Tentative Powers, the Republican Party

The Illuminatus who controls the Republican Party may use an additional vote icon when voting on any Proposal. This is counted as a legitimate additional vote when determining the Enactment
or Failure of a Proposal.

New color scheme.

I'd like a new color scheme, perferably one with a new header. The current one hurts my eyes.

Excalibur: Go to the Back of the Class

In eir post "I enacted Misc Small Changes" Ecalibur writes:

"Which stated to change the title colour on posts"

This sentence either has no main verb or it has no workable predicate. "Stated" could be a verb, but then the remainder of the fragment is a noun phrase introduced by "to change" wihch can not serve as an object. If "stated" is not a verb there is no other candidate for a main verb. Even if we assume the sentence includes the title and thus reads:

"I enacted Misc Small Changes Which stated to change the title colour on posts"

The verb would clearly be "enacted" but there is still no workable object in the predicate. As a result I have added 5 points to my influence.

I enacted Misc Small Changes

Which stated to change the title colour on posts. While I was at it, I changed the other things that were blue to match. If anyone objects, I'll revert it.

Car, blimey is the template for this blog complicated..

Proposal: More agendas

Append to the list of agendas the following additional agendas, numbered as appropriate:

"Byzantine Law". An Illuminatus with this agenda may declare victory if there are more than 28 rules legally listed in the sidebar of the ruleset

"Beaureaucratic Fun". An Illuminatus with this agenda may declare victory if the ruleset legally exceeds 7,000 words.

"Good English". An Illuminatus with this agenda may declare victory if the ruleset is legally less than 4,000 words.

"Illuminatus Rex". An Illuminatus with this agenda may declare victory if ey become the Illuminatus Rex, and are not Rodney.

"Control Freak". An Illuminatus with this agenda may declare victory if every other Illuminatus, not including the Illuminatus Rex, is a Supporter of any of the Organisations that ey control. That is, every other Illuminatus must support at least one organisation that the Illuminatus in question controls

Change the "Power Broker" agenda to require 400 influence, instead of 800.

If 5 of the votes FOR or DEFERENTIAL on this proposal include the word "Luck" then also append the following agenda to the list:

"Lucky Loser". An Illuminatus with this agenda may, once per week, set eir influence to zero, set the controller of all the organisations ey control to 'uncontrolled', and roll 2DICEX in the GNDT, where X is quorum+1. If the result is 2, e may declare victory.

Let's have some more options, people. My next proposal will add more special titles to the list of those, as soon as I get a slot back

Failed 5-6, timed out.
Failed by Knightking, 14th of June at 5:49.

Hostile Takeover: 1

I attempt to take over Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow

Idling

Quorum is 8.

Idling people

Near as I can tell, CaptTwinky, Quazie and Cayvie have all not voted in a week. I'm idling them (if I can figure out how). Scream if you don't want to be idle, people.

Quorum is 7

Proposal: What he said

Change the first sentence of Rule - 16 Organization Powers to:

No more than once per day, any Illuminatus may attempt to quantify the game effects of an Organization's connections, influence, cash, and general secret society clout by posting an entry to the front page with the subject "Tentative Powers, [Organization Name]", as long as e is on the Supporter List of that Organization.

[That should make it possible to propose tentative powers again.]

Timed out, passed 6-0. Enacted by Excalabur, 01:05, 11th of June.

Er.. Rule 16 doesn't parse anymore

No more than once per day, an Illuminatus an Illuminatus who is a Supporter of an Organization may attempt to quantify the game effects of that Organization's connections, influence, cash, and general secret society clout by posting an entry to the front page with the subject "Tentative Powers, Organization X", where X is an Organization under eir control.

you can't be a supporter, and control an org, all at the same time. Opinions? someone want to propose/cfj something?

Tentative Powers: Some Organisation with a Random Name

The Illuminauts who controls Organisation Some Organisation With a Random Name (henceforth SORN) may, whenever SORN is affected by any other organisation's power do the following anytime up to 24 hours later, even if SORN no longer exists

1. Reverse the effects of the other organisations power upon SORN, recreating SORN as it was before the action if it was destroyed.
   
2. Apply an identical effect to any other organisation.
   

Both of these powers must be used if either is.

Sidebar error

The player list still says 'Active Crewmembers'. Shouldn't some admin change this?

Proposal: Downsizing

[We have 3 different mechanisms for gaining control of an organisation. Let's trim some fat from the ruleset:]

In Rule 11 - The World, remove the paragraph beginning with "An Illuminatus may also attempt to take Control of an Organisation controlled by another Illuminatus..."

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Completely remove Rule 11.1 - Hostile Takeovers.

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In Rule 19 - Bids for Power, change every instance of the word "Bid" to "Plot". Bids posted before this change goes into effect are considered legal Plots of the same type.

Change the Plot Types to:

• Plot for Membership. Any Illuminatus may post a "Plot for Membership: [Target Organisation]" If it is successful the Illuminatus must be added to the Supporter List for the target Organisation. This addition must be encrypted if the Illuminatus requests it. If the target Organisation is uncontrolled, this addition must be unencrypted.

• Plot for Neutralisation. Any Illuminatus may post a "Plot for Neutralisation: [Target Organisation], [Target Illuminatus]". If it is successful, the target Illuminatus must be removed from the Supporter List for the target Organisation.

• Plot for Control. An Illuminatus who is in the target Organisation's Supporter List may post a "Plot for Control: [Target Organisation]" If it is successful the Illuminatus becomes a controller of that Organisation.


• Plot for Destabilisation. Any Illuminatus in the target Organisation's Supporter List may post a "Plot for Destabilisation: [Target Organisation], [Target Illuminatus]" If it is successful, if the target Illuminatus controls the target Organisation, e loses control of it and gets added to its Supporter List. If this leaves the Organisation with no controller, the previous controller must unencrypt the encrypted entries in the Organisation's Supporter List.

[I think the word "Plot" fits the theme better.]

Timed out & passed 5-0 (with one abstention). Enacted by smith, 10th of June at 18:40.

Attempted Takeover: Crypto-Cthulhuvian Society of Bankers of Venezuela

N = 26.

Well, Kevan, rule 11.1 states that we're both on the official list. =)

Re: CfJ

Can someone adminerize the CfJ, before it goes off the bottom of the blog?

Cheers.

Proposal: Misc small changes

Strike "This may be an integer value between 0 and 1000" from rule 10.

Replace "Official List" with "Supporter List" througout the ruleset, wherever it appears.

Append to the third paragraph of rule 16 "If an organistion ceases to exist, its powers are removed from this rule" and apply as appropriate if any of the organisations currently listed do not exist as of enactment.

The colour of the titles of the proposals shall be changed to a medium shade of red due to a high-security alert. (I find the blue rather undreadable on my screen.)

Timed Out. Passed 5-3, enacted by Excalabur 10th June 07:38.

Hostile Takeover = Joint Control

I re-read the Hostile Takeover rule yet again. It does not state that the an Illuminatus returning from idle loses control of the Organisation that was the target of a Hostile Takeover. It looks like the two Illuminati now share control.

Also, the rule says that the Illuminatus returning from idle is added to the Official List of the organisation (as are the other bidders). Since the Official List is obsolete terminology, which has been mostly replaced by Supporter List in the ruleset, this is fairly useless - although this data will linger in the gamestate like an appendix.

It's obvious that rule needs an update, but I am out of Proposal slots at the moment, and besides, I find the resulting entanglements entertaining.

Proposal: Liquidation

In Rule 11, replace "provided that that Organisation is not currently under the control of another Illuminatus" with "provided that that Organisation has not already been created earlier in the game".

[ Cheaply recreating destroyed groups and automatically getting their powers seems a bit unfair. The Decepticon Fleet would be quite a welcome police force against over-powered organisations, but allowing their controller to create 12-Influence copies with the self-same over-powered abilities is a bit much. ]

Passed 7-0, reached quorum. Enacted by Excalabur, the 9th of June at 18:03

Proposal: I was robbed while robbing

In rule 11.1 Hostile Takeovers change "When 24 hours have elapsed since a comment has been posted..." to "When 24 hours have elapsed since the most recent bidding comment to the Hostile Takeover has been posted..."

Timed out. Passed 5-2. Enacted by Excalabur, the 9th of June at 17:59

Hostile Takeover: 0

I take over Quazie.

Highest Bid: 2, TAE.

Hostile Takeover: 0

I take over Some Organisation With A Random Name.

Highest Bid: 1, smith.

Hostile Takeover: 0

I take over the Every Villain is Lemons organisation.

Highest Bid: 1, smith.

Hostile Takeover: 0

I take over the IRS.

Highest Bid: 5, TAE.

Hostile Takeover: 0

I take over the republican party.

[I was going to complain about Kevan's premature takeovers, but then I re-read rule 11.1. Since more than 24 hours have elapsed since the posting of some comment, somewhere, I can resolve my takeover attempt immediately. Whee.]

[addendum: That's just silly - I take that back. 24 hours must elapse since its posting. So this attempt is still pending.]


Highest Bid: 2 Influence, TheExcalabur

Proposal: Slightly-Less-Hidden Agendas

[ Moving Agendas into encrypted GNDT values, as another thing for the Illuminatus Rex not to have to track manually. Also adding a "can't win within 48 hours of changing agenda" clause, to give some reason to select an agenda in advance. ]

Replace the first four paragraphs of Rule 12 (World Domination) with:-

Each Illuminatus may have a single Agenda, tracked as a field in the GNDT, and stored as a Hidden Value (the initials of the Agenda may be encrypted instead of its full title). An Illuminatus may change its Agenda no more than once per week, and may not declare victory within 48 hours of changing its Agenda.

The following Agendas are permitted:-

Passed 7-0, reached quorum. Passed by Excalabur, 22:29 the 8th of June, 2005.

Stuff about The Switch

I've thrown up a Wiki at http://blognomic.com/wiki. Pages of note:

Switch progress
Switch suggestions

The names for which are more or less self-explanatory.

Given that "Folded Paper Trail" is ready to pass, I've gone ahead and made the Wiki public in advance; it still requires users to log in with a password (so that we won't be bothered by spambots), but it's a password that's publicly available.

Admin players will have to log in again with the new password.

I'm back

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Hostile Takeover: 10

I will attempt to take over the Crypto-Cthulhuvian Society of Bankers of Venezuela.

Highest bid: 12 Influence, from Kevan.

Proposal: Public Service

I feel I should give back to this game.. I've not been around for very long, but I want to help out.

Upon passage of this proposal, The Excalabur's name is changed to Excalabur, and he becomes an admin.

To make this Game State Neutral: Upon passage of this proposal, if The Excalabur is the Treehugger, he loses 10 influence. (I get 10 if this passes, this evens it out.)

I feel silly reffering to myself in the third person. I refuse to refer to myself using Spivak.

Passed 11-0, reaches quorum. Enacted by Angry Grasshopper, 8th of June at 18:25.

Hostile Takeover: 10

I'd like to take control of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, mostly because it's whompin' cool sounding, and an actual organisation.

Highest bid: 12 Influence, from The Excalabur.

Hostile Takeover: 5

I'm trying to take over the United Nations.

Highest bid: 25 Influence, from Kevan.

Cosmologicon, got to the back of the class

In his post "I've gone and done something...horrible" Cosmologicon writes:

"Next I plan to do the same to Atlantis, destroying it and remaking it mine, then attacking myself and doing it again, getting me 38 Influence every day or two"

The word "mine" serves no discernable grammatical function. I suspect the desired phrase is "remaking it as mine". As a result I have adjusted my influence up by 5 points.

Proposal: Assault and bribery II.

Add the following text to rule 13:

A Illuminatus may transfer control of an Organisation e controls to another Illuminatus

Rename rule 13 to "Rule 17" unless a majority of votes contain the text "I'd like a side-order of sanity please"

Passed 9-1, reaches quorum. Enacted by Angry Grasshopper, 8th of June at 18:20. Second clause is negated as only 3 votes contain the text "I'd like a side-order of sanity please".

Er. AG got that backwards. Rule 13 is renamed Rule 17, as the word is 'unless', not 'if'. Excalabur

I've gone and done something... horrible.

Using the powers of Organization Decepticon Fleet, I destroyed Mobile Phone Companies. I did this by attacking twice, once on either side of midnight. I'm pretty sure that was legal, but according to the GNDT, it was either side of 01:00, so maybe not.

Then I created an Organization called Mobile Phone Companies {12}. The Rules say, "An Illuminatus may spend X points of its own Influence, where X is at least 12, to create a new Organisation with a Reality Index of X, and gain control of it (provided that that Organisation is not currently under the control of another Illuminatus)." So I think that was legal.

Then, I adjusted the Reality Index of my new Organization to 19, since Rule 16 says, "The Illuminatus who controls the Mobile Phone Companies may - at any time - adjust that Organisation's Reality Index to be equal to the number of Organisations currently in existence." I really have no idea if that was legal.

If you disagree with what I did, please issue a Call for Judgment; I'd like to see this resolved. Next I plan to do the same to Atlantis, destroying it and remaking it mine, then attacking myself and doing it again, getting me 38 Influence every day or two.