Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Class:

Students take one class per day. They are considered to be taking that class for the entire day.

* Monday - Beginners Alchemy
* Tuesday - Wild Beasts
* Wednesday - Battle Magic
* Thursday - Conventional Warfare & Weaponry
* Friday - Explosive Latin
* Saturday - Nomich
* Sunday - no class

Add a new rule, entitled Nomich:

Nomich is a sport played by Students. It may only be played on a Saturday. Students who belong to the same Dormitory are always on the same team.

Nomich is played with an ordinary deck of cards. At all times when not playing a game of Nomich, each Dormitory should be holding seven cards. The cards held by each Dormitory should be kept a secret to all other Dormitories and should be tracked by the Headmaster. If, any any time, a Dormitory is holding less than seven cards and is not playing a Nomich, the Headmaster should assign them enough cards that they have a hand of seven, and should then send a private message to all members of that Dormitory telling them the composition of their new hand. The Headmaster must ensure that the same card is not being held by more than one Dormitory at any given time.

Any member of a Dormitory may challenge another Dormitory to a match of Nomich by making a post to that effect. A Dormitory is obliged to accept the first such challenge levelled against it on a Saturday. Each Dormitory may play no more than one match of Nomich per day, and a Dormitory may not make a challenge if it is playing a match of Nomich or has already played a match of Nomich that day; nor can a challenge be levelled against a Dormitory that is playing or has played a match of Nomich that day.

Once a Dormitory has challenged another Dormitory to a match of Nomich, each Dormitory has until the end of that day to post a play in the comments to the challenge post. A play is a sequence of cards, of any size or composition, from the Dormitory’s hand that the Dormitory intends to score against. The Dormitory whose play scores highest wins the match. Any member of a Dormitory whose Condition is Alive may post a play on behalf of their Dormitory, and the first play posted by a Dormitory in a challenge thread is the one that is scored for that match.

The score value of any play is adjudged according to the Nomich Ruleset. The Nomich Ruleset is secret and should be known in its entirety only to the Headmaster. The first rule in the Nomich ruleset is as follows:

The play with the largest cumulative face value scores 5 points.

At the end of each Saturday, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Headmaster should indicate in each challenge thread which Dormitory won and what each play scored.

A Dormitory who wins a game of Nomich may perform one of the two following actions:

*Add a new rule to the Nomich ruleset by PMing it to the Headmaster; or
*Change the Condition of one Student of the opposing Dormitory to Dead.

If the first action is undertaken, the Headmaster must appraise the new rule, and may reject it if it contradicts another rule or if it offers an unfair and destabilising advantage to any Dormitory at the expense of any other Dormitory. The Headmaster’s judgement on this matter is final. Any rule thus rejected is lost and the Dormitory who proposed it may not undertake another winners’ action.

If more than half of the EVCs on this proposal contain the word “Scoring”, then add the following rule to the ruleset, entitled Inter-House Competiton:

Each Dormitory has a score, which may be any integer between -200 and 200. These values are officially tracked by the Headmaster but may be noted in the BlogNomic sidebar.

Whenever a Dormitory wins a game of Nomich, they gain 5 points.

If Proposal: Rotters and Floaters passed, change the word “Dead” in the rule entitled “Nomich” to “Ghost or Zombie”.