Call for Judgment: Bouncing doesn’t work like that
Failed by Call for Judgment: Basic Bounce. Josh
Adminned at 07 Jul 2021 08:10:00 UTC
Undo any actions which Enthralled the Vampire Lord Clucky. Undo the Vampire Lord Clucky’s creation of a Denizen in the Shattered Staircase. (“Undoing an action” here includes undoing both the effects of the action, and the spending of the cost paid to perform that action. If the action was never performed in the first place, undoing it does nothing.)
Undo any Power Actions taken since the posting of this CFJ by each Vampire Lord for whom this CFJ would otherwise attempt to set their Puissance to a negative number.
Uphold Richardo von Nestor’s resolution of the most recent “Enter the Crypt” action at the time of posting of this CFJ (“Richardo’s Twelfth Expedition”), then subtract 1 Puissance from every Vampire Lord (including idle Vampire Lords) who was not idle when this CFJ was posted, and 1 additional Puissance from each Vampire Lord who had a Sigil in the Library of Souls at the time of that action (i.e. the Vampire Lords named pokes, Phil, ais523, Kevan, Jason, Jumble, lemonfanta, Bucky, Chiiika, and Clucky).
Uphold Richardo von Nestor’s most recent (at the time of posting of this CFJ) Puissance calculation from the first of his “Enter the Crypt” actions which lead to the posting of a story post “Richardo’s Ninth Expedition”.
The “Richardo von Nestor is moved back to his previous location.” feature doesn’t actually trigger the effects of the room that Richardo is moved to (because the effects happen based on “that room”, referring to the room that Richardo most recently randomly chose to move to, but movement is based on “his current room”, which is the room he would have been moved into by the feature). But Josh doesn’t seem to have realised that.
This affects two expeditions: the ninth and the twelfth, which were both calculated incorrectly because Josh applied the effect of the Library of Souls one extra time. The ninth is too far back to unravel at this point, so uphold it. The twelfth, though, is recent enough that we can wind it back; the only action that was affected as a result was Clucky’s, and we can undo that one. (Note that we have to be careful identifying the ninth expedition, as the tenth expedition was accidentally originally posted with a title saying it was the ninth.)
Note: an alternative possible resolution would be to change the “go back to where you came from” effect to do what it would be expected to do based on its name. That would also need a CFJ, though, to uphold the resolutions of the ninth and twelfth expeditions (in addition to a ruleset amendment to make it do what we want it to), and I prefer to fix things in a way that gets us as close to the actual gamestate as possible. (If people would prefer that fix, I’ll let them make their own counter-CFJ for it.)
The use of the word “moved” when there is a defined step of the atomic action called “moving” costly supports my interpretation of the effect: that it calls a move action within the existing move action.
Clucky: he/him
“that room” feels poorly defined, but then so is “Richardo is moved back to his previous location”. And it seems we now have precedent from the 9th expedition that “Richardo is moved back to his previous location” both updates his location and resets the “that room” reference.
At the very least, I feel like this should reword stuff so its perfectly clear what happens. But overall not a huge fan of undoing things especially when it feels like a tactical move designed to prevent Jumble from getting to thrall me.