Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Proposal: More Snow on Evil Cherry Blossoms

reached a quorum, final vote 12-1—Yoda

Adminned at 17 Apr 2008 13:23:24 UTC

Now, with Wholesome Proposal Goodness!

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Create a new Dynastic rule, entitled: “Evil Poetry”, reading as follows:

As a Weekly action, any Henchman whose Location is Africa, Asia, North America or Europe may post an Evil Poem.  If the Overlord deems the Evil Poem to satisfy the requirements of that Location’s Poetic Convention, then the Overlord shall grant to the Henchman who posted it an award (which award shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

The Poetic Conventions are as follows:
* All locations: Subject matter of Evil Poem must reference some aspect of Blognomic (such as the current Dynasty or any past Dynasty) and the applicable one of the following:
* Europe: Evil Poem must be in Higgledy-Piggledy form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy)
* Africa: Evil Poem must be in Blues form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues)
* Asia: Evil Poem must be in Haiku form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Contemporary_English-language_haiku)
* North America: Evil Poem must be in Limerick form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_%28poetry%29)

If a Henchman posts an Evil Poem that the Overlord deems to be particularly bad, or to not be in compliance with the applicable Poetic Convention, the Overlord may in his discretion penalize the applicable Henchman (which penalty shall be determined in the Overlord’s sole discretion and may include, for example, changes in that Henchman’s GNDT statistics, inventory changes, or other gamestate changes).

In judging an Evil Poem, the Overlord is encouraged to consider the difficulty of the form, the level of elegance of the Evil Poem, and the content of the Evil Poem itself (that is to say, an Evil Poem may contain, within the structure of the Evil Poem itself, a request for a particular award).

Comments

jay:

16-04-2008 01:35:39 UTC

for

arthexis: he/him

16-04-2008 02:03:59 UTC

for

Ornithopter:

16-04-2008 02:50:57 UTC

against
Love the thought, but there are serious problems with the Wikipedia pages as definitions of poetic forms. Do limericks need to be obscene? Do they need to follow an AABBA rhyme scheme? Do haiku need to mention seasons? Are we using the expanded English definition that includes “brief, mathematical ‘poems’” and “visual poetry”? How are we defining Blues form, since the Wikipedia page is about music? Do limericks and higgledy piggledies have to be humorous? Etc.

Chivalrybean:

16-04-2008 04:51:35 UTC

imperial

I like the idea.

Josh: Observer he/they

16-04-2008 08:43:51 UTC

for I’d like this to pass and I think that the definitions can be fixed.

Soyweiser:

16-04-2008 10:08:36 UTC

for

aaronwinborn:

16-04-2008 11:50:22 UTC

imperial

Yoda:

16-04-2008 13:02:21 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

16-04-2008 18:00:54 UTC

So basically, whoever sucks up to me the most gets rewarded for it.
I like this. for

dogfish:

16-04-2008 20:26:23 UTC

for love it. i see scope for fun

Darknight: he/him

17-04-2008 02:42:42 UTC

for

Oze:

17-04-2008 14:54:28 UTC

for