What's going on here
Offset: 1) a side-shoot from a plant serving for propagation. 2) an offshoot or scion. 3) a compensation; a consideration or amount diminishing or neutralizing the effect of a contrary one.

Modified rules for run 3 (March-April 2005)

Rules as before (see archive of the first run) except:

•     two rounds per week
•     rounds finish 10 p.m. GMT, each Tuesday and Friday
•     mailout by midnight each Tuesday and Friday (all relevant gods permitting)
•     website updated by lunchtime each Wednesday and Saturday
•     a node dies if it has not been responded to for three rounds
•     authorship of nodes will be revealed only when nodes die
•     limit of two nodes per player for each round

And it's all human-powered, so cut some slack, eh?