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<option>“I’m not sure if it's appropriate to ask given your... history with them, but if you can hear us from up here can you make sure they all get home okay?"</option> | <option>“I’m not sure if it's appropriate to ask given your... history with them, but if you can hear us from up here can you make sure they all get home okay?"</option> | ||
| + | <option> “So the new team’s god is dead huh? Don’t know if you’re still out there, but if you are MAN are they going to need some help.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Hey, we were doing good work. I don’t get why you had to send aer away. Now I just have a big haunted house and it’s ''fine'' because I do my best work alone and I’m great at it but also if you could also knock it off that would be appreciated.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Hey what the hell. Why did you do this, what is it supposed to mean? Ken thinks it’s some kind of omen but I think you’re just scared and sad about Brock and taking it all out on us. Get over yourself.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “It's your fault bringing York back ended up like this right? It has to be.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I don’t know if you take requests, but please leave my arm clear if you’re going to be adding chitin, I want to build it up myself.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Hey can you do me a favour and make sure Jacoby ends up somewhere nice? I don’t want them to get too stuck in their head about this whole thing. They’re sometimes bad at remembering that people love them. </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Thanks for the help with Fran - I think it was good for her. Sometimes you need to do it with your own hands to really get what your next step needs to be.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Pedro asked me to buy him some time so he can be there for Bertie… I know you don’t do like, ''blessings'' really, but I just need to make sure that I can hit runs so he doesn’t need to come play. His friend needs him, and this is all I can do to help. </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I’m not really sure what I should ask you honestly? I guess… I’d like to see it once, just to get an idea of it. What does it look like from where you are? How does it feel to be how you are? I want to know it and understand it, and I want to help other people get that perspective. You learned something important, and I want to help other people understand it. </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Hey I know Yurts made a pearl for you and I wanted to offer to make a case for it? I’ve done it for some of the others and I know it’s nice to have a resting place for it. Just let me know when you’re ready okay? I know losing someone close to you can be hard.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “So it sounds like xxx is worried about something. They keep talking about the exhibition game and the end of the era. I don’t know about all that, but I do think they feel like we’re running out of time. Is there any way you can help them play just once before then? I got out of the shadows, and I know that’s not quite the same, but like is that something you can help with?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I don’t pray to you, or any other dead god. But if you’re listening, I’ll take all the help I can get in keeping my aim steady.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I’m not sure this is the price I wanted to pay for not flinching anymore.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Please look after her. I know she’s going through a hard time right now, and she might hurt some people she doesn’t mean to. Or some people she wants to hurt. But she’ll regret it later. Just - keep the odds on her side all right?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Don’t know what's gonna happen next but I’ve read the books and I’ve seen your signs. I swear to myself this is the only time I’ll ask you for anything but please, just give me a good clean hit on him.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I don’t know how this works, do I just - say things? Uh, I’m sorry I let Ken and Enid get swept away, and then Zeu and Conner. I’m sorry I froze when I should’ve gone after them. I don’t want to freeze like that again. I - won’t freeze like that again. So. Just so you know, I guess. I think that’s it.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Can you make them bring my sister back? Please. I don’t know who else to ask.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I don’t really get why people do this, or if I’m supposed to, or if - it feels kind of like talking to a gravestone? I guess I get that. And it’s not like you’ll tell anyone the stuff I say, right? So I can say I miss being in the shadows. And you won’t tell anyone? Right?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Why did you bring me here? I liked it where I was. I want things to go back to normal, but no one will shut up about the alternates, and how you did this. Why couldn’t you have carcinized the Lorcan who was here, like you did to everyone else? I want to go home.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Just wondering if you can help with the building permits for the helicopter pad I ordered for the Crabitat? The city council said this was my best bet at getting them expedited and while I think they were being facetious I am willing to give this a shot.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “You’re a lot different than the dead god on my first team. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing. Maybe it’s not a good thing actually.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “If you’ve got a minute I’ve got a couple questions for you actually - how much do you know about what goes on here? I’ve been talking to some of the team and it seems like you think you should have all the answers. </br> </br> | ||
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| + | No? Well that’s too bad I guess. It’s fine, I prefer figuring it out for myself anyway” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Just know you’ll never tie me down, that’s not how I roll. No one can tell me where to go.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I don’t know if this is your thing but like, if you can do anything about all these consumers that would be great thanks” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Okay those cannons were a ''great'' idea. Was that you? Someone said that you’re also the stadium? Baltimore is weird, but it’s a lot of fun!” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “They told me that I don’t have to talk to you if I don’t want to, and hell I’m assuming I’m just talking to thin air right now, but…. It’s nice sometimes.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “...I just miss them so much. And it was my fault that they died and I didn’t stop it. I know people say that it’s impossible to really stop but we have fire-eaters now and all that junk. You think if I could be just a little bit faster there would have been something I could do.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I found that thing. I assume you know what I’m talking about and what I did with it. It’s symbolic I guess. I don’t think I’m just ''over'' it now but I suppose this is the first step. So… thanks for listening I guess.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “It’s funny, I think, because I never talked to them while they were on your team—our team? Doesn’t matter. But somehow I know exactly what they’d think of you anyway. Did you feel it when they got incinerated? Did you care? ... I’ve never been one for prayer. Don’t expect much. It’s nice to know someone might be listening, anyway.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Hey, can you tell Bevan to stop freezing like a deer in- well. A deer in headlights, whenever somebody passes by. I'm trying to make a friend here.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “They’re so wrapped up in you, in your corpse, in your memory, literally wrapping their own bodies in your shells. They can’t see past their own meaty little pincers. They’re so petrified with fear that they cocoon themselves with the thing they’re most afraid of and choose never to come out, never to even look over the walls. A whole city of stone, reliving her traumas. And now they sit on top of it all and refuse to budge, for fear of their supplanters.</br></br>Are the ones who never saw the danger so doomed to repeat our past mistakes? It was never the right question, when those who were there misstep and misstep and misstep everywhere they put their foot down. The throne is not given to the fearful and the stupid, it belongs to the ones with vision. Did you have vision? I was there too, you know. They don’t even know I grew up here when they talk about me like an outsider, but I remember you. But I don’t remember your vision.</br></br>You took, and you hoarded, you froze, yourself and others. And then you were killed. Your progeny follow in your footsteps. And the reins will again be passed on, bloody hand into bloody hand. My hand.</br></br>Do you want to see what this place can really become?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>”Are you real? Can anyone prove you exist beyond the dead shell in the Bay? What ''happened'' to you? Where can I find out more?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>”I tried asking the team about you and they all got real quiet. What did they do to you? What did you do to ''them''?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>”Oh I see how it is. I’m getting too close to it so now the perfect opportunity arises for me on the other side of the country. I’m going, but you know that it’s only a matter of time before I get even better at this and then it’s over for you.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>”Hey Lorc’s been elsewhere for a while. I know we’re not like, tight or anything, but can you send him back? Please?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>”So, like, is this whole thing just 'cause you hate me? 'Cause like, I get it if you hate me! I can deal with it! I can just steer clear over in Mexico and mind my business, y'know? Doesn't have to be a whole thing. Don't gotta… pull this bullcrud. Are you jealous of me, or something? If you want my attention, you can just ask, you know. You can, like, send me a crab valentine in the… crab mail. Not… not this, though. Please. Not this.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"Hey come check on your guys, they're not doing so hot and I'm here to play blaseball not be their emotional support captain." </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"I… didn't think I'd count honestly. I didn't really want to get all attached and sappy but… thanks. This does mean a lot I think. I guess they're as much my team as the Lovers were. I think I'm starting to get what Knight is up to." </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"Try it. I'll show you what happened to the last god that got cute with me." </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"You know I feel like we've got a lot in common. Just a bunch of washed up old legends that people fell in love with the ''idea'' of. Hope it works out better for me at least." </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"I'm off again. It was interesting at least. The crabs are never quite what people expect they will be huh." </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"Hmmm…. Let me know if you can give me a hand with all these new suns floating around. I think they may start to become a problem. <br/><br/>Signed, Tot Fox." </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen her, but look after Silvaire for me please. Sun killers need to stick together, and she’s going through some things right now. See if you can show her some nice birds. <br/><br/>Signed, Tot Fox.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Look at you, dead thing. All the majesty and abuse, for nothing at all. If you were hungrier, you’d still be here. Pitiful. You should be the one praying to me.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Don’t touch my son.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I didn’t need your help getting back down here, and I don’t need your help getting Valentine back. But I ''will'' get her back. Just so you know.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “The ghosts are new. I’m not sure how I feel about them. It’s just so much harder to focus on anything now…”</option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Combs came by the other day, it was good to see her. I think she’s upset with me but that’s understandable. She says it has nothing to do with the team but I’m not sure.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Nora’s doing well. I don’t know how well you knew her, but it’s good to at least know that she managed to stay upbeat in all of that. It really feels like ''life'' was the thing holding her back.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Luis… I’ll miss them. I’m glad they could come by though. Death doesn’t seem to have gotten them down at all.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Brock is- I don’t know if anyone has told you. I don’t know if you already know. But he’s passed. I’m sorry. I know you and him were close once. I’m sorry.” </option> | ||
| + | <option> “There are new ghosts. I don’t know who they are. Did you ever know them? Atma? Will? Were they yours?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “What does this mean? I know it has to be a sign but the cards are being vague. I don’t trust them right now. What are you trying to tell me? What’s about to happen?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “...Goodbye. Tell Bertie I love him. Tell Jacoby to work on something other than their fastball. And that I’m proud of him. Tell everyone that I’ll see them on the other side.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “The Garden. Much younger, much brighter. I can only hope its fate will be better than yours or mine.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Think we’re both getting too old for this.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I spent years waiting on the other shoe to drop. Like, this wasn’t the kinda story that gets an epilogue. But all this time and all the stories after, a change of scenery, maybe the tension’s loosened up. I picked up the trowel and took a big, bone popping stretch, and put the coffee on. I’m so calm, ma. The monsters are all asleep, the game is the same, Bertie’s en route. The story continues. Haha.</br></br>Ma, it ain’t Baltimore, but the black hole is out tonight, so...I don’t even know if you can hear this. I’d call it nostalgic to have a nice conversation again, but things weren’t really nice before, were they? Take care.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “THANK YOU FOR THE NEW TEETH!!!!!” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I don't care about phylogenetics or taxonomy or any of that [explicative removed]. I’m more of a true crab than you could ever be” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Part of him still missed you. Right up until he died. I don’t think he could ever regret it but I know he thought about it a lot. Did you know it was coming? Is that how I ended up here? </br></br> | ||
| + | I’m not going to thank you for it.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “How could you. You don’t get to mourn him. Get the hell out.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I’ve realized something. My heart was never with you. Or the city, for that matter. It was with him.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “It should’ve been me. It should’ve been me.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “They still believe in you, you know. The very least you could do is try to protect them. But you've never really been able to do that, have you?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I'm still not sorry we killed you, but it might be easier if you were still around, and I could blame you for everything that's going wrong. Who's fault is it, if it's not yours?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Can you — if you have any power at all, if you ever cared about any of us, if there’s anything left of you we didn’t manage to kill. Can you bring Luis back? It’s the only favor I’ll ever ask for. Please. I’d forgive you for killing me if you brought them back. I know you won’t, or can’t, but. Please?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Useless old crab.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I miss Luis. And Combs. And Forrest, and Tot, and Nagomi, and Val, and Dreamy, and Brock, and Bertie, and everyone else we’ve lost. I don’t miss you, though. I think you should stay dead.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “ I think after everything you know that I hate you, and all gods. But please, keep them safe. Don’t let anything like That happen to them” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Haunted Kennedy. To say. Get bent.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Back in Baltimore. It’s been a while.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I feel different than I used to. It’s been a long time. I’ve been here a long time.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I never appreciated the water before. Not on my own. I think some other people liked it. And now I like it. I think that means something.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Getting a lot of new faces down here lately. Can you at least ''try'' to help them stay out of trouble?” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Are you comfortable, wherever you are? We’ll send you some company real soon.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option>"hi apparently you're dead or something but the other me used to play for your guys and I'm running out of options so can you please help me find my car keys I'm running really late and—holy @#$% how the hell did that actually work? Uh thanks." </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “If you can hear me - tell him I love him, and that it’s not his fault.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Remember when we’d read to one another? You made a poet of me, then left me at a loss for words. I carry that cruelty with me wherever I go.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “I’m going to die tomorrow. I was—I was supposed to be immortal, y’know? Haha, well, I guess you do know, don’t you. And yet here we are. Do you think I’ll live on like you have? Do you think people’ll care enough to do that for me? Hey, well, only one way to find out. I’ll see you around, Deb!” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “They keep rooting for me to go back to the shadows. Can you do me a solid and make sure I don’t? At least for a while. I still want to play.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “The best thing you can- do, for me? Is stay away. Far away. I don't- want this, and I don't want to talk to you. This is- our Crabitat, our tunnels, not- yours. Not anymore.” </option> | ||
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| + | <option> “Brock had always—he’d been connected to you, right? I don’t want you near me, but can you tell me if he’s okay, in the Trench? Please. We need to know. We miss him. I miss him.” </option> | ||
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Revision as of 15:32, 10 July 2021
COMMUNITY REPORTSThe remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.
The Olde One (also known as The Mother Crab, Mr. Trash Wheel, The Deep One, They Who Lay In Slumber Under The Oldest Bay, Mom, The Indomitable Snip, She of the Eternal Shuffle, He of the Omniscent Ommatophores, “That There Big Crab”, Our Lady of the Impenecrable Shell, Ny'el'g'shuth Sh'ai'c'll'll'claroth, and Big Debrah) is the corpse-god of Chesapeake Bay, and matron diety to the Baltimore Crabs.
Prayers for The One Who Sleeps
The following words have been offered by the Baltimore Crabs If you would like to see more offerings, simply refresh the page.
“I know that it’s all about change. I know that’s why we end up here, and why we’ll all leave eventually. But it feels different when it happens to me. I guess that’s why I needed to experience this. So thanks? I guess? Though I don’t know if it’s still you handing out all those blessings.”
“Was it you who did this? I’m not going to thank you or anything. Didn’t even have the decency to rez me where I wanted to be, but whatever I’ll make it work. Tell Nora I said hi and also that her onboarding joke with the scuba tank was dumb. And please keep Combs down there - I think she’s still pissed about the song.”
“Useless old crab.”
Conflicting Histories
- If you ask 10 people who she was you will get 11 answers back. Rather than try and determine the truth of the matter we are simply choosing to record each one in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill as we come across it. This time, the Interdimensional Rumor Mill reveals a Rumor from IF-59.869 out of its Rumor Registry...
Origins
The Mother Crab has been a part of Baltimore for longer than there has been a Baltimore. She has been built up as the city itself grew, and acted as a focal point for the immense power of the bay itself. She lived under the water of the bay and would occasionally communicate out with a massive tapping of her claws on the rocks beneath her. Her form would cause ripples in the water, but also the weather and storms in the area. It was paramount to keep an eye on her moods as it would affect everything in Baltimore if she was having a bad day.
Murder
Not much is recorded about the killing of the Olde One. It is considered extremely impolite to bring up around anyone who was involved, and even between one witness to another it is only referred to with a soured expression or a trailed off sentence. Insinuations that it may have been at the Olde One’s behest that the first god the city kill be their own has been met with troubled reactions such as "no, it wasn't like that..." while suggestions that it was a good thing to kill a god has seen Baltimoreans say "yes, but...it's hard to explain..." Emotions on record range from celebratory to grieving to indignant to harrowed to at peace to furious to revulsed, all from the same person in quick succession - the only Baltimorean to ever go on record about it. The only things that can be said in confidence about the event are:
- The entire city participated in the act
- The Baltimore Crabs were essential in the striking of the killing blow
- It had to be done.
The Death of Mother Crab
She is absolutely dead. That’s not a question. We all saw her die, felt it, heard it. We saw the blood in the water, the scream in the air. But then, why is she still in our dreams? Why are we still carcinizing, why can we still instinctually point our way home no matter where in the world we end up? Why does she still grant us blessings? Her corpse makes up the infrastructure of the Crabitat, and it is silent. It doesn’t matter what she did. You don’t need to know, all that needs to be said is that there was a line and that she crossed it.
What Happens Next?
When that much power dies it does not go quietly. Some say that you can still feel her spirit in the water and the city. They are wrong - the only thing left of her is her empty shell. That power though, has been taken up by new owners. The people of Baltimore carry it in their hearts, and if they attribute a particularly good string of luck, or the rewards of their own hard work to the Crab Mother’s ghost then that is simply the way it is. Most of them realize that it’s different now, but are happy to blame her for the misfortune of unwelcome visitors, or the destruction of unwanted investment properties. And if sometimes there’s someone there to give it a little push? Well that’s her business not ours.
| Players | Batters | |
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| Buried | Helga Burton · Pollard Beard | |
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| Stats | Season | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 |
| Circuit | Gamma 2 · Gamma 3 · Gamma 4 | |
| Ballpark | Chesapeake Racetrack and Ballpark | |
| Community Lore | ||
| Staff | Crab Scott · Howard and Dwayne · Yurts Trunbo · The Clawricle · Runolfio Peeper | |
| Places | Tower of Crabylon · Clawliday Inn · Public Transclawtation System | |
| Clawture | History · The Olde One · Carcinization · Memorial Pearls · Crustallion · The Baltimore Art Society | |
| Fan Culture 📣 · Fan Works 💌 · Tlopps Cards 🃏 | ||
| Claws Up! | ||
