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There is currently an ongoing Experimental Match.

Contents 1 Paprika Field Match 1.1 Rules 1.1.1 Field 1.1.2 Displays 1.1.3 Victory 1.1.4 Priority List 1.1.5 Dreams vs Reality 1.1.6 Relativity 1.1.7 Field Objects 1.1.8 Invokable Actions (of Avatars) 1.2 List of Invokable Actions of Avatars 1.2.1 Move 1.2.2 Leapfrog 1.2.3 Cut the Line 1.2.4 Clear 1.2.5 Dig 1.2.6 Build 1.2.7 Push 1.2.8 Freeze 1.2.9 Duck 1.2.10 Tilt 1.2.11 Focus

Paprika Field Match

Rules

The following are TENTATIVE, informal Rules for the Paprika Field Match.

Field

8x12 rectangle (not a torus!) with squares in both diagonal and cardinal directions adjacent. The Field is Turned at every occurence of 00:00 UTC.

Displays

Each Player has eir own Private Display of their Perceived Gamestate (including the Field and Field objects, as well as the Priority List). There exists no publicly-available Display, though one showing the True Gamestate will be available for the practice.

Victory

A Player wins when their Avatar reaches (in the True Gamestate) the top row of the Field.

Priority List

Randomly-determined at the start of the game, setting all Avatars in order. Priority List may change thereafter based on certain invokable actions. The effects of actions (all are invokable) occur in order according to the Priority List when the Field is Turned. All other Field Objects stay at the end of this List, permanently (there but they might as well not be).

Dreams vs Reality

Each Player is, on any given nday, in Dream (Sleeping) or in Reality (Awake, Waking). Each Players Waking/Sleeping state is determined randomly and independently at the beginning of an nday and is never revealed to the Player (well excep tin Practice...). Actions taken while Awake affect the true Gamestate as well as the Perceived Gamestates of the Acting Player and of all other Waking Players (unless anything else prevents it IN ANY GIVEN PLAYER'S PERCEIVED GAMESTATE... such as a Freeze-Ray). Actions taken while Sleeping have no effect on the true Gamestate but do affect the Perceived Gamestates of the Acting Player and of all other Waking Players. Some examples:

BobTHJ is, in reality, Frozen. Any actions he takes on his next turn will not affect Gamestate. In his perceived Gamestate, he is not Frozen. He thinks he can do whatever he wants. He takes an action: to move his avatar forward one space. He sees his Avatar move forward, but the True Gamestate does not Change. BobTHJ is Awake at this point. Hose, who is also Awake but did not see BobTHJ get Frozen, sees BobTHJ move forward. Wooble is also Awake but did see BobTHJ get Frozen. He does not see BobTHJ move forward. LASD and all his Sleeping buddies do not see BobTHJ do anything.

Relativity

All Actions are situated RELATIVE to the Acting Player's own Avatar, individually in every Display. i.e. when an Avatar moves to the right, any other Display in which this Action is Perceived will have him moving to the right (if the Action doesn't fail in that display, see below) regardless of where the Avatar is standing to begin with. For some displays this might involve the Avatar falling into a hole, for other not, for example.

Field Objects

• Avatars (one for each Player, initially placed on the bottom row of the board)
• Hole (Standing on one sets an Avatar's vertical coordinate down by 4 --- this can send you under walls or any other field object)
• Springboard (Standing on one sets an Avatar's vertical coordinate up by 3 --- this can send you over walls or any other field object)
• Wall (No Avatar may enter a square that contains a Wall)

Besides Avatars, some of these Field Objects will be placed on the Field at the start of the game by the Referee. More of some of these may also be placed by Players during the course of the Field Match.

Any Avatars which move off the Board (by moving, being pushed, springboarded, holed, leapfrogging, etc.) or whose position cannot be determined with certainty are returned to their initial square.

Invokable Actions (of Avatars)

Anytime a Player declares he is taking an action (at most once per nday (one of ANY action per nday, not one of each)), that Action is taken. An Action is considered to be taken regardless of whether it truly affects gamestate (it wouldn`t if the player's sleeping) or of whether or not it fails (which it does if one of its conditions is not fulfilled). The only Global Condition is that a Player must not be Frozen (i.e. any Action taken while Frozen fails).

List of Invokable Actions of Avatars

The following Actions may be taken as long as the non-Frozen condition as well as any other associated conditions listed are fulfilled.

Move

Player's Avatar moves to an adjacent square in a specified direction.

Leapfrog

Player's Avatar moves two adjacent squares in a specified direction.

• Condtions: There is another Avatar situated on an adjacent square in the specified direction.

Cut the Line

Player's Avatar is moved to the top of the Priority List.

Clear

Any Field Object(s) (other than an Avatar) in the adjacent square in a specified direction ceases to exist.

• Conditions: There is at least one Field Object (other than an Avatar) in the adjacent square in the specified direction.

Dig

A Hole is formed in an adjacent square in a specified direction.

• Conditions: There exist no Field Objects (other than Avatars) in the adjacent square in question.

Build

A Wall is formed in an adjacent square in a specified direction.

• Conditions: There exist no Field Objects in the adjacent square in question.

Push

An Avatar in an adjacent square in a specified direction is moved 2 squares in that direction (and is considered to step over the intervening square... if the Avatar can move a single square but is somehow (e.g. a wall) prevented from moving to the second square, he simply stops after the first square)

• Conditions: There is an Avatar in the adjacent square in the specified direction, and this Avatar would not be prevented by a Field Object (but the Avatar may be Frozen) from MOVEing to the first adjacent square to himself in the specified direction.

Freeze

Any Avatars (other than the Acting Player's) on the same square as the Acting Player's or within a 2-square radius in a specified direction (always specify a direction... the same-square deal always applies) becomes Frozen and the next 2 Actions taken by each Frozen Avatar's Player Fail automatically.

Duck

The Acting Player's Avatar is unaffected by PUSH or FREEZE Actions taken by other Players until the Acting Player's next Action is taken.

Tilt

All Avatars are moved (if possible) one square in a specified direction.

• Conditions: Acting Player did not take any Action during the previous nday.

Focus

The Private Display for the Acting Player is updated such that the square containing his Avatar (in Reality, so this also reveals the Avatar's location) and all adjacent squares reflect the True Gamestate.

• Conditions: Acting Player did not take any Action during the 2 previous ndays.