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Pursuit


The four stars correspond to the four classical elements of earth, fire, water, and wind.

Earth being the ground upon which we build ourselves up in pursuit of the fine sport known as hockey. While I know the game is played on ice that ice is seated in a stadium on land and that is part of why earth is represented here. It is also to represent the element of life in a way as without nurturing soil we would not be.

Fire for the fire inside the hearts of all the players in pursuit of it. The fire that drives us to risk everything that we are all in the pursuit of one glorious moment hoisting the trophy aloft. Also you could probably argue fire was involved in the forging process of the trophy itself so there is that.

Water as once frozen it is the surface upon which we play, and once drunk is the fuel that we sweat out as we go for the goal. Feel like this one is fairly obvious, although also feel the need to point out that the organic lifeforms that play are mostly water. Given that they also deserve recognition here. Really makes me think about the whole gingerbread man screaming about whether he is made of house or whether the house is made of flesh given we play on water and are essentially water.

Finally the wind beneath our wings and the air that we breathe is the fourth star of the four star cup. Without these fundamental forces of reality as described in the olden days we would not have hockey as we know it so I think that the four star cup is meant to honor them. Also may have been made by a wizard who knows!



I am here today to tell you the tale of a young person by the name of S.F. Ticotin without whom the league as we know it today could not exist. Now you may wonder how you have never heard of this person before and also what job they must have held to be so important that the league itself would not exist without them. The answers to that are intertwined as Ticotin was a simple driver of the ice resurfacers we know as Zambonis, and that may not seem important however it turned out to be more important than most would ever know.

Ticotin was well liked across the league as an able and swift driver of their ice resurfacer, however nothing noteworthy happened on account of it until a few years back. You see someone tried to bring down the SHL by uploading a self-replicating artificial intelligence into one of the ice resurfacers in the league. If they had succeeded it would have spread to all the other ice resurfacers which themselves would have gone violent with their awareness, however Ticotin's ice resurfacer was the one they started with thankfully for all of us. They had treated that machine so well that instead of going mad with power the ice resurfacer instead just proposed on the spot by carving a beautiful love poem into the ice for Ticotin whose acceptance allowed the SHL to make peace with the newly developed artificial intelligence. Thus the SHL was saved by the power of the love between a human and their machine.



The stat that I will add is one that I have seen in a number of games that I play as a big RPG fan and that stat is Luck. Now you might scratch your head at that as obviously luck is already a thing in terms of the sim being a glorified random number generator, however the key to making it a stat is that now it is a far more controlled random number generator. We use a 1-20 scale so am going to go with that as a rough guideline and say that it is similar to a die roll on a twenty-sided die. Essentially the 20 folk are going to perform in the top 5% according to their other attributes. This means that you could have someone who just rushes luck perform decently as low attribute folk sometimes do since they will be lucky as all sin, however in a battle between two players with comparable luck it will always be the other attributes that win out. Additionally beyond this I would increase reliance on other attributes so that luck acts more as a force multiplier than as a one true stat. Honestly this is a ridiculous idea, but it was the first one to come to me and honestly the idea of nobody getting sim shafted so long as everyone on the team has 10+ luck does amuse me.


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I feel like The Battleborn is better suited to be a class of enemy, but given my gaming roots are firmly in RPGs I think I can still come up with something solid. First off the inspiration for this creature is the Minotaur so just take the head that is the Battleborn emblem and attach a ripped humanoid body underneath, and also for good measure give it a halberd as I think more fictional characters should use halberds.

Its strengths are that it is an absolute lightning bruiser of a boss who can compete in attack, defense, and speed. However its strength is also its weakness as this is a creature that does not have any magic attacks or special moves associated with it. The Battleborn is just a beast of the basics and so the way to defeat it is to make use of all the special tricks you have acquired by the time you reach it. Also do not be afraid to use the extensive number of healing items you can pick up on your way through the maze like dungeon it calls home as they were put there for good reason. Additionally approximately 20% of the game later Battlebabies can be encountered as regular enemies which use the same sprite colored baby blue.



This is going to be a big rant so feel free to ignore it for your own mental health as I am mostly here for the max earning. That said I am reminded of the introduction to Superman by Ra which is 'I'm not well and I think that I should tell you that I think I got the raw end of the deal' as that is how I feel at the moment. I am a chronically ill individual who has been sicker than usual the past month after being worse than usual pretty much the entire year to date anyway and who on top of dealing with all that woke up to around half a dozen pieces of really truly terrible news today. Today fucking sucks and there is no other way for me to say it. Sometimes days suck so you just have to accept that and carry on, but what makes this one so much worse is there is literally nothing I can do about so much of this bad news. It is all stuff that is out of my hands as one lone lady on this planet, and it is incredibly frustrating to me that I cannot do more to make the world a better place.