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At every point in time, it is one of three seasons, ordered as follows: Growth, Harvest, or Frost. On the first and fifteenth day of each month, the season changes to the next in the list.

At the beginning of the cycle, the plant has a trunk with 0 features and a height of 0 centimetres.

The plant consists of a number of branches. Every branch has a parent branch, except for the trunk. When a branch comes into existence, it does so with 0 leaves and a length of 1 centimeter. The trunk is considered to be a branch for the purposes of this Ruleset.

Every branch has a Nesting Level, defined in the following way: The trunk has a Nesting Level of 0, and every other branch has a Nesting Level equal to one more than the Nesting Level of its parent branch.

All features on the plant have a position, which is equal to the length of their parent branch upon the feature coming into existence. This position does not change if the length of the parent branch does.

Every unique feature with a Nesting Level of 1 or more will additionally have a unique identifier or "ID", defined in the following way: Each unique feature identifier will begin with its position in centimetres (eg. 7 for 7cm) on its parent feature. Additionally, any feature on a shared position will incrementally be further identified with a lowercase English character in the sequence of the English alphabet, beginning with a and progressing to z. If additional features require identifiers beyond z, continue incrementing by doubling, then tripling the character identifier. (Ex. aa => zz, then aaa => zzz). Subsequent features will continue to be identified with this pattern as necessary.

Example references to features may look like:

The plant may have any number of additional features, created via interaction with role-specific and plant-specific actions. The following type of features exist:

* Buds

When a feature comes into existence, the feature it grows upon is referred to as its parent. Additionally, any features that are grown from a feature are referred to as its children. The Trunk has no parent.

When the plant attempts to grow, any player may randomly select a weighted result from the General Growth Pool according to the current season.

{| class="wikitable"

|-

!Growth

!Frost

|-

|5

|-

|2

|2

|-

|0

|1

|1

|-

|2

|0

|}

When the plant is eligible for photosynthesis, any player prompt the plant to photosynthesise by posting their intent to do so as a single message in #plant-actions. When a successful photosynthesis action is made, the plant enters a photosynthesis cycle, then may immediately attempt to grow 1d6 times. The duration of the photosynthesis cycle is measured in days, and can be determined using the following formula and rounding up to the nearest integer:

A photosynthesis cycle will count down at the start of each day, regardless of what time it starts. When the photosynthesis cycle ends, the plant becomes eligible for photosynthesis again.

When the plant is eligible for a development roll, any player 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.

When a development roll succeeds, any person can roll 1dN, where N is one plus the Nesting Level of the branch the chosen bud grew from. If the result of this roll is 1, the chosen bud becomes a branch, and its parent branch is the branch the chosen bud grew from. Otherwise, the chosen bud becomes a flower.

When the plant becomes eligible for a coronation roll, any player may make a coronation roll on the specified branch. To make a coronation roll, randomly select a child branch among the direct children of the selected branch, then roll on the Coronation Pool for the selected child branch according to the current season. Regardless of the result, the plant stops being eligible for a coronation roll.

|+Coronation Pool

! rowspan="2" |Result

|-

!Growth

!Harvest

|-

|The branch grows by 1 centimeter.

|1

|1

|-

|The branch sprouts 1 new leaf at its current length.

|2

|1

|-

|If the branch has not grown a bud within 5 centimeters of its current height, the branch grows a new bud at its current height. Otherwise, the branch sprouts 1 new leaf at its current height.

|2

|1

|}

Players may have a role. The roles a player may have are defined by the rules with 'Role:' in their title, and actions defined with that rule are actions specific to that role. Players may perform actions specific to their role by posting their intent to do so as a single message in #plant-actions.

If a player does not have a role or has not changed roles within the past 7 days, the player may change roles by posting their intent to perform any action specific to that role as a single message in #plant-actions. The players role is changed, and then the action is performed.

===Admiration ===

{| class="wikitable"

|+Standard Weather Pool

! colspan="3" |Entries

|-

!Harvest

!Frost

|-

|1

|1

|-

|2

|1

|1

|-

|3

|3

|-

|2

|3

|-

| 0

|3

|}

==Role: Critic==

Any Critic may critique the plant or a player's action that was done that day.

If the plant has been critiqued at least once previously during a day it attempts to grow, then for that roll attempt:

*If the plant had not been also admired at least once previously during that day, instead add 1 entry of "Nothing Happens."

If a watering action is critiqued, the plant that was watered can attempt to grow again on the second time the plant is watered that day, but only if the second watering comes after the critique, and from the player who did the critiqued action.

If a caretaker action is critiqued, the player of that action will learn from the inefficiency, and will not become fatigued on their first action the next day, unless they fall off the plant.

The first time per day a bag of fertilizer is applied to the plant while it is in a photosynthesis cycle, then the cycle time is reduced by one day.

Caretakers are very small. When a player becomes a Caretaker, they shrink down to a hundredth their size (generally somewhere around 1.75cm tall) before they do anything else.

Because of their small size, Caretakers become fatigued very easily for even simple actions. If they are fatigued, a Caretaker is unable to do any action and must rest. Should they cease to be Caretakers, players return to the size they were before they became Caretakers.

Caretakers may climb to a specific location on the plant. If no location is specified, the player will climb to the lowest feature that is the tip of a branch. In the event of a tie, this feature is chosen randomly among the tied features. After climbing, a Caretaker will be fatigued for the rest of the day.

===Pruning===

*It falls below into the composting pile, stored as the kind of feature it was on the plant.

*The plant will become eligible for a coronation roll at the beginning of the next day.

*The Caretaker who pruned the plant rolls 1d3. If they roll a 1, they fall off the plant. Though unharmed, this takes a lot out of a little Caretaker! If they fall of the plant, they become fatigued for the rest of the day, and for the entirety of the next day. If they do not fall of the plant, they still become fatigued for the rest of the day due to the hard work involved.

Any Caretaker may pollinate a flower at their current location. In doing so, they get fluffy pollen from that flower all over them. If they had pollen on them from a different flower than the one they are pollinating, that pollen is removed from them, and the flower becomes pollinated. After pollinating, a Caretaker will be fatigued for the rest of the day.