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 Three-time pre-return champions, the Mechanics are no strangers to the peril that the League represents for players and their communities. The first season after Descension proved that the dangers sung of in ballads of seasons past remained painfully present. The Core is, among other things, a place which honors and preserves knowledge. Its citizens widely recognize that the life a fallen Mechanic lived is difficult to disentangle from the knowhow that person developed and shared. As a result, remembrance is a deeply important practice for many Core communities, and a number of traditions for preserving the memory of passed players have emerged as a result.
-One practice is particularly common among blaseball players in the Core: the Mechmento Mori. In the event of a player’s demise, their ashes are minted into coins. These coins are encoded with the fallen player’s connectome if they elected to have one made, meaning that the coins themselves bear a complete image of the memorialized individual’s consciousness-bearing substrates made at some point prior to their death. Active members of the Mechanics often wear their coins threaded onto a lanyard or necklace on the field. Other than proper PPE, these coins are one of the few items consistent across the uniforms of Mech players.
+One practice is particularly common among blaseball players in the Core: the Mechmento Mori. In the event of a player’s demise, their ashes are minted into coins. These coins are encoded with the fallen player’s connectome if they elected to have one made, meaning that the coins themselves bear a complete image of the memorialized individual’s consciousness-bearing substrates made at some point prior to their death. Active members of the Mechanics often wear their coins on the field, threaded onto a lanyard or necklace. Other than proper PPE, these coins are one of the few items consistent across the uniforms of Mech players.
 While the Mechmento Mori are a tradition generally confined to the team and their immediate loved ones, the fallen players also find a place of remembrance within the Core’s public space for honoring the departed: The Street of Old Knowledge. Located near DownTown’s Manifold Library, the Street is lined with alcoves containing items dedicated to Mechanics past. Old notebooks, plans, tools, pet projects, and of course rubber ducks are found here. The nature of the Street is both a crypt and a resource: the slow time and peaceful stillness of the space affords visitors the opportunity to grieve, but also to explore.
 Mechs have endless adages about the creative process, what it means to fix something, and how the job is never done. As such, it is not uncommon for someone’s journey down a rabbit hole in The Manual to lead them here: discovering that their work intersects with a tool, theory, or project left waiting for eager hands. In this way the Street is an extension of DownTown’s archives and the ongoing improvement of the Core; a process handed on from one Mech to the next, a conversation held irrespective of borders between the living and the dead.