Chorby Soul
Chorby Soul was a pitcher for the New York Millennials, and was with the team since the Season 15 elections until being incinerated on Season 16, Day 89. Soul has played for the Seattle Garages.
Official League Records
Soul joined the ILB as a lineup player for the New York Millennials with the Return of Blaseball.
On Season 3, Day 14, Soul was incinerated and replaced by Sandie Turner.
Soul is best known post-incineration for their unique soulscream attribute, which breaks the bounds of the soulscream cipher and continues printing the word "undefined" for far longer than the original soulscream. In the Offseason following Season 14, Blaseball was updated to truncate Soul's soulscream, ending with "...AIUIXIIUIXIIEHHEIEHHEIEAEIIIAEIIIA... (CONT. FOR 1477 SOUL)". Readers can view the entire uncompressed soulscream at Chorby Soul/Uncompressed Soulscream.
During the Season 14 elections, Soul joined the Seattle Garages due to the Garages' Plunder will, becoming a pitcher in the process. This marks Soul as the fourth player to return from the Hall of Flame.
Due to frequent and repeated Consumer attacks, Soul's star counts in all categories reached 0.0 on Season 15, Day 7 after ten Consumer attacks. Soul's attributes reached the lowest they could possibly be during these attacks.
Soul was traded to the New York Millennials in exchange for Penelope Mathews during the Season 15 elections via the Millennials' Plunder will. Soul's Debt modification was also changed into the Unstable modification by the Garages' Reform will.
On Season 16, Day 88, Soul was incinerated and replaced by Mikan Hammer.
COMMUNITY REPORTSThe remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.
Blaseball Career
Soul acted as a serviceable batter for the Millennials from the beginning of Season 1 until their incineration early in Season 3, at 4:20am on Day 14. The Umpire was aiming for Dominic Marijuana, and Chorby sacrificed themself to save him.
Starting in Season 2, Soul developed a fervent fanbase who are known for congregating in left field. Generally, the fans would wear bright yellow shirts with Soul's face across the front. In addition, they would alternately chant "Chorby Yes!" and "Chorby No!" depending on how Soul was playing at any given time.
When asked about the fans, Soul remarked, "I'm going to be honest, I have no idea what I'm doing out here. I don't totally get Blaseball. So sometimes it's nice to have the fans let me know. Yeah."
Philanthropic Work
Soul earned significant praise for their affiliation with the charitable organization Society for the Prevention of the Second Law of Thermodynamics (SP2LT). They previously served on the Board of Directors (prior to incineration) and had previously donated large but undisclosed sums of money to the organization.
At a gala celebrating the opening of SP2LT's New York City headquarters under a decrepit bridge in Central Park, Soul told the crowd, "It's unfair that with so many technological advances in our modern world, we haven't found a way to stop the unceasing growth of entropy in our system. Stability good, entropy bad, Chorby Yes!"
Post-Incineration
After Soul's incineration, they took on a pseudo-religious significance among a subset of Millennials fans, apparently descended from their fervent fanbase during their time as a player. These individuals carried on the practice of the "Chorby chanting," but for any events that impacted the Millennials positively or negatively respectively, and it appears there was still some superstitious significance attached to the name of "Chorby" even after (or perhaps even due to) their sudden and dramatic passing. It is theorized by religious scholars that these cultists took Soul's surname as a sign that their influence would remain even after their fiery removal from the Immaterial Plane.
Among the various Soul-styled incantations were the familiar "Chorby Yes" (now a prayer of thanks for positive fortune) and "Chorby No" (used as a prayer for deliverance from bad innings, Shames, or other blaseball misfortunes), but also "Chorby Pls" (a prayer of supplication) and "Chorby Bless" (used similar to the "Chorby Yes" but demonstrating the continued transformation of the chants to a religious exercise) and, most commonly, "Chorby Thanks". In addition to the chants, some Millennials composed hymns, one example of which is reproduced below:
I heard there was a soul named named Chorb
Who swung a bat at the pitcher's orb
But you don't really care for blaseball, do ya?
Well they'd step to bat in the fourth or fifth,
Sometimes hit the ball, mostly swung and whiffed,
A baffled soul composing Chorbyllujah
Chorbyllujah, Chorbyllujah
Chorbyllujah, Chorbyllujah
Well, your faith was strong and your will was steeled,
As you saw Dom standing on the field
His beauty in eclipse-light fell upon ya,
The ump's eyes gleamed with cosmic fire,
But you saved our Dom from that Ump-lit pyre,
And "CHORBY NO!" screamed poor Dom Marijuana,
Marijuana, Marijuana
Marijuana, Marijuana
The cult of Chorby-chanting continues to this day.
The Book of Chorby is among the forbidden texts [citation needed].
Resurrection
Reports of what took place the day of the resurrection are as follows: The day of the Season 14 elections, pitcher Alaynabella Hollywood stood atop the mound of the Big Garage, bass guitar in hand, hooked up to the Garage’s Psychoacoustic sound system. Fellow pitcher Magi Ruiz stood behind her, holding her large tome, watching. She began strumming a tune not dissimilar to the one Ruiz used to pull Wyatt Mason X (hereby referred to as MaX) out of the sound system, but with the use of her extra fingers was able to augment it. As she played, smoke began to rise from the diamond, until an ear piercing scream reverberated throughout the stadium. Some say they saw a figure dash onto the field at this point, perhaps in an attempt to stop what was about to transpire, though none have been able to recall who. When the smoke cleared, Chorby Soul stood before them.
Ruiz has given conflicting reports as to what it was her intent was on the field that morning. In one interview, she claimed to be attempting to bring MaX back from Elsewhere, and there was a conflicting frequency as the speakers were being tuned. In another, she claimed to be attempting some kind of ritual to keep the sound system from turning echo players into static, and Hollywood accidentally misplayed a chord. Some even speculate Ruiz knew what she was doing, having an intimate knowledge of the works of the late Ron Monstera and his research into the M Chord, a theoretical para-acoustic phenomenon tied to the vibrational frequency of the Immaterial Plane rumored to be able to create a rift to the hall itself.
Trivia
- Chorby Soul had never met a dog they didn’t like.
- Chorby Soul's favorite color was chartreuse.
- Chorby Soul once landed a plane on the [REDACTED] River after a [REDACTED] flew into the plane's engine. The reason for Chorby being in the cockpit at the time remains unknown.
- The longest losing streak of the New York Millennials (29 losses in a row) began the following day after Season 16, Day 58 when Chorby Soul won their first game, and ended after Soul won their second game posthumously on Season 16, Day 88.
Fan Works
Chorby Soul is the focus of the following songs:
Chorby minis by Hetreasky
post-necromancy chorby, by @kayleerowena
Chorby ready to rock by supercell
Chorbpls by @fwiphy
Commanding the Consumers by @fwiphy
Chum by dipppitydoop
Chorby bust by minxxikuo#3230
