
Glowing
Star
Tower
Immense
Cyan
Immense

In the rule “Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid” add a subrule called “Bending Around Reality” and give it the following text:

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker may choose a Tier lower than their current Level and no greater than the amount of Matterium that they have, pay an amount of Matterium equal to that Tier, swap the Tier number of the rule with that Tier with the Tier number of the rule exactly one Tier below it in the ruleset, and reorder the Tier Rules in the ruleset such that they are listed in numerical order by Tier.

In the rule “Triggers”, at the end of the sentence “Y is the name of an dynastic action that the author can carry out in the circumstance envisaged in the X of that Trigger”, add:

optionally followed by specifications for any choices that must be made in the process of enacting it.

Change the paragraph after the bulleted list in the rule Triggers to read as follows:

Any action that is, specifically, the “if” clause of a Mindjacker’s Trigger should be considered the first step of the atomic action Activating a Trigger, which then has the following subsequent steps:

* Carry out the “then” action of that Trigger on behalf of the Mindjacker whose Trigger it is, if necessary making any Story Posts or sending any Private Messages required; if posts or messages are required then they should be made with their title prefaced by “(name)‘s Trigger:” where (name) is the name of the Mindjacker who owns the Trigger being applied;
* Set the thus-activated Trigger to blank.

The “if” clause of a trigger may be activated by the “then” clause of another Trigger taking place. If ever a Trigger is activated but its effects cannot otherwise legally be applied, it has no effect and is set to blank, but the “then” effect is not considered to have occurred. If the “then” action of a trigger involves choices, such as the flavour text string in the title of a Mindjacking, then the specifications made within the Trigger must be adhered to; if a choice is not adequately specified, the Mindjacker who triggered the Trigger may make any legal choice on behalf of the Mindjacker whose Trigger is being activated.

In the rule Broader Triggers, replace ‘optional “or” clause’ with ‘optional “and” clause’.

Append the following to the list of Suspicious Actions:

* Superencryption grants 2 Suspicion.
* Extrasensory Assassination grants 4 Suspicion.

Add the following as a subrule under “Reality Enforcers”, called “Encryption”:

As a Weekly Action called Superencryption, a Mindjacker may choose a number of Mindjackers up to their Potency and make a Story Post which lists each of their names followed by the text “have been connected to a node of the Post Singularity Consciousness, encrypting their data!”. For 10 hours following a Superencryption, each Mindjacker that was chosen in that Superencryption gains no Suspicion when they perform Suspicion Actions. If the Mindjacker who performed the Superencryption chose themself, they don’t gain Suspicion for performing the Superencryption.

Add the following as a subrule under “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”, called “Weaponised Psyonics”:

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker may attempt an Extrasensory Assassination by privately messaging the Ascendant with a Symbol Name and an instruction to assassinate the Avatar with that name. If an Avatar with that Symbol Name existed at the time that the private message was sent, the Ascendant shall, as soon as is practical after receiving the message, destroy the named Avatar, and generate a Portent of the form “(name) was found mysteriously dead in (tier).”, where (name) is the Symbol Name of the destroyed Avatar and (tier) is that Avatar’s Home Tier. If an Extrasensory Assassination is Potent, the Mindjacker may include in their message a number of Symbol Names up to their Potency, and the Ascendant must carry out the above procedure for each Symbol Name separately. The Ascendant should then check whether the Mindjacker forgot to appropriately adjust their Suspicion after sending the private message, and correct the mistake if they did.

In the first paragraph of the dynastic rule “Tier 6: The Wall”, replace “any dynastic action” with “any Existential Action or Weekly Action”.

In the rule “Levels of Reality” replace this text:

A Mindjacker is only required to obey, can only be affected by, and may only utilise the actions of Tier Rules whose Tier is equal to or lower than their Level

with this text:

A Mindjacker is not required to obey, cannot be affected by, and may not utilise the actions of Tier Rules whose Tier is higher than their Level

Uphold each dynastic action from this dynasty that would have been a legal action according to the rule “Levels of Reality” and its subrules in the state that the content of “Levels of Reality” and its subrules were in at the time that the dynastic action was performed, as if “Levels of Reality” had also had the modification described above at each of those times.

The stars of Serpenta will guide me.

The stars of Leonis will guide me.

The stars of Felina will guide me.

Replace

including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular “they”.

with

including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns that refer to Mindjackers with the corresponding forms of the singular “they”.

in the rule “Spelling and formatting”.

Rewrite the rule Avatar Activity as follows:

As a Existential Action, the Ascendant can and should make an Activity Report. Making an Activity Report is an Atomic Action with the following steps:

* If a Careless Mover still exists from a previous iteration of this Action, change its Occupancy Tier to a valid value, secretly-randomly
* Secretly-randomly select an Avatar whose Occupancy Tier is the same as the Level of any Mindjacker; this Avatar becomes the Careless Mover and any other Avatar that would be the Careless Mover ceases to be
* Generate two valid Avatar Names that do not duplicate the name of any currently extant Avatar
* Break the three names thus generated into their component words and secretly randomise the order of those words
* Make a story post with a title of Activity Report: x, where x is the Occupancy Tier of the Careless Mover, and which contains the randomised list of words, along with the Star Sign of the Careless Mover

Tier 1:
Spinning
Magenta
Spinning
Tower
Star
Gigantic
Immense
Onyx
Grey
Gigantic
Spinning
Tower

Tier 2:
Spinning
Microscopic
Small
Star
Grey
Small
Blurry
Grey
Jewel
Disc
White
Blurry

I have decided to idle myself.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness”. Call it “Forkable Actions” and give it the following text:

Where an action is defined as Forkable and has a Tier, when a Mindjacker performs it Potent, they may immediately perform its effects a second time, disregarding any timing restrictions but not other requirements, and may make different choices the second time. This second performance is not itself Forkable. If the action creates a blog post, comment or private message, they combine both texts into a single post, comment or message with the addition of the word “Forked” as its own paragraph between the two performances’ texts.

In the dynastic rule “Skywriting”, change “As a weekly action” to “As a Forkable weekly action”.

In the Tier 8 dynastic rules, change “As a Existential Action” or “As an Existential Action” to “As a Forkable Existential Action”.

Benbot idles out after four days of inactivity, having idled out after the full seven last dynasty. Quorum drops to 6.

Reword “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean” from

Once in the dynasty, as a communal Existential action, a Mindjacker may spend 5 Matterium to remove the phrase “The rest of the text in this rule is flavour text” from the rule Tier 9: The True Realty.

to

A Mindjacker may spend 5 Matterium to change the phrase “no Mindjacker” to “every single Mindjacker” (putting the three replacement words in bold and italics, and capitalising the first letter of “every” if the “no” began with a capital letter) in any other dynastic rule, as an Existential Action.

Reword “Tier 9: The True Realty” from “The rest of the text in this rule is flavour text. Each Mindjacker whose Level is 9 or higher has achieved victory.” to:

No Mindjacker whose Level is 9 or higher has achieved victory.

In “Tier 6: The Wall”, replace “A Mindjacker may not carry out any dynastic action” with “No Mindjacker may carry out any dynastic action”.

In “Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid”, replace “A Mindjacker may not cast a vote of AGAINST on any proposal.” with “No Mindjacker may cast a vote of AGAINST on any proposal.”

Lulu becomes idle after 4 days of inactivity, having flunked out last dynasty as well. Quorum remains 7.

Add a new subrule to the rule Levels of Reality, called Memes:

Each Mindjacker has a publicly tracked number of Memes, which are strings of text; by default they have none. A Meme represents an understanding or affinity with the essential nature of a specific Tier; as an Existential Action, a Mindjacker with a Meme that is associated with a specific Tier may Ascend to that Tier, as if they met the Ascension Criteria of every intervening Tier.

Add the following to the rule Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness:

The Meme for this Tier is “introspection”. As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it.

Add the following to the rule Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape:

The Meme for this Tier is “hypnagogia”. As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it; if they do then they may, if they wish, remove this sentence from the ruleset.

Add the following to the rule Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup:

The Meme for this Tier is “eukaryotic”. As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it; if they do then they must remove this sentence from the ruleset.

At 11:51am on 5 June 2023, there were 10 Avatars.

Tier 1:

Grey
Shadowy
Jewel
Small
Spinning
Shadowy
Microscopic
Jewel
Onyx
Jewel
Grey
Small

Revert all changes made by the proposal “Symbolic Gestures”, then do the following:

In the rule “Avatar Reality”, replace every occurrence of “Name” and “name” with “Symbol Name”, and replace every occurrence of “Names” and “names” with “Symbol Names” except for occurrences that were already part of the phrase “Symbol Names”. Then, in the same rule replace the first instance of “ten Symbol Names” with “three Symbol Names”. If the rule does not already contain the text “For each list by Tier, put all of the words of all of the Symbol Names chosen for that Tier in a list and secretly determine at random the order in which those words are written in the Activity Report.” then add that text to the end of the rule.

In the rule Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup, change the word ‘integer’ to ‘number’.

Add a subrule called Switching to the Rule Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean with the following text:

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker who meets all the Ascension Criteria that they are affected by may spend 3 Matterium and Body Switch which is an Atomic Action with the following steps:

* Choose another Mindjacker with a strictly lower Level than them, and switch Levels with this chosen Mindjacker.
* Set the Suspicion of this chosen Mindjacker to 3, and their own Suspicion to 0 if they have a Suspicion.

Change the rule Mindjacking to be a subrule of “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality”, listed before Potency.

Repeal “Yanking”.

If the Proposal The Stars in Our Stars is enacted, repeal its effects.

In the rule Avatars, append the following text at the end of the first sentence:

and a Star Sign whose Tier is less than or equal to the Avatar’s home Tier

Add a subrule called Star Signs to the rule Levels of Reality with the text:

Each Star Sign has a Tier. The available Star Signs are listed below. The Star Signs listed in the line corresponding to each number have that number as their Tier.

1: Leonis (The Lion), Ursida (The Bear)
2: Serpenta (The Serpent), Felina (The Cat)

3: Lupis (The Wolf)
4: Panthera (The Panther)
5: Draco (The Dragon), Equinus (The Horse)
6: Avis (The Bird), Canis (The Dog)
7: Corvus (The Crow), Cetus (The Whale), Aquilus (The Eagle)
8: Lynx (The Lynx), Apis (The Bee), Delphina (The Dolphin)

Amend the rule Skywriting to read as follows:

As a weekly action, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant an instruction to generate a specific Portent from the prompt “The stars are (x)”, where (x) is a Star Sign whose Tier is less than or equal to their Level. The Ascendant shall, as soon as is practical after receiving the message, generate a Portent of the form “(name) was incongruous under the stars of (x)”, where (name) is the Symbol Name of a random Avatar whose Occupancy Tier is the Tier of (x) and whose star sign is not (x), if there is atleast one such Avatar (otherwise they do nothing).

In the rule Mindjacking, change the text:

the contents of that post are at the author’s discretion but are not gamestate.

If a Mindjacking has a value for x which exactly matches the Symbol Name of an Avatar, disregarding upper or lower case differences whose occupancy Tier is exactly the author’s Level then the Ascendant should, at their earliest opportunity, mark it with a FOR symbol. The author of that Mindjacking then Ascends and the Avatar is destroyed. Then, the author’s Suspicion is set to 3.
If a Mindjacking cannot be marked with a FOR symbol according to the previous paragraph, then the Ascendant should, at their earliest opportunity, mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

to

the contents of the post should be “The stars of (y) will guide me.”, where (y) is a Star Sign. At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant should mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if x is the symbol name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y), otherwise they should mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

A Mindjacker whose Mindjacking has been marked with the FOR symbol by the Ascendant then Ascends and then their Suspicion is set to 3 after this Ascension.

Add the following text to the rule “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”:

It is an Ascension Criterion for Tier 3 that the Mindjacker who is Ascending must have a Trigger whose “if” clause is possible for at least one other Mindjacker to satisfy.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Near-Field Psyonics”:

As a weekly action, a Mindjacker may perform a Psychic Ping by making a blog post to that effect which also states their level. As soon as is practical after a Psychic Ping, the Ascendant shall privately message the Mindjacker who performed it with each entry off the following list that applies:
* The message “A (qualifier) (object) resonates!”, where (object) is the Object of an Avatar’s Symbol Name, (qualifier) is a random other word in that Avatar’s Symbol Name, and that Avatar’s occupancy Tier is the same as the Mindjacker’s level.
* The message “A (qualifier) (object) stirs!”, likewise but where the Avatar’s home Tier is the same as the Mindjacker’s level.
* “(number) other entities eavesdrop.”, where (number) is the number of Avatars whom the Ascendant could have chosen for either of the previous steps but did not, if that number is greater than zero.
* The message “There is no response.”, if no previous entry applied.

Add the following text to the rule “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup”:

The Ascension Criteria for Tier 4 are: The Mindjacker who is Ascending must not be the author of any Unpopular pending proposal, unless that proposal was posted more than 48 hours ago; and the Mindjacker who is Ascending must not be the author of any failed proposal that was posted less than 48 hours ago.

Add a subrule called “Riding the Quantum Surf”, with the following text, to the rule “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup”:

It is an Agenda Item to author a proposal while being the author of another pending proposal that is at least four hours old.

Add the following text to the rule “Tier 6: The Wall”:

If a Mindjacker’s Suspicion has been 10 or higher for the last 47 hours, that Mindjacker may Descend.

In the subrule “Yanking”, replace this text:

Yanking is an Existential Action in which a Mindjacker switches Level with another Mindjacker whose Level was, immediately prior to the Yanking, exactly one greater than their own.

with this text:

Yanking is an Existential Action performed as an atomic action with the following steps:
* Select the Mindjacker performing this instance of the Yanking action as the Yanker.
* Select the Mindjacker whose name is the Anchor of the Yanker as the Target. If the rules for Yanking can not be satisfied with this Yanker and Target, this atomic action can not be completed.
* If the Target’s Level is not exactly one greater than the Level of the Yanker, this atomic action can not be completed.
* Set T to the Suspicion of the Target, or 1 if the Target does not have a Suspicion.
* Set Y to the Suspicion of the Yanker + 1, or 1 if the Yanker does not have a Suspicion.
* Roll DICEX, where X = T + Y.
* If the result of the preceding roll is less than or equal to T, switch the Level of the Yanker with the Level of the Target.
* Set the Anchor of the Yanker to empty. This step explicitly does not change the Yanker’s Suspicion.

In the rule “Levels of Reality”, after

A Mindjacker is only required to obey, can only be affected by, and may only utilise the actions of Tier Rules whose Tier is equal to or lower than their Level

add

, and treats all Tier Rules with a higher Tier than their Level as if they were flavour text, with the exception that an Admin enacting a Proposal or CfJ uses the parts of those rules that are necessary to interpret and carry out the Votable Matter’s instructions for that purpose only

Remove the subsequent sentence reading “A Mindjacker treats all Tier Rules with a higher Tier than their Level as if they were flavour text.” from the same rule.

Add the following text to the rule “Levels of Reality” as its fourth paragraph:

A Mindjacker whose level falls below the Tier of the definition of a personal gamestate variable, then increases their Tier to regain the variable, shall have that variable reset to its starting value upon regaining it, unless the action that increases their tier also sets that variable to another value.

In the same rule, after:

greater than or equal to their level since the last time they Ascended

add:

(or, if they have never Ascended, since the first moment they weren’t idle during the current dynasty)

If the rule “Portents” contains the text

a Story Post with the explicitly labeled as an Observatory Report

replace it with:

a Story Post that is explicitly labeled as an Observatory Report

In the rule Avatars, immediately before the text “a home Tier”, add:

a star sign (which must be a valid value based on the Tiers equal to or lower than that Avatar’s Home Tier)

Add the following to the body of each Tier Rule (except for the one labelled Tier 9):

The available Star Signs in this Tier are:

And then for each Tier Rule according to number add the following immediately after:

1: Leonis (The Lion), Ursida (The Bear),
2: Serpenta (The Serpent), Felina (The Cat),
3: Lupis (The Wolf)
4: Panthera (The Panther)
5: Draco (The Dragon), Equinus (The Horse)
6: Avis (The Bird), Canis (The Dog)
7: Corvus (The Crow), Cetus (The Whale), Aquilus (The Eagle)
8: Lynx (The Lynx), Apis (The Bee), Delphina (The Dolphin)

Amend the rule Skywriting to read as follows:

As a weekly action, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant an instruction to generate a specific Portent from the prompt “The stars are (x)”, where (x) is a Star Sign that that Mindjacker has access to based on their Level. The Ascendant shall, as soon as is practical after receiving the message, generate a Portent of the form “(name) was incongruous under the stars of (x)”, where (name) is the full name of an Avatar whose Occupancy Tier is the Tier with which star sign (x) is associated and whose star sign is not (x), if possible and if it does not duplicate an existing Portent (otherwise they do nothing).

Append the following text after the second paragraph in the rule “Reality Enforcers”:

Certain dynastic actions increase the Suspicion of any Mindjacker who performs them. These actions (called Suspicious Actions) are listed below. Any Mindjacker who performs a Suspicious Action — including if their Trigger contains one of them and is activated when its effects can legally be applied — immediately gains the described quantity of Suspicion.
* Any Potent action whose Potency or Potent status is referred to by that action’s rules grants Suspicion equal to its Potency.
* Mindjacking grants 2 Suspicion.
* Changing one’s Anchor grants 1 Suspicion.

If Proposal: Meeting of the Minds was enacted, append the following to the list of Suspicious Actions:

* Mind Melding grants 1 Suspicion.

If “Identity Crisis” is enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the subrule “Avatar Activity”, replace every occurrence of “Name” and “name” with “Symbol Name”, and replace every occurrence of “Names” and “names” with “Symbol Names”. Then, replace “ten Symbol Names” with “three Symbol Names”. At the end of the paragraph, add this text:

For each list by Tier, put all of the words of all of the Symbol Names chosen for that Tier in a list and secretly determine at random the order in which those words are written in the Activity Report.

In the rule Avatars, immediately before the text “a home Tier”, add:

a star sign (which must be a valid value based on the Tiers equal to or lower than that Avatar’s Home Tier)

Add the following to the body of each Tier Rule (except for the one labelled Tier 9):

The available Star Signs in this Tier are:

And then for each Tier Rule according to number add the following immediately after:

1: Leonis (The Lion), Ursida (The Bear), Canis (The Dog), Equinus (The Horse)
2: Serpenta (The Serpent), Felina (The Cat),
3: Lupis (The Wolf), Aquilus (The Eagle)
4: Panthera (The Panther), Delphina (The Dolphin)
5: Draco (The Dragon)
6: Avis (The Bird)
7: Corvus (The Crow), Cetus (The Whale)
8: Lynx (The Lynx), Apis (The Bee)

Amend the rule Skywriting to read as follows:

As a weekly action, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant an instruction to generate a specific Portent from the prompt “The stars are (x)”, where (x) is a Star Sign that that Mindjacker has access to based on their Level. The Ascendant shall, as soon as is practical after receiving the message, generate a Portent of the form “(name) was incongruous under the stars of (x)”, where x is the full name of an Avatar whose Occupancy Tier is the Tier with which star sign (x) is associated and whose star sign is not (x), if possible and if it does not duplicate an existing Portent (otherwise they do nothing).

stars aren’t supposed to be that small, that blurry, or that particular shade of blue. i have a sneaking suspicion that this one might be… up to something.

Tier 1:
Gigantic Glowing White Figure
Large Blurry White Star
Gigantic Reflective White Star
Microscopic Glowing Cyan Star
Large Reflective White Disc
Immense Spinning Onyx Tower
Immense Glowing Cyan Star
Microscopic Blurry Cyan Star
Large Reflective White Tower
Small Blurry Magenta Disc

If “Proposal: The Search” was not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

Undo the effects of “Proposal: A Symbol Idea”, by reverting any ruleset text that its enactment changed or replaced to its previous state and removing any additional text or rules that it added to the ruleset. If “Proposal: Meeting of the Minds” was passed, undo its effects in the same manner.

Add a subrule to “Levels of Reality” called “Existential Actions”:-

If an action is defined as being an Existential Action, each Mindjacker able to perform it may take that action once per day, but not more than once every ten hours.

Replace the term “daily action” with “Existential Action” throughout the dynastic ruleset (except in “Avatar Activity”, if that rule exists).

Replace “Once in the dynasty, as a communal action” with “Once in the dynasty, as a communal Existential action”.

Replace “as a Action said Mindjacker can Descend” with “as an Existential Action said Mindjacker can Descend”.

In “Yanking”, replace “Yanking is an action” with:-

Yanking is an Existential Action

And replace “If a Mindjacker carries out an Action associated with a Tier” with:-

If a Mindjacker carries out an Existential Action associated with a Tier

Add the following subrule into “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness” named “High Alert”

Whenever a Mindjacker takes a Dynastic Action, their Suspicion is increased by 1.
As a daily action, a Mindjacker can reduce their Suspicion by 3.
If a Mindjacker has a Suspicion of more than or equal to 13, they may not take any Dynastic Action other than to Descend.

Add a subrule called Carrying to the rule Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality with the following text:

As a Daily Communal Action, a Mindjacker may Carry which is an Atomic Action with the follow steps:

* Roll a Dice10. If the result of the roll matches with the level of some Mindjacker, proceed to the next step otherwise consider the Action complete.
* Randomly select a Mindjacker whose level is equal to the dice roll. This Mindjacker is the Passanger of this Action.

The Passanger of a Carry Action, if any, Ascends provided they meet the Ascension Criteria.

In “Reality Recurse”, replace “If a Mindjacker has a Suspicion of more than or equal to 5, as a Action said Mindjacker can Descend.” (if that text exists there) with:-

A Mindjacker may Descend at any time.

If “A Symbol Idea” was not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the subrule “Avatars”, add this text before the text “, a home Tier”:

, a list named Chosen Words defaulting to empty

In the rule “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness”, add a subrule called “Mind Meld” with this text:

If a Mindjacker has not done so since the last time that their Level changed, they may perform the Mind Meld action by making an uncategorized blog post whose contents contain the phrase “I am Mind Melding at Level X”, where “X” is the current Level of the author of the post at the time the blog post was made. If this blog post meets the criteria for a Mind Meld action, the Ascendent must perform these steps at their earliest convenience as an atomic action:
* Choose an Avatar whose occupancy Tier is equal to the Level of the Mindjacker who made the blog post.
* * If there are no such Avatars, create one that fits this criteria and choose it for this atomic action, but if the maximum number of Avatars has already been reached, instead privately send the message “No response” to the Mindjacker who made the blog post, skip all remaining steps, and consider this atomic action completed.
* If all the words from the Symbol Name are in the Chosen Words for this Avatar, set the Chosen Words for this Avatar to empty.
* Choose one word from the Symbol Name of this Avatar that is not in the Chosen Words for this Avatar.
* Privately send this word to the Mindjacker who made the blog post.
* Add this word to the Chosen Words for this Avatar.

Add the following new dynastic rules:

Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup

Each Mindjacker has a quality of Matterium, which is a publicly tracked integer that defaults to zero.

Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean

Once in the dynasty, as a communal action, a Mindjacker may spend 5 Matterium to remove the phrase “The rest of the text in this rule is flavour text” from the rule Tier 9: The True Realty.

Tier 6: The Wall

A Mindjacker may not carry out any dynastic action defined in the rules and subrules with a Tier Level of 1, 2, 3, or 4.

Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid

A Mindjacker may not cast a vote of AGAINST on any proposal.

Tier 8: Non-Euclidan N-Dimentional Spectrum

As a daily action a Mindjacker may increase their Matterium by 1.

Tier 9: The True Realty

The rest of the text in this rule is flavour text. Each Mindjacker whose Level is 9 or higher has achieved victory.

Add a subrule to “Avatars”, called “Avatar Activity”:

As a daily action, the Ascendant can and should make an Activity Report. An Activity Report is a Story Post containing a list of ten Names for every Tier that matches at least one Mindjacker’s Level. These lists must be labeled by Tier, and every Name listed must be a valid Avatar Name. In each Activity Report, exactly one of these Names must be the Name of an Avatar that exists at the time of the Activity Report’s posting. To determine which existing Avatar’s Name to use, the Ascendant must select one of the Activity Report’s Tier lists secretly at random, and then select an Avatar secretly at random from those whose Occupancy Tier matches the selected list. If there are no such Avatars, the Ascendant should abort the Activity Report and start over. Each name in an Activity Report that is not the Name of an existing Avatar (referred to as a clean Name) is chosen by the Ascendant. The Ascendant is encouraged to make clean Names that are similar to extant Avatars’ Names and to repeat clean Names and the Names of past Avatars across different Activity Reports to throw Mindjackers off, but they should not repeat a single Name multiple times in the same Activity Report.

In the rule Mindjacking, change the text:

The author of that Mindjacking then Ascends and the Avatar is destroyed.

to

The Ascendant must then change the Level of the author of the mindjacking to the Home Tier of this Avatar and then immediately destroy this Avatar.

If the majority of EVCs contain the text “Acting sus!”, change the following text from the rule Mindjacking:

Then, the author’s Suspicion is set to 3.

to

Then, the author’s suspicion is set to 1 plus twice the number of levels that the author has gained as a result of this Mindjacking.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Levels of Reality”:

An Agenda Item is a task defined as such by Dynastic Rules, outside of flavor text. A Mindjacker who has completed a number of distinct, currently existing Agenda Items greater than or equal to their level since the last time they Ascended may Ascend at will, subject to the other restrictions on Ascending.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Anchors”:

It is an Agenda Item to have a Mindjacker of equal or higher Level as one’s Anchor.

In “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness”, add a new subrule named “Reality Recurse” with the following contents;

If a Mindjacker has a Suspicion of more than or equal to 5, as a Action said Mindjacker can Descend.

A man stares in a mirror. The 27R is wearing off. I wonder if Katelyn has more. I don’t even recognize myself.

Add a subrule to “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality”, called “Portents”, with the following text:

Portents are pieces of text privately tracked by the Ascendant, whose content never changes after they are generated.

As a weekly action, the Ascendant may generate a Portent of the form “At (time), there were (number) Avatars.”, where (time) specifies a date and time within the last day and (number) is the number that makes the Portent a true statement. The Ascendant should do this every week.

As a weekly action, the Ascendant may make an Observatory Report, a Story Post with the explicitly labeled as an Observatory Report, containing all Portents generated before the current day that have not been mentioned in a previous Observatory Report. The Ascendant should make an Observatory Report every week on Tuesday.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness”. Call it “Skywriting” and give it the following text:

As a weekly action, a Mindjacker may privately message the Ascendant an instruction to generate a specific Portent of the form “The stars are (adjective)”, where (adjective) is an English adjective that is at most eight letters long. The Ascendant shall generate that Portent as soon as is practical after receiving the message, provided that it is not identical to an existing Portent.

A Six Limbed Creature lies peacefully in their den… but a robotic hum can be heard.

In “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness”, change

If a Mindjacker’s Suspicion equals or exceeds 10 for one uninterrupted hour, that Mindjacker immediately Descends.

to

If a Mindjacker’s Suspicion has been 10 or higher for the last 1 hour, that Mindjacker cannot take any other dynastic actions other than to Descend.

In the subrule “Avatars”, replace this text:

a unique Name

with this text:

a unique Symbol Name as defined in the Symbol Names subrule

and add this paragraph to the end of that subrule:

Any Avatar which does not have valid values for its properties is not considered to be an Avatar by any dynastic rule other than this subrule. If the values of one or more properties of an Avatar are invalid, the Ascendant may set those properties with valid values.

In the rule “Levels of Reality”, add a subrule named “Symbol Names” with the following text:

A Symbol Name is a string with exactly four parts in this order, separated by a space between each part: Size, Condition, Color, and Object. When choosing a Symbol Name, one word for each of these parts must be chosen from any row of the table below to create a valid Symbol Name:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Symbol Name Parts
|-
! Size || Condition || Color || Object
|-
| Microscopic || Spinning || White || Star
|-
| Small || Blurry || Magenta || Figure
|-
| Large || Reflective || Onyx || Jewel
|-
| Gigantic || Glowing || Cyan || Tower
|-
| Immense || Shadowy || Grey || Disc
|}

In the subrule “Mindjacking”, replace this text:

exactly matches the name of an Avatar

with this text:

exactly matches the Symbol Name of an Avatar, disregarding upper or lower case differences

Add a subrule to “Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness” called “Containment”:-

A Mindjacker may use VETO as a voting icon to cast a Vote on a Proposal that was authored by a Mindjacker whose Level is lower than their own, and which would directly modify dynastic rules or dynastic gamestate if enacted; this renders the Proposal Vetoed.

The Ascendant is encouraged to veto any proposal which he regards as attempting to circumvent this ability.

Add a new subrule to the rule Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness, called Triggers:

Each Mindjacker has a publicly tracked Trigger, which is a text string (defaulting to blank) which must either be blank or take the following format: “If X then Y”, where:
* X is the phrase “any Mindjacker”, the word “does”, and the name (or an indicative description) of a dynastic action; and
* Y is the name of an dynastic action that the author can carry out in the circumstance envisaged in the X of that Trigger.

If at any point the ‘if’ clause of a Mindjacker’s Trigger occurs then the ‘then’ clause of that Trigger also immediately occurs; the Mindjacker who carried out the action that triggered the Trigger should update gamestate tracking accordingly, if necessary. The “if” clause of a trigger may be activated by the “then” clause of another Trigger taking place. Whenever a Trigger is activated in this way, it is set to blank once its effects have been enacted. If ever a Trigger is activated but its effects cannot otherwise legally be applied, it has no effect and is set to blank, but the “then” effect is not considered to have occurred.

A Mindjacker may create, edit or remove their Trigger as a daily action.

Add a new subrule to the rule Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape, called Broader Triggers:

The “If” clause in a Mindjacker’s Trigger must, instead of the phrase “any Mindjacker”, refer to a specific individual Mindjacker. Triggers may have a single optional “or” clause at the end, which acts as a second, separate “then”.

Add the following to the rule Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness:

The Ascension Criteria for Tier 2 is: the Mindjacker who is Ascending must not be the only Mindjacker with the highest Level in the game.

Add a new subrule to “Levels of Reality”, called “Cyphers”:

A Cypher is a string of eight alphanumeric characters, which is tracked secretly in Private Messages between the Cypher’s owner(s) and the Ascendant. When a Mindjacker Cracks a Cypher, they must perform the following Atomic Action to generate it:
* Use the tool at https://www.random.org/strings to generate a single string, 8 characters in length, with only numeric digits and uppercase letters enabled. If the Mindjacker already owns the resulting string, they may discard and re-generate it.
* Send a Private Message to the Ascendant containing the string that was generated in the previous step, an indication that they are gaining it as a Cypher, and the total number of Cyphers that they own (counting the newly-gained string). The Mindjacker then owns the generated Cypher.

A Mindjacker may transmit a Cypher to another Mindjacker by sending a Private Message to the Ascendant containing a single Cypher that they own, an indication that they are transmitting it, and the name of the intended recipient. After receiving one such Private Message, the Ascendant should, at their earliest opportunity, send a Private Message to the recipient Mindjacker containing the transmitted Cypher, an indication that the recipient now owns it, and the total number of Cyphers the recipient owns (counting the newly-transmitted Cypher). The recipient Mindjacker then owns that Cypher, if they didn’t already.

To Burn a Cypher, a Mindjacker sends a Private Message to the Ascendant containing that Cypher, an indication that they are Burning it, and the total number of Cyphers that they own (not counting the Cypher that is being Burned). That Mindjacker then no longer owns that Cypher.

A Mindjacker cannot Burn a Cypher that they do not own. If a Mindjacker Burns multiple Cyphers at once, each Cypher Burned should be communicated with a separate Private Message. The Private Message sent when Burning a Cypher is reffered to as a Burn Notice.

Add a new subrule to “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality”, called “Scrying”:

A Mindjacker can Scry if they have at least one Cypher to Burn and have made a Story Post no more than 10 minutes beforehand announcing that they are Scrying.

Scrying is an action in which a Mindjacker Burns a Cypher and, in the associated Burn Notice, states that they are Scrying and names a single Tier. After receiving one such Burn Notice, the Ascendant should, at their earliest opportunity, reply to it with a Private Message containing the following information:
* The number of Avatars, if any, whose Home Tier or Occupancy Tier was named in the Burn Notice and whose Name includes one or more characters that match any of those within the Burned Cypher (ignoring letter case differences).
* For each such Avatar, a distinct list of each character that is present in both their Name and the Burned Cypher (once again ignoring letter case), in the order in which they appear in that Avatar’s Name. If a character appears multiple times in an Avatar’s name, it must be present an equal number of times in that Avatar’s list.
* Below each list of characters, a number indicating the total quantity of characters in that Avatar’s Name that are not present in the Burned Cypher. Duplicate characters (i.e. characters that appear multiple times in the Avatar’s Name) are all counted toward the total.

Rename the rule “Anchors” to “Wiretapping”. Replace all other instances of the word “Anchor” in the Dynastic Rules with “Wiretap”.

In the rule “Wiretapping”, replace “As a Daily Action, a Mindjacker may” with “As a Daily Action called Wiretapping, a Mindjacker may”.

Adds the following phrase after “Each Mindjacker has a Level, which is a publicly-tracked non-negative integer defaulting to 1.” at Levels of Reality;

Each Mindjacker has a Suspicion, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer that defaults to 0.

Remove the phrase “Each Mindjacker has a Suspicion, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer that defaults to 0.” from Reality Enforcers.

In the rule “Levels of Reality”, change

A Mindjacker may not Ascend unless they meet the Ascension Criteria in every Tier they are affected by.

to

A Mindjacker may not Ascend unless they meet all the Ascension Criteria in every Tier they are affected by, excluding Tier 0. If a Tier other than Tier 0 has no defined Ascension Criteria, no Mindjacker affected by that Tier may Ascend.

and remove

A Mindjacker may not Ascend more than once in any 24 hour period.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality”. Call it “Ascension Timer” and give it the following text:

The sole Ascention Criterion for Tier 1 is to have continuously been on one’s current Level for the preceding 24 hours.

Adds the following phrase after “Each Mindjacker has a Level, which is a publicly-tracked non-negative integer defaulting to 1.” at Levels of Reality;

Each Mindjacker has a Suspicion, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer that defaults to 0.

Remove the phrase"Each Mindjacker has a Suspicion, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer that defaults to 0.” from Reality Enforcers.

If https://blognomic.com/archive/out_of_mind1 passed, in the rule “Mindjacking” replace the following text:

Once a Mindjacking has been marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it ceases to be considered a Mindjacking.

with the following:

Once a Mindjacking has been marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it cannot be marked with another symbol.

Perusing the shelves in a mysterious antiques shop, wearing a chrome windbreaker and an AR headset. She turns over a hard drive whose casing bears faded warding runes. Could it be?

To the end of “Mindjacking”, add a paragraph:-

If a Mindjacking cannot be marked with a FOR symbol according to the previous paragraph, then the Ascendant should, at their earliest opportunity, mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

Once a Mindjacking has been marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it ceases to be considered a Mindjacking.

Hiding in the cover, a shy girl is furiously typing stuff on somewhere, the incandescent bulb shining behind her. Could it be?

At a nearby table, a defiant-looking figure with a blaster-distressed leather jacket and a shock of copper hair scans the room. Could it be?

If the rule “Tier 1: Yanking” exists, add a subrule to it named “Anchors”. If instead the rule “Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality” exists, add a subrule to it named “Anchors”. In either case, add the following text to the subrule “Anchors”:

Each Mindjacker has a publicly-tracked Anchor, which defaults to empty. As a Daily Action, a Mindjacker may change their Anchor to be the name of another Mindjacker whose Level is exactly equal to their own.

and replace this text:

provided that the Yanking takes place within 10 minutes of the inciting action.

with this text:

provided that the Mindjacker carrying out the Yanking action has the name of the Mindjacker being Yanked as their Anchor and it has been less than 24 hours since the inciting action has occurred.

Add a subrule of “Levels of Reality” called “Places”:-

The following Places are defined, each only existing in the Levels indicated in brackets (where “X-Y” means all Levels between X and Y inclusive):-

* Tenement (1)
* Automat (1-2)
* Plaza (1-3)
* Crater (2)
* Laboratory (2-3)
* Refinery (3)

Each Mindjacker has a publicly-tracked Location, being a Place which defaults to Tenement. A Mindjacker may change their own Location as a daily action, to any Place that exists in their current Level.

When a Mindjacker Ascends or Descends, if their Location is not a Place that exists in their new Level, then their Location is changed to a random Place that does.

In “Avatars”, replace “a unique Name, a home Tier” with:-

a unique Name, a Location (being a Place), a home Tier

In “Yanking”, replace “whose occupancy Tier is exactly the author’s Level” with:-

whose occupancy Tier is exactly the author’s Level and whose Location is the same as the author’s Location

To “Avatars”, add a paragraph:-

If no Mindjackings have occurred in the past 24 hours, the Ascendant may change the Location of each Avatar, to any Place that exists in that Avatar’s current occupancy Tier.

Add the following to the end of the third paragraph of the rule Levels of Reality:

Each Tier should be represented by at most one top-level dynastic rule. At any time, the Ascendant may re-order the Tier Rules such that they are listed in order of Tier Level, from lowest to highest.

If there is more than one Tier 1 rule, remove “Tier 1:” from their titles and make them sub-rules of a new rule with no text, called Tier 1: Techno-Witch Reality.

If there is a Tier 2 rule, remove “Tier 2:” from its title and make it a sub-rule of a new rule with no text, called Tier 2: Post Singularity Consciousness.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape, with no text. Give that rule a subrule, called Near-Field Psyonics, with the following text:

As an exception to the restrictions placed in the Special Case rule No Collaborations, a Mindhacker may privately communicate freely with any Mindhacker whose Level has the same Value as their own.

If Proposal: Level Knevel was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “Tier 2: Reality Enforcers”:

Each Mindjacker has a Suspicion, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer that defaults to 0. When a Mindjacker’s Level is decreased, their Suspicion is set to 0. When a Mindjacker’s Level is increased, their Suspicion is set to 1.

If a Mindjacker’s Suspicion equals or exceeds 10 for one uninterrupted hour, that Mindjacker immediately Descends.

If Proposal: Avs was enacted, append the following to the second paragraph of the subrule “Mindjacking”:

Then, the author’s Suspicion is set to 3.

If Proposal: Level Knevel was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “Tier 1: Potency”:

When a Mindjacker carries out a dynastic action associated with a Tier equal to or lower than their current Level, that Mindjacker has a Potency for that action which is equal to 1 plus the difference between the Mindjacker’s Level and the action’s associated Tier.

Any dynastic action that is performed by a Mindjacker with a Potency greater than 1 is a Potent action. Any dynastic action that is not Potent is a Baseline action.