BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

If Proposal: The Road Not Taken has failed, this proposal does nothing.

Add a new sub-rule to the rule Star Signs, entitled Horoscopes:

Each Star Sign has an Alpha Horoscope and a Prime Horoscope. These are tracked on the Scientists page of the wiki, along with the date upon which that Horoscope was set. Scientists are affected by the Horoscope that matches their Star Sign and their Orientation (i.e. a Prime-Oriented Scientist is affected by the Prime Horoscope for their sign, and vice-versa).

Horoscopes can have three Flavours: actions, benefits and penalties. Horoscopes must exclusively have the impacts set out by their Flavour as described below.

A Horoscope with an Action Flavour provides those affected by it with an action that they may carry out, as well as the requirements and timings of that action.
A Horoscope with a Benefit flavour provides those affected by it with a concrete benefit. This benefit may be claimed by any Scientist affected by that Horoscope as a weekly action.
A Horoscope with a Penalty flavour inflicts a one-off disbenefit upon those afflicted with it. Any Scientist may inflict any appropriate Penalties on afflicted Scientists as a weekly communal action.

A list of potential horoscopes can be found below.

Boon Horoscopes:
* Efficacy (Action): As a daily action, spend 100 Budget to reduce the Crisis amount by 500.
* Wealth (Benefit): Gain 1 Turboencabulator.
* Luck (Benefit): Gain 20 Putty.
* Charisma (Action): As a weekly communal action, reduce the Buy prices for one Research Material of your choice in the Universe of your Orientation by 5%, with final values rounded up.
* Will to Power (Action): As a weekly action, slect a random other Scientist. Move your Polarity by 2 points in any direction, and theirs by 1 in the same direction.
* Charity (Action): As a weekly action, select another Scientist with the same Horoscope as you but the opposite Orientation, and increase both of your Budgets by 500.

Bane Horoscopes:
* Accident (Penalty): Lose, at random, 10 Putty, 200 Budget or 1 Turboencabulator.
* Parting of Ways (Action): As a daily action, select a random other Scientist. Set your Polarity to theirs multiplied by -1.
* Market crash (Penalty): Reduce the Sell prices for all Research Materials in the Universe of your Orientation by 5%, with final values rounded up.
* Unlucky in Love (Action): As a weekly action, select a random Scientist with a Polarity of zero, or, if there is no such Scientist, the Scientist with the value closest to zero. Move your Polarity 2 points closer to zero, and theirs 1 point in the opposite direction.
* Envy (Action): As a weekly action, you may spend 1 Turboencabulator to be affected by the Horoscope of the Universe other than your Orientation for 24 hours.

Add another subrule to the same rule, entitled Star Charts:

As a weekly atomic action, any Scientist may Consult a Star Chart. To do so, they should carry out the following steps:

* Select a Star Sign whose recorded date is at least a week in the past;
* Randomly select two Horoscopes from the list of potential Horoscopes, one from the Boon list and one from the Bane list. As a Discrepant Action, apply the Boon Horoscope to the Horoscope of the Universe of their Orientation as its Upsider, and its Bane Horoscope to the other as its Downsider.
* Amend the information held in the Scientists page on the wiki, including changing the date held against the affected Star Sign and its Horoscopes to the date of edit.

Set the Horoscope of all Star Signs in all Orientations to “None”, with a date of 1 January 1900.