Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 01:38:28 +0100 (MET) From: Orjan Johansen To: Fantasy Rules Committee Subject: Final summary of Round 66 Round 66 is over with a whimper, after the Judge temporarily lost his email access (although it was really over before that.) The theme was "Alternate routes of history". The Judge was Ed Murphy. Player Style ------ ----- Ed Graham +0.3 John M. Goodman II +1.5 Winner and new Wizard Judge Ronald Kunne +1.0 Ørjan Johansen +1.5 New Wizard (This list is alphabetical by first name. "Ø" is the 28th letter of the alphabet. You got a problem with that?) ==== 66:1 Ørjan, 11:09 PM 10/10/96 +0100 VALID, Style: +1.5 >>>> Each Rule shall contain a description of an event in FRC history. This event must be one which never occured, or occured in a significantly different way, in the real world outside FRC. Note that in FRC history, no one ever invented, discovered or experienced time travel. In this Rule, we recall the tragic fate of Ro'l-arr-ound, the greatest inventor in the Stone Age, and the only person ever to invent the wheel. At the age of 19 (yes, they did die young at that time) a raging mammoth ran into his camp and trampled him to death. Thus, his second greatest invention was lost for all time, greatly hampering the utilization of routes. >>>> Though it is quite possible that a 19-year-old was trampled to death by a raging mammoth after inventing the wheel, I doubt sufficiently that said 19-year-old would have been named Ro'l-arr-ound to declare this rule VALID. ---- Style: +1.0 for a solid rule and description, +0.5 for dealing with time travel before anyone else could muck about with it. ==== 66:2 edg@juno.com, 12:38 AM 10/11/96 EDT VALID, Style: +0.3 >>>> In this Rule, we honour the memory of Sigismund Freind, the royal dog breeder to Alexander III. He supplied Pavlov with his dogs. Rules need not follow chronologoical order. However, no two Rules may cover the same time in FRC history. >>>> VALID. I'll be lenient enough to read "chronologoical" as "chronological", and (more importantly) to read the last clause as "no two Rules may cover overlapping time periods in FRC history". ---- Style: +0.5 for general intent, -0.2 for "chronologoical" and failure to acknowledge non-instantaneous descriptions. ==== 66:3 Ronald, 08:23 AM 10/11/96 SET VALID, Style: +1.0 >>>> On the wheelless earth dog-sleds had become the most used means of transportation. In the 20th century (from what point in time the calender counts, the next rule shall explain) sleds jammed the inner city but pollution was absent. To go to her work at the kennels, Jane had to leave 2 hours before! Each future rule shall make some sort of link between the historic facts mentioned in to other rules. >>>> Validity: Looks fine. Style: +1.0 for combining previous results. ==== 66:4 John M. Goodman II, 02:47 PM 10/11/96 -0500 VALID, Style: +1.5 >>>> Time travel is any movement through time. This includes the normal forward movement in the real world outside of frc history. In frc history refers not to past time periods, but to places already visited. The year 2000 is a small village just outside of Brooklyn. In frc history, no person can visit the same place twice. The stone age is a city on the top of Mount Everest. Age in frc history is determined by distance travelled. For every 100 kilometers travelled, one adds one "year" to one's life. Chronological order is not followed in the history of frc, because it has no meaning. Every person's chronology (or the order they visit places) is unique. It is such a shame that Ro'l-arr-ound did not spread his discovery of the wheel--for if he had allowed Fido, one of the dogs which pulled the wheeless dog sleds, to examine it (for all frc dogs are highly intelligent) the dog may have been able to create true time in frc history. Fido was a dog genious from the 37th century (which is located in an under water habitat below the Atlantic Ocean) who finally perfected the abruf-o-matic. (the next rule will describe what this device is) All future rules must tell where they took place in frc history, as well as where this place is located, geographically, in the frc world. >>>> Validity: Also looks fine. (First four rules are all valid? Ah well, we should have enough restrictions by now for an invalid rule to happen soon.) Style: +1.5 for retconning "time travel". +0.0 for addressing the 20th century (required by 66.3), +0.0 for a fairly obvious restriction (well, obvious by the time we got to it). [Retcon = Retroactive Continuity, i.e. redefining something to be totally consistent with all past evidence but totally different than expected. The classic example is the revelation that an entire season of _Dallas_ was actually a dream of one of the characters. Comics fans and roleplayers use the term a lot.) ==== 66:5 edg@juno.com, Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:02:29 EDT INELIGIBLE >>>> In this rule, we reflect on the genius of Thomas Alvin Eddystone, inventor, poet, statesman, and naturalist. During his tenure as Senior Lecturer at Princesstown University (1873 - 1881), the proliferation of new patents in his name reached an unprecedented high of 287. Such things as the Orat, which revolutionised political speechwriting, and the cottonmouth gin, an alchoholic beverage guarenteed to make an overindulger quit drinking on the spot through its potently delicious flavour and just as potent aftertaste, demonstrate the unlimited bounds of his genius. We should all attempt to ignore the events surrounding his greatest failure, and subsequent fall into relative obscurity in the latter days of his life. His failure to perfect the abruf-o-matic were more social than scientific. His desire to see animals, especially his beloved dogs, take advantage of the healthy lifestyles advocated by that quack in Battle Creek, Michigan drove him to the attempt. The development of a machine that would automatically excercise the abdomminal muscles of dogs while they trained for the arduous duties of pulling sleds, thereby toning the overall canine body, not just the chest and forelegs was resisted by meanspirited and shortsighted people with enough political clout to cut off his funding. Future rules should strive to be shorter than this one, and must contain at least one veiled reference to a real person, place, and thing (not each connected to the other). >>>>