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2/20/06
v.90
First initiation of rules, this run-down:
1. 6 players
2. 4 phages
3. 6,5,4,3 dice configuration
4. Body map with 18 locations, 6 entry zones
5. Zones with capacity, trauma tracks, entry conditions
6. 1-2-4-7-11-16 payout
7. Trauma chits and health marker
8. Score track and health track
9. Phage gauge

2/21/06
v.90
1. Minor component art and name tweaks
2. Completed rules text for all of the above

2/22/06
v.90
1. Put event cards on hold; over-systemized
2. Put red/blue (universal adapter/anadapter) dice on hold; over-systemized
3. Put entry codes on hold; over-systemized
4. Re-ruled scoring for no event cards
5. Max scoring phages players have phages killed after scoring
6. Trauma tracks hard-coded at 7, and there will be 3 scoring models (pos 567, pos 147, and pos 123)
7. Clarification: players may not evict own phages
8. Re-colored the health track!
9. Phage gauges re-drawn!
10. Part chart created, dumb and balanced, good ‘nuff for prototype.

2/27/06
v.90
1. Made the map, large size, with gates and populations
2. Added player aids with:
 Action Points and what they’re for
 How to multiple, move, mutate, eject, and traumatize in brief
 Scoring Chart
 The parts chart, with gates and populations
3. Changed part failure scoring; Style A
4. Put Health track on hold; over-systemized BUT the rules for ending the game are unchanged, still mentions the death of the body…
5. NP/2 capacity defined as rounded down.
6. Made a real map! It’s a total mess!
7. Whoops! Forgot about re-entering start zones… Added it as moving…

3/1/06
v.91
1. Reduce all phage codes to a single phage gauge, with head, 3, 4, 5, and 6 marked. Combine with player turn aid and scoring table.
2. Changed gates to size/length gates, start gates to genome gates.

3/6/06
v.91
1. Dropped to 14 parts, some renaming (v.91 part map).
2. Fixed lower bounds of size gates (everything <3 now ==3).
3. Set physical map sizes based on capacity.
4. New phage gauges/player aids

3/23/07
v.92
1. Cosmetic change to scoring chart (was “0”, is “None”)
2. Re-worked body part names
3. Total re-work of map; it is beuatiful grotesque
4. Added Stoma <==> Intake
5. Clean-up of rules wording
6. Um, re: 3/6/06 #1, there are still 18 parts…
7. Re-introduce the health track (moved by trauma/failure events only)
8. Changed Eject to Bully

11/13/2008
v.93
1. More rules clean-up, more normalization of terminology
2. Cosmetic documentation changes; test log, work notes, and components separated from rules doc.
3. Capturing/take-over => assimilation
4. Cosmetic updates to phage gauges
5. Cosmetic updates to names of tracks, trackers, counters, &c.
6. Starting phenotype random after genome
7. Genome Gate => Infection Gate
8. Yellowed Infecion Zones
9. More doc illustrations
10. Health track utilized w/reactions/failures to end game
11. cleaned up scoring examples
12. destroyed “bodyparts” entry