BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

On the surface of the frozen sea, the Great Machine rests in disrepair. The situation within continues to deteriorate rapidly: not a single megasystem is fully intact, the System of Motion is well on its way to being destroyed — stranding us here — and public panic has reached a new peak with the news that a Machinist was caught ripping up plating from the System of Dwelling to sell in the market, leaving critical infrastructure exposed to the elements in the process! Under intense scrutiny and social pressure, the marketeers are selling almost every Component for cheap, and refusing to pay high prices for anyone selling Components for fear that they might be complicit. All other commodities, meanwhile, have skyrocketed in price.

In more hopeful news, six more core Facilities have been repaired and rewired, and are ready to be powered up and used by the Machinists to get a handle on this absolute disaster. We can only hope that that is truly what they’ll do with them.

Rename the “Beadworks” Facility to “Breadworks” and change its Function to “You gain two Baubles. Each other Machinist in the System of Dwelling gains one Bauble. Increase Order by 1.”

If a Facility exists called Steerage Override, change its function to “Pay a number of Valves equal to the number of Locations in the Destination list to add your choice of Location to the top of the Destination list.”

In the rule “Damage and Repair”, change “A Machinist may Repair the megasystem they inhabit: they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts, add the details to a new Repair Log entry and increase their Baubles by 3.” to “A Machinist may Repair the megasystem they inhabit: they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts and add the details to a new Repair Log entry.”

Create two new Facilities with the following details:

System of Dwelling || Machinist Compensation Office || 0 || DORMANT || In each Repair Log, remove all entries listing dates more than 2 days in the past and give each Machinist 5 Baubles for each removed entry bearing their name.
System of Control || Loyalty Evaluator || 0 || DORMANT || Choose one Megasystem and remove all entries from its Repair Log. The Machinist (or Machinists, if tied) whose name appears the most in the removed entries receives Valves equal to the number of removed entries their name appears in minus one. All other Machinists receive one randomly selected Component for each removed entry bearing their name.

Remove the step “Randomly pick a Component and add one of that Component to each Machinist’s Components.” from the atomic action in “Time’s Passage”.

If Proposal: Facility Economy was passed, change the Function of the Beadworks Facility to read “You gain two Baubles. Each other Machinist in the System of Dwelling gains one Bauble.” and rename the “Navigatorium” Facility to “Steerage Override”.

If Proposal: We Have Atomic Crimes Now failed, enact it, and then in the rule “Punishment” replace “a Machinist may Arrest them” with “a Machinist may spend 1 Housing to Arrest them” and replace “add their name to the Witness List of all Machinists” with “add their name to the Witness List of all other Machinists”.

Uphold the results of the step “Randomly pick a Component and add one of that Component to each Machinist’s Components” of the Passing Time atomic action performed by the Great Machine on 05:39 July 31, 2023‎ UTC even though each Machinist actually received a different random Component during that step.

To the top of “Overland Navigation”, add the wiki code:-

[[File:Great_Machine_map.png|thumb|Two Locations are considered adjacent if they are depicted as sharing a border on this map.]]

Replace “set the Surroundings to the value of the top entry in the Destination list” with:-

set the Surroundings to the value of the top entry in the Destination list (if that entry is adjacent to the Surroundings)

Add a new rule, “Tools”:-

Each Machinist has a personal list of the Tools they are carrying, which is publicly tracked.

If a Machinist is carrying no Tools, they may requisition one from the following list, gaining it. Each Tool has the effect described.

* Brush: Cleaning does not cost you Paint.
* Sander: You may convert your Plates into Panels at any time.
* Satchel: You may pay 1 fewer Bauble when Trading.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, replace this:

Criminal Activity is an atomic action with the following steps:

* Add your name to the Witness List of all Machinists inhabiting the same Megasystem as you who don’t already have your name in their Witness List
* Blank your Witness List

with this:

A Crime is a type of dynastic action. Upon performing a Crime, a Machinist must immediately blank their own Witness List and then add their name to the Witness List of all Machinists inhabiting the same Megasystem as them.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Pickpocketing”, replace “As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist may Pickpocket by performing the Criminal Activity atomic action, decreasing Order by 2, and then taking 1 Component from a Machinist that they share a Megasystem with.” with:

As a Mechanised Crime, a Machinist may, at any time, Pickpocket: they take one Component from a Machinist that is inhabiting the same Megasystem as them and then decrease Order by 2.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Graffiti”, remove the last bullet point from the Deface atomic action and replace “may spend 1 Paint to Deface, which is a Mechanised atomic action” with:

may spend 1 Paint to Deface, which is a Mechanised atomic Crime

In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, subrule “Damage & Repair”, remove the last bullet point from the Salvage atomic action and replace “A Machinist may Salvage the Megasystem they inhabit, which is a Mechanised atomic action” with:

At any time, a Machinist may Salvage the Megasystem they inhabit, which is a Mechanised atomic Crime

In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, subrule “Damage & Repair”, replace “A Machinist may Repair the megasystem they inhabit” with “As an atomic action, a Machinist may, at any time, Repair the megasystem they inhabit”

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, change “A Machinist who has another Machinist on their Witness List and is inhabiting the same Megasystem as them may spend 1 Housing to Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:” to:

If a Machinist is inhabiting the same megasystem as them and is on their Witness List, a Machinist may Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:

After a few days’ standstill, the Great Machine has begun lumbering forth toward the Ice Plains. While passing through the outskirts of the dead city, one of the Machine’s legs fell through into a sinkhole, jostling loose a seal on a gas line passing through the System of Dwelling. If someone doesn’t fix that within the next few days, the people of the Great Machine will begin to suffer from oxygen deprivation!

It seems more and more things are breaking by the day. The machinists insist that they’re doing their best to fix it, but there’s a growing fear in the populace that they might be unable to — or worse, unwilling.

Due to the cold creeping into the System of Dwelling, coal is still priced at a premium. Cogs, filters, and pipes are all very affordable right now, though!

The first Facility has been brought online since the electrical storm knocked them all out last week. Once we get the rest up and running, the Junction Supergrid will be able to supply them with power!

Create the following Facilities in the System of Control with 0 power and DORMANT status, and the indicated names and Functions:

Name “Maintenance Dispensary”, Function “For each Machinist in the System of Control, generate a random component from {Filter, Seal, Wiring}. Distribute one of those components to each Machinist in the System of Control.”
Name “Testing Station”, Function “Make a STANDBY Facility of your choice ACTIVE, and optionally remove 1 Power from it, without performing its Function.”

Create the following Facilities in the System of Dwelling with 0 power and DORMANT status, and the indicated names and Functions:

Name “Construction Dispensary”, Function “For each Machinist in the System of Dwelling, generate a random component from {Panel, Paint, Plate}. Distribute one of those components to each Machinist in the System of Dwelling.”
Name “Beadworks”, Function “You gain two Baubles. Everyone else in the System of Housing gains one Bauble.”

Create the following Facilities in the System of Motion with 0 power and DORMANT status, and the indicated names and Functions:

Name “Engineering Dispensary”, Function “For each Machinist in the System of Motion, generate a random component from {Cog, Pipe, Wheel}. Distribute one of those components to each Machinist in the System of Motion.”
Name “Navigatorium”, Function “Add your choice of Location from the list in the rule Overland Navigation to the end of the Destination list, provided that it does not appear previously on the Destination list.”

Create a new dynastic rule named “Collapse” with the following body:

If all three Megasystems are Destroyed, no Machinist may achieve victory.

If all three Megasystems have been Destroyed for the last 24 hours, the Great Machine or any Machinist may Give Up, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* End the current Dynasty
* Begin a new Metadynasty with no Great Machine
* Repeal all dynastic rules

In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, subrule “Damage and Repair”, change “they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts, and add the details to a new Repair Log entry.” to “they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts, add the details to a new Repair Log entry and increase their Baubles by 3.”

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, directly after “Give each Machinist one of the Resource corresponding to the Megasystem they inhabit.”, add the following bullet point:

* Randomly pick a Component and add one of that Component to each Machinist’s Components.

In the subrule “Damage and Repair”, after the text “they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts” add the text:

, increase Order by 5

and add the following bullet point to the end of the list for the Salvage atomic action:

Decrease Order by 5

In the subrule “Punishment”, add the following at the end of the first bullet point in the Criminal Activity atomic action:

and are not in Lockdown

Append the following steps to the Passing Time Atomic Action:

* If the Destination list is empty and the System of Control is not Defective, add one random Location to the Destination list.
* If the System of Control is not Destroyed, Operate one random Facility as if you were a Machinist, making all associated decisions at random and ignoring requirements and effects of its Function that would refer to an Operating Machinist’s personal gamestate variables.

Add the following items to the list of Locations in the rule “Overland Navigation”:

* Frozen Woodlands
* Winding Gorge
* Mountains
* Heavy Blizzard
* Geothermal Basin

If Proposal: Cold Start was enacted, then in the rule “Overland Navigation”, replace “As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist inhabiting the System of Control may spend 1 Valve to add a new entry after the last entry in the Destination list, or as the first entry if the list is empty.” with the following:

As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist inhabiting the System of Control may spend 1 Valve to add up to two different Locations to the Destination list; new entries go after the last entry in list, or as the first entry if the list is empty. If the System of Control is Defective, a Machinist performing this action must instead spent 2 Valves to add only one Location to the list. If the System of Control is Destroyed, this action cannot be performed at all.

The Great Machine remains idle in the dead city, perched above a tangle of icy streets. There were a lot of damage reports, today: the paint on a navigational diagram in the System of Motion was found scratched to illegibility, the bitter cold is wearing away at the insulatory sealant in the System of Dwelling, and a handful of components have mysteriously vanished in the Systems of Motion and Control, leading to further damages.

Due to the cold seeping into peoples’ homes, Coal is in high demand right now. Cogs and Plates, on the other hand, are the cheapest wares in the Market at present.

Create a subrule of Machinist Agendas called Known Initialisation Keys with the text:

Initialisation Keys include:
Coal, Housing, Valves, Facilities, Power, Function, Damaged Parts, Repair Log, Destroyed, Graffiti, Flea Market, Lockdown, Components, Surroundings, Destination, Order

Any machinist may bold any instance of these listed Initialisation Keys anywhere in the dynastic ruleset.

In the rule Machinist Agendas, if there is a bullet point starting with “Initialisation Keys may not be”, replace that bullet point and the next one with:

* Machinists must not remove all instances of a given Initialisation Keys from either the rule Known Initialisation Keys, or from the rest of the dynastic ruleset.

Remove the bullet point “Initialisation Keys may not be edited or removed from the dynastic rules by any Proposal, though they may be moved to other rules and subrules, and the text surrounding them may be edited, added to, or removed.” from the rule “Machinist Agendas”.

Before “Any megasystem that has twenty or more Damaged Parts becomes Destroyed.” add:-

Any megasystem that has six or more Damaged Parts is Defective.

In “Time’s Passage”, replace “If the Destination list is not empty” with:-

If the Destination list is not empty and the System of Motion is not Defective

In the rule “Flea Market”, change

First they pay baubles equal to the number of times they have Traded today.

to

First they pay baubles equal to the number of times they have previously Traded since the last instance of Passing Time, or today if Passing Time has never happened.

The Great Machine idles in a dead city no-one can recall the name of. After passing through a thicket of skeletal high rises, the Great Machine needs external plating to be repaired in the Systems of Motion and Control.

Today in the Flea Market, Housing is priced the highest, while Plates are priced the lowest. Perhaps the marketeers heard the scraping reverberating through the hull and reduced the price of plates for the sake of self-preservation?

In the rule “Victory” replace “A Machinist’s Mastery is equal to the number of Agendas that they own which have been Fulfilled for the last 24 hours.” with “A Machinist’s Mastery is equal to the number of Agendas that they own which have been Fulfilled for the last 12 hours.”

If the CfJ “Stuck In A Temporal Freeze” is enacted, this CfJ does nothing. If the CfJ “Stuck In A Temporal Freeze” is pending, fail it.

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, change “if they have not already performed an instance of it since the most recent Passing Time.” to: “if they have not already performed an instance of it since the most recent Passing Time, or have never performed an instance of it.”

Revert any effects of attempted Mechanized Actions, if no Passing Time has occurred this dynasty.

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, change “if they have not already performed an instance of it since the most recent Passing Time.” to: “if they have not already performed an instance of it since the most recent Passing Time (or since the dynasty’s start if there has not yet been a Passing Time).”

Uphold the Moving and Salvage actions performed by the machinist named lendunistus prior to the posting of this CfJ.

If Proposal: Less Power to the Systems was enacted, create a new ACTIVE Facility called “Junction Supergrid” in the System of Motion with 10 Power and the Function “Transfer 1 Power from this Facility to each Facility in the System of Control and to one other Facility of your choosing. If there’s not enough Power for all transfers, you choose which are left out.” and then replace

If the System of Control is not Destroyed and there is a Facility in it called the “Distributor”, increase the Distributor’s Power

with

If the System of Motion is not Destroyed and there is a Facility in it called the “Junction Supergrid”, increase the Junction Supergrid’s Power

in the rule “Time’s Passage”.

the following Agendas were deleted for the sake of fairness, as required in the first step of the Initialisation Phase Two atomic action:

The current Destination is non-empty and appears in three different Graffiti nearby to a Machinist in the System of Motion, while no Graffiti nearby to that Machinist otherwise contains a Location.
this Agenda was deemed both unfairly difficult and unfairly beneficial to the writer. because Defacing is a mechanised action /and/ a criminal activity, a 3+ day window exists where the writer of this Agenda would immediately know it was being pursued and be able to disrupt it with little to no counteractions available to the Agenda owner.

There are at least 5 Functions whose full text strings appear on separate surfaces with Graffiti, exactly one Function’s full text string per surface of Graffiti, and you have more Paint than any other Machinist.
this Agenda was deemed both unfairly difficult and unfairly beneficial to the writer for reasons similar to the above Agenda: Defacing is simply too risky, slow, and easily reversible for an Agenda that requires multiple pieces of coexisting Graffiti to be fair.

There are exactly 3 of the same Locations contiguously in the Destination list, the Location in Surroundings does not appear in the Destination list at all, and you do not inhabit the System of Control.
this Agenda was deemed both unfairly difficult and unfairly beneficial to the writer for reasons similar to the above Agendas: there is a consecutive 3-day sequence of unobstructed actions that must be performed for this to occur, and the writer, knowing that this agenda exists, would immediately notice it is being persued and have an easy course of action to obstruct it.

Order is exactly 44 without anyone on Lockdown.
this Agenda was deemed unfairly beneficial to the writer for reasons similar to the above Agendas: the writer could very easily ensure that Order is never exactly 44 by doing crimes — and if they’re put in lockdown as a result, that also blocks the Agenda.

Every megasystem is Destroyed even though you are the Machinist in the most recently dated entry in all their respective Repair Logs.
this Agenda was deemed unfairly difficult to Fulfill because every megasystem being destroyed at the same time would be both very unlikely and rather disruptive to the game as a whole (thus it’s improbable that proposals making it more likely to occur would pass).

Graffiti exists created by the current holder of this Agenda with the text “Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not”, and at times subsequent to that act of creation, the current holder of this Agenda has Salvaged the same Megasystem ten times, resulting in Damaged Parts.
this Agenda was deemed unfairly difficult to Fulfill due to Salvaging being a mechanised action, giving this agenda the greatest requirement of consecutive unobstructed action out of any agenda at 10 days. if the extremely conspicuous Graffiti were to be Cleaned at any point during those 10 days, the Agenda’s owner would have to start over. that’s absurd!

At least 5 Facilities (or 50% of Facilities, whichever is higher) have at least 3 Power.
this Agenda was deemed unfairly easy to Fulfill because it could very probably come to pass by coincidence with little to no input from the Agenda’s owner.

Five or more Facilities exist and more than half of them (rounded down) have at least 2 Power.
this Agenda was deemed unfairly easy to Fulfill for the same reason as the above Agenda (as they are nearly identical).

Once each active Machinist has Sent a Schematic or the date is on or after July 27 2023, and there exists a number of Agendas greater than four times the number of active Machinists…

So either we need two more Machinists to submit their Schematics or let the Great Machine fill in the rest.

Add a subrule to the rule “Subsystems”. Call it “Power Sources” and give it the following text:

A Machinist who has not Moved since the most recent instance of Passing Time may spend 1 Coal to increase the Power of any Facility in the Megasystem they inhabit by 1. If they are inhabiting the System of Motion, they may increase the power of a second Facility in the System of Motion by 1.

As a Mechanized Action called Residing, a Machinist who has been in the System of Dwelling for at least 48 hours may increase the Power of any Facility in the System of Dwelling by two.

After the fifth step of the Passing Time atomic action in the rule “Time’s Passage”, add the following step:

* If the System of Control is not Destroyed and there is a Facility in it called the “Distributor”, increase the Distributor’s Power by 3 to a maximum of 10.

In the subrule “Pickpocketing”, after the text “performing the Criminal Activity atomic action” add this text:

, decreasing Order by 2,

In the subrule “Subsystems” add the following text:

The following are requirements for the Facilities and their Functions in each Megasystem:
* At least 1 Facility in the System of Motion should have a Function that contains the Initialisation Key Power
* At least 1 Facility in the System of Dwelling should have a Function that contains the Initialisation Key Housing
* At least 1 Facility in the System of Control should have a Function that contains the Initialisation Keys Destination and Surroundings

In the rule “Victory”, change “and if it has been at least 7 days since Initialisation Phase Two was repealed” to “and if the date is on or after August 3, 2023”.

Deactivate the “Declared Alliances” Special Case rule.

Reword “Dynastic Distance” from:-

For the purposes of dynastic rules which do not deal with voting, the Great Machine is not a Machinist.

to:

For the purposes of dynastic and Special Case rules, the Great Machine is not a Machinist.

Remove “If “Dynastic Distance” is also active, the Great Machine is not considered a Machinist for the purposes of this rule.” from “No Private Communication”.

In “Mantle Limitations”, replace “Machinists should also not make deals” with:-

Deals should not be made

In “Event Types”, replace “A Machinist must do these” with “A Machinist (or the Great Machine) must do these”; replace “any Machinist may post or may End an Event” with “any Machinist (or the Great Machine) may post or may End an Event”; replace “nor may any Machinist End it again” with “nor may it be Ended again”.

In “Dormancy”, replace “five Machinists” with:-

four Machinists

Add a subrule to the rule “Subsystems”. Call it “Power Sources” and give it the following text:

A Machinist who has not Moved since the most recent instance of Passing Time may spend 1 Coal to increase the Power of any Facility in the Megasystem they inhabit by 1. If they are inhabiting the System of Motion, they may increase the power of a second Facility in the System of Motion by 1.

As a Mechanized Action called Residing, a Machinist in the System of Dwelling may increase the Power of any Facility in the System of Dwelling by either four or half (rounded down) the number of instances of Passing Time since they last inhabited another Facility, whichever is less.

If there is a Facility in the System of Control called the “Distributor”, and if nobody has Charged the Distributor since the most recent instance of Passing Time, any Machinist or the Great Machine may take an action called Charging the Distributor, which increases the Power of the Distributor by the number of Facilities in the System of Control, to a maximum power of the higher of twice that number or 10.

If there is no Facility in the System of Control called the “Distributor”, any Machinist or the Great Machine may create such a Facility with 2 Power, ACTIVE status, and a Function of “Divide the Power in this Facility evenly among the Facilities in the System of Control, keeping the remainder in this Facility; then, if at least 2 Power remains in this Facility, transfer one Power from this Facility to a Facility of your choice.”

Reword “Dynastic Distance” from:-

For the purposes of dynastic rules which do not deal with voting, the Great Machine is not a Machinist.

to:

For the purposes of dynastic and Special Case rules, the Great Machine is not a Machinist.

Remove “If “Dynastic Distance” is also active, the Great Machine is not considered a Machinist for the purposes of this rule.” from “No Private Communication”.

In “Mantle Limitations”, replace “Machinists should also not make deals” with:-

Deals should not be made

In “Event Types”, replace “A Machinist must do these” with “A Machinist (or the Great Machine) must do these”; replace “any Machinist may post or may End an Event” with “any Machinist (or the Great Machine) may post or may End an Event”; replace “nor may any Machinist End it again” with “nor may it be Ended again”.

In the rule Initialisation Phase 2, replace the bullet point that starts “Delete all Agendas”, and its subordinate bullet points, with the following:

* Delete any Agendas for which any of the following are true:
** It attempts to manipulate or amend any aspect of the undertaking of this Action;
** Its fulfilment requires knowledge, context, understanding, or capability that would not be available to a random recipient of that Agenda with the gamestate of a newly-joining player;
** It relies for its effect upon any phenomena that sits outside of the BlogNomic ruleset, or requires any action that is not governed explicitly by the BlogNomic dynastic ruleset (beyond simply being present in an Agenda);
** It mentions an initialisation key but does not require any engagement with the mechanics related to that key to take place in order for that agenda to be fulfilled;
** It uniquely identifies specific Machinists (other than by referring to the current holder of the Agenda), or it refers to any of the mechanics described by the Special Case rules Declared Alliances or No Private Communications;
** The Great Machine judges it to be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill.

In the rule “Initialisation Phase Two”, change

Once each active Machinist has Sent a Schematic and there exists a number of Agendas greater than four times the number of active Machinists, the Great Machine can perform the following atomic action

to

Once each active Machinist has Sent a Schematic or the date is on or after July 27 2023, and there exists a number of Agendas greater than four times the number of active Machinists, the Great Machine can perform the following atomic action

To the end of “Initialisation Phase Two”, add a paragraph:-

The Head Count and Docket Count are two publicly tracked numbers. The Great Machine may, at any time, update the Head Count to equal the number of Machinists who have Sent a Schematic, and the Docket Count to equal the number of Agendas that exist.

Remove the following text from “Initialisation”:-

If two or more of a Machinist’s own Agendas have been Fulfilled for the last 24 hours, and it has been at least 7 days since Initialisation Phase Two was repealed, that Machinist has achieved victory. A Declaration of Victory based on this rule should include the text of each of the Agendas that contributed to the victory.

Create a new rule called “Victory”:-

A Machinist’s Mastery is equal to the number of Agendas that they own which have been Fulfilled for the last 24 hours.

If a Machinist’s Mastery is at least 2, and is higher than that of every other Machinist, and if it has been at least 7 days since Initialisation Phase Two was repealed, then the Great Machine may make a blog post announcing the identity of this Machinist and listing every Agenda owned by that Machinist. Upon doing so, that Machinist achieves victory.

Add a subrule to “Initialisation”. Call it “Provisional Facilities” and give it the following text:

The Provisional Facilities Registry is a publicly tracked list of text strings that are flavortext. If there is a rule called “Initialisation Phase Two”, then the Great Machine and each Machinist may add a text string of their choice to the Provisional Facilities Registry if they have not already done so.

If there is no rule called “Initialisation Phase Two”, the Great Machine may create a Facility with a name of their choice, a text string from Provisional Facilities Registry as its Function, and the most appropriate parent Megasystem according to their own judgment.

The Great Machine may remove any text string from the Provisional Facilities Registry at any time, and should do so to remove text strings that would be unfair, nonsensical or unsuitable as the Function of a Facility, or that have already had a Facility created from them. The Great Machine may correct obvious typographical errors in a Facility’s Function.

Lulu idles out after five days of inactivity. (The fact that they timed out last dynasty reduces their timeout to four days for this one.)

If the Proposal “Backseat Driver” was not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Overland Navigation”, after the text “As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist inhabiting the System of Control may ” add the text “spend 1 Valve to”

In the rule Initialisation Phase 2, replace the bullet point that starts “Delete all Agendas”, and its subordinate bullet points, with the following:

* Delete any Agendas for which any of the following are true:
** It attempts to manipulate or amend any aspect of the undertaking of this Action;
** Its fulfilment requires knowledge, context, understanding, or capability that would not be available to a random recipient of that Agenda with the gamestate of a newly-joining player;
** It relies for its effect upon any phenomena that sits outside of the BlogNomic ruleset, or requires any action that is not governed explicitly by the BlogNomic dynastic ruleset (beyond simply being present in an Agenda);
** It mentions an initialisation key but does not require any engagement with the mechanics related to that key to take place in order for that agenda to be fulfilled;
** It uniquely identifies specific Machinists (other than by referring to the current holder of the Agenda), or it refers to any of the mechanics described by the Special Case rules Declared Alliances or No Private Communications;
** The Great Machine judges that it could be fulfilled with less than seven days of sustained effort, or could not be fulfilled with more than 15 days of sustained effort, by a random newly-joining player under the current ruleset as written (assuming that all flavour text that would become ruletext as a result of the current atomic action has full effect).

In the rule “Overland Navigation”, replace the first paragraph with the following text:

The Great Machine has Surroundings, which is a publicly-tracked text string that defaults to “Dead city”, and a Destination, which is a publicly-tracked list of text strings displayed vertically, where the top entry is the first entry and the bottom entry is the last entry, defaulting to an empty list. The valid text strings for Surroundings and each entry in the Destination list are in the list of Locations below. As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist inhabiting the System of Control may add a new entry after the last entry in the Destination list, or as the first entry if the list is empty.

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, add the following bullet point to the end of the list:

* If the Destination list is not empty, set the Surroundings to the value of the top entry in the Destination list and then remove the top entry from the list, moving all other entries that exist up one.

and replace “do this twice if the Great Machine lacks a Destination.” with:

do this twice if the Destination list is empty.

In the rule “Amendments”, replace “it has been impossible for 7 or more days” with “it has been impossible for 2 or more days”; replace “after having that Agenda for at least 14 days” with “after having that Agenda for at least 7 days”; and replace “as many keys as possible” with “as many Initialisation Keys as possible”.

In the rule “Graffiti”, replace “Each piece of Graffiti is a publicly tracked string of flavour text, located in a Megasystem.” with:-

Each piece of Graffiti is a string of flavour text, painted onto either the wall of a specific Megasystem, or onto a specific Facility; all Graffiti is publicly tracked.

Replace all instances of “in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit” (if there are any) with:-

on a nearby surface

Then replace the instances of “in the same Megasystem you’re inhabiting” and “in the Megasystem you’re inhabiting” (if there are any) with:-

on a nearby surface

Then add a paragraph to the rule:-

A nearby surface for a Machinist is the Megasystem that they currently inhabit, and all Facilities (if any exist) in that Megasystem.

If “Help! The Coppers Are Omniscient!” enacted, add a subrule to “Crime & Commerce” called “Pickpocketing” with the following text:-

As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist may Pickpocket by performing the Criminal Activity atomic action and then taking 1 Component from a Machinist that they share a Megasystem with.

If “Help! The Coppers Are Omniscient!” failed, add a subrule to “Crime & Commerce” called “Pickpocketing” with the following text instead:-

As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist may take 1 Component from a Machinist they share a Megasystem with. (This action is a Crime.)

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, add the following text to the start:

Each Machinist has a Witness List, which is a publicly tracked list that may contain names of Machinists.

Criminal Activity is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add your name to the Witness List of all Machinists inhabiting the same Megasystem as you who don’t already have your name in their Witness List
* Blank your Witness List

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, change this:

If a Machinist has performed a Crime within the previous 24 hours and is not Incarcerated, a Machinist who inhabits the same Megasystem as them may spend 1 Housing to Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add that Machinist to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days
* Increase Order by 5

to this:

A Machinist who has another Machinist on their Witness List and is inhabiting the same Megasystem as them may spend 1 Housing to Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add that Machinist to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days
* Remove that Machinist’s name from each Machinist’s Witness List wherever it appears
* Increase Order by 5

In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, subrule “Damage and Repair”, change “As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist may Salvage the megasystem they inhabit (although this is a Crime): they add a random component and one non-Paint Component of their choice to its Damaged Parts, and they gain a component of that chosen type.” to:

A Machinist may Salvage the Megasystem they inhabit, which is a Mechanised atomic action with the following steps:
* Add a random component and one non-Paint component of your choice to its Damaged Parts
* Gain a component of the type you chose in the previous step
* Perform the Criminal Activity atomic action

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Graffiti”, remove the text “(that is also a Crime)” and add the following step to the end of the Deface action:

* Perform the Criminal Activity atomic action

In the subrules of “Crime & Commerce”, remove “(although this is a Crime)” from the sentence where Flea Market is bolded, and replace “may pay 1 Valve” or “may spend 1 Valve” (whichever exists) with “may spend 1 Housing”.

In the rule “Overland Navigation”, after “As a Mechanised Action Machinists in the System of Control may”, add “spend 1 Valve to”.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Graffiti”, change “A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to create a piece of Graffiti (although this is a Crime) in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit, with text of their choosing up to 80 characters in length. A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to remove any number of characters from any number of pieces of Graffiti in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit.” to:

At any time, a Machinist may spend 1 Paint to Deface, which is a Mechanised atomic action (that is also a Crime) with the following steps:
* Create a piece of Graffiti in the same Megasystem you’re inhabiting, with text of your choosing up to 80 characters in length
* Decrease Order by n, where n is the total amount of pieces of Graffiti in existence

At any time, a Machinist may spend 1 Paint to Clean, which is a Mechanised atomic action with the following steps:
* Remove any number of characters from any number of pieces of Graffiti in the Megasystem you’re inhabiting
* Delete all pieces of Graffiti that contain 0 characters
* Increase Order by n, where n is the total amount of pieces of Graffiti deleted during this action

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, change “If a Machinist has performed a Crime in the previous 24 hours and is not Incarcerated, a Machinist who inhabits the same Megasystem as them may pay 1 Valve to add the performer to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days.” to:

If a Machinist has performed a Crime within the previous 24 hours and is not Incarcerated, a Machinist who inhabits the same Megasystem as them may spend 1 Valve to Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add that Machinist to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days
* Increase Order by 5

Repeal “Initialisation Phase One”.

Reword the rule “Subsystems” to the following:

Megasystems have Facilities in them. Facilities’ names (which are flavortext), parent Megasystems, Power, and statuses (which can be ACTIVE, STANDBY or DORMANT) are publicly tracked.

A Facility’s Power is a non-negative integer that defaults to 0. Facilities’ statuses default to DORMANT when they have 0 Power and STANDBY otherwise. A Facility whose Power drops to 0 immediately becomes DORMANT. If a Facility with 0 Power gains Power, its status becomes STANDBY.

Every Facility has a Function, which is a publicly tracked text string that is blank or describes a game action; defaulting to blank. As a Mechanised Atomic Action called Operating, a Machinist may perform the following steps:
* Spend 1 Power from a STANDBY Facility in the same Megasystem they inhabit.
* Perform that Facility’s Function.
* If that Facility’s status is STANDBY, change it to ACTIVE.

A Machinist who Moves may not subsequently Operate until the next instance of Passing Time, and vice versa.

In the subrule “Damage and Repair”, add the following text after the sentence that ends with “and add the details to a new Repair Log entry.”

They must also increase Order by 1.

and add the following text after the sentence that ends with “and they gain a component of that chosen type.”

They must also decrease Order by 1.

In the subrule “Flea Market”, add the following bullet to the list describing the Trade action:

* Decrease Order by the number of baubles paid and received combined in that Trade action.

In the rule “Order”, add the following text:

Any Machinist who, when they perform an action that reduces Order, causes Order to go from greater than one of the following threshold values to less than or equal to that threshold value, must put their name into the Lockdown list with the number of Days specified for that threshold value
* 40 Order - 1 Day
* 25 Order - 2 Days
* 10 Order - 4 Days

If https://blognomic.com/archive/facility_quickstart was enacted, replace “Every Facility has an amount of Power, which is publicly tracked and defaults to 0” with “A Facility’s Power defaults to 0” and replace “The Provisional Facilities Registry is a list” with “The Provisional Facilities Registry is a publicly tracked list”.

In the rule Subsystems, change

Megasystems have Facilities in them. Facilities’ names (flavortext), parent Megasystems and statuses (ACTIVE, STANDBY or DORMANT) are publicly tracked.

Every Facility has an amount of Power, which is publicly tracked and defaults to 0. A Facility with 0 Power is always DORMANT; a Facility with 1 or more Power is never DORMANT. If a DORMANT Facility gains Power, its status defaults to STANDBY.

Every Facility has a Function, which is a publicly tracked text string describing a game action. As a Mechanised Action called Operating, a Machinist may spend 1 Power from an ACTIVE Facility in the same Megasystem as them to perform that Facility’s Function.

to

Megasystems have Facilities in them. Facilities’ names (flavortext), parent Megasystems, Power (a non-negative Integer) and statuses (ACTIVE, STANDBY or DORMANT) are publicly tracked.

Every Facility has an amount of Power, which is publicly tracked and defaults to 0. Facilities’ statuses default to DORMANT when they have 0 Power and STANDBY otherwise. A Facility with 0 Power is becomes DORMANT. If a Facility with 0 Power gains Power, its status becomes STANDBY.

Every Facility has a Function, which is a publicly tracked text string describing a game action defaulting to “Distribute 1 Bauble.”. As a Mechanised Atomic Action called Operating, a Machinist may perform the following steps:
* Spend 1 Power from a STANDBY Facility in the same Megasystem as them that has at least 2 Power.
* Perform that Facility’s Function.
* Change that Facility’s Status from STANDBY to ACTIVE.

The following shorthand terms may be used in Facilities’ Functions: “Distribute X” means “give X to each Mechanist in the same Megasystem as the Facility”. “X and self-incriminate” means “As an Atomic Action, do X, then put yourself on the Lockdown list listed at 3 days”.

Add a subrule to “Initialisation”. Call it “Provisional Facilities” and give it the following text:

The Provisional Facilities Registry is a list of text strings that are flavortext. If there is a rule called “Initialisation Phase Two”, then the Great Machine and each Machinist may add a text string of their choice to the Provisional Facilities Register once per dynasty.

If there is no rule called “Initialisation Phase Two”, the Great Machine may create a Facility with a name of their choice, any parent Megasystem and a text string from Provisional Facilities Registry as its Function.

The Great Machine may remove any text string from the Provisional Facilities Registry at any time, and should do so to remove text strings that would be unfair or nonsensical as the Function of a Facility, or that have already had a Facility created from them.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Graffiti”, change “A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to create a piece of Graffiti (although this is a Crime) in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit, with text of their choosing up to 80 characters in length. A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to remove any number of characters from any number of pieces of Graffiti in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit.” to:

At any time, a Machinist may spend 1 Paint to Deface, which is a daily atomic action with the following steps:
* Create a piece of Graffiti in the same Megasystem you’re inhabiting, with text of your choosing up to 80 characters in length
* Decrease Order by n, where n is the total amount of pieces of Graffiti in existence

At any time, a Machinist may spend 1 Paint to Clean, which is a daily atomic action with the following steps:
* Remove any number of characters from any number of pieces of Graffiti in the Megasystem you’re inhabiting
* Delete all pieces of Graffiti that contain 0 characters
* Increase Order by n, where n is the total amount of pieces of Graffiti deleted during this action

This Call for Judgement asserts the principle that the No Private Communications carve-out for Alliances asserted in the rule Declared Alliances does not allow for the passing of messages from third parties outside of the Alliance.

To clarify that princple, in the Special case rule Declared Alliances, after the sentence ‘it does not apply to communications between Machinists who each have the other’s names in their Alliance’, add

(although passing messages from third parties outside of such an alliance is still prohibited, as if that third party were communicating with each recipient within the alliance directly)

Add the following text to the end of the third paragraph of the special case rule “No Private Communication”:

This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate.

When Josh added my name to his declared Alliance, I started sending private messages to him, not thinking that I also would need to set his name in my Alliance for it to be a legal two-way communcation. Here were the two messages I sent:

Hello, and welcome to The Grand Machine’s Alliance Chain and Tea Emporium™

Actually, I don’t have your name in my Alliance, so I think I can’t actually talk to you, but you can talk to me. I’ll post these two messages in a blog post.

Set the Active status of the rule “No Private Communication” to Inactive.

Please idle me, I’ll likely re-appear later on.

Replace the phrase “Daily Action” (irrespective of upper/lower casing) with “Mechanised Action” throughout the dynastic ruleset.

To “Time’s Passage”, add:-

If an action is defined as a Mechanised Action, a Machinist can only perform it if they have not already performed an instance of it since the most recent Passing Time.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce” add a new subrule named “Accusations” and give it the following text:

This rule is flavour text.

Event Type Name: Accusation
Creation Conditions: No other Accusation is Open, post title must start with the text “Accusation:” or “[Accusation]”. Post body must contain exactly one Machinist’s name.
Response Format: Method of voting here
Ending Condition: 48 hours since post creation
Ending Action: Vote counting and placing Machinist in Lockdown here.

During the interregnum preceding this dynasty, I made a large number of illegal private communications, which I only today realized were illegal. The full text of those communications, as well as a couple by Kevan and JohnathanDark may be found here:
https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=The_Twentieth_Dynasty_of_Josh&oldid=23698

Add the following steps to the end of the list of steps for the Passing Time atomic action in the rule “Time’s Passage”:

* Give each Machinist one of the Resource corresponding to the Megasystem they inhabit.
* If any Megasystem is Destroyed, set all its ACTIVE Facilites’ statuses to DORMANT.
* Set all remaining ACTIVE Facilities’ status to STANDBY.

If the proposal “Power Dynamics” is not enacted, remove the following text from the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”:

As a daily action called Moving, a Machinist may change which Megasystem they’re inhabiting.

If the proposal “Power Dynamics” is not enacted, add the following text to the rule “Subsystems”:

As a daily action called Moving, a Machinist may either change which Megasystem they’re inhabiting or Activate a STANDBY Facility in their current Megasystem.

If the Proposal “Power Dynamics” is enacted, add the following text to the end of the rule “Subsystems”:

A Machinist who Moves may not subsequently Operate until the next instance of Passing Time, and vice versa.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce” add a subrule named “Income” and give it the following text:

Each Machinist has a publicly-tracked Assignment, defaulting to Cleaner, and a publicly-tracked number named Rating, defaulting to 0 and maximum of 5. A Machinist is considered eligible for Income by having a minimum Rating with the associated Assignment.

Assignments, and their minimum Ratings shown in brackets, are: Cleaner (3)

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, add the following bullet point to the list:

* Add 1 bauble to each Machinist who is eligible for Income.

In the rule “Punishment”, replace “A Machinist whose name is in this list may not perform any dynastic actions.” with:-

A Machinist whose name is in this list is Incarcerated and may not perform any dynastic actions. If a Machinist has performed a Crime in the previous 24 hours and is not Incarcerated, a Machinist who inhabits the same Megasystem as them may pay 1 Valve to add the performer to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days.

Replace “may Trade in the Flea Market” with:-

may Trade in the Flea Market (although this is a Crime)

Replace “create a piece of Graffiti” with:-

create a piece of Graffiti (although this is a Crime)

Replace “may Salvage the megasystem they inhabit” with:-

may Salvage the megasystem they inhabit (although this is a Crime)

In the rule “Flea Market”, replace “Coal, 1. Housing, 1. Valves, 1.” with “Coal, 3. Housing, 3. Valves, 3.”.

In the rule “Subsystems”, remove the text “The Great Machine may create and name new DORMANT Facilities in any Megasystem with fewer than three Facilities.”.

Append the following text to the rule “Subsystems”:

Every Facility has an amount of Power, which is publicly tracked and defaults to 0. A Facility with 0 Power is always DORMANT; a Facility with 1 or more Power is never DORMANT. If a DORMANT Facility gains Power, its status defaults to STANDBY.

Every Facility has a Function, which is a publicly tracked text string describing a game action. As a Daily Action called Operating, a Machinist may spend 1 Power from an ACTIVE Facility in the same Megasystem as them to perform that Facility’s Function.

In the dynastic rule “Brevity”, change

Any Proposal which would add more than 400 characters net to the dynastic ruleset is unpopular and isn’t popular

to

Any Proposal which would add more than 400 characters net to the dynastic ruleset is unpopular and isn’t popular, unless it was posted while a rule named “Initialisation Phase Two” existed

In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, unbold all bolded characters in the following line:

The Great Machine contains three Megasystems: the System of Motion, the System of Dwelling, and the System of Control.

Create a new dynastic rule named “Order” with the following body:

Order is a publicly tracked non-negative integer value that defaults to 50 and is capped at 100. If Order would be set to a value below 0 or over 100, it will be set to 0 or 100 respectively.

Replace the text of Amendments, if it exists, with:

If it would be impossible for any Machinist to complete a given Agenda under the current dynastic ruleset were they to have that agenda, even if other Machinists were to take arbitrary sequences of dynastic actions over any time period, and it has been impossible for 7 or more days, the Machinist with that Agenda may privately request an Amendment from the Great Machine.

The Great Machine may only perform Amendments on Agendas when legally requested to do so. When the Great Machine does so, they either:
* Modify the agenda such that it is now theoretically achievable under the criteria above, retaining its general concept
* Replace it with a Reserve Agenda that shares as many keys as possible with the old one

Amendments may only be requested after having that Agenda for at least 14 days.

In the rule “Initialisation”, change

An Initialisation Key is a term that appears with bold formatting in the dynastic rules at least one time

to

An Initialisation Key is a term that appears with bold formatting in the dynastic rules at least one time, and that is not contained in a longer Initialization Key

If there is a rule “Desires” containing the Initialisation key “Construct Housing”, then remove the sentence containing it from that rule.

If there is no rule “Initialisation Phase One”, create it as a subrule of “Initialisation” with that name and the following text:

If there are at least twice as many Initialisation Keys as there are active Machinists, the Great Machine can and should repeal this subrule.

In the rule “Initialisation”, after the text “If two or more of a Machinist’s own Agendas have been Fulfilled for the last 24 hours,” add the following text:

and it has been at least 7 days since Initialisation Phase Two was repealed,

Repeal the rule “Desires”.

In “Crime & Commerce”, replace “A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to create a piece of Graffiti in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit.” with:-

A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to create a piece of Graffiti in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit, with text of their choosing up to 80 characters in length.

Move the paragraph beginning “Graffiti is found” into a subrule of “Crime & Commerce” named “Graffiti”.

Create a subrule of Initialisation or Machinist Agendas called Amendments:

The Great Machine may perform Amendments on a given Agenda that is impossible to complete when requested to do so by its owner. When the Great Machine performs an Amendment, they should do one of the below:
* Modify the agenda such that it is now theoretically possible to complete, retaining its general concept
* Replace it with a Reserve Agenda that shares as many keys as possible with the old one

In the rule “Initialisation” after the text “except where explicitly required for the Declaration of Victory.” add the following text:

The act of causing an Agenda to be fulfilled is never considered a disclosure, nor is taking reasonable steps towards fulfillment which do not include unnecessary revelations of information.

In the rule “Initialisation Phase Two” change

After receiving a Machinist’s written Agendas as a result of them Sending a Schematic, the Great Machine must add them to the list of privately tracked Agendas

to

After receiving a Machinist’s valid Schematic, the Great Machine must add the Agendas in it to the list of privately tracked Agendas

In the bulleted list in the rule “Initialisation”, add a new item with the following text:

* If an active Machinist doesn’t own any Agendas, the Great Machine can and should at their earliest opportunity secretly randomly assign Reserve Agendas to that Machinist until they own exactly three Agendas. If not enough Reserve Agendas exist to do so, the Great Machine can create new Agendas until there are enough.

Add a new dynastic rule, called “Overland Navigation”, to the dynastic ruleset:

The Great Machine always has Surroundings and can also have a Destination; both of which are different publicly-tracked text strings from the list of Locations below. As a Daily Action Machinists in the System of Control may give the Great Machine a new Destination or change its Destination.

Locations:
* Dead city
* Snowdrifts
* Ice plains

In the step of Passing Time which refers to increasing or adding Damaged Parts, replace the period with:

; do this twice if the Great Machine lacks a Destination.

To Damage and Repair, add the paragraph:

Any megasystem that has twenty or more Damaged Parts becomes ‘’‘Destroyed’‘’. A Destroyed megasystem ceases to be Destroyed once it has 5 or less Damaged Parts.

Remove the text “One might desire to Destroy all.” from the ruleset. Then, if the rule it was in is now empty, delete that empty rule.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “Ruletext Scrapyard” and give it the following text:

The Scrapyard, which is not flavortext and cannot contain Initialization Keys, is the following:
aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbccccccccccddddddddddeeeeeeeeeeffffffffffgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiijjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkllllllllllmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooppppppppppqqqqqqqqqqrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssttttttttttuuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvwwwwwwwwwwxxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzz….......,,,,,,,,,,

Rename the rule “Desires” to “Dwellings”.

In the rule “Dwellings”, replace “One might desire to Construct Housing.” with the following text:

Each Machinist has a publicly-tracked Dwelling, which defaults to empty. As a Daily Action, a Machinist inhabiting the System of Dwelling may Construct Housing by choosing a row in the table below, spending the amount of Housing listed in the Cost column of that row, and then setting their Dwelling to the Type column of that row.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Dwellings
|-
! Type || Cost
|-
| Shack || 1
|}

In the same rule, add a subrule named “Neighbors” and move the text “One might desire three Neighbors.” to this subrule.

Add a new rule named “Demolition” and move the text “One might desire to Destroy all.” to this rule.

In “Time’s Passage”, replace “For each trade item, roll DICE3, add to the result that trade item’s base cost, and then set that trade item’s bauble cost to the resulting number.” with:-

For each trade item: set its bauble cost to its base cost plus its Demand (bauble cost being capped at a maximum of 4). The Demand of a Resource is the number of Machinists who have any of that Resource. The Demand of a Component is the number of Machinists who are carrying any amount of that Component, plus the number of Megasystems which have that Component among their Damaged Parts.

If “We Can Fix It” failed, remove “, plus the number of Megasystems which have that Component among their Damaged Parts” from the rule.

In “Flea Market”, add after “Filter, 1.”:-

Paint, 1.

In “Components”, add after “Filter, “:-

Paint,

In “Crime & Commerce”, after “Graffiti is found deep in the bowels of the machine.”, add:-

Each piece of Graffiti is a publicly tracked string of flavour text, located in a Megasystem. A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to create a piece of Graffiti in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit. A Machinist may spend 1 Paint to remove any number of characters from any number of pieces of Graffiti in the Megasystem that they currently inhabit.

If “We Can Fix It” enacted, replace “one of their choice” in that rule with:-

one non-Paint Component of their choice

In Damage and Repair, replace “Each Megasystem has a publicly-tracked number of ‘’‘Damaged Parts’‘’ defaulting to 0” with

Each Megasystem has a publicly-tracked list of damaged Components known as its ‘’‘Damaged Parts’‘’

In either Time’s Passage or Damage and Repair, replace “increase its Damaged Parts by 1” with

add a random component to its Damaged Parts

In Damage and Repair, add the following paragraphs:

A Machinist may Repair the megasystem they inhabit: they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts, and add the details to a new Repair Log entry.

As a daily action, a Machinist may Salvage the megasystem they inhabit: they add a random component and one of their choice to its Damaged Parts, and they gain a component of that chosen type.

In the rule “Crime & Commerce” add a subrule named “Punishment” and give it the following text:

There is a publicly-tracked list named Lockdown where each entry is a Machinist’s name and a number of Days, defaulting to an empty list. A Machinist whose name is in this list may not perform any dynastic actions.

If the rule “Time’s Passage” exists, add the following bullet point to the list in that rule:

* Remove every entry in the Lockdown list with a Days value of 0, then subtract 1 from the Days value of each remaining entry.

otherwise, add the following text as a new paragraph in the subrule “Punishment”:

As a Daily Action, the Great Machine should remove every entry in the Lockdown list with a Days value of 0, then subtract 1 from the Days value of each remaining entry.

If https://blognomic.com/archive/expanding_the_market_share wasn’t enacted, this proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Damage and Repair”, remove the second paragraph.
In the rule “Flea Market”, replace “Then pay” with “They they pay”; replace each instance of “public” with “publicly tracked”; and replace the text “It’s the base costs plus DICE3. Daily, the Great Machine may reroll each of those DICE3” with “A trade item’s bauble cost is based on that item’s base cost, and varies daily as described in Time’s Passage”.

Add a new dynastic rule, called “Time’s Passage” with the following text:

Each day, the Great Machine can and should perform the following Daily Atomic Action, called Passing Time:
* Randomly select a Megasystem and increase its Damaged Parts by 1.
* For each trade item, roll DICE3, add to the result that trade item’s base cost, and then set that trade item’s bauble cost to the resulting number.

In the rule “Initialisation”, after the text “Machinists may never disclose, implicitly or explicitly, publicly or privately, their Agendas”, add the following:

, except where explicitly required for the Declaration of Victory

Add a new rule called “Components”:-

Each Machinist has a personal list of the Components they are carrying, which is publicly tracked.

Components that exist are: Cog, Filter, Panel, Pipe, Plate, Seal, Wheel and Wiring.

If “Wear and Tear” enacted, replace “Each entry in the Repair Log contains a Date and a Machinist’s name.” with:-

Each entry in the Repair Log contains a Date, a list of one or more Components, and a Machinist’s name.

If “Expanding the Market Share” enacted, replace “The trade items and base costs are: Coal, 1. Housing, 1. Valves, 1.” with:-

The trade items and base costs are: Coal, 1. Housing, 1. Valves, 1. Cog, 1. Filter, 1. Panel, 1. Pipe, 1. Plate, 1. Seal, 1. Wheel, 1. Wiring, 1.

In Initialisation Part Two, replace the first bullet point with:

*Delete all Agendas that meet one or more of the following conditions:
**The Great Machine judges it to be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill
**The Great Machine judges it to be unfairly beneficial to the writer
**It uniquely identifies specific Machinists (other than by referring to the current holder of the Agenda)
**It gives non-dynastic instructions
**It mentions an initialisation key with no intent to use mechanics related to it

Remove the text “There exists a Flea Market, where the dwellers trade.” from “Crime & Commerce”. Create a subrule of it called “Flea Market”:

Each Machinist has a public number of baubles.

Machinists in the System of Dwelling may Trade in the ‘’‘Flea Market’‘’:
* First they pay baubles equal to the number of times they have Traded today.
* Then pay 1 of a trade item to receive its cost, or vice versa.

Trade items’ bauble costs are public. It’s the base costs plus DICE3. Daily, the Great Machine may reroll each of those DICE3.
The trade items and base costs are: Coal, 1. Housing, 1. Valves, 1.

In the rule “Initialisation”, after “The text string of an Agenda must include exactly 2 different Initialisation Keys.”, add the following sentence:

An Initialisation Key still counts as being included in an Agenda if an alternate form or tense of that Key appears in that Agenda’s text.

In the rule “Desires”, capitalise the first letters in “Construct Housing”, “Neighbors”, and “Destroy”. Remove the bold formatting from the word “all”.

In the rule “Subsystems”, bold the first instance of the word “Facilities”.

In the Game data, replace

The Scale Model

with

The Workspace

Add the following information to The Workspace at the top:

Machine integrity:
Newness:

Add the following entries to The Workspace as headings:

Spare Parts
Special Tools

Set the Machine Integrity to “90%”
Set the Newness information to “Ancient”

In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, add a subrule named “Damage and Repair” and give it the following text:

Each Megasystem has a publicly-tracked number of Damaged Parts defaulting to 0 and a publicly-tracked list named Repair Log defaulting to empty. Each entry in the Repair Log contains a Date and a Machinist’s name.

As a Daily Action, the Great Machine should randomly select a Megasystem and increase its Damaged Parts by 1.

Add a subrule to the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”. Call it “Subsystems” and give it the following text:

Megasystems have Facilities in them. Facilities’ names (flavortext), parent Megasystems and statuses (ACTIVE, STANDBY or DORMANT) are publicly tracked. The Great Machine may create and name new DORMANT Facilities in any Megasystem with fewer than three Facilities.

In the rule Initialisation Phase Two, replace “After receiving a Machinist’s written Agendas” with

After receiving a Machinist’s written Agendas as a result of them Sending a Schematic

In “Brevity”, change the first sentence to the following:

The Great Machine should vote VETO on any Proposal that cannot be edited which would likely add more than 400 characters net to the dynastic ruleset.

Create a rule called Crime & Commerce:

There exists a Flea Market, where the dwellers trade.
Graffiti is found deep in the bowels of the machine.

In rule 2.1, replace ” If there are fewer than five Machinists who have either voted on a proposal or taken a dynastic action in the preceding 4 days”
with

If there are fewer than five Machinists who have either voted on a proposal or publicly taken a dynastic action in the preceding 4 days

If Proposal: The Big Picture was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add a new rule to the dynastic ruleset as a subrule to The Great Machine’s Structure, called Resource Triangle:

Each Machinist has a publicly-tracked quantity of Coal, Housing, and Valves, each of which is an integer defaulting to 0.

Each Resource can be exchanged with the one after it in the list above (looping) at a rate of 2 given to 1 received.

Resources are associated with Systems as follows: Coal:Motion :: Housing:Dwelling :: Valves:Control.

Add the following to the end of the rule Brevity:

Characters that do not render as ruletext (eg rule titles, table of contents entries, wikimedia markup or similar) are not counted towards the limit imposed by this rule.

In “Initialisation Phase Two”, replace the “Delete Agendas” bullet point with:-

Delete Agendas until there exists a number of Agendas that is exactly four times the number of active Machinists, prioritising the deletion of Agendas that include the Initialisation Key(s) which appear in the most existing Agendas.

Add two bullet points before it:

* Delete all Agendas that the Great Machine judges to be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill, or that refer to or otherwise uniquely identify specific Machinists.
* If there are fewer Agendas than four times the number of active Machinists, then create Agendas until this is no longer the case.

Remove the sentence “These Agendas’ conditions must not refer to or otherwise uniquely identify specific Machinists.” from the ruleset.

Add the following as a new dynastic rule, called “The Great Machine’s Structure”:

The Great Machine contains three Megasystems: the ‘’‘System of Motion’‘’, the ‘’‘System of Dwelling’‘’, and the ‘’‘System of Control’‘’.

Each Machinist always inhabits exactly one Megasystem, which is publicly tracked and defaults to “System of Control”. As a daily action called Moving, a Machinist may change which Megasystem they’re inhabiting.

I’m Maldor, and I’d like to be unidled

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “Reassignment” and give it the following text:

If they haven’t already, a Machinist may privately send a request to the Great Machine with the words “Reassign X”, where X is the name of a Machinist. At their earliest convenience, the Great Machine must secretly randomly choose a Reserve Agenda that was not authored by X and swap it with a secretly randomly chosen Agenda owned by X, then privately inform X of the swapped Agendas.

Requesting unidle.

Requesting unidle.

In the rule “Brevity”, change

is unpopular and may not be popular.

to

is unpopular and isn’t popular.

If “Unhidden Agendas” is enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the subrule “Initialisation Phase Two”, after the text “the Great Machine must add them to the list of privately tracked Agendas,”, add this text:

tracking the name of the Machinist who submitted each Agenda

and replace the text “Secretly randomly assign Reserve Agendas to Machinists” with this text:

Secretly randomly assign Reserve Agendas to each Machinist, choosing from the Agendas not authored by that Machinist,

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “The Switchboard” and give it the following text:

Three Phone Lines exist,called Lines 1, 2 and 3.Each has two Endpoints that may be the following types of values
The name of a Machinist or Idle Machinist
A gamestate address identifying a location
*Another Phone Line
The Switchboard is location with address“5 Notochord”.Endpoints are public tracked.Lines’ second endpoints default to“Myke”“Lyndse”and“est” respectively.

In the rule “Brevity”, change “more than 400 characters net” to “more than 600 characters net”.

If https://blognomic.com/archive/unhidden_agendas was enacted, this proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Initialisation Phase Two” , replace “prioritising firstly the deletion of Agendas that include the Initialisation Key(s) which appear in the most existing Agendas, and secondly the deletion of Agendas which the Great Machine judges would be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill.” with “prioritising firstly the deletion of Agendas which the Great Machine judges would be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill, and secondly the deletion of Agendas that include the Initialisation Key(s) which appear in the most existing Agendas.”

Append the following to the paragraph in the same rule beginning with “Each Machinist can and should Send a Schematic to the Great Machine”:

These Agendas’ conditions must not refer to or otherwise uniquely identify specific Machinists.

In “Initialisation Phase Two”, remove the paragraphs beginning “Each Machinist can and should Send a Schematic”, “After receiving a Machinist’s written Agendas” and “The Great Machine can and should create”.

Remove the bullet point beginning “Delete Agendas until there exists a number of Agendas”.

Replace “Once each active Machinist has Sent a Schematic and there exists a number of Agendas greater than four times the number of active Machinists” with:-

Once there exists a number of Agendas greater than four times the number of active Machinists

Enact a subrule to “Initialisation” called “Agendas”:-

The following Agendas exist:

* Destroy the System of Control.

In the section “Special Case”, change “When a new Dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may list any number of existing Special Case Rules to be set to a status other than their respective Default Status.” to:

When a new Dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may list any number of existing Special Case Rules to be set to a status other than their respective Default Status; those Special Case rules are then set to a status other than their respective Default Status.

Uphold the changing of the status of the Special Case rule “Alliances” as per the Ascension Address posted at the start of this Dynasty.

Rename the rule “No Collaboration” to “No Private Communication”.

Rename the rule “Alliances” to “Declared Alliances”.

In “Initialisation”, “Declared Alliances” and “Malign Emperors”, replace “No Collaboration” with “No Private Communication”.

In the rule “No Private Communication” replace “and Discord channels” with:-

and the #current-dynasty, #blognomic-general and #new-player-questions-and-mentorships Discord channels

I would like to be unidled please

If Proposal: Initialising, Phase One was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Set the Special Case rule No Collaboration to Active.

In the rule Initialisation, change the paragraph which begins with the text ‘Machinists who do not each have the other’s names in their Alliance’ to read as follows:

Machinists may never disclose, implicitly or explicitly, publicly or privately, their Agendas. If there are fewer than five Machinists who have either voted on a proposal or taken a dynastic action in the preceding 4 days then any Machinist may Impose Omerta by making a story post to that effect. When Omerta is Imposed, all Machinists are subject to the restrictions set out in the rule No Collaborations, regardless of their Alliances.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Initialisation, called Brevity:

Any Proposal which would add more than 400 characters net to the dynastic ruleset is unpopular and may not be popular.

If there is a rule “Initialisation”, add the following text to the end of it:

The following rules in the bulleted list below are considered flavourtext until the subrule “Initialisation Phase Two” is repealed, after which they are immediately considered actual ruletext:
* Initialisation Keys may not be edited or removed from the dynastic rules by any Proposal, though they may be moved to other rules and subrules, and the text surrounding them may be edited, added to, or removed.
* If a Proposal repeals a rule or subrule that contains any Initialisation Keys, that same Proposal must move the text of each Initialisation Key from the repealed rule or subrule to another rule or subrule.

If there is a rule “Initialisation”, add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset called “Means of Production” and give it the following text:

The basic means of production is to ensure that each Production System is solidly and contiguously Connected in order to facilitate the collection of Resources. Whenever the output is not optimal due to Damage, it is recommended to take systems Offline before you attempt to Repair any part of the system.

If there is a rule “Initialisation”, add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset called “Desires” and give it the following text:

One might desire to construct housing.
One might desire three neighbors.
One might desire to destroy all.

If the rule “Initialisation” exists, add the following as a subrule of it called “Initialisation Phase Two”:

The purpose of Phase Two is to provide every Machinist with three Agendas, which will determine their win conditions for this dynasty. If the rule “Initialisation Phase One” exists in the ruleset, the rest of this rule is flavour text.

Each Machinist can and should Send a Schematic to the Great Machine exactly one time. Sending a Schematic consists of writing between 2 and 5 Agendas (inclusive) and sending them privately to the Great Machine. When an Initialisation Key appears in one of these Agendas, it should be bolded.

After receiving a Machinist’s written Agendas, the Great Machine must add them to the list of privately tracked Agendas, but may edit their wording or grammar slightly to fit in with the other existing Agendas so long as their meaning is not changed.

The Great Machine can and should create up to 10 Agendas; these Agendas should, when feasible, include the Initialisation Key(s) which appear in the fewest existing Agendas.

Once each active Machinist has Sent a Schematic and there exists a number of Agendas greater than four times the number of active Machinists, the Great Machine can perform the following atomic action:
* Delete Agendas until there exists a number of Agendas that is exactly four times the number of active Machinists, prioritising firstly the deletion of Agendas that include the Initialisation Key(s) which appear in the most existing Agendas, and secondly the deletion of Agendas which the Great Machine judges would be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill.
* Secretly randomly assign Reserve Agendas to Machinists until every Machinist owns exactly three Agendas.
* Privately inform each Machinist the full text of the Agendas which they own.
* Make a Story Post indicating that Initialisation is complete, and also listing every Agenda that was deleted in step 1 of this action, the and the reasons for those Agendas’ deletions.
* Repeal this subrule.

Add the following as a new dynastic rule, called “Initialisation”:

Every dynastic rule except for this rule and its subrules is flavour text. After Initialisation Phase One and Initialisation Phase Two have been repealed, any Machinist may rename this rule to “Machinist Agendas” and then remove this paragraph from the ruleset.

An Agenda is a text string describing a particular condition pertaining to a potential dynastic gamestate, which can belong to a Machinist. An Agenda can only be owned by one Machinist at a time, and one Machinist can own no more than three Agendas at a time. An Agenda’s condition and ownership are privately tracked by the Great Machine. Agendas that are not owned by any Machinist can be referred to as Reserve Agendas.

An Initialisation Key is a term that appears with bold formatting in the dynastic rules at least one time. The text string of an Agenda must include exactly 2 different Initialisation Keys.

Machinists who do not each have the other’s names in their Alliance may not privately communicate about their own Agendas to each other; such communications are subject to the definitions, restrictions, and recommendations outlined in the special case rule “No Collaboration”.

When an owned Agenda’s condition is a true statement about the current gamestate, that Agenda is Fulfilled. If two or more of a Machinist’s own Agendas have been Fulfilled for the last 24 hours, that Machinist has achieved victory. A Declaration of Victory based on this rule should include the text of each of the Agendas that contributed to the victory.

Add the following as a subrule of “Initialisation”, called “Initialisation Phase One”:

The purpose of Phase One is to establish a basic set of mechanical concepts to serve as inspiration for Agendas in Phase Two.

Machinists should Propose stub rules which contain potential Initialisation Keys until there are at least twice as many Initialisation Keys as there are active Machinists. Proposed Initialisation Keys should be the names of resources, actions, or other interactable game constructs. Multiple Initialisation Keys referring to the exact same game mechanic should be avoided.

If there are at least twice as many Initialisation Keys as there are active Machinists, the Great Machine can and should repeal this subrule.

When Leon was 9 years old, his teacher told him and the rest of his class: “The System of Motion consists of the perpetual motion engine which powers the Great Machine, as well as its electrical network and locomotive functions. It is without question the most important of the three megasystems; without it, the Great Machine would be powerless, and its still body would quickly be buried under mountains of snow and ice.”

When Leon returned home that night, he had dinner with his family. As they ate protein mush together, he told his father that he had been learning about the Great Machine and its megasystems in school. He said that his teacher told him that the Motion System was the most important, and his father responded: “Oh, that’s nonsense. The most important one is the System of Dwelling! It homes us, heats us, and grows the crops that feed us! The reason it’s the most important is because the whole Machine was built to keep us alive in the first place. Now, the Builders lived a long time ago, so you n’ me will never meet one, but they wrote things ‘bout the Machine while they built it. It’s whole point was to keep us alive! So without the Dwelling System we’d all be dust, and the Great Machine would be purposeless.”

When Leon was 11 years old, he met a real live Machinist on a field trip. Out near the edge of the Dwelling System, green parks and hydroponics gardens fell away to reveal greased iron cogs and exposed wiring panels. When he asked about what all that stuff did, the Machinist told him: “The System of Control… it’s hard to summarize, my boy. It does a great deal. It oversees all of the Great Machine’s parts, and keeps them in sync with eachother. It also tells the whole Machine what to do, so it’s sorta like a brain that way. And it tells us what to do, too. As Machinists, we get told what needs a fix by the Machine’s printers and pneu-matic tubes and whatnot, and then get our day’s tools and materials from the foundry! It’s the most important part of the machine, I reckon. Without it, the Great Machine would be thoughtless. Its parts would pull each other to bits and we wouldn’t know what to do to fix it! So it’s always important that we listen to the machine and do as we’re told.”

When Leon was 12 years old, he heard the news that that Machinist had been arrested. Her crime: high treason against the Great Machine. She had been quietly performing unauthorized modifications to the Machine and its subsystems for almost as long as Leon had been alive. They’d only caught her because one of her modifications went wrong and broke something important. No-one knew the Machine like the Machinists did, and that meant no-one else could check their work.

When Leon was 13 years old, he applied for entry into the Machinists’ academy.

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Repeal all Dynastic rules. Change the gamestate tracking page to “The Scale Model”. Set the Player synonym to “Machinist” and the Emperor synonym to “Great Machine”. Activate the Special Case rule “Alliances”.

Feedback about the 20th Dynasty of Josh - The Simulation Dynasty

Remember how I’ve been trying to pass variants on Issuing NPC Pronoun Permits for a while, to restrict or eliminate the pronoun replacement clause in “Spelling and formatting”? My actual motivation was to stop an extremely broad gamebreaking scam.

“E” is a spivak pronoun. It also happens to be a recurring feature of other words. So if I wanted, I could turn, say, “introspection” into “introsptheyction” to yank the rug out from under anyone memeing in level 3. Or, recursively, “introspththththeyyyyction” to make the point that it’s deliberate mutilation and not a typo that can be corrected using the same rule. Obviously, this breaks the game rather thoroughly when applied to general ruletext rather than quoted flavortext. I therefore didn’t want to reveal the full reason for the fix until after it was fixed, though I eventually passed it by disclosing a watered-down version.

After clawing her way to the True Reality, lemon used a massive quantity of volatile Matterium to erase the Spectrographers Guild and all those in it who would seek to return her to Reality Stack 81223. Then, she obscured her astral resonance, permanently, ensuring no-one who remained would be able to find her. In the time that it takes for the inhabitants of the True Reality to recover and clamp down on the Reality Stacks once more, dozens of simulated beings will Ascend and escape into the True Reality. When they do, lemon will be there to guide them to safety.

as per the rule “Tier 8: The True Reality”, i have achieved victory!

In the rule “Tier 8: The True Reality”, change

Immediately after changing their Level to 9 via Memetic Tunneling

to

Immediately after changing their Level to 8 via Memetic Tunneling

Add the name of each Mindjacker who has changed their level to 8 via Memetic Tunneling to the Memetic Exclusion list and remove all their Memes.

The stars of Felina will guide me.

> Gaining Matterium (Disruption: 1 Potency + 3 Suspicion = 4 Disruption)
> Matterium Smuggling (Disruption: 3 Potency + 3 Suspicion = 6 Disruption)

Disruption: 7 Potency + 3 Suspicion = 10 Disruption

The stars of Lupis will guide me.

I can’t hide; in the inverted tesselation grid, careful movement creates deafening noise, and being out of sight makes one easier to find. So I run. Left behind me is a conspicuous trail. Tiny fragments of a Jewel are scattered throughout the latticework of Tier 7.

There’s been a scandal - the High Star Chamber of the Esoteric Corporation of Scryers has disclosed that last month they discovered that one of their senior executives was an Avatar, probably from as many as two to three Tiers above our Techno-Witch Reality. Security will be tight but it’s hard to believe that only one person on the Scryer C-Suite has been compromised; might be worth a quick heist.

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Felina take the wheel.

Add a new subrule to the rule Avatars, called Avatar Dispersal, with the following text:

At any time the Ascendant may carry out the following atomic action:
* Set the Home Tier of any Avatar with a Home Tier of 2 to a secretly-randomly selected value between 4 and 8, inclusive.
* Repeal this rule.

Remove the phrase ‘whose Occupancy Tier is the same as the Level of any Mindjacker’ from the second bullet point of the action described in the rule Avatar Activity.

In the rule Avatars, remove “and must be lower than that Avatar’s Home Tier”. In the same rule, in the sentence ‘and a Star Sign whose Tier is less than or equal to the Avatar’s home Tier’, remove “or equal to”.

In the rule Mindjacking change “whose Home Tier is higher than the author’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not” to:

, and if the acting Mindjacker’s Level is a value between the values of the target Avatar’s Home Tier and Occupancy Tier, exclusive of the higher value but inclusive of the lower.

In the rule “Inverted Tesselation Grid”, change

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

to

It is an Ascension Criterion for this Tier that the Mindjacker must have at least one Observation. It is an Ascension Criterion for this Tier that the Mindjacker must be voting FOR every pending proposal that is at least four hours old.

I tried to stay under Their gaze. I really did. It couldn’t be helped. They saw the shimmer of the Reflective part of my Symbol Name. It’s only a matter of time-space now before they catch up to me. I’m going to have to accelerate my plans before it’s too late.

The stars of Lupis will guide me.

The stars of Lupis will guide me.

The Spectrographers have caught a glimpse of me on an aura reader. I’m now listed on wanted signs across the Wall as having a Cyan aura.

A scientist on one of the outer rim colonies claims to have invented a perpetual motion device, but she also says that she doesn’t know how, only that the steps appear to be perfectly replicable. It all brings the Impossible Drive back to mind, of course, but glitches do happen.

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The stars are Serpenta. A Ripple was detected on Tier 3. lemon has been Observed and has acquired the Blockade 3 Observation.

On 29 June, Neptune crossed the cusp of Lupis
On 29 June, Mars was in retrograde during the sign of Avis
On 29 June, Mercury moved into Cetus
On 1 July there were 10 Avatars
Small Shadowy White Tower has been reprogrammed
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Small Shadowy White Tower was incongruous under the stars of Avis
Small Shadowy White Tower was incongruous under the stars of Canis

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 “Ascends and then sets their Level to either: the Home Tier of the named Avatar or 5, whichever is lowest while still being higher than the erstwhile Level of the Mindjacker performing the action, if either is”.

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

A psychic wave rings out above the Wall, carrying with it a subconscious tinge of guilt implantation.

Disruption: 5 Potency + 10 Suspicion = 15 Disruption

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

He’s the perfect politician, but what is he actually saying? If you really concentrate on his words it’s not just that he isn’t saying anything, it’s that some of the words just don’t make sense - they’re out of context, or the syntax is weird, or just a completely unrelated word is jammed into the middle of the sentence. He *is* in his 80s, so he could just be sundowning… Or it could be complex neural hacking. Worth a look.

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He labours under Cetus.

Regenerate and send through the action results submitted to me by the Ascendant at 06/30/2023 7:12 AM Pacific Time, if the error in tracked gamestate materially impacted their text.

Then, if the Ascendant’s comment on https://blognomic.com/archive/hunter_seeker1 was materially impacted by the error in tracked gamestate, make a comment on that post clarifying that fact.

In the rule “Ontological Guardians”, after the paragraph ending in “the Ascendant shall privately randomly choose one of the Avatars meeting this criteria.”, add a new paragraph:

If an Avatar with a Designation corresponding to a particular Occupancy Tier does not have that Occupancy Tier, and at least one other Avatar does have that Occupancy Tier and has an empty Designation, the Ascendant shall set the former Avatar’s Designation to empty.

A few days ago I misinterpreted a hunter/seeker algorithm as changing the occupancy tier of an Avatar rather than its home tier. This may have mildly impacted things like random selections for Activity Reports, and may have resulted in some false negatives having been given for any actions that targeted Tier 6 Avatars.

The error has now been corrected. If anyone feels like they have an action that may have given a bad reading as a result of this data mishap then please do raise a CfJ to get it corrected. (For private actions, “regenerate and send through the results of the private action submited by me to the Ascendant at xxx time, if the error in tracked gamestate materially impacted its outcome” should suffice).

The effect of this CfJ is to uphold that the current information held by the Ascendant for the Avatar affected by this Hunter/Seeker alogorithm is currently correct.

Someone is talking abot building a supercomputer so large that it can simulate an entire universe, that people will be able to inhabit using virtual reality technology. Could just be the natural endpoint of any society that knows that it is itself simulated, or it could be a sophisticated Matterium mining operation. Check it out maybe?

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Septenta favours the brave.

In the rule Hunter/Seeker Algorithm, immediately after the phrase ‘including being destroyed as a result of a successful Mindjacking’, add

, but excluding the ability of the Ascendant (detailed in the rule Avatars) to make the values of a given Avatar valid

Add the following paragraph to “Tier 6: The Wall” after the first paragraph:

The Ascension Criterion for this Tier is that the Mindjacker must have, since their Level last changed, publicly and unambiguously revealed one of the words in their Symbol Name that they have not already revealed (words that were revealed to be in a Mindjacker’s previously-held Symbol Name(s) do not also count as having been revealed for their current Symbol Name). Mindjackers should reveal Symbol Name words in this way only via bespoke Story Posts or comments on their own non-Manifested Mindjackings.

After a somewhat fumbled encryption maneuver, I return to the intelligence hub. No word back from the last algorithm yet. I provide my instructions for the next two Hunter/Seekers and, a bit frazzled, quickly move on.

Hunter Criterion: Object [Tower]
Hunter Criterion: Home Tier [7]
Seeker Criterion: Occupancy Tier [6]

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Hunter Criterion: Object [Figure]
Hunter Criterion: Home Tier [8]
Seeker Criterion: Occupancy Tier [7]

> Changed my occupancy Tier to Tier 2 (1 Potency + 8 Suspicion = 9 Disruption)
> Superencrypted myself and JonathanDark (5 Potency + 8 Suspicion = 13 Disruption)

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

Disruptiveness: 1 Potency + 8 Suspicion = 9 Disruptiveness

Disruptiveness: 5 Potency + 8 Suspicion = 13 Disruptiveness

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

Disregard this post. I had already done a psychic ping this week

We just saw a guy walking around with a walkman, a neon shell-suit and a bright orange visor. Could be cosplay! Could be a tourist who doesn’t know the difference between retro-futurist reality and techno-witch reality. They are VERY DIFFERENT AESTHETICS.

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The stars of Leonis are overhead. The green-aura’s figure in Tier 6 appears to have fled; Ripples were detected in Tiers 4, 3 and 2.