Thursday, July 06, 2006

Proposal: Catastrophe Curve

Vetoed by Hix.  For some reason, it wasn’t on top of the stack, but was the oldest pending. (Compare to Influential Beacon (1439/7/6))

~Greth

Adminned at 07 Jul 2006 18:19:56 UTC

Add the following paragraph to Rule 2.6 (The Timeline), after the third paragraph:-

Node Events with the “Katastrophe” keyword are too dangerous to manipulate directly, and can only be redescribed as the result of a side-effect.

...and replace “Any Traveller may create or redescribe a Node Event” with “Any Traveller may create or redescribe a non-Katastrophic Node Event”.

Comments

Thelonious:

06-07-2006 10:48:14 UTC

Go on then. for

ChronosPhaenon:

06-07-2006 12:49:10 UTC

for Good

Rodney:

06-07-2006 14:04:08 UTC

for

Coldspell:

06-07-2006 15:33:26 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

06-07-2006 18:12:48 UTC

for

Hix:

06-07-2006 21:23:43 UTC

I’m a bit disturbed that I wouldn’t even be allowed to remove an inappropriate [Katastrophe].  In any case, this is rather contrary to my vision for the [Katastrophe] keywords.  These are events which may seemingly be unrelated, but which have a strong connection to the Great Paradox.  I fully intend for a Traveller to be able to alter such a Node to cause some strange-looking side effects. veto