BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Let’s get writing more killing NOW!

If the Proposal titled “Headcount” failed, create a new dynastic rule, called ‘Bodies’, with the following text:

Each Scripter has a statistic called Bodies which is tracked in the GNDT. A Scripter’s Bodies is a non-negative integer. New Scripters start with a Bodies value of 0.

Set the Bodies of each Scripter to 0.

Create a new dynastic rule, called ‘Acts’, with the following text:

The Producer may make a new Act by posting a Story Post with “[Act X]” in the title, replacing X with the numeral of the new Act (which is the numeral of the last Act to be created plus one, or 1 if there is no previous Act); the Story Post posted is the Drawing Board of the new Act. In the Drawing Board post the Producer shall give a summary of the start of the Act no longer than 15 words, for example ‘Protagonist in office block trying to find killer of wife’, and a Target Body Count (which is a non-negative integer). Acts are not Finished when they are created.

Any Scripter may create a Scene in an Act that is not Finished by rolling DICE10 in the GNDT to get their Scene’s Body Count, then posting a comment to the Drawing Board describing their Scene. If the Scripter creating a Scene has already created a Scene in that Act, the previous Scene they created is said to be Cut, as in no longer part of the finished Act, and the Scripter’s Bodies shall decrease by the Scene’s Body Count.

The description of a Scene requires a Title (text which cannot exceed five words), a Script (a text summary of the scene which cannot exceed 25 words), and the Scene’s Body Count. Scripters are encouraged to write a script that reflects the Body Count they have rolled. The Bodies statistic of a Scripter who creates a Scene increases by the Body Count of the Scene they create.

After 72 hours, or once the total of all the Act’s Scenes’ (excluding those that are Cut) Body Counts equals or exceeds the Target Body Count of the Scene, the Producer may declare the Act to be Finished, by posting a comment to the Drawing Board containing the phrase ‘That’s enough’. A wiki page shall then be created, called Act X (replacing X with the numeral of the Act), containing each Scene that is not Cut in the Act, in the order they were posted (the Title of a Scene being its Header, and its Description and Body Count being under that header).

An example scene:

Title: Chopsticks
Description: Hero grabs man, throttles him, steals chopsticks. Then, kills four attackers with chopstick-fu, before using chopstick as throwing knife to kill final assailant.
Body Count: 6