KING RULEBOOK

[retellers]

the king On Sunday, at 6pm, Emet-Selch will receive a message on his PHS. 👤 ➡️ 🏰 go there. Upon receiving this message, Emet-Selch will notice that the castle appears closer than usual. Should he head towards it, he will finally be able to reach its entrance. Inside is a large hall with various doors, along with a staircase, but he will be able to access only a single door. Once he steps inside, he will find his Leader waiting for him. After their meeting is over and he leaves the castle, he will no longer be able to reach the castle again. ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ As the King: Every Sunday, the King will be able to create one rule and one order that must be followed. These decrees will go into effect on the Monday of the following week, and will last until the following Sunday. The two decrees are as follows: 1) One rule that every participant must follow, the only stipulations being that it cannot contradict any of the current rules and that you cannot consecutively make the same rule. This rule will be added to the official rulebook, and anyone who breaks it will be punished. 2) One order that one participant must follow. The participant will not be informed that an order has been given to them, and will only be aware of an urge to obey it. The participant will follow this order until the new week begins, or until the King chooses to remove it. ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ Additional notes: The King will be allowed to ask questions about the on-goings of the game and communicate with their Leader in their weekly meetings. They may receive small hints should they perform well. However, the information received will be up to their Leader's discretion.

NAVIGATION locations ₓ˚. statuses *+:｡ ic profiles :ₓo ic rules ･ﾟﾟ･｡ audience requests murder proposals ｡✧o private conversations ･ﾟo｡ curfew ･ﾟ✧ memories

Comments

[retellers]

[ he is so valid and we love him.

but they nod their head. ]

The problem is that we know whatever happened with Virid changed things here. So for all we know, the Realm might have gone, "Oh, people kill each other for contests? Let's make that an actual thing now for real!"

Its ideas of how things work can be fairly simplistic, but if something strong enough influences it, then it may start believing that's just the way it is. [ siiiip. ] This is just theorizing though. Things have changed, but it might not have been that drastically. I just have low expectations.

[arkitect]

It is usually best to keep the bar low, though I do find it is often not low enough.

[they can absolutely agree on that part.]

So if this Realm is influenced enough by such actions, the proceedings may be altered by them as well?

[because that's-- troubling, actually, his brow furrowing.]

[retellers]

It's possible.

The thing is, actively trying to influence it won't work. I'm sure people are going to be like, "Hey, if we think very hard that we want there to be no more bad things, that means it'll go away!" That won't work. The Realm may be getting weaker, but it still has defenses up to not let it get purposefully manipulated.

[arkitect]

Naturally it wouldn't be that easy... but unconscious influence is still the more concerning of the two. Even were it possible to attempt to force conscious influence, such things are easily undone by the less conscious-- lingering fears, stray thoughts of what may happen if it failed to work. It likely would be wasted effort to begin with.

Unknowing influence is nigh impossible to prevent, as well.

[retellers]

[ they nod their head. ]

If the Realm was more stable, it wouldn't be as vulnerable to this sort of thing. What we're doing here would still shape it, but not as drastically as like what happened in the last few days.

[arkitect]

And there are no measures to be taken against it...?

[he folds his arms, considering a moment.]

Differing situations, obviously, but I have seen something similar nearly destroy a world. Depending on how much it can be influenced, then if things continue to happen as they just did-- the ongoing reactions to that could become a concern, could they not?

[retellers]

[ they nod. ]

The amount of people could also be an issue with that--it's being influenced by a lot of different personality types all coming together. Pretty messy.

[ they set their cup down. ]

But a lot of it is the same. We need nova to help it regain its strength. The more back to its old self it is, the less the Realm will change in reaction to us all.

[arkitect]

Then, having seen more of what has happened since we arrived, particularly the last few days...

As one of the leaders here, how do you believe this ought to proceed?

[retellers]

I still prefer to get this over with as quickly as possible.

New rules go up tomorrow, so we should be able to see if there were any changes that were significant enough to become one besides what you're adding. We'll have a better idea of what this weekend did once we see that.

With our shitty luck, maybe the Realm saw a murder and now believes all competitions should involve that. [ ... ] But that's just a wild guess going by what's happened so far.

[arkitect]

If it does think so after this, then do you intend to encourage avoiding repeat incidents?

[or if it ends up part of all this, is engaging in it going to be necessary?

he'll be fine either way, really.]

[retellers]

I'm going to be honest. If everyone else starts stabbing each other, I'm not going to try to hold their hand and sing campfire songs.

I won't run out trying to take everyone out, but I'm ready to defend myself if it turns out to be a bloodbath.

[arkitect]

Should it come to it, I doubt there will truly be another choice. There rarely is.

[it has to end one way or another, because with anyone still taking part, it will just drag itself out.

a brief sigh, and-]

You have met more of us now. Given the looks of things, I suppose that I should at the least pay some mind to who is meant to be on the same team, if not to the competition itself-- provided that you have any direction there, that is.

[so, you know, he can at least try to be aware of it if a teammate becomes a Problem.]

[retellers]

I can officially start giving hints next week.

[ ... they want to cheat so bad and say one now but. it's fine. they control the urge. ]

I should give some sort of pep talk about how great teamwork is, but whenever I get on the topic it feels like a hairball is stuck in my throat? Super uncomfortable. But learning your fellow teammates will be helpful down the line.

[arkitect]

[rules are for people who care about them, tiger, c'mon. he just rolls his eyes.]

Naturally.

[of course there's still a delay. he's not very surprised about it, at least, because everything here feels designed to be at least a little annoying.]

I cannot say much for teamwork with this particular group, either. Among like-minded individuals, certainly, but... [a vague handwave. too many mortals here. they wouldn't appreciate his civilization's values, for the most part, and it remains possible their leaders aren't much different.] This group has no such cohesiveness to it.

[retellers]

Honestly, that was probably the point--the Realm probably thought it was best to bring in a bunch of very different people to get a full range of options.

Which like, in theory, is fine. Who wouldn't be all for diversity? Except it's a pain in the ass to deal with in action since you just get people throwing their ideals at each other.

[arkitect]

[very, very tiredly:]

So you do.

[guess who is tired of those ideals. just guess.]

And half of them are unable to restrain themselves.

[retellers]

Well, they may end up getting themselves killed for non-murder reason. Apparently some people are into harassing aggressive mermaids even when there's a note telling them not to.

[arkitect]

Of course they are. They remain desperate to seek out other answers-- something like that is hardly going to stop them.

[retellers]

Well, eventually they're going to have to learn that sometimes a keep out sign is just that--a keep out sign. No deeper meaning behind it.

[arkitect]

I suspect you know very well how they are going to learn, and that it will only repeat itself.

Particularly if they ever do find deeper meaning past one.

[retellers]

If they do, it definitely won't be from the mermaids.

[arkitect]

At least little of value will be lost, should they die that way.

[if you're that dumb, do they really need you.]

Ah, but returning to other questions- if those breaking a rule are to be punished, then in what manner?

[retellers]

[ they smile. ]

It'll be something that they can't ignore.

[arkitect]

Is it a case where you cannot say, exactly? If I am to make them, then I fail to see why I should not know what comes of it.

[if this is a realm thing, then he is just stating that for the record.]

[retellers]

It's more that the punishment is going to change depending on what the rule is.