Proposal: Leaving Your Mark
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 20 Oct 2023 18:20:58 UTC
Add a new rule called “Wizard Marks” and give it the following text:
There is a publicly-tracked Wizard Marks which is a list of strings, defaulting to an empty list, where each string may contain 1-100 alphanumeric, whitespace, and punctuation characters.
At any time, a Wizard who has not done so since the most recent Duel was resolved may secretly communicate to the Battle Master a string that they wish to add to the Wizard Marks.
The Battle Master should perform the Update Marks action, which is an atomic action in which the Battle Master adds each string received from a Wizard since the previous Update Marks to the Wizard Marks, if it has been at least 6 hours since the last time the Battle Master has done so. If the Battle Master has never performed the Update Marks action this dynasty, they should perform it at least 6 hours after receiving a string from a Wizard.
In the rule “Commencing a Duel” after the bullet starting with “Reply to the duel post” add this bullet point:
* Remove all string entries in the Wizard Marks.
This allows anonymous public messages, which has many uses, and could be a good alternative to Alliances. The 6-hour prohibition between updates is to obfuscate who the likely author of a message is based on their time zone.
Wizard Marks fade after each Duel, but since Duels can’t be resolved until every Wizard has selected a Spell, this should still give each Wizard a chance to also submit a message. Even if the messages in the Wizard Marks are cleared before everyone has had a chance to read them, the gamestate history will still have them, so they are viewable long-term. I just didn’t want them collecting indefinitely over time in the gamestate page.
Not seeing a use for it beyond the scam potential in being able to write free text into gamestate.
Clucky: he/him
i think it would be better/easier on me to just reveal the marks when a duel is run.