BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

[ Tidying the Monkey Line rule, and removing the mysterious magical “must”. ]

Reword “The Monkey Line” to:-

The Monkey Line is an endless line of chalk squares (known as “Positions”), each of them numbered, starting from one and going up.  The Monkey Line is tracked in a wiki page called “Monkey Dynasty Gamestate Documents”. Position one is known as the top of the list.

Each Position may contain one or more Monkeys, or be empty. Whenever a Monkey joins the game, they are placed in the lowest numbered empty Position.

If a Position is empty (and a later Position has a Monkey in it), or if a Position has more than one Monkey in it, then the Line is Unbalanced.

If a Position is empty, but the position immediately after it has a single Monkey in it, then any Monkey may move that Monkey into the empty position.

If a Position has two Monkeys in it, then any Monkey may increment the Position of every Monkey after that Position, and place the alphabetically-earliest of the two Monkeys into the newly vacated Position.

In the “Doing the Dance” rule, replace “After each dance move, e makes sure there are no unbalances in the monkey line.” with:-

If the Line becomes Unbalanced, the Unbalance must be corrected before processing the next Dance move.

Also replace “If no other monkey has done so within the last forty eight hours, and the monkey doing so has not updated their section of the dance within the last six hours,” with:-

If no other monkey has done so within the last forty eight hours, and the monkey doing so has not updated their section of the dance within the last six hours, and if the Line is not Unbalanced