The Discordian Senate

[Telarus]

++Is it the duly appointed successor of Emperor Norton? Or is it (as its name implies) the governing body of Discordianism (in the same way that the Pope and College of Cardinals govern Roman Catholicism)?++


These are the exact memes we need to subvert. If you run with these as serious mission statements, this will crash and burn in LAIL and drama fueled LOLercost. Which might be valid goal, but not in this game, I think.

[Lord Quantum]

Yeah, I was just sorta "thinking out loud" in that post trying to come up with a scenario to play. In Model U.N. you play a delegate to the U.N. so what's the scenario for the Discordian Senate (since we'll be pretending to be a non-existent organization). Well I've just decided to scrap the question for right now and concentrate on the Robert's Rules of Order part for the moment. We'll leave the deeper questions 'till later. Also, I like the way wikia looks, so I say once we've figured out how the RROO will work online we'll just create our own wikia. So anyway...I'll start the game (all official like) in my next post and we'll just take it from there.

[Lord Quantum]

Background Reading
Rather than asking everyone to read Robert's Rules of Order (which will have to have to be heavily amended anyway) I've decided to just teach everyone the rules as we go along. So at the very least, everyone needs to learn how to sessions begin, how to make a motion, how debate works, how to draft documents and how to vote. After that, I think everything else will sort itself out. So here we go...the first thing that happens at the beginning of every session of any parliamentary body is that the chair will ask the body to set the agenda. The agenda is the list of topics that will be debated during the current session. If the body cannot decide on an agenda within a certain time frame, the chair will set the agenda.

Mini-Game One
In mini-game one (MG1) Senators will learn learn how sessions begin and how to make a motion.

The Agenda
1. Zenarchy
2. Getting down, preferably tonight
3. Calvinball

How to Make a Motion
During MG1, the only motions that will be accepted are motions "to set the agenda at..." and motions to second a motion. For example, let's say that Sen. Iptuous really likes Calvinball and Zenarchy but he doesn't care about getting down (regardless of the time). He might want to make a motion to set the agenda at (3) (1) (2). The chair (me) will then ask for someone to second the motion.

BEGIN!
(bangs gavel)
I hereby call this meeting to order. Are there any points or motions on the floor at this time?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I move to declare the senate officially and orificially an imaginary organization prior to new motions, for the sake of optimal confusion and preferably meta for all.

[the last yatto]

seconded  
anyone a posed?

aww who cares

motion to set the agenda to 23
and worry about one later...