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Monday, March 15, 2004

Proposal: As the Wind Blows [Trivial]

There's a large and growing body of rules that would benefit in clarity and ease of application from a term to describe the period between Poet updates. This is my suggestion.

Add to the end of Rule 12, Distance:
The period of time between one implementation of Ship actions by the Poet and the next is called the Lacuna. An implementation of Ship actions by the Poet may be said to end one Lacuna and begin another.
The rest is tidying up of the Ruleset to include the new term.

Change the portion of Rule 13 reading "A Priest may pray to their God or Goddess on behalf of their Ship, if no Mariner has prayed for that Ship during the previous seven days." to "A Priest may pray to their God or Goddess on behalf of their Ship, if no Mariner has prayed for that Ship during the current Lacuna."

Change the phrase "the next time the Poet implements Ships' Actions" in Rule 15 to "at the end of the Lacuna".

Change "once per week" to "once per Lacuna" in Rule 17's description of the Priest, "once every 7 days" to "once per Lacuna" in its description of the Captain, and "until they have been in that job for at least 5 days" to "until the beginning of the next Lacuna" in its paragraph on changing Jobs.

Change "once per week" to "once per Lacuna" in Rule 21's description of the Imprisoned Ailment.

If "Rising through the Ranks" passes, modify every instance of "once a week" or "once per week" in Rule 17's descriptions of Advanced Jobs to "once per Lacuna."

All references to Actions in this Proposal are to be taken as references to Orders, should Orders be a game term.

Comments welcome, as always.

Lacuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase...Passed 10 to 0 by Satyr Eyes at 1:00 GMT, 3.17.2004. +3 to Satyr Eyes.