Re: [spoon-discuss] The Library

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 10/10/02 at 12:34 AM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
>
> >You all remember my Gallery proposal earlier this nweek, the one about us
> >submitting pictures of ourselves, without actually affecting the game,
> >right?
> >
> >Well, I had another idea, and have started another project.  Perhaps The
> >Library will be completed soon.  And no, I'm not looking for another
> >ministry.
> >
> >Orc In A Spacesuit
> >begins the construction.
>
> By "library", do you perhaps mean a really big FAQ, including writeups on 
> various topics?  I'd thought of that once, and was going to call it the 
> Ministry of Information.  It could include different types of indices to 
> the rule set.
>
> What'cha got?
>
> 						Glotmorf

*sighs*  Well, I had planned not to give away details until later, when I 
could present it, kind of like how I did with the Grid in 3D (which I plan 
to update at either the end of this nweek (but including changes that happen 
at the beginning of the next), or upon resolution of the possible SOE.

Anyway, I was looking through the archives, trying to elicit the original 
purpose of Societies, and I noticed how full of life the game has been (and 
how there was actually 3 whole nweeks in a month), and how props back then 
still had the stories written in, like BvS's infiltration of the DimShip 
warehouse, which was the first one I saw.  After seeing this, I decided to 
solidify two ideas that I'd had floating around in my head.

First, I'm creating a sort of History Book for BNomic.  I'm going through 
the entire game archives, and writing the summaries of what people did, and 
including the [[story]] text in the props.  This isn't a log, although 
someone should be able to reconstruct the game with it, but much more - I'm 
putting in my comments, annotations, links, the works.  I'm making it for 
posterity, for new players (including myself), for reference, and as a guide 
to the 'spirit of the game' for the CFI judges.
I plan to put it into multiple formats, including plain text, Word Document, 
HTML, and perhaps Adobe .pdf, if I can get a hold of someone with the 
software.

The other thing will be ongoing, similar but not identical.  I plan to 
continue this with events as they happen, but with an additional, primary 
purpose: A guide to Dave as to what the 400 messages on public and discuss 
mean.  What I mean is, I will type up everyone's (attempted) actions, like a 
recognizer, but constantly update it with the results of the latest 
arguments.  I will try to keep in unopinionated, and if people are in 
disagreement about something (ie--Wonko did something), I will summarize eir 
arguments, letting Dave take a look at the actual email.
This second part I plan to start once everything settles down a bit.  If we 
can get a definitive Recognizer and clear the CFI's off the table, I will 
have a good base point from which to begin.  As of right now, I have no idea 
what's going on.  That's partially why I am using so many 'if this is true' 
and 'if I can' conditionals on my actions, and why I had that lengthy 
formula for how many points I borrowed.  I've actually decided to stop doing 
anything complicated or not essential or for a while.

Orc In A Spacesuit

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