Monday, July 27, 2015

Proposal: The Trouble With Lab Animals

Vetoed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 28 Jul 2015 08:52:19 UTC

Add a new rule entitled “Poop”:

Rat poop is an irritating nuisance in a lab environment. Every Cell has an amount of Droppings in it. A nonzero amount of Droppings n may be recorded in the Maze as “n Droppings” (an amount of zero need not be recorded).

The glamorous task of cleaning the Maze has been assigned to Jeremy, the grad student, who comes by each Monday at 0:00 and removes all Droppings from every Cell. Any Rat or the Head Scientist may update the wiki page to reflect this change.

Change the bulleted list in the rule entitled “Movement” to the following:

* Scamper: add a Dropping to its Cell, then move any number of Cells in a cardinal direction, so long as this move does not pass through any walls.
* Crawl: add a Dropping to its Cell, then move from A4 to G4 (or vice versa) or from D1 to D7 (or vice versa).

Note that, in the description of Crawl, the phrase “and vice versa” has been changed to “or vice versa” to ensure that it does what we want it to do.

Comments

Tantusar: he/they

27-07-2015 10:25:31 UTC

You know, this is very thematic and all, but I just don’t like the mechanic. I mean, sure stuff can be done with it (probably some sort of Hygiene mechanic, or blocked corridors?) but I’m not sure we need the clutter.

And plus, Jeremy’s a nice guy, I like him. He’s got… What’s the word? Okay, so I don’t what he’s got, but he’s probably good at whatever it is. For his sake (and hopefully for the only time this Dynasty) I’m going to have to veto  this one.

Josh: Observer he/they

27-07-2015 10:31:26 UTC

I would not have thought of this as natural veto-bait, I must admit.

Tantusar: he/they

27-07-2015 10:36:39 UTC

There are a lot of squiggly bits in The Maze. The poop will pile up so fast. I’m heading the problem off before it even reaches the pass. It has no business (eh heh) taking the pass. The long way is faster anyway. Because the pass is full of poop already.

ais523:

27-07-2015 11:51:36 UTC

Note to self: reference this proposal next time a fast veto vs. slow veto argument shows up.

Tantusar: he/they

27-07-2015 11:53:42 UTC

Oh? For which side?