Sunday, March 27, 2011

Proposal: The unseen horror!

Reaches quorum 10 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 28 Mar 2011 01:46:32 UTC

Create a rule called “Predators” with the following wording:

I f no other caveman has done so in the last 18 h , during the time period 20:00 GMT until 06:00 GMT the following day, if no public fire is present, any caveman may reduce the intelligence of a random caveman by 2 (including himself). If the randomly determined caveman holds a weapon, his intelligence may not be decreased by this rule.

Horrible things are lurking in the dark which scares the cavemen so they lose intelligence. Strangly they do not appear when a fire is burning or a cavman can defend himself.

posted by Blacky at 27 Mar 2011 20:13:31 UTC Comments (14)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

27-03-2011 20:53:19 UTC

for Nice, although it looks like we’re all going to be too polite for any of us to step up and trigger the punishment, given that we’ve not yet had a Famine this weekend (and I’m too nervous to trigger one, lest it be taken as a move of aggression).

Oh, wait, I can find a stick, sharpen it and try hunting with it, I’ll do that.

Kevan: he/him

27-03-2011 20:56:12 UTC

And now I’ve got some Raw Meat, but I can’t give it to the Chief because he’s too busy with his Rock and his Fire.

Klisz:

27-03-2011 23:54:38 UTC

for

Winner:

28-03-2011 01:01:51 UTC

for

Saakara:

28-03-2011 01:54:49 UTC

for

Bucky:

28-03-2011 03:07:49 UTC

imperial

Chivalrybean:

28-03-2011 03:38:12 UTC

for

Rodlen:

28-03-2011 04:31:52 UTC

for

Ely:

28-03-2011 07:41:45 UTC

imperial

Purplebeard:

28-03-2011 07:58:59 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

28-03-2011 08:06:55 UTC

against Just to be on the safe side, are we sure that ‘18 h’ is completely unambiguous? It’d be hilarious if there was some semi-obscure time constant h in physics that amounted to (10^-45) seconds, but this isn’t the case as far as I know.

Kevan: he/him

28-03-2011 08:15:12 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

28-03-2011 08:21:05 UTC

for Actually, no, I think normal English usage is fine, a game of Nomic would be impossible if players were allowed to pull vanishingly obscure definitions out of their hat (“when I said GMT, I meant Giant Magellan Telescope, and the time in Chile is…”). I thought we said this in the glossary, but we don’t quite appear to. Maybe it’s worth adding.

Purplebeard:

28-03-2011 08:43:06 UTC

for Agreed on all points. I wasn’t aware that ‘h’ was a commonly accepted abbreviation of ‘hour’ in anything but netspeak is all.

I’ve always used ‘hr’ myself, but then apparently ‘h’ is the SI-accepted symbol, and who am I to question them?