Proposal : Some People Are Bigger Than Other People [trivial]

Adding a dose of logic, and eliminating the two-Crew-Member aberrations.

Delete the last paragraph of Rule 11 - Food and add a new rule, Cannibalization:

If a Crew Member wishes to eat but has no Food, he or she may turn to his or her Crewmates for sustenance. Any Crew Member with 0 Food may post to the BlogNomic weblog with the title Cannibalization, specifying one Crew Member in the same Location as himself or herself to be sacrificed for the greater good. The poster is considered the Ringleader, the specified Crew Member is considered the Victim, and all other Crew Members in the same Location as these two at the time of the Ringleader's post are considered Accomplices, for the purpose of this rule.

All Accomplices to a specific Cannibalization must vote FOR in the comment thread of the Ringleader's Cannibalization post within 24 hours (this condition is considered true if there are no Accomplices), and the total Health of all those Accomplices plus the Health of the Cannibal must be strictly greater than the Health of the Victim plus all Accomplices who voted AGAINST. [The most recent of an Accomplice's votes (in the comment thread to the Ringleader's Cannibalization post) is considered his or her only vote on that post.]

If these conditions hold true at any time within 24 hours of the Ringleader's post, then the Victim has his or her Health set to 0, and the Ringleader and all Accomplices may set their respective Food values to 3. If these conditions are not true 24 hours after the Ringleader's post, the Ringleader and all Accomplices who voted FOR the sacrifice lose 5 Health each from the sound beating administered to them by the opposition.

Once the attempt at cannibalization is resolved either way, the Ringleader, Accomplices and Victim are no longer considered as such, unless or until they are involved in another cannibalization attempt.

Passed 6 to 2 by Brendan at 2:03 pm GMT on 6.14.2004. +3 to Brendan.