Talk:National Park Service

Apologies if this isn’t how this works, but now that Blaseball is back, I think it’d be really cool if we could expand on National Park Service lore, since it and the rangers are really integral to our lore, and also really cool to think about.

i remember we used to have a page listing a couple of offices and departments for the NPS and their role, I can no longer find it so it might’ve been deleted or something. Ones I remember were: ‘Office of Approvals, Office of Rejections, (I think from Penny did rejections, Gracie did Approvals) Office of Strategic Miscommunications, and Department of Search and Rescue, though I’m forgetting like... half of them. So it’d be cool if we could get a list or maybe even a page for some of the cooler departments

Also just general things like the 4 diamond clearance, the general hierarchy, it’s relation to Park Services. I don’t mean to blow it out of proportions but it’d be really cool to expand this

I second, Particularly because I vibe so hard with the Department of Anomalous Agriculture.

I would definitely like a Spell Scout Liaison, though that should probably be a commission or subcommittee rather than a whole department/office.

I think the main organization should start with

• Department of Wildlife
• Department of Tourism
• Department of Internal Affairs
• Department of External Affairs

With specific offices existing therewithin (for example, the Spell Scout Liaison would be a joint commission handled by Tourism and External Affairs, while Approvals and Rejections would be Internal Affairs).

Apologies for my various objections I dropped immediately, was real tired last week. I really agree with these 4 mains being ones with articles for them, with others could be mentioned in a giant list and or on those main pages.

I really like that idea of off shoots from certain departments, while maybe instead some departments are independent while others follow the hierarchy, and some are some funky mix.

the ones you proposed are definitely vital, though maybe we could rename a few so they’re each more distinct. I’m not very good at naming things however so maybe someone else has some ideas

Also there’s a ton of lore made in Artpark I need to write down over the weekend, in short we brain stormed a giant shadow department, the Covenant of Coffee/ the Office of Coffee that’s sole job is to distribute coffee to everyone else and also controls the STICK, I don’t understand it anymore than you I’ll compile the logs and ideas over the weekend

I do think the STICK is a liiiittle memey personally (although it's blaseball, memes are serious business /lh), but I like the coffee covenant.

What flavor of "more distinct" are you thinking of? I kinda figured the NPS would have at least started off rather stuffy in terms of names, only to devolve into choas as you know, things got progressively more out of hand between blaseball and everything else.

There was an actual usage for the stick , but I’ll put that with the concepts for the Coffe Department in a second:

As for what I meant with distinct I mean more like a different prefix word, like ministry, committee, things like that. Though to be honest thinking about it that’s a silly nitpick for such a good concept.

Okay so here’s a compiled lore list from that discussion, though I add some embellishments for dramatic effect-

Department / Coven of Coffee- The only thing fueling the NPS and it’s success is coffee, in times long forgotten when the coffee machine jammed or they were out of beans or some utter tragedy had occurred, effected offices and departments would fall from grace to rubble. Since days long faded, The Department of Coffee ensures every department, office, and staff member is properly caffeinated. They’re also known for holding “The Stick” which is used to summon meetings, be passed around for people to speak with, and occasionally napping. They haven’t passed “The Stick” for [REDACTED] years. No one has ever seen the department of coffee, but if you listen... you will hear them.

[Credit to: Benny, Crash #1 Elizabeth Fan, Cip]

Crash came up with: Office of Anomalous Agriculture, Office of Orffices, though I can’t find the dialogue for them.

OK! Page is up? Formatted? Not vanishing anymore? Fingers crossed! Third times the charm! (He said nervously).