Ruleset 41

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Core Rules

Ruleset and Gamestate

This is the Ruleset for BlogNomic; all Actors must obey it. Section One consists of the "core rules" of blognomic, covering basic proposal mechanics; Section Two contains the rules of the current dynasty; and Section Three contains the glossary, which exists solely to clarify the remainder of the ruleset. Rules may be referred to by their type and entire number or type and name. (e.g. This Rule may be referred to as Rule 1.1 or the Rule entitled "Ruleset and Gamestate").

The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.

No Rule may contain a provision that bars itself from being altered and/or repealed. If at any moment a Rule exists or is altered in a manner that renders it to contain such a provision, the entirety of that Rule shall be considered void and with no effects on the Gamestate. The provisions on this paragraph supersede any text in a Rule.

Spivak pronouns, as defined in the Glossary, shall be used whenever an Actor is referred to.

Admins may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset at any time.

Actors

Anybody may apply to join BlogNomic (if e is not already playing) by registering at http://blognomic.com via the Register link in the sidebar, and then making a post announcing eir arrival. An Admin will add em to the roster in the sidebar, at which moment e becomes an Actor.

An Actor may leave the game at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. An Actor may only change eir name as a result of a proposal approving the change.

Some Actors are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such in the sidebar. Actors who wish to become Admins shall sign up with a username for the Ruleset Wiki, and submit a Proposal to make themselves Admins. Existing Admins may be removed from their posts by Proposal, CfJ, or voluntary resignation.

Some Actors are Idle, and shall be marked as such in the sidebar. For the purposes of the Ruleset, excluding Rules 1.1 and 1.2, Idle Actors are not counted as Actors. Admins may render an Actor Idle if that Actor has asked to become Idle or if that Actor has not posted a entry or comment for more than 7 days. Admins may de-Idle a Actor at eir request - the Actor's personal gamestate retains the values it had immediately prior to eir going Idle. If one or more values would be undefined, it is set to the value new Actors receive, if such a value exists.

A single person may not control more than one Actor within BlogNomic. If anybody is suspected of controlling more than one Actor, then a Proposal may be made to remove any number of such Actors from the game, and to bar the perpetrator from rejoining.

Proposals

Any Actor may submit a Proposal to change the Ruleset or Gamestate, by posting an entry in the "Proposal" category that describes those changes (unless the Actor already has 2 Proposals pending, or has already made 3 Proposals that day).

Proposals can either be Pending, Enacted, or Failed. When a Proposal is first put forward, it is considered Pending.

Voting

Any Actor may cast eir Vote on a Pending Proposal by making a comment on that entry using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST or DEFERENTIAL.

If the Actor who made a Proposal has not cast a Vote on it, eir Vote is counted as FOR. If an Actor casts more than one Vote on a Proposal, only the most recent of those Votes is counted. If an Actor leaves the game or goes Idle, eir Vote no longer counts. If an Actor votes against eir own proposal, that vote may not be changed.

A vote of DEFERENTIAL is a vote of no opinion, or of faith in the decision of the Investor. The vote will count as the same as the Investor's vote. The Investor cannot cast a vote of DEFERENTIAL. If there is no Investor, a vote of DEFERENTIAL counts as an explicit vote of abstention.

Enactment

The oldest pending Proposal may be enacted by any Admin (and the Ruleset and/or Gamestate updated to include the specified effects of that Proposal) if either of the following is true:-

  • It has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and has not been vetoed or self-killed.
  • It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid vote, more than half of its votes are FOR, and it has not been vetoed or self-killed.

The oldest pending Proposal may be failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:-

  • It has enough AGAINST votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those votes being changed.
  • It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and half or fewer of its votes are FOR.
  • It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and has fewer than 2 valid votes.
  • The Actor who proposed it has voted AGAINST it.
  • The Investor has voted to VETO it.

Whenever an Admin marks a proposal as enacted or failed, e must also mark eir name, and report the final tally of votes (or the fact that the proposal was self-killed or vetoed).

Calls for Judgment

If two or more Actors actively disagree as to the interpretation of the Ruleset, or if an Actor feels that an aspect of the game needs urgent attention, then any Actor may raise a Call for Judgment by posting an entry in the "Call for Judgment" category. If the Actor wishes, e may post anonymously by choosing "Call for Judgment" from the Author drop-down menu on the OPTIONS tab. The post shall go on to describe the issue, and measures that shall be taken to resolve it.

All Actors may add votes of agreement or disagreement in comments to this entry, using appropriate voting icons (a Actor's later votes overriding eir earlier ones). Unfailed CfJs continue until they reach a quorum of FOR votes, a quorum of AGAINST votes, or if there is no hiatus going on, until four days have passed, and if there is a hiatus going on until two days have passed. After this time, if more than half of the cast votes are in favour, the Gamestate and Ruleset shall be amended as was specified. Otherwise, the CfJ fails. A Failed CfJ has no further effect.

Gamestate Tracking

Proposals, Calls for Judgment, and other official posts, as well as specific gamestate information, shall be tracked by the BlogNomic blog at http://blognomic.com. Any Actor may post to the blog at any time, but may only make official posts to the blog when the Ruleset allows it. Posts following the format specified by a rule are considered official posts.

If no Actor has commented on it, an official post may be altered or removed by its author; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset. The Admin processing an official post is allowed to append to the post to reflect its new status. Anything appended to a post in this way must be placed in the Admin field of the post, and the post's Status must changed to reflect its status.

A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following exception: Whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than five minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as e wishes.

Voting and comments are accessible through the link at the bottom of every post.

Specific parts of the Gamestate data shall be tracked by the Generic Nomic Data Tracker at http://blognomic.com/gndt/generic.cgi?nomic=blog. Any Actor may update any Actor's data via the GNDT, whenever the Ruleset permits it.

All updates to the GNDT are logged - if an Actor feels that an alteration goes against the Rules (as they were at the time of the alteration), e may simply undo the effects of that alteration. If such an undoing is disputed, a Call for Judgment shall be raised.

Actors shall be assigned a password for the GNDT when they join the Nomic.

Dynasties

BlogNomic is divided into a number of Dynasties. Each Dynasty is headed by a single Investor, and is named according to the number of Dynasties they have headed (eg. "The First Dynasty of Myke").

The Investor may vote to VETO any Proposal.

Victory and Ascension

If an Actor (other than the Investor) believes that e has achieved victory in the current Dynasty, e may make a post to the Blognomic weblog in the Declaration of Victory category, detailing this.

Upon doing so, the game immediately game goes into Hiatus, if it hasn't already. During this time, the only game actions that may be taken are those covered by Rules 1.2, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.9.

Every Actor may respond to an active DoV saying whether or not e believes the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty (using the FOR and AGAINST icons).

The Declaration of Victory may be resolved after 24 hours, or after 12 hours if the Investor has voted on it. Upon resolution, if a Quorum of Actors have voted on the DoV and more than half of those votes were in favour, then the DoV passes - otherwise the DoV fails, and if no other DoVs are still pending, the Hiatus ends.

When a DoV passes, all other active DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the Actor who made the DoV as its Investor. (That Actor may pass this role to another Actor at this point, if they wish.) The Hiatus continues until the new Investor posts an Ascension Address to the BlogNomic weblog - this shall specify the Investor's chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally include a proclamation that any number of Dynastic Rules will be repealed, and that any keywords will be replaced with new theme-appropriate terms.


Dynastic Rules

Filmographies

Each actor has a Filmography, which is stored in a wiki page called "Filmographies". This is a list of the films that each Actor has starred in, the year of that film, and the role that they played in it.

Any film listed in a Filmography must exist on IMDB and a link should be provided.

A role specified for a film may be either:-

  • "Extra"
  • "Nth Minor Character" (where "N" is any number, and "Minor Character" is a generic role such as "Hoodlum" or "Fireman" - eg. "4th Zombie")
  • A named role that appears in the IMDB credits of the film.

Any Actor may add a new film and role to his Filmography, if e has not already done so that day or on any of the previous three days, with the following restrictions:-

  • A role of "Nth Minor Character" may only be added if the Actor has been an Extra in three earlier films.
  • A named role may only be added if the Actor has been an Nth Minor Character in three earlier films.

Location

All Actors have a location tracked in the GNDT column "location". New Actors start with the location "LA". An Actor may not change eir location to Liverpool unless otherwise allowed to by a Rule other than this.

Occasionally any Actor may choose to change eir location to one of the below;

  • LA - Home of Hollywood and the elite red carpets.
  • New York - Home of Broadway and the sub sandwich.
  • Tokyo - Home of Japanese cinema, animation, and Godzilla.
  • Mumbai - Bollywood! The home of the Indian musical.
  • Vancouver - The center of Canadian cinema, which is generally indistinguishable from American.
  • Hong Kong - Known internationally for making the Hong Kong Blood Opera a genre in its own right.
  • Machu Picchu - Admittedly not much in the way of cinema here.
  • Liverpool - Home of the Beatles

Press

Each Actor may be the subject of up to two "Press Stories", summarized as phrases in the "Press" field of the GNDT, and separated by an "and" if there are two of them. Whenever an Actor becomes the subject of a new Press Story, it is added to the end of the list; if this would result in three Press Stories for a single Actor, the first is forgotten, and deleted. Every Actor starts with a random Gossip Story, chosen by a rolling DICEX, where X is the current number of Gossip Stories. The Actor then counts down from the available stories and adds to eir Gossip category on GNDT the story corresponding to the number rolled.

A Story may be either "Gossip" or "Good Press". Each Press Story has a Name, one or more Categories they effect(Fame, Location, Filmography or Miscellaneous) and an Effect. An Actor that is the subject of any given Press Story is considered under it's effect. If an Actor is subject to more than one Press Story that overlap, that Actor is only subject to one of those stories, whichever is listed first in the GDNT. Stories are considered overlapping if they have at least one Category that is the same.

Gossip Stories, Categories and Effects

Available Gossip Stories, their Categories, and Effects are listed belows in the following format:

  • Gossip Story[Catagories, seperated by comas]: Effect
  • Glory Hound[Fame, Location]: An Actor under the effect of this story must change Locations so that e has the highest Fame in eir Location. If the Actor is unable to move to a Location where e has the highest Fame, all Fame e gains is reduced by half (rounded up). If the Actor has the highest Fame in eir location then all Fame gained at any Party e is the Host of is Doubled.
  • Left-Wing[Filmography]: An Actor under this effect may only add a film to eir Filmography in which another Actor under this story has already added to eir Filmography, though the roles may be different. If no other Actor has this story, it has no effect. An Actor may not be Subject to this story and Right-Wing at the same time.
  • Right-Wing[Filmography]: An Actor under this effect may only add a film to eir Filmography in which another Actor under this story has already added to eir Filmography, though the roles may be different. If no other Actor has this story, it has no effect. An Actor may not be Subject to this story and Left-Wing at the same time.
  • Drunk [Fame]: An Actor under this story does not count as a Guest at an After Party. If an Actor under this story is a Host to an After Party, e and all Guests gain double Fame.
  • Alcoholic [Filmography]: An Actor under this story must wait an extra day before adding a Film to eir Filmography.
  • Philandering [Fame]: Whenever an Actor under this story is a Host or a Guest at an After Party, all Fame at that party is halved (rounded down).
  • Sex-addicted [Fame]: When an Actor under this story is a Guest at an After Party e do not count as a Guest for the purposes of determining Fame. An Actor under this story gains only 1 point of Fame at an After Party, regardless of the Fame of the Host.
  • Kleptomaniac [Fame, Filmography]: An Actor under this story that is a Guest at an After Party gains 1 extra Fame, and the Host of that Party gains 1 less fame (this can reduce/increase the fame beyond its maximum/minimum,). An Actor under this story cannot take a Named Role.
  • Paternity-suited [Fame]: An Actor under this story does not count as a Guest at an After Party. When an Actor under this story is a Host of an After Party, only e gain Fame from that After Party, and no Guest gains Fame.
  • Divorced [Location]: An Actor under must always be at the Location with the least number of other Actors. If the Location with the least number of Actors changes, the Actor must change Location, even if e otherwise would not be allowed to change Locations. In the event of a tie, the Actor under this story can choose between the tied Locations.
  • Eccentric [Filmography]: When adding a Film to eir Filmography, an Actor under this story must make a ROLE DICE10 roll. If the roll comes up between 1 and 6, e must add an Extra Role. If it comes up between 7 and 9, e must add a "Nth Minor Character" Role, and on a 10 e must add a named Role. The role mandated by this roll must be added even if that would not be allowed by the "Filmographies" rule.

Jealousy

An Actor may occasionally make another Actor the subject of a gossip story, provided eir fame is strictly less than the fame of the target Actor and the target Actor has not been target of Jealousy in the last 48 hours.

Self-Promoting

An Actor may occasionally make eirself the subject of a Good Press Story, provided eir fame is strictly greater than 30 and e reduces eir fame by 10%, rounding the resulting fame down.

Good Press

Available Good Press Stories, their Categories, and Effects are listed belows in the following format:

  • Good Press Story[Categories, separated by comas]: Effect
  • Childhood band tour [Location]: The Actor under this Story may often change eir Location, even if otherwise not allowed to.
  • Indie film [Filmography]: An Actor under this story may wait one day less before adding a Film to eir Filmography.
  • Government criticism [Miscellaneous]: The Actor under this Story may be target of Jealousy once every 4 days, if e has not been a target of Jealousy in the last 24 hours. The Actor under this Story may occasionally make eirself the subject of a Good Press Story once every 4 days, provided eir fame is strictly greater than 30 and e reduces eir fame by 10%, rounding the resulting fame down and e has not done so in the last 24 hours.
  • Underwear line [Fame]: If an Actor under this story is a Host or a Guest to an After Party, e gains double the Fame e would gain.
  • Hometown festival [Location]: The Actor under this Story may often change the Location of another Actor, even if otherwise not allowed to, so it becomes the same Location as eirself.
  • UN Goodwill Ambassador [Fame]: When an Actor becomes subject to this story, e must roll a GOODWILL DICE20. Whenever an Actor under this Story gains fame, e gains X% extra Fame, rounded down, where X is the result of the Goodwill roll.
  • Living in Britain [Location]: The Actor under this Story may change eir Location to Liverpool at any time.
  • Sitcom cameo [Fame]: The Actor under this Story may roll a "PRESS DICE120" (instead of a DICE100) when making a Press Conference Post. E must use its result wherever the rules call for the result of the PRESS DICE100.

Charity Work

Performing Charity Work is defined as any time an Actor adds a role of Extra to eir own Filmography and the number of eir roles of Extra works in eir current Filmography is less than half the total number of roles on eir Filmography.

Within 10 minutes of Performing Charity Work, an actor may remove one (and only one) gossip story affecting em.

Fame

Every Actor has a Fame statistic, tracked in the GNDT. Fame is an integer from 0-100. Actors start with a Fame of 0.


Critics

Up to two (2) Actors may be Critics. Currently the Critics are Hix and Chronos Phaenon. Any Actor may edit this paragraph so it reflects correctly who are currently the Critics.

Any Critic who becomes idle ceases to be a Critic. A Critic may choose to cease to be so by posting a entry to that effect.

At any time, if there are fewer than two Critics, whenever a Proposal is enacted which has a Quorum of FOR votes, its author becomes a Critic.

Critical Acclaim

An Actor earns "Critical Acclaim" if both of the following conditions are true:

- e is not, at that time, disqualified from earning Critical Acclaim, and
- e makes a Proposal that passes, and both Critics vote "FOR" the Proposal (or cast votes that have the effect of votes FOR the Proposal).

Upon an Actor earning "Critical Acclaim", e must select a role in eir Filmography and add the text "Critical Acclaim" to eir Filmography in reference to that role. This action is defined as earning Critical Acclaim with respect to that role. A role that has earned Critical Acclaim is defined as an Acclaimed Role, and any role that is not an Acclaimed Role is an Unacclaimed Role. An Actor may not earn Critical Acclaim more than once with respect to a particular role. An Actor may not earn Critical Acclaim for a film in which e was an Extra.

An Actor is disqualified from earning Critical Acclaim for so long as any of the following are true:

- there are fewer than two Critics, or
- e has no Unacclaimed Roles in eir Filmography, or
- e has the Gossip Story: "Right-wing" and, simultaneously, either Critic has the Gossip Story "Left-Wing", or
- e has the Gossip Story: "Left-wing" and, simultaneously, either Critic has the Gossip Story "Right-Wing".

Press Conference & After-Party

Whenever an Actor adds a film and named role to eir own Filmography, e must make a GNDT comment of "PRESS DICE100" and then make a Press Conference Post within 15 minutes, or else the addition of that film and role is considered invalid (as if it had never been made).

A post to the main blog is considered a Press Conference Post if all of the following are satisfied:

  • The author has added a film and named role to eir own Filmography within the previous 15 minutes
  • The author has not already made a Press Conference Post since the addition of that film and role
  • The post reports the title of that film and the name of that role
  • The post reports the result of the first "PRESS DICE100" roll the author made in the GNDT since adding that film and role
  • The post reports its author's Fame statistic
  • The post is titled "Press Conference"

When an Actor makes a Press Conference Post, if the reported DICE100 result is less than or equal to half of eir Fame, then e becomes the subject of the first Gossip Story named in comments to the post by another Actor (as soon as such a comment is made). If the result is less than half eir fame and less than 10, e also loses 20 fame. If the result is greater than half of eir Fame, the post is also considered an After Party Post, and the author of the post is its Host.

Every Actor that is currently in the same location as the Host is a Guest to the After party, and the Host and Guests gain fame as follows:

  • The Host gains 1 Fame for every other Actor that is a Guest of the party, with a minimum gain of 1, and a maximum gain of 10.
  • Every Guest gains an amount of fame equal to 1/10 of the Fame that the Host had at the time the post was made (rounded up to the next whole number), with a minimum gain of 1, and a maximum gain of 5.
  • The Host is responsible for updating eir own Fame and the Fame of every Guest within 10 minutes of posting the Press Conference Post.

Election

The post titled "ELECTION" made by Chronos Phaenon at 18:04 2007, Feb, 25 is an official post. No other post with that title shall be an official post.

At any time before 18:04 2007, Feb, 29, any Actor may nominate one, and only one, another Actor to become Investor. E does so by making a comment on the "ELECTION" Post where the only text is the name of the nominated Actor.

If an Actor makes more than one comment on the "ELECTION" Post where the only text is the name of another Actor, only the most recent of those Votes shall be construed as eir nomination.

Whichever Actor is the subject of the most counted nominations at 18:04 2007, Feb, 29 shall choose between achieving Victory or becoming the new Investor and continuing this Dynasty. In either case this rule shall be deleted.

If no Actor has the most counted nominations, then this rule shall be deleted with no further effect.

Glossary

This is always at the end of the Ruleset. Its only effect can be to clarify ambiguity.

  • It is noted that where a Proposal would amend the effects of Proposal Enactment, this does not apply to its own enactment unless explicitly stated (eg. a proposal proposing that enacted proposals earn their writer a banana when enacted would not earn a banana for its own writer, when enacted).
  • Rules which trigger upon the Enacment or Failure of a Proposal are the responsibility of the Admin who Enacts or Fails it.
  • Appropriate Icons: For use in voting, a check box http://blognomic.com/images/vote/for.gif shall represent a vote FOR, an X http://blognomic.com/images/vote/against.gif shall represent a vote AGAINST, an I http://blognomic.com/images/vote/imperial.gif shall represent a vote of DEFERENTIAL, and an Imperial Seal (currently http://blognomic.com/images/vote/seal.gif) shall represent the Imperial Veto.
  • The "subject" of a blog entry is the part of the Title of an entry which is after the first colon. If the Title does not contain a colon, then the whole Title is the subject. Any entry whose subject is "" (i.e. an empty string) is not valid.
  • "Posts" and "comments" refer only to those made to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
  • A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word. A keyword defined in this glossary supersedes that defined by a rule. (eg. A rule specifying "Bananas are Blue" cannot be overruled by posting a dictionary definition or a photo of a banana, and a rule specifying "every day is Sunday" will be overruled by the glossary entry below.)
  • Unless otherwise specified, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers, and any action that would set those values below zero instead sets them to zero. Any situation which would require a roll of DiceX when X is zero or lower always yields a value of 0 unless stated otherwise.
  • Unless otherwise specified: When “X” is a number, to spend X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X); no action may be taken which requires spending X of a numeric value when the subtraction would result in a number which is illegal as a replacement for that value (e.g. if the value represents a variable which is restricted to non-negative integers, but the subtraction comes up negative).
  • Superficial differences between the spelling of geographic versions of English, e.g, British English, American English and Australian English shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.
  • Gamestate is defined as any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of, such as Actors' names and the blog colour scheme.

Typographic Conventions

  • Italicized text is not considered part of the ruleset and may be used to clarify rules with examples, notes, and flavor text. For example, this italicized text provides an example of the use of italicized text.

Timespans

  • References to "a day" (as an entity rather than a duration, eg. "Sunday") refer to that day in the timezone of the BlogNomic blog, which is considered to be GMT for all purposes.
  • References to a "week" refer to the period of time between the start of a Monday and the end of the following Sunday.
  • All references to time must be either specific or defined within the ruleset to be considered achievable in the gamestate. Abstract concepts of time (e.g. "dinnertime", "twilight") cannot be achieved until they fulfil one of these criteria.
  • An action which may be taken 'often' may be taken once per day, but not more than once every six hours.
  • An action which may be taken 'occasionally' may be taken once per week, but not more than once per twenty-four hours.

Keywords

  • Quorum is equal to half the number of Actors, rounded down, plus one.

Dice

References to "YDICEX" refer to Y X-sided dice. To roll dice, post DICEX in the comments field of the GNDT, replacing X with the number of sides on the die you wish to roll.

Spivak

  • The Spivak pronouns used in Blognomic are:
    • Subject case: "e";
    • Object case: "em";
    • Possessive Adjective case: "eir";
    • Possessive Pronoun case: "eirs";
    • Reflexive case: "emself".

IEEE

  • The IEEE auxiliary verbs used in Blognomic are:
    • Is required to: "shall";
    • Is recommended that: "should";
    • Is permitted to: "may";
    • Is able to: "can".
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