Proposal: the mosaic’s medium is ....
Quorum Reached. Passes 7-0—Clucky
Adminned at 21 Oct 2020 16:13:22 UTC
Append a new subrule to The Mosaic titled Materials with the following text
The following is a list of materials that a Tile can be made out of. Presented in the form “{character}: {name}. ‘’{description}’’ ” where {character} is the letter used for the material in a Tile, {name} is the longform name of the material and {description} is flavor text.
*s: Sand. ‘‘colored sand imported from merchant ships or collected on the beach.’‘
*p: Paint. ‘‘locally crafted paint that the monks make from the surrounding area.’‘
*i: Ink. ‘‘created from various materials, usually charcoal is the easiest to make while colors other than black are harder to create.’‘
*w: Wood. ‘‘stained wood from the nearby forest.’‘
*g: Glass. ‘‘see through or opaque, this stained glass is beautiful but requires a chain of processes to craft properly.’‘
*m: Precious Metal. ‘‘Metals that are traded or smelted locally. Commonly the ones used in jewelry are used.’‘
*j: Jewel. ‘‘Rare minerals that are found or traded for. Cut with specific tools by the monks, opals, jade, diamond, agate and emeralds among others are used in the mosaic.’‘
Tiles whose content contains a character on this list are made out of those materials and can be referred to by the longform name, as in a “Sand Tile” or a “Wood Glass Tile”.
Comments
Clucky: he/him
I feel like the explanation paragraph needs to be a bit clearer.
Is the intent that tiles have a material, which is separate from content, or that a tile whose content is S has Sand?
card:
the latter
card:
i think it’s cleared up, let me know
Clucky: he/him
I think you’re overloading the term content a bit. Might need to also rephrase how “content” works. Because we’re both saying that a tile can have Content, which is a string, but then also says its something from the list.
Overall, I think this might be better of it was separate from content. Save content for things like this: https://blognomic.com/archive/prime_and_paint (which is potentially using “P” conflicting), rather than forcing “content” to become “material”
Clucky: he/him
could even have material be a single upper case letter, content be a lowercase letter. Then its always clear what is what
Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they
I don’t see a problem with specifying material in content and other things in content as long as we are careful of overlap.
card:
that should do it

Clucky: he/him
I think we’ll want to formalize the whole “one material one item” thing but this seems like a fine start
Bais:
Raven1207: he/him
Josh: he/him
Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they
pokes: