BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

In “Plays”, change

Slipstream: If the most recent Play in the Ongoing Race was from a Snail other than you, change your Position by the same amount that Snail’s Position changed in their most recent Play.

to

Slipstream: Choose a Play made by a Snail other than you in the previous 24 hours, and change your Position as described in “Slipstream Distance” below.

Add a subrule to “Plays”, “Slipstream Distance”:

When a Gastropod Slipstreams a Play, the distance moved is based on the distance between the current Position of the Gastropod, and the Position from which the Play was made, as follows:

• The Play was made from exactly 1cm in front of the Gastropod’s current position: twice the distance that the Play moved (and in the same direction)
• The Play was made from 2-10cm in front of the Gastropod’s current position: the distance that the Play moved (and in the same direction)
• The Play was otherwise made from within 20cm of the Gastropod’s current position: half the distance that the Play moved, rounded up (and in the same direction)
• Other cases: one third the distance that the Play moved, rounded to the nearest integer (and in the same direction).

Set GetPunnedOn’s Pecking Order to 5. Set ais523’s Pecking Order to 6.

In the rule “The Award Ceremony”, change

Each Snail may have a Pecking Order;

to

Each Snail may have a Pecking Order, which (if present) is an ordinal number representing a position within a list (e.g. 1st, 2nd, etc.);

In the rule “Race Fame Modification”, change

Any Snail whose Pecking Order is 2 or Higher is Scrutinised. Any Snails whose Pecking Order is one of the two lowest values is an Underdog, unless they are Scrutinised. All Snails who are neither Scrutinised nor Underdogs are Runners.

to

Any Snail with a Pecking Order of 1st or 2nd is Scrutinised. Any non-Scrutinised Snails whose Pecking Order is later than all, or all but one, other Snails with a Pecking Order are Underdogs. All Snails who are neither Scrutinised nor Underdogs are Runners.

Replace

Leapsnail: If one exists, randomly select a Snail before the Finish Line whose Plays are between 0 and 4 less than yours or whose Position is within 20 of yours. Set your Position to be 1 greater than the selected Snail’s.

with

Leapsnail: If one exists, randomly select a Snail before the Finish Line whose Plays are between 0 and 4 less than yours and whose Position is within 20 of yours. Set your Position to be 1 greater than the selected Snail’s.

Change the first paragraph of the rule “Items” to:

Each Snail has a publicly tracked list of Items, defaulting to an empty list (the order in which Items are listed within the list is irreievant, and if a Snail has multiple copies of the same Item, this is tracked via listing the Item and its quantity, e.g. “Magnet (2)”). Each Item has a name, and optionally an effect that is applied when the Item is Discarded. Items may also have passive effects, which apply to all Snails who have that Item in their Items (but if a Snail has multiple copies of the same Item, only one of those copies applies its passive effect).

and change the decription of Rocket Fuel in that rule to:

Rocket Fuel: Does not count as an item for any Crystals. Passive effect: if you ever have more than 20 Rocket Fuel, you lose Rocket Fuel until you only have 20 left (this does not count as Discarding an item).

Also, change each of the three copies of

When discarded, discards all Rocket Fuels you own. Moves you one cm for every Rocket Fuel discarded this way.

to

When Discarded, remove all Rocket Fuels you own from your list of Items, and you move 1 cm for every Rocket Fuel removed this way.

In the rule “Predators”, change

If that Gastropod is not a Slug, it has at least 1 Play

to

If that Gastropod is a Snail, and the Race has been ongoing for less than 60 hours, that Snail has at least 1 Play

If “Safety Protocols” was not enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Items”, replace the text “until Spot Danger has been performed” with “until after the next time Spot Danger has been performed”.

Increase the Plays of every Snail by 1.