Saturday, May 09, 2015

Story Post: Review af a Madman

Grumpily, Mad-Tongue Moody entered the restaurant. Everyone looked at him expecting to get to know the name of the next Reviewer. He only grunted: “Chiaki Ramen, Spicyness 6! Now, where is the garbage you call food around here? Let’s get this over with.”

With that, he proceeded to taste Darknight’s “A Not So Friendly Sting”: “Wuäääh!”, and he spit out, “you won’t get anything from me, boy! (This is a rating of - - - - -.) Does this even have anything in it? (Sweetness 6 Sourness 4 Umami 5 Spicyness 7) Do I have to continue? Really. Oh well!”
And he closed his dashing eyes and put a mouthfull of Kevan’s “Bee Thermidor aux Bicyclettes” in his mouth. A shock was seen on his face. He opened his eyes - in delight, and exclaimed: “Never tasted anything better! (The rating is * * * * *.) You have to try it! (Sweetness 10 Sourness 10 Umami 10 Spicyness 10 Now, I don’t want to leave anything, but I guess there’s another pile of ...” His voice trailed away when he literally saw the burned mass, piled up almost touching the ceiling, that was carried by four men into the restaurant room. Everyone there almost fainted, but Mad-Tongue Moody stepped forward and, almost celebratingly (is that a word) broke of a pice of the hill and crunched it. He never spoke a word. He also did not leave any leftovers. No one ever knew, what he tasted, but he later rated it * * * * *. He never talked again and thus, did not name a winner of the day.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

09-05-2015 22:29:00 UTC

Is Brendan’s “Soylent XTREME” a legal recipe here? A recipe may only legally contain “a list of three to six Packages”, but Soylent XTREME lists many thousands of Packages (“Exploding Chair x100, Bee x1000, Girl On Bicycle x10000”).

(Deliberately waited for Closing Time to enact before questioning this. Nomic!)

Kevan: he/him

09-05-2015 22:33:00 UTC

The same rule uses the term “Package type” to refer to a type of Package, but seems to use “Package” to mean “one actual Package of an Ingredient”. And all past recipes have restricted themselves to six Packages total.

mideg:

10-05-2015 05:08:40 UTC

In a CfJ I’d vote it was illegal.

Kevan: he/him

11-05-2015 09:51:56 UTC

Since there are only a few players active right now, I suppose it’d be quicker to just wait for a response from Brendan rather than raising a CfJ or making a roll (and possible DoV) on the basis of my reading.

Kevan: he/him

11-05-2015 10:00:36 UTC

Actually, we can roll some quantum dice to see whether the decision even matters. If Brendan’s recipe was legal, we have eight Customers, five favouring me and three favouring Brendan. If it was illegal, we only have six, with five for me and only one for Brendan.

If I roll DICE24 to select a Customer, then result will be:

1-15: Kevan wins under either interpretation.
16-20: Brendan wins if his Recipe was legal, otherwise Kevan wins.
21-24: Brendan wins under either interpretation.

So I’ll do that now and see what we get.

Kevan: he/him

11-05-2015 10:01:57 UTC

...

And that’s a 3. So whether Brendan’s Recipe was legal or not, I rolled the winning Customer. Time for a DoV.