A Game of Ghouls and Goalies: Hockey Night in Potpourri!

    Good afternoon, and a hearty welcome from us here at Sports and Sundry! I'm Micah Paia, chairwoman on the board of Promotions and Planning, here to present a lovely initiative on behalf of my colleagues, and our city's finest! 

We hope you're enjoying this year's Consecration festivities (or Ascendence, for the demonically inclined), and welcome you back from another brisk weekend, here in Potpourri!

Have you ever flicked on your holo-screen, swiped over to the sports channels, scanned through the frantic scenes that danced before you, and thought... hmm, this seems all well and fun, but it's just a touch too tame, for my tastes.

You need a shock of spice, for your pallet. We understand. We get you, and we have an answer!

Welcome to the zesty world of the Eldritch League Of Ice Hockey Enthusiasts! (or 'ELOIHE', for short! Like ''Ello', as they say in jolly old Britain!) A league for the bold, a league for the brave, a league for the positively deranged!

A league of aberrants, from Angels to Demons, Elders to Fey, Insectoids to Dragons. The strongest, the quickest, the sleekest, the cleverest. All represented on one, gleaming court! (Disclaimer: our organization has no association with any of the Fey courts.)

The initiative will be headed by myself, as CEO, and a small collection of industry veterans and corporate powerhouses, representing everyone from Far Beyond Co. to Blossoms to Rancher's Harvest, and so on! Negotiations have already commenced to establish teams, representing the diverse breadth of our great city, and we hope to drop the puck for the first game later in the year!

Keep your ears open for further updates in the coming months, and to any who think themselves a suiting addition to our roster, do not hesitate to contact us! You might be just what we need!

Consider this an interest check for a rather experimental game myself and a few friends conceived of, based on my personal fondness for sports games in my youth, and somewhat inspired by the likes of Blaseball and War for Rayuba.

Disclaimer: This will not be a TTRPG! There will be roleplay involved, and occasional rolling, but the bulk of this, the actual games, will be randomly generated. Think about simulations, sports games where you pit CPU against CPU, only, in this game, most players in the simulation are created and developed by a different, real world person.

You will make a character, picking from a list of different categories of monster species that emigrated from a vast sea of outer worlds, each of which have their own traits and advantages. You will divide two-hundred points across three stats: Strength, Speed, and Reflex. And then, from there... you are no longer required to do anything! The character is in the league, they're added to a pool of prospects, and one of the team captains will, when the time comes, draft them into their organization.

Which isn't, of course, to say that you and your character can't contribute: quite the contrary, there will be biweekly events, challenges, incentives, and other chances to up their stat totals some small amount or build relationships with teammates and rivals.

There will also be 'character awards' at the end of each season, in addition to the usual material ones (I.e goals, points, saves, etc), voted on by the player-base, to determine the most sportsmanlike, the least sportsmanlike, the most charismatic, and so forth, which would yield their own rewards and bonuses for the next season. Ergo, to put it simply: you can just create a character and do nothing afterward, but your character will be at a severe disadvantage, trapped at the level you built them at, unable to develop or express themselves.

You will be a monster girl, or boy, living in the city of Potpourri in the year 2068. A melting pot of diverse faces and cultures, it is also a sight of meticulous corporate machinations and schemes, as they each forward ancient grudges, from a time before they all fled to earth, when they waged long, tireless wars against each other. Whether hockey can help soothe these tensions, or just kindle new ones, remains to be seen.

To apply, simply create a character based on the specifications outlined in the appropriate channel, and boom! We'll see it, gauge the interest, watch how people are reacting to the premise and lore, and invite you once our foundation is nice and firm!

If you have any additional questions, please drop them in the appropriate thread, and I look forward to seeing all of you on the rink!