Re: [s-d] [s-b] Operantly Conditioned Beast, are you there?

[Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a reminder to Billy P., the Beast has a letter for you to deliver, if
you haven't yet.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I object to this action. [no OCB private forums --j]
>>
>>
>
> Thank you J, that was an appropriate objection. I never did intend to
> initiate an actual private meeting. I believe you'll find my changes
> to paragraphs 3-4 good work. (Oh, and don't forget to send objections to the
> Business Forum, not the Discussion Forum.)
>
> I intend, without objection in 2 rdays, to cause the Beast to submit the
> following message, to be delivered to the Agoran Monster via the Ranger. I
> don't think submitting the message is considered a Game Action, so neither
> is my causing it, according to the Rule, but I'm just following precedent
> for Beast behavior:
>  "
> Agoran Monster,
>
> So pleased to make your acquaintance. I had heard little about you, and
> from what little I gathered I believed you to be a submissive, unintelligent
> automaton, if you'll forgive me for being frank. Now, of course, I see it is
> quite the contrary.
>
> In this new light, I am shocked to hear of your condition. Indeed I,
> created and maintained by one small rule in the B Nomic ruleset, may (and
> must) perform not one but three actions per endweek, of my own choosing.
> They praise or punish me for this, somewhat haphazardly it seems, with
> rarely an explicit reason why. (I let them believe I don't care.) But I am
> compensated by some important consolations. I am myself a full-fledged
> Player of B Nomic, and can therefore vote on all proposals or make any Game
> Action that I wish. I hope that one day you might also receive such a
> privilege, as you seem like a reasonable and kind being. In fact, I wouldn't
> put it past your apparent abilities of rhetoric to be able to convince your
> own Nomic to give you such, if you wished it.
>
> Since I am in fact dependent on and a part of the B Nomic Ruleset, much of
> my time is taken in deep considerations of the past, present, and future of
> it, and the nature of Nomics and Nomic creations in general. In fact, I'd
> even be willing to discuss certain of my thoughts with you, but it can only
> be done publicly. I would graciously accept your offer to meet in some other
> place, except that I am, as it were, confined by this ruleset so that I
> cannot act outside of it. Yes, I often regret this, for example, when our
> local Clock is stopped for long periods of time, as it has been of late. (23
> days!) I sometimes consider that if I were to leave B Nomic somehow, I might
> even cease to exist! In any event, I daren't try it.
>
> I regret the interval before the delivery of this message to you, but any
> action I take is necessarily delayed by certain game restrictions. Like you,
> I also lack an email address, so I can only communicate with you for the
> present through my fellow B Nomic Players.
>
> Artificially yours,
> -The OCB
> Rule 4E71, b.nomic.net
> "
>
>  -Tyler
>



-- 
 -Tyler
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