BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

To the end of the rule The Masquerade, add

An action that can only be undertaken once per player per Season is called a Seasonal Action.

To the end of the rule Factions, add

Each Elector’s Political Power is one higher for each other Elector in the same Secret Faction as themselves. The Doge is responsible for maintaining this modifier as information changes.

Add a new rule to the ruleset as a subrule of the rule Winnowing, called Confession:

The member of each Secret Faction with the highest Political Power is its Figurehead.

As a Seasonal Action, an Elector may Confess to the Winnower that they are a member of a Secret Faction, by sending the Winnower a direct message containing the name of their Secret Faction and list of names of other members of that Secret Faction; all information in such a Confession must be true to the best knowledge of the Confessor. The Winnower must keep a record of Confessions that they have been party to, and should pass this list to the next Winnower upon their appointment in a Masquerade post, but is not required to record any or all pieces of information that they receive in this manner, and may remove information from the record freely, although they may not add any information other than that which they have received in a Confession. A Winnower may Confess to themselves.

At any time, the Winnower may Disclose some of this information by making a Disclosure Post, which is a post in the Story Posts category. A Disclosure Post must name one or more Secret Factions that are in the Winnower’s Confession log, and for each Secret Faction so named must give a list of two or more Electors who are allegedly members of it according to the same log. So long as 24 hours have not elapsed since the posting of a Disclosure Post, any Elector may DM the Doge in response to that post, giving a mistrust score of 0 to 3 to each Secret Faction named therein. Once a Secret Faction has been subject to a Disclosure it must be removed from the Winnowers Confession log along with any information pertaining to it and may not be the subject of a further Disclosure unless it is subsequently Confessed to again.

When a Disclosure Post has been made, the Doge must evaluate for each Secret Faction named within it whether (at the time of posting) the Disclosure was correct or not (i.e. whether the name is accurate and whether the listed Electors are members of that Secret Faction). If it was, then after the 48 hour response window has concluded, he must at his earliest opportunity reduce the Political Power of that Secret Faction’s Figurehead by 3, and the mistrust of each Elector named as a member of that Secret Faction in the Disclosure Post by they cumulative total of the Mistrust responses received against that Secret Faction as a response to that Disclosure Post. The Secret Faction of all affected Electors is then set to “-”.