Alternate

Alternate is a Player Modification, first seen in the . It is the signature modification of the Mage Umpire.
==Effects==
When a player gains the Alternate modification, their attributes which calculate star rating are completely randomized, along with their Fate number. Modifications, allergy status, and Soul will remain unchanged.
==History==
===In Beta===
====Season 4 Decree====
In , one of the Decree options was called Alternate Reality, which had the description: Randomize the stats of one hitter and one pitcher on every team. This Decree ended up being one of the Decrees won in , activating with the following message:
*Alternate Reality passed with 52,343 votes and 23% of all decree votes.
**The Alternates are called.
**They take their places.
**Reverberations build...
One batter and one pitcher on every team at the time was given the Alternate modification, and their stats were completely randomized. The following players were Alternated in this fashion:
Team 	Pitcher 	Batter
Baltimore Crabs 	Oliver Notarobot	Joshua Watson
Boston Flowers 	Dunn Keyes 	Inez Owens
Breckenridge Jazz Hands 	Campos Arias 	Kathy Mathews
Canada Moist Talkers 	Jenkins Good 	Jesús Koch
Charleston Shoe Thieves 	Snyder Briggs 	Stu Trololol
Chicago Firefighters 	Justice Spoon 	Edric Tosser
Dallas Steaks 	Leach Herman 	Sebastian Telephone
Hades Tigers 	Yazmin Mason 	Moody Cookbook
Hawai'i Fridays 	Stevenson Heat 	Terrell Bradley
Hellmouth Sunbeams 	Eugenia Bickle 	Igneus Delacruz
Houston Spies 	Math Velazquez 	Collins Melon
Kansas City Breath Mints	Oscar Vaughan 	Rodriguez Internet
Mexico City Wild Wings 	Burke Gonzales 	Ronan Combs
Miami Dale 	Rivers Clembons 	Jasmine Washington
New York Millennials 	Fynn Doyle 	Wesley Dudley
Philly Pies 	Betsy Trombone 	Kennedy Cena
San Francisco Lovers 	Parker Meng 	Kichiro Guerra
Seattle Garages 	Ron Monstera 	Malik Destiny
Unlimited Tacos 	Sexton Wheerer 	Vito Kravitz
Yellowstone Magic 	Yeong-Ho Garcia 	Alyssa Harrell
====Discipline Era====
Further Blessings were offered throughout the Expansion Era to alternate players: Collect Call in , which Alternated the Dallas Steaks' least-Idolized player, Leach Herman; and Party Line in Seasons and , which duplicated Evelton McBlase and Mooney Doctor and added their Alternates, Evelton McBlase II and Mooney Doctor II, to the Houston Spies' and Kansas City Breath Mints' rosters respectively.
====Wills====
In the Expansion Era, Wills were offered to the fans for the first time as a new way to boost and affect their Team. Two Wills offered during the Era involved the Alternate modification:
Alternate, with the description "Call in an Alternate for a Player on your Team." was offered from Seasons 12-14. The following teams filed the Will: In , the Yellowstone Magic, alternating Cory Twelve; and the Dallas Steaks, alternating Gallup Crueller. In , only the Atlantis Georgias filed the Will, alternating Flattery McKinley, and no teams chose the Will in in .
From onward, Alternate Trust replaced the Alternate Will, claiming it would "Call in an Alternate for a Player on your Team, with a mystery Benefit." These "benefits" were a range of permanent player Modifications.
In , three players received the Parasite Modification in addition to being Alternated: Elwin McGhee, of the Tokyo Lift; Yong Wright, of the Mexico City Wild Wings; and Baldwin Breadwinner, of the Hawai'i Fridays.
In , three more players were targeted by Alternate Trust, this time receiving the Careful Modification: PolkaDot Patterson, Socks Maybe, and Elijah Valenzuela of the Dallas Steaks, Chicago Firefighters, and Breckenridge Jazz Hands respectively. 
The Modification which would've been given to Alternate Trusted players in Season 17 is unknown, as no teams filed the Alternate Trust Will.
In , the Alternate Trust Will was visually associated with the Reader and gave players the Negative Modification, with the exception of Justice Spoon who was already Negative from the Season 18 Reading and gained the Undertaker Modification instead. In addition to Justice Spoon, Yrjö Kerfuffle of the Houston Spies, Kelvin Andante of the Core Mechanics, Erin Jesaulenko of the Georgias, Greer Lott of the Canada Moist Talkers, Jessica Telephone of the Lift, Ren Hunter of the Charleston Shoe Thieves, Scarlet Caster of the Wild Wings, Brisket Friendo of the Seattle Garages, and Anathema Elemefayo of the New York Millennials were Alternated this season.
 recipients of the Alternate Trust Will (Jaylen Hotdogfingers of the Boston Flowers, Caleb Novak of the Miami Dale, Socks Maybe (again) of the Firefighters, Amos Melon of the Moist Talkers, and Peanut Holloway of the Philly Pies) also received the Negative modification.
====Expansion Era Blessings====
During the Expansion Era, there were multiple Blessings that allowed Teams to Alternate multiple players on their team at once. The following Blessings involved the Alternate modification:
Blessing 	Description 	Season(s) Offered	Winning Team 	Notes
On Deck 	Call the Alternate for all Players in your Shadows. 	 	Chicago Firefighters 	List of Alternated players. The Alternation of Lance Serotonin also revealed that Attractors could be refreshed via alternation, losing their Attractor modification.
Shots in the Dark 	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 5 random Players in your Team's Shadows. 	 	Atlantis Georgias 	Alternated Neerie McCloud, Xandra Yolk, Jon Tumblehome, Clementine Steeplechase, and Steals Chark.
Couldn't Hurt 	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for the 2 worst Players on your Team's Active Roster. 	 	Hades Tigers 	Alternated Hiroto Wilcox and Randy Castillo.
Lineup Alternate Trust 	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 3 random Players in your Team's Lineup. 	, 	Seattle Garages, Charleston Shoe Thieves	List of Alternated players
Rotation Alternate Trust	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 2 random Players in your Team's Rotation. 	, 	Hades Tigers, Hawai'i Fridays 	List of Alternated players
Handful Alternate Trust 	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for 5 random Players on your Team's Active Roster. 	, 	Core Mechanics, Baltimore Crabs 	List of Alternated players
Shadows Alternate Trust 	Call the Negative Alternates (maintaining Star count) for your entire Team's Shadows. 	, 	Yellowstone Magic, Hawai'i Fridays 	List of Alternated players
Alternate Bust 	A random Ego-Boosted Player on your Team gets their Negative Alternate called (maintaining Stars) and they lose 1 Ego.	 	Hawai'i Fridays 	Don Mitchell received this blessing, reducing their Ego from to .
===Coronation Era===
Players can be alternated in Solar Eclipse (Red) weather, if targeted by the Mage Umpire. Players on teams with the Entangled modification cannot be alternated in this way.
==Trivia==
*Players can also theoretically be Alternated if they return from Elsewhere while Entangled. As only one player has ever had the Entangled modification, and said modification was due to an Item Moved off the player, this has never been seen in-game.
*Starting in , Alternates were reworked so that if a freshly Alternated Player had fewer Stars than before they were Alternated, their Player Attributes would be boosted until the amount of Stars after their Alternation were the same or higher than as before. 
**This created a quirk where an Alternate's Patheticism — like other stats — would be boosted in an attempt to 'improve' them, despite higher levels of Patheticism — unlike other stats — lowering a Player's Star total. This was especially prevalent in Alternates with previously high Star totals. As the number of boosts an Alternate received was dependent on the difference between their pre- and post-reroll Stars value, Players with higher initial Star totals required a larger number of boosts, resulting in greater chances of Patheticism and Tragicness reaching their maximum. This is often referred to by Fans as the Path Bug, although it has not been confirmed by The Game Band whether it is a bug or intentional.
==Interpretations==
==Fan Works==
===Music===
*replacement waltz by Erica, about Lenjamin Zhuge
===Animatics===
*Iggy - An Alternate by Olive, about Igneus Delacruz
===Fics & Interactive Fiction===
*ablaze with the people you've been by staradavid, about Edric Tosser
*run from me or rip me open by staradavid, about Justice Spoon
*let's tear up this rotten world together by elliotaries, about Jessica and Sebastian Telephone
*DIE TRYING by elliotaries, about Jessica Telephone
*lift me up (just to bury me under) by elliotaries, about Jessica Telephone
*CONVOLUTUS by Peaksykid, about Melton Telephone
*there’s a room where the light won’t find you, by Peaksykid, about Jessica Telephone
Category:Player Modifications