Enid Marlow

Enid Marlow
Basic Information
Team	Chicago Firefighters
Former Team(s)	Ohio Worms, Baltimore Crabs
Overall Rating	(2.5)
Batting	(1.5)
Pitching	(2.5)
Defense	(2.5)
Running	(3)
Vibes	(3.5)
Dates Active	Mar 4, 2021–present
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page

Enid Marlow is a player in the Shadows for the Chicago Firefighters, and has been with the team since the Season 2 elections. Marlow has played for the Ohio Worms and Baltimore Crabs.

Official League Records

Marlow joined the ILB as a pitcher for the Ohio Worms during the Descension.

Marlow was traded to the Baltimore Crabs in exchange for Luis Acevedo during the Season β14 elections via the Worms' Exchange will, becoming a lineup player in the process. Marlow then retreated to the Crabs' Shadows in exchange for York Silk as a result of the Crabs' Plunder will, resulting in a combined 16.2 → 16.8 stat increase.

During the Season β17 elections, Marlow joined the Crabs' active roster in exchange for Parker Meng as a result of the Crabs' Foreshadow will.

On Season β21, Day 30, Marlow was swept   and gained the Negative modification as a result of Lorcan Smaht's Undertaker modification.

During the Season β22 elections, Marlow became an Alternate due to the Handful Alternate Trust blessing.

Marlow was recruited to the Chicago Firefighters' Shadows during the Season 2 elections via the Firefightrs' Dark Matter blessing.

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

Box of Enid Marlow Files

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Earth to Earth

Enid Marlow has always had a fascination with death. Ever since she first read about the phenomenon, and heard of the revival of Jaylen Hotdogfingers from the Hall, Marlow began her attempts to join the ILB to get closer to the game and it’s mysteries. Not willing to let simple things like “not being good at blaseball” stop her, Marlow put her magical talents and determination to use and performed a ritual to enhance her own abilities at the game, eventually managing to make her way onto the Ohio Worms when they joined the league in season 13. However her fate would take her elsewhere when elsewhere in the league on season 14 day 87star player York Silk was incinerated by a rogue umpire.

Ashes to Ashes

Upon Silk’s incineration, Marlow turned her attention to Nagomi Mcdaniel. While it cannot be said for certain what involvement the two of them had in the resurrection of Silk, it is known that that Mcdaniel had come to Baltimore in search of a master occultist, and that Marlow and Mcdaniel were seen together in Baltimore many times in the days leading up to York Silk’s return. Marlow’s plans did not account on being pulled into the shadows however, and while surprised and frustrated at first she grudgingly accepted her fate, and planned for her eventual return, moving in with fellow shadowed Crab’s player Bevan Underbuck, and insisting that this was all according to her grand plan. Underbuck remained unconvinced, but was happy to let her crash on their couch which, depending on reports was either in Underbuck’s already overfilled apartment, or in an undisclosed part of the Baltimorian wilderness known to house Forrest Best.

Dust to Dust

After 4 seasons in the shadows, Marlow was finally added to the main roster of the Baltimore Crabs, coming out of the shadows into the public eye. Despite the results of her previous attempts, Marlow still remains very interested in the veil between the living and the dead. She has frequently been found talking to teammate Finn James about her experience with the Olde One, with James politely reminding her that, “If you ask me about how I died one more time I’m going to leave you in the bay and make you swim back”.

Not to be deterred, Marlow has also pointed her questions towards the haunted Kennedy Loser in an attempt to converse with both Loser, the many ghosts that haunt him and the Clawliday Inn and specifically trying to get in touch with now dead targets of necromancy such as Sutton Picklestein and Tillman Henderson. While patient with the questions regarding his own situation, Loser has noticeably drawn up boundaries with Marlow about “pestering the dead”. Marlow seems to be complying with this request so far, but it shall be seen what direction the practical applications of her interest take next as the seasons unfold.

An Alternation

During the season 22 Election, Marlow was the subject of an alternation, though the exact methods of this were unclear to many observers. It seemed as though Marlow remained the same person she always had been, but was now tied into the crabs in an unusual blend of her own occult powers and the natural cycle of Carcinization in Baltimore. There have been several different reports of exactly how this manifested in Marlow, with some seeing her shadow moving independently of Marlow herself, others reporting layers of fine chiton, and some even still claiming her eyes have gained an usual shine when observed under the right kind of light. What all of these reports share however is the pearlescent details and colouring, taking after the ritual the Baltimore Crabs use to memorialize their dead.

Given Marlow’s own history with necromancy, this has raised many questions about the ritual of alternation itself. However it is unknown if this was even a deliberate ritual by Marlow herself, with some claiming that she was attempting to siphon off the power of the Olde One and had it backfire, while others claim it was an attempt to seize control of her own carcinization to mark herself as a part of the team. Marlow herself has been quiet on the subject, often avoiding questions or outright threatening those who ask about it in after game interviews.

An Unexpected Partnership

Even after entering active play without them, Marlow still remained staying at Bevan Underbuck’s appartement, and as the seasons wore on, the two of them were tasked with watching the apartment across the hall belonging to Brock Forbes and Adalberto Tosser when Forbes was traded to Boston and Tosser made frequent trips to visit. Several seasons later when Tosser was also traded to Boston, the two took up looking after the place full time. When Forbes was incinerated they began to question if Tosser would ever return to the old apartment, and in Season 24 Tosser himself was incinerated, answering that question promptly. The two roommates began spending more and more time in the appartement with its ill fated owners now gone, and informally taking up residence there as Finn James moved herself into Underbuck’s original appartement. While the two were never able to achieve the same level of cooperation as Forbes and Tosser, it was hard to deny the unexpected synergy the two shared when living together, with Marlow finding a strange respect for the former Friday, and Underbuck learning the art of standing up to Marlow through the simple act of insisting she do her share of the dishes, and stop leaving her ritual sacraments out on the coffee table when they had guests.

The End of the World

In Season 24 with the opening of the Hall of Flames Marlow found herself all at once fascinated and terrified by the prospect. While this did give her previously unheard of access to the dead (especially with Kennedy Loser refusing to pass on her questions to his inhabiting players), this also gave the dead previously unheard of access to her. As much as Marlow wished to spend her time taking notes and interrogating deceased players, she spent a great deal of time avoiding running into the ghost of Augusta Chadwell. Since the two of them had not been on speaking terms when Chadwell had died, Marlow had done her best to simply avoid the issue by not thinking about it, Chadwell’s return meant that her mind often wandered to that first ritual Marlow had performed to make them star players. After great thought she attributed it to “a miscommunication. I assumed that Augusta and Wanda knew what they were getting into - apparently they disagreed when things went wrong.” When pressed Marlow elaborated that “I greatly respect them both, so obviously they must have at least a basic understanding of the arcane arts? How could they not?”. The massive hole in Marlow’s logic could not be pressed further, as the imminent heat-death of the universe caused the interview to wrap up early.

The Event Horizon

As the Crabs approached the Event Horizon Marlow could be seen giving furtive glances to the Hall of Flames behind them, while maintaining her focus ahead to her future with the Crabs, as well as her reunion with her first team, the Ohio Worms, and her old research partner Trinity Smaht. With her knowledge and experience behind her, she joined the Crabs as they steered towards the Event Horizon.

Fan Works

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  Art of Enid Marlow by @Hateno_Village

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  Art of Enid Marlow by @tacophone

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  Art of Enid Marlow and Kaz Fiasco by @glassgoblin

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  Art of Trinity Smaht and Enid Marlow by @saltbuzzard

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  Art of Enid, Trinity, and Lorcan by @MonsterGashapon