Saturday, October 06, 2007

Proposal: Truth in Reporting

passed 3-0, enacted by aaronwinborn

Adminned at 08 Oct 2007 12:31:50 UTC

Add the following to just after the first paragraph of the Media Frenzy rule:

When matching a headline, the Kaiju God may reduce words from the written headline, so long as in doing so there is no confusion with another match. For instance, a written headline that reads ‘Citizens Flee in Panic as King Kong Brutally Attacks the Peaceful Hamlet of Yorksburg’ will match ‘King Kong Attacks Yorksburg’. However, ‘Godzilla Attacks Farmers Near Pittsboro’ will not match ‘[Monster] Attacks [Neighborhood]’ or ‘[Monster] Near [Neighborhood]’, as it is unclear which is meant.

If two or more words or phrases separated by slashes are contained in brackets, then the headline may match using any one of the options. For instance, both ‘Mothra Soars Above Tinseltown’ and ‘BEM comes to Pleasantville’ will match ‘[Monster] [In/Above/To] [Neighborhood]’. The case of words (uppercase/lowercase) doesn’t not matter when matching a headline.

Rename the headline for ‘[Monster] Spotted’ to ‘[Monster] [Spotted/Heard/Smelled]’.

Rename the headline for ‘[Monster] a Hoax’ to ‘[Monster] Hoax’.

Rename the headline for ‘[Monster] In [Neighborhood]’ to ‘[Monster] [In/Above/To] [Neighborhood]’. Where that headline states, ‘If the Monster is already in the named Neighborhood’, reword that to ‘If the Monster is not in the named Neighborhood’.

Rename the headline for ‘[Monster] Near [Neighborhood]’ to ‘[Monster] [Near/Around/Nearby] [Neighborhood’].

Change the headline for ‘[Monster] goes on a rampage!’ to the following:

[Monster] on Rampage: If there are no Robots or other Monsters present, take the named monster’s current Threat Rating and divide by 100,000,000. Subtract the result from the neighborhood’s current number of buildings, and from its current population, both to a minimum of 0. An additional 5% of the Neighborhood’s population (after the previous reduction, and rounding up) shall immediately flee.

Add the following headlines to the Headlines section of the Media Frenzy rule:

[Robot] [In/Above/To] [Neighborhood]: If the named robot is not already in the named neighborhood, then move it there.

[Robot] On Call: Move the named robot to The Tokyo Menace Defense Force.

Comments

Chivalrybean:

06-10-2007 21:06:00 UTC

for  I don’t see any problems.

Scaramouche:

07-10-2007 02:05:34 UTC

for