Monday, June 14, 2021

Proposal: Dark Machinations Mk II

Unpopular at 3-7. Failed by Brendan.

Adminned at 15 Jun 2021 20:37:33 UTC

Add to the Dynastic rule “Vampire Lords” before the paragraph describing Allegiance:

Each Vampire Lord has a Trust, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer that defaults to the lowest Trust value held by any active Vampire Lord.

Set all active Vampire Lords’ Trust to 0.
Add the following rule, called “Dracula’s Demands”, above “Crypt Denizens” in the Dynastic rules:

A Demand is an objective whose completion furthers the plans of the dark forces beneath Zahndorf Cathedral. A Demand consists of a name (which is flavour text) and a Condition describing an event, circumstance, or course of action that must come to pass for the Demand to be fulfilled. Demands that are assigned to Vampire Lords are publicly tracked alongside the names of the Vampire Lords and/or idle Vampire Lords they are assigned to.

As a Weekly Communal Action, any Vampire Lord may perform the following atomic action:
* Randomly group all active Vampire lords into sets of 2; if there is an odd number of active Vampire Lords, include one set of 3.
* Randomly assign one of the Demands listed in the Ruleset (excluding those which are currently assigned) to each set of Vampire Lords determined in the previous step of this action, such that no two sets receive the same Demand.
* For each newly-assigned Demand, add its name to the publicly tracked list of assigned Demands alongside the names of the Vampire Lords it is assigned to.

If an assigned Demand has had its Condition fulfilled in the last 24 hours and was not assigned during that period, any Vampire Lord that it is assigned to may erase that Demand’s name from the list of assigned Demands to increase by 3 the Trust of all Vampire lords and/or idle Vampire Lords it is assigned to. After this occurs, that particular Demand is no longer considered to be assigned until it is assigned again.

The list of Demands that can be assigned is as follows, with each Demand’s Condition following its name:
* Bloodthirst. Richardo von Nestor is Grievously Injured twice in the same Enter the Crypt action.
* Sacrifice. Four Crypt Denizens have been slain since this Demand was last assigned.
* Hidden Ritual. An single explored room connected to E4 with an orthogonally-connected path of explored rooms is never Richardo von Nestor’s location during three consecutive Enter the Crypt actions.

a rework of the demands framework using a hardcoded list of valid demands this time; the ones here are just some initial examples, as there aren’t enough to assign, so we’ll need further proposals to define more valid demands :0

Comments

Josh: he/they

14-06-2021 13:34:32 UTC

Explicit abstain on this one

Kevan: he/him

14-06-2021 15:01:35 UTC

I’m lukewarm on the randomness and would vote DEF, but if Josh is abstaining then against

Hidden Ritual is very good, though.

Janet: she/her

14-06-2021 15:03:10 UTC

It seems like this could result in all demands being assigned and thus no demands being assignable in the next round, and it’s not clear what happens there.  against

Clucky: he/him

14-06-2021 15:29:47 UTC

for

Feel like Jason’s issue can be patched

Brendan: he/him

14-06-2021 15:47:43 UTC

against I prefer determinism for this dynasty broadly, I think.

ais523:

14-06-2021 17:37:19 UTC

for I still like the basic mechanic, and would prefer to go down the path of “enact then fix” rather than “don’t enact, and make a followup proposal”.

Phil:

14-06-2021 20:38:29 UTC

against Aren’t there a lot more sets of vampire lords than demands in the list?

Raven1207: he/they

14-06-2021 21:07:28 UTC

against

lemon: she/her

14-06-2021 21:53:00 UTC

@phil this is just a framework and the list is intentionally left incomplete, as the commentary says :‘o

@jason there’s no rounds here; if all demands were assigned u would just not assign demands until some more were written in or freed up by being completed

i do want to say that the more we waffle on voting in some actual reasons to do stuff the longer the start of this dynasty will drag on w/o anything interesting happening u_u

Darknight: he/him

15-06-2021 18:46:49 UTC

against

Josh: he/they

15-06-2021 20:13:50 UTC

imperial

Josh: he/they

15-06-2021 20:21:44 UTC

cov against as my def is effectively an against, mathematically, so might as well clear the queue