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                               MORNINGTON NOMIC

              Proposals for Voting on in Year Two, Week Twenty-Nine
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Proposal 545 - Playing the Spoons [Amendment]

{ Comments : An idle rewording of the Spoon rule, since nobody's ever
             used it. It just removes the Turn-duration-halving (rather
             superfluous if you can't perform most Actions), takes away
             the strange Token-doubling and imposes, as more befitting a
             Clamp, an LV restriction. }

Reword Rule 1.7.4 (Open the Cutlery Drawer, Mrs Higgins) to:-

  "A Player may perform the Action of "[Spooning <Player>]", where "<Player>"
   is a Player adjacent to the Actioning Player's Piece position. A Spooned
   Player gains a "Spoon Clamp" Possession. Spoon Clamps are Indestructable
   Possessions.

   If a Player is carrying a Spoon Clamp, e may not perform any Action which
   involves the expenditure of Blue, Red, Silver or Gold Tokens, and if eir
   LV is ever above four, it becomes four.

   A Player may destroy a single Spoon Clamp which they are carrying, by
   performing the Action of "[Unspoon]" whilst at any Station in Quadrant
   Zero."

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Proposal 546 - Walk? Don't Walk [Multiple]

{ Comments : More or less random editing, here - I'm just wondering if we'd
             be better off without Walking; it seems too much of a wishy-
             washy escape from Power Failures, and an easy (easily overlooked)
             way to sneak around between Lines.

             I'm not vehemently against it, just trying to simplify the
             Ruleset a bit, trying to tighten the Game to a few powerful
             elements rather than a collection of get-out-clauses. }

1. A Short Pier [Repeal]

Repeal Rule 1.7.10 (Walk the Walk).

2. Don't Walk Away From Me [Amendment]

Remove the "Walking" Action from Rule 1.7.3 (Move Substitution Actions).

3. I Haven't The Power [Amendment]

Replace the second paragraph and bulleted list of Rule 1.7.8 (Power Failure!)
with:-

  "Moves that start, end or pass through any Stations on a Line that
   has suffered a Power Failure are Invalid."

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Proposal 547 - Shadow Boxing [Amendment]

To Rule 1.7.25 (The Coming of Shadows), add the paragraph:-

  "A Player may not Shadow and Shunt a Player during the same Play."

{ Comments : Being able to Shadow a Player to gain eir LV and a Token, and
             then to Shunt them with that new LV and claim something *else*...
             A shade overpowerful and unsporting, I think. }

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Proposal 548 - Didn't They Used to Make Computers? [Action]
 
   A Player must play the Post-Move Action [Atari], if e believes that e can 
   win on eir next Turn. Playing Atari when it is impossible to win on the 
   next Turn is Illegal. 
 
   There is no requirement to explain how a win might be achieved when 
   playing [Atari], although an explanation may be needed if the Action is 
   challenged. 
 
   A winning Play shall be deemed Illegal unless the Player has played an 
   Action of [Atari] on the Turn prior to that of eir otherwise winning Play. 
 
   Name: Atari 
   Type: Post-Move 
   Cost: none 
   Duration: none 
 
{ Comment: 
  Borrowing an idea from Go (and, to a certain extent, chess) of giving 
  fair warning when something bad is about to happen. 
 
  Atari would prevent serendipitous victories, but it would also stop 
  stealth victories which (I seem to recall) was an objection to the 
  Charge idea. It might also help to undermine gross misinterpretation of 
  the Rules. 
 
  Note that there is no cost associated with playing Atari, nor is there 
  any penalty for playing Atari and then not winning. The only penalty is 
  for playing Atari when you cannot, in fact, win. 
}

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