Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Proposal: Surprising Predictions

Fails 2-9. Failed by Brendan.

Adminned at 07 Mar 2015 05:53:41 UTC

Dependent on Let it Go.

Change the word “Astronomer” to the word “Prophet” throughout the ruleset.

Remove from the rule “Winter” the paragraph beginning “A Favored Proposal may be enacted…”

For each instance of the “They may then comment to this effect on a pending Proposal that they created, which has been open for more than 24 hours. This Proposal becomes Favored.” in the rule Winter, replace it with the text

If no Townsperson has made a Sacrifice in the last 24 hours, that Townsperson becomes the Prophet.

Create a new subrule within the rule “Winter”, “The Prophet”, with the text

At any time, one Townsperson may be the Prophet. The Prophet is tracked by placing a * in the Workplace category of the GNDT (along with any Workplace the Townsperson may have). If a Townsperson becomes the Prophet while a second Townsperson is already the Prophet, the second Townsperson ceases to be the Prophet.

If the Season would change from Winter to Spring, all Townspeople cease to be the Prophet.

Reword the second paragraph in the rule “The Sky” to read

If no Townsperson other than the Prophet has done so during the current Season, the Astrologer or Prophet may examine the Sky by randomly selecting a Constellation from those not currently visible in the Sky, adding it to the above list in the rightmost position, and then removing the leftmost Constellation from that list. The Prophet may only examine the Sky once per Season. (If the Prophet examines the Sky and another Townsperson becomes the Prophet during the same Season, the new Prophet may examine the Sky.)

Making the Prophet a Winter-only keyword with text referencing it in global rules is a little odd, but I don’t think it actually breaks anything.

Comments

Sylphrena:

04-03-2015 00:56:46 UTC

Oh, by the way, did the Weather change when the Season became Summer? If it didn’t, it’s too late to fix it, but I thought I should mention it. (We may want to replace the “should” with a “shall” to make sure the change gets done.)

ayesdeeef:

04-03-2015 02:40:08 UTC

“If no Townsperson has made a Sacrifice in the last 24 hours, that Townsperson becomes the Prophet.” doesn’t tell us when the Townsperson becomes the Prophet, if you know what I mean.

ayesdeeef:

04-03-2015 02:40:22 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

04-03-2015 04:09:29 UTC

against

Sylphrena:

04-03-2015 04:28:42 UTC

@ayesdeeef: I don’t know what you mean. The Typical Weather rule would read “...Townsperson may make a Sacrifice by removing one Animal from their Home. If no Townsperson has made a Sacrifice in the last 24 hours, that Townsperson becomes the Prophet.” The Townsperson becomes the Prophet immediately.

I guess technically that could be interpreted creatively, but I would not accept an interpretation of that rule that takes those two sentences separately.

Or are you complaining that the Prophet is assigned automagically? They become the Prophet. The star is just a tracking device which I thought could be added by anyone as long as it reflects gamestate.

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Sylphrena:

04-03-2015 04:30:12 UTC

OK, ignore that last half-sentence. (Note: I meant to say “The Townsperson becomes the Prophet immediately upon making the Sacrifice.”)

mideg:

04-03-2015 08:05:21 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

04-03-2015 08:56:33 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

04-03-2015 09:48:29 UTC

[Sylphrena] Regarding the weather, I don’t think “shall” helps either - we say “When the Season progresses, the Astrologer or Astronomer should replace” and the Season progresses by itself at midnight even if we’re all asleep, so the Astrologer/Astronomer has to make the weather change at that moment or not at all.

Teninten:

04-03-2015 15:11:10 UTC

imperial

Ely:

04-03-2015 15:50:49 UTC

imperial

Ely:

04-03-2015 19:04:38 UTC

against CoV because Veto powers are actually not that fun.

Brendan: he/him

05-03-2015 00:01:47 UTC

imperial

Brendan: he/him

05-03-2015 00:02:48 UTC

against CoV, after rereading, because I like my own sacrifice mechanic.

Sylphrena:

05-03-2015 00:23:26 UTC

Ely: the veto power has been repealed. Currently there are still some vestigial Astronomer powers which would become Prophet powers. (Most of them don’t actually give the Prophet an advantage, however.)

Ely:

05-03-2015 08:58:31 UTC

CoV imperial

Kevan: he/him

05-03-2015 19:24:15 UTC

against Slight against for having a player role that’s a bit like a Workplace but in no way a Workplace.

mideg:

06-03-2015 08:13:47 UTC

CoV imperial for this seems to be mostly theme.

Josh: Observer he/they

06-03-2015 09:20:08 UTC

against