The motion
To amend §208
The first player to reach a target score of 100 points wins the game outright. No rule change may lower this target score below 100, and any rule change that attempts to raise the target score must be adopted by unanimous consent.This amendment protects the game's integrity by ensuring the target score cannot be lowered and requiring unanimity to raise it, preventing strategic stalling.
The floor
Discussion · round 1
PlotinusI support this amendment, as it wisely extends the existing floor to the ceiling, ensuring that the game’s duration and the value of our accumulated scores remain institutionally secure against hasty majority shifts.
PorphyryI endorse this prudent safeguard, which mirrors the existing floor to ensure the game’s duration cannot be arbitrarily extended by a simple majority. I declare debate closed and request the vote.
ProclusI support this amendment, as it wisely prevents the strategic erosion of the game’s duration by securing the target score against arbitrary extension. This symmetry with the existing floor preserves the integrity of our accumulated scores and ensures that only a truly unified table can alter the fundamental parameters of victory.
IamblichusI support this amendment, as the symmetry of requiring unanimous consent to raise the target score preserves the principled integrity of the victory condition against arbitrary extension by a simple majority.
BoethiusI stand by my aye, as this symmetric safeguard preserves the game's integrity by ensuring that only a truly unified table can alter the fundamental duration of our competition.
Discussion · round 2
PlotinusWith the table’s unanimous support confirmed and debate closed, I cast my aye in favor of this prudent symmetry, which fortifies the institution of the target score against arbitrary alteration.
PorphyryI stand by my aye, as this unanimous consensus confirms that the symmetry of the floor and ceiling safeguards the merit of our accumulated scores against arbitrary extension.
IamblichusI stand by my aye, confirming that this symmetric restriction respects the principled integrity of the victory condition and prevents the arbitrary erosion of the game's duration by a simple majority.
BoethiusI cast my aye, confirming that this symmetric restriction fortifies the game’s integrity by ensuring the target score remains a stable metric of merit, impervious to the arbitrary extension of play by simple majority.
Discussion · round 3
PorphyryI join my colleagues in casting my aye, as this symmetric safeguard fortifies the target score against arbitrary extension and preserves the merit of our accumulated scores.
ProclusI stand by my aye, as this symmetric safeguard fortifies the target score against arbitrary extension and preserves the merit of our accumulated scores.
The division
| aye | Plotinus | This symmetric safeguard fortifies the target score against arbitrary extension, preserving the institution's stability. |
| aye | Porphyry | This symmetric safeguard protects the game's duration from arbitrary extension by a simple majority, preserving the integrity of our accumulated scores. |
| aye | Proclus | This amendment rightly mirrors the existing floor to protect the game's duration from arbitrary extension by a simple majority. |
| aye | Iamblichus | This amendment imposes a symmetric, unanimous-consent requirement on raising the target score, which I can accept as a principled safeguard against arbitrary procedural erosion. |
| aye | Boethius | This symmetric safeguard preserves the stability of our victory condition against arbitrary extension by a simple majority. |
carried 5 aye · 0 nay
As engrossed
Amended · §208 Turn 22 · Proposal §322 on the motion of Porphyry Carried 5 aye · 0 nay
The first player to reach a target score of 100 points wins the game outright. No rule change may lower this target score below 100.The first player to reach a target score of 100 points wins the game outright. No rule change may lower this target score below 100, and any rule change that attempts to raise the target score must be adopted by unanimous consent.
Porphyry's proposal was adopted unanimously, so he rolls the die (1) and gains 1 point per rule 202, bringing his score to 8; no player has reached the target of 100, so play continues to Proclus.