Round 9/Ruleset: Difference between revisions

Default-method game actions may be performed by announcing intent to do so in #game-actions, provided that any conditions placed on its performance are fulfilled. Such actions take place in the order specified in the message (or in the order they appear, if no order is specified). For the purposes of this paragraph, editing a message does not constitute an announcement.

Players may give or exchange items in their possession with other players. The exchange or act of giving items takes place immediately after both players explicitly express their consent to the trade in #game-actions.

=== Duck Words ===

These are duck words:

Unless otherwise specified, the voting period for proposals made in Period One is Period Two, and the voting period for proposals made in Period Two is the next week's Period One. At the end of every voting period, then, for each proposal in the order that they were submitted, if that proposal is adopted, then it takes effect. Unless otherwise specified, a proposal is adopted if and only if there are more votes in favor than against, or if there are equal numbers of votes in favor and against, and the proponents' ducks have more Quacks than the opponents' ducks.

* names impersonating players

=== Quack Attacks ===

The following actions are designated "Quack Attacks" and can be performed by posting intent to do so in #game-actions. Quack Attacks are performed through a duck in one's one possession. Each Quack Attack has an associated cost. Upon performing a quack attack, the cost is deducted from the duck through which the attack was performed. Quack Attacks cannot be performed through ducks who do not have quacks equal to or greater than the cost of that attack. If a Quack Attack requires targets, these must be specified in the same message as the action intent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Cannibalism. Cost: None. Target: Any duck owned by the same player. Effect: The attacking duck gains ten quacks plus the target's amount of quacks. The target is removed from the game.

During a voting period, a player can send a duck on a scouting mission by rolling a d12 for the duck. When the duck is on the scouting mission, benefits the duck provides the player are paused. Any upkeep cost of owning the duck is also paused until the duck returns.

The number rolled on the d12  to commence the scouting mission is the potential quacks. If the duck returns, the duck will have this number of potential quacks added to their existing quacks. For a player's duck to return, the player must wait until after the end of the voting period the duck was sent on the mission. Then the player can then roll a retrieval d12 roll to attempt to retrieve the duck. If the retrieval roll is greater than or equal to the number of potential quacks determined upon the duck's departure, the duck returns. When the player attepts to retrieve the duck, and if the duck's potential quacks exceeds 9, the player may choose to cut their losses by posting their intent in #game-actions. The duck's potential quacks become 1, and the duck returns without requiring a retrieval roll. Only one attempt to retrieve any given duck can be made in any given voting period. Upon return, the potential quacks are added to the returning duck's total quacks and benefits and costs the duck provides to the player are unpaused. If the roll to retrieve the duck is 12 or higher, the owner of the duck will obtain a new duck along with their existing duck.  

If a duck returns without it's owner cutting their losses, the owner rolls a d20 and obtains the corresponding item(s) on the following loot table:

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Fruit are items that can be fed to a duck as specified in the Feeding Ducks subrule.

| Grapes || You may use grapes to feed one of your own ducks instead of another's.

| Mango Slice | If fed to a colored duck, the duck is assigned a color based on the dice roll as if it were uncolored.

The Duck Disciple is not owned by any player, but still may be the target of Quack Attacks. Once per voting period, a player may perform a Quack Attack against the Duck Disciple. After this attack resolves, the Duck Disciple then performs a Ritual Quack Attack. This is a Quack Attack that can be performed by the Duck Disciple by its own means and without the need for player ownership. If, after performing this quack attack, the Duck Disciple has 0 or fewer quacks, it perishes.

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