THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 1 Saturday, March 15, 2003 DUKE, DUKE, DUKE, DUKE OF URL ----------------------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Eris - Web Judiciary cotc.taral.net/ Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ Sir Toby - Map of Arcadia www.sir-toby.com/mapkeepor.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Action/Movement Fix" by Peekee - Proposal 4431 adopted 1/15 Amend Rule 2003 (Actions in Arcadia) by changing leftover instances of "movement" to "action". "Action Unit Sanity" by Sir Toby - Proposal 4434 adopted 1/27 Extra Action Units due to owning Land with Gote are based on Land holdings at the start of the week. "Be Nice to Oerjan" by Murphy - Proposal 4426 failed Quorum 1/3 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4433 adopted 1/27 Oerjan becomes Noisy. "February Contested Proposal" by Steve - Contested Proposal 4449 adopted 2/22 "Fix Nomination" by Eris - Proposal 4429 adopted 1/15 Amend Rule 1647 (The Speaker-Elect) by replacing "cannot Nominate" with "cannot be Nominated" (referring to the Clerk of the Courts and Justiciar). "Fix Oligarch Removal" by Steve - Proposal 4458 adopted 3/2 Defaulting on Oligarchy Upkeep makes one ineligible to be an Oligarch. (The GWotO may only remove ineligible Oligarchs, which previously interfered with the GWotO's requirement to remove defaulted Oligarchs.) "Fix Single-Bid Auctions" by Steve - Proposal 4439 failed quorum 2/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4446 adopted 2/22 The 72-hour clause for ending a Single-Bid Auction looks at the highest Initial Bids, not the highest current Bids (which change every 24 hours till the 14-day cutoff). "Fix Submitting CFJs to the Justiciar" by Sir Toby - Proposal 4452 adopted 2/22 Increase the Power of Rule 2023 (Submitting a CFJ to the Justiciar) to 2, and give it precedence over Rules assigning duties or roles to the Clerk of the Courts. "Holiday Registration Fix" by Cecilius - Proposal 4451 adopted 2/22 Players who register during a Holiday have eir Grace Period extended, based on the duration between eir registration and the end of the Holiday. "January Contested Proposal" by Steve - Contested Proposal 4427 adopted 1/15 "Lingering Grace" by Cecilius - Proposal 4430 adopted 1/15 Cecilius's Grace Period is extended till February 14 at 18:00:26. Amend the Grace Period provisions in Rule 869 (Registered Players) by replacing "12 months" with "365 days", "2 months" with "60 days", and specifying that a Grace Period starting or ending during a Holiday is extended by the length of the Holiday. "Monastries" by RedKnight - Proposal 4436 adopted 1/27 Monasteries are a Class of Organizations. "Non-Preferential Treatment" by Murphy - Proposal 4435 adopted 1/27 E-mail addresses are "listed" instead of being "preferred". A Player may list any number of e-mail addresses, but must list at least one. If a Player has no listed e-mail address, then the address used to send eir next public message becomes listed. (If each Player has at least one listed address, then the Registrar may repeal this Rule by announcement.) "Ought implies can" by Steve - Proposal 4440 adopted 2/2 Failing to perform an action that one is not empowered to perform is never a Crime or Infraction. "Switches" by Maud - Proposal 4456 adopted 2/22 A switch is a set of states that some class of entities may have, possibly including null, with a default. An instance of a switch always has exactly one possible state, and initially has the default state. Switches are modified by announcement, when permitted. An entity's loose switches may be modified by its Executor. An entity's stuck switches may only be modified as specified by the Rules. Antiquity (newfangled, antiquated) is a switch switch. Any Player may, with support, make a switch antiquated. An antiquated switch puts entities without a state in the default state. "Teamwork" by Sherlock - Proposal 4453 adopted 3/9 All Players belong to a Team. A Player may change eir Team's Team Name with 2 Teammate Support. A Team's Team Score is the sum of its members' Scores. A Team achieves a Team Win when its Score reaches 400. Upon the announcement of such a Team Win, all Scores are reset to zero, and the Scorekeepor pays out 25 Stems to each member of the winning Team. All Scores are reset to zero. The Scorekeepor shall assign all Players to four Teams. Groups are repealed. Individual Wins are repealed. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ by RedKnight - Proposal 4441 failed quorum 2/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4447 rejected 2/22 Monks get a 75% (up from 50%) discount on Distribution Cost, though it is still rounded up to the nearest multiple of MUQ of Papyri. "Bandwagon Refueling" by Pakaran - Proposal 4428 rejected 1/15 The Bank incurs a debt of 60 Stems to the Bandwagon. "Clarify Proposal AI" by root - Proposal 4460 rejected 3/2 A Proposal's Adoption Index may be requested in the same message in which the Proposal is submitted. Ambiguous requests are ignored. "Intermediate-term Stem Patch" by Pakaran - Proposal 4454 rejected 2/22 400 Stems are created in the Bank's possession. "Invisibilitating" by Maud - Proposal 4432 rejected 1/27 Not part of a Rule: If a Proposal (besides this one) changes parts of the Gamestate not subject to publication in Official Reports (besides the publication of the Proposal by the Promotor and Assessor), then the Proposer commits the Class 0 Infraction of Invisibilitating. Rule: Each Player is authorized to report Invisibilitating. "Rouse the Rabble" by Murphy - Proposal 4437 rejected 1/27 If an Election fails Quorum, then eligible Voters who fail to Vote or declare Presence commit the Infraction of Apathy. "The Wormhole" by Peekee - Proposal 4438 failed quorum 2/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4445 rejected 2/22 ASAP after the 15th of the month, the Mapkeepor selects a random Land Unit other than (0, 0) or any Land Unit Adjacent to it. The Wormhole makes that Land Unit Adjacent to (0, 0). The Wormhole initially bridges (0, 1); the Mapkeepor shall ASAP perform a selection as noted above. "Trifecta, Part 1 of 3" by Murphy - Proposal 4443 rejected 2/22 Annabel and harvel/Maud are deemed to have always been separate Players, and actions associated with either purported identity are similarly separated. "Trifecta, Part 2 of 3" by Murphy - Proposal 4444 rejected 2/22 Epochs as relative durations are no longer redefined as Agoran epochs, and are deemed never to have been so redefined. "Trifecta, Part 3 of 3" by Murphy - Proposal 4450 rejected 2/22 Mathematical meanings are no longer used for terms primarily used with a different ordinary-language meaning, and are deemed never to have been so redefined. "Two-Tone Economics" by Murphy - Proposal 4455 rejected 2/22 Primary Color Tokens are Auctioned, then combined into Secondary Color Tokens which can be used to do things. Each Player has a Color (Gray by default). Role-based powers and Monks are repealed. Orange (Red+Yellow) Tokens act like tenths-of-VEs for Voting Power on Democratic Proposals. Purple (Red+Blue) Tokens act like Papyri. Green (Yellow+Blue) Tokens act like Indulgences. Infrared (Red+Octarine) Tokens are used to bid on positions in the Oligarchy. Ultraviolet (Blue+Octarine) Tokens increase Voting Power on Referenda (including the Voting phase of Elections), and are used to change a Proposal's Chamber, and to bid on Land. Mellow (Yellow+Octarine) Tokens act like tenths-of-VEs for the Oligarchy's Base Seating Fee. "Win by Proposing" by RedKnight - Proposal 4442 failed quorum 2/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4448 rejected 2/22 Having 15 Distributable Proposals in the Pool is a Win Condition. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "absolution fix" by Goethe Absolution is explicitly stated to be a synonym of expunging. Any entities with negative Blots are reset to zero Blots. "Allow Contestmasters to Resign" by Sir Toby If the Regulations of a Contest do not specify a way to change Contestmaster, then the Contestmaster may still resign. "Body of Text" by Peekee This Proposal (if it is one) would have no effect; it is solely a test of whether a body of text becomes a Proposal when the author states in another message that it was intended to become one. "Clarify Proposal AI, Take 2" by root - Proposal 4464 (03-46) A Proposal's Adoption Index may only be increased. "Clarify Rule 1976" by Sherlock - Proposal 4459 failed quorum 3/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4468 (03-53) A Protege may award multiple Mentor's Bonuses, one per Player, totalling no more than the New Player Award. (Previously, e could divide a Bonus among multiple Players, but the Bank did not explicitly incur debts to more than one Player.) "Close the Tax Shelter" by Steve Rule 1917 (General Currency Taxation) is merged into 1853 (Levying Taxes). Tax debt is based on holdings when intent to tax is announced. "Fix Dependent Actions" by Maud - Proposal 4461 (03-39) An action With 0 Support is a dependent action. "Fix Fees" by Murphy Fees require announcement; zero Fees require nothing else. Fees may be paid by transferring Currency, forgiving reverse Bank debts, or a combination thereof. "Fnord" by Maud - Contested Proposal 4465 (03-50) "Full Discretion Fix" by Cecilius - Proposal 4463 (03-45) If the Indulgence Surplus is between zero and one, then the Herald may choose to Auction based on the Monthly Bank Indulgence Gain. (Previously, e could only do so if the Surplus was zero or negative.) "Heavy Weather" by Sherlock - Proposal 4469 (03-56) Forecast is a Bank Currency switch with values Clear and Stormy. The Treasuror may flip any Forecast switch. All Stormy Currencies have Weather similar to Stems. This is the only way the Bank may mint Bank Currencies. Each Currency has its own Foul Weather Factor and Weather Intensity Factor, both of which are multiples of 0.1 from 0 to 10. "Let's Play Q*Bert (tm)" by OscarMeyr Purple is a Land Type. Each week, Q*Bert hops in a random diagonal direction (unless it and another entity end the week at the same Location, in which case it hops in a random orthogonal direction). It never reverses its previous direction. If Q*Bert would leave the Map, then it ceases to have a Location, and moves to (0,0) the next week. Q*Bert has a color (initially Purple). Q*Bert changes its destination's Type to match its color, unless they already match, in which case it changes its destination's Type to the Type with Sente. If Q*Bert has Sente, then its color becomes a random Land Type other than Aether or its old color. The Mapkeepor is Limited Executor of Q*Bert, and shall cause it to act as required. "Limit Appeal Duration" by Sherlock An Appeal initiated by three Players requires all three Appeals to fall within a two-week period. "Quick Fix in R1929" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4457 failed quorum 3/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4467 (03-52) Points are awarded upon the first valid notification (not just "first notification", so an invalid notification doesn't prevent a subsequent valid notification from awarding the Points). "Saner Thesis Committees" by Goethe - Proposal 4462 (03-41) Players choose a Chair, who must consent. For non-Players, or if no one consents within a month, then the Speaker is Chair. Second committee member is appointed by the first of (Speaker, Justiciar, Clerk of the Courts) who is neither Candidate nor Chair. Chair may dissolve the Committee with support of another member, announcing intent at least 14 days in advance. Candidate may dissolve the Committee by announcement. After Degree is awarded, each member has 14 days to publish a Commentary; then Chair publishes Final Thesis (latest Thesis draft plus Commentaries), and Committee dissolves. "The Wormhole V1.2" by Peekee ASAP after the 15th of the month, the Mapkeepor selects a random Land Unit other than (0, 0) or any Land Unit Adjacent to it. The Wormhole makes that Land Unit Adjacent to (0, 0). The Wormhole initially bridges (0, 1); the Mapkeepor shall ASAP perform a selection as noted above. "The Zeroth Law" by Murphy Actions that may be performed with 0 support, or by paying a Fee of 0, may be performed by announcement. "Try Again, Part 1 of 3" by Murphy Annabel and harvel/Maud are deemed to have always been separate Players, and actions associated with either purported identity are similarly separated. A do-nothing Power=4 Rule is created. "Try Again, Part 2 of 3" by Murphy - Proposal 4466 (03-48) Epochs as relative durations are no longer redefined as Agoran epochs, and are deemed never to have been so redefined. A do-nothing Power=4 Rule is created. "Try Again, Part 3 of 3" by Murphy Mathematical meanings are no longer used for terms primarily used with a different ordinary-language meaning, and are deemed never to have been so redefined. A do-nothing Power=4 Rule is created. If all three do-nothing Rules exist, then replace them with a Power=4 Rule granting some Patent Titles. "Walls" by Sherlock An entity may erect a Wall on eir Land or unclaimed Land by paying a Fee of 0.1 Indulgences. Entities located there are moved to (0, 0). Movement to Land with a Wall is impossible. A Wall may not be erected on (0, 0) or Aether. An entity may destroy a Wall by paying a Fee of 0.5 Indulgences. When Land becomes Aether, any Wall on it is removed. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- by Goethe Actions during a Holiday are considered to have been sent at the end of the Holiday, but in the order they were actually sent. Time limits that would expire during a Holiday instead expire 72 hours after the end of the Holiday. by Maud Players may perform actions by announcement if the Rules allow it, but do not provide a method. "...und Zeit" by Maud The equivalent of Agoran epochs are applied to "weekly", "monthly", "quarterly", and "yearly", but no longer to anything else. "10th Anniversary Preparations" by Goethe A Contest becomes Bardic if two Bards or three Players support it. All other Contests cease to be Bardic. A Bardic Contest may award the Unique Patent Title of Harold Victor; the recipient also becomes a Bard. Any previous holder gains the Patent Title of Old Harold. "A new framework" by multiple Players Goethe: The Office of Electrician tracks each entity's Energy and Voltage. Energy is a non-negative integral number of Ergs. A Grounded Player is a Player with zero Energy. Batteries have Voltage (number) and Termini (subset of Players). A Player's Potential is the sum of eir Voltages. Dissipative Batteries experience a monthly Power Drain (halving Voltage, or zeroing it if it would be less than 1). Each Player has a Capacitance, a Dissipative Battery unique to em, which is zero unless changed by the Rules or a Power >= 2 Proposal. Each month, the Reset Button is pushed, resetting each Player's Energy to eir Potential (minimum 1). This is the only time Energy may increase. New Player Award is converted to New Player Voltage (2 to 8; the new Player's Capacitance is set to the NPV, then eir Energy is reset). An energetic action is one with a Charge. Performing an energetic action requires sufficient Energy, and causes Energy equal to the Charge to dissipate. Minimum Income, Salaries, Distributor's Gratuity, and Speaker's Gratuity are converted to Constant Batteries. Judicial Salary is converted to Judicial Lightning (1 to 3). Mentors' Bonus increases each Mentor's Capacitance by the New Player Voltage divided by the number of Mentors. Each Player's Capacitance is set to Stems/50 + VEs + Indulgences/10 + Papyri/25. Reset button is pushed. Stems, VEs, Indulgences, Winner's Stipend, Taxes, Looting Auctions, and alternate Auction Procedures are repealed. Possibly Land as well. Murphy: Indulgences are repealed. Indulgence costs (expunging Blots, changing Role early, bidding in Looting Auctions and Land Auctions) are replaced by Charges. Tolls cause moving into the Tolled unit of Land to have a Charge, which Energizes the owner when incurred. Michael: VEs, Tolls, and Monks are repealed. Oligarch Upkeep is converted to Oligarch Charge Requirement. Voting Power is converted to Voting Potential. It is reset to zero each month, and may be increased for a Charge. Chamber Fee is converted to a Charge. Any eligible Player may become an Oligarch by meeting the Oligarch Charge Requirement. Oligarchs serve for a term, and may extend it by multiples of the term for a Charge. Steve: Stems, the Payroll Clerk, and Monks are repealed. Stems (Birthday awards, Mentor's Bonus, successful Rebellion bonus, Patronage) are converted to Charges. "Action Land" by Eris An entity may spend 20 Action Units to set the Land Type of an adjacent Unit of Aether owned by the Land Bureau to either Black or White, at random; the Land Bureau incurs a debt to the entity for that Unit. "Agencies" by Goethe The concept of Parliamentary Votes is repealed. The Executor of an Agency is its Minister. At most five entities are Agencies; if necessary, the older ones are deemed not to be Agencies. All Monks are Agents of the Monastary. All Bards are Agents of the Fiddlers Green. All Players with enough Kudos are Agents of the Samurai. All Land-owning Players are Agents of the Landowners Association. All Devices are Agents of Module. The Minister without Portfolio is the Officer who tracks Agencies in a Monthly Report. The MwP is the Minister of any Moribund (Agent-less) Agency, but such an Agency may act only to transfer Property to satisfy its debts. The SLC of an Agency is its Traditions. An Agency's Traditions may only be changed by: * Proposals with Adoption Index >= 2. * Proposals made distributable by an Agent as explicitly permitted by the Traditions, and without (N = quorum on a Democratic Proposal) objections. * The Minister as allowed or required by the Traditions, with the Support of the MwP and two Ministers of non-Moribund Agencies. Once a month, if allowed by its Traditions, an Agency may make an Agent an Oligarch by paying the Base Seating Fee; any Player previously made an Oligarch by that Agency ceases to be an Oligarch. The Agency may pay eir Agent's Oligarch Upkeep. The Traditions of the Monastery are set to allow Agents to make Proposals distributable without N objections, etc. and the other Agencies are similarly initialized with Traditions granting unique powers to Agents. "Bring Bonds Back" by Sir Toby Bonds are Property. Each Bond has a species, a series, an issuer, a face value, and a maturity date. (Unspecified times are presumed to be midnight UTC at the beginning of the day.) All Bonds of a species are fungible. The Office of Usuror is the Recordkeepor of Bonds. The Usuror is Prime Executor of the Bank with respect to Bonds. E may cause the Bank to create Bonds, and transfer Bonds to its creditors. The Usuror assigns a distinct series to each species of Bonds. An entity with Bond Issuance Authority may create Bonds (in eir possession) by informing the Usuror of the face value and maturity date. Only the Bank has Bond Issuance Authority. The owner of Bonds may destroy them by notifying the Usuror. The owner of Bonds may redeem them by announcement; the issuer incurs a debt equal to the face value of the Bond, and the Bond is destroyed. A Bond is automatically redeemed if its issuer ceases to have an Executor. The issuer of a Bond may call it by announcement; it is redeemed. When the Bank cannot satisfy a debt due to insufficient funds, it may instead satisfy it by announcing its conversion to Bond Debt; the Bank owes the creditor one Bond with a face value of the original debt plus 10 percent, and a maturity date of 30 days from the time of the conversion. Alternately: When the Bank cannot satisfy a debt due to insufficient funds, the Recordkeepor may notify the Usuror; e is no longer responsible for paying the debt, and cannot be penalized over it. The Usuror shall issue and auction Bonds sufficient to cover the debt, upon which the Recordkeepor once again becomes responsible for paying the debt. "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" by Murphy Players are not penalized for performing required actions, or failing to perform actions that are prohibited or regulated-without-a-method. This includes Rules, valid Orders, and Orders later found to be invalid. Mangled grammar in Rule 1810 (Noncompliance with Orders) is fixed. "down with voting officers" by Goethe A balanced action is an action Upon the Balance of X Surveying Y, where X is a positive real number and Y is a positive integer. An action Upon Balance is an action Upon the Balance of 1 Surveying Q, where Q is one-third the number of Players (rounded up). After a Player announces intent to perform a balanced action, the Achieved Balance is the ratio of supporters to objectors (or Unanimity if there is at least one supporter and no objector), and the Survey Size is the number of supporters plus the number of objectors. A Player may perform a balanced action by announcement, between 7 and 14 days after announcing intent, if the Survey Size is at least Y and the Achieved Balance is greater than X. A Player may Adopt one of eir Proposals Upon the Balance of its Adoption Index Surveying Quorum. All other aspects of making and Voting on Proposals are repealed. "Elucidate Registration" by Maud Registering while already registered is the Crime of Concurrent Registration. A convicted Player forfeits all eir Property, all debts owed to em, and all Votes e cast while accused. Actions performed prior to the accusation are deemed to have been performed by different persons. The penalty may be reduced if the Player did not perform actions while accused. Maud is convicted of Concurrent Legislation; the CotC shall randomly select an eligible Judge to impose the penalty. "Executors and Currency Transfers" by Murphy Transfers performed while acting as Executor or Limited Executor of another entity have that entity as the transferor, unless otherwise specified. "Expunge Nomic Properties" by Maud The phrase "Nomic Properties" is repealed. Indices are no longer Nomic Properties. Nomic Properties are no longer explicitly mentioned as changeable via the adoption of a Proposal. "Fix First Speaker" by Pakaran First Speaker becomes a Patent Title. "Fix Rule 1539" by Murphy The Contestmaster of a Contest may change when the Rules require or allow it, even if the Regulations provide no method. "Fix selection of the Thesis Committee" by OscarMeyr Only Active Players may serve on a Thesis Committee. If the Candidate does not make a valid selection for the first member, then the Speaker is selected. The second member is selected by (not yet written). If the first two members do not agree on a third member within a week, then a random eligible Player is selected. Vacancies are filled by (not yet written). If there are no eligible Players, (not yet written). The Chair is the Player who has been on the committee the longest. "Freedoms of Speech and Terminology" by Maud Players shall not be prohibited from using the Fora, nor punished for. statements made there. Ordinary-language synonyms of Rule-defined terms mean what the Rule-defined terms mean. Terms primarily used in a mathematical or legal context have that meaning. Terms otherwise undefined have their ordinary-language meaning. "Justice and Mercy" by Goethe A Judge may reduce the penalty for a Crime by up to half, on the grounds of first offense, past service, extenuating circumstances, or the submission of a Formal Apology. The Defendant, or any Player with support, may Appeal the amount of the penalty. The Appeals Board may Order the Judge to reduce, increase, or maintain the amount, although the Judge may decide the amount of change. "Kudos" by Murphy The Harpy keeps track of Kudos. Players start with 20 Kudos. Up to twice a week, a Player may transfer a Kudo from a Player (the Heel) to another Player (the Face), giving reasons for both. E may not make someone the Face twice in a week, or the Heel twice in a week. E may not make emself the Face. The Patent Title of Samurai goes to Players with at least 30 Kudos. The Patent Title of Honourless Worm goes to Players with less than 5 Kudos. The Unique Patent Title of Shogun goes to the Player with the most Kudos (at least 10), if there is exactly one such Player. "Law Enforcement" by Sherlock The Office of Sheriff keeps track of commissions of Crimes and Infractions. The Sheriff may report any Infraction. An entity committing a Crime or Infraction that e committed within the past three months pays twice the Blot penalty e paid last time. An Officer committing more than five Infractions related to eir Office within three months is automatically removed. This replaces Dereliction of Duty. The Order of Succession for Speaker-Elect is changed from (Promotor, Registrar, Rulekeepor, Assessor, Justiciar, CotC) to (Justiciar, CotC, Sheriff, Rulekeepor, Registrar). "Law Enforcement, Part II" by Sherlock If an Infraction goes unreported for two weeks, then any unauthorized Player may report it for a Stem bounty equal to the Class of the Infraction. If a Crime or Infraction goes unreported for longer than its Statute of Limitations (normally six months), then no conviction may take place. "LAZY-NO-JUDGE" by Peekee Requests for ineligibility do not expire automatically, but the CotC may manually expire them after one month. All current requests for ineligibility expire automatically. "Lengüetas" by Sherlock 5-Stem bonus for adoption of a non-English Proposal. "Mapkeepor's Budget" by Peekee The Mapkeepor's Budget contains: Action Cost of each Action type defined by the Rules (1 to 20) Player Expenditure Allowance (1 to 20) Group Expenditure Allowance (1 to 20) Group Bonus Factor (0 to 5) Gote Bonus Factor (-3 to 3) Each Player and Group's weekly allowance is modified by the Gote Bonus Factor times the number of Land Units with Gote e owned at the start of the week. Each Group's weekly allowance is modified by the Group Bonus Factor times the number of members at or adjacent to its location at the start of the week. The Budget is initialized to values matching the current Rules (PEA = 10, GEA = 1, Group BF = 3, Gote BF = 1). "Monks" by Maud See Proposal "Switches". Appetite is a Player switch. A Hearty Player who has no Property, no Blots, and is not the Executor of another entity, may flip eir Appetite to Ascetic. A Monk who becomes Hearty loses eir Role, and cannot flip eir Role for 14 days. The Monastery is an entity. Its Executor is the Head Monk. While there are no Monks, the Treasuror is the Head Monk, but may only cause it to satisfy its debts. If the Head Monk is not a Monk and a Player becomes a Monk, then that Player becomes the Head Monk. If the Head Monk ceases to be a Monk, then the Player who has been a Monk the longest becomes the Head Monk. A Monk may become the Head Monk with 2 Monk Support. A Monk who receives Property shall transfer it to the Monastery. If e does not transfer it ASAP, then any Player may flip eir Appetite to Hearty (thus relieving em of the obligation). If a Monk has Blots or is the Executor of another entity (besides the Monastery), then any Player may flip eir Appetite to Hearty. The Monastery may participate in Property transfer agreements and Auctions, with the approval of the Head Monk and at least two other Monks. The Head Monk shall use the Monastery's resources to encourage charity, frugality, and levity. The Head Monk may rubberstamp N^2 Proposals per week (N is the number of Monks at the beginning of the week). Once a week, the Head Monk may expunge one Blot from a Blotted non-Monk. If e could have done so during a week, but does not, then any Player may flip eir Appetite to Hearty. Monk is a Role. A Politician may increase eir Voting Power on a Proposal by 1 by paying (X+2)/10 VEs (X is the number of times e has done so that week for any Proposal). Monks do not get Minimum Income. "No Sente Awards for the Apathetic" by Sir Toby (0, 0) and only (0, 0) is Beige. Beige never has either Sente or Gote. "Octarine Repeals" by Murphy Repeal most of the Ruleset, including Executors, Holidays, Offices and Elections, Roles, Rebellion, the Oligarchy, Elections, Orders, Crimes and Infractions, Patent Titles, Degrees, Property, Wins, SLCs, and Land. All Proposals are effectively Distributable, Democratic, and Sane. CFJs may be assigned to anyone but the Caller. There are no Appeals. "Pay Out Contests" by Sir Toby A Pay Out Contest is a Contest that may pay out Bank Currency. The amount of Bank Currency that a Contest may pay out per month may be changed by an instrument of Power >= 1. The Contestmaster of a Contest may (without objection) declare the amount of Bank Currency that a Contest may pay out per month. The announcement of intent must include the Regulations. The Regulations must not change between the announcement of intent and the declaration (or else the declaration is the Crime of Bait and Switch). A Player may be Contestmaster of only one Pay Out Contest at a time. If e is Contestmaster of more, then they all lose the ability to pay out Bank Currency. The Regulations of a Pay Out Contest may not self-amend. The Contestmaster of a Pay Out Contest must publish the Regulations ASAP after it becomes a Pay Out Contest, and monthly (failure to do the latter is the Infraction of Failure to be Accountable). The Contestmaster of a Pay Out Contest may pay out Bank Currency to a Contestant. "Procrastinators" by Pakaran The Speaker, or any Player with 2 support, may award the Patent Title of Procrastinator to a Player who confuses understanding of the Gamestate through procrastination (malicious or not). Any Player with 2 support (not including the Bearer) may revoke this Title. Pakaran is awarded this Title. "Public Fora" by Maud See Proposal "Switches". Publicity (null, Discussion, Public) is a stuck forum switch. Other current aspects of Fora are re-stated in terms of switches. "Switch Reduction Act" by Maud Viscosity of switches (loose/stuck) is no longer a switch. A stuck switch may be flipped only when an Officer is required or allowed to flip it. "Team Contest" by Goethe The Unique Patent Title of Game Show Host is awarded to the (captain / Player with most points) of a winning Team. Between the win and the formation of new Teams, e may give this Title to another Player (with eir consent). The Game Show Host is not placed on a new Team. E may create a Game Show Contest, which may announce a winning Team in accordance with its Regulations (the captain of the winning Team must be a Contestant). "The Greek System" by Sherlock Rename the Speaker to Chronos, Officers to other Greek gods/goddesses, the Inner Cabinet to Olympus, and the Outer Cabinet to The Giants. "The Life Cycle of Proposals" by Maud Rules 1483 (Definition of Proposals), 1698 (The Proposal System is Protected), 1891 (Legislative Orders), and part of 594 (Power and Proposals) are merged into Rule 404 (Legality of Proposals). Rule changes are converted to Legislative Orders ordering the Rulekeepor to change the Rules. "Tiered Proposals" by Sherlock A Proposal's Adoption Index is equal to its Voting Index. Each provision of a Proposal may list what Adoption Index is required for it to have effect; if none is listed, it is 1. "Treasure Hunt" by Peekee The Mapkeepor shall randomly select a secret location for the Treasure. A Player may spend one Action Unit to search eir location for Treasure. If a Player finds the Treasure, the Mapkeepor shall pay out the Basic Officer Salary to that Player, and select a location for the Treasure. "Wagers" by Sherlock The Office of Croupier tracks the Line and Wagers on each pending Proposal. The Croupier may set the Line on a Proposal in the Pool to an integer from -3 to 3. Any entity (the Shill) may Wager on a Proposal in the Pool with a Line, specifying a positive amount of a Bank Currency (up to eir holdings). If a Proposal with a negative Line is adopted, or a Proposal with a positive Line is rejected, then the Croupier pays out Wager*[abs(Line)+1] to each Shill. If a Proposal with a positive Line is adopted, or a Proposal with a negative Line is rejected, then the Croupier bills Wager*[abs(Line)+1] to each Shill. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** 1/11 Pakaran makes emself eligible 1/12 Michael makes emself ineligible 1/22 Peekee makes emself ineligible 1/23 root makes emself ineligible 3/4 Peekee makes emself eligible 3/9 RedKnight makes emself ineligible CFJ 1424 "The Goddess Eris has commited the class 2 crime of Disobedience." [TRUE] 1/8 Called by RedKnight 1/10-17 Assigned to Goethe, who Judges TRUE 1/17 Goethe announces eir intent (Without Objection) to declare Eris a Ninny 1/22 Eris publishes a Formal Apology 1/23 Goethe declares Eris a Ninny 1/24 Eris re-publishes eir Formal Apology Caller's argument (summary): Eris published a CFJ during a Holiday, but had forgotten that doing so was a Rule violation. Judge's commentary (summary): CFJ 1408 set the precedent that ignorance of an unambiguous Rule is not "reasonable belief". CFJ 1425 "Parakan transferred 10 Stems from the Bank to Murphy in the message [TRUE] with Message-ID <407606326.1041695839@[192.168.1.100]>." 1/9 Called by Murphy 1/12-15 Assigned to Sir Toby, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Pakaran stated that e was acting as Limited Executor of the Bank, but did not explicitly specify the Bank as the transferor. CFJ 1426 "Absolving (removing) a Blot as per Rule 1986 is not the same as [FALSE] Expunging Blots as per Rule 2017." Linked to CFJs 1427, 1428, 1429, 1430 1/13 Called by Goethe 1/13-15 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Eris had 0.68 Blots, and Goethe attempted to absolve 1 of Eris's Blots, then attempted to absolve 0.68 of Eris's Blots. Judge's refutation (summary): Absolving/removing Blots is not defined well enough to be a separate procedure from expunging. Rule 2017 defines Recordkeeping responsibilities for the latter, but not the former. Thus absolving/removing is synonymous with expunging, and Goethe's first attempt expunged 0.68 of Eris's Blots. CFJ 1427 "Goethe succeeded in removing exactly and only 1.00 Blots from Goddess [FALSE] Eris in the same message as this CFJ." Linked to CFJs 1426, 1428, 1429, 1430 1/13 Called by Goethe 1/13-15 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE Arguments: See CFJ 1426. CFJ 1428 "Goethe succeeded in removing exactly and only 0.68 Blots from Goddess [TRUE] Eris in the same message as this CFJ." Linked to CFJs 1426, 1427, 1429, 1430 1/13 Called by Goethe 1/13-15 Assigned to Steve, who Judges TRUE Arguments: See CFJ 1426. CFJ 1429 "Goddess Eris has less than zero Blots." [FALSE] Linked to CFJs 1426, 1427, 1428, 1430 1/13 Called by Goethe 1/13-15 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE Arguments: See CFJ 1426. CFJ 1430 "Goddess Eris is not Immaculate." [FALSE] Linked to CFJs 1426, 1427, 1428, 1429 1/13 Called by Goethe 1/13-15 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE Arguments: See CFJ 1426. CFJ 1431 "In a message sent at Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:05:51 -0800, with message id [FALSE] (submitted as evidence), Goethe tried to transfer 0.05 VEs, 0.1 Indulgences, 0.15 Papyri, and 2 Fish from Support Your Secret Leader to both Sir Toby and Steve, but the transfers were invalid and did not occur." 1/21 Called by Sir Toby 1/22 Mistakenly assigned to Michael (ineligible by request) 1/22-28 Assigned to t, who makes emself ineligible 1/28-30 Assigned to Eris, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): The transfers did not meet the restrictions of Regulation 5, and were thus prohibited by Regulation 6. Judge's refutation (summary): Regulation 5 created debts, and the transfers (over-)satisfied some of those debts. CFJ 1432 "In a message sent at Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:05:51 -0800, with message id [TRUE] (submitted as evidence), Goethe tried to transfer 2 Stems from Support Your Scret Leader to both Sir Toby and Steve, but the transfers were invalid and did not occur." 1/21 Called by Sir Toby 1/22 Assigned to Murphy Caller's argument (summary): The transfers did not meet the restrictions of Regulation 5, and were thus prohibited by Regulation 6, and thus by Rule 1910 as well. CFJ 1433 "In a message sent at Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:05:51 -0800, with message id [TRUE] (submitted as evidence), Goethe tried to resign as Contestmaster of the Support Your Secret Leader Contest, but was prohibited from doing so." 1/21 Called by Sir Toby 1/22 Assigned to OscarMeyr Caller's argument (summary): Resigning as Contestmaster constitutes a change of Contestmaster. The regulations do not specify a way to change Contestmaster, so it cannot change while the Contest still exists; see Rule 1539. Furthermore, the Contest still existed after Goethe's attempt to resign, because it still possessed at least one Fish; see Rule 1908. CFJ 1434 "The registration of a Player and the expiration of eir Grace Period [TRUE] are both 'events' for the purposes of Rule 1769 (Holidays)." 1/24 Called by Cecilius 1/27-2/2 Assigned to Pakaran, who Judges TRUE CFJ xxxx "The method used by Goethe in the message with Message-ID is reasonably close to a uniform probability distribution." 2/3 Called by Murphy 2/4 Retracted Commentary: Goethe was attempting a uniform probability distribution over the range of numbers from 0 to 1, but a non-uniform probability distribution among the possible Weather outcomes. CFJ 1435 "The method used by Goethe in the message with Message-ID [FALSE] is reasonably close to the probability distribution required for the action e attempted to perform in that message (i.e. determine the Weather for February 2003)." 2/4 Called by Murphy 2/4-9 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE Commentary: Goethe's method was to pick digits from the millionth digit of pi onward, and map the resulting number (between 0 and 1) to a Weather outcome. Judge's refutation (summary): Trivially false, because Goethe's mapping of numbers to Weather outcomes was incorrect. CFJ 1436 "The Grand Warden of the Oligarchy is not empowered to remove from [TRUE] the Oligarchy a player who is not ineligible to be an Oligarch." 2/10 Called by Steve 2/13-20 Assigned to Goethe, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1963 regulates removal from the Oligarchy, and ineligibility to be an Oligarch. Neither clause covers defaulting on upkeep. CFJ 1437 "Where the Bank has been properly ordered to forgive a debt [TRUE] denominated in a Bank Currency, only the Treasuror is both permitted and required to act on the Bank's behalf to forgive the debt." 2/16 Called by Steve 2/18-20 Assigned to Sherlock, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Currency Recordkeepors only have authority over debts owed by the Bank. Debts owed to the Bank fall under the authority of the Treasuror, who is the only (non-Limited) Executor of the Bank. CFJ 1438 "The Order issued by Steve, 'I order the Bank to forgive RedKnight's Oligarchy upkeep debt.' (http://www.escribe.com/games/agora-business/m9000.html) is not a properly-issued Order." 2/18 Called by Goethe 2/18-3/2 Assigned to Sir Toby, who defaults 3/9 Incorrectly assigned to Blob, who is Unready and thus ineligible 3/9 Assigned to Cecilius Caller's argument (summary): A Rule bug prevents the GWotO from obeying the first requirement of Rule 2010. Issuing this Order is the second requirement of Rule 2010. The Order is valid, but may be improper under the circumstances. CFJ 1439 "Goethe has successfully absolved 1 Blot from emself this Agoran [TRUE] week." 2/20 Called by Goethe 2/25-3/10 Assigned to root, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Prior to the CFJ, in the same message, Goethe said something which e claims is "I intend to absolve one of my Blots with 0 Support; I absolve one of my Blots with 0 Support" in a foreign language. Prior to that, Goethe had not absolved any of eir Blots that week. CFJ xxxx "Goethe's votes in http://www.escribe.com/games/agora-business/m9072.html are not valid votes." 2/21 Called by OscarMeyr 2/22 Retracted Commentary: The "votes" were various repetitions of "Güneº", which was later confirmed as nothing but an oblique reference to a joke that all modern languages descended from this "word". CFJ 1440 "Proposal 4453 had an Adoption Index of 1." [TRUE] 2/24 Called by Sherlock 3/2-8 Assigned to Michael, who Judges TRUE 3/10 Appealed by RedKnight and OscarMeyr Caller's argument (summary): Sherlock requested AI=3 when submitting this Proposal, and AI=1 shortly before the Voting Period ended. Either the second request is effective, or the combination of requests is ambiguous and neither is effective (which would still lead to AI=1 by default). Counterargument: After the request for AI=3, Rule 594 defined and required AI=3, and thus triggered its own "value required by the Rules" to keep AI=3 following the request for AI=1. CFJ 1441 "London is the capital of England." DISMISS 2/26 Called by Peekee 3/2-8 Assigned to RedKnight, who dismisses it Caller's argument (summary): This CFJ is intended to test (a) whether an arbitrary statement becomes relevant to the Rules simply because it is CFJed, and (b) whether this particular statement becomes relevant to the Rules because of its role in (a). CFJ 1442 "Rubberstamping with 0 support is not a dependent action." [TRUE] Linked to CFJs 1443, 1444, 1445 3/1 Called by Maud 3/9 Assigned to Peekee, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1728 defines a dependent action as an action with N support or without N objections, where N is a positive integer. Zero is not a positive integer. CFJ 1443 "The rules regulate rubberstamping proposals." [TRUE] Linked to CFJs 1442, 1444, 1445 3/1 Called by Maud 3/9 Assigned to Peekee, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1986 regulates it. CFJ 1444 "A player cannot perform an action with 0 support." [FALSE] Linked to CFJs 1442, 1443, 1445 3/1 Called by Maud 3/9-10 Assigned to Peekee, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Performing an action with 0 support has no natural meaning. It has a meaning implied by Rule 1728, but since it is not a dependent action, Rule 1728 does not permit it. No other Rule permits it, either. Judge's refutation (summary): Game custom gives "performing an action with 0 support" a meaning - namely, the same as a dependent action, but without the requirement of support - and this procedure is unregulated, so Players may use it. CFJ 1445 "Cecilius's first attempt on 1 March, 2003 to rubberstamp a proposal [FALSE] failed." Linked to CFJs 1442, 1443, 1444 3/1 Called by Maud 3/9-10 Assigned to Peekee, who Judges FALSE 3/10 Appealed by Eris Caller's argument (summary): Cecilius made this attempt with 0 Support, so the statement follows directly from that of CFJ 1444. Judge's refutation (summary): Cecilius's attempt depended on whether e could perform an action with 0 support. Commentary: Cecilius's attempt occurred on March 1 by eir time zone (GMT-0500), but March 2 by Agoran time (GMT+0000). CFJ 1446 "The Proposal 'Try Again, Part 1 of 3' is distributable." Linked to CFJ 1447 3/2 Called by Murphy 3/9 Assigned to Cecilius Caller's argument (summary): Murphy claimed to rubberstamp, without specifying a method. Later, e claimed that e had done it by paying a Fee of 0 Papyri. During the week in which e claimed to rubberstamp, e had not previously rubberstamped anything. CFJ 1447 "The Proposal 'Try Again, Part 2 of 3' is distributable." Linked to CFJ 1446 3/2 Called by Murphy 3/9 Assigned to Cecilius Caller's argument (summary): Murphy claimed to rubberstamp by paying a Fee of 0 Papyri. During the week in which e made this claim, e had not previously rubberstamped anything. CFJ 1448 "The Proposal entitled 'Full Discretion Fix' was Rubberstamped by a message sent by Cecilius today under the subject line 'Rubberstamping, Take Two'." Linked to CFJ 1449 3/3 Called by Cecilius 3/9-11 Assigned to Goethe, who proto-Judges FALSE Judge's refutation (summary): A Fee of zero still requires announcing the purpose of the Fee. Cecilius did not do so; e merely said "Having paid the required fee...". CFJ 1449 "The Proposal entitled 'Full Discretion Fix' would have been Rubberstamped by the message sent by Cecilius today under the subject line 'Rubberstamping, Take Two,' if that Proposal had not already been Rubberstamped." Linked to CFJ 1448 3/3 Called by Cecilius 3/9-11 Assigned to Goethe, who proto-Judges FALSE Judge's refutation (summary): A Fee of zero still requires announcing the purpose of the Fee. Cecilius did not do so; e merely said "Having paid the required fee...". CFJ 1450 "A fee may be paid by announcement." [TRUE] 3/4 Called by Maud 3/9 Assigned to Sherlock Caller's argument (summary): ...by sending the transfer and reason to the Public Forum, not just to the Recordkeepor. CFJ xxxx "If the Rules specify a fee of 0 units of a Currency, then an entity must transfer at least a single instance of that currency to the Bank to pay the fee." Linked to the following CFJ 3/5 Called by Goethe 3/5 Retracted CFJ xxxx "If the Rules specify a fee of 0 units of a Currency, then an entity must transfer at most a single instance of that currency to the Bank to pay the fee." Linked to the preceding CFJ 3/5 Called by Goethe 3/5 Retracted CFJ 1451 "Peekee has published a message containing the text 'MessageXX', in emails with titles 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9." Linked to CFJ 1452 3/6 Called by Peekee 3/9 Assigned to root Commentary: This CFJ is intended to determine whether a message can span multiple e-mail messages, as specified by a later message. CFJ 1452 "Peekee has published a message containing the text 'This is a single message', in emails with titles A and B." Linked to CFJ 1451 3/6 Called by Peekee 3/9 Assigned to root Commentary: This CFJ is intended to determine whether a message can span multiple e-mail messages, as specified by a later message. CFJ 1453 "As a result of the formation of root's Pay Out Scam Contest (rPOSC), the Bank incurred a debt to root consisting of one or more properties." 3/4 Called by root 3/10 Assigned to t Caller's argument (summary): The Contest required root to pay out Property to emself, and Rule 1594 (Violation of SLCs) requires em to obey the Regulations. Since Rule 1594 requires em to pay out Property, Rule 1479 (Definition of "Pay Out" and "Bill") causes the Bank to incur a debt. CFJ 1454 "New York is the capital of England." 3/9 Called by Peekee Caller's argument (summary): This CFJ is intended to test (a) whether an arbitrary statement becomes relevant to the Rules simply because it is CFJed, and (b) whether this particular statement becomes relevant to the Rules because of its role in (a). CFJ 1455 "Sir Toby did not join The Evil Scam Contest in a message sent to agora-business on Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:53:40 -0800, with the following subject: This message brought to you by the letter 'a'." 3/14 Called by Sir Toby Caller's argument (summary): The Regulations of The Evil Scam Contest deem messages containing the letter 'a' to be requests to join, but this did not apply to Sir Toby because e was a non-Contestant and thus outside the jurisdiction of the Regulations. OFFICES ------- 1/16 Nominations open for Assistant Director of Personnel, Herald, and Treasuror. Mode is Open. Murphy Nominates for Assistant Director of Personnel. Steve is Elected Payroll Clerk. Voting begins for Speaker-Elect. Candidates are Pakaran and Michael. Goethe is Elected Justiciar. Cecilius Nominates for Herald. Steve Nominates for Treasuror. Goethe Nominates for Treasuror. Eris Nominates for Herald. Steve submits a Proto-Budget for Treasuror, identical to the current Budget (except the recent increase of the Winner's Stipend is mistakenly omitted). 1/18 Pakaran Nominates for Herald. 1/19 Pakaran Stands Down for Speaker-Elect. 1/22 Goethe submits a Proto-Budget for Treasuror, with these changes from the current Budget: ADoP Salary increased from 0.6 to 0.7 times BOS Scorekeepor Salary increased from 0.5 to 0.6 times BOS Foul Weather Factor increased from 2 to 6 Weather Intensity Factor increased from 5 to 10 Michael is Elected Speaker-Elect. 1/23 Murphy is Elected Assistant Director of Personnel. Voting begins for Herald. Candidates are Cecilius, Eris, and Pakaran. Goethe is Elected Treasuror. (Steve's Proto-Budget was invalid, due to the mistaken Winner's Stipend, so eir Nomination was automatically withdrawn.) 2/2 Cecilius is Elected Herald. 2/19 Nominations open for Mapkeepor and Scorekeepor. Mode is Selfless. 2/20 Steve Nominates OscarMeyr for Scorekeepor. Steve Nominates Sir Toby for Mapkeepor. 3/2 Sir Toby is Elected Mapkeepor. OscarMeyr is Elected Scorekeepor. 3/13 RedKnight delegates Promotor to Steve (who consents) from March 14 at noon GMT to March 25 at midnight GMT. 3/15 Nominations open for Assessor, CotC, GWotO, Notary, and Promotor. Mode is Selfless. Murphy Nominates Eris for Clerk of the Courts. OLIGARCHS --------- 1/10 Auction ends. Cecilius wins with a bid of 1 Stem. 1/11 Cecilius pays eir bid and the Base Seating Fee, and becomes an Oligarch. 2/2 Auction begins for 1 position. 2/5 Sir Toby is removed from the Oligarchy; e has three Blots and is thus ineligible. 2/6 Oligarch Auction ends. Sherlock wins with a bid of 29 Stems. 2/7 Sherlock pays eir bid and becomes an Oligarch. 3/2 RedKnight is removed from the Oligarchy; e defaulted on eir February upkeep (but a Rule bug prevented eir removal, until Proposal 4458 fixed the bug). 3/3 Auction begins for 1 position. Auction for 1 position beginning 2/2 ---------- 29 Sherlock 25 Murphy 20 Blob 20 Murphy 18 Pakaran 15 Sherlock 12 Pakaran 10 Sherlock 4 Pakaran 2 Blob 1 Pakaran Auction for 1 position beginning 1/1 ---------- 1 Cecilius PROPERTY AUCTIONS ----------------- 1/12 VE Raffle ends. Eris wins 0.1, Cecilius wins 0.1, Michael wins 0.2, Murphy wins 0.2, Sir Toby wins 0.3, and Steve wins 0.2. 1/13 Indulgence Raffle ends. OscarMeyr wins 1, Steve wins 1, Pakaran wins 1, Eris wins 2, and Sir Toby wins 2. 1/21 Auction begins for 8 Papyri. 2/2 Papyrus Auction ends. OscarMeyr wins 6 and Goethe wins 2, at 6 Stems each. 2/3 Raffle begins for 18 lots of 0.1 VE each. Ticket Price is 10 Stems. 2/9 VE Raffle ends. Eris wins 0.3, Steve wins 1.1, and OscarMeyr wins 0.3. 2/22 Auction begins for 1 Papyrus. Minimum bid is a google (10^100) Stems. 3/1 Raffle begins for 3 Indulgences. Ticket Price is 13 Stems. 3/4 Raffle announced for 0.3 VEs, but it is invalid because the number of items was not announced. 3/5 Raffle begins for 3 lots of 0.1 VE each. Looting Auction begins for neil. Starting bid is 4 Indulgences. E possesses 1 Indulgence, 1 Papyrus, 32 Stems, and 0.5 VEs. 3/8 Papyrus Auction ends with no valid bids. 3/9 Indulgence Raffle ends. Steve wins 2 and Eris wins 1. Looting Auction begins for Craig. Starting bid is 2.5 Indulgences. E possesses 1 Papyrus, 41 Stems, 0.4 VEs, and 1 Poncho. Looting Auction for Craig ---------- 3.0 Steve - cancelled 2.5 Sir Toby - cancelled 2.5 Steve Looting Auction for neil ---------- 4 Sir Toby Raffle for 3 x 0.1 VE beginning 3/5 ---------- 10 Michael 4 Steve 2 root 2 OscarMeyr 1 Maud 1 Sherlock Raffle for 3 Indulgences beginning 3/1 ---------- 3 Steve 2 Eris 1 Anemocrats - Rule 1984 only allows active Players to buy tickets 1 RedKnight Auction for 1 Papyrus beginning 2/22 ---------- 5 RedKnight (below minimum) Raffle for 18 x 0.1 VE beginning 2/3 ---------- 11 Steve 3 Eris 3 OscarMeyr Auction for 8 Papyri beginning 1/21 ---------- 25 OscarMeyr 15 Goethe 10 Goethe 6 OscarMeyr 6 OscarMeyr 6 OscarMeyr 6 OscarMeyr 6 OscarMeyr 5 Goethe 5 Goethe 4 Steve 4 Steve 4 Steve 3 Goethe 3 Goethe 2 Goethe 1 Goethe Raffle for 11 x 0.1 VE beginning 1/5 ---------- 22 Eris 11 Steve 8 Murphy 6 Michael 6 RedKnight 4 OscarMeyr 2 Cecilius Raffle for 7 Indulgences beginning 1/4 ---------- 2 Eris 2 Sir Toby 1 OscarMeyr 1 Steve 1 Pakaran TECTONIC ACTIVITY ----------------- Movement: 1/15 OscarMeyr - (+5, 0) (unsuccessful; it became Aether earlier) 1/23 OscarMeyr - (+3, 0) 1/23 OscarMeyr - (+2, 0) 1/23 OscarMeyr - (+1, 0) 1/23 OscarMeyr - ( 0, 0) 1/23 OscarMeyr - (-1, 0) 1/23 OscarMeyr - (-1, -1) 1/26 Pakaran - (+1, -4) (unsuccessful; it had not yet become Black) 2/3 Pakaran - (+1, -4) 2/5 Steve - ( 0, 0) 2/11 Eris - (+3, -4) 2/11 Eris - (+2, -4) 2/11 Eris - (+1, -4) 2/12 Steve - (-1, 0) 2/12 Anemocrats - (-1, 0) 2/12 Sir Toby - (+2, +4) 2/12 RedKnight - ( 0, -1) Changing the Land Type of Aether: 1/9 Murphy - (-4, -5) - White (random adjacent) 1/14 Sir Toby - (+4, -2) - Black (chosen) 1/23 Steve - (+3, -2) - White (chosen) 1/26 Pakaran - (+1, -4) - Black (random adjacent) 2/3 Pakaran - ( 0, -4) - White (random adjacent) 2/3 Pakaran - ( n/a ) - n/a (unsuccessful, not enough Action Units) 2/6 OscarMeyr - (-1, -2) - Black (random adjacent) 2/6 OscarMeyr - (-2, -1) - White (random adjacent) 2/12 Sir Toby - (+7, +2) - White (chosen) Changing the Land Type of one's own Land: 1/15 OscarMeyr - (+5, 0) - Black (unsuccessful; no longer eir Land) 1/23 Steve - (+3, +2) - White 2/5 Steve - (+2, -2) - White 2/5 Steve - (+1, -1) - White 2/5 Steve - (+2, +2) - White 2/5 Anemocrats - (+4, 0) - White 2/13 Steve - (+4, -1) - White 2/13 Steve - (+3, 0) - White 2/13 Steve - (+3, +1) - White Changing the Land Type of one's own Location (Aether owned by Land Bureau): 1/15 Peekee - ( 0, +2) - Black (unsuccessful; owned by Steve) 2/11 Eris - (+1, -4) - White Transfers: 1/14 (+4, +6) from Sir Toby to the Order of the Evil Eye 1/15 (+6, +2) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 1/15 (+5, +3) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 1/15 (+5, +2) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 1/15 (+4, +2) from Steve to the Land Bureau 1/15 (+3, +3) from Steve to the Land Bureau 1/15 (+3, -2) from Steve to the Land Bureau 1/23 ( 0, -1) from AgorEx to the Anemocrats 1/23 (+3, +2) from the Anemocrats to Steve 2/5 (+4, 0) from Steve to the Anemocrats 2/5 (+4, 0) from the Anemocrats to Steve 2/15 (+3, -1) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 2/15 (+2, -1) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 2/15 (+2, 0) from Goddess Eris to the Land Bureau 2/15 (+2, +1) from Goddess Eris to the Land Bureau 2/15 (+1, 0) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 2/15 (+1, +1) from OscarMeyr to the Land Bureau 2/20 (+6, +3) from Steve to the Anemocrats 2/20 ( 0, -1) from Steve to the Anemocrats Other changes: 1/15 (+6, +2) is transformed to Aether 1/15 (+5, +3) is transformed to Aether 1/15 (+5, +2) is transformed to Aether 1/15 (+5, 0) is transformed to Aether 1/15 (+4, +2) is transformed to Aether 1/15 (+3, +3) is transformed to Aether 1/15 (+3, -2) is transformed to Aether 2/15 (+3, -1) is transformed to Aether 2/15 (+2, -1) is transformed to Aether 2/15 (+2, 0) is transformed to Aether 2/15 (+2, +1) is transformed to Aether 2/15 (+1, 0) is transformed to Aether 2/15 (+1, +1) is transformed to Aether Vickrey Auctions beginning 2/22 ---------- (+1, +3) [White] Auction ended with no bids (+1, +4) [Black] Auction ended with no bids (+5, -1) [Black] Auction ended with no bids (+3, +5) [Black] Auction ended with no bids (-2, +1) [Black] Auction ended with no bids (-4, -5) [White] Auction ended with no bids (+4, -2) [Black] Auction ended with no bids (+3, -2) [White] Auction ended with no bids (+1, -4) [White] Auction ended with no bids ( 0, -4) [White] Auction ended with no bids Vickrey Auctions beginning 1/14 ---------- (+2, +3) [Black] 0.25 Steve, 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 2/3) (+5, +9) [White] 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 1/23) (+4, +1) [Black] 0.25 Steve, 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 2/3) (-3, 0) [White] 0.25 Steve, 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 2/3) (+7, +2) [Black] 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 1/23) (+6, +1) [Black] 0.25 Steve, 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 2/3) (+2, +4) [White] 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 1/23) (+3, -3) [Black] 0.25 Steve, 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 2/3) (+1, -3) [White] 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 1/23) (+6, 0) [Black] 0.2 Sir Toby (transferred 1/23) IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 1/13 Maud becomes a Scribe. 1/15 Eris expunges eir Blots (eliminating a Win-Preventing Condition) and Wins (e is SemiGenius). Steve dissolves the Bandwagon Contest. 1/17 Goethe dissolves the Contest "Support Your Secret Leader". 1/21 Blob registers. RedKnight attempts to make Craig Quiet. This fails because Craig is Inactive. 1/26 Silent Treatment begins for neil, who has been Quiet for one month. Murphy destroys and re-creates the Currency of Ponchos, in case eir previous failure to specify MUQ made the first attempt ineffective. 1/29 Sherlock registers. Maud reveals that "Annabel" was em all along, and thus that e has been deregistered since October 1, 1999, and thus that Proposal adoptions announced by em as Assessor were ineffective, and thus that the Gamestate is radically different from what we thought it was. The stock market plunges 574 points as a consequence. (Okay, the previous sentence is false.) Maud registers. E then assumes total control of Agora, but promises to give up control voluntarily after one week. (Okay, the previous sentence is also false.) 1/30 Maud sends a message from Annabel's e-mail address to prove eir claim of identity. (The previous sentence is true.) Goethe Rebels. 1/31 Goethe corrects some Currency transfers involving Support Your Secret Leader (including giving some of eir own Currency to the Contest so it can satisfy its obligations, and destroying some of its Currency that cannot be evenly divided) and then dissolves it. For real, this time. Goethe creates "no contest". 2/2 root becomes a Scribe. Silent Treatment begins for Craig, who has been Inactive for three months. 2/3 Weather for February is Foul. 2/10 Sherlock becomes Ready. root creates root's Bouncy Ball Contest. root creates the Contest "Scribes' Collegium". 2/11 root renames "Scribes' Collegium" to "Distinguished Scribes' Collegium of Interspatial Physics". 2/14 Goethe creates the Contest "Goethe's Fast Tax Preparation Service and Taco Stand". Goethe, with Eris's support, reduces the Foul Weather Factor from 6 to 0.9. Steve announces eir intent to levy a 40% Stem tax. Sir Toby Rebels. 2/15 Eris creates the Contest "The Divine Tax Shelter", then dissolves it. 2/16 OscarMeyr names Murphy as the new Vizier of Regroup. 2/17 Murphy consents to be the new Vizier of Regroup. 2/18 Goethe announces eir intent to have the Bank mint 0.401 VEs. Steve and root support this. 2/19 Goethe has the Bank mint 0.401 VEs. 2/20 Steve levies a 40% Stem tax. 3/2 neil is deregistered; e has been Silent for one month. 3/3 Steve submits a Will for the Anemocrats: transfer its Bank Currencies to Steve, and its non-Bank Currencies to their Mintors. 3/4 Sherlock creates the Contest "Sherlock's Cafe Americain". (See Proto-Proposal "Wagers".) Weather for March is Plenty. root creates "root's Pay Out Scam Contest". (See CFJ 1453.) 3/9 The Contest "Life" dissolves. Adoption of Proposal 4453 causes Groups to dissolve. All four possess some Property, and are thus Dissolute. Notary Sir Toby transfers / intends to transfer Dissolute Property: 28 Stems from Craig to Bank (tax debt) 2 Stems from Order of the Evil Eye to Bank (tax debt) 2 Stems from Regroup to Bank (tax debt) 2 Stems from X Group to Bank (tax debt) 1 Poncho from Anemocrats to Murphy (Will) intend 1 Poncho from favor to Bank intend Land (0, -1) and (6, 3) from Anemocrats to Bank (they were previously transferred to Steve) intend 8 Stems from Order of the Evil Eye to Bank intend Land (4, 6) from Order of the Evil Eye to Bank intend 3 Stems from Regroup to Bank intend 3 Stems from X Group to Bank 3/11 Scorekeepor OscarMeyr assigns Players to Teams: Bleethan (Blob, Peekee, RedKnight, Sir Toby) Dovesdar (Cecilius, Michael, root, Steve) Kinhatis (Eris, Goethe, Murphy, Oerjan, Pakaran) Sliehough (Maud, OscarMeyr, Sherlock, t) 3/12 AgorEx OffShore dissolves. 3/13 Manu registers and is assigned to Team Sliehough. 3/14 Peekee creates "The Evil Scam Contest". (See CFJ 1455.) Sir Toby creates "Sir Toby's anti-Peekee Contest". TRADE OFFERS ------------ Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eris 11/17/02 Land VEs / Negotiable Eris 01/26/03 1 Poncho 5 Indulgences Goethe 03/12/03 0.008 VEs 1 Stem each, up to 40 lots Goethe 03/12/03 0.04 Indulgences 1 Stem each, up to 4 lots Goethe 03/12/03 0.125 Papyri 1 Stem each, up to 6 lots Goethe 03/12/03 1 Bouncy Ball 5 Stems each, up to 2 lots Goethe 03/12/03 1 Stem 0.01 VEs each, up to 50 lots Goethe 03/12/03 1 Stem 0.04 Indulgences each, up to 25 lots Goethe 03/12/03 1 Stem 0.125 Papyri each, up to 25 lots Goethe 03/12/03 4 Stems 1 Bouncy Ball each, up to 5 lots OscarMeyr 09/22/02 Oligarch Votes Rubberstamp eir Proposals Peekee 09/10/02 Stem transfers Negotiable Peekee 11/28/02 Game help Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 Rubberstamping Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 Votes Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 0.13 Indulgences 1 Unit of Land Peekee 11/28/02 2 Stems 1 Unit of Land Peekee 11/28/02 15 Stems 1 Indulgence Peekee 11/28/02 1 Indulgence 20 Stems Peekee 11/28/02 15 Stems 0.1 VE Peekee 11/28/02 0.1 VE 25 Stems RedKnight 10/14/02 Oligarch Votes VEs * Goethe's Taco Stand may be used to transfer Stems * Peekee's offers are non-binding * Peekee's Grubbing Contest may be used to transfer Stems ERRATA ------ "CFJ 1424" in the last Journal was retracted before being assigned a number. (Cecilius, 1/11) -- Ed Murphy "I'm not sure I can go through http://members.fortunecity.com/emurphy/ with it. Leave, I mean."