Timed out, 5-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 27 May 2024 19:23:30 UTC
Add a subrule to The Story called “Common Words” with the following text
A Common Word is a word found on https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Oxford_3000
Add a rule called “Sparks” with the following
Each Storyteller may have a Spark which is a Common Word, or may have no spark and by default has no Spark. A Storyteller’s Spark is publicly tracked. A storyteller may change their Spark as a daily aciton
Add the following steps to the start of the Drawing atomic action
* If at least one Storyteller has a Spark, randomly select a Storyteller who has a Spark. Choose that Spark as a Word Element, then set that Storyteller’s spark to be no spark
* Randomly select a Common Word to be a Word Element
* If at least one Category is not empty, randomly select a Category that is not empty as a Category Element
because this seems a little too complicated.
JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him
Two things:
1) Are you purposely not adding a way to put entries in a Category? That’s fine, just asking if it’s something we need to do soon, since the first Drawing may not have any to pick from.
2) It’s probably unlikely, but what if there are no Storytellers with a Spark and all Categories are empty? There’s a few ways to address this: add a step that if no Elements were selected in the prior steps chose a random Word from the Oxford 3000, or add text to the rule that says the Publisher shouldn’t perform a Drawing until there is at least one Storyteller with a Spark.