Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Story Post: Evil Operation: Henchman’s dilemma

I have decided to test your ambitions. Please me, and you will receive limited access to my formidable library.

Requirements: everyone may join
Effects: upon joining this operation, a henchman must privately inform me wether they choose to be a ‘friend’ or a ‘traitor’. Upon resolution of this operation, if the number of ‘friends’ (f) surpasses the number of ‘traitors’ (t), the operation succeeds. Else, it fails.
Success: If this operation succeeds, all traitors’ GL is increased by one. Furthermore, all friends receive (f-t)/2 intelligence, and all traitors receive 3f/4 intelligence. All fractions are rounded up.
Failure: If this operation fails, all henchmen who joined it lose (t+f)/3 intelligence (fractions are rounded up), and all traitors lose 1 MS from getting beaten up by the friends.

Comments

Purplebeard:

16-04-2008 17:53:31 UTC

Please note that I fully intend to post ‘proper’ Evil Operations in the future. I just thought this could be a neat experiment.

arthexis: he/him

16-04-2008 17:56:11 UTC

I’m in

Yoda:

16-04-2008 17:57:40 UTC

I’m in

Oze:

16-04-2008 18:01:30 UTC

I’m in

aaronwinborn:

16-04-2008 18:02:59 UTC

I’m in

Purplebeard:

16-04-2008 18:04:06 UTC

That’s quick.

jay:

16-04-2008 18:15:08 UTC

I’m in

spikebrennan:

16-04-2008 18:59:45 UTC

I’m in.  I sent a PM through the http://blognomic.com/member/34 console.

Soyweiser:

16-04-2008 19:22:55 UTC

I’m in

Yoda:

16-04-2008 19:55:39 UTC

This dynasty needs more that we henchmen can actually do without the Overlord doing something first.

Yoda:

16-04-2008 19:56:16 UTC

or make it to where a lot of the weekly actions are daily actions

jmrdex:

16-04-2008 20:05:46 UTC

in

jay:

16-04-2008 20:13:50 UTC

pssst jmrdex, you gotta say “I’m in”

dogfish:

16-04-2008 20:24:54 UTC

I’m in

Ornithopter:

16-04-2008 20:33:45 UTC

I’m in

jmrdex:

16-04-2008 22:43:14 UTC

I’m in


Thanks >.>

Rodlen:

17-04-2008 01:31:22 UTC

I’m in.

Darknight: he/him

17-04-2008 02:38:35 UTC

i’m in. i’ll send a PM soon. comps being a jerk

Soyweiser:

17-04-2008 23:31:56 UTC

Just realized that you can be both a friend and a traitor if you see the ‘or’ as an inclusive or. But I doubt that this is the normal way the english language treats the or.

Ornithopter:

18-04-2008 16:47:36 UTC

English is vague about whether an “or” is inclusive (hence the awkward “and/or” formation), but they generally aren’t, and loopholes based on interpreting an “or” as inclusive probably won’t fly.

Yoda:

18-04-2008 16:56:32 UTC

I can’t think of a time when “or” would be inclusive.

Purplebeard:

18-04-2008 17:00:00 UTC

The operation succeeds!

Ornithopter, Darknight and Rodlen did the sensible thing and gain 7 INT and 1 GL.

The rest of you wussies only gain 3 INT.

Ornithopter:

18-04-2008 19:32:26 UTC

“Did you roll a five or six?” can be answered “Yes.”, which implies the “or” was inclusive.

Soyweiser:

19-04-2008 15:11:11 UTC

I’m suprised actually I thought that most of the people would be a traitor. So I wasn’t for the collective.