Re: [spoon-discuss] For what it's worth...

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/7/02 at 8:53 PM Wonko wrote:

>Quoth Glotmorf,
>
>> On 7/7/02 at 9:56 AM Wonko wrote:
>>
>>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>>>
>>>> {{ _The Scavengers_
>>>>
>>>> There exists a Society called the Scavengers.
>>>>
>>>> The initial list of Members consists of all currently Active Gremlins.
>>>>
>>>> Any Player who is a member of a football team can join the Scavengers
>by
>>>> declaring eir desire to do so on the Public Forum.
>>>
>>> Who IS a football player? Why?
>>
>> The football teams and the members of same are listed on the roster.
>>
>
>That's not what I meant. The emphasis on the 'is' was not intended to
>convey
>confusion and unlearnedness, but ranther to indicate incredulity or
>disbelief. What I was wondering was, why 'is' a football player? I had
>expected 'is not' a football player, and read 'is not' the first time, but
>then realized what it actually said upon rereading. So again I query:
>
><disbelief> Who IS a football player? </disbelief> Why?

Ah...you mean, why am I saying football players are eligible members, as opposed to non football players?  You mean, you hadn't thought of trying to use gnomes as offensive weapons against players who are clustering around you or the ball? :)

I was trying to rather specifically tie it to people on the grid, but I suppose I could change the charter to specify being on the grid as a membership requirement...

>>>> Any Active Gremlin who is not a Member of the Scavengers automatically
>>> becomes
>>>> a Member at the beginning of a nweek.
>>>
>>> Did we ever actually settle whether it was 'nweek' or 'enn-week'?
>>
>> Massive precedent seems to suggest "nweek".  I don't think there are any
>> instances left where "nweek" is preceded by "an".
>>
>
>Um... Look at every rule I've ever written with the word 'nweek' in it...
>And others:
>
>r154
>r356.B.3
>.B.4
>.B.5
>r293
>r295
>r441.B.12
>r578.F.1
>.F.2
>.F.3
>.G.2 (the one you added yourself! ;)
>r698
>r749
>
>These use 'a nweek' :
>r15
>r443
>r578.H.1 (both 'a' and 'an' in the same rule! (and it's your rule! ;) )
>
>I would say massive precedent seems to suggest 'enn-week' ;)

Huh.  Coulda sworn we've been using "a nweek" all this time...Perhaps I'm suffering from Baked Brain.  Enn-week it is.  Does someone actually want to propose making it official?

>>>> Any Gremlin who is a Member of the Scavengers ceases to be a Member if
>>> it goes
>>>> into Hiding.
>>>>
>>>> The Scavengers has a Resource Pool for carryable grid objects.  Any
>>> carryable
>>>> grid objects other than Players and Gremlins can be added to the
>Resource
>>>> Pool.
>>>
>>> What, no toads? ;)
>>
>> Did I say no toads? :)
>>
>
>Aren't toads players? Or did I miss that one, too?

A toad is not directly equivalent to a player.  A toad is in fact a subset of the characteristics of a player, since a toad can't gridwalk.

I could, yes, make it specific that toads can be added to a society's resource pool.  That would effectively hold the player for ransom until someone paid the object price to get it out, or until it ceased to be a toad...

						Glotmorf


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