xinoehp512

X EXPERIMENTED WITH INCREASING SIZE IN OTHER WAYS, BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE SOUND WAS PICKED UP BY THE SYSTEM AND AMPLIFIED FURTHER, THUS REQUIRING ALL SPEECH TO BE EVEN LOUDER.

Strong enough to cause earthquakes.

I propose an amendment to The Regent: The King must select someone to become a Regent and must always have a Regent at all times. He may change who is Regent whenever he chooses to. If the King is aware he will be unavailable or absent for longer than three days, he must announce and appoint the Regent during his absence, stating "I appoint the current Regent to take over my position during my absence of (insert predicted number of days)." while tagging the Regent, who will take over the duties of the King until they return. Once the King returns, he must state "I have returned and will be taking back my power" while tagging the Regent in power. If the King is absent for more than five days, the chosen Regent will automatically take over until his return. The King can reject any rules that the Regent approves in his absence upon his return, and vice versa. He may also change either declaration to one of obsolescence. The Regent has no other powers other than taking over for the King. The Regent will have all of the privileges, responsibilities, and limitations of the King while serving as a replacement, as well as keeping track of all proposals and amendments and whether or not they approved or rejected them for the king upon their return. Failure to do so will culminate in a fine of five spheres per proposal and amendment not kept track of. The Regent must also announce a replacement in the case he also is made unavailable, where that person will become the Temporary Regent until either the Regent or King has returned. Temporary Regent has all the powers and responsibilities of the Regent upon the Regent's absence. If a Regent and a Temporary Regent are both not chosen or available, the players can vote a Voted-Regent into place. The Voted-Regent will carry all the responsibilities of the Regent and can keep power even if the chosen Temporary Regent returns, though they must give back power once the Regent or King returns. The Regent, Temporary Regent, and Voted Regent cannot earn or lose spheres in their time in power but will be given ten spheres for each day of keeping track of proposals upon the King's return. Every proposal that Regent, Temporary Regent approves and the King rejects or vice versa will result in a fine of one sphere per proposal. The King can decide to offer more or fewer spheres to the Regents for their time in power and can mitigate the one sphere fine, but cannot increase the fine. @Aspiring Writer

Also, since the anti-secrecy law applies retroactively, the law that would have allowed you to win no longer did. Alright, I will make a proposal amendment to Rule of Affiliation: Players may affiliate themselves with one of the ten princedoms: Aladar, Bethab, Hatham, Kholin, Roion, Ruthar, Sebarial, Thanadal, and Vamah. Affiliations must be posted in blue. If a player affiliates more than once, only the most recent affiliation will be counted- any positions or privileges tied to previous affiliations will be revoked. The first player to affiliate with a princedom will be the highprince, and each person affiliating afterwards must have their affiliations approved by the highprince in order to count. They will also be placed on the succession list. Should the highprince be removed for any reason, the person at the top of the seniority list will become highprince. Also, it seems you don't need to have less spheres to race for the gemheart now, so I will do that and claim five spheres for doing so.

The monster stands in the middle of the room, blue eyes narrowed. It growls as Andante enters its view, a low rumble that almost seems to shake the ground. It locks its gaze on her, but doesn't move otherwise. It seems almost as if it is acting as a guard- a guard to the only exit in the room that you can see.

Restoring all to balance.

For the bear-trap was actually a grue!

But he was a patient waiter.

Since he had...

The head hamster.

I will make a proposal suggestion to my amendment of the Rule of Affiliation: Players may affiliate themselves with one of the ten princedoms: Aladar, Bethab, Hatham, Kholin, Roion, Ruthar, Sebarial, Thanadal, and Vamah. Affiliations must be posted in blue. If a player affiliates more than once, only the most recent affiliation will be counted- any positions or privileges tied to previous affiliations will be revoked. The first player to affiliate with a princedom will be the highprince, and each person affiliating afterwards will be next on the succession list. Should the highprince be removed for any reason, the person at the top of the seniority list will become highprince

I propose a clarifying amendment to the Anti-Secrecy Law: All rule approval/disapprovals, title appointments, sphere transactions, or other alterations to the state of the game must be posted in the thread to be legally binding. This rule applies retroactively.

Because they were... well, not the best at quests.

Look at it this way. You affiliated with Aladar. That was one affiliation. You then affiliated with Sadeas. That was a second affiliation. Altogether, two affiliations. Yes, they were at different times. (We can argue about whether you're allowed to give up an affiliation as the law stands, but for the sake of argument let's ignore that for now.) But the law doesn't say "one of the ten princedoms at a time". Therefore, it can be interpreted that, once someone has affiliated to a house, they cannot affiliate to a different one. First of all, I wouldn't mind. Second of all, isn't that the point of letting the King reject laws? The Regent has to be careful of writing biased laws anyways. Thirdly, the conflict of interest would still exist even if the Regent had no job at all. People could still include ways to give the Regent money. Fourthly, why only the Highprince Titles? Why not, say, the King's Wit? That's also a title with duties that make money. And also one that you wanted for yourself, as I recall, even after being appointed Regent. Also, I would like amend The Rule of Typos: If a rule contains a spelling or grammatical error, the King may correct it. Fixed it as requested.

The law can be easily interpreted as prohibiting changing affiliations. Rendering proposals obsolete can easily be percieved a responsibility of the King. Nonetheless, I see where the confusion may lie. Therefore I will propose an amendment to The Regent: The King must select someone to become a Regent and must always have a Regent at all times. He may change who is Regent whenever he chooses to. If the King is aware he will be unavailable or absent for longer than three days, he must announce and appoint the Regent during his absence, stating "I appoint the current Regent to take over my position during my absence of (insert predicted number of days)." while tagging the Regent, who will take over the duties of the King until they return. Once the King returns, he must state "I have returned and will be taking back my power" while tagging the Regent in power. If the King is absent for more than five days, the chosen Regent will automatically take over until his return. The King can reject any rules that the Regent approves in his absence upon his return, and vice versa. He may also change either declaration to one of obsolescence. The Regent has no other powers other than taking over for the King. Responsibilities of thThe Regent will have include all of the privileges, responsibilities, and limitations of the King while serving as a replacement, as well as keeping track of all proposals and amendments and whether or not they approved or rejected them for the king upon their return. Failure to do so will culminate in a fine of five spheres per proposal and amendment not kept track of. The Regent must also announce a replacement in the case he also is made unavailable, where that person will become the Temporary Regent until either the Regent or King has returned. Temporary Regent has all the powers and responsibilities of the Regent upon the Regent's absence. If a Regent and a Temporary Regent are both not chosen or available, the players can vote a Voted-Regent into place. The Voted-Regent will carry all the responsibilities of the Regent and can keep power even if the chosen Temporary Regent returns, though they must give back power once the Regent or King returns. The Regent, Temporary Regent, and Voted Regent cannot earn spheres in their time in power but will be given ten spheres for each day of keeping track of proposals upon the King's return. Every proposal that Regent, Temporary Regent approves and the King rejects or vice versa will result in a fine of one sphere per proposal. The King can decide to offer more or fewer spheres to the Regents for their time in power and can mitigate the one sphere fine, but cannot increase the fine. We shouldn't have to add an exception for the Regent to every single law we make about the King. I also thought I'd take the chance to add the obsolescence rule to the Regent Law. Note that it doesn't come with any fines- I don't think it would be fair to the Regent to fine them if, say, a rule was rejected that a bunch of future rules depended on.

The rule says you can affiliate with one of the ten princedoms. This can be easily interpreted as prohibiting multiple affiliations at all. Normally I wouldn't be in favor of such a drastic interpretation, but you're trying to break the game. I've put quite a bit of work into this, and I don't want to see it go to waste because someone brutally exploited a loophole. Besides! Since the Anti-Secrecy law was passed, and the rule acceptance was not posted in the thread, it means that the Job Providers rule was no longer legally binding at the time you tried to use it.

@Aspiring Writer, we need to fix this fast. @HoidWasTaken still doesn't belong to Sadeas, as you didn't approve my law that people can change affiliations. I propose we amend the Law of Job Providers: With permission of their house leader, a member of a house may perform their master's role, such as the census, and will gain 1/4 of what the house's head would gain. The highprince would gain 3/4 of the reward. Permission is granted in thread. If this action is done without permission, the person who performs it is fined 5 spheres and does not get the reward, the highprince however, gets the full reward. At any time, a highprince may reward anyone working beneath them with any number of spheres. To do this though, a highprince must have a number of spheres removed from himself. People should be able to give spheres to whomever they choose, so we don't need this last part. (If you disagree, we can add it later, but this is an emergency.)

You... you didn't quote people.... *~1 hour later* Alright, I finished the census. At last. ...well, the point was to keep the rule from conflicting with the original. I did say I would fix it, after all. Also, we shouldn't make a habit of making rules we don't intend to follow or enforce. And come on, the least you could have done was declare it obsolete. Things like that are why I proposed the obsolescence rule in the first place. And even though the problem was fixed, that text was still rendered null and void. Getting rid of it would help eliminate confusion. Alright. One moment here. There is a rule in the King's Rulebook that has not been proposed, accepted, or even mentioned on this thread (as far as I can tell). Ever. The only explanation that I can find for this is that this rule was approved via PM. A rule that I, as Highprince of Commerce, knew nothing about and therefore could not record rewards for. A rule that I, as the King's Wit, was not made aware of and therefore could not scrutinize and analyze for potential flaws, game-breaking or otherwise. And that is not even the worst of it. I see only two possibilities. The first: this law was made by PM to the King outside the spanreed law. Now, while there's nothing in the laws that strictly prohibits this, the spanreed law does seem to imply that doing it otherwise is prohibited. Even if not, however, it would still render the law pointless. As bad as this possibility is, however, it's far less horrible that the second: the Captain of the Radiants was approved in secret, the price of a spanreed was set in secret, and a spanreed was purchased in secret. All of which are things that I, as Highprince of Commerce, should know about! I will say that I am not even close to convinced this is what occurred: I think that Experience would have at least revealed an appointment to Captain of the Radiants. Yet, there is nothing in the rules that states that this possibility is illegal. Aside from my duties as Highprince of Commerce and King's Wit, I have a duty as a player to keep up with the rules. This becomes much harder if I have to constantly check to make sure that secret rules haven't been approved. Going back to my roles, this is even more of a problem if I'm in the middle of a census, as I won't be notified if the OP is edited. If a rule is added that affects money, I'd have to reload the page and scan through every rule in order to make sure the census is accurate. And that's not even mentioning amendments and redactions, which I think are prohibited but aren't entirely sure about. Secret versions of either of these would be practically impossible to spot (redactions because rules are not always added instantaneously to the rulebook. And speaking of the rulebook, what happens if there's a delay between acceptance and inclusion into the rulebook? Does the rule apply? It would be unfair if it would, since most people wouldn't know about it. And yet, we shouldn't make a rule that says that rules only apply if they are in the rulebook, as there's often a delay between acceptance and inclusion into the rulebook (especially with a Regent) and that would add complexity and likely create confusion.) Overall, I think that having secrets like this is generally detrimental to the fun of the game. Perhaps it's fun to have secrets. Maybe that's the "flavor" that you mentioned earlier? It still isn't fair to all the other people not lucky enough to be in on it. And it certainly isn't fair to me, who's supposed to be keeping track of all the approvals. This is, I think, the most critical concern; therefore, I will propose the Anti-Secrecy Law: All accepted rules, title appointments, sphere transactions, or other alterations to the state of the game must be posted in the thread to be legally binding. If you are opposed to this, at least let me amend this to a law that lets me do my job properly. What's wrong with making money as Regent? The player's still a player trying to win, after all. Besides, Highprince titles are likely not going to be the only ones making money, and it's unfair to arbitrarily ban those. (Banning all money-earning roles would also be a problem, since most players probably would want one of those, and we need to have suitable candidates for Regency). But speaking of this, I couldn't help but notice you approving your own proposals. Not necessarily a problem in and of itself; they were good, sensible amendments. Nonetheless, it opens the door to some dangerously game-breaking plays. Therefore, I propose the Anti-Dictatorship Law: No person may approve a proposal they created themself. Hmm. Technically, I don't think there's any legal representation for changing affiliations. We should change that. I propose we amend Rule of Affiliation: Players may affiliate themselves with one of the ten princedoms: Aladar, Bethab, Hatham, Kholin, Roion, Ruthar, Sebarial, Thanadal, and Vamah. Affiliations must be posted in blue. If a player affiliates more than once, only the most recent affiliation will be counted. The first player to affiliate with a princedom will be the highprince, and each person affiliating afterwards will be next on the succession list. Should the highprince be removed for any reason, the person at the top of the seniority list will become highprince.

Because that was only the goal when the primary goal failed.

I take my role as Wit to be reviewing all other's people's laws and pointing out why I think they shouldn't be accepted. Here's your daily dose of census. Name Title(s) Sphere count @Experience King of Alethkar 9 @Danex 20.5 @Somebody from Sel Highprince Roion 51 @Chasmgoat Highprince Sadeas, Highprince of War 49 @xinoehp512 Highprince Kholin, Highprince of Commerce, King's Wit 147 @Aspiring Writer Highprince Sebarial, Regent 34 @HoidWasTaken Highprince Aladar 18 I would like to propose the Commerce Declaration Act: The Highprince of Commerce may declare contested rewards or fines one way or the other for the purposes of the census. This is so I don't have to wait for monetary things to be declared in order to put out the census without fear of fine for being incorrect.

For SCIENCE.

Ashley growls and fires her gun. The bullet seems to penetrate the thing's flesh, and it roars in pain. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to serve as anything more than a distraction for Ashley to hurry past and out the door.

It was enlightening.