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using this to write out a draft for a weird rumor.

A Metaphysical Retcon

Before it joined blaseball as a pitcher for the Tokyo Lift, Coolname Galvanic did not exist. As a worker in the Field of Eggs, employed in monitoring the minutiae of the conditions necessary to irrigate the Naming Pool and properly form the Eggs, it had on occasion glimpsed its own name reflected in the platonic body of the Pool and knew that the egg containing its own name, its essence as a player, hadn’t yet been formed. The player known as Coolname Galvanic would presumably only come into true existence at some point in the future when it entered active play as a replacement player on one of the current twenty blaseball teams^[1].

The entity that would become Coolname Galvanic, [insert position here] for the [insert team here], did not exist, and was not a blaseball player. For now, it both was and was not an employee for the Field Of Eggs, a memory not yet anchored in reality. And from what it understood from all the times it watched as the formless replacements of the recently incinerated emerge from eggs and metaphysically harden into individuals with histories extending far before their hatching, all to replace the fallen in playing blaseball for their lives, it was all but guaranteed to have been created for the same reason.

To carry the awareness that one does not yet truly exist, but will in the future, to know that everything one experiences is merely set-dressing to embellish a version of oneself that presumably is being created at the same time as oneself, the backstory, is occurring, to know that the first presumed purpose for one’s life is as hollow and meaningless as anything because it did not exist in that narrative until after the story happened–it knew it did not exist, that it could not impact the world around it in any meaningful way until its Egg was Generated, Found, and Hatched to play Internet League Blaseball.

A meeting of Surnames

Just as it knew it rightly did not yet have a name, as the egg that generated that name had not formed, it also knew, as surely as anything, that it would be named Coolname Galvanic. So it was with mild interest that it one day to met a fellow League employee that would one day be known as Squid Galvanic. While Coolname was at least adjacent to being a gardener, tied to the Field of Eggs in location and duty, Squid was a courier, constantly in motion as she ran messages across the League.

↑ As this was during the Discipline Era, the Lift and Breach Teams had not yet joined the League

[1] As this was during the Discipline Era, the Lift and Breach Teams had not yet joined the League

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-{{AdriftAlert}}
+using this to write out a draft for a weird rumor.
-===Background===
-The following accounts can be traced to a single leather-bound journal originally found in a locked wooden chest alongside a sextant-like device of indeterminate origin and a shell that matches no known species of mollusc. The chest was located in a storage room in [[Legscraper|the Legscraper’s]] lower levels that was described as “smelling faintly of the sea”. Subsequent attempts to locate and navigate to said room have been unsuccessful thus far. The journal details the exploits of the crew of a large sailing vessel, [[IF-1667|The Tokyo Adrift]], descriptions of which are largely consistent with mid-17th century galleons.
-===With The Tokyo Adrift===
+===A Metaphysical Retcon===
-Despite only sailing with the Adrift for nine nights, the brief appearance of infamous diabolist Baldwin Breadwinner featured in the journals of many of her crewmates during that period and continued to sporadically be referenced until the ship's disappearance in 1667.
+Before it joined blaseball as a pitcher for the Tokyo Lift, Coolname Galvanic did not exist. As a worker in the [[Field of Eggs]], employed in monitoring the minutiae of the conditions necessary to irrigate the Naming Pool and properly form the Eggs, it had on occasion glimpsed its own name reflected in the platonic body of the Pool and knew that the egg containing its own name, its essence as a player, hadn’t yet been formed. The player known as Coolname Galvanic would presumably only come into true existence at some point in the future when it entered active play as a replacement player on one of the current twenty blaseball teams<ref>As this was during the Discipline Era, the Lift and Breach Teams had not yet joined the League</ref>.
-The crew of the Adrift awoke one night to the sound of carnivals and revelry, and a ship emerged from out of the fog on their port, poised as if to board. A journal entry from [[Domino Bootleg]], who had at the time been awake on watch, noted that although the fog-wreathed vessel appeared completely uninhabited, a cacophony of spirited voices and music filled the air to bursting. Just as [[Stijn Strongbody|Captain Strongbody]] drew in a breath to order the Adrift to withdraw to a safe distance to attack, the strange boat at once grew silent and a solitary figure appeared on the empty deck, calling out to the Adrift. Her voice was rough but her demeanor was anything but as she introduced herself with precise words that left no doubt of who she was. She was the diabolist Baldwin Breadwinner, and the Adrift would soon require her services if they wished to weather what was ahead. As she informed the Captain, there was no room left for argument in her tone, and the Adrift found themselves with a new crewmate.
+The entity that would become Coolname Galvanic, <code>[insert position here]</code> for the <code>[insert team here]</code>, did not exist, and was not a blaseball player. For now, it both was and was not an employee for the Field Of Eggs, a memory not yet anchored in reality. And from what it understood from all the times it watched as the formless replacements of the recently incinerated emerge from eggs and metaphysically harden into individuals with histories extending far before their hatching, all to replace the fallen in playing blaseball for their lives, it was all but guaranteed to have been created for the same reason.
-[[Terrell Bradley]] claimed she looked familiar to someone he had met on a ship under a different flag many years ago, but said that if Breadwinner was her, she was much changed. Breadwinner appeared as if only half-alive, as the entirety of her left arm, shoulder, and the left side of her face was bare weathered bone that was akin to driftwood in its texture. Often her bones were wreathed in shadows that shifted and stretched out around her into articulated limbs almost resembling that of a scorpion, spider, crab, or, as [[Silvaire Semiquaver|the ship's quartermaster]] would swear it, countless faces. While onboard the Adrift, Breadwinner completed her share of work without ever being caught in the act of manual labor. Instead, she spent her time challenging her crewmates to games, though many suspected this was a ploy to start debates and conversations which she would end as soon as she found whatever it was she was looking for. As a whole, the crew found her discomforting. Captain Strongbody, who in many ways was seen by his crew as just as strange and severe as Breadwinner following his return from his 44-day absence, was an exception and the two often retreated below deck to plot. As her ninth night on board the Adrift came to an end she departed as suddenly as she had appeared. It wasn't until the next morning that the crew came to the realization that she had taken the [[Knight Triumphant|the Knight, Triumphant]], with her.
+To carry the awareness that one does not yet truly exist, but will in the future, to know that everything one experiences is merely set-dressing to embellish a version of oneself that presumably is being created at the same time as oneself, the backstory, is occurring, to know that the first presumed purpose for one’s life is as hollow and meaningless as anything because it did not exist in that narrative until after the story happened–it knew it did not exist, that it could not impact the world around it in any meaningful way until its Egg was Generated, Found, and Hatched to play Internet League Blaseball.
+===A meeting of Surnames===
+Just as it knew it rightly did not yet have a name, as the egg that generated that name had not formed, it also knew, as surely as anything, that it would be named Coolname Galvanic. So it was with mild interest that it one day to met a fellow League employee that would one day be known as [[Squid Galvanic]]. While Coolname was at least adjacent to being a gardener, tied to the Field of Eggs in location and duty, Squid was a courier, constantly in motion as she ran messages across the League.