Zeruel Kramer

Zeruel Kramer
art by @glassgoblin
Basic Information
Position	Lineup Player
Team	Baltimore Crabs
Status	active
Batting	(4.2)
Pitching	(0.3)
Defense	(4.0)
Running	(2.5)
Modifications	NegativeThis Player is a Negative. Negative players have negative eDensity.  ScatteredThis Player returned from Elsewhere a bit Scattered.
Items	Actual Sunglasses ●●
Dates Active	May 14, 2021–present
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Evolution	Base
Peanut Allergy	Not Allergic
Pregame Ritual	Recycling
Coffee Style	Black
Blood Type	Basic
Fate	93

Zeruel Kramer is a lineup player for the Baltimore Crabs, and has been with the team since Season 18, Day 90.

Official League Records

Kramer joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Baltimore Crabs on Season 18, Day 90 after the incineration of Chorby Soul III.

On Season 22 , Day 25, Kramer was swept   and gained the Negative modification as a result of Lorcan Smaht's Undertaker modification.

On Season 22, Day 96, Kramer retreated to the Crabs' Shadows in exchange for Pedro Davids at Chesapeake Racetrack and Ballpark via the Ratified Voicemail.

On Season 23, Day 87, Kramer joined the Crabs' lineup in exchange for Axel Campbell at Chesapeake Racetrack and Ballpark via the Ratified Voicemail.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Box of Zeruel Kramer Files

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Origins

When the Crabs began their second round of ballpark cleanups, Yurts Trunbo was quick to task his assistant with once again scouring the grounds of the Crabitat for foul balls, fish, and peanut shells. Rather than go through this a second time, Yurts’ assistance instead acquired a state of the art clearing robot that was put to work cleaning up the stadium. However as it cleaned the park it discovered fragments of the falling stars that had landed on the field many seasons ago, and after it picked up those shards and stored them in it’s chassi, something about the little robot seemed to change.

The first thing that changed was that the robot had a name now - Zeruel Kramer. The second thing that changed was that the staff of the crabitat began to find small statues and sculptures set up around the Crabitat that were made of snack wrappers and peanut shells. It was when Trunbo found the small statues in his collection of memorial pearls, with each statue made in honour of the player whose ashes the pearls were made from - and then he realized that this was no longer a simple cleaning robot that they were dealing with.

With Kramer’s newly discovered sentience, Yurts and his assistant encouraged zem to get involved with the Crabs that ze had been honouring with those statues by trying out for the team. While zer pitching arm was atrocious, ze was an admirable batter and quickly made the cut after the incineration of the replica Chorby Soul III. In celebration Kramer created small statues for each of the players as gifts.

A Like-Minded Presence

Kramer first met Crab’s pitcher Montgomery Bullock when ze was attempting to clean up the Crabitat and came upon a suit of old armour covered in barnacles from it’s trip to Atlantis. Kramer was startled when the armour stirred into action as ze attempted to clean Bullock off, but after the two of them cleared up the misunderstanding they could often be found in the Crabitat together, with Kramer asking Bullock about all the people that had inhabited him, and learning all about their stories. Eventually Kramer’s small scrap sculptures started to be sent to people of Montgomery County who had played games with Bullock with a small thank-you card signed by Bullock and Kramer.

As Kramer spent more time in the Crabitat, ze became very interested in the process of making pearls that the Crabs underwent when a player was incinerated. Kramer asked Tumbo about the process several times and managed to get some practical instructions on the process, but it wasn’t until some late nights staying in zir workshop when ze really started to understand the process. While the large clam that actually made the pearls was working overnight, Kramer was drawn to sit and observe it. Unbeknownst to zir, ze was not the only one watching over the clam - as that night, like any night there was work to be done, the ghost of a long passed member of the another team kept an eye on the process that she had invented long ago. That night she watched Kramer as well, and when ze returned the next night, and every other night that she was working, Kramer began to feel a sense of familiarity and history there - gaining a deeper understanding of the process, and why it was done alongside how it was done. Though Kramer was never able to see this ghost, it became a familiar presence as ze worked.

The Event Horizon

Kramer considered zirself good at handling most challenges that came zir way, however when the end of the world began ze found zirself a little out of zir depth. When the team announced that they would be going directly into the maw of the event horizon, and not towards the safety of the vault, ze did not take it well. With Pedro Davids planning his own trip to the vault, Kramer began to assist in the effort, working to build a ship that could take the two of them to safety once they got the team where they wanted to go. However on Day 79 when the Pies were nullified Davids and Kramer realized they no longer had until the end of the season, but that they could be nullified at any moment.

With this realization, Kramer took stock of zir work and personal philosophies, and tried to unpack zir feelings. After spending a night in the Crabitat they emerged deciding that they did not need to survive the end of the world, ze just needed to make sure someone who did could remember zir. Entrusting that responsibility to Davids, the two of them adjusted their plans into a single passenger vessel, and as the Blackhole (blackhole) approached Kramer pushed the vehicle into action and watched Davids disappear into the distance.

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Fan Works

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  Art of Zeruel Kramer by @glassgoblin

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  Art of Zeruel Kramer by roseandthorn

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