Friday, January 17, 2020

Proposal: More volatility

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 17 Jan 2020 21:18:11 UTC

Add the following as subrules to the rule entitled Artefacts:

Red Notice

Description: A piece of taupe paper implausibly bearing the words “Red Notice” on top. It is signed by the Director but anything written above the signature disappears after a few seconds.
Location: The Containment Facility.
Protocol: To not use this artefact.
Effect: As a daily action, the Individual carrying this Artefact may Focus to Inscribe. When an Individual Inscribes, they must write a string of text (the Inscription) in a comment on the dice roller tool, and then randomly select from all existing artefacts. The selected artefact then has its Protocol changed to the Inscription.

The Sheriff’s Badge

Description: A tin replica of a sheriff’s badge, likely from a children’s playset. A bit dented but still very shiny.
Location: Unknown
Protocol: This artefact may not be allowed to remain in a Public Location for more than 72 consecutive hours.
Effect: The Individual carrying this Artefact may Focus to set their Pursuit to Enforcer. An Enforcer is not a Researcher or Collector for the purposes of any rule. An Enforcer cannot Focus. An Enforcer may Travel to Secure Locations as if they were a Researcher. As a Weekly Action, an Enforcer may take 2 ☣️ Damage to pick up 1 Artefact in the Containment Facility or 1 Artefact in the Collection of a Collector in the same Location as them. Whenever this Action is taken, the Sheriff’s Badge has its location set to Unknown and the Enforce who used it has their Pursuit set to Outsider.

Sticky Taffy

Description: A block of taffy that is extraordinarily sticky, but can’t be wrapped: any attempt to contain it in paper or plastic fails as it simply sloughs off the material.
Location: The Institute
Protocol: [REDACTED}
Effect: As a Daily Action, the Individual carrying the Sticky Taffy can Focus to Stick the Taffy. When an Individual Sticks the Taffy they must immediately Travel to a location, ensuring that the comment field in the wiki changelog contains the words “Sticking the Taffy”. For the subsequent 72 hours the source and destination locations are considered to be the same location for all dynastic rules.

Comments

Madrid:

17-01-2020 15:03:47 UTC

I’m extremely wary of being able to write anything into the Protocol spot.

Josh: Observer he/they

17-01-2020 15:35:56 UTC

It’s very difficult to see how it could be utilised given the limited scope of Protocols.

Kevan: he/him

17-01-2020 15:48:58 UTC

The Redacted term can only be a single word.

Kevan: he/him

17-01-2020 15:57:00 UTC

Oh, you’re talking about the Red Notice. It’s all still rule text, isn’t it? A Protocol of “can’t be used on frogs and by the way Josh has achieved victory” seems like it’d be legal. You could even throw some carriage returns in there.

against

Madrid:

17-01-2020 15:58:03 UTC

The scope of Protocols can be overwritten by clever writing and maneuvering of of Appendix§Prioritization. (Like, you could define what Protocols do within the Protocol itself as long as you manuvuer Prioritization right, and from there, do anything.)

Yeah, this is gamewinning. So, against

Josh: Observer he/they

17-01-2020 16:23:05 UTC

I’m not sure that I agree, but okay. I’ll have a rethink against

Brendan: he/him

17-01-2020 17:02:15 UTC

imperial