Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] I'm Baaack

["The Voice" <nomicvoice0@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wonko--

Thanks for bringing me up to speed...  I think all the business with 
speeders and stuff like that has been the biggest change.  I followed the 
Overlord thing a bit, but not a whole lot.  I have a proposal for next Nweek 
that hopefully can clear that whole thing up a bit, a __Fixing The 
Council__-type prop.  Wait and see...



-0-The Voice-0-





> From: Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] I'm Baaack
> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 00:32:05 -0500
>
> > It's good to be back... *glances around*... what have you done to this 
> > place?
>
> Well, the prominent issue of late has been the 'overlord' thing, which 
> happened as follows:
> 1) Orc changed the society rule, incorporating what might have been 
> interpreted as a loophole
> 2) Glotmorf exploited the loophole
> 3) Glotmorf bribed bd to judge that the loophole was legal; whether it 
> actually was is debatable, as the two unbribed judges disagreed
> 4) Lots of people started yelling and screaming. This was rather 
> unfortunate; we could have been arguing about something interesting, like 
> whether an interpretation established by a judgment was valid if the judge 
> openly admitted that e didn't agree... or whether the judgment was, in 
> fact, legal... but we did not. We yelled and screamed at each other for a 
> while, and in the end, the issue faded away without ever actually being 
> resolved. However, whether or not it was legal at the time, it's fallen 
> into the Statute now.
>
> Anyhoo, the mess left Glotmorf with the power to enact any change to the 
> gamestate e wished, so e set up the office of the Overlord, a player able 
> to perform any gamestate change which another player petitioned em to 
> perform.
>
> This struck many people as being no better than the original rule giving em 
> power, and so it was subsequently modified by the Baron, one of Glotmorf's 
> Underlords (who could do what Morf could, but only with Morf's permission).
>
> Thus we have the gamestate as it is now:
> Absolute power resides in the Coucil of Elders, a dysfunctional group of 
> misfits who never agree on anything - one is opposed to ever using power, 
> one isn't actually playing anymore, and the other three are never all 
> present at once.
>
> The Overlord issue is no longer being debated, but, as you can see from 
> recent discuss threads, the scars have not faded. Everyone is too stubborn 
> to put the issue behind them; not enough people support any given point of 
> view to get a repair proposal through in any direction.
>
> Meanwhile, the Grid now sports armies owned by every player... or at least, 
> it could. Like most spiffy Grid concepts, nobody's done anything with it 
> lately.
>
> BTW, you're now the only player who's ever been capable of holding eir own 
> hand... if you can get Orc to give it up. It's a nice little voter for the 
> weather rule, if I remember correctly; but I don't think anyone's done 
> anything with the weather since you left.
>
> Other things may have happened, but I'm not sure what you already know... 
> When exactly did you leave, and how much attention have you paid the game, 
> if any, in the interim?
>
> --
> Wonko
>
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