okay so in season three of blaseball the fans voted for a decree that added a new mechanism to the game - peanuts. you could buy and consume peanuts, or donate them as tributes to incinerated players. the debut of peanuts introduced volatility to the blaseball economy and set the stage for the tumultuous events to follow.
on day 2 of season 3, all games stopped suddenly. the umpires released a statement revealing that a fan (or a group of fans) had exploited the peanut mechanism and that play would not continue until “THE PEANUT CHEATERS HAVE REPENTED”. this event would later be known as Peanut Fraud. in the following few hours, it came to light that a few fans had illicitly amassed millions of peanuts and coins in a matter of hours since the mechanism was introduced, and the umpires released an ominous second statement: “THE BLASEBALL GODS WILL REMEMBER THIS”. gameplay resumed, but only for a few innings. soon, the whole site was rendered unusable by a giant rotating peanut who said only one word: “BLASPHEMY.” (depicted below)
this entity became known as The Peanut or The Shelled One. it didnt appear again until the semi-finals of the season 3 playoffs, but when it did it was pissed.
“THE BOOK WAS STRIKE ONE. THE FRAUD WAS STRIKE TWO. YOU WILL LEARN DISCIPLINE... GET YOUR PEANUTS WHILE YOU STILL CAN.”
things got stranger - every player named dan or daniel was renamed to peanut or peanutiel. blaseball players soon began exhibiting peanut allergies and suffered allergic reactions during peanut weather. and worst of all, the shelled one began encasing players in giant peanut shells, trapped until they were freed by birds pecking the shells open. i’d infodump more but i have to prepare for tech rehearsal <3
