Saturday, January 25, 2020

Proposal: Scout, Capture, Preserve

7 - 0, Enacted by Cuddlebeam

Adminned at 26 Jan 2020 09:52:12 UTC

Add an Agenda Point to “Institute Proposals”:-

* Initiate a Capture with a code number (between 1 and 9999) which has been used by no other Investigations. (This is a High-Cost Agenda Point.)

After the Agenda Points list, add:-

An Institute Proposal may not contain more than one High-Cost Agenda Point.

Add a subrule to “Institute Proposals” called “Captures”:-

For any Capture which has been Initiated in the previous 48 hours:
* Any Researcher (who has not already done so for that Capture) may privately contact the Director naming a single Artefact to be the subject of that Capture;
* Any Collector (who has not already done so for that Capture) may privately contact the Director naming a single Artefact they suspect that the Capture is searching for.

If a Capture has been Initiated more than 48 hours ago and not been closed, the Director may close it by performing the following atomic action:
* Determine the Capture’s Objective in a secretly random manner, from among all Artefacts named as its subject by Researchers under this rule;
* If the Objective is Alive and not Incapacitated, add 7 {{soul}} Damage to it.
* If any Collectors named the Objective as their suspicion, and if the Objective’s Location is Unknown: change the Objective’s Location to the Collection of a secretly random one of those Collectors;
* If the Objective’s Location is still Unknown: change the Objective’s Location to the Containment Facility

Trying a different recovery subgame of pure bluffing and information leakage. The Institute can agree to send out a search team to recover a specific Artefact (possibly squabbling over what they should be looking for), but if a Collector has an inkling or hears a rumour about the target in question, they can counter-surveil the search team, follow the same leads and get there first.

Comments

Madrid:

25-01-2020 19:54:14 UTC

Lore-wise I’m not really catching the meaning of “If the Objective is Alive and not Incapacitated, add 7 {{soul}} Damage to it.”, but it’s not too big of a deal, personally.

Josh: Observer he/they

25-01-2020 19:58:37 UTC

I like this

Kevan: he/him

25-01-2020 20:00:45 UTC

It’s to avoid ending up with an Alive Artefact in a Collection which the Collector can’t (if we’re reading “reclaim” as “pick up”) take back out. Thematically the recovery team are knocking it out to carry it back to the lab, just as anyone else would have to.

Darknight: he/him

25-01-2020 21:13:59 UTC

imperial

card:

25-01-2020 21:19:40 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

25-01-2020 22:01:36 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

25-01-2020 22:07:56 UTC

imperial

card:

25-01-2020 23:06:59 UTC

Doesn’t {{soul}} need to be capitalized?

Kevan: he/him

25-01-2020 23:29:32 UTC

No, it works either way.

derrick: he/him

25-01-2020 23:37:13 UTC

imperial

Madrid:

26-01-2020 01:45:32 UTC

for