Proposal: The Road Not Taken
Times out as Popular at 5-0 with 3 unresolved DEFs. Enacted by Brendan.
Adminned at 12 Feb 2020 16:32:00 UTC
Rename “Divergent Actions” to “Discrepant Actions”, and reword it to:-
If an action is a Discrepant Action and it defines an effect for both an Upsider and a Downsider, then any Scientist may perform it as follows:-
* If the Scientist is Prime-Oriented, they apply its effects with the Prime version of themselves as its Upsider and their Alpha version as its Downsider
* If the Scientist is Alpha-Oriented, they apply its effects with the Alpha version of themselves as its Upsider and their Prime version as its Downsider
* If the Scientist is Balanced, they randomly determine which version of themselves is its Upsider and which is its Downsider and then apply its effectsAll Discrepant Actions are also considered to be Daily Actions.
Add a subrule to “Discrepant Actions”, called “The Discrepancies”:-
Scanning is a Discrepant Action which raises or lowers (at the choice of the action’s performer) the Upsider’s Polarity by 1, and does the opposite to the Downsider’s Polarity.
If “The Opposite Of Divergance” enacted, replace “When a Divergent Action is taken” with “When a Discrepant Action is taken”.
Reworking Divergent Actions to remove the (self-defeating?) coin flip for every case, and including an example action so we can think about the action concept more clearly and optionally start taking them.
Seems maybe a bad idea to have “Divergence” being a huge deal and “Divergent Actions” being a related but different concept (has “Divergence occured” if someone’s taken a Divergent Action?), so I’ve also changed the word to “Discrepant” here.
Lulu: she/her
how exactly does scanning work with one universe?