BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Remove the rule called ‘The Monkey Line’.

Rewrite the rule ‘Status’ to say:

Each Monkey has a Status tracked in the GDNT which is either In the Line, or In the Barrel. The default status for a monkey is In Line.

Add the following subrule to Status called ‘The Monkey Line’

The Monkey Line is an endless line of chalk squares (known as “Positions”), each of them numbered, starting from one and going up. Each monkey whose status is “In the Line” appears once and only once in The Monkey Line. The Monkey Line is tracked in a wiki page called “Monkey Dynasty Gamestate Documents”. Position one is known as the top of the list. Each Position may contain one or more Monkeys, or be empty. Whenever a Monkey joins the game or has eir status changed back to “In the Line”, they are placed in the lowest numbered empty Position. Whenever a Monkey has eir status set to something other than the Monkey Line or goes idle, they are removed from the monkey line and their position becomes empty.

If a Position is empty (and a later Position has a Monkey in it), or if a Position has more than one Monkey in it, then the Line is Unbalanced.

If a Position is empty, but the position immediately after it has a single Monkey in it, then any Monkey may move that Monkey into the empty position.

If a Position has two Monkeys in it, then any Monkey may increment the Position of every Monkey after that Position, and place the alphabetically-earliest of the two Monkeys into the newly vacated Position.

As a daily action, a monkey that is in the line may change their status from In the Line to In the Barrel.

Add the following subrule to status called ‘The Monkey Barrel’

The Monkey Barrel is an endless pile of squashed monkeys spaces (known as “Slots”), each of them numbered, starting from one and going up. Each monkey whose status is “In the Barrel” appears once and only once in The Monkey Barrel. The Monkey Barrel is tracked in a wiki page called “Monkey Dynasty Gamestate Documents”. Position one is known as the bottom of the barrel.
Each Position may contain one or more Monkeys, or be empty. Whenever a Monkey has eir status set to ‘In the Barrel’ they are placed in the slot one greater than the current largest occupied slot. Whenever a Monkey has eir status set to something other than the Monkey Barrel or goes idle, they are removed from the monkey line and their position becomes empty. If a Monkey goes idle while in the barrel, if he rejoins the dynasty instead of being placed in the monkey line, he is instead placed in whatever slot of the barrel he was in when he left. 

If a Slot is empty (and a later Slot has a Monkey in it), or if a Slot has more than one Monkey in it, then the Barrel is Unbalanced.

If a Slot is empty, but the slot immediately after it has a single Monkey in it, then any Monkey may move that Monkey into the empty slot.

If a Slot has two Monkeys in it, then any Monkey may increment the Slot of every Monkey after that Slot, and place the alphabetically-earliest of the two Monkeys into the newly vacated Slot.

As a daily action, a monkey that is in the barrel may change their status from in the barrel to in the line, but they may only do so if the barrel is not unbalanced and there is no monkey in a slot larger than theirs. (in other words, they are at the top of the barrel).

If anyone has an elegant way to handle trees, I would love to here it. I tried. I phailed.