Fetch Modi

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Modus name:
- Display function (default: linear)
- Rules around using a static number of cards (default: uses cards in-place)
- Captcha function (default: first available emptiest space, otherwise first card, or append to end)
- Fetch function (default: all cards)

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Homestuck Modi

Stack:

• Uses the last card
• Inserts cards at the front of the deck
• Only front card is fetchable

Queue:

• Uses the last emptiest card, otherwise the last card
• Inserts cards at the front of the deck
• Only last card is fetchable

Array:

• All defaults

Hashmap:

• Inserts cards into the index of card according to a hash function, mod the number of cards
• Fetches a card according to another hash

Tree:

• Displays as a binary tree
• Inserts cards at the tree according to name, balancing the tree if a card goes out of bounds
• Either root or leaves are fetchable, but root uproots the whole tree if taken

Recipe:

• Displayed as a book with random regeneratable recipes for each item

Memory:

• Displays as pairs of upside down cards
• Both pairs must be flipped to fetch item

Jenga:

• Displays as a stack of blocks, where each item is three blocks
• All three blocks must be removed to fetch an item, and toppled blocks are ejected

Pictionary:

• Displays as a writing surface
• Item must be drawn to be fetched, but ghost cards can also be created

Puzzle:

• Displays as cards varying in size and put in a constrained space
• Any items that do not fit are ejected

Message in a Bottle:

• Displays as a cabinet full of bottles, with cards in the bottles (liquids just fill the bottles)
• Bottle must be broken to fetch item

Shade:

• Organizes items according to rhyming; two items may not rhyme

Groove:

• All items must have thematic similarity with each other

Hash Table:

• Inserts cards into the index of card according to a hash function, mod the number of cards

Encryption:

• Creates a large, heavy, physical safe
• Safe must be hacked to fetch

Ouija:

• Displays as a Ouija board
• Cards fetched are decided by otherworldly forces

Miracle:

• Shiny colors!
• Random fetching and random properties such as ejection speed

Chastity:

• Displays as cards wrapped in chains and a lock
• Cards must be fetched using an Auxilatrix Key which appears in a chest whenever the item is ready to be used

Eight Ball:

• Displays as a collection of 8-balls, which when peered through shows a card with a clearer code
• 8-ball must be broken to fetch item

Scratch:

• Item is not shown on card

Sniff:

• Card smells like item

Juju:

• When bound with another Juju Modus, when an item is captchalogued, it can only be fetched by the bound person

Notable mentions: Boggle, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Clue, Connect Four, Battleship, Guess Who, Operation

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MSU Modi

Cyclone:

• Displays as a rotating ring
• The card that is at the top of the ring is fetchable

Onion:

• Displays as concentric rings, where each ring has 4*n cards
• Outermost ring is fetchable

Alchemy:

• Inserted cards are turned into grist
• Cards are alchemized instead of fetched

Communist:

• Sylladex is shared with everyone else who has this modus

Capitalist:

• Cards must be paid for in boondollars

Book:

• Displayed as a book with information on each item
• The book itself can also be taken out and flushed back in

Cookie:

• Cards must be fetched by eating a cookie

Sacrifice:

• Cards fetched damage the player slightly

Wild Magic:

• Cards fetched give effects based on a d20 roll

Weight:

• The more items that are captcha'd, the slower the player moves
• Captchaing Float Stones reduces this

Monster:

• Cards fetched spawn a monster that must be slain to retrieve the item

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HS RP Wiki Modi

Deck:

• Displays as a laid out deck of cards, with 4 total suits
• Inserts into a random empty card
• Must remember which card is filled according to suit and number to fetch

Poker:

• All cards are shuffled and 5 are laid out, but can be reshuffled
• All displayed cards are fetchable

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Honorable arcade game mentions: Frogger, Zuma, Galaga, Pong, PacMan, Tetrix

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FM Wiki Modi

Alarm:

• A timer is set when a card is captcha'd
• Cards are automatically fetched at the end of the timer

Bingo:

• Displays as a series of bingo cards, where the bingo spaces are descriptors of an object
• Cards must be fetched through a bingo

Directed Graph:

• Displays as a directed graph
• When you captcha an item, you must chose a parent node
• Uses the deepest card
• When cards are fetched, every child is ejected

Camera:

• Displays as a camera and polaroids
• You must take a picture of the thing you want to captcha
• If the focus is fuzzy, you get a ghost image instead

Char:

• All items must start with the same letter

Chess:

• Displays as a chessboard ((n/4)^2 spaces when reset) with cards as pieces
• A piece must be taken to fetch a card, and games are reset if the king is taken (must be mated)

Clock:

• Displays as a clock with hour, minute, and second hands
• Cards under a hand are fetchable

Chest:

• Allows you to store a number of items depending on the storage space provided by storage items such as chests

Target:

• Displays as a target with concentric and split rings, with more important items closer to the center
• Target area must be shot to fetch an item

Defuse:

• Displays cards as bombs
• Bombs must be diffused to fetch card, otherwise it explodes, dealing high damage

Dice:

• Cards must bet fetched by rolling an appropriate set of dice
• Has a toggle for Ordered Pair (eg [1, 4]) and Sum (eg 5) modes

Disassembly:

• Displays as a collection of puzzle pieces, with more important items having more pieces
• The puzzle must be solved to fetch the item

Irrational:

• Captured items are assigned to a digit value of an irrational number (eg, 1 in 3.1415....)
• When an card of one number is fetched, all other cards of that number are ejected (eg, the second and fourth cards)
• The decimal point counts as a digit

Ejection:

• Items must be captured by throwing them into a specified area
• When you fetch a card, the item is ejected with the negative velocity it was captured with

Blocking:

• When a card is fetched, all cards before it are ejected (but cards after it are left)

Forced:

• Cards cannot be fetched, but can be ejected (eg, if capturing too many items)

Frog:

• Displays as a terrarium of frogs, with a frog representing a card
• When you capture an item, a frog essentially eats it, changing its attributes such as size and color based on the item
• When a card is fetched, the frog ejects the item and loses its color (but no other attributes)
• You must take care of the frogs. If a frog dies, the card is lost

Growth:

• Displays as a collection of plants of varying size and needs depending on what item was captured and where it was captured, as if it was a native plant
• Plants must be grown to maturity to fetch cards, or else cards are lost

Guitar Tune:

• Cards must be fetched by playing an associated chord on a provided guitar

Index:

• Sorts alphabetcially

Internet Explorer:

• Fetching a card takes 30 seconds at a 50% success rate due to errors

Keepsake:

• Once a card has been filled, it is permanently marked and can only be filled with that kind of item

Library:

• Displays as a bookshelf with a book for each card
• Fetched items gain a time limit in which they must be returned, otherwise they are overdue. If too many items are overdue, then you temporarily lose access to the books

Mailbox:

• Captured items are sent to someone else who also has the mailbox modus, determined by a written address. Similar to the juju modus, but not bound to one person alone

Massive Ejection:

• Fetched items eject 99 generic copies of that item

Nerd:

• Cards become sides on a D20
• Roll the die to fetch an item

Numerology:

• To fetch an item, n numbers 0..9 are generated where n = ceil(num_cards / 8) + 2, and you must combine these numbers through mathematical operations to retrieve a card

Ocarina:

• Items are stored and fetched by playing a tune corresponding to an item's code
• If a tune is played for an item that is not present, its ghost image is captured instead

Password-Protected:

• Captured items must have a password
• Fetched items must use their password

Pack:

• When one card is fetched, all other cards are ejected

Playing Card:

• Each item is assigned to a playing card

Pocket:

• Captured cards are put in pockets that appear on your clothing

Pokémodus:

• Items are captured by throwing an empty pokéball at them
• Items are retrieved by throwing a pokéball containing them
• Different pokéballs may be more effective based on item size

Quiz:

• Fetching an item requires answering a trivia question

Revolver:

• Items are shot out of a gun

Scale:

• Captured items are put on the higher end of a scale
• Only items that are on the higher end are fetchable

Shadow:

• Captured items are only visible by their silhouettes

Slash-and-Burn:

• Cards are arranged in a grid
• Fetching an item "slashes" its card, rendering it unusable
• "Burning" a card renders it usable again, destroying any item inside
• "Burning" a card also "burns" its adjacent cards (this does not cascade)

Slot Machine:

• Captured items are added as icons to a slot machine, with duplicates if the item is relatively simple compared to the highest value item
• You must match all 3 icons to fetch an item

Solitaire:

• Captured items are added to a game of solitaire as a suit
• Items are fetched by completing a full suit of that item

TARDIS:

• Captured items are automatically fetched after a set time
• Fetched items are accompanied by "a loud wheezing and groaning noise"

Useless:

• Items are considered captured when you pick them up
• Items are considered fetched when you put them down

Thievery:

• Items can only be captured from other players' sylladices

Transfer:

• Captured items are sent to a coplayer

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Modi from this one reddit thread

Roulette:

• Displays as a gun with a random order of card bullets
• Cards must be fetched by "forcefully ejecting" them

Spellbook:

• Displays each card with a list of random Verbal, Somatic, or Material components
• Cards must be fetched through these components

Malloc:

• When you captcha an item, it gives you a randomly assigned pointer
• Cards must be fetched through the pointer, or a randomly generated item if incorrect
• Cards can/must be freed to be captchalogueable again

Bracelet:

• Displays as bands around your wrist, colored according to the mode of the item
• Cards must be fetched by shooting the band

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Dictionary:

• When you captcha an item, you must associate it with another item as key
• Fetching an item requires the key

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Keyring:

• Displays as a collection of keys on a keyring, where a key's appearance is randomized and the teeth correspond to the item's code
• Cards must be fetched by using them in a provided lock

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Button:

• A button must be pressed a number of times corresponding to the index of a card to fetch it

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Size:

• Items are put in an index corresponding to their size

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Fetch:

• Fetched items are ejected at high speed in a random direction