[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Early prop

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/19/02 at 1:22 AM Baron von Skippy wrote:

>I just want to make sure I remember to do this, as I'll be away next
>week...
>
>I propose:
>
>{{
>__Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It__
>
>Create a new rule with the following IMF delimited text:
>
>IMF
>__The Quest for the Immutable Rule__ {*Immutable, 13*}
>
>There exist rules of type Immutable. Immutable rules must be named "X's
>Immutable Rule," where "X" is the name of the player who created the rule.
>No player may have more than one Immutable rule, unless there is a direct
>connection between all of eir Immutable Rules. [[I don't know what you'll
>come up with, so I'm leaving this open.]] Players may create or edit eir
>Immutable Rules by sending a message to that effect to a public forum,
>without having to make a proposal for the nweek's ballot. [[So they can't
>be
>voted down.]] Immutable Rules shall be numbered starting from 2000.
>[[Keeps
>'em seperate from the rest of the ruleset.]] Immutable Rules may not have
>a
>Chutzpah greater than 1, and may under no circumstances take precedence
>over
>this rule.
>
>Players have 1 nyear from the creation of this rule, hereafter reffered to
>as the R&D Phase, to create and perfect eir Immutable Rules. At the end of
>that time, players may not alter or repeal Immutable Rules except as
>defined
>in this rule. At the end of said nyear, players have 5 nweeks, hereafter
>referred to as the Testing Period, to create proposals to alter or repeal
>the existing Immutable Rules. No proposal to alter or repeal an Immutable
>Rule can create a rule.
>
>If all of a player's Immutable Rules survive the Testing Period in the
>form
>they had at the end of the R&D Phase, that player recieves the Grand
>Prize.
>The Grand Prize consists of 250 points$$$, the title "Immutable One," 1
>point of Respect, and the Immunity Idol. Should more than one player's
>Immutable Rules survive the Testing Phase, the player who made eir final
>amendments to eir Immutable Rules earliest will recieve the Grand Prize,
>and
>all other players who would otherwise have qualified for the Grand Prize
>shall recieve 100 points$$$$ and the title "Immutable One."
>
>At the end of the Testing Phase, repeal all Immutable Rules, then this
>rule.
>IMF
>
>This paragraph does not apply to itself. If proposal 862 passed, replace
>"$$$" with ", BNS250" and "$$$$" with ", BNS100." If proposal 862 failed,
>remove all occurences of "$$$" and "$$$$" from this proposal.
>}}

You gotta be kidding.  What prevents me from creating an Immutable Rule that says, "Each nweek Glotmorf receives 999 points"?

						Glotmorf


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