1 Spendie per ribbon time??! On Mon, May 20, 2024, 7:20 AM ais523 via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-05-19 at 15:09 -0700, Edward Murphy via agora-discussion > wrote: > > ais523 wrote: > > > > > particular, if a contract would be given a Rest (the equivalent of a > > > Blot), every member of the contract would be given a Rest instead. > > > > > the Insulator (equivalent of today's Referee) was required to report > > > the Fugitive status. > > > > For those wondering how "Rest" and "Insulator" fit together: the > > primary currencies at the time were Notes, tracked by the Conductor, > > whose author evidently had a shameless disregard for mixed metaphors. > > It was quite a well-constructed series of interlocking puns (starting > with "Notes" = banknotes or musical notes; and if you did something > helpful to Agora you would be noted for it). It is possible that some > of these were fortunate coincidences rather than intentional. A Rest > had a value of -1 Note (originally, you could use a Note to cancel out > a Rest). I am surprised that puns on "ar-Rest-ed" weren't made more > often. > > Incidentally, I vaguely remember that Notes and Ribbons were > descendants of the same system (i.e. originally a Ribbons win was > obtained via getting an ancestor-of-Notes from every possible source, > with the ancestors of Notes having ribbon-style colors rather than > musical pitches), although they had diverged somewhat before I started > playing and no longer matched up to each other. That economy ended up > being temporarily revived semi-recently under the Glitter system (which > was effectively an economic reward for doing something that would give > you a Ribbon). > > -- > ais523 >
