Rule 5E51

From B Nomic

Rule 5E51: The Mad Scientist

There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Mad Science; the Minister of Mad Science, also known as the Mad Scientist or Frankenstein, is responsible for building the Monster. The Mad Scientist can, as a Game Action, cause the monster to do anything that the rules say it may or can do, and shall cause the monster to do anything that the rules say that it must or shall do.

The Mad Scientist must, every nweek, do the following tasks in order:

a) Randomly select exactly one rule. If the selected rule is either this rule or the rule "The Monster", then the villagers have shown up with torches and pitchforks; skip directly to proposal submission.

b) Select one or more contiguous sentences from the selected rule.

c) Select exactly one noun from the selected text, and replace each instance of that noun with "Monster" (including grammatical variations, e.g. replacing "<noun>'s" with "Monster's").

d) Submit a proposal to append the modified text to the rule "The Monster" (or, if the villagers have shown up with torches and pitchforks, to repeal both that rule and this one).