Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Call for Judgment: Palatable potency

enacted 3-0
-lemon

Adminned at 28 Jun 2023 22:27:53 UTC

Uphold that the Mindjacking carried out by Bucky at 16:19:00 on 27 June was not illegally carried out in the basis of Bucky’s Suspicion score.

If Proposal: Too Tangled was enacted then this CfJ has no effect.

In the rule Reality Enforcers change the bulleted list to read:

* Resonance Testing* confers 0 Suspicion
* Astromantic Rituals and Tasting the Quantum Soup each confer 1 Suspicion. Changing one’s Anchor confers 1 Suspicion per Level of the Mindjacker performing the action.
* Mindjacking and Superencryption* each confer 2 Suspicion.
* Extrasensory Assassination* confers 4 Suspicion.
* Resonance Testing may have a variable Suspicion cost based on its outcome; see the relevant rule for more information.
* All Actions in this list with an asterisk immediately after their name generate additional Suspicion equal to their Potency.

I agree with Bucky that it was too loosely worded.

Comments

lemon: she/her

28-06-2023 08:03:13 UTC

woah, this has some unexplained major changes in it! what’s the reasoning behind getting rid of every suspicion-granting clause relating to potency instead of just naming the actions more explicitly?

Josh: he/they

28-06-2023 08:12:05 UTC

The only action I could see that explicitly called out Potency but which wasn’t listed was Astromantic Rituals, which I added in. If there are others that you think should be included then I’m happy to add them but this may highlight that a problem does exist.

lemon: she/her

28-06-2023 08:14:40 UTC

yes, but you made Astromantic Rituals only give a single suspicion, and you made it so that Superencryption or Extrasensory Assassination don’t confer suspicion based on their potency anymore! i’m making an alternative CfJ that’s more thorough and less disruptive.

Josh: he/they

28-06-2023 08:17:22 UTC

Let’s not have duelling CfJs, I’m happy to amend this one.

Josh: he/they

28-06-2023 08:20:44 UTC

Have made a change, can’t see what was intended to be the suspicion output of Rituals.

lemon: she/her

28-06-2023 08:22:41 UTC

also, the resonance testing line is pretty impotent here imo — i don’t think it does anything? the suspicion granted in the resonance testing rule is something the ascendant does, not a direct result of the action :‘u

lemon: she/her

28-06-2023 08:23:13 UTC

there’s simply too much fixing needed here to explain it all. i’m sorry to say it, but i’m making my own CfJ

Josh: he/they

28-06-2023 08:31:43 UTC

The resonance testing is intended to be impotent; it’s a signpost, not an instruction.

This feels like a tactical/rhetorical posture so I’ll leave the rest to the players to sort out. Happy to make further edits as needed.

Bucky:

28-06-2023 15:33:14 UTC

for

lemon: she/her

28-06-2023 22:25:25 UTC

for since most of my points were addressed, so this isn’t quite as disruptive as it had been before; and in the interest of moving things along in the queue, bc it’s better if this enacts before the pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless :u