Re: [s-d] [s-b] Consultation: Did the s**m work?

[Josiah Worcester <josiahw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:31 Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2007 8:08 PM, Josiah Worcester <josiahw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 31 December 2007 18:02:56 Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> > > On Dec 31, 2007 7:18 PM, Justin Ahmann <quesmarktion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > > I submit the following Consultation:
> > > >
> > > > {
> > > > Question: Does Billy Pilgrim have 11 Hit Points?
> > > >
> > > > Reasoning: Rule 24 states, " Each nday, any living player whose hit 
points
> > have been reduced shall recover 1 hit point up to their maximum number of 
hit
> > points."  However, the maximum number of hit points is not defined by the
> > Rules, and thus nobody stops healing.  Billy Pilgrim, is, so far, the only
> > Player whose hit points have been reduced, so he is the only one who has
> > healed beyond 10.
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > This is Consultation 80.  I assign it to Priest Murphy.
> > >
> > > Argument against: a Player's maximum number of hit points should be
> > > interpreted as the most hit points they've ever had, by the ordinary
> > > definition of "maximum".
> > >
> > > --
> > > Geoffrey Spear
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> >
> > BEGIN TRANSACTION
> > Assertion: Consultation 80 is pondered as YES.
> > Action: I stab myself.
> > END TRANSACTION
> 
> I don't believe a transaction can be used to take a future action like
> this seems to intend; your transaction trivially fails.
The intent is to take an action in the present if a future action allows for 
it. ;)

This does not violate the Temporal Prime Directive, though it may violate 
other things. . .

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