Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Proposal: One major tome

Timed out (2-9)
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 11 Nov 2006 11:53:09 UTC

Since this Tome is somewhat more powerful than the other 2, I’m proposing it separately and putting an additional restriction on it.

Add the following tome to the list in Rule 2.7.1:
Book of Water(3 copies)
Condensation
Circumstances:This spell may be cast if the Student casting it has a positive Thirst, has a nonzero mythos knowledge, and has not cast Alertness Ritual, Condensation or Douse in the last 72 hours.
Consequences:Decrease the Thirst of the Student who cast this spell by 2.

Douse
Circumstances: This spell may be cast if the Student casting it has a mythos knowledge of at least 7 and has not cast Alertness Ritual, Condensation or Douse in the last 72 hours.
Conequences:  The Student who cast this spell chooses another Student. Ten liters of ice water appear directly above their head.  That Student loses 1 Sanity, plus 2 more if this spell has never been cast on them before.

Alertness Ritual
Circumstances:This spell may be cast if the Student casting it has a mythos knowledge of at least 4 and has not cast Alertness Ritual, Condensation or Douse in the last 72 hours.
Consequences:The Student who cast this dunks eir face in a bucket of water. The Student who cast this spell is cured of Sleep or Drowsiness, if e had either.  If this is cast immediately after this Student lost 6 Sanity due to the Rule entitled “Theraputic Isolation”, e regains 3 of the lost Sanity.

Drink the Book
Circunstances:This spell may be cast if the Student casting it has a mythos knowledge of 20.
Consequences:The Student who cast this spell has eir Thirst set to -10.  The Student who cast this spell loses eir copy of this tome.  For the rest of the Dynasty, that Student casts spells from the Book of Water as if all instances of “72 hours” in the spells’ Circumstances were “48 hours” instead

Comments

Hix:

08-11-2006 20:56:05 UTC

Curing sleep is nifty and flavorful, but remember that “idle” got changed to “sleeping”.  We don’t want to confuse them.  Thirst cannot be set to -10, since -10 is not a whole number.  It’s not clear whether the last sentence of the proposed rule allows the spells to be cast without a Tome.

aran:

08-11-2006 21:05:28 UTC

for
1)i think it’s clear you can’t cast spells without the tome (3 copies).
2) -10 is whole.

ChronosPhaenon:

09-11-2006 00:50:45 UTC

against I like this tome, but agree with Hix’s concerns. A proposal coming from Bucky must be pristine clear so I can vote for it.

Elias IX:

09-11-2006 00:58:52 UTC

against

Whole numbers are {0, 1, 2, 3…}, using the mathematical definition.

Yeah, and the Sleeping thing…

So basically, what Hix said.

Rodney:

09-11-2006 16:59:55 UTC

against Same thing here.

Hix:

09-11-2006 17:24:38 UTC

against

TrumanCapote:

09-11-2006 18:35:51 UTC

against

Duke:

09-11-2006 20:22:58 UTC

against

Thrawn:

10-11-2006 06:12:47 UTC

against

Tommy:

10-11-2006 16:17:43 UTC

against

Repropose this in slightly-modified form!  It’d be a shame to lose the idea.

Ornithopter:

10-11-2006 22:10:27 UTC

against
Yes!  Fix and repropose!