Community Garden/Ruleset

Info

Time

All times mentioned in this ruleset are in UTC. Days start at 00:00 UTC.

Players

Any person may become a player by sending a message in any channel in The Community Garden category. A player may stop being a player by announcing their intent in any channel in The Community Garden category or by leaving the Discord server.

The Plant

At the beginning of the cycle, the plant has 0 leaves and a height of 0 centimeters.

Actions

Watering

Any person may water the plant by posting their intent to do so as a single message in #plant-actions. The first time the plant is watered each day, the plant may attempt to grow. To determine the plant's growth, any person may roll a d10, add any modifiers specified by other rules, and compare the result with the Growth Table.

Growth Table

Roll	Result
1-7	Nothing happens.
8	The plant becomes eligible for a development roll today.
9	The plant grows 1 centimeter.
10	The plant sprouts 1 new leaf at its current height.
11+	If the plant has not grown a bud within 5 centimeters of its current height, the plant grows a new bud at its current height. Otherwise, the plant sprouts 1 new leaf at its current height.

Admiration

Any person may admire the plant by posting their intent to do so as a single message in #plant-actions. A person who admires the plant becomes enamored with the plant for 7 days. A person other than the Plant Keeper who is enamored with the plant cannot water the plant.

If the plant has been admired at least once previously during a day it attempts to grow, and the person who admired the plant is not the Plant Keeper, +2 is added to the roll on the growth table.

Development

When the plant is eligible for a development roll, any player who has not previously admired or watered the plant that day may choose a bud and make a development roll for that bud by posting their intent to do so as a single message in #plant-actions.

To make a development roll, roll 1d20 and add 1 to the result for every development roll that has been made for that bud previous to the current one. If the sum is 20 or more, the development roll succeeds. Regardless of the result, the plant stops being eligible for a development roll.

When a development roll succeeds, the chosen bud becomes a branch.

Proposals

Any person may make a proposal by sending a message as an action in #plant-proposals. If that message is deleted or modified during its voting period, the proposal is retracted. If there is an active proposal made by a person in the last 7 days, any new proposal they make is immediately retracted. An "active proposal" refers to any proposal that hasn't been retracted and is still in its 7-day voting period.

The voting period for proposals is 7 days. Once a proposal's voting period ends, if there are more votes in favor than against, the proposal takes effect.

A :+1: or :-1: reaction on a Proposal message at the time when the voting period ends constitutes a vote in favor or against, respectively.

The Plant Keeper

There shall be a sole plant keeper, responsible for resolving rules disputes. The plant keeper may cease being such by stating so in #plant-keeper.

A request for clarification is an action that shall take the form of a question or statement. The proper response to a question is an action in the form of an answer to that question, and the proper response to a statement is the truth value of that statement.

Upon formal request by a person other than themself, the plant keeper shall, as quickly as possible, issue a response to the request. This response shall be binding only to the extent that it reasonably directly pertains to the request, and only to the extent that it does not blatantly and obviously contradict rules text.

Any person may attempt to become the plant keeper by posting their intent to do so as an action in #plant-keeper. If after 7 days the message sent by the person has at least 3 :+1: reactions, and has more :+1: reactions than :-1: reactions, that person becomes the new plant keeper.