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I liked the idea of a Leadership stat which was in one of the offshoot leagues a while back, either NSHL or CHL.  When I built Slip McScruff, I had imagined him like a Zdeno Chara.  I can put all the physical stats into making him big and tough, but could never emulate the kind of role he had as a leader.

I think to have more control over that aspect of your build, it could be a set of attitude stats where you can only have a certain total amount of points spent.  You make your skater more of a star which makes them tend to have better individual scoring but they'll force a higher minimum contract and their performance will fall off a cliff if you don't give them enough important ice time.  You make your skater more of a team player which makes them tend to elevate their teammates and take a lower contract minimum, but they won't have as good individual scoring.  You make your skater more of a rebel and they play more physical but are resistant to the coaching systems.

You could mix and match these so a rebel team player will be more likely to stick up for his teammates while a rebel star is more likely to go rogue and use his physicallity just to fight the other team.



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My favorite things about the USA are more regional than nationwide.  I am from the Boston area and have lived in Seattle for 7 years at this point.  I like the weather a lot more here where I don't have to deal with as extreme hots or colds.  Nature is really accessible in this area.  I live and work in the city, but in less than an hour I can be hiking or at our favorite river spot.  I am halfway between the hockey arena and the baseball / football / soccer fields, only 20 minutes walking.

Being from Boston, I like finding all the weird little differences.  Like obviously there is the bubbler and the rotary, but there is also the fluffernutter and the stuffed quahog.  I like exchanging these things with locals and other transplants.  But to tie all that together, my favorite things about the USA are mixing with other people who grew up in other regions to get the best of all worlds.  Especially going on road trips and sampling both the local favorite and tourist traps.  I love a good dumb tourist trap.




For my antipodal rivalry, I will expand the SHL into Wellington and Alaejos.  I can tell you very little about either of these cities, but I have been watching Wellington Paranormal so I am going to assume there is a lot of haunting in both places.  While the TV show only seems to suggest that Wellington has high paranormal activity, it follows logically that paranormal energy would flow directly through the Earth and there would be haunting at the antipode.  What I can also tell you from my extensive research is that Vampires and Werewolves are sworn enemies.  So the pitch will be the Wellington Werewolves and the Valladolid Vampires. 

To align the divisions, we will do two divisions with six teams and two with five, split by conference.  Geographically, we would likely split Wellington into the West and Alaejos into the East, but they need to be divisional rivals for this to really pop off.  We need to align them in a division with the New Orleans Spectors to match spooky, which means they will all be in the West.  We'll shuffle Chicago to the East to keep the conference sizes matched.  Winnipeg is sufficiently supernatural, but we'll swap Texas for Calgary to match Monarchs and Dragons.

That leaves us with a Central Division with three pairs of rivalries.  Our new hostilities with Vampires and Werewolves, our royal rumble of Monarchs and Dragons, and then the Slip McScruff bowl of Winnipeg NOLA.  Everyone will hate everyone given how much they'll need to travel all the time, so expect every game to be CHIPPY.



I imagine this video game as a 2D side scrolling shooter.  For whatever reason, this boss fight takes place in some non-descript metal platfroms in an area that looks like the grand canyon.  The Baltimore Platoon as a boss will be a huge steel eagle which swipes back and forth across the screen and screeches at you.  There are three layers and you have to read which to avoid or else it instantly kills you.

I imagine that the player is carrying around a big old minigun in some tank top with camo pants and boots.  The only way to hurt the boss in this first phase of the fight is to shoot it's backside after it swipes across the screen.  If you get screeched, you become disoriented and the controls become inverted. 

Phase two involves a much more rapid fire swiping attack, but the eagle goes on a bombing run first, so you dodge swipes in three horizontal lanes and bombs in three vertical lanes.  In this phase, you have to see which of the two bombs doesn't explode, then kick it at the back of the eagle to knock it out.

At the end, you get to the nest, retrieve some eggs, and have a big omelette.



Slip McScruff goes viral for being caught up in a flash mob at a food court.  The flash mob stages their big dance as the result of a fake fight.  One person trips over another's leg and spills all their food.  They get up and start yelling in the other's face.  It gets heated and they start shoving each other.

Two people come over and try to intervene but they pick opposite sides and get at it themselves.  Just when things are about to boil over, the music kicks on and they start dancing to Beat It by Michael Jackson.  However, Slip isn't in on it and picks an actual fight with one of the actors.  They troupe gets about 30 seconds into their dance when the music cuts and the crowd splits.  Slip is on the ground wrestling with the actor who is also getting legitimately heated by the exchange.

This whole thing blew up on TikTok and now Beat It has ironically become Slip's music in the locker room and after a fight.