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

[Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I object to this action. [no OCB private forums --j]

Tyler wrote:
> 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
> "
>
>   

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