Friday, December 09, 2022

Proposal: Behind the Door

Passes 7-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 11 Dec 2022 11:13:54 UTC

Reword the rule “Mansion Map” from:-

The Mansion Map is a graphical represention of Rooms that the Explorers have discovered and their connections to each other. It will be maintained and made available by the Narrator in a separate page of the Wiki, linked from Banewood Mansion. No one may edit the Mansion Map except for the Narrator.

To:-

[[File:MansionMap.jpg|frameless|right]]

The Mansion Map, displayed as an image in this rule, is a graphical represention of the Rooms that the Explorers have discovered and those Rooms’ Connections. All of the Rooms’ Connections are tracked in this Map.

Directions are North, South, East, West, Down and Up. North, South, East and West are the horizontal directions. Up and Down are vertical directions. North is the opposite of South, East is the opposite of West and Up is the opposite of Down.

Each Room may have Connections to other Rooms (each such Connection having a Direction), but may not have more than one Connection in the same Direction. If one Room has a Connection to another, then the second room automatically has a Connection back to the first in the opposite Direction, unless otherwise stated.

Remove “They should update the Mansion Map whenever they do so.” from Rooms.

Remove the “Optionally, Rooms accessible in any cardinal direction or custom Exit Direction from this room” bullet from “Rooms”.

In “Explorer Actions”, remove the paragraph beginning “Where Planned Actions are concerned, the valid directions are North, South…”

If any Connections existed in the Mansion Map immediately prior to this proposal’s enactment which are not tracked in the image at File:MansionMap.jpg and which would be legal under the amended rule, track those Connections in that image.

Bolstering the definition of Connections (so that they exist outside of actions, are automatically two-way, and multiple same-direction exits can’t ever exist within a given room), and embedding the map in the ruleset to reduce the number of tabs that we need to open to see what’s what.

Also removing the redundant “no one may edit”: the image is gamestate, so can already only be edited when rules allow it (and if a proposal or CfJ were to amend it for some reason, that shouldn’t require the Narrator’s pen).

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

09-12-2022 11:51:06 UTC

Am I right in thinking that if a room has additional non-directional connections, they might be handled as something like a malfeasance-based secret passage given that you’re removing the ability to have them just exist normally?

Kevan: he/him

09-12-2022 12:01:42 UTC

Either that or defining new direction words as we need them.

Perhaps existing Connections are vaguer than I thought. I’ve reworded the final cleanup clause here to be clearer that if the Narrator/Katastrophe announces that rooms A and B are joined by a Connection which has no direction, that Connection will not survive this reworking.

JonathanDark: he/him

09-12-2022 15:36:43 UTC

I had a little bit of trouble updating the actual MansionMap.jpg, so the current version of the map is MansionMap2.jpg. I probably just did something stupid, but I may need some help in fixing this if we’re set on the official map only being this one file name referenced. I don’t have a problem with that as long as I can actually update it.

Kevan: he/him

09-12-2022 15:46:03 UTC

Both of those images are showing up identical for me right now, so you updated it okay. It could be a caching issue if updating an image doesn’t immediately update all the pages that include that image, although I’d expect a shift-reload on the ruleset to fix that.

SingularByte: he/him

09-12-2022 15:58:51 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

09-12-2022 17:16:03 UTC

Yeah, the wiki has some weird warnings about “This image already exists” and “This file already exists”. It’s a little confusing what to do next when that warning comes up. In some cases, it doesn’t seem to want to let me proceed anyway, but in other cases, there is an explicit “save changes anyway” button.

Next time I update the map image, I’ll try to update only MansionMap.jpg and determine the sequence of actions that works properly for me.

Josh: Observer he/they

09-12-2022 17:29:06 UTC

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Habanero:

10-12-2022 01:54:01 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

10-12-2022 08:47:22 UTC

[JonathanDark] The image page has a link for “Upload a new version of this file” below the file history, which will probably give you fewer warnings.

quirck: he/him

10-12-2022 14:48:32 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

10-12-2022 19:09:18 UTC

[Kevan] Thanks!

JonathanDark: he/him

10-12-2022 19:09:35 UTC

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Bucky:

11-12-2022 08:16:29 UTC

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