Friday, June 30, 2023

Proposal: Hacking the Gibson Reality

Timed out and failed, 1-3. Josh

Adminned at 02 Jul 2023 14:55:50 UTC

In the rule “Tier 7: Inverted Tesselation Grid”, add a subrule named “Memetic Injection” and give it the following text:

As an Existential Action, a Mindjacker may perform a Memetic Injection, if they have not done so since the beginning of this dynasty. A Memetic Injection is an action in which the Mindjacker chooses a Tier Rule which does not currently have any mention of Memes and adds the text “As a daily action, any Mindjacker without the Meme for this Tier may acquire it.” to that Tier Rule.

In the subrule “Reality Enforcers”, add the following bullet to the list:

* Memetic Injection* confers 1 Suspicion per Tier chosen in the action.

Provides a once-a-dynasty mechanism (per Mindjacker) to reintroduce the ability to acquire the Meme of a Tier when that Tier has no mention of Memes at all, but at a Suspicion cost that increases with Tier.

Comments

Josh: he/they

30-06-2023 13:51:16 UTC

I have a little bit of reluctance around this, for a couple of reasons, not the least of which being that there’s no guarantee that the Astology Reading will turn out *any* actions that the Mindjacker can carry out, either under their current circumstances (“Ascend”) or even at all (”​Make an Activity Report”). It’s also a temporary fix as Astrology Readings can change every day, so only gives the holder a ‘useful’ result for one day; it also could result in a Mindjacker having an Occupancy Tier that is higher than their Level.

JonathanDark: he/him

30-06-2023 15:48:27 UTC

Ah, I missed the bit that a new Astrology Reading would replace the old one for determining the Existential Actions that are allowed. A one-day blockage isn’t as big of a deal, then.

Since I still have some time, I’ll revise this entire Proposal to something completely different so that I don’t lose the slot.

Bucky:

30-06-2023 18:03:29 UTC

against

lemon: she/her

02-07-2023 02:39:47 UTC

against memetic injection isn’t a very interesting mechanic to me :0

Josh: he/they

02-07-2023 14:55:15 UTC

imperial