BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

In the rule “The Conclave”, after the text “An Abandoned District may not make any response other than a null response.” add the following text:

If a District responds with anything other than a null response, it must allocate a sufficient quantity of resources in that response to result in a Score of at least 2, or if it is not possible to do so, a Score greater than 0 and as close to 2 as possible. If a District cannot respond with a null response and cannot allocate any combination of resources to result in a Score greater than 0, it must respond with an allocation of 10 People, or if it has less than 10 People, all of its People.

The lights reveal small packs of wild carnivores roaming the city at night, unfazed by the street lighting and opportunistically attempting to break into food stores and waste bins. They’re causing some minor structural damage and occasionally diverting the attention of security patrols, but otherwise don’t seem to be a serious problem.

Do the Districts tolerate their presence, or turn off the street lights and hunt them down?

Tolerate: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Lose 1 Defences

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Hunt: Gain 1 Food and Randomly select a number from 0 to 2, inclusive; then randomly select and apply that number of Downsides (excluding this one) to yourself

In the rule “The Conclave”, after the text “An Abandoned District may not make any response other than a null response.” add the following text:

If a District responds with anything other than a null response, it must allocate a sufficient quantity of resources in that response to result in a Score of at least 2, or if it is not possible to do so, a Score greater than 0 and as close to 2 as possible. If a District cannot respond with a null response and cannot allocate any combination of resources to result in a Score greater than 0, it must respond with an allocation of 10 People, or if it has less than 10 People, all of its People.

This somewhat mitigates the issue Josh pointed out with a District dragging out the Plenary Sessions with very low bids by establishing a minimum bid.

I’ll probably be impacted by this, but I’d rather not drag this out too long.

Remove the Appendix Keywords entry for Private Message.

To the entry for “Discord” in “Keywords”, add:-

Non-idle Districts are strongly encouraged to use a name on Discord that matches or closely resembles their BlogNomic District name.

In the rule The Conclave, make the following changes:

Change “direct private message” to

private communication (which may be sent either through the BlogNomic PM system or as a direct message on discord)

Change “quantities of their own resources” to

quantities of their own resources (where Resources are defined as People, Food, Ingenuity, Defence, Energy Trap, Factions, Order, Commons, and Innovations)

Change “A District may make a null response” to

A District may make a null response (which takes the same format as any other Plenary Session response, but which specifies that no resources are bid; any response in which no resources are bid is considered to be a null response)

Rumours spread again of dark and unfamiliar shapes moving through the city streets at night, prowling silently from door to door and always gone by the morning. Some say they are wild animals scavenging for food, while others suspect spies from rival districts, or wanderers from other regions of the city passing through.

Do the Districts set up searchlights at their perimeters, or work to maintain the lighting on the streets?

Searchlights: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 4 from your Energy Trap*

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Streetlights: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Lose 4 from your Energy Trap*

* or lose all of your Energy Trap instead if your Defences are less than 0

In the Appendix, replace the text for the Private Message keyword with the following:

A message sent via BlogNomic’s Private Messages system at blognomic.com, or via Discord’s Direct Messages system if both the sender’s and receiver’s Discord “Server Nickname” in the BlogNomic Discord server matches their respective usernames on blognomic.com.

In the Fair Play section of the Core Rules, add the following bullet point:

A District should not impersonate another District on the BlogNomic Discord server through the use of the same or similar Server Nicknames.

Remove the following paragraph from the ruleset:

Each District may respond once to each Plenary Session. A Plenary Session response takes the format of a direct private message to the City allocating quantities of their own resources. These allocated quantities are spent from that District’s own resources, and while it is not required that a District immediately update gamestate tracking to reflect that expenditure, they must do so before they make any subsequent response to a Plenary Session. Defence cannot be expended in this way if it would result in the Defence of the responding District to have a value lower than zero. A District may make a null response.

In the rule “The Conclave”, immediately after “Make a post to the blog announcing the new Plenary Session.”, add the following paragraphs:

People, Food, Ingenuity, Defences, the Energy Trap, Order, Connections and Innovations are resources.

Once a Plenary Session is posted, it is considered to be Ongoing. A Plenary Session ceases to be Ongoing once it has had no Responses for the past 12 hours. If a Plenary Session is Ongoing, any non-abandoned District may Respond to it by performing the following atomic action:
* Spend any positive amount of resources. (except Defences, if doing this would cause it to drop to a value below zero)
* Make a comment on that Plenary Session announcing how many resources you’ve spent during the course of this action, as well as your Score total for that Plenary Session according to the Scoring Matrix of its Agenda Item.

In the rule “The Conclave”, change “When the City summarises the outcome of a Plenary Session, they calculate each District’s Score for that Plenary Session by scoring its allocated resources against the Scoring Matrix of that Plenary Session’s Agenda Item.” to:

When the City summarises the outcome of a Plenary Session, they calculate each District’s Score for that Plenary Session by scoring the resources they have spent on that Plenary Sessions against the Scoring Matrix of that Plenary Session’s Agenda Item.

and “if every non-Abandonned District has Responded to all previous Plenary Sessions, OR if 48 hours have elapsed since the posting of the most recent Plenary Session” to:

if no Ongoing Plenary Sessions exist

In “The Conclave”, remove “if they have not done so that day, “.

Replace “announcing the Plenary Session for that day” with:-

announcing the new Plenary Session

Most districts still maintain a few biofuelled runabouts for difficult haulage jobs and other emergencies. With leaders jockeying for position in the upcoming Conclave, some advisors suggest converting some of these pickups into patrol vehicles, so that they can scout out the borders and respond quickly to any conflicts that break out. Others say that any additional biofuel would do better serving the failing power systems.

Do the Districts establish patrol routes, or fuel the generators?

Patrol: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 1 Food*

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Power: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Lose 1 Food*

* or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving

If Proposal: Ties Are For Suits, Not Contests was enacted then this proposal has no effect.

In the rule The Conclave, change “then the single District with the most Anointments has achieved Victory” to read:

then the single District with the most Anointments (or, if there is a tie, the District of those tied who received their first Anointment at the earliest Plenary Session) has achieved Victory

In “Factions”, replace:-

The City may create a new Faction at any time, choosing a name for it and randomly determining its Culture.

Whenever the City posts a Dilemma with a “Gain 5 People” Upside, it must specify a Faction to which the People of that Upside belong.

with:-

Whenever the City posts a Dilemma with a “Gain 5 People” Upside, it must specify a Faction to which the People of that Upside belong, with a 50% chance of it being a new Faction (which the City creates at that moment) and a 50% chance of it being a randomly-selected existing Faction.

In the rule The Conclave, change “A District may make a null response” to:

A District may make a null response up to three times in total while a Conclave is ongoing, unless they are Abandoned, in which case they may only make null responses.

Disconnected from the grid and lost without a control system to operate them, the hexagonal panels of the Solar Garden are little more than heavy slabs of silicon now, the skeletons of their electronics fossilised deep beneath the surface. Stripping these down without destroying the contents is hard work, but your scientists believe this will yield useful materials and components. Other advisors suggest simply installing non-functional panels in a decorative or even deceptive role, on the buildings of the district.

Do the Districts reassign labourers to break down the panels, or install them ornamentally?

Break: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 1 Food*

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Ornament: Govern and Lose 1 Defences

* or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving

In the rule “The Conclave”, after the text “The single District whose Score is highest on each Plenary Session receives an Anointment;” add this text:

if there is more than one District whose Score is highest for that Plenary Session, then no District receives an Anointment for that Plenary Session.”

In the same rule, after the text “the single District with the most Anointments has achieved Victory” add this text:

; if, under the preceding condition, there is more than one District with the most Anointments, the City must publicly randomly select a District from the Districts with the most Anointments, and the District thus selected achieves victory”

In the rule “The Conclave”, replace the text “If a Conclave is under way and it can be demonstrated that no District is capable of receiving any further Anointments” with this text:

If a Conclave is ongoing and there is no District that can make a non-null response to any of the Agenda Items defined by the ruleset

In the same rule, after the text “A District may make a null response.”, add the following text:

An Abandoned District may not make any response other than a null response.

The city’s fractured electricity grid is beginning to falter, reducing the light and power of essential buildings with no warning. Engineers advise shutting down local substations for repairs and a black start from the old generators, but in the short term this would be even more disruptive to the day-to-day running of the districts.

Do the Districts continue to work through the power failures, or follow the engineers’ recommendations?

Persist: Govern and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

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Shutdown: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Lose 4 from your Energy Trap**

* or lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity
** or lose all of your Energy Trap instead if your Defences are less than 0

In the rule The Conclave, change “while it is not required that a District immediately update gamestate tracking to reflect that expenditure, it must be accounted for before any subsequence response to a Plenary Session is made.” to:

while it is not required that a District immediately update gamestate tracking to reflect that expenditure, they must do so before they make any subsequent response to a Plenary Session.

In the rule The Conclave, change “2 Score per Connection” to “1.5^x Score per Connection (where x is the amount of Connections that District is allocating to this Plenary Session)”, change “1 Score per Connection” to “1.2^x Score per Connection (where x is the amount of Connections that District is allocating to this Plenary Session)” and change “1 Score per Order” to “1.5 Score per Order” wherever they appear.

As preparations continue for the upcoming Conclave, some of the districts’ oldest inhabitants, those who were there at the exodus of the Great Machines, express their doubts over this path of a return to a unified government. The last time that the city reached such heights, outsiders saw its power and brought it down. They will bring it down again. There are other paths the city can take through these difficult years.

Do the District leaders continue to work towards the Conclave regardless, or take time to listen to the elders’ thoughts?

Continue: Govern and Lose 5 People

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Listen: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 4 from your Energy Trap*

* or lose all of your Energy Trap instead if your Defences are less than 0

Replace the word “points” with “Score” throughout the rule “The Conclave”.

Uphold that Rafter’s Reactions to Dilemmas 21, 22 and 23 were completed correctly.

Heavy clouds push in from the sea, and torrential rain pours down across the city. Parts of the electrical grid spark and fail where the water seeps through. Sustained levels of rain are rare here, and the districts’ rainwater tanks are quickly filled, the runoff pouring along other channels on its way to the river. While the rain still falls, your scientists suggest that it may be worth patching tanks and diverting drains to capture as much water as possible for filtering and irrigation, fixing the leaks into the electrical system as they go.

Do the Districts work to capture more rain, or continue their previous work as it falls?

Capture: Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

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Ignore: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 4 from your Energy Trap**

* or lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity
** or lose all of your Energy Trap instead if your Defences are less than 0

In the rule “The Conclave”, remove the text ” and existing Dilemmas may not be Reacted to”

In the same rule, after the text “While a Conclave is ongoing” add this text:

, and Dilemma #30 is no longer Ongoing

In the rule “The Conclave”, in the table column “Scoring Matrix”, change every instance of “1 Score per People” to “0.2 Score per People”

Reword the Effect of the Scavenging Parties Innovation to “Work effect: If you are Reacting to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 5, spend 1 Food to gain one of the following three benefits at random: +1 Ingenuity, +1 Defences, or +4 to your Energy Trap.”

In the Effect of the Indoor Gardens Innovation, replace “Gain 1 Food” with “Gain 2 Food”.

In the rule “The Conclave”, change all appearances of the word “point” to “Score”.

In the rule Innovation, change the Effect of the Innovation named Careful Rationing to:

When the City calculates your score for a Plenary Session whose Agenda Item’s Scoring Matrix contains the word “Food”, you are considered to have gained 1.5 Score per Food allocated instead of 1.

In the rule Innovation, remove the Innovation named Desperate Measures from the table.

An annual tradition in the city is the hunt, marking the migration of ruminant herds across the northern edge of the snowplains. Some districts undertake this as a pragmatic and dangerous hunting expedition, others regard it as a more ceremonial event where the district leader shows that they trust their fellow hunters and are unafraid to face death.

How do the Districts honour the hunt?

Survival: Gain 1 Food and Lose 5 People

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Ceremony: Govern and Lose 1 Defences

In the Progressive Position of “The People’s Front of Judea”, replace “High Ingenuity / Ingenuity cost of understood Innovations” with “High Ingenuity and many Innovations” and “Ingenuity + Ingenuity cost of all understood Innovations” with “Ingenuity + number of understood Innovations”.

Unnerved by some of the rumours filtering in from other districts, your clearance teams are refusing to perform further work underground until adequate lighting and safety measures are brought in.

Do the Districts supply that, or refuse?

Provide: Govern and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

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Decline: Govern and Lose 5 People

* or lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

Tenured player Josh is formally assigned as Rafter’s Mentor, under BlogNomic’s Mentor rule. This will run until the end of the dynasty or the 20th of September, whichever is later.

Howdy everyone

First time doing this kind of game, I’m sure it’ll take some getting used to but I’m excited.

Rename the rule Into the Storm as The Conclave, and rewrite it as follows:

The City has signalled that it is willing to negotiate a new deal on resources, and a Conclave has been called to appoint a representative, who can showcase the best of what the Districts have to offer.

If the most recently posted Dilemma’s number is 30 or higher, a Conclave is ongoing. While a Conclave is ongoing, new Dilemmas may not be posted and existing Dilemmas may not be Reacted to.

While a Conclave is ongoing, if they have not done so that day, and if every non-Abandonned District has Responded to all previous Plenary Sessions, OR if 48 hours have elapsed since the posting of the most recent Plenary Session, then the City may post a Plenary Session. Posting a Plenary Session is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Make a reply to any previous Plenary Session that has not received such a reply, summarising its outcome and which District (if any) has been Anointed as a result of that Plenary Session;
* Randomly select one of the six Agenda Items that are listed in this rule that have not been the subject of any of the previous four Plenary Sessions;
* Make a post to the blog announcing the Plenary Session for that day.

Each District may respond once to each Plenary Session. A Plenary Session response takes the format of a direct private message to the City allocating quantities of their own resources. These allocated quantities are spent from that District’s own resources, and while it is not required that a District immediately update gamestate tracking to reflect that expenditure, it must be accounted for before any subsequence response to a Plenary Session is made. Defence cannot be expended in this way if it would result in the Defence of the responding District to have a value lower than zero. A District may make a null response.

Each Plenary Session must have a single Agenda Item as its subject. Each Agenda Item has a Name and a Scoring Matrix. These are expressed in the table below.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name !! Scoring Matrix
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| Abundance || 1 point per People, 1 point per Food, 1 point per Defence
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| Progress || 2 points per Innovation, 1 point per Ingenuity, 0.25 points per Energy
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| Stability || 1 point per Order, 1 point per Defence, 2 points per Connection
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| Contentment || 1 point per Faction, 1 point per Food, 2 points per Innovation
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| Power || 1 point per Defence, 1 point per Ingenuity, 0.25 points per Energy
|-
| Culture || 1 point per People, 1 point per Connection, 1 point per Order
|}

When the City summarises the outcome of a Plenary Session, they calculate each District’s Score for that Plenary Session by scoring its allocated resources against the Scoring Matrix of that Plenary Session’s Agenda Item. The single District whose Score is highest on each Plenary Session receives an Anointment; any District who has three or more Anointments has achieved Victory. If a Conclave is under way and it can be demonstrated that no District is capable of receiving any further Anointments then the single District with the most Anointments has achieved Victory.

In the Appendix, in the rule “Spelling and formatting”, replace “Districts may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes” with “Districts may correct obvious spelling, punctuation, and/or typographical mistakes”.

Append the following text to the rule “Into the Storm”:

While The Storm is ongoing, instead of the Downsides listed in “Upsides and Downsides”, the following Downsides exist:
* Lose People equal to 25 minus 5 for every 1 point you choose to spend from your Energy Trap
* Lose People equal to 10 minus 5 for every 1 Order you choose to spend
* Lose 3 People and 1 Defences, or lose 10 People instead if you have less than 0 Defences
* Lose 3 People and 1 Ingenuity, or lose 5 People and your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity
* Lose 1 Ingenuity and 1 from your Energy Trap, or lose 4 from your Energy Trap instead if you have no Ingenuity
* Lose 1 Defences and 1 Food, or lose 3 Food instead if you have less than 0 Defences
* Randomly select a number from 1 to 3, inclusive; then randomly select and apply that number of Downsides from the rule “Upsides and Downsides” to yourself (excluding the one that begins with “Randomly Select”)

In the same rule, replace the following bullet points:

* When Posing a Dilemma, the City randomly selects six Downsides instead of two, and assigns the first three to the first Outcome and the last three to the second Outcome.
* When Reacting to a Dilemma with more than two Downsides, a District applies each Downside of the selected Outcome to themself.
* Whenever a District’s Order level is reduced, two randomly-selected Downsides are immediately applied to that District.
* If every District is Abandoned except for one, or if the Dilemma’s number is 44 or higher, the District with the most People has achieved victory (in the case of a tie, only the tied player with the most Defences achieves victory).

with:

* When a non-Abandoned District’s Order would be reduced as a result of Passing or of the City performing the penultimate step of Posing a Dilemma, a randomly-selected Downside must be immediately applied to that District instead.
* If every District is Abandoned except for one, or if the Dilemma’s number is 44 or higher, the District with the most People has achieved victory (in the case of a tie, only the tied player with the most Order achieves victory).

In the rule “Factions”, add a subrule named “Endorsements” and give it the following text:

When a District performs an Endorse action, they make a Story Post called an Endorsement whose title starts with the text “Endorsement: ” followed by text containing exactly one Position of the District’s choosing and any narrative text of the District’s chosing. The contents of the Post must contain the text “Fallow of (x)”, where (x) is the District’s Fallow value when they are performing the Endorse as part of the Gathering atomic action. The contents of the post may also contain any narrative text of the District’s choosing.

In response to an Endorsement, at their earliest convenience the City should perform the Support action, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* For each Faction housed by the District who posted the Endorsement, if that Faction’s Culture contains a Position matching the Position mentioned in the title of the Endorsement, multiply the Fallow value mentioned in the contents of the Endorsement by the Reward of that Position, rounding all resulting values to the nearest whole number, and add the results to that District’s values.
* If at least one Faction’s Culture contains a Position matching the Position mentioned in the title of the Endorsement, the Response should be positive, otherwise the Response should be negative.
* Reply to the post with a comment indicating the Response to the Endorsement, using narrative text at the City’s choosing and discretion without revealing any Faction names or other Positions held within the Factions’ Cultures.

In the rule “Commons”, remove the the entry in the table with the Name “The Silicon Lake”.

In the same rule, add the following entry to the table:

|-
| Icon of Authority || Perform the Endorse action

In the rule “Factions”, add a subrule named “Socialize” and give it the following text:

When a District performs the Socialize action, they privately send a message to the City containing a Culture where the Positions are chosen by the District and the Loyal or Disloyal Positions are not included. At their earliest convenience, the City should privately respond with the number of those Positions that are in the Culture of one or more Factions that the District is housing, counting 1 per Position regardless of how many Factions’ Cultures it matches.

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, replace the text “it may choose to either Gather, Innovate or gain 1 Order.” with

it may choose to either Gather, Innovate or gain 1 Order, and in addition may choose to Socialize.

Add a new Common to the list in the rule Commons, with the name Stormbrow Peak and an effect of ‘The District may Moot once, immediately after the completion of this Gathering’.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Factions, called Mooting:

A District may Moot when directed to by the ruleset. Mooting is an action that is carried out by sending a direct message to the City announcing an intention to Moot.

When the City receives such a message, they should, at their earliest opportunity, carry out a Faction Test for each of that District’s Factions, and then issue the Reward of all Factions that remain Housed in that District to that District.

Multiply the numbers in all of the rewards in the table in the rule The People’s Front of Judea by 10.

Change the Preference Formula for Monocultural from “Number of Factions” to:-

(Number of Factions) * -1

Storm drains and access tunnels criss-cross the city, most having collapsed and flooded to some degree over the decades. Engineering teams venturing underground to effect repairs to the electrical grid have reported encountering groups of people living down there in the darkness, and are reluctant to proceed.

Do the Districts attempt to clear the tunnels, or work towards a truce with the inhabitants?

Clear: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Randomly select a number from 0 to 2, inclusive; then randomly select and apply that number of Downsides (excluding this one) to yourself

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Truce: Gain 5 People (Troglodytes) and Randomly select a number from 0 to 2, inclusive; then randomly select and apply that number of Downsides (excluding this one) to yourself

In the rule “Into the Storm”, replace “36 or higher” with “24 or higher” and replace “44 or higher” with “32 or higher”.

In “Innovation”, after “If a District understands an Innovation but no longer understands a different Innovation which is listed as one of its prerequisites, then the understood Innovation’s effect no longer applies to that District until it regains all of the understood Innovation’s prerequisite Innovations.”, add:-

While a District’s People is zero, the effects of Societal Innovations do not apply to that District. While a District’s Energy Trap is zero, the effects of Technological Innovations do not apply to that District.

With harsher weather approaching, harvested and salvaged food needs to be stored away securely. The most suitable buildings in the districts are already in use for defensive purposes. Some weaker structures could plausibly be strengthened and repurposed, with some civil engineers speculating that the storm drains could be adapted into cellars, but this would carry significant risk.

Do the Districts repurpose a defensive structure, or risk a more improvised approach?

Repurpose: Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Defences

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Improvise: Gain 1 Food and Randomly select a number from 0 to 2, inclusive; then randomly select and apply that number of Downsides (excluding this one) to yourself

Remove the second bullet point from the gather atomic action. Uphold any gather actions that were otherwise validly undertaken on dilemmas 17 and 18.

If Proposal: Papers, Please was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

In the rule Factions, change “and a Loyalty which is either Loyal or Disloyal” to “and a Culture”. In the same rule, change “randomly determining its Loyalty” to “randomly determining its Culture” and remove any bracketed text that may exist.

Add a subrule to the rule Factions:

Each Faction has a Culture, which is privately tracked by the City. A Culture is a sequence of five terms, called Positions, each of which is one side of a binary statement. If a Faction has no Culture then the City may generate one for it, with each Position being secretly randomly selected. A Faction’s Culture may be:
* Progressive or Conservative
* Multicultural or Monocultural
* Acquisitive or Relational
* Anarchic or Ordered
* Loyal or Disloyal

(The City may set the Culture of the Faction named “Machinists” and the Faction named “Seafolk” to random values and repeal this bracketed text, at any time.)

Each Position (except Loyal or Disloyal) is associated with a quality that a District can have, as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Position !! Preference !! Preference Formula !! Reward
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| Progressive || High Ingenuity / Ingenuity cost of understood Innovations || Ingenuity + Ingenuity cost of all understood Innovations || 0.2 Ingenuity
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| Conservative || High Order || Order || 0.2 Order
|-
| Multicultural || High number of other Factions in the District || Number of Factions || 0.5 People, 0.1 Ingenuity
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| Monocultural || Low number of other Factions in the District || Number of Factions || 0.5 People, 0.1 Order
|-
| Acquisitive || High Food and a large number of Connections || Food + Number of Connections + Energy || 0.1 Food and 0.1 Energy
|-
| Relational || High People || People || 1 People
|-
| Anarchic || Low Defences and low Order || (Defence + Order) * -1 || 0.1 Food, 0.1 Ingenuity and 0.1 Energy
|-
| Ordered || High Defences and high Order || Defence + Order || 0.1 Defence and 0.1 Order
|}

A Faction Test is an atomic action that requires a specific District and a specific Faction to be its target. Whenever a Faction Test takes place, the District or City carrying it out undertakes the following steps:
* For the named Faction, calculate the named District’s position relative to all other Districts for each of the Preference Formulas of its Culture, with Loyal always being considered above average and Disloyal always being considered below average.
* If more than two of the results are below the mean average for all Districts then it stops housing that Faction.

Add the following as a fifth step to the Posing a Dilemma atomic action:

* Secretly randomly select a Faction. For each District where that Faction is Housed, carry out a Faction Test for that District and that Faction.

Add the following to the step of the Posing a Dilemma atomic action immediately after the one just added:

If any District ceased to House a Faction as a result of an earlier step in this Action, also announce that change in the same blog post.

The people of the city have relied on hardy mountain livestock as a bedrock of their diet for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, particularly through the coldest months and poorest harvests. That tradition still continues today to a smaller degree, with each district having small animal pens within its boundaries. With city life becoming more cramped and precarious, some have begun to argue that these pens are a dangerous, and perhaps unethical, anachronism. The land could be put to better purposes.

Do the Districts continue to farm livestock, or set them free?

Farm: Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Defences

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Release: Govern and Lose 1 Food*

* or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving

If https://blognomic.com/archive/division_of_labour was not enacted, this proposal has no effect.

Add the following entries to the table of Innovations:

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| Societal || Communal Sway || 2 || None || Immediately before you Govern, if your People exceeds the People of the District with the 3rd-highest People by 25 or more, you may add one consequence of your choice to the Prospect.
|-
| Technological || Gadget Repository || 1 || Shared Wisdom || Work Effect: You may spend 1 Ingenuity to add one Upside of your choice to the Prospect.

In the rule “Innovation”, change the Effect of the Innovation named Military Research to:

When performing the Connection Effect of the Commons named Deserted Barracks, multiply the result by 2 (before rounding).

Add a new rule, “Factions”:-

A number of Factions exist, tracked privately by the City: each has a name (which is flavour text) and a Loyalty which is either Loyal or Disloyal. Each District houses zero or more Factions, and the Factions that they house are publicly tracked. While a District that Houses Factions has no People, it is instead considered to house no Factions.

The City may create a new Faction at any time, choosing a name for it and randomly determining its Loyalty. (The City may set the Loyalty of the Faction named “Machinists” and the Faction named “Seafolk” to random values and repeal this bracketed text, at any time.)

Whenever the City posts a Dilemma with a “Gain 5 People” Upside, it must specify a Faction to which the People of that Upside belong. A District that chooses to Gain People from that Upside begins to house its specified Faction if they do not already.

Whenever a District loses 5 or more People as a result of its own decision, it may also choose to stop housing a single specific Faction.

Create two Loyal Factions called “Machinists” and “Seafolk”.

Update Dilemma #17 to specify that its People are Machinists. For each District who has already chosen the “Gain 5 People” option for Dilemma #17, add “Machinists” to the Factions they house.

Add “Seafolk” to the housed Factions of Josh, JonathanDark and Lendunistus.

In “Reactions”, replace “Decide: ; then posting a comment on the Dilemma” with:-

Decide: Optionally Labouring; then posting a comment on the Dilemma

To the end of that rule, add:-

To Labour is to select any number of Innovations that you understand and to perform each of their Work effects, in any order.

In “Innovation”, replace “Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 7, gain 1 Ingenuity.” with:-

Work effect: Gain 1 Ingenuity if you are Reacting to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 7.

Replace “Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 10, gain 1 Food.” with:-

Work effect: Gain 1 Food if you are Reacting to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 10.

Replace “Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 5, you may spend 1 Food to gain 1 in a resource randomly selected between Ingenuity, Defences, and Energy.” with:-

Work effect: If you are Reacting to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 5, spend 1 Food to gain 1 in a resource randomly selected between Ingenuity, Defences, and Energy.

Those rushing to the Battery Garden encounter another group who already are working hard to control the fires and to repair - or possibly scavenge parts from - the Solar Field. Once the immediate danger is over, the party cautiously introduce themselves, claiming to be a group of Machinists who were left behind when the last Great Machine departed. They warn that the failure of the Battery Garden has overloaded the power grid and that electrical fires will continue sporadically without maintenance work, offering to move into the Districts - at a price - to serve as repair teams.

Do the Districts hire these strangers, or move forward without them?

Hire: Gain 5 People (Machinists) and Lose 1 Food*

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Ignore: Govern and Lose 1 Defences

* or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving

Add the following rule, called “Territories”, to the dynastic ruleset:

Each District has a Map consisting of a 5x5 grid of ASCII characters (each of which is referred to as a Block). The top side is marked by the letters A-E in order, such that each column has a letter, and the left side is marked by the digits 1-5 descending, such that each row has a number; these give each Block in a District’s Map its own a reference coordinate. Blocks in a District’s Map can also be said to be inside that District.

Each entry in the table below contains an ASCII character which corresponds to a type of Structure that can be found or Constructed in a District. If a Block inside a District corresponds to an entry on the table below, it represents a Structure of that type, and the corresponding Effect applies to the District it is in; if it does not correspond to any such entry, any District (or the City) may change it to Ruins at any time.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Character !! Structure !! Inhabitants !! Effect
|-
| # || Ruins || 0 || Cannot be Constructed.
|-
| C || Encampment || 25 || Cannot be Constructed. Structures (other than Ruins) orthogonally adjacent to this one have -5 Inhabitants.
|-
| F || Farmland || 15 || When you Gather, your Fallow Value counts as 1 higher for the purpose of calculating the effects of the Grazing Lands.
|}

The combined total Inhabitants of every Structure inside of a single District is that District’s Housing. If a District’s Housing is less than half their People, they are Overcrowded. If a District’s Housing exceeds their people, they cannot Construct.

By default, every Block is Ruins, except for the center block (C3) of each District which is an Encampment.

Add a new Downside to the list in the rule Upsides and Downsides:

Randomly select a number from 0 to 2, inclusive; then randomly select and apply that number of Downsides (excluding this one) to yourself.

In “Upsides and Downsides”, remove “(or all People if you have fewer than 5)”.

Add a paragraph to the rule:-

With the exception of Defences, if a District would be required to lose more of a value than they possess, as a result of applying a consequence, then they instead lose all of that value.

Add a subrule to “Dilemmas” called “The Prospect”:-

The Prospect is a publicly tracked list of consequences.

Add two new bullet points to the list in “Dilemmas”, placing them after the second point:-

* If there are any Upsides in the Prospect, remove one at random and replace one of this action’s incoming Upsides (selected at random) with it
* If there are any Downsides in the Prospect, remove one at random and replace one of this action’s incoming Downsides (selected at random) with it

After “Select two Upsides and two Downsides at random”, add:-

; these are the “incoming” consequences of the action

Add the word “incoming” before every instance of “Upside” and “Downside” in the bullet point that begins “Make a blog post which pairs the first Upside with the first Downside”.

If there are any open Dilemmas in which some Districts have Allocated but others have not, then revert all of the Allocations made in Reactions to that Dilemma (while upholding that those Reactions were legally undertaken if they were otherwise legally undertaken). If any District has bought Connections that they would not be able to afford had those Allocations not taken place then also revert the purchase of those Connections.

Remove the word “Allocating” and the phrase ‘who they Allocated to and’ from the rule Reactions.

In the rule Innovation, change the phrase ‘Allocate when Reacting’ to ‘React’ wherever it appears.

Rewrite the rule The Grid to read ‘Each District has a publicly tracked value for Energy Trap, which defaults to zero’.

Ancient alarms ring out at the Battery Garden’s control station, and corroded sprinkler valves hiss nothing but air. Within minutes the structure is burning vividly against the night sky, the solar array reflecting its flames. Across the city, the electricity lines flicker and a few substations burn out in flashes of sparks.

Do the Districts send runners to the Garden to divert its remaining power, or reassign engineers to ensure that the local power grid is operating safely?

Divert: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)

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Secure: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

* or lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

If the Proposal “Thinking Outside the Box” was not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Alternate Outcomes”, replace the text “Choose an Ongoing Dilemma that at least two Districts have not yet Reacted to.” with this text:

Choose an Ongoing Dilemma that was posted less than 24 hours ago and that at least two Districts have not yet Reacted to.

In the rule “Dilemmas” add the following text:

If it is possible for the City to Pose a Dilemma without taking any other actions first, or to first resolve Pending proposals through Enacting or Failing them and then immediately Pose a Dilemma without taking any actions other than those mentioned in this sentence, the City should do so at its earliest opportunity.

Append the following sentence to the rule “Innovation”:

At any time, a District may move one Innovation within the table of Innovations so that it is directly below another Innovation that is listed in its prerequisites, or directly above another Innovation that lists it as a prerequisite.

In the same rule, after “The Innovations that a District understands are tracked in a public list.”, add the following sentence:

If a District understands an Innovation but no longer understands a different Innovation which is listed as one of its prerequisites, then the understood Innovation’s effect no longer applies to that District until it regains all of the understood Innovation’s prerequisite Innovations.

Add the following rule, called “Alternate Outcomes”, to the dynastic ruleset:

Posing Another Outcome is an atomic action that consists of the following steps:
* Choose an Ongoing Dilemma that at least two Districts have not yet Reacted to.
* Select one Upside and one Downside at random. If this pairing matches one of the Outcomes on the chosen Dilemma, randomly select either the Upside or the Downside and randomly change it to a different consequence of the same Upside/Downside type. Repeat this until you have a pairing that does not match one of the chosen Dilemma’s Outcomes.
* Make a comment (referred to as an Outcome Comment) on the chosen Dilemma which includes the Upside and Downside pairing generated in the previous step as an Outcome. This comment should include a name and narrative description for this new Outcome.

After an Outcome Comment is posted, any District may select its Outcome while Deciding on the Dilemma that that Outcome Comment was posted to, as if it was one of the two Outcomes of that Dilemma.

If https://blognomic.com/archive/batteries_not_included1 was not enacted, replace “at least two Districts” with “at least three Districts” in the above rule.

Add the following entries to the table of Innovations:

|-
| Societal || Communal Sway || 2 || None || If your People exceeds the People of the District with the 3rd-highest People by 20 or more, you may spend 1 Order to Pose Another Outcome.
|-
| Technological || Gadget Repository || 1 || Shared Wisdom || You may spend 1 Ingenuity to Pose Another Outcome.

In the rule “Into the Storm”, append the following bullet point after the bullet point that begins “When Posing a Dilemma”:

* When Posing Another Outcome, a District randomly selects three Downsides instead of one, and lists all Downsides when posting the Outcome Comment.

Rewrite the rule Commons to read as follows:

Each District has a Calendar, which is a publicly tracked number. When a District is required to apply its Fallow Value, that is defined as the difference between their own Calendar and the number of the Dilemma to which they are Reacting.

There exist a number of Commons, each of which has a name and a Connection Effect, all of which are detailed in this rule. At any time a District may spend x*4 from their Energy Trap to establish a new Connection to a Commons, where x is their number of pre-existing Connections; the Commons to which each District is connected are publicly tracked. Once established, such a connection may not be broken.

The available Commons are:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name !! Connection Effect
|-
| The Grazing Lands || Gain their Fallow Value / 5 Food
|-
| The Deserted Barracks || Gain their Fallow Value / 10 Defences
|-
| Shrine to Iclaseer || Apply a random Upside other than Governing
|-
| Shrine to Oseele || Apply a random Downside
|-
| The Silicon Lake || Choose to increase or decrease the Solar Field by 1
|-
| Gnostic Mainframe || Gain their Fallow Value / 10 Ingenuity
|}

Gathering is an atomic action with the following steps:

* Apply the Connection Effects of each Connection individually, in the order that they are listed in that District’s Commons field, with repeated Connections duplicating but not compounding their effects. Round all values to the nearest whole number.
* Increase the value of the Solar Field by 1
* Randomly select one Consequence (other than Governing) and apply it
* Set their Calendar to the number of the Dilemma to which they are Reacting.

Your researchers and social historians, currently working where they can around the other projects and people of the district, are requesting additional workspace - a dedicated library and research building where they can study in peace. There are no suitable structures within the districts’ existing perimeters, so this will mean either claiming a new and undefended building nearby, or commandeering a housing block.

Do the Districts secure a new building or repurpose existing housing?

Expand: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 1 Defences

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Repurpose: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)

Add a new rule called “The City”:-

The City’s priorities are as follows:-

# Resolve the oldest pending proposal
# Pose a Dilemma
# All other dynastic actions

The City should not take an action on that list if it would be possible for them to take one with a lower number instead. If it is possible for the City to Pose a Dilemma, or to resolve proposals in order that they might then immediately Pose a Dilemma, the City should do so at its earliest opportunity.

Whenever the City is required to select something at random, they may instead do this in a secretly random manner.

Remove “(Whenever the City is required to select something at random, they may instead do this in a secretly random manner.)” from the rule “Dilemmas”.

In “The Grid”, replace “they then transfer one quarter, rounded up, of the value of the Battery Garden from the Battery Garden to that District’s Energy Trap” with:-

they then increase that District’s Energy Trap by 2

Remove “Increase the Battery Garden by the value of the Solar Field.” from the rule “Dilemmas”.

A few tall buildings still stand in the city, some little more than central lift shafts with splinters of floors on all sides. The towers would serve well as simple and permanent lookout posts, although repeatedly scaling their broken heights is a dangerous business. A safer use for them would be as antennae for an improvised radio setup, broadcasting emergency messages to distant outsiders, and requiring only a single climbing expedition.

Do the Districts use their local towers as lookouts, or radio masts?

Lookout: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)

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Radio: Gain 5 People and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

* or lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, change “Gain 1 to your Energy Trap” to “Gain 4 to your Energy Trap”. and “Lose 1 from your Energy Trap” to “Lose 4 from your Energy Trap”.

If an Ongoing Dilemma is using these Consequences, consider it to be using the revised versions for all intents and purposes.

The old biofuel generators have been largely superseded now, and they’ve been disconnected from the grid to avoid blowing any of the mains wiring. With some care they could be reinstalled elsewhere in the system to support the nascent electricity network, or they could just be used inefficiently off-grid for localised power.

Do the Districts take the time to rewire the generators, or use them standalone?

Connect: Gain 1 to your Energy Trap and Lose 1 Food*

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Detach: Govern and Lose 1 Food*

* or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving

To “Imperial Deferentials”, add a paragraph:-

If there are six or fewer Districts, then the City’s vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal is only affected by this rule if all Districts who are not the City have cast a vote on that proposal.

In the rule “Innovation”, add the following row to the table:

|-
| Societal || Community Food Banks || 1 || Indoor Gardens || When Gathering, any time you perform a random selection that results in a Consequence that would cause you to lose Food, you may re-roll that random selection, but only once for that step of that instance of Gathering.

In the Posing a Dilemma atomic action, immediately following “If this Dilemma’s number is a multiple of 10”, add “and/or The Storm is ongoing”.

Add the following entries to the table of Innovations:

|-
| Societal || Careful Rationing || 2 || You are not Famished || When you are Famished but not in Chaos and would have your Food reduced by more than 1 as a result of the City Posing a Dilemma, instead your Food is only reduced by 1 and your Order is reduced by 1 as well.
|-
| Societal || Desperate Measures || 1 || You are Famished || When you are Starving and have your People reduced by half as a result of the City Posing a Dilemma, you immediately gain 1 Food for every 10 People lost.

Change the Innovation Type of Shared Wisdom to “Societal” and set its Prerequisites to “None”.

Add the following entry to the table of Innovations:

|-
| Societal || Scavenging Parties || 1 || None || Every time you Allocate when Reacting to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 5, you may spend 1 Food to gain 1 in a resource randomly selected between Ingenuity, Defences, and Energy.

In the rule “Innovation”, add the following rows to the table:

|-
| Technological || Military Research || 1 || None || When Gathering and performing the step that begins with “Gain n * 0.1 Defences”, use 0.2 intead of 0.1 in that calculation.
|-
| Technological || Improvised Shields || 2 || Military Research || If your Defences are greater than 0 and you are not Starving, any time you would lose People from applying a Downside, you may choose to lose 1 Defences instead when applying that Downside.

In “Innovation”, replace both instances of “Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number” with:-

Every time you Allocate when Reacting to a Dilemma whose number

Even with some repairs, the antiquated electricity network still falters and can only provide a few hours of reliable power and light each day. The scientists and historians of the districts petition for their buildings to be prioritised, to allow them to work later into the night. Lookouts stationed along the perimeters call for their guardposts to be heated and fitted with searchlights for the dark winter shifts.

Which do the Districts favour?

Laboratories: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 1 Defences

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Guardposts: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

* or lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

In “Reactions”, replace “Posting a comment on the Dilemma announcing which of the two Outcomes they are selecting, and then applying the selected Outcome’s Upside and then its Downside to themselves; and then Allocating.” with:-

Allocating; then posting a comment on the Dilemma announcing who they Allocated to and which of the two Outcomes they are selecting; then applying the selected Outcome’s Upside and then its Downside to themselves.

Uphold each attempted Reaction made prior to this CfJ where a District neglected to Allocate, if that Reaction would have been legal if they had performed a valid Allocation.

In the rule “Into the Storm”, add the following bullet point to the end:

* Idle Districts may not be unidled and no new player joining requests may be administered, unless Blognomic is in Interregnum.

If Proposal: No Sense in Letting Good Food Go to Waste was not enacted then this proposal has no further effect.

Change the Downside which starts ‘Lose 1 Food if your Defences are 0’ to read as follows:

Lose 1 from your Energy Trap, or lose all of your Energy Trap instead if your Defences are less than 0

With the city’s street lighting needing only minor repairs to become functional again, your advisors suggest clearing out the overgrown main roads through the districts, and installing barriers and guard posts.

Do the Districts clear the roads, or leave them dark?

Light: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 1 Food (or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving)

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Dark: Govern and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

* or lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

Increase the energy of the Districts called Josh and lendunistus by 4.

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, replace “Lose 1 Food, or lose 3 Food instead if your Defences are less than 1” with:

Lose 1 Food if your Defences are 0, or lose 3 Food instead if your Defences are less than 0

Uphold Josh’s loss of only 1 Food when he Reacted to Dilemma #10 with “Unearth”.

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

A District with no Defences is Relaxed. A District with negative Defences is Vulnerable.

In the rule “Commons”, after the text “At any time a District may spend x*4”, add the following text:

(x*5 if the District is Relaxed)

and in the same rule, after the text “minus their Calendar;” add the following text:

Set n to half of this result, rounded down to the nearest integer, if the District is Vulnerable.

In the rule “Into the Storm”, change the last bullet point to:

* If the Special Case rules called Dormancy and Reinitialisation exist and are Active, the City or any District may set them to Inactive.

On the mountainside above the city, long-dormant solar panels are being reactivated. They angle and glint in the winter sun, and across the districts below, the shattered electrical network begins to spark erratically back into life. Most of the city remains unpowered, the bulk of its underground cabling having fallen into disrepair, some of it having been dug through for agriculture.

Do the Districts dig up their fields to repair these connections?

Excavate: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 1 Food (or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving)

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Unearth: Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 1 Food (or lose 3 Food instead if your Defences are less than 1)

In “Innovation”, replace “There exist a number of Innovations, all of which are recorded in the table below. Each Innovation has an Innovation type, a name, an Ingenuity cost, zero or more prerequisites, and an effect which is applied to every District who has learned it. If a District has learned an Innovation multiple times, its effect applies an equal number of times (if possible). The Innovations that a District has learned are tracked in a public list; if an Innovation has been learned more than once by a District, its name is marked with a multiplicative suffix (e.g. “x2” or “x3”) in that list to indicate the number of times learned.” with:

There exist a number of Innovations, all of which are recorded in the table below. Each Innovation has an Innovation type, a name, an Ingenuity cost, zero or more prerequisites, and an effect which is applied to every District who understands it. (If a Prerequisite is the name of another Innovation, it requires that the District must understand that Innovation.) The Innovations that a District understands are tracked in a public list.

In the next paragraph, replace “and then learn it” with “and then understand it”.

Remove “May not have already been learned by this District” from the Prerequisites of Shared Wisdom.

In “Upsides and Downsides”, replace “lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation” with “lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation”.

Set each District to understand all Innovations that they had learned at any earlier point in the dynasty.

In “Upsides and Downsides”, replace “When a District Governs, it may choose to either Gather or Innovate.” with:-

When a District Governs, it may choose to either Gather, Innovate or gain 1 Order.

The district leaders turn their attention to new research and infrastructure projects, but the citizens shouldering the burden on the front line are starting to feel overworked and underappreciated.

Do the Districts pledge extra food rations to support these workers, or replace them with others?

Reward: Govern and Lose 1 Food (or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving)

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Dismiss: Govern and Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)

In the rule “Into the Storm”, replace “24 or higher” with “36 or higher” and replace “32 or higher” with “44 or higher”.

Append the following step to the Posing a Dilemma atomic action:

* If this Dilemma’s number is a multiple of 10, reduce the Food of each non-Abandoned District by 1; or, if that District is Famished, reduce its Food to 0; or, if that District is Starving, reduce its People by half (rounded up).

In the Gathering atomic action, replace “Gain n * 0.1 Food” (if it exists) with “Gain n * 0.2 Food”.

Add the following Innovation to the list of Innovations:

| Technological || Indoor Gardens || 1 || None || Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 10, gain 1 Food.

If Proposal: We Rowdy was not enacted then this proposal has no further effect.

In the rule Commons, change “Each District may be connected to a number of Commons up to its population divided by 100, rounded up” to:

At any time a District may spend x*4 from their Energy Trap to establish a new Connection to a Commons, where x is their number of pre-existing Connections

Add an Upside to the rule Upsides and Downsides as follows:

* Gain 1 to your Energy Trap

Increase the Energy Trap of all Districts that don’t have a Connection by 4.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, called The Grid:

There exist two publicly tracked values, one called The Solar Field, and one called The Battery Garden; The Solar Field defaults to 4 and The Battery Garden defaults to zero. Each District has a publicly tracked value for Energy Trap, which defaults to zero.

Whenever a District is called upon to Allocate, they must select a single other District who was not their selection the last time they were called upon to Allocate, if there is one; they then transfer one quarter, rounded up, of the value of the Battery Garden from the Battery Garden to that District’s Energy Trap.

Add the following to the end of the Decide option in the rule Reactions:

; and then Allocating.

Add the following as a third bullet point to the rule Dilemmas:

Increase the Battery Garden by the value of the Solar Field.

Add the following as a new entry on the list of Commons in the rule of the same name:

The Silicon Lake

Add the following as a fifth bullet point in the Gathering atomic action:

Increase the value of the Solar Field by 1, then choose to either increase or decrease the Solar Field by one for each connection that District has to the Silicon Lake.

A group of bedraggled strangers arrive in the city claiming to be the surviving crew of the wrecked cargo ship. They tell dark and contradictory tales of the outside world and the dead city’s place in it. Afraid for the future, the crew ask to be given sanctuary within the occupied districts, or at least to trade some essentials on their way to the abandoned areas of the city.

Do the Districts welcome the groups, or trade for food and send them on their way?

Welcome: Gain 5 People and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

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Trade: Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

* or lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

In the rule “Dilemmas”, in the second bullet point of the steps for Posing a Dilemma, add the following text after the text “If the two Upsides are the same and the two Downsides are the same”:

, or if the 3rd word of the first or second Upside is the same as the 3rd word of the first or second Downside respectively,

and at the end of the same bullet point, add this text:

. Repeat this step until none of the conditions of this step apply.

Lookouts report a derelict cargo ship aground in one of the craters at the old harbour. It’s a dangerous part of the city to set foot in, but the vessel is bound to have some rare supplies still preserved in its hold.

Do the Districts send out teams to salvage what they can, or leave the waves to claim it?

Salvage: Gain 1 Food and Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)

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Ignore: Nothing happens (Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Food*)

* or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving

Add a new rule named “Raids” and give it the following text:

Raid is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Choose another District and call them the Target.
* For every 1 Defences that the Target has, subtract 5 from your People.
* If you have at least 5 People, transfer your choice of 1 Food or 1 Ingenuity, choosing both if the Target’s Defences are negative and the Target has at least 1 Food and 1 Ingenuity, from the Target to you. The Target must have at least 1 of the chosen value(s) to be transferred.

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides” replace the text “When a District Governs, it may choose to either Gather or Innovate.” with this text:

When a District Governs, it may choose to do one of the following: Gather, Innovate, or Raid.

In “Dilemmas”, replace “reduce the Order of all Districts who haven’t reacted to that Dilemma by 5” with:-

reduce the Order of all Districts who haven’t reacted to that Dilemma by 1

There have been scattered reports of muffled noises in the streets at night. Erratic footsteps, and some kind of knocking and scratching at the doors of the district’s houses and storage buildings. Those who claim to have been awoken by it say they looked out but saw nothing.

Do the Districts reassign people from other work roles to keep watch, or ignore the issue?

Patrol: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

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Ignore: Nothing happens (Gain 1 Ingenuity and Lose 1 Ingenuity*)

* Lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

To the dynastic rule “Districts”, add a paragraph:-

A District with no Order is in Chaos. Whenever a District that is in Chaos Decides on a Dilemma, it must make the selection between Outcomes at random.

I idle myself. Quorum drops to 3.

Uphold this enactment of Innovation in Action as being the correct enactment of that proposal, specifically that other references to Gathering in the ruleset are not changed to Governing.

If the proposal “iGather, iGovern, iDon’t Know Any More” has not passed and the phrase “other than Governing” exists anywhere in the ruleset, change it back to “other than Gathering” in each case.

In the rule Commons, change “(other than Gathering)” to “(other than Governing)” wherever it appears.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called The Crumpled Stateroom:

The Convener should create a private Discord channel in the BlogNomic Discussion category of the BlogNomic discord server, called “#crumbled_stateroom” to which all non-City Districts have access; if that channel does not exist then they may not take any dynastic actions except for the one that follows this statement in the same sentence; but if it does then they may delete this sentence from the ruleset, and replace it with the sentence “The Crumbled Stateroom is a Discord channel that can be found here:” with a direct link to that channel appended. The District named Josh is the Convener.

A District is considered to have access to the Crumpled Stateroom if they are a member of the BlogNomic Discord server and the permissions for that channel allow them access to it, or if they have been personally issued a live invitation link to the BlogNomic Discord server by the Convener. If any District does not have access to the Crumbled Stateroom then they may request it by making a post to that effect the BlogNomic blog. When the Convener has undertaken any actions necessary to give the requester access to the Crumpled Stateroom they should respond to that request post with a FOR mark. If 24 hours have elapsed without the Convener having given access to the requestor then the rest of this rule is flavour text until they have done so.

The Crumpled Stateroom is gamestate in its entirety and no District may post to it except as authorised by the ruleset.

The subrules to this rule detail data that is privately tracked by the Districts in the Crumpled Stateroom, and how that data can be changed.

Add a new subrule to the rule The Crumpled Stateroom, called The Benign Intrusion:

If the City has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, that vote is valid and can potentially be either FOR, AGAINST, or retain its DEFERENTIAL status (in which case it is resolved as per the Special Case rule Imperial Deferentials; in all other cases this rule has priority over that one). The current resolution status of the City’s Deferentials is referred to as the Deferential Resolution Status, and is privately tracked in the Crumpled Stateroom through the most recent Change of Deferential Status statement.

Each District has a Deferential Posture which is privately tracked in the Crumpled Stateroom in their most recent Change of Deferential Posture Statement. At any time, a District may make a Change of Deferential Posture Statement to the Crumpled Stateroom, which takes the format of “Change of Deferential Posture: x” where x is either FOR, AGAINST or DEFERENTIAL; once they have, their Deferential Posture changes to x. If there is a simple majority for any of the three options amongst expressed Deferential Postures then that position becomes the Deferential Resolution Status; if a District makes a Change of Deferential Posture Statement that changes the Deferential Resolution Status then they should immediately make a Change of Deferential Status statement, which takes the format of “Deferential Resolution Status Change: x” where x is the new Deferential Resolution Status.

In “Into the Storm”, replace “If the date is on or after August 28th 2023, The Storm is ongoing.” with:-

If the Dilemma’s number is 24 or higher, The Storm is ongoing.

Replace “or if the date is on or after September 4th 2023”:-

or if the Dilemma’s number is 32 or higher

The city’s river runs high today, spilling over the old concrete banks in some places. Sheets of water pool across the streets as the river seeks other paths to the ocean. The newcomers from the flooded district seem encouraged by this turn of events, and urge district leaders to let the water take its course, saying that they could not continue to live in a community that did not respect the wishes of the river.

Do the Districts ignore this petition and attend to their local flood defences, or seek counsel from the newcomers?

Repair: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)

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Consult: Govern and Lose 1 Defences

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, replace “Gain 5 People” with “Gain 2DICE4 People”, “Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)” with “Lose 2DICE4 People (or all your People if you have fewer than that many) and “lose 10 People” with “lose 4DICE4 People (or all People if you have fewer than that many)”.

In any Ongoing Dilemmas, replace all instances of “lose 10 People” with “lose 10 People (or all People if you have fewer than that many)” and “all People if you have fewer than 5” with “all your People if you have fewer than that many”.

Add the following to the end of the rule “Upsides and Downsides”:

Where an Upside or Downside contains a dice roller formula, it is valid with any possible value of the roll substituted for that formula”.

In the steps of Posing a Dilemma in the rule Dilemmas, before the step containing “Make a blog post”, add the following step:

* Roll any dice formulas in the selected Upside and Downside, and replace the formulas with the corresponding results in the selections (but not in the instances in the rule “Upsides and Downsides” itself)

Change the Innovation Type of Shared Wisdom to “Societal”.

If the Prerequisite “May not have already been learned by this District” exists in the table of Innovations, replace it with “You have not previously learned Shared Wisdom”

Add the following entries to the table of Innovations:

|-
| Societal || Fear of Oseele || 1 || None || At any time, you may spend 1 Food to gain 1 Order per connection you have to a Shrine of Oseele.
|-
| Societal || Wreckage Clearing Teams || 3 || You have not previously learned Wreckage Clearing Teams || Proposals made by you that have the singular effect of adding a new Commons to the ruleset count as having 1 fewer AGAINST vote.
|-
| Technological || Pre-Collapse Technology || 2 || None || When you learn this, gain 1 Ingenuity.
|-
| Technological || Weaponry Repairs || 2 || You have previously learned Pre-Collapse Technology; You have 2 or more Defences || When Gathering, the Defences you gain from the Deserted Barracks are increased by an additional n * 0.1.

Append the following step to the Posing a Dilemma atomic action:

* If this Dilemma’s number is a multiple of 7, reduce the Food of each District by that District’s People divided by 50 (rounded up); if this would reduce a District’s Food below 0, instead reduce their Food until it reaches 0 and then reduce their People by 10 for each excess point of Food reduction.

In the Gathering atomic action, replace “Gain n * 0.1 Food” with “Gain n * 0.2 Food”

Add the following Innovation to the list of Innovations:

| Technological || Indoor Gardens || 2 || None || Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 10, gain 1 Food.

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, replace the text “Lose 1 Defences” with:

Lose 1 Defences, or 5 People if your Defences are less than 1

In the rule Innovation, change the Effect of the Shared Wisdom Innovation to read

Every time you React to a Dilemma whose number is a multiple of 7, gain 1 Ingenuity

Change the Prerequisite of the same Innovation to “May not have already been learned by this District”.

Birds wheel through the darkening skies above the crop fields, cawing to one another and occasionally swooping at something behind the ruins before rising up again. The people of the districts look up from their work sowing the fields. Where the crows would normally perch and wait for their chance to pick through the planted seeds, something else has caught their interest for now.

Do the Districts abandon the fields and investigate, or stay focused on planting crops for the next harvest?

Investigate: Govern and Lose 1 Food (or lose 3 Food instead if your Defences are less than 1)

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Sow: Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Ingenuity, or lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

If Proposal: The City Must Survive was not enacted, skip the rest of this proposal.

In the rule “Into the Storm”, add the following to the end:

* If a Special Case rule called Dormancy exists and it is Active, the City or any District may set it to Inactive.

If there is a rule named “Into The Storm”, replace the bullet point that begins with “Any district that is Abandoned” with the following text:

* Any district that is Abandoned may no longer gain People and may not React to Dilemmas, except to execute the “Pass” atomic action if it exists in the rule named “Reactions”.

Rename the “Gather” Upside to “Govern”, in the ruleset and all Ongoing Dilemma Outcomes that it appears in.

To the end of “Upsides and Downsides”, add:-

When a District Governs, it may choose to either Gather or Innovate.

In “Upsides and Downsides”, as well as any Dilemma posts it appears in, replace “Lose 1 Ingenuity” with the following:

Lose 1 Ingenuity, or lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity

Add the following new rule to the dynastic ruleset, called “Into The Storm”:

If the date is on or after August 28th 2023, The Storm is ongoing. While The Storm is ongoing, the following rules changes are under effect:
* Any district that is Abandoned may no longer gain People, React to Dilemmas, or become Idle.
* When Posing a Dilemma, the City randomly selects six Downsides instead of two, and assigns the first three to the first Outcome and the last three to the second Outcome.
* When Reacting to a Dilemma with more than two Downsides, a District applies each Downside of the selected Outcome to themself.
* Whenever a District’s Order level is reduced, two randomly-selected Downsides are immediately applied to that District.
* If every District is Abandoned except for one, or if the date is on or after September 4th 2023, the District with the most People has achieved victory (in the case of a tie, only the tied player with the most Defences achieves victory).

Revert this change to the gamestate.

In “Dilemmas”, replace “If they have not already done so that day, the City may perform the atomic action of Posing a Dilemma:” with:-

If they have not already done so that day, or if every Ongoing Dilemma has had a Reaction from every District, the City may perform the atomic action of Posing a Dilemma:

In “Reactions”, replace “A District may React to the oldest Ongoing Dilemma that they haven’t already Reacted to, by performing the following atomic action:” and the bullet list after it with:-

A District may React to the oldest Ongoing Dilemma that they haven’t already Reacted to, by performing either of the following atomic actions:
* ‘’‘Decide:’‘’ Posting a comment on the Dilemma announcing which of the two Outcomes they are selecting, and then applying the selected Outcome’s Upside and then its Downside to themselves.
* ‘’‘Pass:’‘’ Posting a comment on the Dilemma announcing that they are passing, then reducing their Order by 1 (to a minimum of zero).

Divide every District’s Order by 5, rounding down.

Replace “defaults to 20 and is capped at 100” with “defaults to 4”.

A large, scattered group arrive from one of the forgotten outer districts of the city, dragging their possessions behind them on primitive carts, and recounting how their homes have been reclaimed by the ocean. You all pick up on the same strange and irrational note in the the way that they talk about the sea, as if it is some great living creature that can be angered and appeased.

Do the Districts invite these outsiders to settle in their buildings, or suggest that they move on?

Welcome: Gain 5 People and Lose 1 Ingenuity

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Spurn: Nothing happens (Gain 1 Defences and Lose 1 Defences)

If CfJ: Displaying Much Ingenuity was enacted, revert its effects.

Revert any changes made to the personal gamestate of the Districts named “Josh” or “Lendunistus” as a result of their Reaction to Dilemma #2. Uphold that those Reactions took place. For each of those Districts respectively, if their EVC to the CfJ names a single Outcome from Dilemma #2, apply the Upside and Downside of that Outcome to that District.

In “Upsides and Downsides”, remove the hyphen that immediately follows a colon and replace “or 10 People if you don’t have any Food” with “or lose 10 People instead if you are Starving”.

Append semicolons to the first two steps of the Gathering atomic action.

If the text “Calculate B = 5 - Defences. If B is > 0, lose B People.” exists in the ruleset, replace it with “If a District’s Defences are less than 5, that District loses People equal to the difference between 5 and their Defences.”.

If the sentence “If a District’s Defences are less than 5, that District loses People equal to the difference” exists in the ruleset without a period, replace it with “If a District’s Defences are less than 5, that District loses People equal to the difference between 5 and their Defences.”

Consider Dilemma #2 to be worded as “Gain 1 Ingenuity” instead of “Gain 1 Tech” in both outcomes.

Uphold the Reactions made to that Dilemma prior to the posting of this CfJ as if they were performed while that wording was in effect.

Set the Special Case rule “Reinitialisation” to Active.

If Proposal: Cloudy with a chance of Horde was enacted then this proposal has no further effect.

Add a new dynastic rule, called Regional Effects:

Regional Effects come into effect based on the aggregate conditions of all Districts, and apply to all Districts while they are in effect.Regional Effects that are in effect are not publicly tracked, as they are derived from publicly available information, although they may be informally tracked on the gamestate tracking page by Districts if they wish. When the conditions that caused a Regional Effect to come into effect no longer exist, that regional Effect ceases to be in place.

The Regional Effects that can exist, and the circumstances that cause them, as as follows:
Depopulation: The sum total People in all Districts is less than 200.
Famine: The average Food in all Districts is less than 4.
Marauders: The average Defences in all Districts is 0 or lower.
Nihilism: The average Order in all Districts is less than 40.

While any Regional Effect is in effect, any loss of the resource associated with that Regional Effect (Depopulation with People, Famine with Food, Marauders with Defences and Nihilism with Order) is doubled.

Freezing gales sweep into the city from the east, marking a shift in the seasons and colder months to come. The residential infrastructure of each district will need some essential construction and maintenance to get through it, using parts and materials from wherever they can be found.

Do the Districts focus on stripping agricultural equipment for pipework and boilers, or recycling construction materials from their defensive structures?

Heating: Gain 1 Tech and Lose 1 Food

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Insulation: Gain 1 Tech and Lose 1 Defences

Add a new rule named “Partners” and give it the following text:

Each District has a Partner, which must either be empty or contain the name of another District and defaults to empty. A District may set its Partner if it has not done so since the most recent Dilemma was posted, but only after Reacting to the most recent Ongoing Dilemma.

If two Districts have each others names in their Partner, they are considered to have a Partnership between each other. If there is a Partnership between two Districts, when a District in that Partnership applies an Upside or a Downside to themselves, they must also apply it to the District named as their Partner.

If a rule named “Special Cirumstances” exists, replace the text “Calculate B = 5 - Defences. If B is > 0, lose B People.” with

If a District’s Defences are less than 5, that District loses People equal to the difference

Add a Downside:

* Lose 1 Food, or lose 3 Food instead if your Defences are less than 1

In the rule “Dilemmas”, in the steps for the Posing a Dilemma atomic action, replace the bullet point that begins with “Make a blog post” with these bullet points:

* Roll 2DICE6. If the result matches a value in the Roll column of the Special Circumstances table, select the corresponding Circumstance as the Special Circumstance for this atomic action.
* Make a blog post which pairs the first Upside with the first Downside, and the second Upside with the second Downside. Include the Special Circumstance in the post if there is one from the preceding step. This post is known as a Dilemma, with each pairing an Outcome.

Add a new rule named “Special Circumstances” and give it the following text:

When a Special Circumstance appears in the Dilemma, it applies immediately to all Districts and uses the District’s values at the time of the posting of the Dilemma.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Special Circumstances
|-
! Roll !! Circumstance
|-
| 5 || Marauders at the Gates: Calculate B = 5 - Defences. If B is > 0, lose B People.
|}

In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, and in all Ongoing Dilemmas, change

Lose 1 Food

to

Lose 1 Food, or 10 People if you don’t have any Food

In the rule Districts, change “A level of Defences, being a number that defaults to 0.” to read

A level of Defences, being a number that defaults to 0 but which can be negative.

If Proposal: Grain Rats was enacted, change “if you have no Defences” to “if you have zero or lower Defences”.

If Proposal: Reinventing the Wheel didn’t pass, this proposal has no effect.

Throughout the dynastic ruleset, replace “Tech” with “Ingenuity”.

Add a new dynastic rule, called “Innovation”:

There exist a number of Innovations, all of which are recorded in the table below. Each Innovation has an Innovation type, a name, an Ingenuity cost, zero or more prerequisites, and an effect which is applied to every District who has learned it. If a District has learned an Innovation multiple times, its effect applies an equal number of times (if possible). The Innovations that a District has learned are tracked in a public list; if an Innovation has been learned more than once by a District, its name is marked with a multiplicative suffix (e.g. “x2” or “x3”) in that list to indicate the number of times learned.

When a District Innovates, they choose one Innovation for which they meet all prerequisites, pay its Ingenuity cost, and then learn it.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Innovation type !! Name !! Ingenuity cost !! Prerequisites !! Effect
|-
| Fundamental || Shared Wisdom || 0 || None || Whenever you gain Ingenuity, increase the amount of Ingenuity gained by 1.
|}

Add a Downside:-

* Lose 1 Food if you have no Defences

Add an Upside to the list:-

* Gather

Remove “As a daily action, a District may Gather.” from the rule “Commons”.

In that same rule, replace “* Calculate n, where n is the number of days since they last Gathered, or the number of days since the most recent Ascension Address was posted if they have yet to Gather in this dynasty” with:

* Calculate n, where n is the number of the Dilemma that they are Reacting to, minus their Calendar
* Set their Calendar to the number of the Dilemma that they are Reacting to

After “select one Consequence” and “one additional Consequence”, add:-

(other than Gathering)

Add a paragraph to the end of the rule:-

Each District has a Calendar, which is a publicly tracked number.

To “Dilemmas”, add:-

A Dilemma’s number is equal to the number of Dilemmas to have been posted before it in the dynasty, plus one.

The city is, at least for now, at peace. The last wave of conflict between the Districts ended in a kind of pyrrhic stalemate, with the heavier fortifications across the city blown open at all angles, some parts still hanging dangerously above the roads by a single chain or girder.

Do the Districts collapse these useless barriers safely for easier access to the crop fields, or risk sending people in to reassemble them?

Clear: Gain 1 Food and Lose 1 Defences.

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Rebuild: Gain 1 Defences and Lose 5 People.

If the rule “Dilemmas” exists, add a new rule named “Visitors” and give it the following text:

Each District has a publicly tracked Visitor, which is one of the values listed in the table below or is blank, defaulting to blank. When a District’s has a non-empty Visitor, the corresponding Special Dilemma is considered Ongoing, but only for this District, for exactly as long as the current Dilemma is Ongoing. A District with a non-empty Visitor must follow the same rules as described in the subrule Reactions for the Visitor’s Special Dilemma, in addition to the current Dilemma that is Ongoing.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Visitors
|-
! Visitor !! Special Dilemma
|-
| Cult Leader || Gain 10 People, Lose 1 Food, Lose 1 Defences OR Lose 10 People, Gain 2 Defences
|}

If there is a dynastic rule named “Districts”, add the following bullet point to the end of the list of publicly tracked values:

* An amount of Tech, being a number that defaults to 0

If there is a dynastic rule named “Upsides and Downsides”, add the following bullet point to the end of the list of Upsides:

* Gain 1 Tech

and add the following bullet point to the end of the list of Downsides:

* Lose 1 Tech

If Proposal: Fifteen Minute City or Proposal: Two Roads Diverged failed, skip the rest of this proposal.

In the dynastic rule “Districts”, change this:

* A number of People, being a number that defaults to 50.
* An amount of Food, being a number that defaults to 5.
* A level of Defences, being a number that defaults to 0.

to this:

* A number of People, being a number that defaults to 50.
* An amount of Food, being a number that defaults to 5.
* A level of Defences, being a number that defaults to 0.
* A level of Order, being a number that defaults to 20 and is capped at 100.

In the rule “Dilemmas”, add the following bullet point to the end of the Posing a Dilemma action:

* Perform this step once for each Dilemma that has ceased to be ongoing between this Posing a Dilemma and the last Posing a Dilemma: if a Dilemma has ceased to be Ongoing between the last Posing a Dilemma and this Posing a Dilemma, reduce the Order of all Districts who haven’t reacted to that Dilemma by 5 (if this would reduce a District’s Order to a value below zero, then reduce it to zero).

If a dynastic rule named “Districts” exists, add the following text to the end of it:

A District with no People is Abandoned. An Abandoned District cannot achieve victory while it remains Abandoned.
A District with People in excess of 25 times its Food is Famished.
A District with no Food that is not Abandoned is Starving. A Starving District cannot willingly increase its own People unless it simultaneously increases its Food.

Uphold the Ascension Address at https://blognomic.com/archive/the_dead_city and proceed as though the update to the ruleset at https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Ruleset&oldid=23998 had been made by Kevan, rather than lendunistus, to complete the atomic action that the Ascension Address began and trigger the start of the dynasty. Legalize the subsequent proposals and votes that were only invalid because they were made during Interregnum and/or made by Kevan in the middle of an unrelated atomic action.

Set all Special Case Rules to their default statuses.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, called Commons:

There exist a number of Commons, all of which are detailed in this rule. Each District may be connected to a number of Commons up to its population divided by 100, rounded up; the Commons to which each District is connected are publicly tracked. A District may establish a connection to a Common at any time, provided that they meet the population criteria, but once established, such a connection may not be broken.

The available Commons are:
The Grazing Lands
The Deserted Barracks
Shrine to Iclaseer
Shrine to Oseele

As a daily action, a District may Gather. Gathering is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Calculate n, where n is the number of days since they last Gathered, or the number of days since the most recent Ascension Address was posted if they have yet to Gather in this dynasty;
* Gain n * 0.1 Food for each connection that District has to the Grazing Land, rounded to the nearest whole number;
* Gain n * 0.1 Defences for each connection that District has to the Deserted Barracks, rounded to the nearest whole number;
* Randomly select one Concequence and apply it. For each connection that district has to a Shrine of Iclasser, randomly select and apply one additional Concequence. For each connection that District has to a Shrine of Oseele, randomly select and apply one Downside Concequence.

Enact a new rule, “Upsides and Downsides”:-

Events in the world have consequences which are either Upsides or Downsides.

The Upsides are:

* Gain 5 People
* Gain 1 Food
* Gain 1 Defences

The Downsides are:-

* Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)
* Lose 1 Food
* Lose 1 Defences

Enact a new rule, “Dilemmas”:-

If they have not already done so that day, the City may perform the atomic action of Posing a Dilemma:

* Select two Upsides and two Downsides at random
* If the two Upsides are the same and the two Downsides are the same, randomly select one of those four consequences and randomly change it to a different consequence of the same Upside/Downside type
* Make a blog post which pairs the first Upside with the first Downside, and the second Upside with the second Downside. This post is known as a Dilemma, with each pairing an Outcome.

(Whenever the City is required to select something at random, they may instead do this in a secretly random manner.)

Add a subrule to “Dilemmas” called “Reactions”:-

A Dilemma is Ongoing if it is less than 48 hours old. A District may React to the oldest Ongoing Dilemma that they haven’t already Reacted to, by performing the following atomic action:

* Post a comment on the Dilemma announcing which of the two Outcomes they are selecting
* Apply the chosen Outcome’s Upside and then its Downside to themselves

If a District is unable to perform a Upside or Downside (eg. because it would set a variable to an invalid value), they must skip it instead of performing it.

Enact a new rule, “Districts”:-

Each District has the following publicly tracked values:

* A number of People, being a number that defaults to 50.
* An amount of Food, being a number that defaults to 5.
* A level of Defences, being a number that defaults to 0.

In the Special Case rule “Dynastic Tracking”, change “The Scale Model” to “Dead City”.

It is hard to truly kill a city.

War had driven many from the old seaport, and by the time the floods came, most of what remained of humanity had relocated into the Great Machines, vast and protected structures that roamed slow and optimised routes across the inhospitable landscape.

For years the old city remained a trading post, a fragile but crucial meeting point between the Machines and the cargo ships. When conditions worsened and trade stopped, the Machinists offered the people of the city one final, fractious evacuation. The Machines maintained a wary distance after that, with only occasional sightings of them grazing blindly through the city’s outskirts, sifting through the rubble for raw materials before moving on.

Contact with the Great Machines was eventually lost, and it has now been a generation since anyone in the city has seen one, even on the icy horizons. Across the city’s splintered districts, small communities still survive under the guidance of local leaders, maintaining a precarious but unbroken existence against their constant adversities.

The city lives.

Replace the term “Great Machine” with “City”; replace “Machinist” with “District”.

Post-dynastic commentary thread

I pass the mantle to Kevan.

In the rule “Machinist Agendas”, change

Machinists may never disclose, implicitly or explicitly, publicly or privately, their Agendas, except where explicitly required for the Declaration of Victory

to:

Machinists may never disclose, implicitly or explicitly, publicly or privately, their Agendas, except where explicitly required for the Declaration of Victory, or during Interregnum

Per That Was Fast!, I have achieved victory.

With the following Agendas, lendunistus has achieved victory:

You have a combined total of Housing and Valves that’s greater than all other Machinists’ Housing and Valves totals combined, and a majority of Machinists have non-zero Housing and non-zero Valves.

You have been in Lockdown while holding at least 14 baubles (which are obtainable in the Flea Market) for at least 50% of the last 168 hours (1 week).

Your current quantity of owned Coal and baubles are the same, and that quantity is also the same as number of Locations in the Great Machine’s Destination.

Create the following Facilities in the System of Dwelling:

|-
| System of Dwelling || Machinist Terminal || 0 || DORMANT ||

Create the following Facilities in the System of Control:

|-
| System of Control || Programming Station || 0 || DORMANT || Replace the text of the Function of the Machinist Terminal with the text from the Function of any other Facility except the Junction Supergrid, the Programming Station, and the Machinist Terminal, paying 1 non-Paint Component per 3 words of the new text, then change 1 word of the new text that is not a number to any word except the name of a Machinist, a number, or any form of the word “victory”.

Add the following sentence to the end of the first paragraph of the rule “Resource Triangle”:

New Machinists start with a number of Resources equal to the number of instances of Passing Time that have occurred this dynasty, divided evenly between Coal, Housing, and Valves with the remainder going to their Megasystem’s Resource.

Award 2 Coal, 2 Housing and 2 Valves to any Machinists who had never possessed any Coal, Housing or Valves between the start of the dynasty and when this proposal was posted.

In the rule “Damage and Repair”, after

* Perform the Criminal Activity atomic action

add the following step:

* If the Megasystem is Defective but not Destroyed, roll DICE3. On a 1, put yourself on the Lockdown list for 2 days and remove your name from each Machinist’s Witness List wherever it appears.

The Great Machine is limping its way across the ice plains. Though it’s moving much too slowly to reach its destination today — the System of Motion remains heavily damaged, and the strain of moving is damaging connected mechanisms in Control — it’s thankfully able to avoid getting caught and damaged in the glacial movements of the ice plates.

Within the Machine, the situation is showing some hope of recovering. Both the Systems of Motion and Dwelling are in much better shape than they were yesterday as the Machinists have gotten back to work in full force. There is still much work to be done, however.

A second Machinist has been caught scavenging the Great Machine, however, meaning that the people cannot rest their worries just yet. The Machinist who was arrested yesterday has since been released, as he has insisted he was only going to use the parts to repair a more urgent breakdown elsewhere in the Machine. A likely story!

In mercantile news, the high prices of Coal and Valves have begun to drop, though the former remains tied with Housing as the most expensive. A handful of component types — cogs, pipes, and wiring — are all tied as the cheapest.

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, change “If the Destination list is not empty and the System of Motion is not Defective” to “If the Destination list is not empty and the System of Motion is not Destroyed”.

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, directly after “Randomly select a Megasystem and add a random component to its Damaged Parts; do this twice if the Destination list is empty.”, add a new bullet point:

* If the System of Motion is Defective but not Destroyed and the Destination list is not empty, randomly select a Megasystem and add a random Component to its Damaged Parts.

In “Brevity”, change “Any Proposal which would add more than 400 characters net to the dynastic ruleset” to:-

Any Proposal which would add more than 400 characters net to the world (the world being defined as the dynastic ruleset and the Functions of Facilities)

Append the following step to the Passing Time Atomic Action:

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

Remove the sentence “Machinists may never disclose, implicitly or explicitly, publicly or privately, their Agendas, except where explicitly required for the Declaration of Victory.” from “Machinist Agendas”.

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”.

Remove all current entries from all three Repair Logs.

In the Function of the Steerage Override, replace “Add your choice of Location from the list” with:

Spend 1 Valve to add your choice of Location from the list

In “Time’s Passage”, replace “Each day, the Great Machine can and should perform the following Daily Atomic Action, called Passing Time:” with:-

If they have not already done so in the last 30 hours, the Great Machine can and should perform the following Atomic Action, called Passing Time:

In the rule “Time’s Passage”, change “Remove every entry in the Lockdown list with a Days value of 0, then subtract 1 from the Days value of each remaining entry.” to “Subtract 1 from the Days value of each entry in the Lockdown list, then remove every entry in the Lockdown list with a Days value of 0.”.

In the rule “Victory”, change “If a Machinist’s Mastery is at least 2, and is higher than that of every other Machinist, and if the date is on or after August 3, 2023, 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.” to:

If a Machinist’s Mastery is at least 2, and is higher than that of every other Machinist, and if the date is on or after August 3, 2023, then they have achieved victory. When a Machinist has achieved victory, the Great Machine should, at their first opportunity, make a blog post announcing the identity of this Machinist and listing every Agenda owned by that Machinist.