Proposal: Sleight of Hand

Add a rule Sleight of Hand:

In the Ruleset there are two Hands. These Hands are are strings of the format {{X}}, where X is some piece of ruleset text. Note the italic formatting of the braces, so they do not interfere with the rule text they enclose.

Whenever an Admin makes a change to the ruleset they may move one Hand into an adjoining rule from its current position, where it Grabs a new piece of rule text of the admin's choice, but the selection may not extend beyond one rule nor overlap the other Hand. The Grab is done by moving the four braces so that they surround the new Grabbed text in the proper format. Then the admin must advance the Switcheroo Alarm at the end of this rule by setting it to the current Calendar date plus 10 Years.

Non-Admin Muffins may Shoo the Hands to force them to move, this is done by posting with the subject "Shoo!". If there is a Shoo post since either Hand was last moved, an Admin must move a Hand when they are making a change to the ruleset.

If an Admin would move a Hand, but the Switcheroo Alarm is less than the current Calendar Date, then instead of moving the Hand a Switcheroo is performed: each Hand (along with its Grabbed contents) swaps places with the other.

[Rule A]	[Rule B]	[Rule C]
...becomes {{Burnt Flavored}}...	...a {{Red}} Rule...	...Smith is awesome...
[A Hand is moved]
...becomes {{Burnt Flavored}}...	...a Red Rule...	...Smith is {{awesome}}...
[Switcheroo]
...becomes {{awesome}}...	...a Red Rule...	...Smith is {{Burnt Flavored}}...

When a Hand would move into this rule or any Core rule or if it is no longer in any rule, it is moved into a Pocket below, Grabbing the word "Left" or "Right" within. A Switcheroo cannot be performed while either Hand is in a Pocket.

These are the Pockets:

{{ Left }}{{ Right }}

Switcheroo Alarm: 80 D.Q.

8-3 Enacted by Quazie, 10th of January at 2:26 AM.

Proposal: The Devil's Sidewalk

In the rule Muffin Flavors, add the phrase "Once per day" to the beginning of the definition of "Devil's Food."

Otherwise, any Devil's Food Muffin can basically sit there rolling dice until they restore all their Burnt buddies. Incidentally, don't be dumb like me and think you can revert Kevan right now - he's still on space 4, and would just go back to being Burnt even if you changed him.

11-0 Enacted by Quazie, 10th of Month at 2:16 AM.

TrumanCapote Idled

As per request. Quorum is at 9.

Proposal: Leaving Paradise

Add a rule entitled 'Parachute from Paradiso' with the following text

A Muffin at position X may purchase a parachute and attempt to parachute back to the standard positions. To do so, the Muffin at position X reduces their Stuff by 5 and makes a comment of 'Parachute DICE42'.

If the dice roll is equal to 1 then the Muffin shall set its position to 1.

If the dice roll is equal to 2 or 3 then the Muffin shall set its position to 2.

If the dice roll is equal to 4, 5, or 6 then the Muffin shall set its position to 3

If the dice roll is equal to 7,8,9,10 or 11 then the Muffin shall set its position to 4

If the dice roll is equal to 12, 13, 14, or 15 then the Muffin shall set its position to 5

If the dice roll is equal to 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 then the Muffin shall set its position to 6

If the dice roll is equal to 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26 then the Muffin shall set its position to 7

If the dice roll is equal to 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 or 36 then the Muffin shall set its position to 8

If the dice roll is equal to 37 or 38 then the Muffin shall set its position to 9

If the dice roll is greater than 38 then the Muffin shall set its position to Bob, and shall then be in Limbo.

6-2 Timed Out (Cosmos doesn't cound due to idelage) Enacted by Quazie, 10th of Month at 2:14 AM.

Proposal: He Scores

Add a new GNDT field, entitled Note history.

Add a new GNDT field, entitled Email.

Create a new Wiki page, entitled Inbox.

Add a new rule, entitled Music:

Whenever a Muffin moves to a new Position, it causes a note to play. A history of each Muffin's notes played may be tracked in the GNDT, under "Note History".

Position...................Note
1............................C
2............................C#
3............................D
4............................E
5............................F
6............................G
7............................G Minor
8............................A
9............................B
X............................[] (silence)

(Movements in Limbo must my notated in the GNDT as '-', and can never be contained in a sequence to make a Concerto.)

When Muffins play in synchrony, creating a Concerto, good things happen. If ever a Muffin notices that its most recent notes played matches exactly those of another Muffin (or Muffins), then it may consult this rule and apply the applicable effect:

(Number of matching notes):
2- Each Muffin may add 2 to the Stuff of their choice
3- Each Muffin may move one position in any direction
5- Each Muffin may change its flavour to Tropical, regardless of whether it is Burnt or not
8- Each Muffin may move to the Position of their choice

If a Muffin notices and applies the effects of a Concerto, then it should add a message to the Email field of any other Muffins it is playing with to achieve these results. If the Muffin does not do so, then the other Muffin(s) may each apply the reverse (or opposite) effect upon the first Muffin. Each string of notes may only be turned into a Concerto once.

For instance, if Kevan and Cayvie have each performed C#, D, G then they can claim a 3-note Concerto. However, if they then both perform E and A, they cannot claim a 5-point Concerto as the first three notes have already been used.

Some combinations of notes also form recognisable movements. Whenever a Muffin's most recent notes form one of these movements, it may claim the appropriate effect:

[]B[] - The Muffin may move directly to Position 1.
EFG - Escape from the Ring of Fire. Muffin may move directly to Position X.
C# G Minor [] - Intricacy. The Muffin may create and add a new flavour to the Ruleset (by emailing it to an Admin, or posting it to the BlogNomic weblog, if necessary); however, no Muffin may become that flavour OR make use of any of its attributes until 72 hours after it has been added to the Ruleset.

Add a new rule, entitled Email:

When a Muffin needs to notify another Muffin of something, and have it a matter of public record that such notification has been sent, they can send an email. This can be done by writing the email on the [[Email]] page of the kevan.org Ruleset wiki. Each email should be accompanied by a unique reference number which may be added to the recipients Email field in the GNDT.

A Muffin may clear their email box in the GNDT at any time. A Muffin may delete an email that they have sent from the ruleset wiki at any time.

4-5 Timed Out (Cosmo's vote doesn't count due to idle) Failed by Quazie, 10th of January at 12:39.

Proposal: Race to the Polls?

Alter the following paragraph in Rule 5, Enactment,

If the oldest pending Proposal's FOR votes exceed or equal Quorum, or if it is more than 48 hours old and more than half of its votes are FOR, then any Admin Staff may mark that Proposal as Enacted, then update the Ruleset and/or Gamestate to include the specified effects of that Proposal.

to read:

If the oldest pending Proposal's FOR votes exceed or equal Quorum and that Proposal has been open for voting for at least twelve (12) hours, or if it is more than 48 hours old and more than half of its votes are FOR, then any Admin Staff may mark that Proposal as Enacted, then update the Ruleset and/or Gamestate to include the specified effects of that Proposal.

I know slow-moving queues were a complaint of some a while ago, but the queue is moving at warp speed now with some proposals enacted in 8 hours or less. And like most of my proposals do, I'm sure this one will fail, but nevertheless I still think it's a good idea to give players/Muffins at least half a day to check in and cast a vote. At the rate the queue is going now, if you are away from your computer for a day, you will have missed a chance to vote on a lot.

6-5 Timed out (Cosmos vote is invalid due to idle) Enacted by Quazie, 10th of January at 12:33 AM.

Proposal: All roads lead to Rome

Add the following to rule 15 - Special Position Rules

Postion R is known as Rome. If at any time a Muffin is able to move, either through Haiku or any other method, even if they are in limbo, they may change their position to R. Upon doing this, unless the Muffin is burnt, the Muffin must immediately set its Flavor to 'Plain'. This Flavor change happens even if a Flavor change has already happened that day, and regardless counts as the Muffin's Flavor change for that day. When leaving Rome, Position R is treated as if it is a 'Standard Position' between positions 7 and 8, so a move up leads to 8 and a move down leads to 7. If a Muffin is being moved by another Muffin, it may still be moved to Position R, but moving to position R is the choice of the Muffin in control of the changing of Position.

4-3 Timed Out (Cosmos vote is invalid due to idle) Enacted by Quazie, 10th of January at 12:31.

Ben Has Been Idled

Ben has been idled

Quorum is now 9

I was reading the ruleset when I realized that Plain isn't mentioned in rule 13 except at the end where it says that new Muffin start Plain. Rule 13 also says that I have to have to have a flavor but I don't have one and neither will any new players.

Request for Idling

Hey all. Sorry, I'm just not getting any good ideas on how to contribute to the game for this dynasty. It's a gloriously surreal theme so far, and will probably only get more so, but I feel like I'm not really playing, just occasionally stopping in and going "heh" at the most recent developments. Rather than just sit around artificially inflating the quorum and thus occasionally holding up the queue, I'll leave for now and return when I've got my second wind of zaniness back.

Proposal: a little off the top

Add a bullet point to the glossary (anywhere in the list, at the option of the enacting Admin) which reads: "To increment a value means to increase it by one. To decrement a value means to decrease it by one."

Replace the word nine in Rule 13 with the numeral 9.

Add a Rule called "Shrink the Gameboard" that reads:

Shrinking the Gameboard is an action which consists of performing the following steps in the following order:

1. Decrement the Position of every Muffin at Position 9. Any muffin that gets moved in such a way loses an amount of Stuff equal to 10 - 9.
   
2. Decrement every instance of the number 5 or 9 in the Rules (excluding italicized text, and excluding this Rule) which refers to a Position, or to possible values that a Position may have, or to the number of sides on a die whose result will be related to a Position. (These can currently be found in Rules 12, 13, and 15.)
   
3. If 9 is odd, decrement all instances of the number 5 in this rule.
   
4. Decrement all instances of the number 9 in this rule.
   

As there is no proposed catalyst for Shrinking, this would currently be something that can happen only by Proposal.

Timed out; failed 4-7. Failed by Simon, 9th of January at 3:35.

Proposal: Enter Villainess, Stage Right

If this proposal is enacted, add a player field to the GNDT with the name of Strawberry Shortcake, and give Strawberry Shortcake 150 of every type of Stuff and a Position of 1.

Add a new rule entitled Strawberry Shortcake:

The evil Strawberry Shortcake despises Muffins and works to foil their plans. Strawberry Shortcake (also referred to as SS) does not count as a Muffin and may only perform those actions specifically laid out within this rule. SS has a Position and Stuff, but may never have a Flavor and cannot participate in Tag. If SS would ever reach Position 9, SS returns to Position 1 instead. SS may never go to Position X.

No Muffin may post a Declaration of Victory if Strawberry Shortcake has more Stuff than that Muffin does, or if Strawberry Shortcake is at Position 1.

Once per day, any Muffin may post a comment in the GNDT in the format “SS Havoc: DICE” and move SS up one Position, as long as no other Muffin has done so that day. If any day passes where no Muffin performs these actions, Strawberry Shortcake gains 50 Stuff to a maximum of 200 Stuff.

Based on the “SS Havoc: DICE” result, one of the following occurs:
1 – All Muffins lose 1 Stuff, and SS gains an equal amount of Stuff.
2 – SS Steals 2 of all forms of stuff from two different Muffins. SS chooses victims utilizing the alphabetized list of Active Muffins in the sidebar, starting with the two Muffins who appear first on that list. Each time this result occurs, SS chooses the next two Muffins on that list. SS may never steal twice from the same Muffin before stealing at least once from every Muffin.
3 – The Flavor of all non-Plain, non-Burnt Muffins at the same Position as SS are changed to Plain. The Flavor of all Plain Muffins at the same Position as SS are changed to Burnt.
4 – High Tea: SS eats 5 Stuff from every Muffin at the same Position. If SS is in a Position with no Muffins, SS continues to move one Position up until at a Position with at least one Muffin.
5 – Nothing happens as a result of this roll.
6 – SS is sick in bed. Any Muffin (except those in Limbo) may attempt to raid SS’s Horde by posting a GNDT comment of “Raid SS: DICE”. If the roll is 1, the attempt fails; otherwise, a Muffin posting this gains all forms of Stuff equal to that DICE roll, and SS loses this amount of all forms of Stuff. Raids may be attempted until the next legal “SS Havoc: DICE” roll of 1 through 4.

2-9 Failed by Quazie, 7th of January at 11:00 PM.

Whoops ...

"Active Hordes" and "Idle Hordes" need to be changed to Muffins ...

Proposal: I really want to dance

Add a column to the GNDT called DanceMove

Add a rule called ‘Dance Moves’ with the following wording

There exists a column in the GNDT called DanceMove. At all times each Muffin must have one of the following in their DanceMove column – ‘CabbagePatch’, ‘Disco’, ‘HeadBob’, or ‘BreakDance’.

New Muffins start out with their DanceMove being equal to 'CabbagePatch'.

Add a rule called ‘Dance Off’ with the following wording

Muffins can dance. As such Muffins regularly fight in Dance Offs.

A Muffin may declare a Dance Off once per day.

A Dance Off is declared by posting a comment in the GNDT ‘Dance Off vs. MuffinName DICE10’, with the name of the Muffin being challenged in place of MuffinName.

If the result of the dice roll is a 1,2 or 3 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘CabbagePatch’.

If the result of the dice roll is a 4,5 or 6 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘Disco’.

If the result of the dice roll is a 7,8 or 9 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘HeadBob'.

Once this change has been made the winner of the dance off shall be determined by the following rules, If a Muffin with a DanceMove of BreakDance is being challenged skip these rules.

A – CabbagePatch wins over Disco
B – Disco wins over Headbob
C – HeadBob wins over CabbagePatch
D – If both Muffins have the same DanceMove then there is no winner.
E - If the Muffin that made the challenge rolls a 10 there is no winner and no loser.

If the result of the dice roll is 10 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘BreakDance’ and said Muffin may deduct 2 stuff and subsiquently the current New Item from every Muffin whose DanceMove is not ‘BreakDance’ and add it to their own.

If a Muffin with a DanceMove of BreakDance is being challenged AND a 10 was not initially rolled, the following rules apply.

Q - The Muffin that started the challenge makes another comment in the GNDT of 'Break the BreakDance DICE2'
Z - If this dice roll shows a 1 the Muffin that started the challenge wins, if it is a 2 the Muffin being challenged wins.

The loser of the Dance Off by the above rules shall have their Stuff reduced by 5 and the winner shall have their Stuff increased by 5.

Upon enactment of this Proposal all Muffin's DanceMoves are changed to Disco

9-0 Enacted by Quazie, 7th of January at 10:50 PM.

Proposal: Muffin Satan atempt 2

In rule 15, replace

Position 4 is known as the Ring of Fire. If a Muffin is ever on Position 4, their flavor is changed to Burnt.

with

Position 4 is known as the Ring of Fire. If a Muffin is ever on Position 4, their flavor is changed to Burnt. Whenever a Muffin enters Position 4 they may roll a 12 sided dice by posting a comment in the GNDT, 'Satan Spare Me DICE12'. If the dice roll is equal to 6 then Muffin Satan decides to spare the Muffin who has just rolled to be spared. This Muffin may then change its Position to Position X. If the Muffin decides to move to Position X they must reduce all of their types of Stuff by 10 with a comment of ‘Sacrifice to Muffin Satan’. If a Muffin does not have 10 of a particular type of Stuff then it must reduce that type of stuff to 0. Even a Muffin with 0 of every type of stuff may make the move, as long as that Muffin denotes in a comment ‘Sacrifice to Muffin Satan’.

9-1 Enacted by Quazie, 7th of January at 8:48.

Because it's there

I'll be off climbing in New Hampshire for the next five days, so could someone idle me, but idle me IN ABOUT TWENTY FOUR HOURS.

I'll have computer access till then, but only for long enough to vote, not to post.

Proposal: Paradise Regained

In the rule 'Special Position Rules', in the paragraph pertaining to Position X Paradiso, add the following:

A Muffin may move to Paradiso from any location at any time. A Muffin in Paradiso may move to Position 9, and only Position 9, at any time.

[What a tangled web we weave.]

4-9 Failed by Quazie, 7th of January at 8:46 PM.

Proposal: Ruleset Cleanup

Renumber rules 4-10 to 3-9

Change 1-10 in rule ‘Victory and Ascension’ to 1-9, in the same rule change 10 to 9 and 7 to 6

Change rule 11 –Stuffs to rule 10 – Stuffs

In rule ‘Stuffs’ Change all references to *(asterisk) and 0(zero) to O(capital oh)
this is a necessary fix for the GNDT

Change the title of rule 16 from ‘16’ to ’16 – Haikus’

In rule 'Stuffs' change 'above the words 'Oldest pending proposal:'' to 'below the words 'Make a New Post''

In rule 1 change 1-10 to 1-9 and change 11 to 10

10-0 Enacted by Quazie, 7th of January at 3:59AM.

Proposal: SATANIC MUFFINS

add a Muffin to the GNDT called MuffinSatan with position = 4 flavor =
burnt and 10 in all types of stuff, MuffinSatan has no TAG value

In rule 15, replace

Position 4 is known as the Ring of Fire. If a Muffin is ever on Position 4, their flavor is changed to Burnt.

with

Position 4 is known as the Ring of Fire. If a Muffin is ever on Position 4, their flavor is changed to Burnt. MuffinSatan resides in the Ring of Fire, but is banned from playing tag, and as such may never be tagged. Unless otherwise noted MuffinSatan does not count as a Muffin. Whenever a Muffin enters Position 4 they may roll a 50 sided dice by posting a comment in the GNDT, 'Satan Spare Me DICE50'. If the dice roll is an odd number less than or equal to 19 then MuffinSatan decides to spare the Muffin who has just rolled to be spared. This Muffin may then change its Position to Position X. If the Muffin decides to move to Position X they must reduce all of their types of Stuff by 10 and increase MuffinSatan's corresponding types of stuff accordingly. If a Muffin does not have 10 of a particular type of Stuff then it must give all of that type of Stuff to MuffinSatan. Even a Muffin with 0 of every type of stuff may make the move, as long as that Muffin denotes in a comment that it has given all of each type of Stuff to MuffinSatan.

Idea from Truman, from a comment he made, hooray for him

0-9 Self-Kill, Failed by Quazie, 7th of January at 3:40 AM.

Proposal: Limbo lower Now

[Upon further consideration, I think it is unbalanced that the Muffin in Limbo is untouchable while still being able to affect other Muffins. For one thing, being "it" could spread to multiple Muffins.]

Add to the end of the paragraph defining Limbo in the Rule Special Position Rules (if it exists):

Conversely, a Muffin in Limbo may not change the GNDT-tracked Gamestate values of Muffins with a different Position than that Muffin.

10-0 Enacted by Quazie, 7th of January at 3:33.

Proposal: Into the Mystic

Add a Green Rule to the ruleset, entitled "Mysticism," with the following text:

Proposals that would add new rules to the ruleset may be henceforth referred to as Mystical Proposals. When voting on a Mystical Proposal, a Muffin may include, next to a valid FOR or DEFERENTIAL vote, the name of any one Legitimate Colour. If a majority of Muffins who vote FOR or DEFERENTIAL on a given Mystical Proposal choose the same Legitimate Color, then all rules added by that Proposal shall be of that Colour, overriding any Color specifications in the Proposal. This Colouration shall be done by the enacting Admin.

Add a Brown Rule to the ruleset, entitled "Colours," with the following text:

The words "Color" and "Colour" are interchangeable. A Rule may have a Color, which must be implementable in HTML without using hexadecimal. If a Rule has a Colour, then all text within said Rule must be that Color in the Ruleset, and the name of the Rule's Colour must be included in parentheses next to the Rule's name (for the benefit of all our Colorblind Muffins). A Rule with a Colour may be referred to using that Color as an adjective, e.g. "Red Rule". A Rule without any speficied Colour may be referred to as a Colorless Rule.

Some Colours are Legitimate. The List of Legitimate Colors is included below. If a Rule has a Colour that is not on the List of Legitimate Colors, then it may be referred to as a Bastard Rule.

The List of Legitimate Colours
DarkBlue
Green
Red
Sienna

If at least three of the valid FOR votes on this Proposal include the phrase "Cayvie doesn't know anything about computers" then the Admin who enacts this shall be allowed to replace the words "which must be implementable in HTML without using hexadecimal" with something that means what I'm trying to say. http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp has a list of the Colors I mean.

Reached quorum. 14-1. Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:21 PM.

Note to the all powerful KEVAN

If you get the chance, could you make the year right on the GNDT in D.Q.? thank you kindly

Proposal: Continuing the Dante Theme

Repeal Rule 11, 'The Nature Of Stuff'.

Replace all instances of the word 'Stuffs' with 'Sins' in the ruleset.

Couldn't reach quorum. 4-11. Failed by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:14 PM.

Proposal: Tropical Tango

Add the following to the list of flavours in the rule Muffin Flavors:

Tropical - In addition to using all the abilities of a Fruity Muffin, a Tropical Muffin may attract one Muffin of any Flavor, located in the direction it is moving, by moving the target Muffin one Position towards it. For example, if Tropical Muffin Simon is at Position 6, Burnt Muffin Quazie is at Position 5, and Fruity Muffin Kevan is at position 3, then when Simon moves to Position 5 he may also move Kevan to Position 4 or Quazie to Position 6 at the same time. A Muffin can only become Tropical Flavor when it is at Position 9.

In the same rule, add "or Tropical" after the second "Fruity" in the definition for Fruity Flavor.

Add the following to the rule Special Position Rules:

Position 9 contains the Mango Tree. Only at the Mango Tree may a Muffin acquire the mango slices necessary to become Tropical Flavor.

Truman shall receive props, though not mad props, for inspiring Simon to create this flavour.

Reached quorum. 13-1. Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:12 PM.

Proposal: Timshel

Add the following Flavor to rule 13:

'''Devils Food''' - A Muffin with this flavor may attempt by rolling a DICE in the GNDT of nine sides, in order to revert any Muffin's Flavor from Burnt to Plain. If the roll is the Standard Position either Muffin is at, or one less than the Position either is at, the transformation succeeds.

Reached quorum. 13-1. Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:10 PM.

Proposal: How Low can you Go?

In the Rule Position, change:

Each Muffin occupies a Position, tracked in the GNDT under the field "Position" with an integer single-digit number from 1 to 9, 1 being the farthest down, 2 the next one and so on, until 9 being the farthest up.

to:

Each Muffin occupies a Position, tracked in the GNDT under the field "Position". Integer single-digit numbers from 1 to 9 in the Position field are called the Standard Positions, 1 being the farthest down, 2 the next one and so on, until 9 being the farthest up.

Add to the end of the Rule Special Position Rules:

If a Muffin has an undefined Position value, then it is said to be in Limbo. While a Muffin is in Limbo none of its GNDT-tracked GameState values may be changed, except its Position, which may be set to '9' at any time by that Muffin or any other Muffin in Limbo with the same Position value.

[Let's allow Position to be anything, but still reserve levels 1-9 for the main action.]

Reached quorum. 12-3. Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:08 PM.

Proposal: Guest House Paradiso

Add the following to Rule 12, at the end of the rule but before the line "Simon is an awesome guy":

There is also a seperate Position, called Position X, which cannot be reached by linear movement.

Add the following to Rule 15:

Position X is known as Paradiso. If a Burnt Muffin is ever at Position X, they may set their flavour to any other flavour.

Reached quorum. 17-0. Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:05 PM.

Proposal: Emergency Brake?

Add a new rule, Kibosh:

When a Muffin posts a Call for Judgment in response to a game action that Muffin feels is illegal or an incorrect interpretation of the ruleset, that Muffin has the option to include text at the bottom of the CfJ they have written in the following format:

Kibosh: (action)

where (action) is a brief description of the game action in question. Adding such text renders that game action Kiboshed.

Game actions allowed by the core ruleset cannot be Kiboshed, and no form of communication by any Muffin may be Kiboshed. Attempting either of these actions causes the entire CfJ containing that Kibosh to fail immediately.

No Muffin may perform Kiboshed game actions. Such attempts may be undone at any time by any Muffin. These game actions shall not be redone, even if the CfJ with the Kiboshed action fails.

Once the CfJ containing a Kiboshed action reaches a quorum of FOR votes or four days have passed (whichever occurs first), the Kiboshed action is no longer Kiboshed. If a Quorum of Muffins voting on this CfJ include the text "un-Kibosh" along with their vote, the Kiboshed action is no longer Kiboshed.

Hopefully, enough time to pass a proposal to stop the possibly broken game action? That's really my only intent here, although it seemed to take a lot of text to accomplish that.

Couldn't reach quorum. 1-14. Failed by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:01 PM.

Proposal: Behind door number 3 we find STUFF

Rewrite rule 11 to read:

The nature of Stuff changes weekly. At the beginning of each week, once a new nature of stuff has been decided, a column shall be added to the GNDT. The name of this column shall be a word. The specifications for said word are listed below. Any references to the nature, form, or type of Stuff refer to this word. The specifications for creating the column, and deciding on a new nature of stuff, are described within this rule.

The new column shall be referred to as the New Item. The current New Item shall be indicated on the Blognomic website just above the words 'Oldest pending proposal:' in the form of 'This weeks item: ItemName' where ItemName shall be replaced by the current New Item name. The value of a player's New Item shall always be equal to the value of their Stuff.

At the end of each week a new word shall be proposed to be the nature of stuff. Once the GNDT and website have been updated this new word is now the New Item. All columns that reflect past New Items are referred to as Old Items.

Whoever has the most of the Stuff at the end of Sunday is the ‘Stuff Describer’. They shall determine the nature of Stuff for the coming week. If there is a tie between two Muffins for the most Stuff the GRAND POOBAH shall decide who is the ‘Stuff Describer’. Before changing the nature of Stuff the ‘Stuff Describer’ must make a post Entitled: STUFF SHALL BE. The context of the post must contain one noun, or made up word, and it may not be a word already assigned a meaning in this dynasty. If the STUFF SHALL BE post doesn’t meet these criteria, the GRAND POOBAH shall veto the STUFF SHALL BE post and determine what Stuff shall be.

To signify which are New/Old Items a 0(zero) shall be placed at the end of their name when added to the GNDT, yet these 0(zeros) never have to be mentioned to refer to these columns.

If ‘all forms of Stuff’ is mentioned in a proposal, then it is referring to Stuff, New Items, and Old Items

If ‘any type of Stuff’ is mentioned in a proposal, then it is also referring to Stuff, New Items, and Old Items.

No other column besides all past forms of Stuff may contain a *(asterisk) in their name.


(For example (note that any instance of a ~(dash) used in this example is only there for spacing)

Week one – A claims stuff to be cheese

Muffin~~~~~~STUFF~~~~~~Cheese0
A~~~~~~~~~~~~~15~~~~~~~~15
B~~~~~~~~~~~~~75~~~~~~~~75
C~~~~~~~~~~~~~25~~~~~~~~25

End of week one – A and B both gain 10 stuff, C gains nothing, nothing else happens. B claims stuff to be feet

Muffin~~~~Stuff~~~Cheese0~~~Feet0 `
A~~~~~~~~~~ 25~~~~~~25~~~~~~~25
B~~~~~~~~~~~85~~~~~~85~~~~~~~85
C~~~~~~~~~~~25~~~~~ 25~~~~~~~25

End of week two – C gains 100 stuff, B and Again 10 stuff each nothing else happens. C claims stuff to be boxes

Muffin~~~Stuff~~~Cheese0~~~Feet0~~~Boxes0
A~~~~~~~~~~~35 ~~~~~25 ~~~~~35~~~~~~35
B~~~~~~~~~~~95 ~~~~~85~~~~~~95~~~~~~95
C~~~~~~~~~~~125~~~~~25~~~~~~125~~~~125)

New Muffins start out with 0 in all columns that have a 0 in their name, besides the current New Item.

Rename StuffCheese to Stuff in the GNDT and create Cheese at the current New Item

Reached quorum. 10-7 Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:58 PM. Because I'm so nice, I changed the Rule 11 you meant, as there are two now.

Proposal: Haiku are Yummy

Add the following rule:

A muffin may, when casting a vote, comment in the form of a haiku. Immediately after doing so, the muffin may cause itself to fall one position downward. A muffin may only fall in this fashion once per 24 hour period, though they may compose additional haiku.

Reached quorum. 10-7 Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:51 PM.

Proposal: Who is John Galt?

Add to Rule 4 the following:

Some proposals are exceedingly well written and others are shameful disgraces. Muffins may indicate that they believe the proposer of a proposal deserves compensation by voting FOR with two FOR icons, and that they believe the proposer should be admonished by voting AGAINST with two AGAINST icons. If one player more than Quorum votes with two FORs on a proposal, the proposer gains five Stuff upon the enactment of the proposal. If one player more than quorum votes with two AGAINSTs on a proposal the proposer loses five Stuff.

If more than quorum players indicate they desire it, the text in italics shall not be added to the Ruleset.

Reached quorum. 13-4 Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:46 PM.

Two Issues

01 - Is there a rule or a precedent for expediting vetoed proposals?

02 - Should Heiwa's votes count if he is voting as Heiwa but has changed his name on the GNDT and the player list to Blueberry?

Proposal: Never Throw The Letter 'Q' Into A Privet Bush

add a rule entitled "The Letter 'Q'" in which:

Floating about somewhere amongst Positions 1 through 9 is a letter 'Q'. Any Muffin may make the comment "Floating Q: DICE9". Whatever number that this roll yields shall be the Position at which the Q resides for at least the next 48 hours. Any subsequent rolls within those first 48 hours are invalid. If a Muffin is the only Muffin in the same Position as the Q for at least 10 of the first 48 hours that the Q is in that Positon then that Muffin may overturn any one of the GRAND POOBAH's VETOes (by marking a FOR vote as a direct comment to the VETO) made within that 48 hour period.

this is by no means meant as an affront to Quazie. i have for a while wanted a mechanism in which some person can overturn vetoes on a whim, albeit, a very limited and randomly chosen whim

Couldn't reach quorum. 7-10 Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:44 PM.

Proposal: It Would Appear That We Still Have Stuff

remove from rule 3 the following:

Stuffs is normalized at the beginning of each new dynasty. If a Muffin's Stuffs was higher than 125 before the Ascension of the new GRAND POOBAH, it drops to 125. If it was lower than 75 before the Ascension, it rises to 75. If it was between 125 and 75, it retains its value for the new dynasty.

renumber rule 3 to rule 11

remove the following from rule 1:

Stuffs totals, or

In rule 6 move:

Whenever an Admin Enacts or Fails a Proposal that has been pending for more than 48 hours, he/she has the option of deducting 5 Stuffs from the accounts of all active Muffins who did not vote on the Proposal. This deduction cannot take place if a proposal has been vetoed or self failed.

to the end of rule 11

in rule 9 change:

Muffins may submit Dynasty Records to the GRAND POOBAH - the GRAND POOBAH may award the submitter 20 Stuffs for any Records it uses.

to:

Muffins may submit Dynasty Records to the GRAND POOBAH - the GRAND POOBAH may reward the submitter at his/her discretion, but must be approved of by a one-half of quorum FOR votes, rounded down.

remove the following from rule 10:

"Stuffs"

Reached quorum. 14-1 Enacted by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:42 PM.

Proposal: Disco like you mean it!

Add a column to the GNDT called DanceMove

Add a rule called ‘Dance Moves’ with the following wording

There exists a column in the GNDT called DanceMove. At all times each Muffin must have one of the following in their DanceMove column – ‘CabbagePatch’, ‘Disco’, ‘HeadBob’, or ‘BreakDance’.

New Muffins start out with their DanceMove being equal to 'CabbagePatch'.

Add a rule called ‘Dance Off’ with the following wording

Muffins can dance. As such Muffins regularly fight in Dance Offs.

A Muffin may declare a Dance Off once per day.

A Dance Off is declared by posting a comment in the GNDT ‘Dance Off vs. MuffinName DICE10’, with the name of the Muffin being challenged in place of MuffinName.

If the result of the dice roll is a 1,2 or 3 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘CabbagePatch’.

If the result of the dice roll is a 4,5 or 6 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘Disco’.

If the result of the dice roll is a 7,8 or 9 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘HeadBob'.

Once this change has been made the winner of the dance off shall be determined by the following rules.

A – CabbagePatch wins over Disco
B – Disco wins over Headbob
C – HeadBob wins over CabbagePatch
D – BreakDance always wins
E – If both Muffins have the same DanceMove then there is no winner.

The loser of the Dance Off by the above rules shall have their Stuff reduced by 5 and the winner shall have their Stuff increased by 5.

If the result of the dice roll is 10 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘BreakDance’ and said Muffin may deduct 2 stuff from every Muffin whose DanceMove is not ‘BreakDance’ and add it to their own. In this case there is no winner of the Dance Off

Upon enactment of this Proposal all Muffin's DanceMoves are changed to Disco

Couldn't reach quorum. 9-9 Faileded by Cayvie, 6th of January 11:35 PM.

Proposal: Dante's Inferno

In Rule 12, Position, replace:

1 being the farthest left and 9 being the farthest right

with:

1 being the farthest down and 9 being the farthest up

Create a new rule, called Special Position Rules, with the following text:

Position 4 is known as the Ring of Fire. If a Muffin is ever on Position 4, their flavor is changed to Burnt.

[It is no coincidence that we have nine positions and there are nine levels of hell in Dante's Inferno. The idea of Muffins decending into hell amuses me very much.]

10-3 Enacted by Quazie, 5th of January 3:00 AM.

Proposal: Every Muffin Dance Now, or equally as fitting, Rock, Paper, Disco

Add a column to the GNDT called DanceMove

Add a rule called ‘Dance Moves’ with the following wording

There exists a column in the GNDT called DanceMove. At all times each Muffin must have one of the following in their DanceMove column – ‘CabbagePatch’, ‘Disco’, ‘HeadBob’, or ‘BreakDance’.

New Muffins start out with their DanceMove being equal to ‘Disco’.

Add a rule called ‘Dance Off’ with the following wording

Muffins can dance. As such Muffins regularly fight in Dance Offs.

A Muffin may declare a Dance Off once per day.

A Dance Off is declared by posting a comment in the GNDT ‘Dance Off vs. MuffinName DICE10’, with the name of the Muffin being challenged in place of MuffinName.

If the result of the dice roll is a 1,2 or 3 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘CabbagePatch’.

If the result of the dice roll is a 4,5 or 6 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘Disco’.

If the result of the dice roll is a 7,8 or 9 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘HeadBob'.

Once this change has been made the winner of the dance off shall be determined by the following rules.

A – CabbagePatch wins over Disco
B – Disco wins over Headbob
C – HeadBob wins over Disco
D – BreakDance always wins
E – If both Muffins have the same DanceMove then there is no winner.

The loser of the Dance Off by the above rules shall have their Stuff reduced by 5 and the winner shall have their Stuff increased by 5.

If the result of the dice roll is 10 then the Muffin that declared a Dance Off changes their DanceMove to ‘BreakDance’ and said Muffin may deduct 2 stuff from every Muffin whose DanceMove is not ‘BreakDance’ and add it to their own. In this case there is no winner of the Dance Off

Upon enactment of this Proposal all Muffin's DanceMoves are changed to CabbagePatch

Vetoed. Failed by Quazie, 4th of January 10:31 PM.

Idle me

Started getting sick around Christmas. Turned out to be mononucleosis (possibly better known as "glandular fever" to our European colleagues). I have every intention of sleeping 21.4 hours per day until such time as eating solid food is no longer equivalent to esophageal thumbtack acupuncture.

I have shiny presents for all for when I return. Au revoir for now. *zonk*

Proposal: Let's Free Fall again

Rewrite rule 12 - Position so it reads:

Each Muffin occupies a Position, tracked in the GNDT under the field "Position" with an integer single-digit number from 1 to 9, 1 being the farthest down, 2 the next one and so on, until 9 being the farthest up. A Position may be occupied by more than one Muffin. New Muffins begin at Position 9. If a Muffin is the only Muffin who is occupying Position 1, it has achieved the victory conditions for the current Dynasty and may post a Declaration of Victory, unless this rule ends with the sentence, "Simon is an awesome guy."

Once a Day, if it’s not a Tag Day and the position of the Muffin that is "It" has not been raised today, a Muffin that is "Not It" may raise the position of the Muffin that is "It" by 1.

Simon is an awesome guy.

12-0 Enacted by Quazie, 5th of January 1:05 AM.

Proposal: Breath, damn you

I've noticed that things get silly at the beginning of dynasties.

Add to Rule 6:

No proposals may be enacted during the first 24 hours of a new Dynasty, except where this would contradict other information in the Ruleset.

The last clause allows proposals from the previous dynasty to be enacted, if they haven't been veto'd by the new incumbent.

1-12 Failed by Quazie, 4th of January 11:56 PM.

Let's Free Fall again

Rewrite rule 12 - Position so it reads:

Each Muffin occupies a Position, tracked in the GNDT under the field "Position" with an integer single-digit number from 1 to 9, 1 being the farthest down, 2 the next one and so on, until 9 being the farthest up. A Position may be occupied by more than one Muffin. New Muffins begin at Position 9. If a Muffin is the only Muffin who is occupying Position 1, it has achieved the victory conditions for the current Dynasty and may post a Declaration of Victory, unless this rule ends with the sentence, "Simon is an awesome guy."

Once a Day, if it’s not a Tag Day and the position of the Muffin that is "It" has not been raised today, a Muffin that is "Not It" may raise the position of the Muffin that is "It" by 1.

Simon is an awesome guy.

Is There A Way To Make The DICE Function In The GNDT N-Sided As Opposed To Just Six Sided?

ummm, yeah

Proposal: Yes, We Have No Stuff

repeal rule 3

remove the following from rule 1:

Stuffs totals, or

remove the following from rule 6:

Whenever an Admin Enacts or Fails a Proposal that has been pending for more than 48 hours, he/she has the option of deducting 5 Stuffs from the accounts of all active Muffins who did not vote on the Proposal. This deduction cannot take place if a proposal has been vetoed or self failed.

in rule 9 change:

Muffins may submit Dynasty Records to the GRAND POOBAH - the GRAND POOBAH may award the submitter 20 Stuffs for any Records it uses.

to:

Muffins may submit Dynasty Records to the GRAND POOBAH - the GRAND POOBAH may reward the submitter at his/her discretion.

remove the following from rule 10:

"Stuffs"

Vetoed. Failed by Quazie, 4th of January 10:54 PM.

Proposal: Much Ado

[ Minor, daily Stuff-modifiers seem a bit fiddly and unexciting. (In fact, it almost seems time to repeal Rule 3, now that the core ruleset doesn't rely on "points" existing for proposal-rewards and such.) ]

Change the flavor abilities to:-

Banana - Once per day, a Banana Muffin may swap its own position with that of any other Banana Muffin (excluding those which have already been involved in a swap that day).

Fruity - Once per day, a Fruity Muffin may move one Position in either direction, so long as - at the start of that movement - there is another Fruity Muffin somewhere in that direction.

Burnt - Once a Muffin has become Burnt, it may not change its flavor unless it is otherwise indicated that it can. A Burnt Muffin may not declare victory.

14-0 Enacted by Quazie, 4th of January 11:48 PM.

Proposal: Decongestant

Repeal Rule 11 (The Nature Of Stuff), because it doesn't really work with the GNDT - when StuffX becomes StuffY, all of the StuffX variables have to be copied over manually. (If an admin deletes one game variable from the config and adds another, the GNDT has no way of inferring that the new one should use the old one's values.)

[ I would have mentioned this in comments to the proposal, but I was asleep during the three hours between its proposal and its enactment. ]

Vetoed. Failed by Quazie, 4th of January 11:46 PM.

Proposal: I like this proposal, how about Q?

Enact a new rule called "The Kitchen":

Position 5 is refered to as the Kitchen. All Muffins at the Kitchen must follow the Rules of the Kitchen.

The Rules of the kitchen are as follows:

• No Q-Thieves
• Cheese is Awesome
• Do not allow Sciverndaverns to get into the porridge
• This is not a rule
• Run full background checks on any Muffin attempting to move to the Kitchen just in case the Muffin is a Q-Thief
• There shall be a 24 hour guard on the faucet
• If the faucet is stolen, say "Oh no! the Q-Thieves did it again!" or something to that effect.

3-10 Failed by Quazie, 4th of January 10:12 PM.

Proposal: Let's Free Fall

Rewrite rule 12 - Position so it reads:

Each Muffin occupies a Position, tracked in the GNDT under the field "Position" with an integer single-digit number from 1 to 9, 1 being the farthest down, 2 the next one and so on, until 9 being the farthest up. A Position may be occupied by more than one Muffin. New Muffins begin at Position 9. If a Muffin is the only Muffin who is occupying Position 1, they may declare victory, unless this rule ends with the sentence, "Simon is an awesome guy."

Once a Day, if it’s not a Tag Day, the Muffin that is "It" can fall down one Position.

Simon is an awesome guy.

Vetoed. Failed by Quazie, 4th of January 9:17 PM.

Unidled Slipjig, Orkboi, Cosmologicon

Quorum = 10

Proposal: You're it!

Add a column to the GNDT entitled Tag

Add a new rule entitled ‘Tag’ described below

There exists a column in the GNDT entitled Tag.

As of now there are two states for this field, ‘It’ or ‘Not It’.

When the tens digit of the year is either a 5 or a 0, then it is a designated tag day. If positions exist, you do not need to be in the same position as another muffin to tag it.

The rules of Tag are below:

1 - A Muffin may tag any other Muffin, if the Muffin that is doing the tagging is it. A tag consists of changing your field in the Tag column to ‘Not It’ and the filed in the Tag column of the Muffin being tagged to ‘It’

2 - No Tag backs (you may not tag a Muffin that just tagged you)

3 - Tagging can only happen on designated tag days.

4 - If, for whatever reason no Muffin is ‘it’, then the GRAND POOBAH is ‘it’

Upon enactment of this proposal all Muffins shall be set to ‘Not It’, and then per this rule the GRAND POOBAH shall be set to ‘It’

14-1. Reached Quorum. Enacted by Chronos at GMT 21:07 Jan, 4th. Edited for quotes and capitalization consistence.

THE GRAND POOBAH WANTS TO KNOW

Who do I contact to change the veto icon? I have a new one now how do I get it to be the Veto icon?

I don't want to be plain!

Some kind admin, please change my player name to Blueberry.

Proposal: Tastes like muffin

Add a column to the GNDT called Flavor.

Add a rule called Muffin Flavors which says the following

There exists in the GNDT a field called Flavor.

Every muffin must always have a flavor, and each different flavor comes with different attributes, the flavors are described below.

Once per day a Muffin may change their own flavor unless they are Burnt flavored.

Plain – a plain muffin has no special attributes, and that’s what makes it special.

Banana – as long as a plurality of muffins are Banana flavored, each Banana flavored muffin may gain 2 Stuff per day.

Fruity – as long as a plurality of muffins are Banana flavored, a fruity muffin may subtract 5 Stuff from one Banana flavored muffin and add it to their own Stuff once per day, as long as the Banana flavored muffin that is losing Stuff has at least 5 Stuff.

Burnt – Once a muffin has become burnt, they may not change their flavor unless it is otherwise indicated that it can. Once per day a maximum of 5 different muffins per day, that are not burnt flavored, can subtract one of any type of Stuff from a burnt flavored muffin and add it to their corresponding type of Stuff.

New Muffins start out as Plain flavored.

upon the passage of this proposal all Muffins become Plain flavored.

14-0. Reached Quorum. Enacted by Chronos at GMT 17:18

Proposal: Immediately to Kevan's Left

Create a new rule, Position:

All Muffins occupy a Position, tracked in the GNDT under the field "Position" with a single-digit number from 1 to 9, 1 being the farthest left and 9 being the farthest right. A Position may be occupied by more than one Muffin. New Muffins begin at Position 9. If a Muffin is the only Muffin who is occupying Position 1, they may declare victory, unless this rule ends with the sentence, "Simon is an awesome guy."

Simon is an awesome guy.

Upon enactment, set every Muffin's Position to 8 except Kevan, whose Position shall be 2.

Remember, the exit is to Kevan's left - not that you can use it until we conclusively agree that I'm no longer an awesome guy. Also, this says nothing about how you move, so we could have a bunch of different ways, and everyone can go after their Positioning however they choose.

How amusing! I posted this after Truman's, but it wound up before! I'll make the time more accurate.

10-3. Reached Quorum. Enacted by Chronos at GMT 17:08

Yet Another Pointless Title

Cafemusique unidled.

Quorum is now 9.

This message will turn into a donkey in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

*donkey*

Proposal: Stuff it

Add a new rule called ‘The Nature Of Stuff’

The entity known as Stuff changes weekly. At the beginning of each week a word may be added next to the word Stuff. This word shall be placed in parentheses; the specifications for said word are listed below. Any references to the nature, form, or type of Stuff refer to this word.



At the end of each week an admin may add a new column to the GNDT which shall be named whatever the nature of Stuff was for that week, and each Muffin shall have the amount of that type of Stuff that they had at the very end of Sunday. When this new column is added, the value of Stuff itself does not change.






Whomever has the most of the current Stuff at the end of Sunday is the ‘Stuff Describer’. They shall determine the nature of Stuff for the coming week. If there is a tie between two Muffins for the most Stuff the GRAND POOBAH shall decide who is the ‘Stuff Describer’. Before changing the nature of Stuff the ‘Stuff Describer’ must make a post Entitled: STUFF SHALL BE. The context of the post must contain one noun, or made up word, and it may not be a word already assigned a meaning in this dynasty. If the STUFF SHALL BE post doesn’t meet this criteria, the GRAND POOBAH shall veto the STUFF SHALL BE post and determine what Stuff shall be.


To signify which columns used to be Stuff a *(asterisk) shall be placed at the end, yet these *(asterisks) never have to be mentioned to refer to these columns.



If ‘all forms of Stuff’ is mentioned in a proposal, then it is referring to Stuff(word) and all columns with an *(asterisk).



If ‘any type of Stuff’ is mentioned in a proposal, then it is also referring to Stuff(word) and all columns with an *(asterisk).



No other column besides all past forms of Stuff may contain a *(asterisk) in their name.



Any time Stuff is referenced in the rule set and there is anything currently in the parenthesis, that word is ignored and the reference to Stuff still refers to Stuff(word) where word is the current nature of Stuff.



(For example (note that any instance of a -(dash) used in this example is only there for spacing)

Week one – A claims stuff to be cheese

Muffin---STUFF(Cheese)

A------------15

B------------ 75

C-------------25



End of week one – A andB both gain 10 stuff, C gains nothing, nothing else happens. KK claims stuff to be feet



Muffin----Stuff(feet) --Cheese*

A---------- 25----------25

B-----------85 ----------85

C-----------25---------- 25



End of week two – C gains 100 stuff, B and Again 10 stuff each nothing else happens. Kevan claims stuff to be boxes



Muffin---Stuff(boxes) --Cheese*---Feet*

A-----------35 -------------25 -------35

B-----------95 -------------85--------95

C-----------125-------------25-------125 )


New Muffins start out with 0 in any column that has an *(asterisk).

If this passes the nature of stuff shall immediately become cheese.

10-0Enacted by Quazie, 4th of January 4:41 AM.

Ascension Address

I had a dream last night. An octopus began to eat my brother’s liver as a hippopotamus made of cheese helped me sneak across the Canadian border and infiltrate a tangelo smuggling ring. This dream doesn’t even begin to describe the obscurities of this dynasty.

Having no theme wouldn’t be exactly what shall happen, but having a distinct one is not true either. The random, the obscure, the impossible shall be all it can be.

I proclaim myself to be the GRAND POOBAH instead of the Overloard. Muffins shall replace hordes and Stuff, shall replace brains. Years shall be in D.Q. (Despues de Quazie) instead of A.E. (Anno EquitisRegis).

I would like to point out that Muffins are walking talking and in all right animate objects. They can do everything that Muffins can do, and anything that muffins normally can’t. this is just there so people who like to live by any sort of logic don’t say that we can’t be muffins, which we can, and will be, for no other reason than I say so.

I shall immediately veto ‘A Victory for all seasons’, and ‘Jumping on the “I win” bandwagon’.

All rules but 1-10 and 99 now go poof (or are repealed for those of you who may not speak Quazie). So please before having them erased, make a copy for the Wiki, I thank you for your time. I would like to have a locations like thing, but not the way that one is worded, we'll work that out later.

Note that you should all be prepared for a dynasty filled with Stuff you wouldn’t normally expect. There are many a trick up my sleeve, but if you are at least this tall you may ride the ride, and experience what shall be forever known as the ascension of Blognomic’s first GRAND POOBAH – Quazie.

Please keep arms and legs inside the ride at all times, for we shall be making many and frequent trips out side of your normal reality. Thank you and enjoy your flight. There are exits here, there, and immediately to Kevan’s left at all times.

And whomever does the color coordination for this nomic, I’d like a nice darkish orange background, and maybe something off white for the other colors, all I know is that there must be a darkish orange background, from there do whatever looks best without being eye shattering, sure that would go with my ‘theme’, but heck I know I’m gonna be looking at this often enough that I don’t want my eyes to die.

Just to note albeit hypocritical, I think we need to change the rules a bit so that you can only win by achieving a victory condition set by the rules, although mine was similar ‘If there is a horde who holds their own allegiance while all other hordes hold the allegiance to another and can keep this state for a matter of a few days they win’, basically if the mouse can survive in a world of cats, he wins, that’s how I saw it at least. It would have been possible for someone to thwart my win condition if they tried and with Bens help, all they had to do was move Heiwa. Oh well, let the fun begin.

Quick Question

Would anyone like me to stall a bit before I make my address? I have it all typed out, just need to post it. Just let me know if you want a brief chill time before the next dynasty starts to talk about stuff that happened during the last dynasty or if you would rather me just get on with it. Thanks much.

Quick Question

Does an admin/KK need to enact my DOV before i can make my ascention address... or can i just make it cuz there are enough for votes?

Declaration of Victory

Acording to 'The little engine that could' I have won. Kevan performed illegal actions, as he could not fit into the mall at the time that he thought that he could. He forgot about Smith.

As Kevan's actions were illegal, I was still under my own Allegiance at the time of the proposal's enactment.

Please disregard what Kevan has said about me NOT winning, for I have won. Check the GNDT for validity.

By the proposal 'The little engine that could' I declare victory.

Proposal: Jumping on the "I Win" bandwagon!

Ben wins.

(Okay, seriously. Letting Quazie win because he's the last person who hasn't been dominated by me? Funny, perhaps, but not a good precedent to set for future dynasties... "Play well, and the last person you triumph over will win instead of you!" I will admit Knightking has more brains and zombies than I, but he's rivalled in brains by Kevan, and rivalled in zombies by myself, whereas I am currently unrivalled by ANYONE in allegiance-holders. People blew everything up, and I managed to use that to do some things I was prevented from doing otherwise. If taking a situation which, at first glance, hurts me more than almost anyone else (since I had, I believe, the second highest zombies count, lower only than Knightking, and lost all of them), and turning it to my advantage to dominate a few key leaders to take over almost the entire game isn't worthy of a win, I don't know what is.

Vetoed. Failed by Quazie, 4th of January. 2:38AM

Proposal: I Miss the Village Green

add the following to rule 6:

whenever an admin marks a proposal as enacted or failed he/she must report the following information on the proposal:
1) the final tally of for to against votes, or whether the proposal was self-killed or vetoed
2) the time of enactment or failure
3) the identity of the enacting or failing admin

i know that a couple of these are being practiced already (and at one point it was common that all three were) but probably only because of custom, it would be nice to have it codified and normaliz(s)ed

13-0 Enacted by Quazie, 4th of January.

Proposal: Transparenthood

add the following to rule 7:

The name of the CFJ blogger account is: CallforJudgment
and it's password is: blognomic

for new players and anyone who does not remember to track down that one post way back when that actually lists this rather important information

12-0 Enacted by Quazie, 4th of January.

My apology

I know some of you may have seen my brainchild escapade to be out of line, and as such I am sorry. I never meant for it to get so out of hand, just the rule was written very poorly and there were more loopholes than I imagined. In the future I will think about the repercussions of loopholes before I use them. Thankfully the game is back up and running and we can all get back to our nomic

Proposal: A victory for all seasons

I challenge you all to a race.

Add a new rule, entitled Victory:

If at any point, all Hordes' Allegiances are set to the same Horde, then that Horde may declare victory.

The Horde who reduces the Humans to zero brains through an attack or Grarh may declare victory.

If Josh can ever set his allegiance back to himself, legally and in accordance with both the letter and the spirit of the ruleset, he may declare victory.

Vetoed. Failed by Quazie, 4th of January.

Comments on the queue

I think there should be some GNDT thing for Admins to do when they pass/fail a proposal. The reasoning being that, as Ben pointed out, I apparently skipped failing Aaron's proposal "You Were Always an Excuse" while adminning. Now, what probably happened was that I was copying and pasting and moving from one proposal to the next, and I just forgot to hit "Publish" on that one. However, by the time the error had been pointed out to me, the votes had changed so that it could no longer be failed (without CoV on my part). I just think this is a potentially dangerous situation without any permanent evidence either way.

Also, a specific type of scam has been irritating my mind recently, as I've been seeing a lot of Drafted posts.

It seems like it would be easy to post something innocuous as a Draft, wait a few days, and then change it to "Proposal: Ha! I Win," wait a few more days, and declare victory. (It helps if the perpetrator is an admin). Should we require at least three votes on every proposal, as was originally suggested back in Kevan's first dynasty when I first proposed the time-out system?

Proposal: Yo quiero estar un Admin

Make Quazie an admin.

12-3 Reached Quorum. Enacted by Smith, 4th of January.

Censure

Following the CfJ to undo illegal Brainchild attacks, Heiwa interpreted the terms of the CfJ:

"Voting for this CFJ will simply undo Quazie's damage upon Ben and any other damage that is dealt via non-existent brainchildren."

to mean a different and more extended reset:

"You would have to reset everyone's locations at that time as well. I was in the Graveyard, so I am moving myself back there. Other people were in other places, some holed up in the Hospital, some at the Heliport, etc."

He then attempted also to revert his allegiance back to himself rather than to Ben. When Cayvie and Ben tried to fix this and point it out to them, he made the following comments:

"Hey, you and your pals can cheat Ben, but you aren't the only ones who can, and the rest of us don't have to just allow you to get away with it."
"Tired of arguing with cheaters like Kevan and Ben."

I ask for a completely ineffective and useless censure against these comments. The very idea of Kevan cheating itself is hilarious, as he is the rather benevolent and detatched wiseman of Blognomic who gives us his webspace to use and manage the game. At most we have a difference in interpretation here, and I am offended by the implication of cheating.

Proposal: The Little engine that could.

As Quazie is a certifiable ‘little engine that could’ and is currently the smallest un Ben-ified Horde (read as – Quazie has not YET been dominated by Ben) and this dynasty seems to be nearing an end.

IF at the time of the passing of this proposal Quazie still holds his own Allegiance then he may declare victory.

Enacted by Kevan, 3rd of January, 12:09pm - 8 votes to 4. Quazie does not hold his own allegiance, at the time of enactment, so nothing happens.

Quick Poll Questions

I'd like to get an idea of each player's level of strictness. Any feedback is appreciated.

This is snipped from rule 12: "Each Horde contains a number of Zombies, tracked in the GNDT. New Hordes consist of a single Zombie, when they join the game. No horde may have fewer than zero zombies."

1) Do you consider "contain" and "consist of" and "have" to be equivalent for the purposes of this rule?

2) Do you consider it poor form to use different verbs like this for the same game concept?