Alternate

Alternate
Description	This Player is an Alternate... Player is replaced with an alternate reality version, stats are randomized.
Duration	Permanent
Target(s)	Player
Cause(s)	Solar Eclipse (Red) weather, Decree, or Blessing; DecreeBeta or WillBeta

Alternate is a Player Modification, first seen in the Season 4 Elections.

Effects

When a player gains the Alternate modification, their Player Attributes#Attributes which calculate star rating are completely randomised, along with their Fate number. Modifications, allergy status, and Soul will remain unchanged.

History

Season 4 Decree

In Season 4, one of the Decree options was called Alternate Reality, which had the description: Randomize the stats of one hitter and one pitcher on every team. This Decree ended up being one of the Decrees won in Season 4, activating with the following message:

• Alternate Reality passed with 52,343 votes and 23% of all decree votes.
  • The Alternates are called.
  • They take their places.
  • Reverberations build...

One batter and one pitcher on every team at the time was given the Alternate modification, and their stats were completely randomized. The following players were Alternated in this fashion:

Discipline Era

Further Blessings were offered throughout the Expansion Era to alternate players: Collect Call in Season 6, which Alternated the Dallas Steaks' least-Idolized player, Leach Herman; and Party Line in Seasons 6] and 8, which duplicated Evelton McBlase and Mooney Doctor and added their Alternates, Evelton McBlase II and Mooney Doctor II, to the Houston Spies' and Kansas City Breath Mints' rosters respectively.

Wills

In the Expansion Era, Wills were offered to the fans for the first time as a new way to boost and affect their Team. Two Wills offered during the Era involved the Alternate modification:

Alternate, with the description "Call in an Alternate for a Player on your Team." was offered from Seasons 12-14. The following teams filed the Will: In Season 12, the Yellowstone Magic, alternating Cory Twelve; and the Dallas Steaks, alternating Gallup Crueller. In Season 13, only the Atlantis Georgias filed the Will, alternating Flattery McKinley, and no teams chose the Will in in Season 14.

From Season 15 onward, Alternate Trust replaced the Alternate Will, claiming it would "Call in an Alternate for a Player on your Team, with a mystery Benefit." These "benefits" were a range of permanent player Modifications.

In Season 15, three players received the Parasite Modification in addition to being Alternated: Elwin McGhee, of the Tokyo Lift; Yong Wright, of the Mexico City Wild Wings; and Baldwin Breadwinner, of the Hawai'i Fridays.

In Season 16, three more players were targeted by Alternate Trust, this time receiving the Careful Modification: PolkaDot Patterson, Socks Maybe, and Elijah Valenzuela of the Dallas Steaks, Chicago Firefighters, and Breckenridge Jazz Hands respectively.

The Modification which would've been given to Alternate Trusted players in Season 17 is unknown, as no teams filed the Alternate Trust Will.

In Season 18, the Alternate Trust Will was visually associated with the Reader, and gave players the Negative Modification (with the exception of Justice Spoon, who was already Negative from the Season 18 Reading and gained the Undertaker Modification instead. In addition to Justice Spoon, Yrjö Kerfuffle of the Houston Spies, Kelvin Andante of the Core Mechanics, Erin Jesaulenko of the Georgias, Greer Lott of the Canada Moist Talkers, Jessica Telephone of the Lift, Ren Hunter of the Charleston Shoe Thieves, Scarlet Caster of the Wild Wings, Brisket Friendo of the Seattle Garages, and Anathema Elemefayo of the New York Millennials were Alternated this season.

Season 19's recipients of the Alternate Trust Will (Jaylen Hotdogfingers of the Boston Flowers, Caleb Novak of the Miami Dale, Socks Maybe (again) of the Firefighters, Amos Melon of the Moist Talkers, and Peanut Holloway of the Philly Pies) also received the Negative modification.

Expansion Era Blessings

During the Expansion Era, there were multiple Blessings that allowed Teams to Alternate multiple players on their team at once. The following Blessings involved the Alternate modification:

Blessing	Description	Season(s) Offered	Winning Team	Notes
On Deck	Call the Alternate for all Players in your Shadows.	Season 17	Chicago Firefighters	List of Alternated players. The Alternation of Lance Serotonin also revealed that Attractors could be refreshed via alternation, losing their Attractor modification.
Shots in the Dark	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 5 random Players in your Team's Shadows.	Season 20	Atlantis Georgias	List of Alternated players
Couldn't Hurt	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for the 2 worst Players on your Team's Active Roster.	Season 20	Hades Tigers	Alternated Hiroto Wilcox and Randy Castillo.
Lineup Alternate Trust	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 3 random Players in your Team's Lineup.	Season 21, Season 22	Seattle Garages, Charleston Shoe Thieves	List of Alternated players
Rotation Alternate Trust	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 2 random Players in your Team's Rotation.	Season 21, Season 22	Hades Tigers, Hawai'i Fridays	List of Alternated players
Handful Alternate Trust	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 5 random Players on your Team's Active Roster.	Season 21, Season 22	Core Mechanics, Baltimore Crabs	List of Alternated players
Shadows Alternate Trust	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for your entire Team's Shadows.	Season 21, Season 22	Yellowstone Magic, Hawai'i Fridays	List of Alternated players
Alternate Bust	A random Ego-Boosted Player on your Team gets their Negative Alternate called (maintaining Stars) and they lose 1 Ego.	Season 22	Hawai'i Fridays	Don Mitchell received this blessing, reducing their Ego from  Ego++This Player has a boosted boosted Ego. to  Ego+This Player has a boosted Ego..

Trivia

• Players can also theoretically be Alternated if they return from Elsewhere while Entangled. As only one player has ever had the Entangled modification, and said modification was due to an Item Moved off the player, this has never been seen in-game.
• Starting in Season 18, Alternates were reworked so that if a freshly Alternated Player had fewer Stars than before they were Alternated, their Player Attributes would be boosted until the amount of Stars after their Alternation were the same or higher than as before.
  • This created a quirk where an Alternate's Patheticism — like other stats — would be boosted in an attempt to 'improve' them, despite higher levels of Patheticism — unlike other stats — lowering a Player's Star total. This was especially prevalent in Alternates with previously high Star totals. As the number of boosts an Alternate received was dependent on the difference between their pre- and post-reroll Stars value, Players with higher initial Star totals required a larger number of boosts, resulting in greater chances of Patheticism and Tragicness reaching their maximum. This is often referred to by Fans as the Path Bug, although it has not been confirmed by The Game Band whether it is a bug or intentional.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
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Fan Works

Music

• replacement waltz by Erica, about Lenjamin Zhuge

Interactive Fiction

• ablaze with the people you've been by staradavid, about Edric Tosser
• run from me or rip me open by staradavid, about Justice Spoon

Animatics

• Iggy - An Alternate by Olive, about Igneus Delacruz