Proposal: The Virus

Add a new rule, Virus:

A new strain of virus has found its way into the petri dish.

The enactment of this rule will create a new Specimen entry in the GNDT, called 'Virus'. The Size of the Virus is initially equal to the number of Specimens emiting the same element as it absorbs.

Every day, every Specimen that absorbs the same element as the Virus emits looses x Size, where x is the Size of the Virus divided by 5. If the Specimen also emits the same element as the Virus absorbs, it is imune to this effect. The Virus also gains Size equal to the number of Specimens who continue to emit the same element as it absorbs. These changes should be enacted by the Control Specimen, but may be enacted by any Specimen if this does not take place.

The Virus always absorbs the element that the greatest number of Specimens emit, and always emits the element that the greatest number of Specimens absorb. As soon as this information becomes untrue, it must be corrected in the GNDT. Whenever the Virus changes the element it emits, its Size is reduced to an initial value as defined by the second paragraph of this rule.

Add the following to Rule 11:

Any Specimen whose Size is at 'declining' may change either the element it emits or the element it absorbs. Any Specimen whose Size is 'critical' may change both the element it emits and the element it absorbs. A Specimen may only do this once; it must reach the 'stable' state before it may make changes under this rule again.

Add a new rule, Classifications:

Specimens are classified by their size:

0-25 - Critical
26-50 - Declining
51-75 - Stable
76-125 - Healthy
126 - 150 - Growing
151-175 - Flourishing
176-200 - Rampant

If Proposal : Population Control passes, change all incidences of the term 'Specimen' in this rule to 'Strain'; if Proposal: Mutation also passes, change the incidences of 'Specimen' in the paragraph it adds to 'Strain'.

The third part is just some generic classifications that can be used for ease of definition.

Enacted by Josh