The Third Dynasty of Misty
March 30 - May 3, 2023
Contents
Ascension Address
Hey! All of ya! Hello and welcome! As you may already know, that black hole had finally evaporated from that place, which means that construction for the city of our dreams has finally begun again! Now you might be wondering why you were brought in so late. There’s uh, one small problem that cropped up. Someone was an absolute incompetence and blew up half of our construction materials. Supply chain issues caused by major parts of Asia no longer existing mean that we won’t be getting any replacements soon, so we kind of have to make do with what we have. That’s why you’re here! Your job is to take all the non-essential building stuff from the lower floors and hand them right back to the workers. They won’t suspect a thing, and we might be able to stretch our last few resources far enough to complete the city! Any questions?
Okay, I guess you could call this “pulling a Jenga”, but don’t let the workers know about that. Or any of this, really.
Dynasty theme: Jenga. Repeal all dynastic rules. Set the player synonym to Engineer and the emperor synonym to City Architect. Set the gamestate tracking page to be “Construction Site”.
Players
The following players were active at the beginning of this Dynasty: Brendan*, Habanero, jjm3x3, JonathanDark, Josh*, Kevan*, lendunistus, Misty*, Pokes*, Raven1207, redtara*, SingularByte*, Trapdoorspyder*
The following players were active at the end of this Dynasty:
Final Ruleset
Gamestate
Posts of Interest
- (This list of significant dynastic events is currently incomplete.)
Ascension
At around the midway point of the dynasty, Josh made use of a scam that gave him an essentially infinite number of Safety Checks (SCs). As up until recently at that point Safety Checks had been used to lock access to the dynasty's central mechanics, he made a Call for Judgment proposing to award himself Victory on the basis that he had cornered the game, similar to Brendan's successful argument in The First Dynasty of Habanero. Unlike that arument, however, this one failed, as the other players pivoted the ruleset to work around Josh's controlling SC horde.
However, the revised victory mechanism (around collecting a resource called Expertise) was still susceptible to manipulation based on the expenditure of SCs, and as Josh still had a massive reserve of these his Expertise collection capabilities quickly appeared to outstrip those of his rivals. This unlocked a passage of play in which a cohort of other players, led by Kevan, worked to undermine both Josh's position directly and, in doing so, the legitimacy of the merit gamestate itself. While this group could achieve a majority on some votes to amend mechanics, they were sub-quorate for the mechanisms that would allow them to directly catch up to Josh, leaving Josh in a defensive but still dominant position.
It was in this worsening of the atmosphere of the game that it came to light, almost incidentally, that most of the major variables of the dynasty were orphaned, so a CfJ was made to fix this. While it was pending, it was realised that several players would be able to lock down the game (making all further build actions impossible) as soon as the CfJ passed and the game came back online. The House of Cards CfJ proposed to end the dynasty, locking down the game and allowing players to discuss a victory "chop". Public discussion happened around The Bargaining Table.
This conversation went on for a couple of days, with several players making chop proposals to vote on. Discussion in the chop proposals continued in a markedly negative tone. The Emperor also made a "Failed Ultimatum" proposal to put the game into a metadynasty.
A few hours after that, Bucky unidled for the first time in the dynasty, prompting Benbot to do the same. Bucky suggested on Discord that the disabling of the gamestate for the chop proposal was in some way a "stick of dynamite", and cast a vote for a metadynasty and a vote against every chop, with Benbot doing the same. Misty discussed the push for a metadynasty on the Discord with Redtara, Bucky, Benbot and some still-idle players, Misty pointing out to one of them that "there's nothing stopping you from unidling now and voting".
Misty then vetoed all of the chop proposals and left the metadynasty proposal standing.
Twenty hours later, the metadynasty had quorum: Benbot, Bucky, Redtara, JonathanDark, Josh, Misty and Taiga were in favour of the dynasty ending in this way; Brendan and Kevan were not; Habanero, Jjm3x3, Summai and Titanic had not yet voted either way.
(There was some disagreement on whether the proposal explicitly ended the Third Dynasty of Misty, since it did not say to explicitly end the current dynasty. But it was noted that most metadynasty proposals had failed to say this either, historically, and a vote concluded that this dynasty had indeed ended.)
