spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal: GremBall

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

....Unless of course someone proposes something like this....

At 02:39 AM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Whoa!  I'm brain-dead.  I didn't see the bandwidth rationing went 
> up.  Good thing I'm now inspired...
>
> {{ _The Intercontinental Ballistic Gremlin_
>
> Create a new rule:
>
> {{ _GremBall_
>
> Gremlins can be in a grid location, in Limbo, or in the posession of a Player.
>
> If a Player is holding a Gremlin, e must throw it or drop it within two 
> ndays, or become Burned and drop it where e is standing.  A Player 
> recovers from being Burned at the end of the nweek.  Burned Players cannot 
> catch thrown Gremlins.
>
> If a Player and a Gremlin are in the same grid location, or a Player and a 
> Gremlin are both in Limbo, the Player may pick up the Gremlin.
>
> A Player in Limbo can throw a Gremlin at a grid location or a Player in a 
> grid location.  A Player in a grid location can throw a Gremlin into Limbo 
> or at a Player in Limbo.  Gremlins cannot be thrown at Players who are On 
> Leave.
>
> If a Gremlin is thrown at a Player, the Player must, as an action, catch 
> the Gremlin within two ndays of it being thrown.  If the Player does not 
> or cannot catch the Gremlin, the Gremlin hits the Player, who then loses 
> 1d5 score points; the Gremlin then falls where the Player is standing.
> }}
>
> Place all Gremlins that are not already on the grid or in Players' 
> posession into Limbo.
>
> Replace the last sentence of Rule 256 with the following text:
>
> "When a Gremlin is first defined by the rules, it starts out Active and in 
> Limbo unless the defining rule specifies otherwise."
>
> }}