Saturday, December 07, 2019

Story Post: Pointing to 3Balance

it’s quite obvious that he was the traitor.

Comments

card:

07-12-2019 19:21:14 UTC

looks i was 3 minutes too late

card:

07-12-2019 19:22:44 UTC

oh wait quorum went up

Kevan: he/him

07-12-2019 19:42:36 UTC

Hmm, is this valid, though? “An Adventurer can Point Their Finger at an Adventurer, including idle Adventurers, other than themselves by paying 50 Merit and making a blog post that has “Pointing to X” as the title, with X being the name of an Adventurer.”

You can point at an idle player but can you perform the requisite action of naming them?

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

07-12-2019 19:52:55 UTC

[Kevan] If we accept that this is the case, doesn’t this mean that it is possible to point at an Adventurer and name a different Adventurer in the post’s title?

card:

07-12-2019 19:54:05 UTC

I would argue that the sentence mentions idle Adventurers in the first clause so it’s implicit in the second clause.

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

07-12-2019 19:55:21 UTC

If not (to continue my thought), we have to accept that whoever is named in the title is the Adventurer who is Pointed at, and therefore the selection of who is named in the title is subject to the same restrictions and exceptions as the selection of who is Pointed at.

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

07-12-2019 19:56:02 UTC

What card said, essentially.

Kevan: he/him

07-12-2019 20:16:42 UTC

The rest of the Judas rule only cares about the name you put in the title, though, so no worries there.

The intention is clear and if the rule had said “that Adventurer” it would have been implicit enough. It just struck me as a distinctly separate clause, as written. Not going to contest it, though.

TyGuy6:

07-12-2019 23:28:08 UTC

Yes, I will let it slide. I think it’s cool that card played it that way, even if his amendment to set it up wasn’t airtight.