BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled “Lord of the Dance”:

As a weekly action, a Colonist may initiate a dance. They can do so by making a story post with the word “Dance” in its title. A dance may be open or over. Only one dance may be open at a time and no more than two dances may be initated each week.

After a dance has been called, the dance is considered to be open and Colonists have 48 hours to move themselves into a configuration that matches one of the recognised dances below. If, at any point during those 48 hours, one of the recognised dance configurations exists, then any Colonist participating in that configuration may post a comment to the original initiation of the dance declaring the dance to be successful and specifying which dance has been achieved. All Colonists participating in that configuration then gain a surge of vitality and may increase their Energy by 15, as well as any other effect listed below. Once a dance has been legally declared to have been successful, the dance is considered to be over.

The recognised dances are as follows:

Waltz
A successful Waltz requires at least three pairs of Colonists to be adjacent to each other, with each pair being no more than 5 locations away from another.

Square
A square dance (or “hoe-down”) requires an even number of at least four Colonists. The Colonists must be arranged in two parallel lines, with exactly one location between the lines and exactly one location between each Colonist (horizontally and vertically). As an additional effect, each Colonist who participated in a successful square dance may reduce by half all of their energy expenditure for the next 72 hours.

Conga
If four or more Colonists form an unbroken line of orthogonal adjacency with the Colonist who initated the dance at one end (“the front”), then they have successfully formed a conga line. As an aditional effect, the Colonist at the front of a successful conga line may make up to 10 moves (as defined in rule 2.3.1) and must move the rest of the conga line behind them.

The Hokey-Kokey
At least four Colonists are needed to perform the Hokey-Kokey. If a perfect circle can be drawn on the map so that it passes through the location of each participating Colonists then they have successfully achieved the Hokey-Kokey. As an additional effect, the participants in the Hokey-Kokey may each reduce their hunger by 1.

Add the following to the list of jobs in rule 2.4:

* Dancer. Any Colonist who has participated in three successful dance configurations may become a dancer. A dancer spends 2 Energy to move instead of the usual 4.

If a majority of EVCs on this proposal contain the word “break” then add the following to the list of dances:

Break
If no Colonist has moved in the 48 hours following the initiation of the dance, then the initiator has successfully Breakdanced. A Colonist who has Breakdanced has achieved victory.