Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Mimic Gremlin

["The Voice" <nomicvoice0@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Mimic Gremlin
> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 22:40:45 -0400
>
> On 7/5/02 at 5:53 PM The Voice wrote:
>
> >Well, as I am running out of ideas, and I can't run with the weather
> >until
> >I'm the Minister, I'll just reproduce some of my older ideas; I
> >counted--most of the Gremlins that exist are my creations.
> >
> >{{ __Copycat!__
> >
> >Add a new section B.11 titled __The Mimic Gremlin, a.k.a Gogo__ to rule
> >256
> >with the following -0- delimited text:
> >
> >-0-
> >There exists a Gremlin known as The Mimic Gremlin, also known as Gogo.  
> If
> >Gogo is active, then at the end of every nweek, Gogo chooses another
> >Gremlin
> >randomly.  Gogo does this before any other Gremlin performs an action, 
> and
> >cannot choose Curt, Rod, Luigi, or The Witch Gremlin in this fashion.
> >Gogo
> >is said to be Mimicking the Gremlin e chooses.  As long as Gogo is
> >Mimicking
> >a Gremlin, whenever that Gremlin performs an action, Gogo performs the
> >same
> >action, as defined entirely by the rule which defines the Gremlin who is
> >being Mimicked.  Gogo may not Mimic two Gremlins at once; e stops
> >Mimicking
> >a Gremlin when e chooses to Mimic a different Gremlin.  If Gogo chooses 
> to
> >Mimic the same Gremlin two nweeks in a row, e goes into hiding for one
> >nweek
> >immediately before the next time e chooses a Gremlin to Mimic.  If at any
> >point the Gremlin Gogo is Mimicking goes into Hiding for any reason, Gogo
> >goes into hiding until the end of that nweek immediately before e would
> >choose another Gremlin to Mimic.  If the Gremlin Gogo is Mimicking
> >performs
> >an action to a random target [[player, proposal, etc.]], that Gremlin and
> >Gogo may not perform the action to the same target.
> >-0-
> >
> >In subsection B.3 of rule 256, change all instances of the string "the
> >Token
> >of Proposals" to "a Token of Proposals" [[If Gogo then Mimicked the
> >Bandwidth Gremlin, they wouldn't be trying to award the same Token to two
> >different players.]].
> >
> >}}
> >
> >-0- Thus Spake The Voice -0-
>
> Are you causing there to exist two tokens of proposals, if Gogo mimics the 
> bandwidth gremlin?  Or would it try to give THE token, but fail, because 
> the bandwidth gremlin was already giving it?  And if Gogo could give a 
> second token, what would happen to said token after Gogo had given it, and 
> was no longer mimicing the bandwidth gremlin?
>
> BTW, Is "Gogo" a literary reference?  Sounds vaguely familiar, but my 
> memory's not what I recall it to be.
>
> 						Glotmorf

Yeah, Dave already covered it, but Gogo was a hidden character from FF3/6, 
found on Triangle Island-- you had to get sucked in by a monster called a 
Hoover.  His command menu was totally customizable and he was really cool.

Anyway, about the Bandwidth Gremlin thing, I tried to make it so that if 
Gogo was Mimicking the BG, then e would award "a" token of proposals to the 
deserving player.  Afterwards, I believe the BG section says that TOP's go 
away to wherever they go to [[perhaps back to the BG]], and by replacing all 
the "the"'s with "a"'s, the BG would then only award one per nweek, as 
opposed to the two.  The second would only be awarded if Gogo were mimicking 
em.  If I didn't do a very good job at that, or if you think that part needs 
some work, go ahead and vote SHELVE and we'll talk about it more, but I 
think this'll work.  I was going to write something about how once per 
nweek, the text of the rule changed to the text of a random section defining 
a Gremlin, but I couldn't come up with a good way to do that without things 
becoming really messy.


-0- Thus Spake The Voice -0-


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