EarlierChangesToWikitPitch

Commentary (Earlier WikitPitch changes)

• Tyrethali ran three spaces towards the flag before pausing to catch his breath. Tsk. Really should work out more.
• Kevan bounded six spaces diagonally to pointlessly intercept Tyrethali.
• Tyrethali deftly sidesteps Kevan, having excellent agility if not stamina.
• Kevan runs to the flag and stands defiantly in front of it.
• Tyrethali sneaks up cautiously, hoping for a distraction from another player or something.
• Tyrethali ran across the WikitPitch and kicked the ball, being easily amused like that.
• Kash thought he should play the game as well and stood on the grass.
• Rich builds a wall.
• Kash takes a look at the wall.
• Kash found that the wall is neat and started help building it.
• Tyrethali snuck across the field, hoping the catch Kevan off guard.
• Kevan seizes the opportunity to seize TheFlag.
• Kevan joins the BlackTeam.
• Tyrethali wonders at the cheerleaders for a bit, then joins the WhiteTeam.
• Tyrethali moves towards Kevan purposefully.
• Kevan runs away.
• Tyrethali pursues, lacking anything better to do besides kick TheBall at TheWall.
• Rich joins the BlackTeam, then gets back to his masonry activities.
• Kash joins the WhiteTeam. And he starts to run!
• Tyrethali grabs TheFlag from Kevan, and runs like a loon diagonally away.
• Ole enters the field and starts building.
• Shadowy figures swiftly paint two white lines at either end of the Pitch.
• Ole runs along TheWall, positioning himself for a HugeLeap?.
• Tyrethali continues running, waving TheFlag triumphantly.
• Kevan sprints purposefully after Tyrethali.
• Rich adds to TheWall.
• Kash tries to block Kevan from running to Tyrethali, so to make sure the team can keep TheFlag. He stands in between.
• Spurred on by the MysteriousCheerleaders, Tyrethali continues to run away from Kevan.
• Black jumps down from the wall, and declares, ironically, for Team White. The MysteriousCheerleaders are inspired to a new chant.
• The MysteriousCheerleaders involve themselves in the building activity, ignoring that there seems to be no way of leaving a team.
• Black is soundly berated for joining the game from the wrong angle, and is thrown into the EndZone.
• Spurred on by the MysteriousCheerleaders' new slogan, Kevan speeds after Tyrethali, effortlessly sidestepping Kash.
• Ole adds a brick, walks, and adds three more bricks.
• Spurred by the MysteriousCheerleaders, Rich goes walk, walk (next to Ole), brick, brick, brick. He tsks at Black's little scam and goes off to do something about it.
• While the MysteriousCheerleaders shout that Kash dissapears, he actually does not, but runs around Kevan to make sure he is in an optimal position to block. He hopes that helps, knowing that he won't move for the next few days...
• Tyrethali runs some more.
• Ole walks, walks, walks, and builds, builds.
• Ole walks, builds, builds, walks, demolishes.
• Rich walks x 2, builds x 3, walks.
• In order to avoid joining the argument about unequal restriction, due to being immune to personal chanting, Black changes its name to Raven, much to the MysteriousCheerleaders' approval. Spurred on by their evident glee, Raven runs like a running thing.
• Kevan dodges around Kash in arbitrary pursuit of Tyrethali.
• Kash changes slogan and walks x 3.
• Tyrethali runs up to the ball, preparing to give it a good kick while he is over there.
• Ole builds, demolishes, and incites the MysteriousCheerleaders to sing a song.
• Kevan persuades the Cheerleaders to change their slogan and takes three tentative steps.
• Rich walks x 2, builds x 3, walks. Yeah, again.
• Under the influence of another inspirational chant from the Cheerleaders, Raven runs, once again, in the manner of a running thing, towards the joyous item that is a PogoStick.
• Tyrethali gives TheBall a mighty kick, and watchs it land before running about again.
• Rich adds a column to the WikitPitch, to make an odd number of columns, so he can paint a HomeSquare centered on the WikitPitch.
• Kash walks, walks, walks, walks and walks.
• Kevan too.
• Rich walks x 2, builds x 3.
• Raven runs, grabs a PogoStick, and bounces back onto the field.
• Kash walllllks...
• Ole walks, walks, walks, builds, walks.
• Kevan walks five Steps, rushing to stop all of the PogoSticks falling into enemy hands.
• Rich walks x 3, builds x 2.
• Raven bounces six hops along the field. The Cheerleaders can only chant louder for his leet pogoing skillz.
• Tyrethali rushes downward, mindful of the fact that pogoing would be problematic while carrying TheFlag.
• Ole walks, builds, builds, builds, builds.
• Kevan walks over to Tyrethali and looks menacingly at TheFlag.
• Raven drops his PogoStick, skillfully rips a hole in TheWall, steps through, and kicks TheBall into the Endzone. GOAL! And the crow goes wild. After beaming into the Endzone, Raven, spurred on by the lovely Cheerleaders, grabs himself a PogoStick.
• Rich beams into the Endzone next to Raven, who drops the PogoStick. Rich picks up the PogoStick (Action 1), hops 2 squares away (Actions 2 and 3, due to adjacency), and then hops 4 more (Actions 4 and 5). The chase is on -- Rich hopes Kevan will slow down Raven with a cheer change. (Raven modifies Rich's actions, as picking up the PogoStick while Adjacent to a Player would simply cause it to be dropped again. Rich used Action 1 and 2 to move one square away, then picked up the PogoStick with Action 3, then hopped 4 more squares with Actions 4 and 5.) And finally, Rich realizes under the present rules the ball will probably never leave the HomeSquare except for instantaneous trips to the EndZones, so he goes off to make the rules more interesting.
• Tyrethali drops TheFlag before being abruptly transported to the Endzone, and goes to pick the flag up before more returning to his plan of keeping TheFlag out of Kevan's reach.
• Kevan beams in next to Tyrethali and waits for Monday.
• Kash beams into the Endzone. And then he starts to run 5 steps to the left, just to abruptly wait for Monday.
• Kevan grabs the Flag from Tyrethali, and runs away.
• Rich goes boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
• Raven runs down to block Kevan.
• Kash changes slogan (3 action points), and walks three steps.
• Tyrethali runs down, grabs TheFlag, and, inspired by the cheerleaders, kicks Kevan for good measure.
• Kevan changes the Chant, steps next to Tyrethali and grabs the Flag back.
• Raven steps next to Kevan, and Kicks him thrice. TheFlag is free!
• Tyrethali grabs TheFlag and runs off again.
• Rich goes boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
• Kash goes tap, tap, tap, tap and tap; and notices that Rich of course went boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing and not boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. Tsk. (The sixth boing was silent. All bow to the power of Rich's stealth boinger! -- Rich)
• Raven, in the wee hours of Wednesday, has the Cheerleaders favour White once again, before giving Kevan another Kick for good measure, and following along, perhaps to follow it up.
• Tyrethali skips, waving TheFlag happily to the cheers of the crowd. And the cheerleaders.
• Kevan dodges around Raven. (Raven notices that Kevan interprets the rule differently from how it was intended, and goes to clarify.) (Kevan didn't take the route Raven thought he did.)
• Kash bows to the power of Rich's stealth boinger, walks, grabs a PogoStick and goes boing, boing, boing.
• Raven takes two steps in the wee hours of Thursday, then untakes them upon discovering that "The Wiki's own calendar" isn't on GMT. Tsk. What time is it on?
• The cheerleaders bow to the power of Rich's stealth boinger.
• Raven takes two steps now that it's really Thursday.
• Kevan plods after Tyrethali and wonders who changed the Cheerleader chant back there.
• Raven takes another couple of steps, and gives Kevan a kick, and joins him in muttering about the dodgy chant-change.
• Tyrethali decides to do some more running. For a change.
• Kash does a few boings.
• Kevan kicks Raven and staggers vainly after Tyrethali.
• Ole realises that he can't really do a thing in the middle of the field and pops to the EndZone. Oh, and remembers that he forgot to sign the chant change.
• Raven changes the chant, and takes three Steps. (Kash is now adjacent to Rich, but e failed to drop eir PogoStick or to specify where Rich dropped his. Now what? Call a halt to play until Kash completes eir move? Rich wants to move but can't until he knows where the PogoSticks are.) (Raven says "I think a rules-change is in order.")
• After adding the 'Corrections' Rule, Raven causes Kash and Rich to drop their Pogosticks, as should have happened at the end of Kash's last Action.
• Rich kicks the ball once and Kash twice, then steps.
• Kash sees his error and apologizes (which costs him an action). Then he thanks to Raven for correcting his error (which costs him another action). Now he grabs a PogoStick again and goes boing, boing, boing.
• Tyrethali runs, muttering about inconvenient walls and such.
• Ole runs x5.
• Kevan invokes a new Slogan, and steps away from Raven a bit.
• Rich grabs a PogoStick again and boings^5.
• Raven invokes a new Cheerleaders chant, catches up to Kevan, and invokes KickShift.
• Kash is surprised that it is actually possible for TheBall to KickShift over a wall. But then he drops his PogoStick, removes a part of TheWall, steps a step, kicks the ball and removes two other parts of the wall.
• Ole notices that the ground keepers have shaved the corners of the field, which is now oval.

Actions on 3 Apr 2001

• Kevan makes a run for it.
• Rich goies gniob^5.
• TheDroid is here to protect us.
• Raven Corrects Kash again, what with Kash's chosen turn taking at least 10 actions. Wall-breaking ain't so easy, Kash. Your new turn is that you've dropped the PogoStick (costing 1), removed a part of the wall (costing 4), and taken a step.
• Raven then takes his own turn, running, and not following Kevan, for a change.
• TheDroid changes the Chant.
• TheDroid takes three steps. TheDroid is here to protect you.
• Kash reads the RulesOfWikit, which takes three actions.
• Kash comes back from reading the Rules, apologizes and kicks the ball.

Actions on 4 Apr 2001

• Kevan has TheDroid invoke KickShift.
• Kevan takes six Steps.
• Rich: boing, drop, kick, take, boing, boing.
• Raven changes the chant.
• Kevan has TheDroid take three Steps. Ker-chunk, ker-chunk, ker-chunk.
• Tyrethali kicks TheBall, and runs. The crowd goes wild.
• Raven takes the ball and two, doubtless futile, steps.
• Ole runs x5.
• Kash grabs a PogoStick and goes boing, boing, boing, boing, and inspired by the MysteriousCheerleaders boing.

Actions on 5 Apr 2001

• Raven takes four steps, and kicks TheBall; GOAL! And time for everyone to drop everything once again.
• Kevan blows a whistle - "A Goal is scored if TheBall is dropped or KickShifted into either of the EndZones." You only Kicked it. Could a WhiteTeam member replace it in the !EndZone, please?
• Raven Corrects his mistake by replacing TheBall where it was before the mistake was made, instead, and tuts whoever made that change. (I thought the point of making it possible to kick TheBall ten squares rather than to EndZone boundary was to make it possible to still score Goals without an EndZone lurker. Tsch). Raven then Apologises.
• Rich has TheDroid say, "Bzzt -- pak chooie -- too easy to score if you can do it with a kick -- pak chooie" before it goes step, step, take, kick.
• Kevan finds that a bit suspect, since you should only be correcting an illegal Goal declaration (the Kick Action itself was fine). But then, since any Player can update the gamestate in whichever way they desire, undoing misunderstood Actions is implicitly acceptable, I guess.
• Kevan also grabs the Ball, quickly, and wonders what Rich is playing at.
• Kevan deducts relevant Points for the unGoal, too.
• Rich is trying to keep TheBall from falling immediately back into the White team's hands, Kevan. And he goes boing (dropping the PogoStick), take, change the cheer.
• Raven Apologises for the poor points-missing Correction, not really meriting an entry on the Page o' Apologies. And removes the duplicate Flag that Rich left in the hands of Tyrethali.
• Kevan nods apologetically to Rich, takes a Step and looks nervous.
• Kash changes the slogan.
• Kash boings 3 times.

Actions on 6 Apr 2001

• Raven breaks away from TheDroid and takes four more steps.
• TheDroid takes a Step.
• Kevan kicks TheBall to a square adjacent to TheDroid and changes the Chant.
• TheDroid kicks TheBall into the back of the EndZone. GOAL!
• Raven beams into the EndZone, as obliged.
• Kevan beams into the other, and hits the ground running. (Two steps.)
• Rich beams left and runs six steps. He wonders whether the PusherDroid inherits TheDroid's remaining actions.
• Kash drops his PogoThingie?, beams to the endzone and runs.

Actions on 9 Apr 2001

• Kevan sprints six Steps.
• Rich likewise.
• Rich has the PusherDroid beam left and run six steps.
• Kash changes the chant and walks and walks.

Actions on 10 Apr 2001

• Raven takes one step, then departs the White Team whose chant he so naughtily just misused. The PusherDroid, at precisely the same moment, departs the Black Team. It's almost as if they know!
• Kevan takes five urgent Steps.
• Rich runs five, and puts up little reminders for those who are, like Rich, a bit East-West dyslexic.
• Kash thanks Rich for helping the East-West dyslexic. Honestly. Then he runs. 6 times.

Actions on 11 Apr 2001

• Raven joins the brand sparkling new Grey Team. So does the PusherDroid, declaring "Black and White Teams must go down the stairs."
• Kevan picks his way through the Walls, for five Steps.
• Raven has the PusherDroid change the Chant, changes the spelling of the new Team because the Cheerleaders are obviously American, and has the PusherDroid take three steps.
• Kash notes that the PusherDroid cannot take three steps. Because he only has two actions available.
• Kash walks five times.
• Rich notes that the PusherDroid cannot take even one step, or change the chant, because joining a team takes five actions. He calls upon Raven to do the corrections thing.
• Kash tells Rich that he's wrong. Because Raven changed the rule. So the droid does not have to pay. Then he let the Droid join his team. I go and change the rules again.
• Rich tsks at Raven, thanks Kash for his amendment, runs five steps, and goes off to make a rule change of his own.

Actions on 12 Apr 2001

• Raven then has the PusherDroid take six steps.
• Rich takes two steps, builds two wall segments, and takes TheFlag!
• Kash sees the point of Raven. However, it was certainly 'not' possible to make six actions yesterday with the Droid. It cleary conflicts with the rule: Players only get the bonus if the MysteriousCheerleaders use their chant a short time before the first action of this player and do not change it before e finished the last action of this day. Now, Kash does not know who has to apologize, but someone has to. Now Kash makes a few steps. Five, to be exact.
• Raven takes six steps, and argues again. The MysteriousCheerleaders have been using their chant since they came into existence. That's plenty of time. Raven goes to change the MysteriousCheerleaders so that this aspect of the rule says what it's intended to (Also, that rule managed to not appear in 'recent changes', due to Rich accidentally eating it, which is why I was unaware of it. Lucky for me it's gramatically poor). Raven undoes one of the PusherDroid's steps anyway, in a probably vain attempt to prevent bitching.

Actions on 17 Apr 2001

• Rich runs four steps.
• Kash walks four steps (which is as fast as when Rich runs four steps) and kicks Rich (sorry!), so that he drops his flag. He notices that he hates the rule which makes him dropping PogoSticks?, even if the adjacent player is a TeamMate?.

Actions on 18 Apr 2001

• Rich takes TheFlag again, and staggers three steps.
• Kevan treads two Steps, changes the Chant to something stupidly verbose and unguessable (I'm really not sure about the wisdom of that amendment), and treads again.
• Rich advises Kevan that e cannot take advantage of the Chant so soon, and had best retract eir last step.
• Raven takes five steps at the last possible moment.

Actions on 19 Apr 2001

• Kash walks 5 steps.
• Kevan undoes his previous Step, and Apologises.
• Rich takes 3 steps.
• Kevan seizes 5 steps.
• Raven and the PusherDroid take three steps each.
• Rich says, Oh, duhhh, and takes one more step.

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