Idle

Sorry, but please set me idle.

Idle

Sorry, but please set me idle.

Proposal : And Some People Are Not [Trivial]

If Proposal : Some People Are Bigger Than Other People passes, amend the section of the Rule called Cannibalization that reads

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.

to read

and the total Health of all those Accomplices plus the Health of the Cannibal must be strictly greater than the Health of the Victim.

Should this Proposal pass, Brendan shall receive no Health for its passage.

Passed 7 to 1 by Brendan at 2:04 pm GMT on 6.14.2004. +3 to Brendan.

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.

Call for Judgement: Cannibalism

This DIDN'T pass. Votes were 4 to 4 when it was timed out!!! (And when I'm posting this, still.)
[Ignore this post.]

Failed 2 to 6 by Brendan at 2:02 pm GMT on 6.14.2004.

Proposal: Emperor Core Rule

To be added as the next core rule(#11) after this dynasty ends.

When the current dynasty ends, add this rule with this sentence delteted. The emperor may have one additional pending trivial or non-trivial proposal.

Failed 1 to 8 by Brendan at 1:59 pm GMT on 6.14.2004. -3 to Gobleteer, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal : The Adkins Diet

[ It seems odd for people to starve painfully if they're still carrying food around in their pockets. ]

In Rule 11 (Food), replace "any Crew Member may lower their Health by 10" with:-

any Crew Member may force them to eat one unit of their own food, or (if they have no food left) lower their Health by 10

Enacted by Kevan, 14.6.04. +3 to Kevan.

Proposal : Big Red Button

Create a new Rule, "Self-Destruct":-

Any Crew Member on the Bridge or in the Engine Room may initiate the ship's self-destruct systems by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog with the title "Self-Destruct in T Minus 48 Hours". This switches the SDS on.

Any Crew Member on the Bridge or in the Engine Room may abort the destruct sequence by responding to that blog entry with a comment that contains the sentence "Self-Destructed aborted." - this switches the SDS off.

If the SDS has been on for 48 hours with no interruptions, then the ship's already-damaged power systems will successfully overload and detonate, with the following effects:-

• The Bridge, the Galley, the Engine Room and the Cargo Hold should be deleted from Rule 14, and any Crew Members who are in those Locations are killed outright (their Health is set to zero) and moved to a newly-created Location, "The Wreckage" (numbered "1-4" in Rule 14).
• Replace "six Locations in and around the ship" with "three Locations in and around the wreckage of the ship".
• Replace "All Crew begin on the Bridge" with "All Crew begin in the Wreckage".
• This rule is then repealed.

Enacted by Kevan, 14.6.04. +12 to Kevan.

Proposal: Medical Packs(trivial)

Why can we keep using them if they are limited. Proposal:
Replace this sentence in the second paragraph

Immediately after the alien attack, crew members at one random Location manage to find some med-kits and open them.

with

Immediatly after the alien attack, crew members at one random Location manage to find some med-kits if med-kits have been opened less than twice in that Location, and open them.

Enacted by Kevan; timed out 6 votes to 0. +2 to Gobleteer, +1 to Kevan, -5 to Axiallus, ChinDoGu, Damanor, Josh and Shade for non-voting.

Proposal: Spores

They seem pretty useless now. Add a new Rule, "Spores".

Each day each Crew Member has percent chance equal to their number of spores of turning into n alien. [This will be automatically checked by the GNDT.] If they turn into an alien, they are no longer considered a Crew Member, and there is an additional attack each day "Alien Attack: ROLL" is posted. I.E. two areas or the same twice could be targeted.

This way, we REALLY die if food runs out.
[-3 points to Gobleteer when this fails already carried out.]

Failed officially by Kevan; -3 to Gobleteer (which he'd already done himself), +1 to Kevan.

Call For Judgement

I couldn't remove food twice; I only recently got my correct GNDT password from Damanor. I was also going to move to the DrillingRig, though I can't prove this one; I did send an email to Damanor abou tthe food though. So, health back for the starving?

Passed 8 to 0 at 2:59 pm GMT on 6.11.2004. Gobleteer gains 20 Health and loses 2 Food.

Alien Attack: Captain of the HMS Murder

This time, apparently, they wanted variety.

Aliens attack the Bridge, savoring Axiallus, Brendan, Kevan, Gobleteer and Worthstream for 20 Health each. Meanwhile, Shade hogs the Med-Kit, boosting himself to the maximum of 100.

Proposal: To Arms!

We're going to die even sooner...

Aliens are getting toughter and meanier, so some automated defense system has finally kicked allowing access to ships hidden weapons caches.

Create a rule: Weapons

Every Crew Member has a limited number of ammunitions tracked in the GNDT.
When a location is attacked every crew member there must spend (4 - number of other crew members in the same location) ammunitions, with a minimun of 1.

If an attacked crew member has not enough ammunitions to fend off the attack aliens will kill him outright(set health to 0) if his health is lower than 30, otherwise they will cut his health in half (rounding up).

New crew members, and returning from idling ones start with the lowest amount of ammunitions in the whole crew (ammos are a precious resource!).

When this proposal passes set ammunitions for every active player to 20.

If "Proposal: Cannibal Holocaust" passes add this to the end of rule 11:

If a cannibalization attempt passes and the victim has enough ammunitions remaining, he or she will attempt to defend him/herself.
This requires 5 ammunitions, plus 5 per vote for the cannibalization. If the would be victim has enough ammunitions left he or she will fend off the attack and any crew member is entitled to subtract the right amount of ammunitions from his or her gndt field, if no one else has already done it before.

The gang of cannibals is so impressed by the show of power and will of self-preservation, that no one may attempt to cannibalixe that crew member for 24hr from a successfull defence.

Failed by Kevan - timed out 3 votes to 5. -3 to Worthstream, +1 to Kevan, -5 to Axiallus, Damanor and Shade for failing to vote.

Proposal : Alien Incursion

The aliens have captured the bridge. Luckly those located there had time to escape out the rear entrance. All crew members who are currently located on the bridge must chose a new location within 48 hours. If they have not, any player may assign their location as they see fit.

Replace in rule locations

All crew begin on the bridge

with

All crew begin in the Galley

and also

remove from rule locations the entry for the bridge (Do not renumber the other locations)

since the aliens now control the ships systems, they are using them to hunt down the strongest pockets of resistance. so...

Add to rule Aliens, after the third sentance of the rule.

should the number rolled not corespond with an existing location, or not contain any crew members with health >0 the attack is instead directed at the location with the highest total health of all crew members at that location.

Enacted by Kevan - timed out 5 votes to 3, on the 14th of June. +10 to ChinDoGu, +2 to Kevan, -5 to Axiallus, Josh and Shade for failing to vote.

Proposal : Multiplying Aliens

add to the rule aliens

as they aliens are gowing in numbers, the attacks continue to come more frequently. After every 4th attack, halve the time between attacks and update the ruleset accordingly

Passed 8 to 1 at 8:38 pm GMT on 6.11.2004. +10 to ChinDoGu, +2 to Brendan.

Proposal : June 20

The current total Health of all Crew Members is 857. The Aliens attack every 48 hours, dealing 70 net damage. At the current rate of depletion, even assuming the Aliens always attack an occupied Location, it's going to be July before we get another Emperor; moreover, it's almost certainly going to come down to a battle of "who's got the highest Health," which doesn't seem very interesting.

Personally, I think that Nadil-5 itself should issue us an ultimatum.

Enact a new Rule, "Countdown:"

If the Second Dynasty of Cayvie has not ended before June 20 passes, any Crew Member who is not dead may Declare Victory by posting to the Blognomic weblog with the words "Declaration of Victory" contiguously in the title. If the first sentence of that post is "No, thanks.", BlogNomic shall instead enter into a meta-dynastic period.

For the purpose of this rule, the current date is the date in Greenwich Mean Time.

Timed out; failed 3 to 6 by Brendan at 8:33 pm GMT on 6.11.2004. -2 to Brendan, -5 to slackers Axiallus, Shade and Inauspicious (shockingly enough).

Proposal: Refugees with a refuge!

Create a new rule entitled Refuge

Every Crew member, having been trained for basic self defence, computer programming, and strategy, has the opportunity to secure a small room or corridor in the ship.
Doing so, involves hacking security routine on the computer, sealing shut a lot of doors, reprogramming robots and so on, and is therefore a time-consuming task.

Every Crew member can post a GNDT entry saying "building refuge".
Doing so requires an expenditure of 5 food rations (you have to eat while you're building!), if the Crew Member has not enough food on hand he or she loses 10 health per missing ration.

If one crew member has already built a refuge and subsequently left it he or she can post a GNDT entry saying "seeking refuge", consuming 1 food ration, or 10 health if food is 0.

In either case "Location" field of the crew member is set to "(name)'s Refuge". This does not count as a movement for the purpose of any other rule

add to the end rule 14:

Refuges are considered a special case of locations, only the crew member who created them can move into or outside one, and they are not numbered like any other location

Basically you're safe from aliens (for now, at least) but you'll be starving soon!

Timed out; failed 3 to 5 by Brendan at 4:35 pm GMT on 6.11.2004. -3 to Worthstream, +1 to Brendan, -5 to slackers Axiallus, Josh, Shade and Inauspicious.

Proposal: Cannibal Holocaust (trivial)

Add the following to Rule 11:

If a Crew Member wishes to eat but has no food, they may turn to their crewmates for sustainance. Any Crew Member with a 'Food' value of 0 may post to the BlogNomic weblog, specifying one crew member in the same location as themselves to be sacrificed for the greater good. All crew members in the same location except the poster of the entry and their accused must vote FOR the sacrifice within 24 hours. If this takes place, then the sacrificed crew member has their Health set to 0 and all other Crew members in that location may add 5 to their Food value.

Timed out; passed 5 to 4 by Brendan at 2:10 pm GMT on 6.11.2004. +2 to Josh, +1 to Brendan, -5 to slackers Axiallus, Shade and Inauspicious.

boooowwing

please set me idle

Alien Attack: Slaughter Amongst the Hyperdrives

You know, I saw a movie once where the crew of a starship fried a bunch of nasty aliens who got too close to the rocket exhaust ports.

We weren't so lucky.

Aliens attack the Engine Room, dealing 50 damage each to ChinDoGu and Inauspicious. Meanwhile, in an attempt to recover from the horrors of 48 hours ago, Damanor and Aaron medicate themselves for 15 each.

Proposal : Hop To

With the Computer out of commission, the air scrubbers on the Ship have stopped working. And with the Crew Members constantly panting in fear, it's getting a little harder to breathe...

Add a new Rule, Air Pollution:

The Crew must move about at regular intervals in order to circulate fresh air. If at any time a Crew Member occupies the same Location he or she occupied 48 hours ago (ie if he or she has not moved, or if he or she moved and immediately returned), that Crew Member is a Camper. Any other Crew Member may deduct 5 * X Health from a Camper, where X is the number of Crew Members in the same Location as the Camper. Once a Camper has had his or her Health reduced in this way, he or she may not be considered a Camper again for 24 hours, after which his or her Camper status may be re-evaluated.

For example, if Crew Member Gamma has been in the Bridge for 37 hours, and Crew Members Delta and Iota move to the Bridge, none of them are considered Campers. If none of these Crew Members move for another 12 hours, any Crew Member may fine Gamma 15 Health. After this fine, no Crew Member may fine Gamma for 24 hours. If, after those 24 hours are up, Gamma has still not moved--or has moved to another Location, then back to the Bridge--any Crew Member may fine Gamma 15 Health again.

No Crew Member may be considered a Camper for 24 hours after "Proposal: Hop To" passes.

Timed out; passed 5 to 4 by Brendan at 7:51 pm GMT on 6.10.2004. +12 to Brendan.

And I'm back. From outer space. Quorum seems to remain at seven.

Idling

Iron last voted on June 1st. Quorum remains at 7.

Questions

Er... I think I'm missing something here. There are a number of rules I have read, yet as far as I know, there hasn't been a change in Dynasty since. Why are these rules gone?

(I thought the "Current Ruleset" page was just badly updated:) )

Proposal: First aid!

From rule 15-Aliens remove the sentence:

If that Location is the same Location where the aliens are currently attacking, the resolving Crew Member must continue posting "Med-Kits: DICE" until the resulting number does not match the Location of the current alien attack.

If every location has medkits, it seems realistic that after the attack survivors could use them!

For the sake of background:

Replace:

During an alien attack, crew members at one random location can hear the carnage and in fear open up the med-kits.

With:

Immediately after the alien attack, crew members at one random location manage to find some med-kits and open them

Passed 8 to 0 by Brendan at 4:28 pm GMT on 6.8.2004. +2 to Worthstream, +1 to Brendan.

Nominating

Hi everyone!
Emerging from the remains of my space car, i look around to find the one responsible for the crash (and my joining)...

To be honest i should say Kevan, but since he's idle, to increase our odds against the fearsome aliens, i'll nominate the crew member with the lowest health...Ornithopter

New Player

Worthstream arrives in style on a fancy space-car, which promptly explodes upon entering the atmosphere.

Quorum remains at 7.

Proposal : Take 2

in rule Aliens change

the way the 40 collective Health is divided does not change.

to

the way the 30 collective Health is divided does not change.

(That way, the rule might make sence

Passed 7 to 0 by Brendan at 4:26 pm GMT on 6.8.2004. +2 to ChinDoGu, +1 to Brendan.

New Crew Member

A computer malfunction had left Gobleteer stuck in the Cryogenic Sleep chamber, only to be released much later.

Quorum is 7.

Proposal : Consistancy good M-kay [Trivial]

in rule Aliens change

the way the 40 collective Health is divided does not change.

to

the way the 30 collective Health is divided does not change.

(That way, the rule might make sence)

Self-killed; failed by Brendan at 2:16 pm GMT on 6.7.2004. -3 to ChinDoGu, +1 to Brendan.

Alien Attack: They Just Plain Hungered

The Galley. The domain of the interstellar chef, trained to make the most out of limited ingredients. But today there's something special for everybody... ship's rations, a la blood!

Aliens have attacked the Galley, dealing 50 damage each to Damanor and Aaron. Iron and Shade, just underneath them in the Cargo Hold, heard the cries of terror and popped some pills for 15 Health each.

Proposal : Less invunerability

in rule Aliens replace

if the most recent movement involved a Crew Member moving from that Location to another Location, the latter Location is targetted instead.

with

if the most recent movement involved a Crew Member moving from that Location to another Location and was within the last 72 hours, the latter Location is targetted instead.

Since currently the bridge is invunerable, and will remain so unless someone else wants to mkae themselves a target

Passed 6 to 0 by Brendan at 6:50 pm GMT on 6.6.2004. +10 to ChinDoGu, +2 to Brendan.