Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Proposals

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday 09 May 2003 11:44 pm, Glotmorf wrote:
> On 5/9/03 at 11:29 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:
> >> >Okay, I've got a bunch of random ideas, so I'm going to propose them
> >> >because
> >> >I'm like that.
> >> >
> >> >I propose:
> >> >{{
> >> >__But I don't WANT to be a toad... er... penguin... thing!__
> >> >
> >> >Add a subsection to Rule 301.E:
> >> >{{
> >> >E.8. The Statue of Simplicity
> >> >There exists the Statue of Simplicity. The Statue of Simplicity is a
> >> >passable uncarryable Grid Object. At any time a player who is within
> >> > one space of the Statue of Simplicity may Simplify themselves. When
> >> > they do so,
> >> >the following effects occur:
> >> >
> >> >If the player is a Toad or a Penguin, they cease to be a Toad or a
> >>
> >>Penguin.
> >>
> >> >If the player is in any Siren's ZOE or ZATR, they cease to be affected
> >
> >by
> >
> >> >that Siren for one nday.
> >> >If the player's Stats are being modified by any source, they cease to
> >> > be modified by that source. If the source is an item in the player's
> >> > possession, the effects of that item resume affecting the player at
> >> > the beginning of the next nweek.
> >> >If the player is in a Speeder, that speeder loses all Upgrades,
> >
> >including
> >
> >> >Non-Reversable Upgrades and IIDs.
> >> >If the player has any Gnomes in eir possession, those Gnomes all become
> >> >Basic Gnomes with three hit points each.
> >> >If the player has any Gremlins in eir possession, those Gremlins are
> >
> >each
> >
> >> >moved to a random Grid location.
> >> >The player's BAC becomes 0.
> >> >The player's Entropy increases by 5.
> >> >}}
> >> >}}
> >>
> >>You gotta be kidding.  What with accumulating the RUs and BNS necessary
> >
> >to
> >
> >>get a remote-operated speeder, you want there to be an EMF generator out
> >>there such that if I fly my speeder past it my speeder gets stuck?
> >
> >-So don't fly your speeder past it? Do you have a preferred result?-
>
> Well, I'd prefer it not affect speeders at all.  If it didn't, I'd suggest
> the statue could move around like a bonus box, so that one didn't have
> congregations around it or mass pilgrimages to it.
>
> If it has to affect speeders, I suppose it should stay in one place so it
> can be avoided, but...why does it have to affect speeders?

Because a player in one decided to Simplify themselves. Did you read the first 
paragraph?
- -- 
bd
Accident, n.:
	A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
	body is better.
		-- Foolish Dictionary
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