
featherwings#4879
ok so in #stats-and-player-attributes we've been talking about how fax machine let's us buff our pitchers by dipping them in the shadows temporarily. And I've (and other peeps) have started calling that the "moon dial" - give up ten runs, get a small buff, just like how you get ten runs and the sun dial gives someone some rays.
what if like, NV had the sun dial, right? and they took a ton of notes, studied the cosmology, got to work, realized there was an equal and opposite force to pull from (the Beams just didn't notice because they are all so into the sun)
so envy starts work, and then... something goes wrong. universe says no, umpires shut them down.
Felix comes in, sees the same thing NV does, continues their work, and gets shelled - not incinerated, because they took better precautions, but still punished.
The missing factor is its not just a science thing, you need magic, and like... a lot of it. a lot of very technical magic.
Bevan used NVs notes and Felix's plans to create the Moon Dial, a counterpart to the sun dial, as a way of chasing down the hole in space where the moon used to be.
and then Al Pastor only gives him funding if you can play blaseball extra good because of it ig.