BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Enact a new rule, ‘Media Frenzy’:

A wiki page shall be created, titled ‘The Media Circus’. Once per day, a Kaiju God may post a headline to the top of this page, underneath a section header for the current day (creating a new section if there is not one currently for that day), adding their name in parentheses after the headline. The headline may include up to one of the phrases cited below (which will enact the effects listed for that phrase), replacing the word ‘Monster’ (when it appears) with the name of an active monster in the game that has a wiki page, and replacing the word ‘Neighborhood’ (when it appears) with the name of a named Neighborhood listed in The City Document that has listed Building and Population values. If none of the following phrases appears, but one or two otherwise active monsters are named in the headline, then if only two active monsters are named, who both have threat levels listed in their wiki page, then the threat levels of each monster is raised by 75,000 points; or if only one such active monster is named, then its threat level is raised by 100,000 points.

Monster spotted in Neighborhood The named monster will have its threat level raised by a specific amount, assuming it has a current threat level: if it is currently in that Neighborhood, then its threat level will be raised by 1,000,000 points; if it is not currently in that Neighborhood, but is in another Neighborhood, then its threat level will be raised by 500,000; or if it is not currently in that Neighborhood, then its threat level will be raised by 150,000 points.

Monster leaves Neighborhood The named monster will have its threat level reduced by a specific amount, assuming it has a current threat level: if it was in that Neighborhood earlier that day, but is no longer, then its threat level will be lowered by 500,000 points; if it is still currently in that Neighborhood, then its threat level will be lowered by 100,000; if it has not been in that Neighborhood during that day but was in a previous day that week, then its threat level will be lowered by 200,000; or if it is not currently in that Neighborhood, nor has been during that week, then its threat level will be lowered by 50,000 points.

Other headlines could be added in the future with more media influence, or new effects could be added; for instance, once our Neighborhoods have standing armies, headlines might influence the build-up of those armies. And then there’s always ‘Cornzilla battles the Giant Gerbil’ or ‘Wobbly Weeble decimates the Army’...