Proposal: The Search
Timed out and enacted 8-1. Josh
Adminned at 04 Jun 2023 21:16:12 UTC
Add a subrule to “Avatars”, called “Avatar Activity”:
As a daily action, the Ascendant can and should make an Activity Report. An Activity Report is a Story Post containing a list of ten Names for every Tier that matches at least one Mindjacker’s Level. These lists must be labeled by Tier, and every Name listed must be a valid Avatar Name. In each Activity Report, exactly one of these Names must be the Name of an Avatar that exists at the time of the Activity Report’s posting. To determine which existing Avatar’s Name to use, the Ascendant must select one of the Activity Report’s Tier lists secretly at random, and then select an Avatar secretly at random from those whose Occupancy Tier matches the selected list. If there are no such Avatars, the Ascendant should abort the Activity Report and start over. Each name in an Activity Report that is not the Name of an existing Avatar (referred to as a clean Name) is chosen by the Ascendant. The Ascendant is encouraged to make clean Names that are similar to extant Avatars’ Names and to repeat clean Names and the Names of past Avatars across different Activity Reports to throw Mindjackers off, but they should not repeat a single Name multiple times in the same Activity Report.
an alternative to A Symbol Idea: instead of having a heavily restricted set of names, we get a recurring report containing a bunch of names, one of which is guaranteed to be an Avatar. this gives us an idea of what we’re aiming for so that we can make informed guesses instead of wild shots in the dark; however, it should still be combined with some sort of mechanic that gives us information about the names of Avatars, so we have something to go off of instead of simple luck. it also allows Josh to give each reality’s names a different flavour if they want to!
Bucky: Idle