BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Ah. Checking through my scribbled journal in the twilight, and I’ll keep this as vague as seems fair to, I’ve just realised that one or more Sailors actually submitted Goal lists which were illegal at the time of submission, and which I didn’t pick up on until now. I went ahead and “set that Sailor’s Goals to those specified” at the time, evidently making the same misreading that that Sailors had and not realising it was illegal for me to set those Goals. (This had the knock-on effect of making the Sailors safe from accidents and drownings in all that time, when they shouldn’t have been, and more significantly not giving them any feedback that their Goals hadn’t been legal.) Whether or not it would make or break the winner, we should balance the books before going any further.

There are two ways to resolve the problem. One is to say that the Goals were never set and those Sailors should be considered to have no Goals at the Story’s end. If this CfJ fails, I’ll take that as the verdict.

The other is to make those Goals legal in some way. Letting the Sailor select their own corrections would be unfair this late in the game, so:

Enact a new subrule of Goals, called “Goal Corrections”:-

A Correct List of Goals is one with a total Worth no greater than 10, and it may only include multiples of the same Goal if those multiples all have Targets, and if those Targets are different.

If any Sailors sent private messages to the Narrator in May 2018 requesting a list of Goals that was not a Correct list, the Narrator may, on his own personal copy of each such list, do any of the following:

• if the list has two identical Goals with the same target, change one of those targets to a secretly random value;
• if the list has two identical Goals with no targets, erase one of those Goals at secretly random;
• if the list has a total Worth above 10, erase one secretly random Goal from it

Whenever the alteration or removal of a Goal makes a non-Correct List into a Correct one, that Sailor’s Goals are considered to have been that Correct List since the time at which they were submitted.

I’ll leave it to the decision of a quorum, but this feels like it’s on me for not double-checking all lists at the time of submission, as much as the players in question, which I apologise for.