Saturday, November 23, 2024

Proposal: Slug it Out

Timed out, 4-1 with 1 DEF and Jury voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 25 Nov 2024 20:00:46 UTC

Remove “nonnegative” from “Position”

Add a dynastic rule called “Slugs”

Slugs are considered to be Snails for the purposes of all Dynastic Rules. The term “Active Player” may be used to refer to “The Jury and Snails which are not Slugs”. When a dynastic rule allows a snail to perform an action, Slugs may only perform that action when the ruleset allows an Active Player perform that action on their behalf.

Each Slug has a Name, and a set of rules for how that Slug can move, and optionally some extra effects

The following Slugs exist

* Name: Slug of Death
* Movement Rules: If it has been at least 24 hours since the Slug of Death last moved in a ongoing race, and at least 24 hours since the race began, any Active Player make a comment in that race saying “The Slug of Death Crawls” and cause the Slug of Death to perform the Crawl move for that race.
* Extra Effects: The Slug of Death starts each race at a position of -10. Other Snails may not move if the Slug of Death’s position is greater than theirs

* Name: Slingshot Sam
* Movement Rules: Slingshot Sam cannot move by normal means
* Extra Effects: The Slingshot Sam starts each race at a position of DICE100. If a Snail (other than Slingshot Sam)‘s position ever exactly matches Slingshot Sam’s position, a DICE2 is rolled. On a 1, that Snail’s position is reduced by 5. On a 2, that snail’s position is increased by 5

Comments

Raven1207: he/they

23-11-2024 23:42:24 UTC

I find this interesting.

I’m just imagining this getting creative.

Might piggy back off this with some ideas if this passes.

for

Desertfrog: Jury

24-11-2024 07:30:56 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

24-11-2024 11:35:57 UTC

against Seems a bit early for non-player characters when we don’t yet really know what the players are doing.

Darknight: he/him

24-11-2024 13:27:22 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

24-11-2024 20:34:40 UTC

for

I’m open to the idea. If it doesn’t pan out, it’s easy enough to remove. I was going to propose a similar idea via “Hazards on the race track”, but this roughly accomplishes the same thing.

JonathanDark: he/him

25-11-2024 19:25:36 UTC

By the way, it may be illegal to create the gamestate for the Slug of Death while “Each Snail has a publicly tracked Position, which is a nonnegative integer and defaults to zero” exists at the same time that “The Slug of Death starts each race at a position of -10”  exists.

Kevan: he/him

25-11-2024 19:38:48 UTC

This proposal removes “nonnegative” from that.

JonathanDark: he/him

25-11-2024 19:56:25 UTC

oops, sorry. I completely missed that first sentence. Carry on…