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Starboard BOT 04-Jun-21 04:03 PM
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blue yub 03#0670
anyways uh as the resident otten overthinker i think as someone who came into the team long after NaN was no longer part of it she would have a lot less of the hangups about their past. she has no idea that they were the worst batter in the league for a long time and appreciates their process a lot
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Aquelon#3835
we can work this in, something about how they got back to LA just on time for pride month and participated in pride parades and stuff
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Aubz#8468
NaNbinary
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16:05
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Aubz#8468
great lorejam guys! i'll be adding your contributions to the wiki soon!
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16:06
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Aquelon#3835
the obvious answer is: last season, there were at least a couple flicker pathways that could have lead to them staticking with MaX or IVy, and this next season is likely to be no different. even if they can't stay in LA, at least visiting there one last time if it is a last time is worth something.
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16:06
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daekie#5087
my first assumption about them heading back to the tacos is 1. it's been a long while and 2. max and ivy, the only two (surviving) people who can genuinely understand most parts of their existence|experience, are, uh. probably about to die! in the face of that, it'd be very understandable to want to go their home, even if it's not really their home and hasn't been for a long time and most of the people there barely know them anymore or don't know them at all
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16:06
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blue yub 03#0670
i think they decided to go home because they saw how badly we started doing after ivy left and they want to bring some comfort to the team since it seems pretty likely ivy is never going to return home
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16:08
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Caru#3528
yeah, I think with all the other trips being for actual logical reasons, that coming home has to be an emotional decision
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16:10
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daekie#5087
it's also got to be like... really weird, i think? because the tacos roster has changed a good amount since nan was here
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16:12
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Caru#3528
oh yeah, there is definitely an element of "returning to your childhood home to find it very different from the way you left it"
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16:12
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Ske#6201
but it's still home.
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16:15
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gaybritishcow#5381
has to be some big vibes of visiting your childhood home after a long while away and finding that your parents have converted your room into a yoga studio
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16:15
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daekie#5087
maybe they haven't grown up, but the experiences will have changed them regardless
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16:15
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Caru#3528
it occurs to me -- the incident that makes NaN decide to go home might not even be a traumatic thing, it could be something as simple as a conversation with Jaylen -- who's been down this exact road, including the part where they realized they had to go home
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16:16
6 | #lore-updates (edited)
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Aubz#8468
I would also recommend reading the existing NaNventure before we begin. Taco Baco also! https://www.blaseball.wiki/w/NaN
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16:17
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quincognito#1745
like, sometimes you meet someone you knew years ago in HS or whatever and on the one hand you instantly feel some of that old relationship come back, and on another hand you realize there's this immense gap in terms of what each of you have learned and experienced in a way that means there's something new to learn about each other -- that's how I see NaN meeting up with old Tacos teammates, if that makes sense?
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16:17
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lizzyserf#3079
real quick on this line of thinking because I don’t type fast enough apparently— i think it would be kinda neat/funny/idk if ivy had stayed in NaN/Wyatt’s old room and NaN comes back to find that ivy accidentally took some of their stuff
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16:19
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daekie#5087
stuff you don't think about, but that someone might reach for absentmindedly and go 'wait, that's gone? since when?'
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16:19
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Caru#3528
NaN goes back to their old room. They know they haven't changed height since they left -- 5.4 feet, 5 inches, as always -- but somehow the room feels smaller.
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16:19
7 | #wiki-workshop (edited)
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StarFahx#0784
I feel like coming back is going to be this Thing for NaN in a way that it simply isn't for the rest of the team? That could make things a little uncomfortable at first for everyone involved, and with the extended off-season with everyone not playing it might take a while for NaN to adjust and feel like they fit back in?
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16:21
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Ske#6201
"what"
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16:23
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Aquelon#3835
i'm gonna project a little bit and say that Mcdowell feels like he's been letting NaN down in some way and wants to do better this time, but isn't sure how to.
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16:23
5 | #wiki-workshop (edited)
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daekie#5087
i think bluey mentioned otten getting on very well with NaN, which sounds right to me
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16:23
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quincognito#1745
what are the chances NaN and Felix already have a secret handshake/high-five move that nobody else knows that they bring back instantly when NaN shows up
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16:23
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quincognito#1745
like i very much see NaN and Felix getting along great
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16:23
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gaybritishcow#5381
I think Otten would appreciate NaN's ability to follow her marine life infodumps, and decide they're pretty neat
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16:24
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jellorain#8540
chell and NaN are gonna be SO AWKWARD bc of that
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16:24
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quincognito#1745
and in fact Felix, as someone they've played with more recently, might actually kind of be a lodestar for them now? like seeing Felix in a different context makes it easier to get used to being in LAs, but diferent
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16:24
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Talow#5603
Chell: "good to see you've picked up a bat again instead of pitching... because to be honest, I used your pitching as a 'don't do this' video."
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16:24
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
chell believing that NaN is capable of improving..............
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16:25
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Aubz#8468
i am imagining NaN saying "Show that time I pitched the ball straight into the ground and it ricocheted back into my face"
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16:25
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quincognito#1745
Michelle probably has no illusions whatsoever about how good NaN is now but absolutely believes they can improve
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16:25
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Ske#6201
i think they'd be friends with chell outside of "training" though
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16:25
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jellorain#8540
Chell: "I'd love to help bring you back to speed, but--" NaN, accidentally flickering and glitching halfway across the field, now shouting from afar: "what?" Chell: "... you're gonna have to stay still for a minute"
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16:26
10 | #wiki-workshop (edited)
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daekie#5087
ough. this one hits bc especially, like, from an out-of-universe perspective (so presumably to some degree in-universe as well), if a player like NaN showed up today they'd be gone into the shadows and you would never see them again. i think NaN knows this! i think it doesn't help their self-esteem! so chell believing not only are they capable of improving but that they can... it'd mean a lot to them
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16:27
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blue yub 03#0670
in a way, dove almost felt relieved when NaN went on their journey bc then they didnt have to awkwardly try to interact when dove still feels guilt so now NaN showing back up again they have to actually confront that guilt head on and try to interact
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16:28
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Aquelon#3835
for some reason, my first instinct is that dove is avoiding NaN.
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16:28
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daekie#5087
because there's a lot of 'oh, great, it's NaN, they can't play' that tends to flit around on any team they get stuck with, especially with feedback swaps. there's bad blood! they're a deadweight. chell going 'okay, you have bad habits that've set in over years of playing and nobody trying to help you improve, and that's a problem but it's not unsolvable' would be So Important To Them, because nobody talks about them like that.
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16:28
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jellorain#8540
i feel like dove would just.. stare
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16:28
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Caru#3528
also ever since that one @Unknown drawing I'm headcanoning season 20 NaN as having a weird void ponytail, which is just style-wise a complete departure from how they looked when they left
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16:29
7 | #wiki-workshop (edited)
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jellorain#8540
same feeling as ivy -- "okay, i just watched two of you fade into nothing, i guess i shouldn't get too attached" -- but this time it's someone they knew for like 9 years beforehand so it's even worse
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16:29
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gaybritishcow#5381
there has to be an element of dove being both a. excited that NaN's back, and b. aware they could disappear into nowhere the next season and trying to distance himself from that
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16:29
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StarFahx#0784
Imagine NaN getting involved with other people's training though, and doing live demos of what not to do so Chell doesn't run out of material. Really leaning into the gag with a smile and a terrible demo pitch.
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16:30
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daekie#5087
oh NaN wishes they were any taller. they're exactly the same height they were when they left
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16:30
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quincognito#1745
so yeah, just to continue covering new folks before we move on: I think Yummy's enthusiasm definitely plays off NaN well and she's probably very excited at this weird legend she sort of knows sort of doesn't coming back. Otten probably doesn't have a super distinct relationship with NaN but I think they get along. I have no idea who Fish Summer is.
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
NaN: Dove! Hi Dove!! [excited waving] Dove: Dove: [opens window] [climbs out]
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16:31
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daekie#5087
dove is trying so hard to not really have anything to do with blaseball at this point imo, and NaN coming back and instantly assuming the two of them are still friends is just NaN innocently, accidentally jamming their hand down on the ACTIVATE DOVE'S TRAUMA button
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16:31
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Aquelon#3835
i think at some point, if dove is avoiding nan becuase 1) it's been years and 2) nan's in danger and 3) nan's been all these places. nan's changed. they've grown, they've learned stuff. dove's been stuck in the shadows for this whole time-- at some point NaN has to confront dove on that and talk it out.
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16:31
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Ske#6201
NaN squeezing every bit of spite they're capable of (which is... really really not very much) and going "oh. well. fine then. fmee6ing you too."
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16:33
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daekie#5087
NaN is not good at being angry, but i think if they really tried they could absolutely be.. kind of scary? not intentionally scary, but something that Really gets their point across
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Ske#6201
they didn't get any taller but "look i'm older now. i'm mature. i have facial hair." (they don't)
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Camaclue#6370
THE ONE THAT STILL SAYS Wyatt Mason
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blue yub 03#0670
i think they get a new jersey tailored with patches of all their previous teams
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16:35
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quincognito#1745
omg what if Bmase makes them like a patch that says "NaN NaN" on it to put over the old jersey that says "Wyatt Mason {fate number}"
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16:35
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Aubz#8468
when they visit dove again for the first time in all these years thats the jersey theyre wearing
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16:36
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Caru#3528
omg are we giving NaN symbolic closure in their years-long quest to reconcile their identity with that of Wyatt Mason???
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Ske#6201
but like, an obviously fake mustache they insist is real
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daekie#5087
i think them showing up with a fake mustache that's Obviously not even part of their glitches, it's just tacked onto their face with eyelash glue, is a really good establishing moment to introduce them personally to the newer members of the team who don't know them as well imo? or even just in general. they have the ponytail now, they've seen so many things and met so many people and been through so much - but they're still.. NaN. still the kind of kid who seriously, unironically, believes the fake mustache is going to fool people. the core of them, and a lot of them, is still the same as people remember.
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Ske#6201
new jersey, modelled exactly after the old one, including blemishes, tears, scuffs. they keep the old one. can't risk ruining it.
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16:37
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quincognito#1745
@Unknown i love having NaN do something lighthearted when they arrive too because as we've established there's gonna be so many difficult feelings that their instinct to make people happy is gonna be that much more powerful
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16:38
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quincognito#1745
like at very least i think the momentousness of them coming home again fits well with them making a breakthrough on the wyatt stuff, even if it's not the final breakthrough
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Ske#6201
journey's not over but they're taking a break. like going home from college over summer.
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Ske#6201
the first half of the breakthrough was the second wyatt masoning, and this is now the other half
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jellorain#8540
journey is definitely not over... but there's now some serious danger involved so they're taking this opportunity to tie up some loose ends and catch up with their old team because they've changed and the team has changed and there is so much to catch up on over this three week off season
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quincognito#1745
but yeah i think that's a great point about the 2WM being the start of this breakthrough -- seeing all the different Wyatts is this incredible demonstration that NaN can be whoever NaN is and they're not tied to any kind of inescapable predestiny or baggage, and that living some things that are very close to their WM experience doesn't mean they owe anybody the need to be exactly the same
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jellorain#8540
well. yeah there's danger it's blaseball. but now the danger is specifically tailored to be dangerous for NaN, which was not the case like 5 seasons prior
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16:41
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Ske#6201
NaN didn't really get to know any of the static wyatts, but after this long they're probably best friends with MaX and Ivy, i'm sure they have a group chat and stuff. and now they're at risk, the others were too but now it feels so much more real because it's someone they know (and also themselves, but, y'know, who cares about that,)
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jellorain#8540
im choosing to imagine that becoming an echo has made their visual glitches a whole lot worse
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quincognito#1745
@Unknown i also imagine NaN has done a lot of talking both with Max and Ivy, and with anyone else who did play with them, to try to capture little memories of any of the staticked Wyatts
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16:43
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Ske#6201
if we go with wyattwt lore, NaN probably knows most of the static wyatts as well, is looking at them and how they (don't) exist and going "...oh no that's gonna be me in a bit isn't it"
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quincognito#1745
with the Tacos reacting, i figure there's like two parts of that right? like i think because we had Ivy so long the actual weirdness of Echoing is probably pretty familiar to everyone now; and then the other half is the weird vulnerability, which I think probably turns into at least a couple players feeling extra prodective
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Talow#5603
... ngl, I'm not entirely sure anyone on the team is even sure what happens with static, other then they stop playing afterwords. like, I think the non-echo who'd.. realistically have most of a clue of what the heck it's like is also the one actively avoiding them: Dove.
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Caru#3528
When NaN left there was no way in hell they could wear the Wyatt Jersey. What's changed (potentially, if we go down that road) is now they can, and want to. Doesn't mean everything's resolved forever but . . . that's a part of them they've made peace with and feel comfortable enough with to honor.
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Ske#6201
and also a layer of "...wait, i'm kind of like this already..."
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daekie#5087
the tacos did deal with ivy "29 ECHOES IN ONE REVERB GAME" mason going brrr so fast they start visually noclipping through the entire field! this is true!
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16:46
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Aubz#8468
so i always imagined Macy as a prankster, and Wyatt was the perfect target
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Aquelon#3835
yeah. and they were friends about that!
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Aubz#8468
Oh also Basilito giving NaN fashion advice
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Talow#5603
did Macy and Wyatt/NaN get into prank wars beforee this entire journey happened?
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
bmase takes one look at NaN's adventure outfit and has to leave the room for 10 minutes
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Aquelon#3835
i'm not sure if macy has changed much over the last ten seasons, other than acquiring a lot more rats. i'm so far vibing with nan and macy picking up pretty much where they left off, sort of.
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Aubz#8468
god yeah one of my hcs is that NaN likes to wear all the souvenirs at once and it is a disaster
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quincognito#1745
i would guess that Bmase liked NaN fine but didn't really have a lot of time for them before and now thanks to his own arc he's really softened up on it
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Talow#5603
my gut instinct is one of the least fashion disasters of the team, before the souvenirs.
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
okay but even funnier: NaN manages to like. NaN had terrible fashion choices but was able to make it work somehow, and yet somehow the NaNventure outfit was the tipping point of "what the fmee6ing are you doing"
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quincognito#1745
in fact, with almost everyone they knew before, nan coming back is a great mirror to the arc the other player has taken since. with Dove that's kind of tragic. with Bmase there's a new openness to being friendly. With Mcd there's probably a certain amount of new overprotectiveness.
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Aquelon#3835
bmace is also one of the people who's grown up and changed. in their time apart-- yeah. both of them have matured.
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gaybritishcow#5381
i can see things having changed a fair amount in whatever dynamic sexton and NaN had - NaN left before sexton's "now pitch solo forever" phase
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Aquelon#3835
sexton has learned about not carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
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Caru#3528
I think NaN has a lot of advice to give to everyone, whether they know it yet or not
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Aquelon#3835
about not feeling like you need to do everything, to support everyone, to be your entire team. to have every responsibility. not needing to keep it together at the cost of your health.
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daekie#5087
ok maybe i am doing Autism Projecting but: NaN has no clue. they genuinely do not notice sexton and mcd are dating. they notice other things but they are just Completely Oblivious to that
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quincognito#1745
NaN simultaneously does not notice when people are dating and does not feel weird in any way about people being super physically affectionate to each other
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Ske#6201
warning: may contain scuttles
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daekie#5087
yes! exactly my thoughts. they don't really see anything weird about people being physically affectionate because... sometimes people are just like that?? sometimes they're just like that! 'how did you not notice they were dating' 'i just thought sexton learned how nice holding hands was? i hold hands with my friends all the time?'
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daekie#5087
am i projecting my experience of having to be told that apparently the entire theatre department in my high school was all dating each other? (not a polycule. there was just. so much relationship drama.) and i never noticed because i just assumed that's how they were, as people? i didn't notice any of the relationship drama, somehow, even though i had two to three classes with these people five days a week what i'm saying is that NaN is just not good about picking up on when people are dating. they just Do Not Notice. ever.
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daekie#5087
i'd assume he wasn't very social, and he probably intimidated NaN too much for them to really try to reach out
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blue yub 03#0670
chell: ugh... okay, good training session but i have to run, i have a date NaN: a date? with who? :-) chell:..... my girlfriend? did you not know otten and i are dating? NaN: :0
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quincognito#1745
@Unknown i like this, but also as a different take: NaN can never ever tell that people are dating because of physical affection, but he instantly realizes Chelle and Mickie are dating because he notices how Chelle only uses nicknames for her
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Caru#3528
I also love this because it's less "doesn't notice things" and more "notices different things"
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Talow#5603
yes, while also having honestly very little context for how they was in the past since they honestly didn't know eachother that well.
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Aquelon#3835
still, that's part of the change, from NaN's perspective: mcdowell is saying stuff now. mcdowell is leading the team now, in more than just name alone.
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jellorain#8540
"So how was Boston?"
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Aubz#8468
So vito is vito. vito sold NaNcoins
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Camaclue#6370
"There were flowers!"
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Caru#3528
"Did you go to Norfolk? So many great car dealerships up in Norfolk. The key's to know which ones are trying to make a quick buck off you, and which ones are----wait where did you go"
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jellorain#8540
"If you ever go back... tell 'em ol' Vito says hi."
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daekie#5087
NaN is full-on starry eyed over fig. they wouldn't want to be fig but it's REALLY, REALLY COOL??
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quincognito#1745
because i can definitely see NaN getting pumped and enthusiastic about the like showiness of it all
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daekie#5087
also i have to wonder if Fig being Unstable would have any like.. metaphysical similarities to NaN's everything
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quincognito#1745
@Unknown in general i feel like NaN has a bit of implicit kinship with anyone on the team who's been through a weird metaphysical change lol
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Aquelon#3835
fig can help nan something something dramatic changes in form
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blue yub 03#0670
the perma-unstable parallels....
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Talow#5603
the thing is, Fig is kinda in extreme tune with being unstable to the point it works out extremely well. I wonder if NaN hopes something like that would happen for flickering one day.
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jellorain#8540
I think they're pretty different? Instability to me is more of a physical "mark" a player carries around but Flickering to me is more of like an uncontrollable jitter or glitch, especially under Feedback or other reality altering conditions
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quincognito#1745
@Unknown i think they are very different experientially but that there's also still something about the experiences that creates a new understanding
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quincognito#1745
i'm kind of applying disability theory here again, where like... there's a certain shared understanding a lot of disabled people can get with people whose disabilities are very different than their own
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quincognito#1745
and esp. with autistic NaN i feel like disability theory is really useful in understanding how they think and interact
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jellorain#8540
the big difference there, though, is that NaN still doesn't have control in this situation, I think both flickers and echoes are largely involuntary regardless, NaN has still learned to go with the flow and work around them, and I'd say they're pretty skilled at it at this point
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quincognito#1745
regardless, NaN has still learned to go with the flow and work around them, and I'd say they're pretty skilled at it at this point
realizing here how much NaN being Roamin' makes sense as an intentional choice to embrace and engage with the uncertainty caused by being Flickering
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Aquelon#3835
so, to recap?: picking up where they left off: macy, vito remarkably comparable arcs: sexton, fig both have changed a lot, but didn't know each other well before: mcdowell i forget what the dynamic was with basilito but it definitely involved NaN becoming more of a fashion disaster and both of them becoming more mature
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jellorain#8540
embracing uncertainty, getting used to nothing being permanent, taking matters into their own hands
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Aquelon#3835
oh crap and one thing i forgot in the recap: avoiding them, at least at first: dove
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jellorain#8540
bmase NaN drops into LAi wearing all sorts of souvenirs from like 20 different locations looking like an absolute mess and Basil's just like "Welcome back, long time no see, glad you're back, all that jazz, anyway have you ever heard the phrase 'Less is more?'"
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Aquelon#3835
maybe basilito streamlines their outfit in some way while keeping all the parts of it they've picked up in other places and making it look less of a disaster.
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daekie#5087
basilito redesigning their outfit so it still contains the aspects/influences/factors of everywhere they've been but in an aesthetically pleasing way? basilio mason i owe you my life
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Aquelon#3835
a kickball
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Aquelon#3835
the entire team signs the kickball, maybe-- which raises the question of how they sign it, like, what names they put on it
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Aubz#8468
When they joined the team, everyone signed a kickball with their original names. this kickball has their new names
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Talow#5603
While no one's looking, one more signature joins the rest of them: Wyatt Dovenpart.
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Aubz#8468
before they leave dove gives them encouragement
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
basically like, the general idea of MaX looking up to NaN as someone xe could maybe be, considering NaN's all about self-growth and MaX's character arc is about being someone besides Wyatt
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
so we ended up not having MaX be 14 (xe's.. tehcnically physically older than NaN?) but:
So Fancy has talked about NaN’s design changing during their journey and sort of “aging up” to reflect their emotional growth and maturity (since time is weird in blaseball and players don't really age unless it makes the story more interesting for them to do so). All this time NaN's been trying to figure out who they are and to some extent who Wyatt Mason was (NaN being a Wyatt shaped hole in reality). Here's the thing though... what if Wyatt/Microphone hasn't been "aging" in the same way. What if they're still a kid (or at the very least, less mature than where NaN is at now). Where I'm going with this is that maybe MaX looks at NaN and sees an aspirational figure. NaN is in some sense the living embodiment of the adult MaX could become if they survive the trials ahead. I like the idea of NaN and MaX both seeking answers to personal existential questions in each other's existence. It's a nice mirror image.
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
like, NaN has been around waayyyyyy longer than MaX. and.. maybe MaX expects a bit more out of NaN than xe should, like maybe xe thinks NaN has stuff figured out wrt identity things, and is hoping NaN can help xem out on that? and then also the flipside of MaX being a Wyatt
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Ske#6201
my take here is probably seattle ngl
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
which NaN would. definitely have feelings about. also i do like to think that they've been friends since meeting each other Elsewhere after MaX Echoed them there in s14
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Aubz#8468
twitter NaN would, i feel like wiki NaN would wanna go home, and if theyre already home they'd probably go to SF
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
MaX is also responsible for NaN becoming an Echo which is fun
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
please please please can max and NaN be friends. i think they should be best friends
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Ske#6201
MaX/NaN/Ivy have a group chat and it's titled "nothings left"
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Sinjid#0042
It is the fate of the tacos to take actions of the villain against their will. NaN might have a lot of emotional distress that the team is surprisingly familiar with ala honey roasted
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
like okay i do think like.. MaX very much does not want to be Wyatt, but NaN looks up to the Microphone, and MaX remembers being the Microphone, and xe's one of the only two Wyatts left and xe's also on the Seattle Garages, aka the Protagonist Team, so i think like.. MaX looks up to NaN, but it goes around in the other direction too, which is very stressful for MaX bc when xe met NaN xe'd existed for like a week and a half, but xe still wants to try and help
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daekie#5087
two teenagers trying to shoulder the weight of the world for each other's metaphysical problems but not knowing how
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gaybritishcow#5381
pbong i feel like makes an effort to not hang around the team residences (maybe he takes classes somewhere? idk) so even if things are awkward i think he's a lot better at avoiding NaN than dove is
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
and there's.. a lot to be done with MaX being the one who turned NaN into an Echo, like.. was it intentional? was it an accident? MaX was one at-bat away from potentially Echoing into Static with them - like, what a way to go. nearly annihilating your hero. after giving your hero Debt and causing them to redact somebody. and just in general being a threat to their existence.
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Aquelon#3835
also, bringing this up now because we never actually mentioned it and it needs to go into the starboard: Yummy Elliott. whether they were friends before blaseball or not (and i'm leaning towards yes, but ymmv), they are definitely friends now!!
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Caru#3528
Batson and NaN both have the shared experience of being beloved, terrible hitters for the Tacos
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
so NaN is uh.. very much at risk of losing a friend.
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daekie#5087
ANYWAY i feel like regardless of how well they'd actually get on (which i think would be pretty well!), NaN would think batson was adorable
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daekie#5087
ok my first instinct is: they could theoretically get on well, but Fish has a tendency to.. come on kind of strong, and say things that can be aggressive (even though they're not meant to genuinely hurt), and NaN might struggle with that?
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daekie#5087
someone who's kind of brash and aggressive and dealing with Classic Fire Eater Guilt would not mesh super well with NaN, at least immediately
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daekie#5087
ivy was able to get past McB's memetic infohazard nature by virtue of weird wyatts stuff; NaN can do it too, i'd assume?
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gaybritishcow#5381
NaN can understand Mcb completely
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Aquelon#3835
as for sightseeing, actually: maybe Yummy drags them along on a trip to the. shadows supermarket or whatever we decided it was. the funky market thing. to uhhh go shopping and hang out with the shadows players (this may very well be while dove is still avoiding them.)
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Starboard BOT 04-Jun-21 07:38 PM
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jellorain#8540
bzzt
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Starboard BOT 04-Jun-21 11:15 PM
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ShorterSneakier#6753
I just caught up on all the NaN jam and this is all I have to to contribute: NaN echos Gaudy -> NaN is now wearing every souvenir they've gathered at once.
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Starboard BOT 05-Jun-21 03:31 AM
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Aubz#8468
also I love this NaN so much NaN NaN NaN
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Starboard BOT 05-Jun-21 08:38 AM
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Caru#3528
okay I'm waaaay late to this but . . . yeah we know now Forrest isn't dead, but there was a very long time where we didn't know that and finding out otherwise doesn't erase the trauma of thinking you've just killed someone for the better part of a year -- again, Jaylen (who has been very involved with actual death) is potentially a super important character here, even if Garages lore means we have to take a roundabout way of getting them to talk like "NaN expected to find Jaylen on the Flowers but instead found a robot so next time they were in Seattle or just on the west coast they had to go track the real Jaylen down"
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Starboard BOT 05-Jun-21 11:48 AM
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Caru#3528
Okay, considering the . . . unique nature of NaN wrt alternate universes, I might propose this: This is the only universe in which NaN even exists. (There might be a few others where Wyatt Masonings happened; those universes all met grisly and catastrophic endings relatively shortly afterward.) In any event, trying to alternate NaN just returns the same NaN because there aren't any others to replace or be replaced with. And then we come up with some other reason for the stats to change.
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Starboard BOT 05-Jun-21 08:12 PM
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quincognito#1745
i was convinced in our previous discussion that it is much funnier if NaN shows up with a fake mustache and pranks people, but the ponytail is real
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Starboard BOT 05-Jun-21 10:17 PM
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☆ mathonwys!#3510
honestly yeah i can see that? and tbh the stat changes could just be chell pulling them aside like "okay. you cannot play blaseball the same way everybody else does. you've been trying to do this for years and it's not working. we need to find some way you can bat/pitch that actually works for you"
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Starboard BOT 06-Jun-21 12:43 PM
7 | #art-parade (edited)
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Aubz#8468
NaNbinary moments
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Starboard BOT 10-Jun-21 06:51 PM
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Aubz#8468
hey gamers I’m back with a headcaNaN No matter where they go or how long they’ll be away, LA will always feel the most like home because it’s glitchy just like they are
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Starboard BOT 13-Jun-21 04:34 PM
7 | #lore-updates (edited)
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Aubz#8468
The first draft of the tacos NaNenture is complete! (planning on adding stuff about their departure once we jam on that and we know where they're going) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zr4ReT5I-RKSfuA-oCNcOJKR8OIqMxJ-4JLWlaAg_t4/edit?usp=sharing
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Starboard BOT 13-Jun-21 04:47 PM
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Aubz#8468
i know very little about pbong but very much about NaN so I have a feeling NaN and peanut bong probably wouldn't be buddies at first? But then they probably bond over "Wow we both have relations with a god* and both had our names changed permanently by blaseball and thats a little messed up"
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Starboard BOT 13-Jun-21 07:54 PM
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Aubz#8468
PITCH: UNDERNANDED 1) Get NaN as a pitcher 2) Let them echo Chelle’s underhanded mod 3) they eat opposing teams runs
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