Proposal: Blueprint: Liquid Zeal
Terminally self-killed. Josh
Adminned at 25 Mar 2010 06:02:43 UTC
Add a new subrule to rule 2.2, entitled Liquid Zeal Distillery:
Cost: 5 Quicksilver, 4 Caffeine, 1 Gem Power Requirement: 5
A Commoner who owns an invention that contains this part, and who also owns an invention that contains the Mark of the Demented Baron part, may spend 1 Quicksilver, 1 Caffeine and 1 Coal, and permanently reduce their Income by 1, in order to perform one of the weekly actions listed under rule 2.9.1 regardless of whether it has been previously performed that week.
The Sympathisers are small in number and limited in power, but boundless in zeal. It may rot the brain, but a rotten brain can be fearless in its prosecution of dreadful deeds.
(The idea that Hassan Sabbah’s Assassins were fuelled by hashish may or may not be apocryphal, but it certainly makes for a good story.)
I don’t see why this is limited to sympathisers; at the moment, sympathisers have pretty much every advantage in the rules (automatic spreading of counties, automatic re-invasion of Kent), and loyalists have none, apart from starting with more counties initially (and even then, the original proposal was timed to give the sympathisers a large bulkhead of counties just at the start, which would need immediate attention from the other players to counter it). At the moment, the deck’s heavily stacked in favour of active players becoming sympathisers because it’s just better, and inactive players remaining loyalists because they aren’t paying attention; I’m not sure is skewing it even further is a good idea.
Keba: