From the blog "The Lupine Collection"

As a follow-up to the Lupine Manifesto post, I thought I'd repost a slightly edited version of a message I wrote talking about a design for a Defeat-style mod.   The idea is to create a very small, extremely minimal defeat handler, with outcomes as plugins that can be added by other mods.     Basically, to take ALL the consequence handling out of the core defeat mod and provide a way to register arbitrary defeat handlers.   The most basic defeat handler is thus