spoon-business: Proposal: The Grid

[Greg Ritter <greg.ritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Create a new rule called _The Grid_ with the following text:

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There shall exist an environment known as the Grid. The Grid is a square 
composed of units. The Grid is 20 units wide by 20 units tall. The units 
are numbered from 1 to 20 horizontally (the x axis) and 1 to 20 vertically 
(the y axis). Each unit on the Grid can be expressed as an (x,y) coordinate 
location. The unit (1,1) shall be below the unit (1,2) and to the left of 
unit (2,1). [[Meaning unit (1,1) is in the lower left of the Grid.]]

Units of the Grid may be occupied by Players. Players are either on the 
Grid or off the Grid. A Player who is off the Grid is located in Limbo. A 
Player who is on the Grid will have a location expressed by the (x,y) 
coordinate location of the unit e occupies. Each Player may occupy only one 
unit at a time. Multiple Players may not occupy the same unit at the same 
time.

The Grid shall initially contain five Shiny Things and five Scary Dark 
Things. The Administrator shall randomly determine the initial location of 
each of the five Shiny Things and each of the five Scary Dark Things. For 
each Shiny Thing or each Scary Dark Thing, the Administrator shall generate 
a random location by using the value of each die of 2d20 to generate the x 
and y coordinates of each Shiny Thing and each Scary Dark Thing. The 
Administrator shall never reveal the current locations of the Shiny Things 
and Scary Dark Things to any Player, unless in a manner prescribed by the 
rules.

If at any time a Player occupies the same unit as a Shiny Thing, e will be 
awarded 25 points and the Shiny Thing will instantly teleport to a new 
location on the Grid to be determined at random by the Administrator.

If at any time a Player occupies the same unit as a Scary Dark Thing, e 
will lose 25 points, and the Scary Dark Thing will instantly teleport to a 
new location on the Grid to be determined at random by the Administrator.

Initially, all Players are in Limbo. A Player may enter the Grid by 
announcing on a public Forum that e will enter the Grid at a particular 
(x,y) coordinate location. A Player may enter the Grid at any location not 
already occupied by another Player. Once a player has entered the Grid, e 
shall be considered on the Grid. Once a player is on the Grid, e may only 
leave the Grid [[e.g. change his status to "off the Grid"]] or move to 
other units on the Grid in a manner prescribed by the rules.

Once per week, any Player on the Grid may announce that e intends to move 
to a new (x,y) coordinate location. Unless otherwise prescribed by the 
rules, Players may only move from eir current location to any of the units 
surround eir current location. [[E.g. the x and y coordinates of a player's 
location may only be increased or decreased by 1 each nweek.]]

Moves on the Grid happen at the end of the nweek and are processed in the 
order in which they were announced. If a Player attempts to move into a 
unit occupied by another Player, eir Move fails and e remains in eir 
current location.
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EXPLANATION: Eh, hell, why not. Seems like fun. I can also envision other 
ways to add interest to the Grid, esp. by figuring out rules that create 
ways to learn the location of the Shiny Things and Scary Dark Things. For 
example, maybe Players can only move one unit but can see five units, so as 
they get near a Thing they can see it.


NOTE: while I already have three proposals outstanding those were submitted 
in the previous nweek and do not count toward this nweek's bandwidth 
limitation.

--gritter