Umpire or The Ump is a Blaseball umpire and a Patron of the Emblem Warhorse.
Points:
- Sits silently atop a stool at the end of the bar and speaks to no one
- Unknown how or when it became a patron
- Does not speak, only communicates to the bar's owners (who i believe are future IRMs that are coming!!) by ripping out pages from an old notebook and writing on them. Is generally motionless otherwise. The bar's owners are also the only ones who know its true name.
- Signature drink comes from an expensive-looking wine bottle that must be retrieved from the basement. It is poured into a freshly polished chalice and garnished with three raspberries on a skewer of rosemary. It drinks with its mask on. No one knows what is under the mask.
- Its emblem is displayed by the shape of the wires of its mask
- Visitors fear Umpire. Patrons know that Umpire will not incinerate anyone while inside of the bar. That being said, no one dares to approach Umpire. It is fine with that arrangement.
- Has never been witnessed playing Blaseball. Anyone who claims to have witnessed it playing Blaseball have since gone missing, with a pile of ash found in their homes not long after (does this need a content warning?)
- BUT. If it were to bat as Emblem Warhorse. Which, of course, no one has ever seen it done. BUT IF IT WERE TO. It is theorized that it would solely do it during Solar Eclipse weather, when it is at its full power. It also may choose to go for an Alley Oop during an away game.
