recurse-talks/nomic/final_rules.md

Immutable Rules

Rule Limitations

1. Anything not forbidden by the rules is permitted.
2. No rule set may be proposed which inflicts any punishment on a player that is worse than losing the game.
3. Points may only be added or removed if the rules explicitly call for it.

End Game Conditions

1. If all players agree to end the game at any point, the game ends.
2. If the game ends prematurely, the player with the largest number of points wins. If multiple players are tied for the largest number of points, the winner is whoever among those players is next in the turn order.

Disputes

1. A player may accuse another player of violating a specific rule or rules.
2. Double jeopardy: No player may be accused twice for the same violation of a rule.
3. Non-retroactivity: No player may be accused for violating a rule, if the rule was not in effect when the alleged violation occurred.
4. Statute of Limitations: No player may be accused of a rule violation which took place more than two turns ago.
5. Immutable Precedence: When a Mutable and Immutable rule are in conflict, the Immutable rule takes precedence.
6. Age Preference: When two rules of the same class (Mutable/Immutable) are active at the same time during a dispute, the older rule takes precedence.
7. Adjudicating a Dispute: If a player has been accused, a majority vote is initiated, and if it passes, the accused player must accept the penalty and all players must attempt to reverse any actions which were deemed illegal. If necessary, the decision should be reflected in an out-of-turn rule clarification.
8. Trial by Combat: During a dispute (or after it, up until the accused player gets his next turn), the accused may call for a Trial by Combat against his accuser. The accuser must ask Slackbot "yes or no". If Slackbot answers in the negative, the accused is penalized as though he lost the duel. If the answer returns positive, an actual DUEL initiates between accuser and accused and the violation punishment is waived.

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Mutable Rules

1. All players begin with 1 point. If a player has at least 10 points more than every other player and a majority of players votes that there are no unpunished rule violations, then the game ends and that player is the winner.
2. Players take turns in an order determined by the order specified in the "Turn Order" section. A turn consists of one invocation and one turn action, in any order. After the last player has taken their turn, the turn order repeats. Turn actions may not be taken by any player other than the active player, unless explicitly permitted elsewhere in the rules.
3. Points are awarded by posting the message "!give @username N points" to #nomic and subtracted by posting the message "!take N points from @username" to #nomic, where "username" is the canonical username of the person and "N" is the number of points. The score can be checked by posting the message "!most points" or "!list" in #nomic or a direct message to @nomicbot. "!usage" will tell you other available commands.
4. The current set of rules will be kept at a bitbucket site referenced in the channel topic. Rule proposals can consist of a link to a fork with the desired rules. Other delivery methods are acceptable. If and only if the proposal is accepted, the topic will be changed to only include a link to the new rules on bitbucket on both channels.
5. Out of turn actions: At any point, a player may take one of the actions listed in the "Out-of-Turn Actions" section.
6. If the rules require a player's points be changed without specifying the actor, the active player must change that player's points.
7. Each time The Chosen One takes a turn, each Follower of The Chosen One gains a point.
8. Each time The Chosen One loses points, The Chosen One may transfer one point to The Chosen One from one of the Followers of The Chosen One, if any exist.
9. When The Chosen One changes, each Follower ceases to be a Follower of The Chosen One and loses one point, for blasphemy.
10. All turn actions, invocations, and calls to !end turn must take place in the #nomic_turns channel. Only turn actions, invocations, calls to !end turn, and changes to the topic may occur in #nomic_turns.
11. The active player must end their turn with a call to !end turn. The active player must ensure that the state of the game and @inventory are in sync before any call to !end turn.
12. At the beginning of a new round of Turn Orders (i.e. after the last player in the Turn Order), a Slackbot Turn begins.
13. Item actions: If a player has 1 or more of any item listed in the Item Actions section, the player may take any action listed there as an Out of Turn action unless the item's rules specify otherwise.

Definitions

1. Ruleset refers to the content of this document and any documents it may refer to.
2. A line is a collection of characters preceded and ended by a newline character or the beginning or ending of a document.
3. An empty line is a line with no nonwhitespace characters in it.
4. A section is a collection of nonempty lines preceded and postceded by empty lines or the beginning or ending of a document.
5. A section heading is a line beginning with § or #.
6. A rule is one of the numbered lines in this document.
7. A commandment is one of the lines in the Book of Commandments document that is nonempty and not a section heading.
8. A command is a @slackbot, @foodgod, or @bloodgod response to an invocation.
9. A turn is the period of time that a player has the 🐚 and is thus empowered to invoke and perform a turn action.
10. A move, or turn phase, refers to either an invocation or turn action.

Invocations

1. The sections of the Book of Commandments are tied to invocations by their section header.
2. The invocations are defined as follows:
   • SLACKBOT COMMANDS: awaken @slackbot
   • BLOODGOD CURSES: invoke @bloodgod
   • FOODGOD BLESSINGS: embrace @foodgod

Turn Actions

1. Immutable Change: Propose a modification to any and all parts of any and all game documents. If the proposal wins a unanimous vote, the active player gains 2 points and then the proposed changes take effect.
2. Mutable Change: Propose a modification to this document and/or The Book of Commandments, without any changes to the immutable rules. If the proposal passes a lottery vote, the active player gains 1 point and then the proposed changes take effect.
3. Duel: Challenge another player to a duel. Give Bloodgod 1 point.
4. Gift: Give one point to another player of your choosing and one point to Foodgod.
5. Blood Sacrifice: Transfer one of your points to Bloodgod.
6. Fealty: Pledge fealty to The Chosen One. You are now considered a Follower of The Chosen One.
7. Art: Create a poem, drawing, song, or short story about this game and post it in #nomic. If a randomly chosen other player likes your creation, gain 2 points.
8. Pass: A randomly chosen other player gains one point.
9. Craft Item: Transfer 3 of your points to the player with the least points and receive a Regular Item of your choosing.

Out-of-Turn Actions

1. Immediate rule change: Propose an immediate change to the mutable rules. Over the 24 hours following the proposal, if any other player approves the change, it will temporarily be enacted. If any player vetoes the rule in the 24 hour period, regardless of what rule changes have been made, the temporary change will be revoked, along with any changes caused by the rule. At the end of the 24 hour period, the rule will automatically become a regular mutable rule.
2. Involuntary turn forfeiture: if 24 hours or longer has elapsed since the last move has been made, any player may invoke involuntary turn forfeiture, which causes the currently active player to lose one point and their turn to end. Use the command "!force end turn" to end their turn.
3. Initiate Dispute: Accuse another of violating a specific rule. If the accused does not acquiesce, or if there is a confusion about the application of the rule, a "Dispute" can be formally initiated. A Dispute requires a defined accuser, a defendant, and a reference to a specific rule being broken. The accuser must make clear that he is initiating a formal dispute in order for it to be put to a vote. If the accuser does not announce a vote, the dispute is considered informal and has no legal power.
4. Add Player: Propose the addition of a new player to the game. If a majority vote passes, the rules will be updated to include the new player at the end of the turn order and the new player will be granted the HIGHER of either 1 point OR two points fewer than the losingest player.
5. Rectify: Propose any action necessary to get the game into a state that is strictly more correct, as defined by the rules. Over the 24 hours following the proposal, if any other player approves the action, it will temporarily be enacted. If any player vetoes the rule in the 24 hour period, regardless of what rule changes have been made, the temporary action will be revoked.
6. Force vote: If a vote has been in progress for 6 hours or longer, ask Slackbot to vote on behalf of each voter who has not yet voted by asking "Slackbot, would [player] vote yes or no?". Once Slackbot has answered, this is equivalent to the voter in question having voted according to Slackbot's answer.
7. End turn: If the active player has no turn actions available, they may end their turn prematurely and incur a 1 point penalty.
8. Remove Player: If a player has been skipped in the turn order twice consecutively, a player may initiate a vote to remove the player from the game. This vote passes if every player but one approves of it, or if the skipped player approves of it.

Item Actions

• 🎲 - Re-roll any one dice roll you have performed during the current turn. Lose 1 🎲.
• 🍞 - If another player has had points taken from them, restore the lost points. If the other player chooses, they may express their gratitude by awarding you one point for every point that the player restored. Lose 1 🍞.
• 🔒 - If another player attempts to transfer away your possessions, you can choose to use the 🔒 to protect a single Regular Item from being transferred. The target item should be returned to your inventory. Lose 1 🔒.

Slackbot Turns

Slackbot turns occur at the beginning of every Turn Order. Slackbot's randomly selected declarations last for a full Turn Order (until Slackbot's next turn.)

Random Player Selection

1. Issue the command "!owner of random player". @inventory will respond with a randomly chosen player.
2. If the rules specify a random "other" player, then re-issue the "!owner of random player" command until a player other than yourself is chosen.

Lottery Voting

The vote initiator issues the command "!owner of random :ballot_box_with_ballot:" until @inventory returns a random player other than the vote initiator. The randomly chosen player decides whether or not the motion passes.

Majority Voting

All players vote. If a strict majority of players have voted to approve, the motion passes.

Unanimous Voting

All players vote. If everyone votes in favor, the motion passes.

Dueling

1. Both players issue the command "/roll 1d20" once and add the number of 🔫s they possess to their roll. A. If both players roll a 1, both players lose the duel and lose 2 points. B. If both players roll the same number (except 1), the duel initiator wins the duel. C. Otherwise, the player with the higher roll wins the duel.
2. If there is a winner, transfer 1 point from the loser to the winner.

Penalties

1. Rules Violation: Violating the rules costs the violator 2 points.
2. Before the penalty is imposed, any player may propose an alternative penalty, which will replace the previous penalty if a majority vote passes.

Ascension

If a player would win the game, they may instead: give or take any number of items from any number of players and/or rewrite any and all of the rules. The new rules take effect immediately, without a voting process.

Locked Items

The items in this section are locked and cannot be given to or taken from anyone or anything, unless the rules explicitly call for it. There are two classes of Locked Items, "Special" and "Regular".

• Special Items: chosen, 🐚, godhood, player.
• Regular Items: points, 🍞, 🎲, 🔫, :ballot_box_with_ballot:

Book of Commandments

1. Changes to the Book of Commandments are ratified by lottery voting.
2. Sections in the Book of Commandments must begin with a section header, followed by commandments.
3. If a change to the Book of Commandments has been accepted, the player who proposed the change must do all the following things: A. Post the message "!update commandments [url]", where "[url]" is a url that points to a raw text file of the commandments. This message may not be used unless the url points to the latest version of the Book of Commandments that has been approved.
4. The active player must obey any command given by @slackbot, @bloodgod, or @foodgod. If a command requires no response, the player is considered to have obeyed.
5. The @bloodgod invocation is only available if @bloodgod has more than zero points.
6. The @foodgod invocation is only available if @foodgod has more than zero points.

Slacktheon

1. Changes to the Slacktheon are ratified by lottery voting. Any change to the Slacktheon must be the addition of verse to a single book in the Slacktheon.
2. If a change results in more verses to the Book of Food, the active player, all ratifying players, and Foodgod recieve a point.
3. If a change results in more verses to the Book of Blood, all players except the active player and all ratifying players lose a point and Bloodgod gains a point.