BlogNomic

Add the following to “The Grue”:

The Grue cannot move into any cells with the value of “Exit”. If the Grue ever occupies a cell with the value of “Exit”, the Gridmaster should blank the Grue’s location at the earliest possible convenient time.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Twenty” at the same time that the number 20 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Nineteen” at the same time that the number 19 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

In the rule The Lines, replace the text “Repeat the following DICE4 times: Select a random Feature and add it to the Grid. Weight the random selection such that each feature not selected during the last Initialise action has twice the probability compared to any feature that was selected last time.” with:

Add each Feature to the Grid once, in a random order.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Eighteen” at the same time that the number 18 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

In “Running”, change

If the most recent Tick was more than 24 hours ago

to

If the most recent Tick was more than 24 hours ago, or if the most recent Tick was more than 8 hours ago and only one Live Runner has no Heading,

After the text “If a disk Effect would report or change one or more values that are privately tracked by the Gridmaster, the Runner who is Activating the disk must privately inform the Gridmaster of the disk being Activated and all values that were chosen as part of the Effect. ” in the rule Disks, append:

It is permissible for a Gridmaster to activate a Runner’s disk on their behalf at their private request, or to Execute on that Runner’s behalf at their private request, with the Gridmaster processing that request at their earliest convenience. The effects of such a disk activation should also be handled by the Gridmaster on that Runner’s behalf, using the legal values (if any) that were chosen by the Runner for that effect.

Uphold any previous instances of the Gridmaster activating a disk on a Runner’s behalf.

Misty has established a Mentorship mentoring jjm3x3

Hey all I am writing to make a formal declaration of intent to join in the grid.

In the rule “The Lines”, replace this text:

Loading a new Stratum is an atomic action with the following steps:

with this text:

Loading a new Stratum is an atomic action that is also called Initialise and has the the following steps:

Uphold all previous “Loading a new Stratum” actions as if they were also Initialise actions.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Seventeen” at the same time that the number 17 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

Your wrist-screen beeps, and a new notification in green appears among the random lines and dots:

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Sixteen” at the same time that the number 16 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “The Lines”, in the subrule “Features”, remove the bullet that begins with “Passcoded Egress”

In the rule “The Lines”, in the bulleted list, add the following bullet just above the last bullet:

* If the Stratum is 6, set the cells D4, D5, E4 and E5 to have the value of Exit.

In the rule “The Grue”, add the following just before the final sentence:

The Grue should then add that Runner’s Number-Crunches to its own (without subtracting any of that Runner’s Number-Crunches).

In The Lines, replace “If no Cells have a value of Battery, set the value of a random Cell to Battery” with:

If no Cells have a value of Battery, set the value of a random non-Purple Cell to Battery

At the end of the rule “The Lines”, add a new sentence after the bullet point list:

If the value or colour of a cell would be modified in the loading of a new stratum but it would be illegal to do so, that modification is skipped for that cell.

In the rule “Running”, replace the text “If the number of runners in the Exit has been at least 1 for the entirety of the last three ticks, and if one of those runners has the highest non-zero Number-Crunches out of all Runners in the Exit, that Runner has achieved victory.” with

If, during the most recent 3 Tick atomic actions (excluding this one), the number of Runners in the Exit has been at least 1 for the entire Tick atomic action, and if one of the Runner currently in the Exit has the highest non-zero Number-Crunches out of all Runners in the Exit, that Runner has achieved victory.

In “The Exit”, replace “A Runner can spend any positive amount of Power to increase their Number-Crunches by that amount” with

A Runner can spend any positive amount of Power to increase their Number-Crunches by that amount by notifying the Gridmaster of the amount of Power they wish to spend

In the rule “The Exit”, append the following paragraph:

When a Runner besides the Grue has achieved victory, the Gridmaster should, at their earliest convenience, post a blogpost announcing that that Runner has escaped.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Fifteen” at the same time that the number 15 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “The Grid”, subrule “Location”, replace “If no other Runner has this Cell in their Location at the time the message is processed, the Gridmaster sets the Location of the Runner to the requested Cell and replies with an acknowledgement of the request. Otherwise, the Gridmaster replies that the Cell is taken. ” with “The Gridmaster should then set the Location of the Runner to the requested Cell. If at least one other Runner has this Cell in their Location at the time the message is processed, the Gridmaster should also reply that the Cell is occupied.”

As a subrule of The Lines, create a rule called “Downloading a new Stratum” with the text:

A Runner may Download by privately informing the Gridmaster that they are doing so, and that Runner is considered to be Downloading until the end of the next Tick action. If a Runner has Executed since the most recent Tick, they may not Download. If a runner is Downloading, they may not Execute.

In Running, replace the bullet point “If no Cells have a value of Battery, Load a new Stratum” with:

If no Cells have a value of Battery, or if the number of Runners that are Downloading is greater than 50% of Live Runners, Load a new Stratum

In the same rule, replace the bullet pont “Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, and announcing any Runners whose Locations are cells in the Alpha Sector.” with

Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, the number of Runners that are Downloading, and announcing any Runners whose Locations are cells in the Alpha Sector.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Fourteen” at the same time that the number 14 shows up on the screen.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Thirteen” at the same time that the number 13 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “Basic Grid Rules”, in the subrule “Status Report”, add the following bullet after the bullet “* Power”:

* Number-Crunches

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Twelve” at the same time that the number 12 shows up on the screen.

In the rule “Running”, replace this bullet:

If the Grue’s Location is in the same row or column as any other Runners (excluding those in the same Cell as it), change the Grue’s Heading to face a secretly random such Runner.

with this bullet:

If the Grue’s Location is in the same row or column as any other Runners (excluding those in the same Cell as it), select all of the Headings where the Grue would be facing such Runners, and where the orthogonally adjacent Cell to the Grue in the direction of each Heading does not contain “Firewall”, and change the Grue’s Heading to a randomly chosen Heading from this selection. If there are no such selections possible, instead select all of the Headings where the orthogonally adjacent Cell to the Grue in the direction of each Heading does not contain “Firewall”, and change the Grue’s Heading to a randomly chosen Heading from this selection if possible.

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Eleven” at the same time that the number 11 shows up on the screen.

Your wrist-screen beeps, and a new notification in green appears among the random lines and dots: