Proposal: All is Sand
Vetoed. -scshunt
Adminned at 20 Jun 2012 08:44:19 UTC
If the Doctor votes against this proposal, this proposal has no effect.
Replace “Eternities Map” with “Mandala” throughout the ruleset.
Replace “Dark Matter” with “Sand” throughout the ruleset.
Replace “Time Machine” with “Scaffold Rig”. Rename “TARDIS” to “Levitation”, “De Lorean” to “Pulley” and “Wellsian” to “Bamboo”.
Rename “Historical Dynasties” to “Glyphs” and reword it to:-
Aspects of the continuum that interest the Time Buddhas are recorded as Glyphs. The ‘Glyphs’ wiki page tracks the information about each Glyph. Each Glyph has a number, a one-word name and a description. The number of a Glyph refers to a past BlogNomic Dynasty that it has some connection to.
Create the Glyphs wiki page (or blank it if it is created) and add one Glyph with the number “1”, the name “Karma” and the description “A network of lines leaving and rejoining a human silhouette.”.
In the rules “Causal Links” and “The Mandala”, replace “Historical Dynasty”, “Dynasty” and “Dynsaty” with “Glyph”. Remove the words “set it to Paradoxed,”.
Replace “The Mandala is a 10x10 grid containing the numbers from 1 to 100, corresponding to each of the Historical Dynasties.” with:-
The Mandala is a 10x10 grid, each square of which may either contain one Glyph or be Empty. If a square of the Mandala contains a Glyph, this is notated with the name of that Glyph.
Upon creation of the Mandala, all of its squares shall be Empty.
Replace “navigate to” with “focus upon” throughout the ruleset.
Rename “Timeline Repaired!” to “Washing Away”. In the rule, replace “If every Glyph is Repaired” with:-
If every square of the Mandala contains a Glyph
Per my comments on Geronimo!, it seems a bit of a shame to have a second “Monks Use Time-Travel Technology to Visit Earlier Dynasties” theme, after 100 dynasties of never repeating ourselves. This reskins it as collaborating on a giant sand mandala of interconnecting concepts (each drawn loosely from a past dynasty) - the only mechanical changes are that the grid starts empty and we have to define the possible contents as we go, and to drop the Broken/Paradox/Repaired status, which didn’t quite fit and didn’t seem worth stretching.
to clear the queue now that my retheme has been proposed.
Kevan: he/him
A little unnervingly, the Wikipedia article claims that sand mandalas were historically made from “granules of crushed coloured stone”. Is this what we’ve been building up to all along?