[Spoon-business] Who wins?

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

There are three points of contention that will determine who grabs the win 
in the current nuttiness.

First, is whether or not a player can modify a charter to a society, or set 
some object to be a society (As in Wonko making himself his new society's 
charter).
If that is possible, Wonko wins.
If that is not possible, then Wonko does not win.
I believe it is not possible, as "Players may not change the game state."

Next, is whether or not charters themselves are, currently, empowered to do 
anything, and whether or not they do things based on themselves.  Which is 
relevant because Glotmorf tries to get his society's /charter/ to give him 
charm.
If this is possible, Glotmorf wins.
If not, Glotmorf does not win.
I believe that this does not work, as Societies do things based on their 
charters, but the charters themselves don't ever have a reason to do 
anything.

Finally, there is whether or a society, which is empowered to modify its 
charter by the rules, can modify its charter to be a rule.
If so, I win.
If not, I do not win.
I believe that they can.  Here's:

First, you have to decide if modifying a charter to be a rule counts as Rule 
Change.  We have:
"A Rule Change consists of the creation (enactment), modification 
(amendment), or deletion (repeal) of a rule."

I do not think that modifying a charter such that it becomes a rule counts 
as a Rule Change.  It is not a creation of the rule, as it already existed 
while not a rule.  It is not modification of a rule, as it is not a rule 
until the modification happens.  And nothing's being deleted.

Now, I might be right, I might be wrong.
If I am right, I win just with what I've shown so far.
If I am wrong, then there's still this:

"Changing the Rules is permitted only as explicitly or implicitly described 
by a Rule other than this Rule or a set of Rules not including this Rule."

Modifying a charter is described by the Societies rule.  Whether or not that 
charter is also a rule doesn't change the fact that the modification is 
described.

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Now then, I suppose that it could possibly be ruled that none of this is 
legal.  In such a case, I need to summon up my backup plan.

WARNING:  The following is confusing as heck, and I'm not going to do it 
anyway unless I haven't already gotten a win.  It's a backup.  If you are in 
the slightest confused about what's going on now, don't even bother with 
trying to read it.

IF I have not already been Awarded a Win during Nweek 40:

OEPEVA modifies its charter to also be a society, with itself as a member, 
and also modifies that charter/society to have the name "CharterExploits".
OEPEVA modifies it's charter, CharterExploits, to be its own charter.
OEPEVA modfires it's charter, CharterExploits, to have 100 Charm.
As CharterExploits has the same charter as OEPEVA, it also does what I say 
it does.
CharterExploits modifies it's charter to have the following sentence 
appended to it: "If this society has positive charm, it gives 1 charm to Orc 
in a Spacesuit."
That should get me a load of charm.  Now to take care of that entropy 
problem:
CharterExploits modifies its charter to be an Ancient Monolith, including 
all that entails, including being a grid object.
The charter/society/monolith wasn't created just now, only modified, so it's 
entropy absorption isn't set now.  Or maybe it might be, depending on your 
interpertaion.  In any case:
CharterExploits modifies its charter to to have the location (12,4), and an 
Entropy Capacity of 1000.
I kneel facing the Monolith and pray to the gods of planar geometry.  It 
absorbs 3d6 entropy.  That should put me down below the maximum.  I win.

Congratulations, you're looking at the first society which is also its own 
charter, and is also the charter for another society, and is also a grid 
object.

Orc in a Spacesuit

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