BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Note: You could use this to gain more than 4 nutrients, scouting hasn’t been enacted yet, and I don’t think moving nutrients inside the creature should increase hunger, particularly when this is triggered by fulfilling other moods (so eating something might actually make the creature hungry).  Hunger should be increased periodically when the Statolith/Organs are out of nutrients.

Note: Yes, you can use this to gain more than four—in which case you have to give some back to the statolith immediately after. This is intentional: its to allow a restless creature to keep moving, even when moving consumes nutrients. The cycle is capped at 4, and by the moods.

If scouting hasn’t been enacted yet, then its an action no one can preform. no harm done.

Hunger is triggered when the creature wants to do something and doesn’t have the nutrients to encourage organs to do it. You don’t stop getting hungry just because you have months of energy stored in fat cells. If the creature doesn’t have free and available energy, it gets hungry.

As for eating something making the creature hungry: I saw that coming, and you’ll notice that hunger is never “fullfilled” in this set of rules.

I hope that clears things up.

Note: I do like that the Creature is composed of semi-autonomous organs, like a colony organism learning to differentiate

Note: An amorphous Organ could reduce hunger infinitely since there’s no limit to taking nutrients and giving them to the Statolith.

Note: yes, a amorphous Organ could! I thought I’d capped hunger at 0, but I see now that I hadn’t. fixing…

Note: Ok, I think that satisfies me, I forgot the earlier rule said that about having more than 4 nutrients.  It seems a little weird that having eating something fulfill hunger would have the opposite effect, but I guess as long as nothing fulfills hunger we’re ok.

“Occelus” is spelled wrong and that clause will have no effect, though. (Derrick is free to correct this before it enacts, per Rule 1.1: “Organs may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset and their own Pending Proposals at any time”)

Fixed and thank you. There are a lot of new big words in this dynasty.