Thursday, March 13, 2025

Proposal: Mainstream Media

Reached quorum, 4-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 14 Mar 2025 14:09:38 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “News”:

The News is a publicly tracked list of Stories, defaulting to the empty list. Every Story has a Seeker who created it, a date and time that it will expire, and a thing that that Story is Slandering, all of which are publicly tracked.

At any time, a Seeker may spend 20 Influence, tripled for every time they have performed this action before this dynasty, to create a Story Slandering a Resource of their choice and add it to the News (or extend the expiration date of a Story they created slandering a Resource by 48 hours).

At any time, a Seeker may spend 5 Fame, doubled for every time they have performed this action before this dynasty, to create a Story Slandering a Vocation of their choice and add it to the News (or extend the expiration date of a Story they created slandering a Vocation by 48 hours).

When created, Stories expire 48 hours after their creation. If a Story in the News is past its expiration date, any Seeker or the Custodian may remove it from the News, and it no longer has any effect.

If there is a Story in the News Slandering a Resource, then any time a Seeker would gain an amount of that Resource they instead do not (regardless of Aspiration).

Stories in the News Slandering a Resource have no effect on and may be ignored by Seekers with more Savvy than the Influence of the Story’s creator. Stories in the News Slandering a Vocation have no effect on and may be ignored by Seekers with more Savvy than the Fame of the Story’s creator.

Change the first bullet point of the “Be Productive” action to the following:

* Choose a Vocation you have which there is no Story in the News Slandering (this Vocation is considered the Activity for the rest of this action).

Give every Seeker 20 Savvy.

What’re resources if there’s nothing to spend them on? This lets you report stories in the News, but just like real life they are always negative. Also just like real life, if you’re clever you ignore the News. This is a starting point, it’s intentionally left broad so people can add other things to Slander (maybe other Seekers, to force a Life Event upon them?)

Comments

Josh: he/they

13-03-2025 22:19:50 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

13-03-2025 22:40:23 UTC

for

ais523:

13-03-2025 22:57:52 UTC

for