Call for Judgment: Zombies?
Not a CfJ. Sunk by Kevan.
Adminned at 24 Sep 2011 14:24:43 UTC
Factual points:
* Florw and Ujalu are listed in the GNDT as having -1 Sanity. This is because they had 1 Sanity before I Exhausted and Starved them earlier this morning.
* The rules cap Sanity above at 15, but it is not capped below at zero.
* For some reason, the rules for death specify a Survivor is Dead at exactly zero Sanity only.
I am not sure whether or not it’s possible for Exhausting and Starving to be simultaneous. If they cannot be then I have edited the GNDT incorrectly and both players in question should be Dead on 0 Sanity. If these effects can be simultaneous then both are Alive on -1 Sanity. OMG! :-O
I propose that Exhausting and Starving are not in fact simultaneous and I call for judgement on this issue. Vote FOR if you agree, or AGAINST if you think we have zombies!
PS. This is awesome!
Kevan: City he/him
(Strictly speaking this isn’t a CfJ because it doesn’t suggest “measures that shall be taken to resolve [the problem]”, and so can be “automatically failed by any admin”, but I’ll hold off for some discussion.)
Sanity is explicitly a “non-negative integer”, and Appendix 3.3.1 says “Unless otherwise specified, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers, and any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset.” - so a player with 3 Sanity can’t take the -4 Sanity Cannibalise action.
I’m not sure we’ve ever had any precedent that’s addressed simultaneous actions, but I’d assume that common sense was against them - it’d clearly be problematic if you could perform multiple, parallel copies of the same action (taking a “player with brown hair may change their hair to red to gain 1 Style” action fifty times simultaneously, to gain fifty Style). Maybe it’s worth an appendix clause, though.