Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Proposal: Existential Growing Pains

Popular 6-1, with more than Quorum in favor. -Bucky

Adminned at 15 Jun 2023 16:19:45 UTC

Add the following as a subrule of “Levels of Reality” called “Neural Strain”:

Mindjackers can accumulate Neural Strain, which represents their immaterial mind suffering damage or struggling to adapt to more complex realities. Each Mindjacker’s Neural Strain is publicly tracked as a non-negative integer that defaults to 0. If a Mindjacker’s Neural Strain is higher than twice their Level, that Mindjacker can reduce their Neural Strain to twice their Level as an Existential Action called Decompressing.

In the rule “Levels of Reality”, after “once every ten hours”, add “plus a number of hours equal to that Mindjacker’s Neural Strain”.

an idea i had last week, but didn’t propose because of that whole business with the Name guessing mechanics. maybe this can contribute to that “special sauce” Josh thinks the dynasty needs :0?

Comments

Josh: he/they

13-06-2023 21:29:46 UTC

imperial

Bucky:

13-06-2023 22:25:25 UTC

against Not by itself.

lemon: she/her

13-06-2023 22:41:26 UTC

@Bucky can you elaborate? are u saying you’d only vote for this rule if the proposal had more mechanics in it?

JonathanDark: he/him

14-06-2023 00:14:34 UTC

for

Bucky:

14-06-2023 14:46:53 UTC

Yes, I think this is only a good idea if it has a way to attain nonzero strain from the start.

Raven1207: he/they

14-06-2023 22:10:28 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

14-06-2023 23:06:20 UTC

for I’m ok with the partial mechanic. We’ve stitched up such things before.

redtara: they/them

15-06-2023 14:07:10 UTC

for