Ask me about blaseball and teaching in semi-rural New Zealand.

There's one thing here I forgot to mention, but is incredibly important to me personally because I'm a big sap:

When the exhibition match was happening, Sutton was not the only player on the Rising Stars who was kidnapped. What was neat was that, every time a player got added to the Vault, the entity commentating on the match, Lootcrates (rhymes with Socrates) had a little epitaph for them (they actually had one scripted for every player on the Rising Stars).

Some of these referenced events that had occurred to the players in-game, while others were a play on words based on the player's name (like Collins Melon being "ripe for the picking"). Only once did they give any kind of nod to fan-made lore, because generally The Game Band was *very* insistent that we there was no canonical appearance for players: