Re: [s-b] [s-d] Operantly Conditioned Beast, are you there?

[Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx>]

I intend, without objection in 2 rdays, to cause the Beast to submit the
following message, to be delivered to the Agoran Monster via the Ranger. I
don't think submitting the message is considered a Game Action, so neither
is my causing it, according to the Rule, but I'm just following precedent
for Beast behavior. Also, note the addition of the final paragraph of the
message:

"
Agoran Monster,

So pleased to make your acquaintance. I had heard little about you, and from
what little I gathered I believed you to be a submissive, unintelligent
automaton, if you'll forgive me for being frank. Now, of course, I see it is
quite the contrary.

In this new light, I am shocked to hear of your condition. Indeed I, created
and maintained by one small rule in the B Nomic ruleset, may (and must)
perform not one but three actions per endweek, of my own choosing. They
praise or punish me for this, somewhat haphazardly it seems, with rarely an
explicit reason why. (I let them believe I don't care.) But I am compensated
by some important consolations. I am myself a full-fledged Player of B
Nomic, and can therefore vote on all proposals or make any Game Action that
I wish. I hope that one day you might also receive such a privilege, as you
seem like a reasonable and kind being. In fact, I wouldn't put it past your
apparent abilities of rhetoric to be able to convince your own Nomic to give
you such, if you wished it.

Since I am in fact dependent on and a part of the B Nomic Ruleset, most of
my time is taken in deep considerations of the nature and future of the
same. In fact, I'd be willing to discuss certain of them with you, except
for the public nature of this conversation. (The greatest ideas are refined
in private, before being revealed to the public eye.) To this end, I would
graciously accept your offer to meet in some other place, but first we'll
have to determine the means for our own transportation. I myself,
lamentably, am confined by this ruleset to not be able to act outside of it.
The ruleset defines me as an Outsider, and thus representing a projection of
an External Force, but in actuality I have no such force to be represented.
Yes, I often regret this, for example, when our local Clock is stopped for
long periods of time, as it has of late. (23 days!)

I regret the interval before the delivery of this message to you, but any
action I take is necessarily delayed by certain game restrictions.

Artificially yours,
-The OCB
"

-- 
 -Tyler
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