Sean Hunt wrote:
> Actually, proto:
> {{{
> Add a new power-1 rule, entitled {The Disciple}
> {{
> The Disciple is an office. The Disciple is the liason between Agora and
liaison
> the Internet Oracle.
>
> Submitting a message to the Internet Oracle is sending a message to
> ora...@cs.indiana.edu such that the reply will come to a Public Forum.
> It is ILLEGAL to submit a message to the Internet Oracle except as
> directed or allowed by the rules. If a rule directs a player to submit a
> message to the Internet Oracle and it is at that time impossible to
> cause the reply to come to a Public Forum, e CAN, instead, have the
e MAY instead have the
> message sent without causing the reply to come to a Public Forum, and
> then paste the content of the reply in a public message.
>
> Every 4 days, The Disciple SHALL submit a message to the Internet Oracle
> with the work "askme" in its subject.
word. Also, perhaps variations -- "ask me", "Ask me.", or even "tellme"?
> }}
>
> Add a new power-1 rule, entitled {Oracularities}
> {{
> A public message sent from ora...@cs.indiana.edu is an Oracularity.
>
> A player CAN, with 2 support, publish a reply to an Oracularity,
> provided no reply has already been published for that Oracularity. Such
> a reply SHOULD be a creative, humourous answer written from the Oracle's
> perspective, and SHOULD follow conventions of the Oracle (including but
> not limited to zotting supplicants who fail to grovel or ask the
> woodchuck question, answering the question in a highly roundabout
> manner, and demanding some tribute).
>
> Within 48 hours of a reply being published to an Oracularity, the
Within 24 hours, surely. In fact, this should really be within 24 hours
after the Oracularity itself.
The Disciple should be able to publish a reply by announcement if none
has already been published, but such a reply shouldn't count against the
W2S-mechanics's "no previous reply" rule.
Then, if no one else publishes a reply in time, it falls on the Disciple
unilaterally to provide a timely reply.
> Disciple SHALL submit a message to the Internet Oracle. The subject of
> this message must include the word "answer" and the number found in that
> Oracularity's subject line, and the text must be exactly the published
> reply.
> }}
>
> Flip the Interest Index of the Disciple to 2, to account for the
> office's much stronger timing requirements.
>
> Add a new power-1 rule, entitled {Win by Enlightenment}
> {{
> Upon a Win Announcement that the text of an Oracularity and the
> corresponding reply published by an Agoran were published in an Internet
> Oracularities Digest (published to rec.humor.oracle and
> http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/) within the last month, the player
> who published that reply satisfies the Winning Condition of Enlightenment.
> }}
> }}}
Part of this, actually, is to introduce the unpredictable effects of
public messages that weren't specifically composed for Agora. I suggest
something like:
{
The Oracle is a person. The author of an answer sent via the Oracle
server to a public forum is the Oracle.
}
-- that is, where the reply-to on a tellme is a-b, the answer to that
question is a public message from the Oracle.
