Fans of the fantasy baseball simulator Blaseball are turning to the game's new "Idols" system to resurrect players who have been previously incinerated.Blaseball is a browser game developed by a small studio, The Game Band. Blaseball is meant to rapidly simulate a season of baseball, but with a game every hour and a season every week. Before games run, fans bet free coins on each respective game, hoping to earn enough money to buy votes for the weekend's post-season simulator that happens on Sunday.In the "Election," fans vote for rule changes in the form of "Decrees" and they enter raffles to compete for benefits to their respective teams known as "Blessings." In Season 1, one of these Decrees was to open "The Forbidden Book," which the main face of Blaseball, "The Commissioner," strongly cautioned fans against doing.RELATED: 5 Indie-Made Metroidvanias That Deserve a Chance

Immediately after opening The Forbidden Book, the star pitcher for the Seattle Garages, Jaylen Hotdogfingers, was incinerated and removed from the game. This began what the game calls “The Discipline Era,” in which, at time of writing, 58 players have been incinerated. Each time, they were replaced with new players.

As fans watch Blaseball with excitement, disappointment and all the other epic highs and lows of any other sport, they also develop narratives and relationships with these characters. This happens because each player not only has an absurd, randomly generated name  -- like Sixpack Dogwalker -- that attracts attention, but they also have a complex series of stats that determine how they perform in a given role under given circumstances. Fans envision players as anything from a man with a knife for a head to the metaphysical embodiment of mathematics, or -- most famously -- the infinitely capable woman who bats with a telephone.

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The man with the knife for a head was incinerated. The metaphysical embodiment of mathematics was replaced with a version of itself from an alternate reality. The woman with the telephone has changed teams three times. Despite all this turmoil, Blaseball fans work together to form community, narrative and connection centered around these players. Watching numbers on a screen, fans create characters out of the players, and The Game Band clearly listens to and encourages them.

Fan-favorite Jessica Telephone received a Blessing in Season 1 to maximize her batting capabilities. Fans began calling her bat "The Dial Tone," and one day, they noticed that in the actual game, Jessica was listed as "at bat with the Dial Tone." Clearly the developers of the game were phoning in to fan creations.

In Season 6, The Game Band apparently decided to lean into fans' strong feelings towards players and introduce an "Idol" system. Fans could idolize different players and earn money based off their performance. A collection of Blessings came along with the new system of idolization. Specifically, the system introduced Blessings based on buffing the team's most idolized player, stealing or trading the least idolized players on a team and -- most importantly -- stealing the 14th most idolized player.

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For all intents and purposes, Season 6 seemed on track to as chaotic as fans had grown to expect from a new season of Blaseball. Then everything changed on Day 31 of Season 6, when beloved hitter Caligula Lotus of the Boston Flowers was incinerated.

Several fans who idolized Caligula noticed they could still view Caligula's player page, despite the fact that -- for all intents and purposes -- the player was gone forever. Enterprising fans discovered they could then access any player directly outside the game's typical UI, even incinerated players.

So they did what fans do best: They got way into necromancy. Fans began campaigning everywhere to idolize the first incinerated player, Jaylen Hotdogfingers, to get her on the leaderboard, specifically in 14th place.

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The theory is, the blessing "Lottery Pick," which steals the 14th most idolized player for the winners' team, could pull Jaylen back into the Internet League of Blaseball, effectively raising the dead.

Fans of the Seattle Garages expressed concern that such an action might actually be outside the physical bounds of Blaseball and therefore break the game, so they reached out to the community moderation team: "Hey, garages [fan] here. Apparently it's possible to idolize incinerated players, and a large number of us are trying to get Jaylen on the leaderboard. I know you're not the [developers of the game], but if this causes site instability, let us know and we will cease immediately."

The mod team responded, "[N]o bug to report! Please continue enjoying Blaseball."

Therefore, the ability to idolize incinerated players and -- by extension -- revive them is intended behavior for the game. Many fans are cautiously optimistic that after so much heartbreak in their favorite fake Internet fantasy sport, there might be a ray of hope in the form of the undead mayor of Seattle returning to the mound once more, with hot dogs for fingers.

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