Re: spoon-discuss: The King Gremlin

["Donald Whytock" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/23/02 at 2:53 PM Wonko wrote:

>This is a proposal I'm considering making. It's not a full proposal yet
>(note the single { } instead of the double), but I'm wondering if anyone
>likes it and if it might convince people to vote for the Witch Gremlin,
>since this allows someone to stop the Witch (though it zaps you for 5 as it
>goes). I'm also annoyed that the Proposal Eating Gremlin, whose name I
>think
>should be the Proposal Ingesting Gremlin so we can call it the PIG, is
>about
>to eat one of my proposals, and I want to be able to Repress it too.
>
>{
>__Help! Help! I'm being repressed!__
>
>Create a new rule:
>{
>__The violence inherent in the system__
>
>There exists a Gremlin called the King Gremlin. If the King Gremlin is
>Active, any player may pay 5+5*(the second Gremlin Number) points to Bribe
>the King Gremlin. When the King Gremlin is Bribed, it Represses an Active
>Gremlin of the Bribing player's choice. When a Gremlin is Repressed, it
>goes
>into hiding and may not become Active again for at least 4 ndays unless it
>is UnRepressed. This rule takes precedence over all rules which define when
>Gremlins may become Active.
>
>If the King Gremlin is Repressed, all other Gremlins are UnRepressed and
>the
>player who Bribed the King Gremlin loses 8 points.
>
>If at any time at least 2/3 of all Gremlins other than the King Gremlin are
>Hiding, the King Gremlin goes into Hiding. If at any time at least 2/3 of
>all Gremlins other than the King Gremlin are Active, the King Gremlin
>becomes Active.
>}
>
>
>
>Amend the rule entitled "The Witch Gremlin" to add the following << >>
>delimited text:
><< >>
>If the Witch Gremlin is Repressed, all Cursed players cease to be Cursed,
>and the player who Bribed the King Gremlin loses 5 points.
><< >>
>
>
>
>Replace the text of rule 261 with the following HUNGRY delimited text:
>HUNGRY
>There is a Gremlin named the "Proposal Ingesting Gremlin", or PIG.
>
>If the PIG is Active then one second before the votes of the ballot are
>counted the PIG will eat the kth proposal on the ballot, as listed when
>sent
>out by the Adminstrator, where k is equal to the nth Gremlin number, where
>n
>is the number of proposals on the ballot.
>
>Any proposal which is eaten by the PIG is immediately removed from the
>ballot and has no effect.
>
>If a Ballot is issued with fewer than 12 proposals on it, the PIG goes into
>Hiding. At the beginning of each nweek, the PIG becomes Active.
>HUNGRY
>}
>
>Rationale:
>    The Proposal Eating Gremlin ate one of my proosals. I'm annoyed. So,
>let's be able to Repress it. Then I'll be happy. I also thought that it
>might make things easier if the PEG were called the PIG, for humor's sake,
>and wouldn't eat off of small ballots. Finally, this limits the power of
>the
>Witch Gremlin as any player can pay a moderate number of points to Repress
>the Curse Gremlin.
>
>--
>Wonko
>There are no stupid questions; just stupid people.

This could work with Luigi too.  But how does the king get unrepressed?  And should there be, say, a Revolt if too many gremlins are repressed?

Aside from that, I'm starting to worry about all these things I'm seeing that just take an expenditure of points to do.  One of your concerns about Luigi was that the poor get poorer.  My concern about the king is that the rich get richer.  Though I suppose repressing Luigi and the PIG would benefit more than just the bribing player...

						Glotmorf