Shadowed Grove
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The Shadowed Grove is one of The Recordkeeper’s Groves. It can be found in a far corner of the park, away from all marked trails.
Each note was etched into a tree by a different hand, giving some speculation as to whether or not the notes were left by the Recordkeeper or another entity altogether. They detail a mysterious place known as the "Shadows," although many of the accounts are confusingly contradictory and bafflingly strange.
When questioned about this strange occurrence, Park Rangers merely responded they "had no idea what that means" and they had "never even heard of Shadows- is that a new concession?" Merlinmeyer similarly claims to have "never seen these notes in his life" despite having several copies of them in plain sight on his desk. It seems he may have a connection to these "Shadows," though what that connection is remains a mystery.
A Short Story on Shadowed Grove
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Water Within The Park
A Young, Ram-Straight Engelmann Spruce
The words spiral upward about the tree from its base, carved ever-smaller in a spindly hand that has a tendency to get lost in the shingle-like, lichen crusted peels of its greying bark. In the rain, the etchings ooze thin yellow sap, as if carved afresh.
They shadows, castaway, drift in the tears of the land. The glaciers bleed and they walk among ye, unbeknownst, between fen and thumb and skies below. Let the depths play bed, the arrowgrass pillow as they sleep undisturbed by bear or whitefish or bat. Let their clothes, be they clothed, be unsullied by their home, eyes unclouded, breath easy, skin unburned, have they such anatomies.
When our name is called we shall answer, flanked in steam, from prismatic and dewdrop. The Sun will burn away our cloak of midnight, and we will walk on dry soil. Fear not the call, for you will breathe it. The chorus of night will be welcome among us, though she travels under different suns than we. Let that radiant barrier fall away.
I have already seen it.
We believe this inscription, like others in the grove, refers to one possible reality for the "Shadow Roster" of the park's Blaseball team, the Yellowstone Magic. This may correspond with REDACTED, but it is impossible to say without investigations much further into REDACTED. It may also be relevant to the "Shadowed Behavior" of fan favorite players Washer Barajas and Wyatt Glover while in the shadows, as well as some conflicting accounts describing recent addition to the roster Tiana Wheeler.
After consultation with divination experts, our best approximation of this inscription's function is as a ward designed to protect blaseball players in the team's Shadows from perception as long as they are at least partially submerged within the park. Its effect seems greatly diminished among players who have recently entered the shadows; in particular, Wyatt Glover was easily observed interacting with Spell Scouts in spite of being knuckle-deep in the Grand Prismatic Spring at the time.
