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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9488219" data-attributes="member: 63">I'm writing a fantasy novel now where society is built upon a bunch of magical stone tablets, graven with laws that are inviolable, and which interact in odd ways. I need a few more examples of coding gone wrong for dumb reasons to integrate into the story. Like a master monolith says that, &quot;For temples to receive the recognition of the god of mercy, punishment by the temple must abide these rules: thieves can be branded but their blood cannot be shed, hecklers can be muzzled and...,&quot; but then a temple seeking to gain that recognition got a subtablet that referenced the monolith, but listed the wrong line, &quot;thieves also be punished as described in line 35 of the recognition commandment of Mateshur,...&quot; And in combination with some other wording, it ends up saying that anyone who steals anything from the temple is struck mute. And the punishment happens even if the temple doesn't know about the theft. And when they DO try to brand someone, they won't burn because that punishment isn't codified.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 9488219, member: 63"] I'm writing a fantasy novel now where society is built upon a bunch of magical stone tablets, graven with laws that are inviolable, and which interact in odd ways. I need a few more examples of coding gone wrong for dumb reasons to integrate into the story. Like a master monolith says that, "For temples to receive the recognition of the god of mercy, punishment by the temple must abide these rules: thieves can be branded but their blood cannot be shed, hecklers can be muzzled and...," but then a temple seeking to gain that recognition got a subtablet that referenced the monolith, but listed the wrong line, "thieves also be punished as described in line 35 of the recognition commandment of Mateshur,..." And in combination with some other wording, it ends up saying that anyone who steals anything from the temple is struck mute. And the punishment happens even if the temple doesn't know about the theft. And when they DO try to brand someone, they won't burn because that punishment isn't codified. [/QUOTE]

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