This is a variant of "
Corrupt a Wish"
except there's just one Jin, and there's sort of a "
goal"
.
I will grant each poster 3 wishes. Your goal is to try to get a positive outcome for yourself. My goal is to interpret your wishes as literally as possible to give you a bad outcome.
If you get a good outcome, you win and win 2 mod points (though not the actual positive outcome you wished for, sorry - I'm not
really omnipotent). If you get a bad outcome, I win and you owe me one mod point (if you don't have the 2 points it takes to give me +1, you may not post). If I lose more than I win, I will retire and appoint a replacement.
Some other little rules:
Since I'm unable to respond to every post immediately, there may be a queue. If the queue is already 5 deep, don't post (or, rather, I will feel free to disqualify and ignore your post).
Maximum of 90 words and 6 conjunctions. Use of incorrect grammar to avoid conjunctions or duck under the limit will cause me to just post an edited version of your wish (with a note about which parts will be ignored for going over the conjunction or word limit) and ask if that's really what you meant.
Your entire wishes must be within the 90 words. I am free to ignore outside sources when interpreting your wish, and to disqualify wishes like "
I wish you would do everything I posted in <
link>
this thread"
.
Wishes must be in English and use only words I (with the help of dictionary.com if needed) believe to be real words. While I won't say I require you to use proper spelling and grammar, I will say that I will abuse your spelling and grammar mistakes to the utmost when attempting to grant your wishes in a manner which has a bad outcome for you. And I will be a stickler for the subjunctive mood.
You may dispute that I literally granted your wishes, in which case I will appoint an appropriately neutral judge to decide the outcome. You may also debate my definitions of the words "
good"
and "
bad"
in relation to the outcome (i.e. if I turn you into a cat, you might say "
I like being a cat. this is a good outcome. pay up."
), however, the actual judgement criterion will be "
that which most people would consider to be a bad outcome"
. I may also appoint a neutral judge to resolve such a dispute if I cannot convince you that most people would, in fact, consider the outcome bad (to continue the previous example: I would argue that the loss of freedom and intelligence and ability to play DROD implied by being a cat is generally considerable as a 'bad outcome'). You are entitled a creative outcome, though not necessarily a humorous one (though the Jin must try for both).
If your wishes can be shown to cause contradiction, it will be a draw, no mod points.
At my discretion, if I find your wishes to be particularly easy to break, I might say "
are you sure?"
in which case you have 24 hours to edit. Alternatively, someone else might also post "
are you sure?"
and I will wait until you edit before taking action. However, this is the only form of acceptable kibbitz - you may not tell the soon-to-be-victim WHY you said "
are you sure?"
. If you do, I will probably throw out that entry (no mod points either way).
Obviously, if I disappear for too long, someone else may take over my job as Jin (not that I would notice or care, eh?).
If you wish for a bad outcome for yourself ("
I wish I would die"
), then I may just grant it (and probably win, depending on the other two wishes).
If a wish makes no sense (i.e. you wish that something didn't happen which, in fact, didn't happen) then I may just take it as granted (and probably win, depending on the other two wishes, since you just waste one wish and valuable word-space).
I may disallow certain kinds of duplication (such as taking a previously tried wish and just alterting a few words or tossing in a conjunction to try to improve the outcome), though some duplication is allowed (i.e. more than one person can use "
I wish for a million dollars,"
as the beginning of their wishes).
The Jin is considered a master of both space _and time_. Granting of your wish may alter the past. The rules of physics may be violated in granting your wish, but may not remain violated afterwards -- such a wish will be considered to cause a contradiction, which, as previously mentioned, is a draw (note that this rules out wishing for magical powers, omnipotence or more wishes).
Meta-wishes (wishes about wishes) may be disqualified, especially if I believe they would lead to requiring me to look outside of your 90 words to take in your meaning. Other forms of meta-situational wishes may be disqualified as well, such as wishes about the wish-granter (the fictional Jin), the author of the wish-granter (the real forumer playing the role), the wishing game, and mechanism of delivering the wishing game.
I may choose to interact with the players while playing out the resolution. Parameters will be made clear on a case by case basis.
One at a time mode: At your discretion, you may say "
I opt for one at a time mode"
(which doesn't count towards your word limit), in your initial post. We will count whether your condition is good or bad after the third wish is granted as The Outcome. This changes the semantics of contradiction, though, from a draw to a loss for the player (so you can't just get out a bad first 2 wishes by wishing for 2+2 to equal 5). You may choose to use the second and third wishes to improve your current condition, or you may "
blow a raspberry"
and negate your previous wish(es).
I might have to add other rules, but I will allow re-editing of extant entries if this is the case.
HINT: be careful what you wish for. If you wish at all. I believe that a review of Twilight Zone episodes and various movies involving jini or deals-with-the-devil will show how slanted this game is in my favor
also: use of wishes from extant wish literature may be considered duplication, at my discretion.
off-topic edit: this is the 20,000th post in this forum.
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[Last edited by silver at 09-11-2006 12:38 AM]
