Is “vernacular” necessary? I worry that could result in squabbles about what is or isn’t vernacular

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“If it has been more than 48 hours since the most recent Drawing atomic action, and the Publisher has not received a Creative Writing from a Storyteller, the Publisher should privately communicate to that Storyteller notifying them of this fact.”

technically infinitely loops and encourages JD to spam us all

eh, I think it’s deliberately meant to be vague because English is a messy and you’re just never going to clearly define a notion of an english word

I’m open to another way to define a proper English word. I expect people may also try to be creative about what is a “complete sentence”.

I’ll fix the looping issue.

Oh, I see, it’s intended that only the Publisher do Drawing.

So the plan is that players send between 5 and 100 words (A Fragment) to the Publisher for each Drawing, and the Publisher reminds players to submit Creative Writing if they haven’t, putting the time scale at about 3 days (probably around a grace day after reminding players).

A Fragment so sent MUST contain all the Current Elements.

THEN.

The publisher updates the Current Elements, in a specifically unspecified way.

Hmmm… how does The Story get updated?

I believe both “how does the story get updated” and “how are elements added to the current element list” were left as exercises to you, the nomic player =D

Indeed, all of that is left for the rest of you to propose. I have some ideas in the backlog, but I want to leave it open unless no one comes up with anything that sticks.

My current thoughts are that each player takes a turn at continuing a shared story. Either that or it’s basically make-your-own-serial.

That’s an interesting idea. You’d have to propose a rule to manage turn order and what happens when a player doesn’t act when it’s their turn.

Once the core rules are laid down that is exactly what I will do