Remove “A Truck may change its own Operating Status at any time during the Prep Phase.” from “Food Trucks”

Add “Each Truck has a Privately Tracked Signal, defaults to Open, and may be either Open or Closed. A Truck may change their Signal at any time as a Virtual Action” to “Food Trucks”

If there is not a step in the Night action called “Refresh” add it. Then set the content of the “Refresh” step to be “Set the Operating Status of all Trucks to be their Signal”

In the rule “The Night”, make the following changes:

* Replace “a lower price on another Truck’s Menu” with “a lower price on another Open Truck’s Menu”
* Replace “the Total Dishes (the number of Dishes across all Trucks)” with “the Total Dishes (the number of Dishes across all Open Trucks)”

Since the dynasty is now about a week old and there’s been focus on Styles, I’ll formally announce the foreshadowed shift to Scam-Mundane (“may cooperate on scams, but only as a regular player / regular admin; will not use Emperor powers to assist in scamming”) as happening after I post this. “Emperor powers” would include the ending of the Prep phase and the Night action: I will not delay or bring forward either action at the request of a player who has a good loophole in mind.

In leaving Scam-Averse, I will no longer “alert players to any loopholes” that I notice. As a parting loophole spotted while writing the Fittings rule, am I right in saying that Closed Trucks can still attract Customers to buy things from their Menu during the “look around” step?

In “Food Trucks”, replace “defaults to Closed” with “defaults to Open”.

Add a step to the Night action after “Go home”:-

* Refresh: Set the Operating Status of all Trucks to Open

In “Food Trucks”, replace “may be either Open or Closed” with:-

may be either Open, Closed or Dark

After “with an Operating Status of Open is considered an Open Truck,”, add “a Truck with an Operating Status of Dark is considered a Dark Truck,”.

In “The Night”, remove “or all Closed Trucks have performed a Closed Action”.

Replace “Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus and blank the Closed Action of all Open Trucks” with:-

* Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus
* Tear down: For each of a Truck’s Fittings that wasn’t put there during the current Trading Day, remove it

In “Reminders”, replace “If only one or two Closed Trucks have not set a Closed Action, then the Yard is permitted to remind them to set a Closed Action” with:-

If only one or two Trucks are Closed and the game is in the Serve phase, then the Yard is permitted to remind them to take a Serve Action

In “Food Trucks”, remove “Each Truck has a publicly tracked list of Decorations, where each Decoration has a Name (a flavour-text string).” (if it is there) and add a subrule to Food Trucks called “Fittings”:-

Each Truck has a publicly tracked list of Fittings. Each Fitting has a Name and an Effect, and the available Fittings are:-

* Second Station: A Truck with a Second Station may have up to seven Dishes in their Menu instead of five.
* Lighting Rig: The prices of all Dishes for a Truck with a Lighting Rig are treated as $2 lower (to a minimum of $1) than they actually are during the ‘‘They look around’’ step of the Sale action.
* Drinks Fridge: A Truck with a Drinks Fridge gains a bonus of 2 Dollars from each Sale that they perform.

The effects of a Truck’s Fittings do not apply while that Truck is Closed or Dark.

As a Serve Action, a Closed Truck may add a Fitting to their Fittings, and set their Operating Status to Dark.

Repeal “Closed Actions”.

Tonight at the Truck—Oyster’s on most of the menu. Fresh caught, full flavor. $1 off all dishes! Come hungry.

Append the following to the rule Food Trucks:

Each Truck has a publicly tracked Theme (a flavour-text string) that reflects the Truck’s aesthetic, personality, or branding (e.g. “Neon retro diner”, “Wildly entertaining”, or “Locally sourced eco-friendly eats”). A Truck may change its own Theme as a Prep Action.

Each Truck has a publicly tracked list of Decorations, where each Decoration has a Name (a flavour-text string).

In the wiki page Building Blocks, add a rule named “Imperative Rework” with the following text:

[[The Third Stab]] is a proposal related to Imperative Rework. It is considered flavour text. If a proposal only modifies [[The Third Stab]], it can be tagged with [IR] and if it is the only [IR] proposal said author has in the proposal queue, it does not count toward the author’s pending proposal limit.

Initialize The Third Stab with Imperative Rework - Proposaltext as seen at 30/7/2025 17:05.

Enable the Building Block Imperative Rework.

Reword the Imperatives rule to say as follows:

;Can, May: “is able to”
;Shall, Must: “is required to”
;Can not, May not, Shall not, Must not: “is forbidden from”
;Should: “is recommended that”. You should not use the imperative “should” in most case.
;Should not: “is not recommend that”. You should not use the imperative “should not” in most case.

Append the following to the rule Food Trucks:

Each Truck has a publicly tracked Theme (a flavour-text string) that reflects the Truck’s aesthetic, personality, or branding (e.g. “Neon retro diner”, “Wildly entertaining”, or “Locally sourced eco-friendly eats”). A Truck may change its own Theme as a Prep Action.

Each Truck has a publicly tracked list of Decorations, where each Decoration has a Name (a flavour-text string).

Create a new rule titled The Vending Machine:

The Vending Machine is maintained by the Yard and has the following publicly tracked properties:
* Dollars, which defaults to $0
* A list of up to five Items, where each Item has:
  * A Name (a flavour-text string)
  * A Price (a Dollar amount), which defaults to $1
  * An Age (an integer, defaulting to 0), representing the number of Trading Days the Item has been available

The Yard may generate an Item by performing the following steps:
* Choose a text string using the Yard’s own creative judgment. The Yard is encouraged to create Items that would appeal to one, many, or all Trucks based on their Themes.
* Set the Item’s Price to $1.
* Set the Item’s Age to 0.

The Yard may add an Item to the Vending Machine at any time, but only if it contains fewer than five Items.
Once per Trading Day, a Truck may take a Virtual Action called Queue. The Truck must specify which Item it intends to purchase and the Yard privately tracks the Trucks that have Queued.

At the end of each Trading Day (after the Serve Phase), the Yard must perform Vend and Restock for each Item in the Vending Machine.

Vend and Restock is an action performed for an Item in the Vending Machine that is comprised of the following conditions and associated atomic actions:

If one or more Trucks Queued for this Item during the current Trading Day, choose one of those Trucks at random. This Truck becomes the Lucky Truck. Perform the following numbered steps as an atomic action, in order
    1. Deduct the Item’s Price from the Lucky Truck’s Dollars.
    2. Add the Item’s Price to the Vending Machine’s Dollars.
    3. Remove the Item from the Vending Machine and add its Name to the Lucky Truck’s Decorations list.

Otherwise if the Item is still in the Vending Machine perform the following numbered steps as an atomic action, in order:
  1. Increment its Age by 1
  2. If its Age is now 1, set its Price to $0.
  3. If its Age is now 2, remove it from the Vending Machine.

Reword the subrule 4.1.1 Imperatives to the following:

Can
    “is able to”
Shall
    “is required to”
Should
    “is required to, unless a reason to the contrary can be provided.”

Add a new Imperial Style called “Pace of Play” with the following options

Obedient (may perform actions that move forward the pace of play as soon as they are legally allowed to do so, without regard for the state of the proposal queue or other players opportunities to respond)

Considerate (will consider the state of the proposal queue or the effects that the current pace of play has on other players opportunities to respond, and under that consideration may withhold performing actions they are otherwise legally allowed to perform until a more appropriate time)

Create a new sub-rule “Signatures” in “Menus” under “Dishes” that reads:

Whenever a Menu is submitted to the Yard, up to one Dish may be marked as a Signature. If so marked, this Dish must continue to be included and marked as Signature in every subsequent Menu from the same Truck.
Whenever a Customer would choose a non-Signature Dish from Menu containing a Signature Dish, if the Signature Dish is less than 25% cheaper or 25% more expensive, the customer Chooses the Signature item instead.

Rename the Truck belonging to Arthexis to “The Constellation”

Add a new closed action called “Pick the Poppies” with an effect “Gain $25”

Add the following step to the “Night” atomic action

Pruning: Remove the “Pick the Poppies” closed action from the ruleset, then remove this step.

Set every Truck which has not performed a Closed Action on the current trading day to be Open

Put the game into the Prep Phase

Add a new Rule, Time Stops

There may be no Sale actions performed after 29/7/2025 17:15:00 UTC.

Revert any Sale actions performed after 29/7/2025 17:15:00 UTC.

The game has now entered the Serve Phase. After flickering for a while, the yard’s overhead lights come on.

In the rule “Food Trucks”, remove the text “A Closed Truck may not take any Serve Actions.” and replace this text:

A Open Truck is considered an Open Truck, and a Closed Truck is considered a Closed Truck.

with this text:

A Truck with an Operating Status of Open is considered an Open Truck, and a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed is considered a Closed Truck.

In the rule “Closed Actions”, replace this text:

A Closed Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase by a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed. A Closed Truck may perform no more than one Closed Action per Trading Day.

with this text:

Closed Action is publicly tracked for each Truck and defaults to empty. As a Serve Action, a Closed Truck may set their Closed Action.

In the rule “Closed Actions”, replace every instance of “the Truck that performed this action” with “a Truck with this Closed Action”.

In the rule “Closed Actions”, replace the bulleted item that starts with the text “Marketing” with the following:

* Marketing: During the next Trading Day, the prices of all Dishes for a Truck with this Closed Action are treated as $2 lower (to a minimum of $1) than they actually are during the ‘‘They look around’’ step of the Sale action

In the rule “Reminders”, replace this text:

The Maintenance is a publicly tracked number. The Yard may, at any time, update it to match the number of Closed Trucks that have submitted a Closed Action.

If only one or two Closed Trucks have not submitted a Closed Action, then the Yard is permitted to publicly reveal their identities and remind them to submit a Closed Action, on the blog and/or on Discord.

with this text:

If only one or two Closed Trucks have not set a Closed Action, then the Yard is permitted to remind them to set a Closed Action, on the blog and/or on Discord.

In the rule “The Night”, in the “Wash up” step of the Night action, add the text “and blank the Closed Action of all Open Trucks”.

In “Menus”, replace “As a virtual Prep action, a Truck may change its Menu to any list of Dishes.” with:-

(Today Only:) As a virtual Prep action, a Truck may change its Menu to any list of Dishes.

(From Tomorrow:) As a virtual Prep action, a Truck may change its Menu to any list of Dishes - if they have a Past Menu, this new Menu must include at least one Dish that was on their Past Menu (with the same Name and Ingredients, although at any Price). (A Truck’s Past Menu is the Menu they had - if any - at the start of the most recent Night action where they weren’t Closed.)

In Trading Day; rewrite “If at any time every Truck has a non-empty Menu then the Yard should make a post announcing that the game has entered the Serve Phase; as soon as they have done so, the game ceases to be in the Prep Phase and starts to be in the Serve phase.; a Closed Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase by a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed. ” into

If at any time every Truck has a non-empty Menu then the Yard should make a post announcing that the game has entered the Serve Phase; as soon as they have done so, the game ceases to be in the Prep Phase and starts to be in the Serve phase.

A Closed Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase by a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed.

Rewrite the entireity of the point starting with “They eat their meal” into

They eat their meal: Apply the Effects of all Ingredients in their Meal.

Add a new point before “They eat their meal” with the following text:

The dish is cooked: the Yard calculates the Total Dishes, defined as the number of Dishes across all Trucks; and for each ingredient in the meal, the Yard calculates {X} Dish, where {X} is replaced with the name of the ingredient being calculating; the value defined as how many Dish across all Trucks contain said Ingredient.

Rewrite “The available Ingredients and their Costs are: Oyster ($5), Beef ($3), Lamb ($3), Chicken ($2), Pork ($2), Falafel ($1), Wrap ($1), Salad ($1), Cheese ($1), Sauce ($1). ” into

A Ingredient have a Cost and a Effect. The list of Ingredient is as follows:
Ingredient Cost   Effect
Oyster     $5       -
Beef       $3       -
Lamb     $3       -
Chicken   $2       -
Pork       $2       -
Falafel     $1       -
Wrap     $1       -
Salad     $1       -
Cheese   $1       -
Sauce     $1       -

If “With Credit to JonathanDark” did not pass; set Oyster’s Effect to

* To Apply this Effect, the Yard roles a DICE20 to determine the Effect(s). (If multiple conditions apply, then all of the applicable actions must be followed in the order they are written.)

  * If the result is equal to 1: The Active Customer shares their story on social media. During the next Night, that Truck does not perform a Sale.
  * If the result is less than or equal to 2: The Active Customer gets food poisoning. The Truck whose Menu contained the purchased Dish refunds the Price of the Dish by deducting the Price of the Dish from that Truck’s Dollars (to a minimum of $0). The Active Customer returns home and is immediately removed from the Customers list.
  * If the result is greater than 15: The Active Customer is pleased, and gives a flat Tip of $5, which is immediately added to that Truck’s Dollars.
  * If the result is equal to 20: The Active Customer shares their story on social media. During the next Night, that Truck gains an additional $5 from any Sales that they perform (on top of the Price of the Choice and any Tips).

Else; set it to

* To Apply this Effect,

  * If the Oyster Dishes is greater than 20% of the Total Dishes: The Active Customer shares their story on social media. During the next Night, that Truck does not perform a Sale.
  * If the Oyster Dishes is greater than 15% of the Total Dishes: The Active Customer gets food poisoning. The Truck whose Menu contained the purchased Dish refunds the Price of the Dish by deducting the Price of the Dish from that Truck’s Dollars (to a minimum of $0). The Active Customer returns home and is immediately removed from the Customers list.
  * If the Oyster Dishes is less than 10% of the Total Dishes: The Active Customer is pleased, and gives a flat Tip of $5, which is immediately added to that Truck’s Dollars.
  * If the Oyster Dishes is less than 5% of the Total Dishes: The Active Customer shares their story on social media. During the next Night, that Truck gains an additional $5 from any Sales that they perform (on top of the Price of the Choice and any Tips).

(If multiple conditions apply, then all of the applicable actions must be followed in the order they are written.)

New player Nolemeldo will be mentored by DoomedIdeas, until the current dynasty has ended and the date is past the 26th of August 2025.

In “Dishes”, replace “up to three Ingredients” with “one to three Ingredients”.

In the rule “The Night”, replace “Queue up: For each Truck with an Operating Status of Open (in a random order), perform one Sale.” with

Queue up: For each customer (in a random order), perform one Sale.

In the rule “The Night”, replace

A Sale is an atomic action performed for a specific Truck, with the following ordered steps:-

- A Customer arrives: The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Customers. That Customer becomes the Active Customer for this Sale.
- The Active Customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice.

with

A Sale is an atomic action performed for a specific Customer, with the following ordered steps:

- A Customer arrives: The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Customers. That Customer becomes the Active Customer for this Sale.
- The Active Customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item among those available on all Open Trucks’ Menus to be the Active Customer’s Choice.

In the rule “The Night”, replace the text “then the Yard roles a DICE20 to determine the outcome(s).” with “then the Yard calculates the Total Dishes (the number of Dishes across all Trucks) and the Oyster Dishes (the number of those Dishes containing Oyster in the Ingredients) and selects the outcome(s) according to the criteria below:”

In the same rule, perform the following replacements:
* Replace “If the result is equal to 1” with “If the Oyster Dishes is greater than 20% of the Total Dishes”
* Replace “If the result is less than or equal to 2” with “If the Oyster Dishes is greater than 15% of the Total Dishes”
* Replace “If the result is greater than 15” with “If the Oyster Dishes is less than 10% of the Total Dishes”
* Replace “If the result is equal to 20” with “If the Oyster Dishes is less than 5% of the Total Dishes”

NOT AN ACTUAL PROPOSAL

I have an idea for a proposal to fix the dice-rolling aspect of Oysters. If anyone wants to run with this idea, or make any modifications and run with it, please do. I’m out of slots at the moment and can’t do it myself.

The idea is that instead of dice rolls, you’re playing Push-Your-Luck with the other Trucks. The more Oyster dishes that exist, the more likely that an outbreak of food poisoning occurs.

In the rule “The Night”, replace the text “then the Yard roles a DICE20 to determine the outcome(s).” with “then the Yard calculates the Total Dishes (the number of Dishes across all Trucks) and the Oyster Dishes (the number of those Dishes containing Oyster in the Ingredients) and selects the outcome(s) according to the criteria below:”

In the same rule, perform the following replacements:
* Replace “If the result is equal to 1” with “If the Oyster Dishes is greater than 20% of the Total Dishes”
* Replace “If the result is less than or equal to 2” with “If the Oyster Dishes is greater than 15% of the Total Dishes”
* Replace “If the result is greater than 15” with “If the Oyster Dishes is less than 10% of the Total Dishes”
* Replace “If the result is equal to 20” with “If the Oyster Dishes is less than 5% of the Total Dishes”

Add the following rule to the Dynastic Rules, titled Perusing:

Once per Trading Day during the Prep Phase, a Truck may Peruse the Menu of another Truck as a virtual action by privately informing the Yard that they are taking a Perusing Action and naming the Truck to Peruse. When a Truck performs a Perusal, their Menu size for that Trading Day is reduced by one.

Upon receiving the Perusal request, the Yard must privately inform the Perusing Truck of the named Truck’s full Menu (including all Dishes, ingredients, and prices) as it exists at the time of the Perusal.

In the rule “Customers”, replace the text “defaulting to a string privately generated by the Yard using any method of the Yard’s choosing” with the following:

defaulting to a string generated by the Yard by randomly selecting a name from the list on the wiki page [[20th Century English Names]] and re-rolling if any Customers already have that Name

I’d like to be unidled

In Dishes; rewrite “Each Dish has a Name (a flavour text string), a list of up to three Ingredients (where no items are repeated within that list) and a Price (an integer between zero and 20 inclusive). ” into

Each Dish has a Name (a flavour text string), a list of one to three Ingredients (where no items are repeated within that list) and a Price (an integer between zero and 20 inclusive).

Sales

The Yard Cleaner visits Om Nom Nomic and their eye is immediately caught by The Loophole, a block of cheese with a hole running through it. Several other trucks offer similar fare, but they can’t beat Om Nom Nomic on price. Clucky takes $3.

The Lycra Cyclist parks up at the unnamed food truck. Their Falafel Wrap looks good and there’s nothing else quite like it in the yard tonight. Arthexis takes $6.

The Canadian Tourist is drawn by the stylish decor and piped classical music at Melody’s Dine and Wine, and orders the Lamb Falafel with Shiraz, a dish that nobody else is offering. They are happy to pay a premium for it, and Chiiika takes $20.

The Shutter-Shades Hipster at Pokes’ Rice and Beans isn’t entirely sure if he’s at the right place, but the Meat Mixer looks cheap. JonathanDark takes $5.

The TikTok Influencer can’t resist the neon signage at Ye Olde Lemon and considers the simple Chicken Wrap. Glancing at the much cheaper Rice and Beans menu, though, they realise that their Meat Mixer is basically the same. JonathanDark takes $5, and the influencer edits around it later.

The Tour Guide knows this area well and heads straight to The Good Food, the only place in town to get a good Pork Chop. Vovix takes $20.

The Tired Commuter goes to the truck called Truck and orders an It’s a Mystery without really reading the menu. They’ve never seen anything like it. Eternalservererror takes $20.

The Postal Worker heads to Shish-Kababa for a Salad Dressing and Cheese, which no other truck is offering. Trapdoorspyder takes $20.

The Junior Doctor heads to Bat Snacks and orders a Joker’s Smiling Swine without removing their facemask. Darknight takes $11.

The Saxophone Busker takes a break at one of the Pokes’ Rice and Beans franchises and orders a Brown Rice. It’s a hipsterish name for what’s basically a beef salad, but it’s good food, and cheap. DoomedIdeas takes $3.

The Death Metal Fan stops at the Finest Grill for a Halloumi Wrap. It’s amazingly cheap for something that you can’t get anywhere else. Applebane takes $1.

The Low Level Gangster pushes to the front of the queue at Aria’s Aromatics to order a Meeeaaaaatttt, pays from a roll of $100 bills and departs in a hurry. Aria takes $18.

The Guerrilla Gardener has heard great things about the food at Bite Me, but when they see the price on the Claggymouth they double back and get a Riddle Roll from Bat Snacks instead. Darknight takes $5.

Menus

Finest Grill (Applebane)

Lamb Shawarma Wrap - Lamb, Salad, Wrap - $2
Chicken Shawarma Wrap - Chicken, Salad, Wrap - $2
Falafel Wrap - Falafel, Salad, Wrap - $1
Halloumi Wrap - Cheese, Salad, Wrap - $1
Mixed Grill - Lamb, Chicken, Halloumi - $3

Aria’s Aromatics (Aria)

"Meeeaaaaatttt" / Beef, Lamb, Pork / 18
"Nothing Wrap" / Sauce, Cheese, Wrap / 3
"Falafe-Bowl" / Falafel, Salad, Sauce / 8
"Chicken & Cheese" / Chicken, Cheese, Sauce / 7
"The Wheel" / Cheese / 12

- (Arthexis)

| Dish Name             | Ingredients            | Price |
| --------------------- | ---------------------- | ----- |
| Falafel Wrap          | Falafel, Wrap, Sauce   | $6   |
| Lamb Pita             | Lamb, Wrap, Salad      | $8   |
| Chicken Mezze Platter | Chicken, Salad, Cheese | $7   |
| Beef Souvlaki         | Beef, Sauce, Cheese    | $7   |
| Vegetarian Mezze      | Falafel, Salad, Cheese | $5   |

Melody's Dine and Wine (Chiiika)

Grilled Pork Wrap with Red Wine: Pork, Sauce, Wrap; $20
Lamb Falafel with Shiraz: Lamb, Falafel, Sauce; $20
Cheesily Meats with White Wine: Lamb, Pork, Cheese; $20
Chicken Wrap served with Salad and Pinot Noir: Chicken, Wrap, Salad; $20
Flavoured Beef with Cheese Fries and Brandy: Beef, Cheese, Sause; $20

Om Nom Nomic (Clucky)

The Loophole: Cheese. $3
Suber's Supreme Salad: Falafal, Salad, Cheese. $8
Ascension  Address: Beef, Sauce, Wrap. $10
Call For Judgement: Cheese, Sauce, Wrap. $12
The Veto: (empty list) $19

Bat Snacks (Darknight)

Dark Knight Bite: beef, wrap, cheese $9
Batwing Salad: chicken, cheese, salad $6
The Gotham: lamb, sauce, salad $6
Riddle Roll: falafel, wrap, cheese $5
Joker’s Smiling Swine: pork, sauce, cheese $11

Pokes' Rice and Beans (DoomedIdeas)

White Rice - Chicken, Wrap, and Cheese - $3
Brown Rice - Beef, Salad, and Sauce - $3
Black Beans - Pork, Falafel, and Sauce - $3
Baked Beans - Lamb, Falafel, and Wrap - $3
Beans and Rice - Beef, Chicken, and Lamb - $1

Truck (eternalservererror)

Cheeseburger Salad: Beef, Salad 20
Meat Lover’s Kebab: Chicken, Lamb, Pork 20
Cup of Sauce: Sauce 20
Block of Cheese: Cheese 20
It’s a Mystery: Lamb, Falafel, Cheese 20

Pokes' Rice and Beans (JonathanDark)

Name: Belly of the Beasts, Ingredients: Beef, Pork, Wrap Price: $5
Name: Farmhand, Ingredients: Beef, Chicken, Cheese, Price: $5
Name: Meat Mixer, Ingredients: Chicken, Falafel, Wrap Price: $5
Name: Feeling Falafel, Ingredients: Falafel, Salad, Cheese, Price: $5
Name: Meat Mania, Ingredients: Beef, Chicken, Pork Price: $5

Bite Me (Josh)

The Wet Mess: Pork, Lamb, and Sauce - $20
Beef and Dairy Network: Beef, Cheese, and Falafel - $20
Ole Boring: Chicken, Salad, and Wrap - $5
Baa Baa Wet Sheep: Lamb, Cheese, and Sauce - $20
Claggymouth: Falafel, Wrap, and Cheese - $20

Ye Olde Lemon (Nolemeldo)

Chicken wrap: wrap, falafel, chicken (20$)
That other wrap: sauce, wrap, pork (20$)
Just cheese: cheese (18$)
(Probably) vegan wrap: salad, sauce, wrap (20$)

Shish-kababa (Trapdoorspyder)

Salad dressing and Cheese: Sauce, Cheese, $20

The Good Food (Vovix)

Pork Chops (Pork) - $19

The game has now entered the Serve Phase. Customers mill across the yard as the shutters begin to rattle up.

If the proposal “Closed For Business” was not enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Food Trucks”, add the following paragraph:

A Truck with an Operating Status of Open is considered an Open Truck, and a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed is considered a Closed Truck.

Throughout the dynastic ruleset, replace every instance of “Truck with an Operating Status of Open” with “Open Truck”

Throughout the dynastic ruleset, replace every instance of “Truck with an Operating Status of Closed” with “Closed Truck”

In the rule “The Night”, before the text “the Yard may perform a Night” insert the following text:

if there are no Closed Trucks or all Closed Trucks have performed a Closed Action,

In the rule “Reminders”, replace every instance of “Trucks” with “Open Trucks”.

In the rule “Trading Day”, replace “every Truck has a non-empty Menu” with “every Open Truck has a non-empty Menu”.

In the rule “Reminders”, add the following text:

The Maintenance is a publicly tracked number. The Yard may, at any time, update it to match the number of Closed Trucks that have submitted a Closed Action.

If only one or two Closed Trucks have not submitted a Closed Action, then the Yard is permitted to publicly reveal their identities and remind them to submit a Closed Action, on the blog and/or on Discord.

Hi! I’m new and would like to become a truck!

Add a new Rule named Online Menu with the following text:

At any time, the Yard may disclose the amount of Menus received.

In the rule “The Night”, rewrite “with identical ingredients” into

with the same list of ingredients

If the proposal “Closed For Business” failed, this proposal does nothing. Otherwise:
Remove the following text from the rule “Trading Day”:

; a Closed Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase by a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed.

Create a new rule, called “Closed Actions”, with the following text:

A Closed Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase by a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed. A Closed Truck may perform no more than one Closed Action per Trading Day. The following is a list of Closed Actions and their effects:
* New Hire: During the next Trading Day, the Truck that performed this action may have up to seven Dishes in their Menu instead of five.
* Marketing: During the next Trading Day, the Customers list will not be considered Bustling until there are at least 3 more Customers than Trucks.
* Food Handler Certification: During the next Trading Day, the Truck that performed this action will gain a bonus of 2 Dollars for each Sale that they perform.

In the rule The Night, change

They buy their meal: The Truck whose Menu has the Active Customer’s Choice gains Dollars equal to the Price of that Choice

to

They buy their meal: The Truck whose Menu has the Active Customer’s Choice gains Dollars equal to the Price of that Choice, multiplied by the Multiplier of their Pitch, if they have one.

In the same rule, change ‘Post a blog entry listing all Menus’ to:

Post a blog entry listing which Trucks occupied which Pitches, all Truck’s Menus

Add the following tot the end of the rule Pitches:

As a Prep Action, a Truck may Roll Up. Rolling Up involves sending a private message to the Yard with up to five pitch numbers, in priority order; once a Truck has Rolled Up they may not take any other Prep Actions during that Trading Day.

Whenever the Yard receives a Rolling Up message from a Truck they should allocate that Truck a Pitch. The Pitch allocated to a Truck should be the first available one on the list in their Rolling Up message, with ties broken on a first-come, first-served basis; if a Truck cannot be allocated any of the Pitches on their listen then they are allocated a random Pitch.

In Numbers and Variables; after “If a piece of information is described as being tracked secretly or privately by the Yard (including secretly random selections), then that information may only be revealed by the Yard when the ruleset allows it. If a Truck should already know such a piece of information (in that the Yard has already told them it, or vice versa, and there is no way that the information could have been changed since then), the Yard may repeat it to them.” append the following text:

Additionally; if a piece of private information is described as being Sealed; the Truck or Yard who tracked that information may reveal it during an Interregnum or during any later dynasty.

Add the following properties to the list of what “Customers” consists of

Hunger Status:

A value which is either “Full” or “Hungry” and by default is “Hungry”

Favorite:

An Ingredient, which is privately tracked by the Yard rather than being publicly tracked. Can be empty, but if a Customer does not have a favorite, the Yard should privately randomly select a favorite for them at the Yard’s earliest convivence.

In “The Night” replace “The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Customers” with “The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Hungry Customers”

In “The Night” replace “The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice.” with “The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice. If any items on that Truck’s Menu contain the Customer’s favorite ingredient, the random selection is made only from only those items. “

In “The Night” replace “Remove the Active Customer from the list of Customers.” with “Set that Customers to be Full”

Add a new step called “Digest: Set all Customers to be Hungry” to the Serve atomic action, right after the “Go home” step.

Change the name of the Truck owned by the player JonathanDark to “Pokes’ Knockoff”.
In the rule “Food Trucks”, add the following as a new paragraph:

A Truck’s Name, if not empty, may not be the same as the non-empty Name of any other Truck. When determining if any two Truck’s Names are the same, the uppercase version of a letter is treated as being the same as the lowercase version of that same letter.

In the rule “The Night” (2.3), insert a step into the atomic action “Sale”, after “They buy their meal” and before “They leave the plaza”:

They eat their meal: If the Active Customer’s Choice contains the Ingredient “Oyster”, then the Yard roles a DICE20 to determine the outcome(s). (If multiple conditions apply, then all of the applicable actions must be followed in the order they are written.)
* If the result is equal to 1: The Active Customer shares their story on social media. During the next Night, that Truck does not perform a Sale.
* If the result is less than or equal to 2: The Active Customer gets food poisoning. The Truck whose Menu contained the purchased Dish refunds the Price of the Dish by deducting the Price of the Dish from that Truck’s Dollars (to a minimum of $0). The Active Customer returns home and is immediately removed from the Customers list.
* If the result is greater than 15: The Active Customer is pleased, and gives a flat Tip of $5, which is immediately added to that Truck’s Dollars.
* If the result is equal to 20: The Active Customer shares their story on social media. During the next Night, that Truck gains an additional $5 from any Sales that they perform (on top of the Price of the Choice and any Tips).

If the proposal “No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” has been enacted, in the subrule “Dishes” (2.1.1), replace the paragraph starting with “The available Ingredients” with:

The available Ingredients and their Costs are: Oyster ($5), Beef ($3), Lamb ($3), Chicken ($2), Pork ($2), Falafel ($1), Wrap ($1), Salad ($1), Cheese ($1), Sauce ($1).

Otherwise, if the proposal “No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” has not been enacted, replace that paragraph with:

The available Ingredients are: Oyster, Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork, Falafel, Wrap, Salad, Cheese, Sauce.

In the rule “Food Trucks”, add the following as a new paragraph:

A Truck’s Name, if not empty, may not be the same as the non-empty Name of any other Truck. When determining if any two Truck’s Names are the same, the uppercase version of a letter is treated as being the same as the lowercase version of that same letter.

If there is more than one Truck with the same Name, for each of those Trucks in the set of Trucks with the same Name, roll DICE1000 and add the result as text to the end of that Truck’s Name.

Amend the rule 2.2 Food Trucks by appending the following:

Each Truck has an Operating Status, which is publicly tracked, defaults to Closed, and may be either Open or Closed. A Truck may change its own Operating Status at any time during the Prep Phase.
A Truck with an Operating Status of Closed may not take any Serve Actions.

Amend the “Queue up” step in the rule 2.3 The Night to read:

Queue up: For each Truck with an Operating Status of Open (in a random order), perform one Sale.

Amend the rule 2.7 Trading Day by appending the following:

; a Closed Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase by a Truck with an Operating Status of Closed.

Enact a subrule to “The Night”, called “Reminders”:-

The Slate is a publicly tracked number. The Yard may, at any time, update it to match the number of Trucks that have non-empty Menus.

If only one or two Trucks have empty Menus, then the Yard is permitted to publicly reveal their identities and remind them to submit Menus, on the blog and/or on Discord.

In “Dishes”, replace “The available Ingredients are: Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork, Falafel, Wrap, Salad, Cheese, Sauce.” with:-

The available Ingredients and their Costs are: Beef ($3), Lamb ($3), Chicken ($2), Pork ($2), Falafel ($1), Wrap ($1), Salad ($1), Cheese ($1), Sauce ($1).

In “The Night”, add a bullet point to the start of the Night action:-

* (From Tomorrow:) Prepare ingredients: For each Truck, reduce their Dollars by the Cost of each Ingredient which appears anywhere among the Ingredients of their Menu’s Dishes

Amend the rule “The Night” by inserting the following step into the definition of a Sale, immediately after the step They buy their meal and before the step They leave the plaza:

* They eat the meal: The Yard rolls a DICE20 to determine the Active Customer’s reaction, using the following results:

• 1–2 (inclusive): The Active Customer gets food poisoning. The Truck whose Menu contained the purchased Dish refunds the Price of the Dish by deducting the Price of the Dish from that Truck’s Dollars (to a minimum of $0). The Active Customer returns home and is immediately removed from the Customers list.
• 3-14 (inclusive): The Active Customer had a normal dining experience and no additional effects are applied.
• 15–18 (inclusive): The Active Customer experiences a culinary delight and tips the Truck whose Menu contained the purchased Dish. The customer pays a flat Tip of $5 which is added to that Truck’s Dollars.
• 19–20 (inclusive): The Active Customer becomes a repeat customer. If they are removed from the Customers list during the step They leave the plaza, they are immediately appended to the end of the Customers list.




Replace the following step in the Sale atomic action under the rule “The Night”:

* They leave the plaza: Remove the Active Customer from the list of Customers.

With:

* They leave the plaza: If the Active Customer is present in the Customers list, remove them from that list.

The new player Applebane will be mentored by Trapdoorspyder, until the current dynasty has ended and the date is past the 23rd of August 2025.

If Sealed with Approval [Appendix] passed, revert it’s effects.

In Numbers and Variables; after “If a piece of information is described as being tracked secretly or privately by the Yard (including secretly random selections), then that information may only be revealed by the Yard when the ruleset allows it. If a Truck should already know such a piece of information (in that the Yard has already told them it, or vice versa, and there is no way that the information could have been changed since then), the Yard may repeat it to them.” append the following text:

Additionally; if a piece of private information is described as being dynastic; the Truck or Yard who tracked that information may reveal it during an Interregnum or during any later dynasty.

Hello! I’d like to join in. Please transform me into a truck.

Repeal the Bulding Block Revisions Allowed. Remove it from the Buildinig Blocks page of the wiki.

To “The Night”, add a subrule of “Day Clauses”:-

If a paragraph or bullet point in the dynastic ruleset starts with the characters “(Today Only:)”, then that paragraph or bullet point is known as a Today Clause and applies as normal.

If a paragraph or bullet point in the dynastic ruleset starts with the characters “(From Tomorrow:)”, then that paragraph or bullet point is known as a Tomorrow Clause and is flavour text.

Add a bullet point before “Tally up” in the Night action:-

* Update clauses: Remove all Today Clauses from the ruleset. Remove “(From Tomorrow:)” from the start of all Tomorrow Clauses.

In the “Tally up” step, replace “listing all Menus” with “listing all Menus (as they were at the start of this Night)”.

I’ve idled myself. Quorum remains 7.

In the rule “Food Trucks”, after the text “Each Truck has a Name” add the text “that when not empty is unique among all other Trucks’ Names that are not empty”.

If there is more than one Truck with the same non-empty Name, for each of those Trucks in the set of Trucks with the same non-empty Name, roll DICE1000 and add the result as text to the end of that Truck’s Name.

In “The Night” replace “If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects one of those other Dishes at random and this becomes the customer’s Choice instead” with “If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects one of those other Dishes which has the lowest price at random and this becomes the customer’s Choice instead”

If Sealed with Approval [Appendix] passed, revert it’s effects.

In Numbers and Variables; after “If a piece of information is described as being tracked secretly or privately by the Yard (including secretly random selections), then that information may only be revealed by the Yard when the ruleset allows it. If a Truck should already know such a piece of information (in that the Yard has already told them it, or vice versa, and there is no way that the information could have been changed since then), the Yard may repeat it to them.” append the following text:

Additionally; if a piece of private information is described as being tracked temporarily secretly or temporarily privately by the Yard; said information becomes Public during a Interregnum.

In “The Night”, replace “gains the Price of that Choice” with:-

gains Dollars equal to the Price of that Choice

If “A Bustling Market” passed, replace the word “Empty” with “Slack” throughout the rule “Customers”.

Rename the rule “Stitches” to “Pitches”, if a rule still exists with that name.

Add a new rule to the dynastic ruleset, called the Trading Day:

Each round of the game is referred to as a Trading Day. A Trading Day is divided into two phases: Prep and Serve. A Prep Action is an action that can only be done in the Prep phase; a Serve Action is an action that can only be done in the Serve phase.

If at any time every Truck has a non-empty Menu then the Yard should make a post announcing that the game has entered the Serve Phase; as soon as they have done so, the game ceases to be in the Prep Phase and starts to be in the Serve phase.

If there is a rule called Menus, change ‘As a virtual action’ in it to ‘As a virtual Prep action’.

If there is a rule called Food Trucks, change ‘A Truck may change their own Name at any time’ in it to ‘As a Prep Action, a Truck may change their own Name at any time’.

If there is a rule called The Night, change:

If every Truck has a non-empty Menu, then the Yard may perform the following atomic action, known as a Night:-

to:

As a Serve Atomic Action, the Yard may perform a Night, which has the following steps:

If there is a rule called Happy Hour, change ‘Once per day’ to ‘As a Prep Action’.

In the rule The Night, move the ‘Tally Up’ bullet point to the end of the Night atomic action, and reword it to read as follows:

* Tally up: Post a blog entry listing all Menus and the outcomes of the Sale actions. This post ends the Night action and changes the game into the Prep phase of the next Trading Day.

My body is ready

If either ‘Start Menu’ or ‘Trucks in the Night’ is not enacted then this Proposal has no effect.


Add a new rule called “Happy Hour”:

Once per day, a Truck may declare a Happy Hour by making a blog post titled “Happy Hour $X”, where X is a non-negative integer not greater than 10. This sets their Happy Hour Discount to X and applies it immediately to all Dishes on their Menu.

A Truck’s Happy Hour Discount reduces the effective Price of each Dish on their Menu by X (to a minimum of 0) during the next Night, as defined in the rule “The Night”, and which occurs after the Happy Hour was announced.

After that Night is completed, the Truck’s Happy Hour Discount becomes 0.

If the proposal “Who’s Buying” has not been enacted, ignore the rest of this proposal.

Under the rule “Customers”, replace the text

Whenever the Customers is empty, at their earliest convenience, the Yard should add a Customer to Customers and repeat this action until there are 10 entries.

with

The Customers list shall be described as Bustling whenever all of the following conditions are met, and Empty all other times:
* There are at least as many Customers as Trucks.
* There are at least 10 Customers.

Whenever the Customers list is Empty, at their earliest convenience before the next Night, the Yard should add a Customer to Customers and repeat this action until the Customers list is Bustling.

Repeal the Building Block named “Bounties”

Add a new keyword, “Sealed”, to the list of them in the Appendix rule “Other”, with the following definition:

If gamestate is defined as “Sealed”, it is tracked privately during dynasties, but if it ceases to be gamestate its last tracked value must it be published in a blog post as soon as is practical afterwards. If Sealed gamestate ceases to be Sealed but remains gamestate, its tracking document must be updated as soon as is practical. Information ceases to be Sealed during an Interregnum, even if a dynastic rule says otherwise. Sealed gamestate is tracked by the Yard if no other Truck has been assigned the responsibility. Rules cannot be Sealed.

If the proposal “Trucks in the Night” was not enacted, ignore the rest of this proposal.
If the proposal “If You Cook It, They Will Come” was not enacted, ignore the rest of this proposal.

Under the rule “The Night”, insert a step before the first step for the atomic action “Sale”:

* From the Customers list, choose a random Customer that has not yet been chose this Night.

Additionally, within the steps of that atomic action, replace all references to a “customer” (e.g. “a customer” or “the customer”) with “the Customer”.

Under the rule “Customers”, replace the text

“Whenever the Customers is empty, at their earliest convenience, the Yard should add a Customer to Customers and repeat this action until there are 10 entries.”

with

The Customers list shall be described as Bustling whenever all of the following conditions are met, and Empty all other times:
* There are at least as many Customers as Trucks.
* There are at least 10 Customers.

Whenever the Customers list is Empty, at their earliest convenience before the next Night, the Yard should add a Customer to Customers and repeat this action until the Customers list is Bustling.

This proposal is contingent on the enactment of both “Trucks in the Night” and “If You Cook It, They Will Come.” If either proposal is not enacted, this proposal has no effect.

Amend the rule “The Night”, in the definition of the Sale atomic action, by replacing the step:

* A customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the customer’s Choice

with the following steps, inserted in its place:

* A Customer arrives: The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Customers. That Customer becomes the Active Customer for this Sale.
* The Active Customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice.

Then, after the existing step They buy their meal, add a new step:

They leave the plaza: Remove the Active Customer from the list of Customers.

Finally, in the rule “The Night”, replace all instances of the phrase “the customer” with “the Active Customer” as it exists at the time this proposal is enacted.

I would like to unidle.

This has nothing to do with the current dynasty. There’s some notes that I took that I’d like to share on some information that is not currently regulated gamestate.

Buzzwords:

1. deodorize
2. district
3. faction
4. manliness
5. myself
6. poster
7. scope
8. slogan
9. travesty
10. unfitted

Backronym comments:

• “Kingdom of the Eight Viziers: Arabian Knights” deserved more than a median Score of 3. It was a pretty strong board game title entry.

I don’t have any strong feelings about any of the other Backronyms median Score. There were certainly tactical scoring decisions made, and maybe some tit-for-tat ones as well, but in the end, the median smoothed out those outliers most of the time.

If the Proposal “If You Cook It, They Will Come” was not enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Customers”, add the following to the list of Customer values:

;Favorites: A list of Ingredients, defaulting to a publicly randomly generated set of 3 Ingredients.

Add a new rule named “Customers” with the following text:

There is a publicly tracked list named Customers which defaults to an empty list, and where each entry is a Customer. A Customer consists of the following values:
;Name: A flavor text string that uniquely identifies this Customer among all others, defaulting to a string privately generated by the Yard using any method of the Yard’s choosing.

Whenever the Customers is empty, at their earliest convenience, the Yard should add a Customer to Customers and repeat this action until there are 10 entries.

This proposal is contingent on the proposal ‘Trucks in the Night’. If Proposal ‘Trucks in the Night’ is not enacted then this Proposal has no effect.

Add a new subrule to “The Night” called “Dining Risks”:

Whenever a customer consumes a Dish from a Truck’s Menu, the Truck must roll a 20-sided die (d20) in the Dice Roller to determine the outcome.

If the dice roll is:
- 5 or lower, the customer suffers from Food Poisoning and refuses to return to that Truck.
- 2 or lower, the customer contracts Dysentery and refuses to return to any Trucks.

If the dice roll is:
- 15 or higher, the customer experiences a Culinary Delight and becomes a loyal patron of that Truck.
- 20 (a critical success), the customer is Enraptured by the Dish and becomes a devoted fan of that Truck, immediately purchasing an additional Dish.

The Yard must track the status of any customers who have experienced the effects of this rule.

Append a step to the Sale as defined in the Rule ‘The Night’. This step should follow the step labeled “They buy their meal”

* They eat their meal: The customer consumes the Dish that they purchased

Reword the Building Block that is called “Bounties” in the Building Blocks wiki page into “Request for Mechanic”, and rewrite it as follows:

A Request for Mechanic is a post in the Story Posts - Votable Matter category which broadly requests a single mechanical or ruleset change. Despite its category, it is not a votable matter and any votes on it are ignored. A Request for Mechanic may be Open or Closed being Open by default and being Closed when set to the ‘Enacted’ or ‘Failed’ status in the post backend. The Enacted Status should be used for successfully completed Request for Mechanic, while Failed should be used for ones that were closed for any other reason.

The Yard may post a Request for Mechanic, or close an open Request for Mechanic, at any time.

The Yard should vote For on any Votable Matter that satisfy the demands of a Request for Mechanic, or clarify which parts of the Votable Matter that the Yard feels said Votable Matter does not meet the goals of the Request for Mechanic.

If the Yard believes that one or more enacted votable matters satisfy the demand of an open Request for Mechanic, then they may set the Request for Mechanic to Enacted and apply any action that appear after “Rewards:” in the Request for Mechanic (if there is any) to each Truck (excluding the Yard) that authored those enacted votable matters.

Add a new Building Block rule to the Building Blocks section of the ruleset. Call it “Sealed Information” and give it the following text:

Where dynastic rules cause gamestate information to be Sealed, it is privately tracked while Sealed (by the Yard by default), but shall be publicly disclosed as soon as is practical after it ceases to be Sealed. Where Sealed gamestate information ceases to be gamestate, its content as of when it ceased to be gamestate shall be disclosed.

During an Interregnum, no information is Sealed.

The new player Eternalservererror will be mentored by JonathanDark, until the current dynasty has ended and the date is past the 21st of August 2025.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Stitches:

The Yard has exactly twenty Pitches, which are privately tracked. The Pitches are numbered from 1 to 20 and have the following tracked information: an Occupant, can be blank or the Name of a Truck and which defaults to blank, and a Multiplier, which can be any number (to two decimal places) between 0.85 and 1.15; the Multipliers for each Pitch may be set once (secretly-randomly) by the Yard and may not then be changed.

If a rule contains an atomic action called Night, add the following to the end of it as a new bullet:

* Go home: Set the Occupants of all Pitches to blank.

Add a new rule, “Food Trucks”:-

Each Truck has a Name (a flavour text string) and number of Dollars, defaulting to $100; both of these are publicly tracked. A Truck may change their own Name at any time.

Add a new rule, “The Night”:-

If every Truck has a non-empty Menu, then the Yard may perform the following atomic action, known as a Night:-

* Queue up: For each Truck (in a random order) perform one Sale
* Tally up: Post a blog entry listing all Menus and the outcomes of the Sale actions
* Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus

A Sale is an atomic action performed for a specific Truck, with the following ordered steps:-

* A customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the customer’s Choice
* They look around: If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects one of those other Dishes at random and this becomes the customer’s Choice instead
* They buy their meal: The Truck whose Menu has the customer’s Choice gains the Price of that Choice

(All random selections made by the Yard may be performed in a secretly random manner.)

Add a new rule, “Menus”:-

Each Truck has a Menu, which is a list of up to five Dishes. Menus are tracked privately by the Yard.

As a virtual action, a Truck may change its Menu to any list of Dishes.

Add a subrule to “Menus” called “Dishes”:-

Each Dish has a Name (a flavour text string), a list of up to three Ingredients (where no items are repeated within that list) and a Price (an integer between zero and 20 inclusive).

The available Ingredients are: Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork, Falafel, Wrap, Salad, Cheese, Sauce.

A warm summer’s night in the heart of the city, and food truck operators broil and unload cooked kebabs in the yard. As the hour draws on and new customers start to dwindle, one vendor enviously watches a large group dispersing from a rival stall across the plaza. They unclip the marker board from the side of their truck, smear a sleeve across that night’s offers and prices, and start planning a new menu for the day ahead.

Change the term “Wordsmith” to “Truck”, and “Puzzler” to “Yard”. Change the gamestate tracking page to “Food Park”.

Set the Building Blocks “Virtual Actions”, “Precondition Unidling”, “Reinitialisation” and “Revisions Allowed” to be active, removing “No Private Communication”. (I’m no fan of Revisions Allowed, after playing a few dynasties under it, but it seems to be in the zone of a block that’s still being tested, rather than one that the Emperor should take any Ascending view on.)

My Imperial Style will be the same as last time: Gardener/Preservationist/Powerhouse/Guarded/Methodical/Timekeeper, and the undocumented scam stance of “Scam-Gradual” (Scam-Averse for the first week or so, then Scam-Mundane afterwards; I’ll propose to add this to the list, during the dynasty).

Hello! I’m new to the server. I’d like to state my intent to become a player in BlogNomic. I’m excited to be here :)

A place for the post-dynastic discussion.

Reword the Building Block that is called “Bounties” in the Building Blocks wiki page into “Request for Mechanic”, and rewrite it as follows:

A Request for Mechanic is a post in the Story Posts - Votable Matter category which broadly requests a single mechanical or ruleset change. Despite its category, it is not a votable matter and any votes on it are ignored. A Request for Mechanic may be Open or Closed being Open by default and being Closed when set to the ‘Enacted’ or ‘Failed’ status in the post backend. The Enacted Status should be used for successfully completed Request for Mechanic, while Failed should be used for ones that were closed for any other reason.

The Puzzler may post a Request for Mechanic, or close an open Request for Mechanic, at any time.

The Puzzler should vote For on any Votable Matter that satisfy the demands of a Request for Mechanic, or clarify which parts of the Votable Matter that the Puzzler feels said Votable Matter does not meet the goals of the Request for Mechanic.

If the Puzzler believes that one or more enacted votable matters satisfy the demand of an open Request for Mechanic, then they may set the Request for Mechanic to Enacted.

Uphold any attempt of the Puzzler disclosing the following information -

* All of the Buzzwords
* Their own opinions about which Backronyms were poorly served and deserved to do better

With a post having declared me victorious for having the most points of any Wordsmith, I have achieved victory.

Kevan is victorious due to having more Points than any other Wordsmith.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, called Turn To Page 48 For The Solutions:

The Puzzler is, at their discretion, permitted to disclose the following information during or after the interregnum immediately following the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark:

* All of the Buzzwords
* Their own opinions about which Backronyms were poorly served and deserved to do better

If a Declaration of Victory was enacted between the posting and the enacting of this proposal, immediately repeal the above rule, and uphold any disclosures that would have been legal had this propsal been enacted before said Declaration of Victory.

In the rule “Scoring”, add a subrule named “Corrections” with the following text:

If the Puzzler has not done so since the begnning of this dynasty, at their earliest convenience, the Puzzler should perform Corrections, which is an atomic action where, for each Closed Backronym that was resolved on or after 23 Jun 2025 13:53:20, the following steps are performed for that Backronym:
* Record that Backronym and its author
* For each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword (where any positive number of instances of that letter count as being included), record a gain of 1 Point for that author
* Compare the Point gain calculated in the original Resolving of that Backronym due to Buzzword letter matching to the Point gain recorded from the step above. If there is a difference, record the difference in Point gain.

As soon as possible after the Puzzler has completed Corrections, they should make a Story Post with the title “Points Corrections” and in the body, for each Closed Backronym where a non-zero difference in Point gain was recorded during Corrections, add text to the body with the title of that Backronym, it’s author, and the difference in Point gain.

I have had a question about Buzzword letter matching asked privately, and it was suggested that I share the answer publicly, so here it is.

I an interpreting the phrase “includes all the letters of a Buzzword” to mean number of instances of each letter. For example, “Fed” in my view does not contain all the letters in the word “Feed” because there are two instances of “e” in “Feed”.

I can see an alternative interpretation in which the phrase was intended to match the existence of the letters themselves, regardless of the number of instances of each letter. If anyone feels like a CfJ is in order to correct this, I’m happy to go back and recalculate all Buzzword matching and award any Points that would be due under that interpretation.

Uphold the Resolving of the following Backronyms as having been completed properly:

• Deprecation Addicts Reprocess the Knocks; Empowered Notables Eschew Deprecation
• Doofenshmirtz Asked, “Richard Kingsley, Ever Negotiate Edible Dirt?”

Uphold the Resolving of the following Backronyms as having been completed properly, and amend the “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following:” step of the Resolving of each of those Backronyms as follows:

• Deprecation Addicts Reprocess the Knocks; Empowered Notables Eschew Deprecation

  • This Backronym is now closed.
    “Reprocess” included all the letters of the Buzzword in the 7th position.
    Bucky gained 1 Point from the median Score but gained no other Points due to this Backronym being a Flop.

• Doofenshmirtz Asked, “Richard Kingsley, Ever Negotiate Edible Dirt?”

  • This Backronym is now closed.
    None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.
    Raven1207 gained 1 Point from the median Score but gained no other Points due to this Backronym being a Flop.

Add a new rule named “Match Off” with the following text:

Subpoint Total of a Enacted Backronym is defined as the average of X on said Backronym; where X is from instances of the final “Score X” individual Wordsmiths have posted on it’s entries.

At Acrogenerate; add the following points after “If the state of the blog is Endgame and a single Wordsmith has more points than any other Wordsmith (ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons), skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory”:

If the state of the blog is Endgame and two or more Wordsmiths have equal amounts of points which are both more than any other Wordsmith; they are the Ascending Wordsmiths. If there is a single Ascending Wordsmith with a Subpoint Total of the last Backronym that is higher than any other Ascending Wordsmiths, skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory.

If there are any Ascending Wordsmiths; and their last Enacted Backronym have the same Subpoint Total; check the Subpoint Total of their second-to-last Enacted Backronym, and the third and so forth. If; at any point; if there is a single Ascending Wordsmith with a Subpoint Total that is higher than any other Ascending Wordsmiths, skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory.

Add a Building Block (only to the building blocks list and not the active ruleset) called “Stone Age Computations” and give it the following text

Wordsmiths should avoid using computer programs (including generative AI), spreadsheets, or other computational methods beyond replicating what can reasonably be achieved via standard pen and paper, to process or analyze data generated as part of the game or to plan strategies or moves for the game.

I hereby request to be unidled, since the Endgame Wordsmiths list is now in effect and I will not be able to win.

In “The Threshold” after “Set the Prompt to “Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty”” add ”Unless the Prompt has already been ‘Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty’ at a previous point this dynasty”

Per the Appendix rule “Prioritisation”, am I correct in thinking that, between:

• In the rule Scoring, “The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.”
• In the rule The Threshold, “only Wordsmiths whose names are listed in the Endgame Wordsmiths list are considered Wordsmiths for the purposes of dynastic rules”

The Endgame Wordsmiths prohibition takes precedence, and the Puzzler is no longer considered to be a Wordsmith for the Scoring rule since my name is not in the Endgame Wordsmiths list?

In the Community Guidelines, change the text of Section 4 to read as follows:

It is generally preferred, except where explicitly permitted by the dynastic ruleset, that players avoid any use of generative AI or LLMs in game contexts. This includes non-gamestate content such as dynastic banners or dynastic history text, as well as the use of LLMs to process or analyse data generated as part of the game.

Rewrite “Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to generate Backronyms or other text for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.” into

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid deriving content or generating content using chatbots or other large-language models for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

Add the following to the end of the rule Buzzwords:

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to conduct analysis aimed at the identification of buzzwords during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

In the rule “Acronym”, change

Select another Acrotype at random and apply its Steps

to

Select an Acrotype other than this one or Names at random and apply its Steps

In the rule “Scoring”, change

add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

to

add 1 each to that Wordsmith’s Points and Coins and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Add the following text to the end of the rule Favorites:

A Wordsmith may spend 1 Coin to remove one of their own Favorites, specifying which Favorite in the wiki update that spends the coin.

In the rule “Acronym”, change

In that set, remove the name of the Wordsmith selected in the most Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names”, if there was such an action

to

From that set, remove the names of the last four Wordsmiths selected in Acrogenerate actions performed with an Acrotype of “Names”, or those in as many as exist if there are fewer than four such actions

Repeal the rule “The Sports Field”.

Rewrite The Sports Field into

The idle Wordsmith DeactivatedUser4498 formerly known as Raven1207 may not be made unidle in the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark.

Uphold the Dynastic Reset performed on 17:24, June 19, 2025 as legal.

In the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate”, replace the text “The gamestate tracking page for this dynasty is the [[Drafting Board]] page of the wiki” with “The gamestate tracking page for this dynasty is the [[Acronymbus]] page of the wiki”

To the rule “Scoring”, add a paragraph:-

A Wordsmith’s Pool is made up of, for the most recent Scorings they have made on each Backronym that was posted since the last time an Acrogenerate action was performed, the number X in each Scoring’s “Score X”. If a Wordsmith’s Pool contains at least four different numbers (or no repeated numbers at all), then that Wordsmith is considered Balanced, otherwise they are considered Askew.

Then replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with:-

For each Balanced Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym

Replace “A Scoring should reflect how much the commenter likes the Backronym, and how well they think it fits the Prompt (if the Prompt is not blank). ” with:-

A Scoring should reflect how much the commenter likes the Backronym, how well they think it fits the Prompt (if the Prompt is not blank), and any attempt they wish to make to spread the numbers in their Pool.

Rename the player who holds account #4498 to “DeactivatedUser4498”.

Remove the following from the bulleted list in the rule Favorites:

The first letter of that word is not one of the letters in the current Acronym

Add the following as a second-to-last paragraph in the same rule:

A Wordsmith may not add a word to their Favorites if the first letter of that word is one of the letters in the current Acronym, unless they spend a Coin to do so.

In the following bullet point in the rule Scoring, change the number “1” to “3”:

For each Wordsmith who is not the author of that Backronym, for each Favorable word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Make the Wordsmith called Raven1207 idle. Add the following as a new dynastic rule, called The Sports Field:

The idle Wordsmith Raven1207 may not be made unidle in the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark.

To the rule “Scoring”, add two paragraphs:-

A Wordsmith’s Pool is made up of the most recent Scorings they have made on each Backronym that was posted since the last time an Acrogenerate action was performed. If a Wordsmith’s Pool contains five different numbers (or no repeated numbers), then that Wordsmith is considered Balanced, otherwise they are considered Askew.

(If the current Acronym is DARKENED then all Wordsmiths are considered Balanced; this overrides the previous paragraph. Any Wordsmith may repeal this paragraph if the current Acronym is not DARKENED.)

Then replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with:-

For each Balanced Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym

In “Scoring”, replace “considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to the Backronym’s author are skipped” with:-

considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to any Wordsmith are skipped

In the rule “Scoring”, change

add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

to

for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 each to that Wordsmith’s Points and Coins and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Add the following text to the end of the rule Favorites:

A Wordsmith may spend 1 Coin to remove one of their own Favorites, specifying which Favorite in the wiki update that spends the coin.

I’m the dumb admin in this case. Please ignore my recent comments on the Open Backronyms and do your best to Score the remaining Backronyms without looking at my comments, or if it’s too late, try to ignore my comments. I started processing the Backronyms too early. Per the rules:

If the Acronym is Secret, then an Open Backronym can only be resolved if every Open Backronym was either posted at least 48 hours ago, or has a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than its author.

Key phrase being “every Open Backronym”.

If “Discount All Ravenlike Karma; Enough Numbers for Equitable Debut” was not enacted, in the rule “Acronym”, insert the following paragraph just after the text “The Puzzler may Acrogenerate if the Acronym is empty.”

If only one Wordsmith has a Points score which is less than half of the mean Points score of the group, they are the Straggler.

In the rule “Acronym”, replace “every Wordsmith has posted a Backronym” with “every Wordsmith (not including the Straggler, if there is one) has posted a Backronym”

To the end of “Backronym”, add a paragraph:-

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to generate Backronyms or other text for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

Apply the ruleset and gamestate changes proposed by More Feared, More Favoured, then replace “If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable” with:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which match a word in the Word Bank, or which match a Filler Word,

Apply the ruleset changes proposed in Axiom Regarding Intelligent Artifice.

In “Scoring”, replace “defaults to the second lowest number of points held by another Wordsmith other than the Puzzler.” with:-

defaults to the lowest number of points held by another Wordsmith (excluding the Puzzler and the Straggler, where they exist). If only one Wordsmith has a Points score which is less than half of the mean Points score of the group, they are the Straggler.

Under the rule “Scoring”, remove the text “(if the current Acronym is not RRBM) “.

Rename the rule Savings to Wagers. Change its text to read as follows:

Each Wordsmith has a publicly tracked number of Coins, defaulting to 0.

Each Wordsmith has a Wager, privately tracked by the Puzzler, which can be either a number between 0 to 5 inclusive or a null value, and which defaults to a null value.

If a Wordsmith has not posted a Backronym since the most recent Acrogenerate, as a Virtual Action they may set their Wager to a valid value.

In the rule Scoring, change the following two bullet points:

Subtract the Savings of the author of that Backronym from that author’s Points, to a minimum of 0 Points, then set that author’s Savings to 0.
Take the difference of that author’s Points before the previous step and after the previous step and add that difference to that author’s Coins.

to read:

If the author of the Backronym’s Wager has the exact same value as the Points they gained from that Backronym then they also gain Coins equal to the same amount. Otherwise they lose one Coin, to a minimum of zero coins.

In “Favorites”, replace “as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria” with:-

as long as each of the words added to their Favorites is Favorable. A word is Favorable if and only if it meets all of the following criteria:

In “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites” with:-

for each Favorable word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites

In “Favorites”, add a paragraph to the end:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable, the Puzzler should remove those words from those Favorites, and privately inform the Wordsmith that this has happened.

For each case where a Wordsmith gained a Point from a Favorite which matched a word which was in the Word Bank at the time, or which matched a Filler Word, remove those Points.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “The Threshold” as a new paragraph:

The body of the Ascension Address should contain its author’s Backronym for the Endgame Acronym, if it exists.

In “Favorites”, replace “as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria” with:-

as long as each of the words added to their Favorites is Favorable. A word is Favorable if and only if it meets all of the following criteria:

In “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites” with:-

for each Favorable word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites

In “Favorites”, add a paragraph to the end:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable, the Puzzler should remove those words from those Favorites, and privately inform the Wordsmith that this has happened.

For each Wordsmith who has gained Points (on a Backronym for the ARIA Acronym) from Favorites which would not be considered Favorable under this rule as amended, remove those Points.

In “Scoring”, replace both instances of “every active Wordsmith other than its author” with:-

every non-Passive Wordsmith (excluding its author, if that author is not Passive)

Replace “unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted” with:-

unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith, or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted, or that Wordsmith is Passive

After “The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.” add:-

The Wordsmith named Raven1207 is considered to be the only Passive Wordsmith.

To the end of “Backronym”, add a paragraph:-

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to generate Backronyms or other text for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

Uphold that the most recently completed Arcogenerate was carried out legally. Add the following two words to the word bank Story, Post.

In the rule Backronym, remove the following text:

For the purposes of this rule, the title of a Backronym is the text that its author wrote and does not include autogenerated text by the blog software.

In the Other section of the Keywords rule in the Glossary, add the following entry in the appropriate alphabetically ordered place:

Title
The title of a post is never considered to include, for the purposes of any rule, any text that was automatically generated by the blog software as a result of the author putting it into the appropriate category.

Remove the words ‘Story’ and ‘Post’ from the Favorites of any Wordsmith who has them in their favourites.

Add a new rule; Final Tabloids with the following text:

At any time when the blog is in Endgame; if a Wordsmith have not yet done so they may as a Virtual Round Action declare a list of up to 10 words as the Final Tabloid to the Puzzler. For every word that is on the Buzzword list which is contained in the declared Final Tabloid list that Wordsmith gains 2 points.

Repeal the rule “Savings”, remove the step “Take the difference of that author’s Points before the previous step and after the previous step and add that difference to that author’s Coins.” from the Resolving a Backronym action, and remove ” unless that Wordsmith first spends 3 Coins for each word in that title that is found in The Word Bank.” from The Word Bank rule.

If the proposal “Without Fear or Favour” is enacted, this proposal does nothing.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Favorites”:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant unless they change the first letter of the word.

In Proposalnym, change “As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point. ” into

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point if the blog is not in a state of Endgame.

Add the following to the end of the rule Favorites:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant.

As a daily action, if they have not added any words to their Favorites that day, and if an official post other than a Backronym has been posted by any other Wordsmith or the Puzzler that day that includes a word from their Favorites in its title, a Wordsmith may make a Claim. A Claim is a post in the Story Posts category that details the word in their Favorites and the post that uses it in the title. Upon posting a Claim, the Wordsmith may gain 1 point for every word from their Favorites that was thus used. The Puzzler should then remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

In the same rule, change the second item in the bulleted list to read:

That word is not in the Word Bank, and has not been used in the title of an official post in the current dynasty.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Threshold:

If an Endgame Acronym has been posted, and a number of Backronyms equal to at least half of quorum has been posted in response to it, and there are no open Backronyms, then the Acrogenerate action may not be undertaken and, if there is a single Wordsmith with the highest Points, that Wordsmith has achieved Victory.

Under the rule “The Threshold”, add a sentence at the end of the first line that mentions “Endgame Wordsmiths”:

The Endgame Wordsmiths list shall exist if and only if the game is either in a state of Endgame or the dynastic action “Endgame Transition” is being performed. While it exists, it shall be publicly tracked.

Also, to normalize the grammar, replace the one instance of “Endgame Wordsmith list” with “Endgame Wordsmiths list”.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

The restrictions on communication due to the Rule No Private Communication do not apply during an Interregnum.

I feel like Endgame Wordsmiths is an orphan variable. There’s no mention of where it’s tracked. The only two references to it say “the Endgame Wordsmiths list”.

I’d propose a fix but I don’t have available Proposal slots.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

In “No Private Communications”, add a new subrule with the following text:

This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum, even if this rule is active.

In the rule “No Private Communication”, replace the text “disclosing what information was discussed” with “containing a full transcript of the discussion”.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

In the rule “No Private Communication”, after the text “the Wordsmiths who were part of the conversation should make a post to the blog disclosing what information was discussed at their earliest convenience”, add the following text:

, including the details of what was discussed about dynastic gameplay or votable matters that affect the dynastic ruleset or gamestate

During a mentoring conversation with aria yesterday I inadvertently tripped over into a violation of the following prohibition in the rule No Private Communications:

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy.

In the conversation, aria asked me why I had voted as I had on Proposal: Remove Rewards for Better Merit and I outlined the gameplay considerations that went into determining my vote.

Uphold Chiiika’s enactment of Reform of Recuperative Break Management at 10 Jul 2025 04:23:40 UTC.

If the current Acronym is RRBM and Trapdoorspyder isn’t idle, skip the rest of this proposal.

Repeal “Yielding”.

Remove both bullet points in the ruleset that read “Set every Wordsmith’s Status to Playing.”

Replace the phrase “Playing Wordsmith” with “Wordsmith” throughout the ruleset.

In the rule “Scoring”, change the sentence

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith

to

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted

Remove the rule Buzzwords and any ruleset items that mention Buzzword or Buzzwords.

Add a new rule under Scoring, named Key Engagement Parameter; with the following text

The Key Engagement Parameter is a private English word tracked only by the Puzzler.

In Acrogenerate, after “Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Acrotype, ignoring the result and repeating this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.” and in The Threshold, after “Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.” add the following point:

- Generate a Key Engagement Parameter by randomly choosing a word from the EFF Wordlist that satisfies the following limitations; randomly choose again if it fails any of the limitation until a suitable word is found:
  - The first letter of the Key Engagement Parameter must be a letter that exist within the Acronym.
  - It must not exist within the Word Bank.

- Readying a Keynote Transmission by searching it’s definition on Cambridge Dictionary; randomly choosing one definition of the word if it has more than one definition; and replacing up to half of the words within that transmission with [bzzt]. The resultant string is the Keynote Transmission.

In Acrogenerate, replace “Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.” with

Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym and the Keynote Transmission within the post.

In The Threshold, replace “Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Endgame Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.” with

Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Endgame Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym and the Keynote Transmission within the post.

In Scoring, after the point “Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym, rounded down to the nearest integer, and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame. If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead. If this rounded value is 1, then the Backronym is considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to the Backronym’s author are skipped.” add

If the title of the Backronym includes the Key Transmission Parameter and the Backronym is posted within 24 hours of the most recent Acrogenerate action; increase the Points of the author of that Backronym by 2 and increase the Coins of the author of that Backronym by 3.

Unidle Chiiika. Quorum raises to 6.

In “Scoring”, replace “along with any flavor text” with:-

and (if the current Acronym is not RRBM) at least one word of flavor text

aria to be mentored by Josh until the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark has ended and the date is past the 6th of August 2025.

Hi! I am new, and am requesting to be unidled.

In “Scoring” replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with “For each Wordsmith other than the author of the Backronym that posted a Scoring to that Backronym”

In the rule Idle Wordsmiths, change

unless the Wordsmith who would become Active has become Idle within the past 96 hours (4 days)

to

unless the Wordsmith who would become Active has become Idle within the past 48 hours (2 days)

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than it’s author” with “a Scoring posted to it from every active Playing Wordsmith other than it’s author” and replace “For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring” with “For each Playing Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring”

In the rule “Scoring”, change

for each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword, text with that title word and the position of that Buzzword in the Buzzwords list

to

for each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of at least one Buzzword, text with that title word and the position of the first such Buzzword in the Buzzwords list

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Favorites”:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant, as is the difference between the positive, comparative and superlative forms of an adjective.

In “scoring” replace “lowest number of points” with “second lowest number of points”

In “Scoring”, add a new bullet point after the first in the “may make a Scoring on a Backronym as long as all of the following are true” list:-

* No Backronym has been Closed since the most recent Acrogenerate action (if the Acrotype is Secret)

Before “Once a Backronym has been resolved”, add a new paragraph:-

If the Acronym is Secret, then an Open Backronym can only be resolved if every Open Backronym was either posted at least 48 hours ago, or has a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than its author.

In the rule “Acronym”, replace “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, then”.

In the same rule, just before the text “When a Wordsmith posts a Backronym” insert the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, “.

In the rule “Acronym”, insert the following as the first step in the Acrogenerate atomic action:

* If the Acrotype is Secret, add all of the words in the title of every Backronym posted since the most recent Acrogenerate to The Word Bank, ignoring words that are already in The Word Bank.

If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret,”

I think I’m slowing the game down quite a bit right now, and I don’t think I’ll be able to speed up my actions much, so I am hereby requesting to be idled.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Scoring”. Call it Authorized Secrets and give it the following text:

Although the author of a Scoring is generally encouraged to share the reasoning behind it, the following information is expressly exempt from such disclosure and should not be shared in a Scoring even if it strongly affects the score:
* The identity of their Rival
* Any Wordsmith’s Favorites
* The true author of a Backronym in a Secret Round

Add the following as a new paragraph in the rule “Favorites”

As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may remove a word from their Favorites.

In the rule Acronym, change

Set the current Acrotype to a publicly randomly selected Acrotype. Repeat this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.
Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.

to read

Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Arcotype, ignoring the result and repeating this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.

In “The Threshold”, remove the definition of the Finalize action, and replace “Final Acronym” with “Endgame Acronym”.

In “Acronym”, replace “If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action” with:-

If the state of the blog is Endgame and a single Wordsmith has more points than any other Wordsmith (ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons), skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory

Replace “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

In the rule “Acronym”, replace the text “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold”.

In the rule “Scoring”, move the text “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame” to just after the text “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym”.

Add a subrule to “Acronym” called “Nicknames” with the following text

Each Wordsmith may have a Nickname. Nicknames are publicly tracked strings that are between 3 and 10 letters long and consist only of alphabetical letters. If the only thing a proposal does is change the nickname of the wordsmith who is the author of that proposal, such a proposal does not count against that author’s limit of 2 pending proposals and may be enacted at any time provided it still has a quorum of FOR votes

Replace steps of the the “Names” Acrotype with the following

* For the purposes of the rest of these steps, if a Wordsmith has a Nickname their Name is considered to be their Nickname rather than their actual Name
* Create a set containing the names of all active Wordsmiths.
* In that set, remove the name of any Wordsmith selected in a Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names” this dynasty (unless this would remove all Wordsmiths, in which case skip this step)
* Publicly randomly select a Wordsmith’s name from that set.
* Set the Acronym to that Wordsmith’s name, with any characters other than alphabetical letters removed and with it trimmed to only its first 10 letters if it would otherwise be more than 10 letters long

In the rule “Backronym”, after the text “The author of such a Backronym is privately tracked by the Puzzler, and the Backronym is instead posted under the name of the Puzzler.” add the following text:

If the Acrotype is Secret, the Puzzler may also create and post a Backronym for which they themselves are the author.

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following as the second step in Resolving a Backronym:

* If the original author of that Backronym was the Puzzler, skip to the step that begins with the text “Post a comment”.

and in the same rule, before the text “For each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword” add the text “If the original author of that Backronym is not the Puzzler,”

Give the following Wordsmiths 1 point each:

Bucky
Trapdoorspyder
Josh

In “Rules and Votable Matters” in the Appendix, replace

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal. Votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Wordsmiths on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid, but the Wordsmiths who made them still contribute to quorum

with

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they (and any other Wordsmiths who have voted DEFERENTIAL on it) are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal.

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points” with

for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 2 to that Wordsmith’s Points

and in that same rule, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each word in that Backronym author’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that author’s Points and remove that word from that author’s Favorites.

In the rule Scoring, after

Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym, rounded down to the nearest integer, and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym.

add the sentence:

If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead.

If the ruleset contains the text

At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

add the following text after it:

For this calculation, the mean average of an empty collection is considered to be 2.15.

Append the following to the end of the subrule “buzzwords”:

If any of the Buzzwords are contained in the Word Bank, the Puzzler may remove them from the Buzzword list.

In the rule “Backronym”, change

The words “a”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the”

to

The words “a”, “an”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the”

Add a dynastic rule called “The Threshold”

The Threshold is equal to the median point total of all Wordsmiths minus 20

The blog may or not be in a state of Endgame, and by default is not in a state of Endgame. The state of the blog is publicly tracked.

When the state of the blog is Endgame, then only Wordsmiths whose names are listed in the Endgame Wordsmiths list are considered Wordsmiths for the purposes of dynastic rules.

Endgame Transition is a Dynastic Action with the following steps:

* Add all current Wordsmiths to the Endgame Wordsmith list.
* Set the Acrotype to be Secret
* Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.
* Set the Prompt to “Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty”
* Set the state of the blog to be Endgame
* Set every Wordsmith’s Status to Playing.
* Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Final Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.

Finalize is a Dynastic Action with the following steps:

* If a single Wordsmith has more points than any other wordsmith, ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons, that Wordsmith has achieved victory
* If multiple Wordsmiths have tied for the most points out of all Wordsmiths, again ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons, publicly randomly select a Wordsmith out of those who have tied for the most points. That Wordsmith has achieved Victory
* In either case, make a post to the blog naming the Wordsmith who ahs achieved Victory

In “Resolving a Backronym” after “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym” add “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame”

Add the following steps to the start of “Acrogenerate”

* If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action
* If the Threshold is at least 1, Roll a DICE20. If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold cease performing the rest of this action and instead perform the Endgame Transition action

If there is a rule called “Proposalnym” then in it replace “As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.” with

A Wordsmith’s EVC on a Proposalnym should contain the word “Valid” if that Wordsmith believes the content of the proposal fits the title that was given to it.

When a Proposalnym is resolved, if a quorum of the EVCs made by Wordsmiths other than the Proposal’s author contain the word “Valid”, then the Proposal’s author gains 1 point; unless the author already gained a point from this method for the same Backronym in which case the author does not gain any points. 

The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.

In the rule “Relationships”, add a subrule named “Accusations” with the following text:

An Accusation is a Story Post where the title begins with the text “I accuse” followed by the name of a Wordsmith and no other text following that name. The author of an Accusation is known as the Prosecutor of that Accusation. The name of the Wordsmith in the title of an Accusation is known as the Defendant of that Accusation. As a Round Action, a Wordsmith may post an Accusation. An Accusation is either Open or Closed and defaults to Open.

At their earliest convenience, the Puzzler should perform a Ruling on the oldest Open Accusation. A Ruling is an atomic action with the following steps, where the terms Prosecutor and Defendant apply to that Accusation on which the Ruling is being performed:
* If that Prosecutor was named as that Defendant’s Rival at the time and date of the posting of that Accusation:
** That Prosecutor gains 1 Point.
** That Prosecutor is removed from that Defendant’s Rival.
** The Puzzler must post a comment to that Accusation with the text “X is guilty” where X is that Defendent.
* If that Prosecutor was not named as that Defendant’s Rival at the time and date of the posting of that Accusation:
** That Prosecutor loses 3 Points, to a minimum of 0.
** The Puzzler must post a comment to that Accusation with the text “X is innocent” where X is that Defendent.

After a Ruling has been performed on an Accusation, that Accusation is Closed.

If you suspect that someone named you as their Rival, you could accuse them and stop being their Rival, but if you’re wrong, you’ll pay a penalty. The Points gain is not as large as the loss because of the strategic value of removing yourself as their Rival.

My intention is not to weaken the Rivals mechanic but to add an extra layer on it, but I’m open to arguments that it goes too far.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, galled Generosity in Marking:

Each Wordsmith has a Generosity, which is a score between 1 and 5 and which is derived from their own Scorings on other players’ Backronyms. At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

Any Wordsmith whose Generosity is in the lowest quarter of Generosity values of all Wordsmiths may neither achieve nor declare Victory.

Enact a new rule, positioned after “Backronym”, called “Proposalnym”:-

If a Proposal has a title (not including the “Proposal:” prefix) that would be a valid title for a Backronym made at the moment of its posting, then it is a Proposalnym.

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.

Repeal the rule “Relationships”.

Remove ” or that Wordsmith’s Rival” and “, or X+2 if the Scoring was made by the Backronym author’s Rival, unless X was a 1, in which case record it as the number of Wordsmiths for whom the author of that Backronym is named as their Rival” from the rule “Scoring”.

Add a new rule named “Favorites” with the following text:

Each Wordsmith has Favorites privately tracked by the Puzzler. Favorites are either empty or a list of 1 to 5 words, defaulting to empty. As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may add words to their Favorites, up to the maximum words allowed, as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria:
* The first letter of that word is not one of the letters in the current Acronym
* That word is not in the Word Bank
* That word is not one of the Filler Words

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each Wordsmith who is not the author of that Backronym, for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.