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==Posts of Interest== | ==Posts of Interest== | ||
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| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/lead_piping Lead Piping] established the Murder, with 4 secret qualities, and a method for discovering clues about the qualities. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/just_one_more_thing1 Just One More Thing] added Traits that a detective could add to themselves (in equal balance positive and negative traits) which affected clue-finding. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/shoe_leather Shoe Leather] added Locations, which affected which clues could be discovered. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/people_and_pondering People and Pondering] added Murderers as possible Locations. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/more_to_life More to Life] added 2 more traits, including Sidekick, which prevents achieving victory. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/more_tasteful_red_herrings More tasteful red herrings] added red herrings - proofs of a Murder's quality that look like disproofs, or vice-versa. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/i_cannot_live_without_brain_work I Cannot Live Without Brain-Work] added 2 more traits. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/you_cant_hide_fishy You Can’t Hide Fishy] removed false negatives as red herring. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/start_the_tape Start the Tape] added Methodical as a trait. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/snooping_with_style Snooping (with Style)] made it possible to search through another Detective's clues. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/colonel_mustard_with_the_nerf_gun Colonel Mustard with the Nerf Gun] defined a way that Traits that had been weakened could be removed from a Detective (after I had whined about it --pokes) | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/secret_agent Secret Agent] Added Secretive as a Trait, which blocked snooping. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/cigar_burns Cigar Burns] added Clumsy as a Trait, which broadcast any disproof Clues received to everyone. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/team_work Team Work] added a public disproof Clue to be added to each Search. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/lounge_wizard Lounge Wizard] added a fix for a GNDT maybe-bug that kept moving Trigon, and [https://blognomic.com/archive/warp_zone Warp Zone] generalized it to be usable by everyone. | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/accusations_3 Accusations 3] added the victory condition, making an accusation that is correct in all four qualities of the Murder. | ||
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| + | Non-dynastic: | ||
| + | * [https://blognomic.com/archive/the_hammer_of_god_core The Hammer of God] added "A Detective should not use a core, special case or appendix rules scam to directly or indirectly achieve victory" to Fair Play. | ||
==Ascension== | ==Ascension== | ||
Revision as of 01:53, 14 February 2019
21 January 2019 - 13 February 2019
Contents
Ascension Address
- Two months earlier.
- The annual Mystery Writers’ Fundraising Dinner at Chamberlain House.
- Silverware glints and chinks in the candlelight, and lively conversation resounds around the enormous oak-panelled dining room as local dignitaries and police officials exchange anecdotes and questions with fiction writers and amateur detectives. The empty chair at the head of the high table remains empty, the reclusive Morgan Chamberlain IV traditionally arranging and hosting the dinner without ever attending in person. The usual jokes and rumours that Morgan secretly attends each event in disguise are muted this year by the news that the ageing financier is seriously ill, confined to bed elsewhere in the mansion.
- In a lull between courses, the clock having not long struck eleven, the double-doors swing open and the chief of police enters from the hallway, flanked by serious-faced uniformed officers. Three squad cars pull up outside the tall windows of Chamberlain House, their bright blue lights strobing wide across the dining room, sharp against the candlelight.
- Morgan Chamberlain IV has died.
- Replace “Attorney” with “Detective” and “Judge” with “Chief”.
Players
The following players were active at the start of the Dynasty:
edelopo, Kevan*, pokes*, Trigon, Zaphod
The following players were active at the end of the Dynasty:
Allo, derrick*, Kevan*, Luther&Locke, pokes*, Trigon, Zaphod
Final Ruleset
Posts of Interest
- Lead Piping established the Murder, with 4 secret qualities, and a method for discovering clues about the qualities.
- Just One More Thing added Traits that a detective could add to themselves (in equal balance positive and negative traits) which affected clue-finding.
- Shoe Leather added Locations, which affected which clues could be discovered.
- People and Pondering added Murderers as possible Locations.
- More to Life added 2 more traits, including Sidekick, which prevents achieving victory.
- More tasteful red herrings added red herrings - proofs of a Murder's quality that look like disproofs, or vice-versa.
- I Cannot Live Without Brain-Work added 2 more traits.
- You Can’t Hide Fishy removed false negatives as red herring.
- Start the Tape added Methodical as a trait.
- Snooping (with Style) made it possible to search through another Detective's clues.
- Colonel Mustard with the Nerf Gun defined a way that Traits that had been weakened could be removed from a Detective (after I had whined about it --pokes)
- Secret Agent Added Secretive as a Trait, which blocked snooping.
- Cigar Burns added Clumsy as a Trait, which broadcast any disproof Clues received to everyone.
- Team Work added a public disproof Clue to be added to each Search.
- Lounge Wizard added a fix for a GNDT maybe-bug that kept moving Trigon, and Warp Zone generalized it to be usable by everyone.
- Accusations 3 added the victory condition, making an accusation that is correct in all four qualities of the Murder.
Non-dynastic:
- The Hammer of God added "A Detective should not use a core, special case or appendix rules scam to directly or indirectly achieve victory" to Fair Play.
Ascension
After the victory condition was established as correctly naming all four qualities of the murder, Trigon did so. (And then posted the DoV.)
Commentary
pokes
This dynasty was fun for having a bit of everything: small decisions about what traits to take and what locations to scout, talking to other detectives about exchanging clues and deciding how much to trust them, and some Nomic-ery at the end in the form of Air Keyboarding to convince others not to scoop an accusation.
