Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Proposal: Incorporeal Plane

Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 07 Dec 2022 10:48:47 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule titled “Ghosts”:

Every Explorer is either Living or Ghostly, defaulting to Living. This is publicly tracked. Ghostly Explorers can only perform Actions marked as “spiritual” or “spooky”; if they attempt to perform any other Action nothing happens. Actions which are “spooky” may only be performed by Ghostly Explorers; if a Living Explorer attempts to perform a spooky Action it does nothing. To “kill” an Explorer is to make them Ghostly and to “summon” an Explorer is to make them Living.

If the Proposal “Spooky Grid Action” passed, add the following Planned Action to the list of Planned Actions:

Spooky: Float, together with the name of a Room

and add the following as its description

Floating moves the Explorer to the named Room.

If the Proposal “Darkness around Every Corner” passed, add the following Room Type to the list of Room Types:

| Ritual Circle || A pentagram drawn on the floor in blood almost seems to be calling out to you. Explorers in this Room have access to the following Planned Action:
Spiritual, requires darkness: Ritual, along with the name of another Explorer
If two Explorers’ Ritual Actions refer to each other’s name, one of them is Living, and the other is Ghostly, then Ritual kills the Living Explorer and summons the Ghostly one.

An elimination mechanic, but you can still play the game after you are eliminated and try to return to the world of the living. My intent is that the number of Ghostly players should tend upwards over time.

Comments

Bucky:

06-12-2022 22:55:24 UTC

incorporeal -> something like spiritual, since corporeal Explorers can also do them.

Josh: Observer he/they

06-12-2022 23:13:59 UTC

Astral?

Bucky:

07-12-2022 02:10:05 UTC

As with Darkness around Every Corner, this proposal can result in the default planned action (which isn’t spiritual) being illegal in some circumstances, causing an infinite recursion whenever an Explorer’s planned action becomes illegal (e.g. because they died and their current action wasn’t spiritual either).

Habanero:

07-12-2022 02:15:00 UTC

It’s not illegal to carry out non-spiritual Actions as a ghost, it’s just illegal to set your action to a non-spiritual one.

Habanero:

07-12-2022 02:24:59 UTC

Even if it was illegal to carry out non-spiritual Actions as a ghost, I’d argue that there’s a difference between the Planned Action holding an illegal value and the Planned Action holding a legal value which you are just not allowed to perform.

Habanero:

07-12-2022 02:38:49 UTC

Nonetheless, I’ve clarified both of them in case people disagree with my interpretation.

Habanero:

07-12-2022 02:39:29 UTC

Just in time for the edit window too!

Bucky:

07-12-2022 02:43:35 UTC

Umm, this new wording has the problem of restricting all Actions instead of just Planned Actions. Including, apparently, actions like commenting on blog posts. against and recommend a veto.

IMO the version where ghosts could repeat their last living action indefinitely even if it wasn’t spooky was actually more on-theme.

Habanero:

07-12-2022 02:48:49 UTC

*sigh*  against Withdrawn per Bucky