just doesn’t grab me :/

Not partial to there being a Fire Marshall, sorry.

1) COLOUR?  I don’t get it.
2) “Formerly was the grue’s Role” leaves a lot of potential loopholes, as it may have been a Grue from thirteen days ago.

I’ll withhold voting for now, because neither of those are show-stoppers.  But I’d like to see what other folks have to say first.

What happens to all the protagonists that have no roles? Are they “Unemployed”? If they are, I could see many many Fire Marshals coming to be, and I don’t think that concept has a place yet. I also find colored grues to be a silly concept. It’s not like you can see them anyways :P

If we remove the colour thing and the fire marshall thing? I’m not very good at wording the rules… as you can tell.

Any suggestions on re-wording? How do I reword a law proposal?

You can’t edit this proposal once it has votes, but it will continue to count toward your limit of 2 pending proposals until it is officialy failed (or enacted!).

I withdraw the COLOUR query—I didn’t know about that GNDT command.

Ok, so after staring at it for a few minutes, I’m thinking that the COLOUR thing is like “purple grue” (where COLOUR is chosen randomly, we were having a discussion on another one of the Posts, I think it was Deep Pockets, about what the possible random variables are, although I haven’t read the page that someone links to with all the possibilities yet), which only (to me) is a problem in that this Rule doesn’t also define the Role “purple grue”, so the Role field couldn’t be set to it.

Although, after thinking about it for a little while longer, Antagonist doesn’t actually state that the only Roles that exist are those that were defined as subsections of Characters, so maybe that isn’t a problem after all.

I think that this Proposal is really wanting a followup proposal that allows color modifiers on Roles so that that mechanic does something.

I do love the idea that the poor Unemployed person may be forced to become the Fire Marshal.

To answer AgentHH: This rule actually, as currently stated, only permits at most one more Fire Marshal (for a total of two) to accidentally occur. (Which, if Disco Inferno were to (well, at this point, really had) passed, would have been a violation.) It doesn’t define anyone else to be Unemployed but the previous Grue. There’s no reason to assume that Protagonists without Roles are Unemployed.

However, that _is_ a problem, and neither Antagonist nor Disco Inferno dealt with what would happen if that were to occur, and that seems like a really fast way to cause a “these two rules contradict on the outcome of this event” (which is much worse, to me, than “this rule told me to do something that I can only metaphorically do in game state”, as at that point you can at least just roleplay, especially given 75th’s explicit statement that he wanted to leave the Command/Response system open in Erratatime), so on that grounds I feel I must vote .

made me laugh

Salamander: But the rule kind of leads to quick contradictions, no? ;P

I want the Command/Response system to be open, except where Rules impose structure and game effects.

Shouldn’t this be Failed, since it was self-killed?

AgentHH: the admin’ing is just behind ;P. By my figuring, all proposals up through Grue Tag (draft II) are now ready to be admin’d.