283:4

[Ouroboros]

We find ourselves in the midst of the very romantic situation of
drafting an English familial nuptial drama while despairing over our
personal suitability for marriage and our financial situation, with
all of the social conventions that implies. Since implied conventions
are subject to interpretation and since we are a litigious body, I
shall take pains to explicitly recount some of these conventions.

Some text within Rules may be understood to not be "rule-text" or
strictures themselves, but rather colorful information regarding any
number of personages mentioned during this Round. Such text, generally
simple declarative statements, may be characterized as being of two
forms: Register Entries and Reports.

A Register Entry may
- name a resident of the township (Resident);
- name a country estate (Estate);
- assign a previously named resident of the township as the occupant
(Occupant) of a previously named country estate; and/or
- declare the Status of a resident of the township.

In the corpus of the Round each Estate must have only one concurrent
Occupant, unless those Residents are married to each other.

Residents may be declared to be Unknown, Living, Deceased, Unliving,
or Destroyed. This is a Resident Status. This list is an incremental
list, i.e. a resident whose status is Deceased may not then become
Living or Unknown. Further, a Resident who becomes Destroyed may not
be given another Status.

Estates may have the statuses Occupied, Unoccupied, Abandoned, or
Desecrated. This is an Estate Status, and it depends on the status of
the Occupant: a Living Occupant means the Estate is Occupied; a
Deceased Occupant indicates the Estate is Abandoned; Unliving,
Desecrated. Other Occupant statuses or Estates with no Occupant have
the status Unoccupied. A Resident who becomes Destroyed is no longer
an Occupant of an Estate.

A Report may state that a Resident affects the status of another
Resident, subject to the following restrictions:
a Resident may not affect their own status;
a Resident whose status is Deceased or Destroyed may not affect the
status of any Resident;
a Resident whose status is Unknown, Living, or Unliving may increment
the status of any other Resident;
a Resident whose status is Unknown or Unliving may not increment the
status of an Unliving Resident;

Future Rules must contain a number of Register Entries or Reports not
greater than their rule number. Additional submissions of Register
Entries or Reports may be made by any Member of the Committee, whether
or not they wear an Authorship Cap, but no more than one per member
per day.

Registry Entries and Reports must be accurate. When included in rule
submissions, inaccuracy of Registry Entries and Reports will reflect
on the validity of the rule. A rule that contains inaccurate Registry
Entries or Reports cannot be valid.

Residents who have been named in previous rules without qualification
as to their status are assumed to have status Unknown. Residents who
have been named in previous rules with qualifications that indicate or
hint at their status may have that status at the Judge's discretion.
It is at the Judge's discretion as to whether Register Entries or
Reports contained in Rules judged invalid are accurate.

Mrs.Bennet is Unliving, but once was a gorgeous young lady, and had
many suitors. Mr.Bennet proposed to her under a harvest moon several
decades ago, after necessary negotiations with her father,
Mr.Gardiner.

Mr.Gardiner is long Deceased, yet this rule remains his property.

Mr.Bingley is the occupant of Netherfield Park.

[jug...@gmail.com]

This rule causes me concerns upon which I shall elaborate below:

On Oct 27, 10:20 pm, Ouroboros <wurm.ourobo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We find ourselves in the midst of the very romantic situation of
> drafting an English familial nuptial drama while despairing over our
> personal suitability for marriage and our financial situation, with
> all of the social conventions that implies. Since implied conventions
> are subject to interpretation and since we are a litigious body, I
> shall take pains to explicitly recount some of these conventions.

You do yourself great injury and yet by sparing yourself might have
spared us all.

> Some text within Rules may be understood to not be "rule-text" or
> strictures themselves, but rather colorful information regarding any
> number of personages mentioned during this Round. Such text, generally
> simple declarative statements, may be characterized as being of two
> forms: Register Entries and Reports.

I'm not sure if this affects play or not. It seems to me that this is
exactly how all rules normally operate under the ROs in regular play.
It seems to me you are not proposing that the "colourful information"
section of a rule is exempt from restrictions since the rest of this
rule appears to impose restrictions on precisely this part of the
rule.

> A Register Entry may
>  - name a resident of the township (Resident);
>  - name a country estate (Estate);
>  - assign a previously named resident of the township as the occupant
> (Occupant) of a previously named country estate; and/or
>  - declare the Status of a resident of the township.

Some judges have imposed style penalties for essentially re-submitting
a restriction which has been already seen in a previous rule. I have
no strong feelings about this practice however I note that this
version of the rule is substantially more complex than the previous
one.... Okay having gone through this, I believe you have taken the
restriction in your invalid 282:2, which I promised to award style
points for if people optionally obeyed it, and attempted to make it,
in its more elaborate form, an optional rule. Essentially I believe
you are saying future rules may provide certain colourful information,
but if they do so it must be consistent with colourful information
provided by previous valid rules.

I am happy to have this opportunity to interpret all this material
about registry entries and reports as optional since zero of them will
be a number not greater than the rule number. However the invitation
to ineligible members to post pseudo rules in a round gives me a
serious pain. The problem is apparent below:

> Registry Entries and Reports must be accurate. When included in rule
> submissions, inaccuracy of Registry Entries and Reports will reflect
> on the validity of the rule. A rule that contains inaccurate Registry
> Entries or Reports cannot be valid.

A registry report or entry posted by an ineligible member is not a
rule at all. Therefore I certainly have no intention of ruling on it
despite my "discretion" below. If I don't rule on the reports then how
will future eligible rule-writers know which registry entries they
need to agree with?

> Residents who have been named in previous rules without qualification
> as to their status are assumed to have status Unknown. Residents who
> have been named in previous rules with qualifications that indicate or
> hint at their status may have that status at the Judge's discretion.

This is probably nothing more or less than the discretion under the
ROs to interpret rules and apply them to later rules.

> It is at the Judge's discretion as to whether Register Entries or
> Reports contained in Rules judged invalid are accurate.

I exercise that discretion now, to declare once and for all that
nothing in any invalid rule is or will be accurate. My promise to
attempt to award style points for attempts to obey invalid rules still
stands however.

> Mrs.Bennet is Unliving, but once was a gorgeous young lady, and had
> many suitors. Mr.Bennet proposed to her under a harvest moon several
> decades ago, after necessary negotiations with her father,
> Mr.Gardiner.

A romantic advance: complies with 283:3

>
> Mr.Gardiner is long Deceased, yet this rule remains his property.

Declaration that a cadaver owns this rule. 283:1 Check!

>
> Mr.Bingley is the occupant of Netherfield Park.

Very stylish. Maybe.

I award 1.73 style points all together.