Re: [Spoon-business] A New Societal Subgame

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I announce my intent to join the Mercantile Society, and give Teucer a 
point.

--
Wonko

On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Craig wrote:

> Because the Underground Society is a cool idea, I hereby create a 
> society
> called the Mercantile Society, with myself as a member. It exists for 
> the
> purpose of playing another society-based subgame, called Merchants. Our
> charter is below. All players of B Nomic are encouraged to join.
>
> {{
> To join the Mercantile Society, a player must announce eir intent to 
> join
> and transfer one point to Teucer and one point to the Society for each
> player who has already joined.
>
> The member may then state in a private message to Teucer on which 
> space on
> the small map e wishes to build eir Capital City. E may not choose a 
> space
> containing only ocean; these are listed below the map.
>
>    A B C D E F G H I K L M N
>
> 1  . . . . . f f f f . f . .
> 2  . . . . f f f j j . f . .
> 3  g m d d g g g g f . . . .
> 4  m d d g g g g r . . . . .
> 5  f g g . . . . . . . . . .
> 6  . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>
> A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, D1, D2, F6, G6, H6, I6, K5, K6, L4, L5, L6, 
> M4, M5,
> M6, N3, N4, N5, and N6 contain no land.
>
> F represents Forest.
> G represents Grassland.
> J represents Jungle.
> M represents Mountains.
> R represents River.
> D represents Desert.
>
> At any point before the start of the game, a member may state on the 
> Public
> Forum that e wishes to close the society. If a majority of members 
> agree to
> close the society, all paragraphs in this charter which preceed this 
> one are
> removed and replaced with the text {{Players may not join the 
> Mercantile
> Society.}} and the game of Merchants will begin. It is described in the
> following paragraphs. Although Teucer is a member of the Society, e 
> does not
> play in the game of Merchants described below. Instead, e is the 
> moderator
> of the game. If a majority of members other than Teucer agree to any 
> change
> to this charter, the charter is changed accordingly. Teucer has the 
> power to
> modify the charter at will.
>
> A large map will then be posted showing the precise locations of the 
> capital
> cities and the boundaries between the nations. All points will belong 
> to the
> nation with the nearest capital city.
>
> Each member will privately be informed what resources e has. These may
> include any of the following:
>
> Gold
> Oil
> Coal
> Lumber
> Fruit
> Fish
> Beef
> Coffee
> Rice
> Bread
> Electronics
>
> Each player will have a total of fifteen resources. They will be 
> chosen by
> Teucer, partly at random and partly based on the player's territory.
>
> At any time, a player may post a message to the public forum offering a
> trade to another player. The offer stands until it is accepted or 
> withdrawn.
> If an offer is accepted, the goods in question are exchanged. No 
> player may
> accept an offer if it would require em to give away goods e does not 
> have.
>
> Every Checkpoint, one Gold is given to all players who have ten of each
> other resource.
>
> When the majority of members have ten of each resource other than 
> gold, the
> players who do have ten of each non-gold resource will each receive 
> from the
> Society one point per member with less gold than them who does have 
> ten of
> each non-gold resource and one point per member who does not have ten 
> of
> each non-gold resource. Each member who does not have ten of each 
> resource
> other than gold receives from the society one point per member who 
> also does
> not have ten of each resource other than gold and who has less gold 
> than the
> member in question.
> }}
>
>  -- Teucer
>
> "Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We're getting mawwied."
>  -clsn
>
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>
>
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