[s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] BvS submits p35

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 29, 2005, at 1.06 AM, automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> BvS has submitted a new proposal, p35.

> {{
> Players have an attribute called Awesomeness.
> }}

Is that a rule? Or at least, part of a rule?

> Specialty Proposals are Proposals which meet the requirements to be 
> one or more of the types of Specialty Proposals listed below. A single 
> Proposal may belong to multiple types of Specialty Proposal.
>
> Specialty Proposal types must each have a requirement or list of 
> requirements that a Proposal must meet to qualify as an example of the 
> type and a reward to be given to a Player who creates a Proposal of 
> that type which passes. Additional effects of a Specialty Proposal may 
> be specified as well.

This seems an awful lot like Genechips. Maybe the two should be 
combined somehow.

> It is expected that chapters in an ongoing story will be connected by 
> common characters, plot, and concepts central to the story. Although 
> new characters, plot twists, and concepts may be introduced in a 
> chapter, a chapter which is not clearly part of the story to that 
> point will not recive any bonus for being part of an ongoing story.

In whose judgment? I can certainly think of borderline cases from past 
props.

> 2.C: Sonnet Proposals
> A Sonnet Proposal is a proposal which is in sonnet or Shakespearean 
> sonnet form. A sonnet is defined as a fourteen line poem with 
> ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, and a Shakespearean sonnet is a sonnet in 
> iambic pentameter. Whether the title of a Sonnet Proposal is included 
> in the sonnet is up to the creator of the Sonnet Proposal. When a 
> Sonnet Proposal is submitted, its creator is awarded four points of 
> Awesomeness, plus two points of Awesomeness if the sonnet was a 
> Shakespearean Sonnet. If a Sonnet Proposal passes, its creator is 
> awarded six points of Awesomeness, plus the right to act very superior 
> for one nweek if the sonnet was a Shakespearean sonnet.

So if we had a way to rescind props, I could write a Sonnet, submit it, 
rescind, repeat the last two steps a billion times, and become 
near-infinitely Awesome?

Also, my spell-checker thinks you misspelled ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

--
Wonko

"This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the 
overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context"
    -David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical 
Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"

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