[spoon-discuss] A few replies

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wonko said:
> I enter the grid at (18,19) and pick up the Master Sword. [[I dropped it 
> due to the apocalypse]].

Yes, Link must not be without his sword.

Wonko said:
> I petition the Council of Elders to remove from the ruleset the bit about 
> 45 Charm resulting in a Win for the Charmer.

Considering that the rule Players May Not Win has been implemented, I would 
think that we could just do this by proposal.

Glotmorf said:
> As for the Charm thang, perhaps a better idea would be to make it more 
> problematic to drink 24 glasses of tequila (or any other alcoholic 
> beverage).

I agree.  I also think that there should be more qualifiers on the Charm-win 
rule.  I said as much back when the prop that did this was done, all the way 
back in the beginning of September.
The prop can be found at http://www.nomic.net/~g6/history.php?rn=956
My protests can be found at 
http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-business/spoon-business-200209/msg00000.html
Dave couldn't count my vote, that would have stopped the proposal from 
passing, as detailed here: 
http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-discuss/spoon-discuss-200209/msg00037.html
I didn't pay much attention, as I was more focused on fixing everything with 
an uber-prop, but on Oct 7, I believe, I was looking over the ruleset again, 
and decided that this was too much of a clean and easy win to pass up.  I 
then waited for the gamestate to gain a semblance of order.  I waited 5 
months.

Glotmorf said:
> When a player drinks an alcoholic beverage, eir BAC is compared to a roll 
> of 2d12.  If eir BAC is greater than the roll, the player is too drunk to 
> get the drink to eir mouth, and spills it, removing it from eir possession.

Too easy to circumvent with BAC reducers.  I had enough Espresso, without 
even really trying, to reduce my BAC by 20 (2 gnomes, each with 2 HP, each 
squeeze reducing BAC by 5; I had already drank one.)  And it would cost only 
5d4 points per an additional 5 BAC reduction.  Perhaps if one BAC-reducing 
thing would have an effect per nweek.
Oh, and my sig referred to the ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQULIA, 
FLOOR blurb that you may see pasted on people's shirts and stuff.  I think 
that the limit should be three drinks, and you're done, Pan-Galactic Gargle 
Blaster style.

The Voice said:
> It hails, [[no effect-- no gnomes]], rains [[15 random squares become 
> wet]], and rains again [[another 15 squares]].

And immidiatly aftwerwards, all Wet and Frozen marks get removed, and they 
all become Fire.  Wee.

Regarding props to fix all this, go ahead and propose something (well, maybe 
just edit Glotmorf's post), but I'll go ahead and say this:  This races prop 
that I'll be able to get back to work on once Spring Break's over will (if 
is passes, and this doesn't get changed) integrate a step system, with a 
cutoff for Inebriated and another for Drunk off eir Ass, and another for 
Passed Out, or something like that (still not set in stone), and the actual 
BAC for each of those will depend on the player's Constitution.

I would suggest maybe having each drink only able to do its effects once or 
twice per nweek, with the exception of the BAC increases.

Orc in a Spacesuit
Eater of the Worm

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