#asriel-mason

And nothing highlights this more than the way the game handles quests - it requires two people to say yes before you can hunt a monster. You (implicitly: if you dont take down the monster its pretty blatant you didnt sign off on it dying) and Alma, your Handler, who is the one acting on behalf of the guild to give you authorization to hunt a monster.

You're given special permission to use a weapon and to be a Hunter at all, and it will have been ensured that you will do right by the natural world, but you cannot unilaterally decide to hunt a monster, at least in canon quests. You have to have Alma sign off on it too. Every time, she has given you permission on behalf of the Guild, so that when questioned, you can both individually attest to the necessity of disturbing an ecosystem the Guild was not a part of until very recently.

Look at The First Day, Zeroth Edition, Section 1 of Root. Seem familliar?

Sure, we haven’t seen any Strange Attractors Evolving, but the Umpires are imploring us to Read the Rules. On it’s own, this wouldn’t be enough though, except that Root Section 2 is named An Ascension.

“A Raise”, “An Ascension”, early in blaseball’s history, centering around some kind of wager. This was so early in blaseball’s history that I’d imagine this Ascension was to determine the seat of power, but I’d need proof. Let’s see what this Era’s main plot thread seems to be right now:

A Tournament of Champions, to allow one victor to be named the “Ace” and “claim the Mound”. Wait, where have I heard about the Mound before?

The Reader, telling us to charge it, in this case so we could hit the Coin.

So the Mound refers to the seat of power upon which Blaseball rests. Previously held by Coin, and The Shelled One before that. In the event the seat is unclaimed, the best team in the league is invited to become the Ace, and claim it for themselves. But to what end? Reader held off on that detail.

idk if ill do all of the hours im up but. ill try!