Daniel Lepage on Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:32:56 -0600 (CST)


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[s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] PlayerPersonman submits p2029 


On Mar 6, 2005, at 8.50 PM, automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


PlayerPersonman has submitted a new proposal, p2029.

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Proposal 2029/0: King For A Day, V.2
A Standard Proposal by PlayerPersonman
Last modified on nweek 82, nday 2

Create the following rule:
[[Since this was still listed under historical props, I'ma just submit it again. 
Changelog:
*Made Chutzpah unchangeable.
*Removed object-creation power; replaced with illegalization power.
*Defined illegalness - this may be useful for other, non-king-related things as well. 
*Fixed a spelling or two.
]]
Ok, it's not listed under Historical Props anymore, and I've hereby Rectified to the displays to appear the way they would have if this prop had been a revision to the original. You'll be able to modify it now. 


{{
_King For a Day_

A. State-Based Occurrences
At the beginning of each nweek that is not a Great Leap Forward, 1d15 is rolled. If the result is the number of one of the ndays in the current nweek, that nday gains the attribute Coronation Day.
On Coronation Day, the Avatar of each Player who has made a Claim To The Throne is replaced with an Avatar Token owned by that Avatar's owner. Each Avatar so replaced is placed in a newly created Royal Arena at coordinates equal to the coordinates of its corresponding Avatar Token. When Coronation day ends, if only one Avatar remains in the Royal Arena, the Player who owns that Avatar becomes King until the end of the nday immediately following Coronation Day.
At the end of every nday, any Player who is King recieves 100~, 2TH, and 1TG.
Illegal Cards have the string " *ILLEGAL*" appended to their names and may not be played.
Illegal Pieces have the string " *ILLEGAL* appended to their names in the book of Piece, and may not be created or moved.
You might add "and have no other effects" - otherwise my *ILLEGAL* Black Holes will continue to consume pieces despite their banishment.
Illegal Cubes have the string *!* in their ASCII representation, and may not be entered. Any Avatar in a Cube when that Cube becomes Illegal is randomly placed in an adjacent Cube.
Since these illegality definitions may indeed become used outside of this rule, it might be a good idea to put them in their own rule. 


B. Legal Actions
On any nday prior to Coronation Day, any Player may publicly make a Claim To The Throne.
Any Player whose Avatar is in a Royal Arena may take up to fifteen Turns. If a Player takes fifteen Turns while their Avatar is in a Royal Arena, all of their Stats become 0 until the end of the nday, at which point they return to their former status.
The King may at any time judge any current CFI's. For each CFI e judges is this manner, e recieves 2TW and 20 points. E does not recieve the normal reward for judging CFI's. No CFI judged by the King may be appealed while there is a King. The King may not submit CFIs, nor may e judge CFIs e previously submitted or was the defendant of.
I would call this a Bad Idea - the King could make a deal with another player to have the other player submit a CFI {{Wonko and The King may change the rules or the gamestate at any time by mutual consensus}}; then the King agrees, and nobody can appeal or submit counter CFIs because the King rules the Justice system.
The King may, once per nday, excercise eir Royal Authority. Excercising eir Royal Authority is defined as taking any of the following bulleted actions:
* Permanently incrementing or decrementing any number found in the body of any Rule by up to x + 2, where x is that number modulus 10. The King may never change a Rule's Chutzpah in this manner.
My first act as King would be to increase "Once per nday" to "Thrice per nday", then to "Eight Times per nday", then to 18, 28, etc. until I got bored. Then I'd alter r3 so that the nday ends at 2:00:00 UTC instead of at 00:00:00; sometime around 1:00:00 I'd change it back. Or I'd change "One nday shall be defined as the time between two consecutive changes in the number of ndays on The Clock." to "One nday shall be defined as the time between six consecutive changes in the number of ndays on The Clock." 

Either way, I could be King forever.

Other potential sentences in the Ruleset that I would not like to see:
"no rule may be in more than four Rulebooks"
"A Poll has eight primary attributes: a list of Eligible Voters, a Duration, and an Issue to be decided." 
"General Props are Proposals with a prop cost of 0BW"
"The Seventh Checking period of each nweek is the Voting Period of that nweek." "If Zero or more days have passed since a judge was assigned to a CFI, any player may Recuse that Judge." "If more than 0/3 of all players are On Leave, The Clock shall become Off until such time as at least 1/0 of all players are Off Leave." "The end of the seventh, seventh, and seventh ndays of each nweek are Checkpoints"
* Creating an instance of any card and playing it or putting it into eir hand. 

* Removing any one Piece from the Board.
* Causing any one Card to be Illegal for the remainder of the nweek, any one Piece to be Illegal for the remainder of the nweek, or any one Cube to be Illegal for the remainder of the nweek.
Do these apply to specific individual Cards and Pieces, or broad classes of them? That is, do you ban "Pennies", or "Wonko's Penny at G3"? 


C. Things
Avatar Tokens are Game Objects. Avatar Tokens may only exist in Cubes in the Arena. Avatar Tokens are denoted by the character T preceded by the ascii representation of it's owner's Avatar. Avatar Tokens cannot be destroyed or otherwise removed from the Arena by any means whatsoever excepting those specified in Part C of this Rule. If a Player would successfully shoot a Jet of Water into a Cube containing an Avatar Token, that Jet is deflected into the Cube from which it was shot. [[Yes, this does mean you can hide behind other people's tokens.]]
A Royal Arena, when created, has all the characteristics of the Arena when it was first created. When an Avatar in a Royal Arena would be destroyed, that Avatar instead replaces the Avatar Token representing it in the Arena and one of its owners Stats is decreased by 1 at the discretion of the Player whose Avatar destroyed it, with the restriction that nonoe of eir Stats may be lowered to 0. A Player whose Avatar destroys another Avatar in a Royal Arena does not get to increase any of eir Stats. No more than one Royal Arena may exist at a time. At the beginning of every nday, all Royal Arenas are destroyed. All Avatars in a Royal Arena when it is destroyed replace the Avatar Tokens representing them in the Arena.
Didn't you say earlier that a player who goes into the Royal Arena has all eir stats set to 0? 

--
Wonko

"No."
-Amy Carter, (President Jimmy Carter's daughter) when asked by a reporter if she had any message for the children of America 

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