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Not the Seekers of Eternity, though.

And then it was over.

Nope. The Rule says 1/2, and does not mention rounding, therefore... 9/2=4.5. The census isn't scored until the next census. The doofus is because a public apology is required, not because of anything you said.

*sigh* This is not an easy job... *ahem* I would like to apologize for being a doofus. Here's a correction, everyone. Official Census of the Highprince of Commerce. @Experience: King of Alethkar (0 spheres) @Danex: (11.5 spheres) @Somebody from Sel: (0 spheres) @Chasmgoat: Highprince Sadeas, Highprince of War (22 spheres) @xinoehp512: Highprince Kholin, Highprince of Commerce (73 spheres)

It... wasn't? The assassination was for removing a player's sphere count, not removing proposals. Official Census of the Highprince of Commerce. @Experience: King of Alethkar (0 spheres) @Danex: (11.5 spheres) @Somebody from Sel: (0 spheres) @Chasmgoat: Highprince Sadeas, Highprince of War (22 spheres) @xinoehp512: Highprince Kholin, Highprince of Commerce (70 spheres)

Because they felt like it, storm it. And it was halloween.

Instead, it powered lightbulbs over the scientist's heads.

Trying to figure out how in the world it managed to power all of those lightbulbs at once.

It worked as rocket power, in fact.

"Actually," says Rekaerb, "that clone already dissipated."

And accidentally.

Giving it the ability to turn on lightbulbs with its mind.

A kitten with a taste for gluten.

Making him a pizzamunk.

It had a tomato on its back.

What does that have to do with what I said?

Psyder descended the stairway down to the dungeon with a spring in his step. Things were going according to plan. Perfectly. Niesa was already preparing to leave; she'd reach the camp at the perfect time to kidnap the general. He had no doubts she would succeed. Even if she wasn't practically undetectable when she wanted to be, there was a spy in the camp that could bail her out if necessary. Daolan would be in these dungeons before next dawn. And after that... well, people would be people. As he reached the foot of the stairs, he let daydreams of his plans fade from his head to make way for another plan he had in the works. One involving the group of resistance soldiers currently interred within. A brief -and somewhat terse - conversation with the warden revealed the cell where the soldiers who had witnessed his feeding earlier were interred. A few more terse words, and he was inside. Most of the soldiers backed away ever so slightly as he entered, their fear evident on their faces. He smiled. Good. "I have a proposition," he announced. He paused for a moment. Nobody said a word, so he continued. "The King has authorized me to present you with a unique opportunity. Freedom." This got a reaction from the soliders, although several seemed skeptical. Understandable, given the situation. "This is not a trap," he assured them. "Comply with us, and all charges against you will be dropped. You will be released from this prison, and- eventually allowed to leave and go wherever you desire." The soldiers began glancing at each other, confused expressions on their faces. At last, one spoke up. "Why are you doing this?" he asked. "You're just going to... let us go?" "Ah-ah," said Psyder, "it's not as simple as that, of course. You see, we are currently in desperate need of soldiers with a certain... skillset. Unfortunately, we have as of yet been unable to find suitable volunteers to be trained in these... skills. Wyrn has thus deigned to allow you to repay your debt to the empire through service." "What do we have to do?" asked the same soldier, still wary. "Simple," said Psyder, baring his teeth in a smile and shifting his robe to reveal the symbols tattooed on his abdomen. "Merely accept the mark of the Myrkaal."

Uh... what are you talking about?

The child trembles. "Make them go away," he whispers. "Please." An ominous rumble echoes through the room as the eyes of the giant creature flicker to life.

But that was behind him now.

I propose The Rule of Pre-Approval Amendment: Players may propose amended forms of proposed rules that have not yet been accepted. Said "proposal suggestions" are not proposals in and of themselves. This is so they can be distinguished, to keep things simple and avoid contradiction. Proposal suggestions should be composed of the original text, with suggested removals struck through and additions in italic (color may also be added or the italic removed to distinguish alterations if necessary: incorrect formatting should be corrected, but will not be punished). The proposal suggestion may be accepted in stead of the proposal it amends (in which case the formatting will be adjusted to match current guidelines), and the author of the suggestion will receive whatever reward said proposal entails. I.e. Ten spheres for a rule, 5 for an amendment. The original proposal is removed from consideration if the suggestion is accepted; however, the original proposer will still receive a reward half that of what they would have earned otherwise, rounding up to the nearest whole monetary unit. If the original proposal is accepted, any amendment suggestions to that proposal are similarly removed from consideration, and the authors receive no effect. The King may accept suggestion proposals made concurrent and subsequent to the proposal of this law. That last bit is so that I don't have to wait until after the law is passed to demonstrate the idea. This rule is to enable amendment on rules that have not yet been proposed, which I feel lacks legal representation. @Experience, note that if you approve the proposal suggestions later in this post, you should probably not approve the proposals they amend, which would affect how you do things. I will also propose an amendment to The Rule of Proposal Format: All proposals must have a name, and must be entirely bolded. The name must be underlined. The name must be on the same line as the rest of the proposal This pretty much disallows the usage of line breaks in a proposal, and I like line breaks. and have a colon on the end. The colon is not considered apart of the name and must be underlined. The bolded text will be exactly what will appear in the King’s Rulebook. Any proposal formatted incorrectly is automatically rejected and the Proposer is fined accordingly. Clarifications and examples can be added in normal font, differently formatted font (including unbolding and recoloring) Why limit? but those will not be added to the Kings Rulebook. Also I propose The Rule of Proposal Disambiguation: Proposals must be declared as proposals to count as proposals. So far there hasn't been any guidance on what counts as a proposal, so we should probably add that. I will make a proposal suggestion. How is resolving conflict anything like making rules? It's approving/rejecting rules that other people make, which is exactly the point of the King. The Kings Wit At any time the King may elect a player for the position of Kings Wit which comes with a 5 sphere payment per page. The Kings Wit also has the duty of finding and reporting loopholes in laws as well as choosing advising which law takes precedent when they contradict each other and the optional duty of insulting people and proposed laws I will make another proposal suggestion. I think that a better method of gemheart racing/Parshendi fighting can be constructed, but I guess this will do for now. In that case, it could just get proposed again. All that does is act as an annoyance to the person who made the proposal, which makes things less fun. The Highprince of War the duty of the Highprince of War is to be able to take down proposal for a 20 sphere charge and the ability to The Highprince of War may, once per page, go on a go fight and gain a gemheart which would be worth 5 spheres however if a player races you for the gemheart and has less spheres than you they get the 5 spheres. If anyone wants to take down a proposal they may pay the Highprince of War 25 spheres. 20 of which will go to paying for taking down the proposal. The other 5 will go to the Highprinces own coffers. I will propose an amendment to the Rule of Commerce: The Highprince of Commerce shall have the responsibility of keeping track of sphere counts for all the players and princedoms in the game. These counts must be posted once per day ten pages at least by the Highprince or another member of his princedom. The penalty for 10 pages elapsing between sphere censuses is ten spheres per set of ten pages missed: the reward for each census posted on-time is five spheres. The penalty for major errors in listing princedoms/titles is five spheres, and the penalty for incorrectly listing # of spheres is ten spheres (unless a correction is posted along with a public apology, in which case the penalty is reduced to two.) There might be two rules that pertain to different things but happen to contradict each other. For instance, if my Rule of Pre-Approval amendment violated the as of yet unapproved Rule of Linear Time (the first one that Danex posted). The King could want both rules implemented, but be unable to without splitting his approvals into two posts. And of course, accidents could happen. Because of this, I will make a proposal suggestion to this amendment. The Rule of No Paradoxes: If a Rule is found to contradict another Rule, the Rule that has existed longer is the one who’s effect is taken into account. The other rule is completely disregarded. If the two contradictory rules were placed into effect simultaneously (i.e. approved in the same post) the King decides which one takes effect. The King may not approve two rules that obviously contradict each other a rule that nullifies completely the effect of another approved in the same post. I think this avoids both Danex's worries and mine.

The War rule basically undermines the king's authority when it comes to removing laws. If the wrong rule gets removed at the wrong time, it could cause serious chaos and even break the game. (Also, 10 spheres per page is just ridiculous). Remember, there's a reason that we have a King; to keep things orderly so that we don't get bogged down in endless arguments. For a similar reason, I don't think we need another role specifically to decide on deciding precedence. We already have a role for that: the King. As a sidenote, can I amend the rule that Danex tried to amend or is that banned? Although having the official responsibility to smackdown other people's rules would be quite fun, as I am finding out. We just set those numbers, we don't need to amend them. The only thing that needs to be changed is the "once per day" thing: that needs to get changed to "once per 10 pages" instead of "once per day"- I uh, kind of forgot to fix that. And I don't currently think it needs to be any lower, since I already have incentive to post it often. The purpose of the limit was to discourage inactivity, which worked better when it was time-limit based. The danger of having pages be the counter is that the thread might explode while the Commerce player is unable to get on, which is unfair. 10 pages seemed like a good limit to avoid that danger. Unless you have a pressing reason to change it, that is. You forgot a consequence, so... it doesn't really matter. But you shouldn't add the consequence "invalidates all rules in the post." As we're already seeing, that's quite a serious consequence for such a minor infraction. I'm not fundamentally opposed to cosmetic rules as a whole; after all, this game is about having fun, and I'm having fun finding ways to insert ninjas into each post. But it must be really frustrating for Danex to lose both his rules that he spent time and effort thinking up just because he forgot to add an emoji.

(He didn't like to talk about those times, however.)

Dr. Who Octopus.

Giving players the ability to mess with the rules directly? There's no way that could evvver go wrong, right?