#and we have completely exhausted our original reserve players

[the-physicality]

I’m going to make an armchair diagnosis: ever since worlds, kristin o’neill was moved to line 1 and onto pp1, the team has struggled to score on even strength. To the extent that kori has manufactured a player advantage by pulling the goalie. The solution to me is obvious: you need to put o’neill back as center line 2 but keep her on pp1 and put like murphy or some other right winger up top.

[eternityunicorn]

Love Me Apocalyptic: Part Nine

Author: eternityunicorn 

Genre: Romance/Drama/AU

Pairing: Elijah Mikaelson x OC

Warnings: Violence, Smut (*Smut chapters are marked +18)

Summary: AU of an AU - Elijah Mikaelson and Eternity had been lovers centuries ago. Betrayed, he had thought that he would never see her again. However, in present time, she has returned with a purpose, intertwining their paths once more. Elijah hates Eternity for the past, but finds his addiction to her is still as profound as it had been before and he cannot fight it, leaving him in a complicated relationship with his former lady - in an apocalyptic love.

NOTE: OC and original elements are from my up and coming novel series!

AUTHOR’S COMMENTARY: This chapter is an AU of TO Season 3, Episode 7. Also, there is only one more chapter left after this one and then that shall be the end of this fic! Thank you so much for reading! 

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Elijah had made love to Eternity for the rest of the night, over and over again, until exhaustion forced them to sleep. She had repeated those three little words of love to him many times, to only be met with his silence. Sure, he showed his affection for her in other ways, in the form of  romantic kisses and gentle touches, but never verbally. He simply wasn’t ready. As a result of her frequent attempts to engage him, he barely looked at her near the end of their passionate night. Like a coward, he didn’t want to see the disappointment in those sapphire depths, he was certain was there. 

The following day, upon waking, Elijah slipped out from his lover’s embrace and quickly vacated the premises, returning to his loft in Algiers. He didn’t want to face her, after he had acted so tenderly toward her as she had to him. It had been a long reminder of their wondrous past and he had almost caved to the feelings he still retained from that time - his love for Eternity. 

He didn’t want to be so weak as to give in on a whim, no matter how strong the urge to do so was.

For days after, Elijah did not see or hear from the ethereal beauty. A disappointment, he found. He had thought she’d come to him, asking him why he had snuck away. However, she never did. Instead, she stayed away for whatever reasons. He would have assumed she had been upset with him for leaving in the morning and for his cowardly lack of response to her words of affection, but he knew that Eternity wouldn’t be angry, as she was wise and knew why he had run without needing to confront him about it. 

In those days of the immortal beauty’s absence, a new player came strolling into the French Quarter in the form of a she-devil: Tristan’s little sister, Aurora de Martel. She had come looking for her brother’s murder, having heard from the Strix about the massacre at the gala he had held. Apparently, the group hadn’t divulged exactly whom had done, perhaps in an attempt to protect her from the ‘White Goddess’. 

To try and get answers, Aurora had reunited with Niklaus; though not before stealing Rebekah’s daggared body as an act of leverage, incase it had been the hybrid or Elijah that had killed her brother. Meanwhile, his brother waited to see just how to proceed in ridding them of both Lucien and Tristan’s mad sister. In that process, they had begun sleeping together, a nauseating reunion indeed, as Elijah’s brother bided his time. Upon discovering this, the older Original confronted his little brother one night after finding the two of them together. 

Once the little devil was gone, Niklaus and he retired into the hybrid’s study in order to discuss this seeming infatuation between Aurora and his brother. 

“Am I to assume that you've gone completely mad?” Elijah asked his little brother. 

Niklaus came over with two drink in his hands, handing one over, as he replied, “You see madness, I see method.”

“And that method would be what, Niklaus? To fornicate with the she-devil who took our sister?” He responded with a roll of his eyes.

“To be clear, The Strix took our sister,” answered his brother. “Aurora simply hijacked her. I will get Rebekah back. Trust me. Keeping Aurora close garners the goodwill we need.”

While Niklaus sipped on his drink, Elijah considered this plan of his. “Well, it is a bold - if lecherous - plan,” he commented. “Will you employ the same tactic when it comes time to retrieve the medallion from Lucien and Tristan?

“They’re not really my type,” his brother quipped in return, smirking slyly. “By the way, it seems I’m not the only one enjoying the pleasures of lechery, Brother. I heard the cries of passion the other night, after the Strix party, coming from your old room. Eternity is quite the screamer, by the way. Therefore, I do not think you should be judging me on sleeping with my ex, when you are so clearly doing the same.”

With a heavy sigh, the older Original rolled his eyes and downed half his drink, before replying, “At least, Eternity isn’t working against us, in some devious plot of revenge. She has actually been helping us, while protecting Hope from certain doom. I do not see Aurora doing that.”

“So, you are back together, after all this time.”

“I wouldn’t say that, but even if we were, it is none of your business, Niklaus,” shrugged Elijah, while smiling tightly at him. “Can we please return to the conversation at hand now?”

With one last smirk, Niklaus turned serious, “Certainly. There must be another way to dealing with Lucien and Aurora.”

“There is,” called Eternity from the doorway suddenly, causing both men to turn toward her in surprise.

She looked stunning as always, dressed in a simple white sundress, though she did seem a bit tired. Her shining grace wasn’t as profound as it normally was. It was as if she had been overexerting herself lately, leaving Elijah to wonder just what she had been up to in the days since last he saw her.

“If you wish this madness to end before chaos and terror can descend upon you all, then you need me to dispose of the two remaining threats,” the immortal woman said to them as she swept into the room. “Get them gathered in one place and let me deal with them as I did Tristan - a swift and unsuspecting execution. Then this prophecy will be null and void. Peace shall be restored to the Mikealson household.”

Niklaus grinned at her, “Well, hello to you too, love. It’s about time you showed back up and here I thought my big brother might have run you off for good.”

Elijah remained silent, unsure of what to say. Though, he was concerned about her slightly worn appearance. Just where had she been? What had she been doing?

“Not at all, Niklaus, old friend,” replied the ethereal woman. “I simply had other business to attend to, as Mikealson drama is not the only thing I must contend with, but I’m here now. So, let us put a plan into motion, one that will obliterate this ridiculous prophecy once and for all.”

It was then that an idea stuck the older Original. “It's Thanksgiving,” he said to his brother. “Let's invite Aurora and Lucien for a friendly meal, systematically turn them against one another, therefore distracting them, and then devastate their pitiful existences by unleashing our greatest weapon - the lovely Eternity.” He turned to smile at the goddess.

“What of this weapon that can harm us?” Niklaus asked.

“I can probe their minds, to find it and whatever plan that is truly in motion here,” answered Eternity. “Before I kill them both, of course. Simply leave it to me. This madness you lot have found yourselves in will end this day.”

The hybrid grinned from ear to ear, “Wonderful, love. I do enjoy one of your...powerful performances, particularly when they are not aimed at me. This shall be riveting!”

Elijah himself smiled as well, “Yes, I can feel the holiday spirit already!“

The ethereal beauty gave a small, formal smile that didn’t reach her eyes and a curt nod to both men, before she turned on her heel and quickly vacated the room. 

Niklaus gave him a certain look, just as the older Original gave chase, catching up to Eternity down the hall. He grabbed hold of her arm to stop her, as she didn’t seem as if she was going to, despite sensing his approach. She turned sharply, her sapphire eyes alit with not fury, but a deep hurting mixed with determination. 

“What is it?” He asked in a murmur, as he reached to cup the side of her neck in comfort. Not that he couldn’t guess as to what troubled her. He knew it was him that was causing her pain and he felt his heart twist painfully in his chest with that knowledge. “What’s wrong?”

“I think you know,” she responded coolly. 

“Eternity, I-.”

“Don’t,” She sighed gently, pulling away from his touch. “ I understand your reservations, but I cannot wait here forever for you to decide if you are going to let go of the past. Therefore, you have until the Hollow’s defeat to make up your mind as to what you truly want, to decide if you are going to let your doubts and fears rule you or if you are going to give us another chance. After that demon is defeated, once my promise to keep Hope safe has been fulfilled, I shall take leave of you and the Mikaelsons, for good - if you do not give me a reason to stay, that is. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a dinner to prepare for.”

With that, Eternity turned and walked away, leaving Elijah with her ultimatum.

The Original sighed heavily, watching her walk away from him. He dropped his gaze and  rubbed his temples with his forefinger and thumb, while his other hand rested on his hip. When he looked back up, the ethereal beauty had completely vanished from sight. 

He didn’t like it when others issued ultimatums, but he especially loathed it when it was Eternity giving them. That was because it hurt, whenever she did. Her ultimatums were always a painful experience. He found in that moment that he didn’t want to lose her. The idea of not seeing her sweet face, hearing her melodious voice, made his insides twist painfully. Yet, he held himself together. There were more pressing matters to attend to, for the time being.

Knowing there was nothing more to be done at the moment, Elijah turned and went to prepare for the interesting theatrics to come.

Before long everything was in place. A formal dinner table had been set up in the courtyard, and the courtyard bar had been filled with fancy decanters full of various forms of alcohol, along with plates of grapes, cheese, and bread. It had been a rather lovely set up, especially for Thanksgiving. 

Lucien and Aurora had arrived with the former already taking advantage of the alcohol provided. 

Elijah could hear the clinking of glasses and the pair talking from his bedroom, as he readied to face them. Niklaus’s voice soon joined in, which was the signal for proceedings to begin. He hadn’t seen any sign of Eternity since their earlier conversation and he feared that maybe he finally did run her off, that perhaps she was betraying them yet again to spite him for his lack of verbal response to her love for him. Of course, he knew that the ethereal woman wasn’t so petty, but the thought did cross his mind all the same.

“Well, well. If it isn't my old friend Lucien,” the Original heard Aurora say as he exited his bedroom. 

Lucien responded, “Hello, Aurora. It's been ages. You look...”

“You look ravishing,” Niklaus interjected, the sound of lips against skin could be heard, meaning he had kissed the back of the she-devil’s hand. 

Just then, Elijah made his entrance, descending the stairs into the courtyard gracefully. “Welcome to our home,” he greeted their guests. “I do wish it was under better circumstances. We all face a common threat-- a prophecy warning that my siblings and I would all fall within a year...I fear my sister already has.”

“Well, someone has killed my brother,” Aurora spoke up. “I took Rebekah as a means of leverage to hopefully find out just whom murdered him. I figured it was one of you two. Sorry, Nik. I want to know who my brother’s murder is and then maybe I’ll consider giving your sister back to you.”

“Well, love, while I am hurt that you would accuse me of killing Tristan, I’m afraid, it was not I nor Elijah, who did the deed,” Niklaus told her with a deep frown. 

Aurora gazed at the hybrid curiously, “But you do know who did.”

He opened his mouth to speak, but decided against it. Instead, grinning that sly, knowing grin of his that meant that he did know something. 

“It seems we are off to a wonderful start, lots to discuss,” Elijah spoke politely with a small smile, as he gestured to the table, “Shall we?”

The four of them moved to the dinning table, each taking a seat. Lucien and Aurora sat across from each other on either side of the table, while Elijah and Niklaus took seats at either end. The table had been filled with all manner of Thanksgiving foods, including a whole turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, amongst other things. It was quite the spread. It was a shame that the meal might prove to be wasted under the circumstances of it. 

“It's a bit odd, isn't it?” Lucien observed offhandedly. “Celebrating an American holiday?”

“Well, you know, Lucien, I rather enjoy Thanksgiving,” replied Elijah. “The turkey, the cranberry sauce...the lies, the deceit, the betrayal. Do help yourselves.” He gestured to the food.

“I think that Thanksgiving sounds lovely,” called Eternity from the top of the stairs, drawing all eyes to her.

Everyone was in awe at the sight of her, but none more so than Elijah. She was dressed in a white, mermaid gown with diamonds studded chains for sleeves that hung from her upper arms. There was a white gold tiara with three starburst shaped amethyst encrusted into it, as well as a white starburst birthmark upon the center of her forehead. She had an even more profoundly ethereal glow about her, her shining grace was more intense, and she floated down the stairs with flawless precision. This was the rarely seen Universal Queen and it was an incredible sight to behold.

Lucien and Aurora both had a mix of wonder and fear spread across their faces at the sight of Eternity, while Niklaus looked amused and Elijah found himself breathless. 

“It cannot be!” Lucien gasped in disbelief. “The infamous White Goddess! Bloody hell! What? How?”

“Forgive my lateness,” Queen Eternity smiled politely, her hands clasped in front of her regally with her head held high in regality. “I did hope to make a grand entrance.”

“Who the bloody hell are you?” Aurora demanded, rather rudely. Her discomfort evident by the way she shifted nervously in her chair. 

The immortal queen looked at her with a soft smile, “It does not matter who I am, my dear, as your time is...done. However, before I dispatch you both, I will tell you this: it was I that killed Tristan de Martel, along with a small group of Strix members.”

The looks of terror on both Lucien’s and Aurora’s faces were priceless. The stench of their fear was palpable. They each looked ready to fly, to escape the very real threat against them. Death had come to call in the form of the ethereal beauty before them and they all knew it. 

“But only I know the location of Rebekah’s body,” Aurora spoke quickly, rising from her seat. “You can not kill me, if you wish to see her again!”

“Yes, and I have the medallion,” Lucien chimed in quickly, also getting up from the table. “Let me live and I’ll give it to you.”

Eternity only smiled at them both, while Elijah and Niklaus watched on from their front row seats. “You, Mr. Castle, are a coward,” she said to Lucien. “You gave up that information so easily, completely unaware that I already knew what you do. You see, I have a lot of various talents, including the reading of minds. I already probed yours, sir, for that trinket...and more.”

The vampire swallowed thickly in a terrified sweat. 

“Oh yes. I know of your true intentions,” Eternity told him, darkly. “You are to be the prophesied ‘Beast’, having made a deal with the ancestors of New Orleans witches to become this fabled creature and slay Niklaus, once the Strix witches have unlocked the key to undoing the sirelines, freeing all vampires from the Originals, whom created them.” 

Elijah and Niklaus both exchanged alarmed looks at this revelation, while Lucien began to back away, having been caught. 

“As for the location of Rebekah’s body,” the ethereal woman turned back to Aurora, “I already have that information too. Therefore, you both have nothing left to offer, but...to die.”

The pair’s deaths were immediate, as they were gruesome. Eternity unleashed her mighty power upon them both without so much as raising a hand, basically unraveling both Lucien and Aurora simultaneously. They screamed and writhed in horrific pain as the power of the queen turned them inside out and then turned them to dust that floated away on the wind.

“Well that was a bloody spectacle,” Niklaus commented with an amused grin. “Who knew that the little stable boy was to be our undoing! The ancestors were foolish to recruit such an unworthy adversary as Lucien Castle.”

“Lucien was only the beginning, I’m afraid,” chimed in Eternity, who shifted out of queen form and into her civilian one. “It seems that the true ‘Beast’ was to be Marcel Gerard, after the two of you betrayed him in a rather silly error of calculation. Mr. Castle has been formulating the serum to turn him into this prophesied creature through his front of business operation. Lucien would have taken it and would have eventually died by the hands of the Originals. Then the serum would have been passed on to Marcel, resulting in a struggle like none you’ve faced so far.”

Elijah and Niklaus both looked disturbed by her words of what would have come to pass, if she had not intervened. 

“Lucien and his quest to be your betters would have simply been the precursor to the prophecy’s fulfillment,” the ethereal woman told them. “You lot are fortunate for my intervention, as none of it matters now. All you have to do from here is dismantle Lucien’s operation, make sure all serum exterminations have been destroyed, and retrieve Rebekah.”

A piece of folded paper appeared between her two fingers as she held it up for one of the Original brothers to take. Elijah was the one who went to her, taking the paper from her to find that it was the coordinations to Rebekah’s location. Niklaus soon followed, coming to stand on the other side of Eternity. 

“I would suggest you do not waste time in getting your sister, as Aurora had stashed her at the bottom of the ocean,” Eternity told them gravely. “I also wouldn’t dawdle in destroying Lucien’s operation, if you do not want someone else taking up his cause. I have done what I can to change your fates. The rest is up to you.”

Then the immortal woman moved away, heading toward the exit, with both brothers watching her go with curiosity etched upon their faces.

“Where are you going?” Niklaus called to her.

“My task is done for the time being,” she called back to him, not turning around or pausing in her step. “I have other duties that need tending. I shall return when it comes time to destroy the Hollow as initially promised.”

With that, Eternity was gone, leaving Elijah and Niklaus to tend to the tasks she had given them.

To Be Continued....

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[fyp-psychology]

The Side of Empathy Nobody Talks About: It Is Emotionally Exhausting & Damaging To One's Soul

Most people wouldn’t think that empathy has a downside or limits, but in our relationships, it’s not always a positive tool. It’s something that can be depleted, leaving our emotional tanks empty for other family members.

Empathy is just one ingredient in the recipe for deep connections with our intimate partners. We have to look past this tool and understand its negative effects if we really want to create lasting connections.

First, some definitions are in order.

What Exactly Is Empathy

Empathy is our ability to put ourselves in the place of other people. This allows us to understand their feelings and even experience their pain. Without empathy, it’s difficult to have insights into other people’s behaviors.

Everyone has some ability to empathize thanks to mirror neurons in the brain which allow us to feel what other people feel. When we see a soccer player miss the ball only to kick another player square in the crotch, we react instantly to the perceived pain.

We feel what they feel without any effort. We can experience a wide range of emotions for situations we’ve never been in because of these neurons. We can also learn how to do things the same way.

Feeling what other people feel can alter our behaviors in a positive way. We can predict how other people might react when we leave the sink full of dishes, or place chocolates and a card on the bed for a nice surprise.

This means we can avoid certain behaviors or adopt positive ones that make our partners happy.

“Compassionate empathy “is a balance of positive cognitive and emotional empathy, which prompts us to take action, as needed.” For instance, a messy partner, who has compassionate empathy, can imagine and feel how annoying or even distressing it is for their partner to deal with their mess, so they modify their behavior and pick up after themselves, she said.”  – PsychCentral

Arguments can be diffused when we pause to understand someone’s position from their point of view, even when we don’t agree. It allows to see how someone might take a certain stance based on where they’re coming from.

The Negative Side of Empathy

Relying too much on empathy can be an emotional drain. In certain studies, people who used empathy in the workplace had less to give to their families. It’s a finite emotional reserve which can be depleted.

This leads to negative trade offs. Most people wouldn’t make these trade offs consciously if they knew there was going to be less empathy available for loved ones.

Empathy can be used for manipulation too. By understanding other people’s feelings, we can use those feelings against them. In many emotionally abusive relationships, one person may use anger as a tool because they know their partner will do as they want, and attempt to “put out the fire” to make them happy again.

“Both cognitive and emotional empathy can be used in negative ways (e.g. someone might use cognitive empathy to be manipulative; someone who takes on their partner’s emotions might become too burned out to support them).” 1

Empathy can also be misplaced when we don’t understand context. For example, being nice is generally a good thing. We want to treat others with respect, and can anticipate the same in return. We naturally like people who treat us with some level of respect and kindness.

This can backfire in the case of the “nice guy” who wants to attract a woman. In this context, nice doesn’t equal turned on. She may like him but it will be on a platonic level. He’s putting himself into the wrong person’s shoes and won’t get the reaction he predicted empathetically.

What’s More Important Than Empathy In a Relationship

A good relationship is made up of many ingredients which can be thought of as a recipe. No single ingredient is enough on it’s own, but put everything together and you’re more likely to succeed.

Mutual responsibility – Take responsibility for everything you do and never play the blame game.

Shared values – Connect on shared values such as respect for life, family, success ambitions, lifestyle or any other value which is a big part of your life blueprint. Find out more about how to know your values here: Knowing My Values Has Filled up the Long-Existed Missing Gap in My Life

Trust – Establish trust by being reliable. That means following through on everything you say you’re going to do.

Boundaries – Create boundaries which allow for mutual respect, and let your partner know if they’re being crossed.

Relationship clarity – Don’t make assumptions on the big things. Always be clear by talking about it.

Emotional Intelligence – Work on your own emotional intelligence for better communication and understanding. This includes empathy. Learn from my other article How to Be More Emotionally Sensitive

Shared Passions – Connect on interest which compels you. Mutual passions create deeper bonds than superficial activities. If you have a passion for the outdoors, it’s going be more powerful than watching Seinfeld reruns together (although that’s OK too).

Sexual Polarity – Sameness = no chemistry. It’s important that both partners know where they stand and their roles. Although different context will call for different aspects of our personalities, both the partners trying to fulfill the same role will lead to disinterest.

Three Questions to Ask in Place of Using Empathy

Instead of trying to guess what your partner is feeling, ask him or her instead. It’s true that we can learn a lot about our partner’s emotions through observation and empathy, but don’t underestimate the power of a direct question.

“When trying to empathize, it’s generally better to talk with people about their experiences than to imagine how they might be feeling.”  – Adam Waytz 2

That doesn’t mean you’re always going to get a complete answer though. This is where asking the right questions comes in. It also pays to ask questions that hit a few different angles so that you can have ‘big picture’ understandings.

Start with these:

How do you feel?

What do you want?

What do you think?

When communication is open, these questions will open up a dialogue. It’s also a lot easier than trying to guess emotions and desires, and will reduce the need for empathy. This means we can save more empathy for situations where it’s more useful without getting burnt out.

Outside of asking, pay attention to what your partner actually does. A person’s actions always speak louder than words.

REFERENCES

Featured photo credit: Alvin Mahmudov on Unsplash via unsplash.com

[1] PsychCentral: The Power of Empathy in Romantic Relationships & How to Enhance It

[2] Harvard Business Review: The Limits of Empathy

[THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT LIFE HACK]

[yeoldontknow]

It Was The Night: 3

Author’s Note: i hope you all are enjoying this little story <3 i know its short and slow going but still! happy chanvember! Pairing: Chanyeol x Reader (oc; female) Genre: drama; historical au; suspense; romance Rating (this chapter): PG Word Count: 2,070

III.

For the rest of the month, very little occurred that would cause one to be suspect of anything untoward within the walls of the opera. The days began to blur into one endless stream of music, costumes, and rehearsals, each the same as the last. Having turned seventeen with almost no pomp and circumstance, and priding myself on a rather mature sense of pragmatism, I very nearly forgot the incident altogether. 

The fault, in my mind, was in the trick of the light and the general uneasiness one falls victim to when walking alone in dark corridors. In this resolve, I was resolute, moving through the opera house without any sort of fear, wholly unplagued by the memory. 

Even still, as the thoughts of shadows moved through my mind, I found it impossible to replicate their motions with the flames of my candles. When each bit of darkness is unique, each sway of light singular and fleeting, how then can one prove they had seen anything at all? I deemed this memory a fallacy of youth, the last bit of my childhood fading as I moved towards womanhood, letting it die as I did memories of my emotional turmoil throughout puberty.

This was, of course, until the day a rather mysterious, five act opera appeared on the seat reserved for our illustrious conductor.

Morning rehearsals had barely just commenced, each choral member still shaking away the full shapes of our yawns, when Monsieur Letrouc shouted in a rage at the mess. We all bristled, I especially, at the thought of a manuscript left unaccounted for, or, at the very least, left about and carelessly forgotten. Sheet music for an opera, we were taught, is akin to the bible, something holy and therefore sacred. Such a thing is a guide, all answers contained within its dictation, and to leave it so recklessly behind is a cardinal sin of theatrical production.

While we waited for its owner to stake claim, Monsieur Letrouc’s brow furrowed from anger and disdain, to confusion, a bewildered sort of expression making haste along his features. Glancing over its cover, and even at its thickness, we soon realized this was not, as we assumed, the music for Les Abencérages but instead something different, and unexpected, altogether.

Penned by man named Aeon Smith and based on the tragedy of Antigone, it was regarded with much skepticism and laughter throughout the corps for being ‘terribly presumptuous,’ and assumed to be ‘absolute drivel by a first time writer.’ No one had ever heard search a name, not even the international members within the orchestra who hailed from London. This was a man born of obscurity, and was audaciously presenting his work to the most renowned corps in the country. We called him ignorant, we called him foolish, but soon we all were forced to wear the blush of embarrassed prejudice in the wake of the music.

On a spot of daring wit, one of the chamber string players took a page from Haemon’s death, tearing it from the script with raucous glee, and stood in the center of the stage with a wicked grin. At once, he made every effort for the performance to toe precariously on the line of the absurd. Though, try as he might, it was simply impossible to render the exquisite brilliance of the piece anything apart from perfection. With just one page, the orchestra had become lost in a wave of emotion and we were rendered into silence. There wasn’t much deliberation after that, it was simply agreed upon that this would be our show and we were swiftly given new lines to learn.

It was assumed the music was delivered by a night messenger from an English writer, with such a name as Smith we could only assume this was the nature of its origins. Whispers from the choir girls alluded to a member of the kitchens having composed such delights, while the boys each boasted to having written it themselves once alone and separated from their friends, scratching the notes into parchment by candlelight. I believed neither of such accounts, and instead took to obsessing over the memory of my shadowed angel.

Looking back, I do not know why I titled him as such. Perhaps, it was his lack of an origin that persuaded me to call him so, though I daresay there was a sort of divine truth in the name. In the end, I think my essence called to him, named him as my own before I had ever set eyes upon his face.

In those early days, logic told me there was no such person, but then where else could an opera, with such an unusual writer as Aeon Smith, come into existence? I had the pieces but was completely without the ability to connect them. Conclusions were drawn from one to the next without any thought to their sheer impossibilities. The script was far too clean and precise to have been written by a child, the pages free from stray porridge stains. In my mind, the biggest clue was that the tale was far too romantic to spawn from the dreary, unfeeling heart of an Englishman. Eventually, I decided that its parentage was of little import to me and what mattered most was that it existed, and, therefore, required the length of our souls in its performance.

In a sense, I was devout to this opera, and, thus, devout to Aeon Smith.

Soon after rehearsals commenced, I began to experiment with the bending of rules and the thrill of teenage rebellion. On one particular evening, I snuck out of the bed chambers with Jacqueline, Charlotte, and a publicly mild mannered girl named Annessa. There was such excitement to be had from slipping beneath the watchful eye of Madame Catherine, the pull of adult whim tugging gently on our fingers. It was fleeting, these sensations, but we chased after the temptation of autonomy with bare feet and flushes at our cheeks. Our favourite private insurrection was, as one would assume, the performance hall.

As members of the chorus, none among our group very talented ballet dancers neither were we full members of the corps, we were regulated to the sides of the stage for the full run of an opera. At night, with only the dim glow of an oil lamp as our spotlight, we would stand in its center. With my eyes closed, I could imagine the adoring eyes of an audience, the weight of an aria burning at the rim of my diaphragm. This was where I was meant to sing my prayers, before red velvet chairs, beneath the glory of a crystal chandelier. The gold of the room always drew me in, wrapped tightly around my breath to keep me fixed in a permanent state of awe.

Annessa, never one to admire the beauty or importance of cherished spaces, took to the very center with an eagerness that bordered on aggression and began to sing, loudly, the aria of Antigona’s death. 

It was the only role in the entire opera we could even attempt to sing, the character written for that of a soprano. As not all of us had yet completed the trials of puberty, we were still viewed as half-formed singers, the lower end of the musical scales still perilously out of our reach. Though Ismene had, in my opinion, far more challenging and bewitching arias written for her character, Antigona was the only option for our group to idly learn. Yet, Annessa sang with such boisterous enthusiasm I found myself scowling in the heart of my sanctuary.

‘That is not how it’s meant to be sung,’ I shouted, stopping her in the middle of the aria. At my sides, my fingers were tense, twitching in irritation at her seeming indifference to the character’s lament.

‘Sorry?’ she asked, bewildered. She rounded on me with a hiss through grit teeth. Yet, she did not intimidate me.

‘Antingona is about to die, she knows this fully,’ I explained gently. ‘She has disobeyed her uncle most egregiously, and has now been sentenced to be walled into a cave. At best, she would be reflective. Mostly, she would be sad, yet proud of her choices. She cremated her brother, defied the law, and loved with all her heart. So young and so in love with Haemon, mourning the future she will never have with him. And so, there is no happy ending. She sees Creon for who he really is, and absolutely cannot come to terms with the truth.’

I paused to bite my bottom lip and continued in a more resolved, severe tone, one I had never affixed to my voice.

‘There is no space for triumph here. I’ve never been one for grief, but I do understand mortality.’ 

It felt like a relief, saying it, letting her know that she had completely missed the point of the opera, the music, Aeon Smith himself. My thoughts and feelings had felt like a secret which was now being poorly kept, and I was grateful for the admission.

‘Well, if you’re so clever why don’t you sing it?’ Annessa challenged, finally, the sneer in her voice not going unnoticed by me, and likely the others.

I shall never know what sort of bravery possessed me the moment I accepted her demand, and only looking back now I can almost point towards the exhaustion of restraining my sudden, teenage competitive nature. In the end, I believe wanted this moment, wanted the pride, wanted the sin of it all - wanted, more than anything, to let the Godless city into my veins for once and for all. I took to the center of the stage with delight pulling at my shoulders, lifting my posture and with memories of a boasting Father Ezekiel lingering like phantoms in the back of the theatre.

And so I sang, with full voice and relaxed palms, jaw loosely set and diaphragm open. The words came easily, memorized through repetition in rehearsals and their natural cadences. As I sang, every act on stage became tangible. Soaked into my hands was the blood of my slain brother; before me, my young groom, with dagger in hand, visible only through a fissure of stones. My heart ached with closeted familial betrayal, and my tongue burned with the words I wanted to shout, at France and at God:

Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, to soul–– A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

I kept singing, wishing I could cry for all my losses and all my future gains, the vitriol pouring out of me in a deluge, much akin to flood.

You’ll never see me taken in by anything vile.

And then, with wide eyes, I saw the shadow looming in the dark at the top of the third level balcony. I remembered my ghost, my shadow in the mirror, and suddenly felt a surge of elation. Here now was proof and not just for my own eyes!

Immediately I stopped singing turning back to my friends, gesticulating vigorously into the dark, just beyond the glow of the oil lamps.

‘Look, in the balcony! The opera ghost!’

They all ran to me, squinting in the direction of my finger and I smirked, fully prepared to clarify the proof of childish, erroneous tales. But when I looked back, there remained only the night, with no welcome shadow to put conviction to my name. My friends laughed the entire way back to our quarters, laughed at my eagerness, my foolishness, my sudden, unpredicted turn towards belief. I’d never once scorned a shadow but, on that evening, I wanted the dark to wither beneath my feet.

The following morning there was a folded piece of parchment, sealed in blood red wax, placed directly in the center of the recital hall. As our conductor opened it, his brow grew over more into a concerned furrow and his eyes, upon completion of his read, bore into mine with tremendous distaste.

He read aloud:

‘By order of Aeon Smith, Y/F/N Y/L/N is to play the role of Antigona. There shall be no exceptions.’

[halo-of-honey]

Concrete Jungle

Daveed Diggs x Original Fem. Character

Synopsis: Emerson O'Connor has always dreamed of playing in a Broadway pit orchestra. After fleeing Boston to move back home to New York, she is approached by Lin and her whole world changes. But moving to a new city to get away from her past may not be as simple as she originally hoped.

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Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20

Chapter Two: Living Arrangements

That Sunday morning, I put on a nice outfit -- a navy blue floral dress, mustard yellow cardigan, and knee high brown riding boots -- and made my way to the train station early. I used my commuter pass to catch the express train to Grand Central Station. While I sat on the train, I watched out the window with a new perspective. I was 26 years old and finally... finally fulfilling my dreams. I thought after I moved back to New York from Boston because everything there fell apart that I was stepping backwards. But it seemed it was quite the opposite.

I loved taking the train. It was one of my favorite things. Especially into New York, since I hadn’t ever gotten to do it that often when I was a teenager. All my friends would go down to the city in groups to see concerts or just be tourists. But my mom never let me go. So when I did, it was a treat. I was fascinated by Harlem. All the street art and basketball courts. It was a completely different world that had only ever been a few hours away. Then the train would plunge into darkness. As my eyes adjusted, I could make out the subway tunnels as we trundled by.

I followed the crowd of people exiting the train about two hours from curtain. I breathed in the stale stench of the underground and train exhaust. I loved it. It meant I was back. It meant I was here. Where I belonged. I made my way up to the street and decided what I wanted to do. Lin asked me to come by the theater an hour before curtain, which meant with travel time I had about thirty minutes to do whatever I wanted. I decided to catch an Uber to the Nintendo store and kill time playing some games on their massive TV.

When it was time to walk over to the theater, I was feeling really good. I tried to ignore the slight sense of creeping anxiety as I pushed my way across Times Square. I never liked big crowds, but I knew I’d have to get used to it eventually. When I got to the Richard Rogers, there was already a long line of people waiting outside. All eyes were on me as I went up to the entrance doors and knocked to get the attention of a young woman standing a little ways inside. She came over to the door and cracked it open a little.

“Hi, I’m Emerson O’Connor. I’m here to see Lin.” I said as quietly as I could. The girls at the front of the queue were focused intently on me and I didn’t want to make it seem like if they just went up and knocked they could get in.

“Oh! Yes, yes. Come in quickly.” the girl said, pulling me inside.

She shut the door firmly behind us and then headed over to the ticket counter, “Hey, Candice, can you page Lin? That girl is here to see him.”

I waited in the lobby for a little while before Lin burst through a side door in jeans and a grey hoodie, “Em! My bestie! You made it!” he said cheerily, coming over to hug me.

“Yeah, of course.” I said.

“Come! Come! Everyone is so excited to meet you!”

“Everyone?” I asked nervously.

“Oh yeah! Come mami !”

I followed him back through the side door into a long hallway. At the end it turned a corner and I could suddenly hear voices and singing. I trailed behind him and he turned suddenly into the first room. I was immediately greeted by a room full of voices. It was a mix of words and it took me a moment to get them all sorted out. When I did, I realized I was standing in front of the majority of the cast and crew.

“Em! Meet Alex!” Lin said, tugging gently on my arm to steer me towards a tall man with curly hair and dark neatly trimmed beard.

“Emerson! Yes! It’s so great to finally meet you!” Alex said, holding out a hand for me to shake.

I took it and shook firmly, “Yes, you too.”

“I was watching some of your YouTube videos. You’re ability with the cello is very impressive. Were you also playing some other instruments on those tracks? Or were they synthesized?” he asked.

“Yes, actually...” I started. “I started on violin when I was little. I also play bass, a little ukulele, and piano. Though I can’t say I’m very good.”

“Awesome! Very cool. Well, I am so excited to get you started. I can give you a copy of the score a little later, so you can get to work.”

“Great, yeah. I’d really like to get a headstart.”

“Of course! I’ll get it to you before you head back home tonight.”

“Okay, so now everyone!” Lin said, satisfied I had met Alex. “Everyone! Meet Emerson! Our new cellist!” he announced.

I turned my focus back to the rest of the room where all eyes were on me, “Hello, everyone!”

‘Everyone’ waved and then a few people scattered. Clearly Lin had made as many people as he could come to greet me whether they had other things to do or not. A few people came over to introduce themselves including some of the ensemble members and the pit bassist. Lin insisted I meet some of the main cast members and dragged me over to where they were all convened on the couch together. I stood there feeling slightly flustered as Lin gave me all their names at once.

“You have such a pretty name, where does it come from?” an Asian woman named Pippa asked me, her smile glittering and beautiful.

“Oh, well my parents both really loved Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. But it also derives from Emer, who was the wife of this wicked cool Celtic warrior.”

“Wow! That’s so cool!” she said.

The lights in the room flashed and I checked my watch, 45 minutes to curtain. The room started emptying, people excusing themselves to head to their dressing rooms to get ready for the show. Lin decided this would be a good time for me to see the pit before he had to leave me himself. So he pointed me in the right direction, told me to come find him in his dressing room after the show, before I cautiously made my way back down the hall and through a door into the theater. Alex had his head sticking out of the trap door in the pit and he smiled when he saw me come in.

“Emerson! Come see your new home!” he said, waving me over.

He pointed to the door and I let myself in, shutting it behind me. It was a small pit, there weren’t very many live players since it was half pre-recorded beats anyway. Most of the musicians were already there, getting warmed up and tuning their instruments. Alex showed me where I would be sitting, close to the back corner of the room next to the bassist and a violinist. I introduced myself and was sincerely thanked by the violinist, who had been covering some of the cello parts on a viola in the interim. With only ten minutes to curtain, Alex showed me how to get up into the private box where Lin had reserved my seat.

I sat there alone, reading through the playbill until the lights dimmed. The music started like a explosion and I could already feel myself getting emotional at the thought that soon I would be a part of it. I tried my best to divide my attention between the music and the acting but found myself quickly getting overwhelmed. Every break between songs was enough time for me to recompose myself. I was thankful I had stuffed a pack of tissues into my purse. By intermission I was practically leaping out of my seat, ready to get started.

When the show was all done, I headed to the bathroom to reapply my makeup since I had managed to cry most of it off through the closing number. When I went to go through the door to the dressing rooms, I was stopped only until I explained my situation. Then they quickly apologized and let me pass. I headed down the hall, past the green room and then started reading the names on the doors, looking for Lin’s. I found it at the very end of the hall and knocked gently on the closed door.

“Who is it?” he called in a sing-song voice.

“It’s Emerson.” I answered back.

“Oh, come in, mami ! Come in!”

I hesitated for a second before pushing the door open to his small dressing room. A massive L shaped couch was crammed in one corner facing his dressing table and there was a shelf stacked with books and a small TV set up with an xBox. Lin was stretched out on the chaise, already in street clothes, playing what looked to me like Destiny. When I went to shut the door again he shook his head.

“Nah, just leave it open and come chill.” he said, patting the couch next to him.

When I sat down, he passed me the controller, “Do you play video games?” he asked.

He was playing some quick matches, which were easy enough. I had only played Destiny a few times on other friend’s consoles, so I wasn’t incredibly good. But I was definitely holding my own. “Oh yeah, mostly PlayStation though.” I said.

“What did you think of the show?” he asked eagerly.

“It was incredible. I don’t think I’ve ever cried over a musical more in my life. And I’ve seen Phantom and RENT live.” I answered.

“I’m so glad you loved it! That’s so exciting. I think you’re going to be really happy here.”

I glanced away from the TV to smile at Lin, “I think so too.”

Suddenly someone appeared in the corner of my vision at Lin’s door, knocking on it, “Hey, I wanted to ask you about that change you were talking about for Lafayette?” they said to Lin, clearly not noticing me sitting there.

“Oh yeah! For sure.” I had just started a new match and had commandeered a sparrow, taking off to find a good sniping position to try out Lin’s high level sniper rifle. Lin started talking like my being there was commonplace, “I think in Yorktown it might be cool to play Lafayette a little more cocky. You know, man? Like...he got all his French brethren to help us. I think he would be more proud of that.”

I glanced up from the screen for just a moment to see a tall man with wild curly hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and big lips looking directly at me, “Right, of course.” he said, responding to the suggestion, eyes dragging back to Lin.

“Oh! Daveed! Duh! This is Emerson, our new cellist. Sorry, I forgot you hadn’t met yet!” Lin said quickly.

“How’s it going?” Daveed said, smirking at me.

I tried my best to look at him to respond, but I had died and respawned right in the middle of the map where it seemed every player from the other team just happened to be camping out. “Good, sorry...fucking game...right in the middle of...OH NO YOU DON’T!” I shouted at the TV as a guy tried to sneak up behind me and mele me. I heard Lin and Daveed laugh as I spun around to kill that guy, only to be shot by someone from across the map. “Fuck!”

“Wow!” Lin chuckled.

I put the controller down on the couch, “Sorry, excuse me.”

“It ain’t no thang, chica .” Lin said, picking up the controller for himself.

When I looked over at Daveed, who was still standing in the door, he was looking at me intensely. I stood up and took a step so I could shake hands with him, “Hi, I’m Emerson. It’s nice to meet you.”

I wasn’t especially short, but Daveed seemed to tower over me. His hand engulfed mine when he took it, shaking it gently as if he didn’t want to crush it, “Nice to meet you, too. So you’re joining our crazy little family here, huh?”

I nodded, “Yes, soon hopefully. I was just fired from my last job so...soon.” I answered.

“You were fired?” Daveed asked.

Lin laughed behind me, “Oh yeah. And it was my fault too.”

Daveed raised an eyebrow, “How was it your fault?”

“Her theater put on In The Heights last week. I went to go see it, fell in love with her, so I went to offer her the job here. Apparently word got around her company and people got pissy. So her director fired her.” Lin explained for me, not looking up from his game.

“Is that right?” Daveed said.

I nodded, “Yeah, completely ridiculous. But maybe it was meant to be.”

“Maybe...” Daveed said smokily, something sparking deep down in his umber eyes.

“I promised Em dinner, do you wanna join us, D?” Lin offered, finishing his match and standing up to return the controller to the shelf.

Daveed shook his head, his curls undulating around his head, “No can do, man. Not tonight at least. Promised Rafa I’d work on some Clipping tracks with him tonight.”

“Oh is he in town?”

“No, we’ll probably Skype or something. But he’s getting antsy to hear the new stuff.”

“It’s cool, it’s cool.” Lin said.

“Well have a good night, you two.” Daveed said. He smiled down at me, flashing teeth, “Emerson...”

“Daveed.” I said, feeling my ears getting hot under his gaze.

Daveed left and I could feel Lin grinning behind me, but I chose to ignore him. When I turned around he had already moved on, shuffling around his dressing table gathering his wallet and other belongings. Once he was satisfied he had everything, I followed him out of his dressing room back down the hall. He poked his head into every room that still had people in it, seeing if anyone wanted to join us for dinner. In the end, everyone but Alex had plans already, so it seemed it would just be the three of us. We called an Uber and Alex handed me a thick, one inch binder that held the cello score.

“Don’t worry, I don’t think you’ll have a hard time picking it up.” Alex assured me. “From what I heard about your performance of In The Heights , this will be a cake walk.”

The Uber arrived and we hurried to climb in before anyone noticed Lin. I was sandwiched between the two men and I opened the score to flip through some of the pages, “Oh for sure. My high school always used professional level music. So I’m used to it. We never played the arranged stuff.”

“Did I tell you? Em’s a total boss. She ripped open a callus during the performance and kept playing!” Lin raved.

Alex chuckled, “I remember you telling me, Lin.”

I shut the binder, “I’m really excited to get started. But I still need to find a place to live.” I said.

“Oh yeah! I did look into that!” Lin said.

The Uber pulled up in front of a restaurant and we clambered out onto the sidewalk. I followed the men inside and a host led us to a quiet round booth at the back of the room. I slid in, yet again flanked on both sides by the two gentlemen and tucked my purse and the binder down by my feet. Before we could even get into what Lin had looked into, a waiter came over to take our drink orders. Lin ordered a beer, Alex a glass of red wine, and I ordered a Jack and Coke. Once the waiter was gone, Lin pulled out his phone.

“So I don’t know what your budget is right now, but I have a handful of options.” he started, scrolling through his phone. “There’s a studio open in Harlem where my friend lives for $950 a month. I think one of the lighting guys was telling me his building had a vacant apartment for twelve hundred. And then Daveed mentioned the other day that he had an extra room at his place he was willing to rent out for $450.”

“Daveed as in the Daveed I met earlier?” I asked.

I could feel Alex’s smug smile, “Yeah yeah. He's got a tiny brownstone up near the tram for Roosevelt Island. Nice place.” He said.

“Well uh...I'd have to think about it of course.” I mumbled, not sure how I felt about the flush creeping up my neck or the way Alex and now Lin were smiling like they knew something I didn't.

“Of course of course! Just let me know what you want to do and I can put you in touch with whomever.” Lin said. Our waiter came back with our drinks and while the men weren't looking I took two big gulps to calm my nerves. Lin turned back to me, “I know I’ve asked a million times. But I’m just too damn excited. When do you want to start?”

“Well I suppose I could make the commute a few times this week before I figure out the living situation. When is the next rehearsal?” I asked.

“Pit has a rehearsal this Tuesday morning and I think we have a full rehearsal on...Friday morning?” Alex asked Lin.

“Yeah Friday morning.”

“Okay. Then I guess I'll start there. If we decide I'm comfortable enough with the music after Tuesday I'll see about making the commute for the shows in between.”

“That sounds perfect.” Lin said, smiling.

The men launched into a conversation of their own, leaving me to retreat into my own thoughts. While all of this was very exciting and I was ready to get back to work, it was also still somewhat overwhelming. The options Lin had given me for places to live were tricky. The place in Harlem was definitely out of the question. I had never lived in the inner city so it might not be safe for me, a skinny white chick from upstate. The other place was much too expensive for what I could afford right away. I only had about three grand saved up since I was still paying off student loans and my car. But then there was Daveed’s tiny brownstone.

On the one hand it wouldn’t have been the first time I lived with a man. But it would be the first time I lived with a man I knew nothing of. Granted even that was debatable. The only college roommate I liked had been my best friend Kevin and then I lived with my ex, then boyfriend for two years. But I left Boston for a reason and while I had been living with my mom and her boyfriend for the last three months, I was sort of looking forward to living alone again. $450 a month was a hard offer to pass up. By the time dinner was served, I decided maybe it wouldn’t hurt just to get some more information. Make a final decision from there.

Alex caught his own Uber home after dinner and Lin insisted on going to the train station with me. We stood on the sidewalk outside the station after our Uber dropped us off, “So do you have any thoughts on your living arrangements?” Lin asked with that knowing grin again, as if he was reading my mind.

“Well obviously Daveed’s offer is the most logical choice financially. But honestly I need a lot more information and time.”

“Well that’s fair. Should I pass on your number?”

I was glad for the darkness to hide my flush, “Actually if you could just ask him if it’s alright for me to get in contact with him. I think that would be best.”

“Whatever you need to do.”

“Thanks Lin. Really I mean that. I owe you everything.”

“Em, mami , you deserve it. You really do, just let the love in.” he said, putting his hands on my shoulders.

“I’ll try. I’m still working through...things.” I said.

“Well go home, get some sleep. We’ll see you on Tuesday.”

He hugged me and let me go into the station. I boarded the next train north and found a seat on the side that would be closest to the river. About halfway home I received a text from Lin.

- Texted Daveed. He said go ahead

Another text came through with a phone number. I saved it to my contacts then put on headphones to zone out for the rest of the journey. By the time the train pulled into Cold Spring station, it was almost 10pm and I wasn’t feeling like going home quite yet. The air was close and warm for this early in spring, thick with a fog that was rolling in through the valley. I decided to go for a drive, wandering around until I ended up down on the docks of the Hudson River. I sat there wondering what to do.

At midnight, I pulled out my phone to stare at Daveed’s number. I wondered if I should text him. It was very late and I didn’t want to wake him. But the curiosity was killing me. Why had he offered his home so generously to someone he didn’t even know? He clearly hadn’t seen me before or he would’ve recognized me in Lin’s dressing room. So it wasn’t about appearances. But the way he had looked at me...no, that was nothing. Was Lin’s word worth that much? I knew I needed to let it go for the night and headed home to bed.

[rogue-cup-hq]

2018 Recap

" And God said, "Let there be vodka!" And He saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let there be light!" And then He said, "Whoa - too much light." ~ Anonymous

With the two decade run at Deep Creek officially over, the Rogues found themselves a nomadic herd – a band of idiots without a home, inmates in need of an asylum, the old familiar structures and routines taken from them abruptly. No more snore isolation chamber; no more gas containment chamber - where would William and Goldy sleep? Questions abounded…. Not to mention, the daunting question of “what other drinking courses can we golf on.” The North Carolina contingent (AKA Goldy and William) stepped forward to take the laboring oar in hand and became de facto chairmen for the 2018 event. They secured an incredible deal for the group to convene in North Carolina at two beautiful venues in the Pinehurst area, which conveniently allowed PA an opportunity to double up a visit with family without compromising the annual liver workout.

The 2018 event drew a field of 10 players: PA, Goldy, William, Andrew, B. Smith, G. Berner, Ed Moore, Turns, and of course, Gary "Sandy Bags" Ozenbaugh. Notably, prodigal son David Sautter returned after missing last year due to his move to that little slice of paradise in Maryland called Port Deposit. Schnetzler was a no-show (again) but swore he would return in 2019. Jay“bird” Erbe let yet another year pass without a golf club or wine glass in hand. The usual perennial no-shows (Walter, Luigi) were once again, no-shows. Of those in attendance, several finally at least admitted they had been golfing regularly, but continued to swear they were awful and hadn't improved. The second part of the statement clearly proved true; a touch of honesty was finally beginning to infect the Rogue players..…

The event was “hosted” at the Talamore Villas, with the Rogues bunking in a few condos spread across the complex. The weather was unique for a Rogue event, as we dealt with ungodly high heat and humidity (we all would soon regret our decision to opt for the earlier week):

The courses themselves also represented a radical departure for the group. Rather than seeking out isolated, rural mountain courses with goat pasture fairways and banjos echoing faintly in the distance, we found ourselves playing on real golf courses – our first day of 2018 would be spent battling Talamore, a course the Rogues had no business playing. Day Two would find the Rogues meandering around the course originally known as Pinehurst Plantation, now known as the Mid South Club.

PA, anticipating the heightened challenges of these venues, undertook an ambitious eBay research project in the months leading up to Rogue, intent on replacing those irons he noticed were missing during the 2017 event. The multi-week search for matching Cobra irons came down to the wire, with the final replacement club arriving at Whispering Pines a day before the event. In an odd contrast of fate, PA came out of retirement and went back to work, while B. Smith showed far greater wisdom and left Lansdale to begin life at a lakefront paradise in Virginia (where he immediately set to work preparing “Smithlake” for a pre-Rogue party. And thus the table was set for Rogue 2018; we all pointed our compasses toward the sandhills of North Carolina. The standard decades old caveat/disclaimer regarding the marginal accuracy of my memory still stands. What follows is pieced together from a few notes jotted down on the plane ride home, amidst the cobweb corners of my pickled mind.

Wednesday - PA arrived on Wednesday to visit for a few days with his brother Mark & Mom, enjoying a quiet, relaxing evening. Other than reminiscing with a nostalgic look at old golf clubs gathering dust in the garage, golf was not on the agenda. Beer, however – was…….

Thursday A pre-Rogue gathering was held at Smithlake (I was informed that B. Smith declared that “swimsuits were not optional”). While I wasn’t present, it was described by attendees as a reasonably calm night. All Rogues (PA in Carolina, the rest of the gang at Smithlake) spent the evening watching the Eagles beat the Falcons in a nail-biter 18-12 on NFL opening night; the game came down to a last defensive play against Julio Jones in the end zone, naturally. The Eagles succeeded in swatting the ball away and earning a victory - Go, Birds. 

Friday - the group arose in their respective locations and found their way to Buffalo Wild Wings in Southern Pines for some chow and beer before golf. The forecast was hot, humid with heat index in the mid 90's. Forget the forecast – it was already so. With bellies full of mediocre pub food, we made the short drive to the course.

Upon driving through the gates and parking our vehicles, reality slapped us hard in the face. There we stood – looking at a beautifully groomed course fronted by an elegant southern-style clubhouse. Yes, Talamore…. a course constructed in 1991 by famed course architect Rees Jones. With more than 150 feet of elevation change, wetlands, lakes and towering longleaf pines, Rees had carved out a course layout that the Rogues should not have been granted permission to play. Talamore is consistently ranked at the forefront for outstanding golf courses in the Village of Pinehurst area.

Beverages in hand (the usual iced tea and lemonade containers, and modest beer coolers), we were quickly humiliated by the vast, undulating putting green and our public displays of ground abuse on the driving range. An immediate controversy faced the Rogues on the first tee, as the debate raged over which tee box would govern the day. We had choices – gold, blue, white or green. Gold and blue were immediately vetoed by the majority…. Leaving the whites (or the greens, normally reserved for super seniors and women). After fierce debate, the group chose the green tees. Oh, the humanity and embarrassment….

With putters in hand for their first drive off the super-senior tee boxes, the round was underway and reality set in. The Talamore fairways and greens played like billiard tables – true rolls, and hard as a rock. A shot-by-shot analysis of the tattered scorecards revealed the mighty struggle -

B. Smith was his usual consistent self, with a pair of 43’s on both front and back nine – no real blow-up holes on the way to an 86 to establish himself yet again as the benchmark “zero” (go figure). PA started his round with par, double, triple on his way to a front nine 48. Righted the ship somewhat on the back with bogey golf to enter the clubhouse at 92, his first time ever scoring lower than the outdoor temperatures at a Rogue event and first time ever using a driver less than 5 times in 18 holes. Andrew made a statement: carded a 10 on the first hole, followed by a triple/double sequence after which he settled down for awhile, and after his highlight of the day (a birdie on #13) he had a rough sequence at the end, notching a three hole stretch of double/triple/double that left him with a tidy 100 on the day.

Goldy and Sautter shot matching 51’s on the front nine; the scorecard image was suspiciously faded on several of the holes – hard to determine where the trainwreck happened. Despite his usual elegant swing, Mr. Sautter’s wheels came off completely on #11, where he began a sequence of quintuple/quadruple/triple before finishing the round with a pair of triples on #17 and #18 to stumble home with 110 to trail the pack; however, this disaster of a round partnered him with Smith for the championship round, and would have implications on Day 2. Goldy stayed on the double-bogey train to card a 103. Ozy started out at a torrid pace, scoring 40 on the front nine. At that point, he had completely embraced the spirit of the event, evidenced by his 49 on the back, leaving him at 89. Turns had a tidy 45 on the front and seemed to be in a good rhythm; whatever he did at the turn didn’t help him, as he started off the back nine triple/double/quadruple on his way to a 53, putting him at 98 on the day.

Gary, Ed and William’s scorecard was very faded – Mr. Berner & Ed appeared to have an inauspicious start with each putting a triple on the card for the first hole. GB finished with the front nine with a 53, to Ed’s 48. William, quiet and steady as ever, played tidy bogey golf for a 45. On the back, GB played just as “well”, finishing with a pair of double-bogeys and tallying a 107 for the day; he had a gallery of angry, frustrated geese following him up the final hole. William maintained himself in the zone, finishing the back at 42 for a very nice 87 on the day.Others staggered to the finish in various states of physical disrepair.

Exhausted and teetering on heat stroke, the group sought refuge in the air-conditioned villas, languishing in various states of consciousness and disbelief that they had been so humbled by a paltry 5,500 yards of golf. The alcohol had made no difference. Everyone mustered their remaining energy and managed to organize/fund/retrieve a takeout order of sandwiches, pizzas, whatever and chose to stay in the safety of the villas – the evening was spent on internal alcohol rubs, card games, a moment of floor-rolling and cackling, a few chose chair naps. The Rogues were readying themselves for the day ahead. 

Saturday – Sunny, hot & humid again in the 90’s, a possible scattered t-storm in the forecast never materialized, although it would have been welcome. The Rogues contemplated their choice to have the team play on Mid-South, an Arnold Palmer signature golf course described as offering a “challenging yet enjoyable” championship layout. From the back tees (an option the Rogues never considered), a player has to carry their drive 225 yards just to reach the fairway. Not to mention Mid South’s 11 acres of bunkers (the Rogues became painfully familiar with the entirety of that acreage).

Having adopted the previous year's team format again, the pairings based on top-bottom scoring of the previous day’s bludgeoning of Talamore were as follows – Smith/Sautter, Whitehead/Berner, Ozy/Goldy, Andrew/Ed and PA/Turns. Foursomes were purposefully done to split up the teams and balance the consumption levels: 

Sautter, Ozy, Turns and Smith Goldy, Ed, Berner William, Andrew, PA

Notably, as we prepared for Mid-South, Smith’s and PA’s perennial beverages were on full display, but the usual wine bladder in Mr. Berner’s bag was absent (“red wine is a bad choice for a hot day”). Ozy promised to take up the slack and live the spirit of the event….. PA’s trusty lemonade container was present, as were the copious amounts of beer and what-not.

As we stared down the fairway of the first hole preparing for our tee shots, the heat index was 95. For the 4th round in a row (spanning two years now), a majority vote reinstated the “Great Rogue Compromise Rule of 2017”, again converting the event into a quasi chip-and-putt competition. Some of us looked around sheepishly and silently prayed that the 95 year old husband and wife teeing off on the teebox further back behind us didn’t ask for our IDs. The Rogues had an inauspicious start, with the first group all needing mulligans to get a single ball in play (it had nothing to do with distance). They don’t make fairways wide enough for the Rogues. In fact, it was so ugly that the starter, an elderly gent with a good sense of humor, instantly granted the remaining Rogues permission to hit into the leading group. Our kinda guy.

The Rogues spent their entire Saturday afternoon hacking, duffing, hooking, slicing, chunking, skulling, blading and wandering the Mid-South roughs and bunkers.

PA started triple/double/triple which accelerated his pace to finishing the “lemonade” far too early in the round; he needed every drop on his way to a debilitating 104. Andrew started off well, until the 4th hole – at which point he began a double/triple/triple sequence that loosened the lug nuts, and strung together double bogeys on the remaining holes to tie PA at 52 on the front. On the back, Andrew managed to gain a little traction and finished with 101. William had a rough start with a double/double combo, but then settled down - with a few pars, he managed to score 46 on the front. His story was similar on the back nine, with just a couple blow up holes to shoot 49, getting him into the clubhouse at 95.

Meanwhile, the group of Goldfarb, Moore and Berner were also incurring the wrath of the Mid-South course gods. Goldy had a tidy 10 on the 9th hole on his way to a 52; it got no better on the back nine as the final 4 holes saw Goldy run triple/quad/triple/quad, for a painful 110. After shooting a respectable 48 on the front, Ed decided to mimic Goldy, running quad/double/triple/triple to finish with 104. Gary Berner? Nothing if not consistent…. Started the round triple/quad and finished the round with a triple/quad, placing an enormous 116 on the card. His endurance and physical conditioning were admirable.

The final group (Sautter, Ozy, Turns and Smith) provided the gallery with the full spectrum of Rogue golfing skills. Smith put a tidy 45 on the front nine, with no real blow-up holes. Turns, on the other hand, consistently delivered doubles and triples to card a 58. Ozy worked a triple/triple/triple stretch to smear his opening nine with a 52, while Sautter seemed to be on track with the previous day, putting up a 54. On the back nine, a quad/double/quad finish produced another 58 for Turns, as he staggered off the 18th with a 116. Ozy’s wheels weren’t just off, he may have left them on the front nine. His triple/quad/triple/quad stretch on the back produced a 58 to match Turns, and a rather rare triple digit 110 score. On the positive side, Oz had unquestionably lived up to the spirit of the event. Smith fired another tidy 45 on the back to produce a 90. But the story of the 2018 Rogue golf was clearly David Sautter’s back nine, where he fired a scorching (for him) 43, bringing him in at 97 to clinch the 2019 Rogue Cup team win for himself and Smith….

Some vague personal recollections/observations from Saturday’s Cup round at Mid-South: while I managed to strike some thunderous drives, once off the tee I floundered helplessly in a state of confused ineptitude. No mid-iron skills, no short iron skills, and I hit wedge shots like I was swinging a tree branch. I recall holing an impressively long curling putt on 18… it mattered not. I also recall broad proclamations of despair over the choice of foursome going off first and the subsequent snail-like pace of play. Universally, Ozy is blamed.

Following the round, the group made its way back to the condos to tally up the cards and determine who “won”. We were also in desperate need for a cooling-down period (also known as a “nap”). Sautter and Smith proudly held the Cup high - Smith had gotten so used to wearing the Jacket that a simple nod that he’d won it was sufficient; no need to try and put it on. In a rare combo, Sautter had also secured the Sox as top sandbagger, in addition to having his name engraved on the Cup. This new team format may find the Sox/Cup combo a more frequent occurrence. The Shirt (for highest overall score) was naturally once again in the hands of Gary Berner.  For the record:

We found ourselves at a little local watering hole called Maxie’s, after which Andrew gave us an inadvertent driving tour of the area. I recall copious amounts of Crown Royal & ginger the rest of the evening, much of it inspired by Turns.

Sunday was a brief affair – the group fumigated the villas, packed and bid farewell – no decisions made as to a 2019 venue (although we all agreed that NC temperatures required a later date). And thus the 2018 Rogue Cup drew to a close for another year. Farewell, Talamore and Mid-South...thanks for the drubbing! Cheers to all….what will 2019 bring?

2018 Photo gallery here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/UsKXmXVcAk5XF9vE6

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Sport as a Semiotic Structure- Juniper Publishers

Abstract

Sport is a corporal competition with strict rules with an aim to determine the winner. Sport is a conditional, gaming system, which communicative sign structure has no practical value. Analysis of sports as a structure allows you to select the category of form (rules) and content (the competition). There is one more category - value (determining the winner), expressing the very essence of sport. In semiotics category of value, along with form and content is of essence in nature. The term value itself is derived from sign. If the form expresses "what” the content-”how to”, then the value meets "why”. These semiotic categories do not relate exclusively to the sport, you can select them in any cultural phenomenon, with unquestionable signs of significant organization. E Benvenist defines culture as "human environment, all which in addition to carrying out biological functions attaches to human life and activities form, value and content”.

    Introduction

Definition by Ferdinand de Saussure says that language is a system of signs that indicate concepts, the most important of all systems in semiologic phenomena [1,2]. Therefore, learning of sport as a semiotic system should be started with the language: to examine sport as a language with its own specific system of signs, concepts and formal organization; compare the language of sports with universal language and identify their similarities and differences.

The fundamental position in Linguistics is a view of language as a form in relation to thinking. E. Sapir said: "Language as a structure of some kind is a form of thought, a tool of the value expression" [3]. The specifics of sport as a language is as follows: the language can be classified as verbal, natural and universal, the language of sport is visual, artificial and reserved. Greimas assigns natural languages a privileged position because they provide a starting point for changes and end point for transfers [4]. However, a language can be examined as the basis or foundation, according to Levi-Strauss, "it is designed to establish the structures based on it, sometimes more difficult, but similar type corresponding to the culture, examined in its various aspects”[5] (in our case, the semiotic structure of sport).

In the semiotic structure of sport the form is understood as competition rules that are language by its nature. Let's use the definition of language by de Saussure: "A language is a grammatical system, virtually existing in everyone's brain, to be more precise, in entire aggregate of individuals, as the language does not exist fully in neither of them, it exists only in group.” [2]. It is easy to note that the rules are well within the scope of this definition: in any competition the athlete must perform only actions arising from the rules. Even if two players chase the ball in a vacant lot in the absence of judges and spectators, they are guided by some conditional system, virtually existing in their consciousness. This conditional system as well as the language for the speaker determines their actions: If they throw the ball by hands, then this is volleyball, if by foot-soccer.

Examining of "the form” categories in sign-semiotic system of sport lets us make a conclusion: sport as a semiotic structure has common signs with language as a linguistic structure. We can say that an iconic sports organization is subject to the same laws and regulations as that language. There are also significant differences. Firstly, sport is an artificial semiotic system. Date of birth of many sports is considered the appearance of universally accepted rules. So the game that could be called a prototype of soccer is known in England from the XI century. The official birthday of football-the year 1863, when the English Football Association adopted universal rules for football. Regarding to language this date cannot be determined (even approximately). De Saussure believed that language is a social product, a combination of essential conventions adopted by the collective to ensure implementation, functioning abilities of speech activities that has every native speaker. Although the language is a convention adopted by agreement, it formed naturally and independently from the will of the collective. Also a language changes spontaneously and randomly - it does not intend something (according to words of de Saussure).

The rules of sport were not artificially created originally; they had been repeatedly changing by the conditional agreement of the relevant sporting organization. Secondly, sport is a closed semiotic structure. The whole system of rules and relationships which can be qualified as a significant communicative organization aimed only for the service of sport itself. The language is a great mediator. This is not only a mean of communication between people; language establishes relationships of men with the world and with himself. Thirdly, sport is a visual sign system. Texts of such kind are primary in relation to the sign. Visual text is not discrete and does not break into signs, but divides into different characteristics. In a language the sign is always primary. Signs written in a certain sequence form a discrete linguistic text.

The next stage in the structural analysis of sport will be studying of the competition, which is in the semiotic structure of sport category named the content. In Linguistics, language as the form is contrasted by speech and its activity, expressing the content. De Saussure determined speech as an individual act of will and mind, including:

a) Combinations in which the speaker uses the language code to express its thoughts;

b) Psychophysical mechanism, allowing him to objectify these combinations.

The combination is a sports term that has the same meaning as in Linguistics, and if speaking about psychophysical mechanism we will mean the body movement (running, jumping, dribbling, throws, blows, etc.) used in sport for these combinations, the definition of Saussure completely captures the essence of sporting competition. Anyway speech is purely a linguistic term and is not really suitable for use in a sporting context, even semiotic. In Linguistics, is also used the term "text": separated articulated hypostasis of speech (according to the phrase by Lotman). In semiotics, the term text is has much broader meaning than in Linguistics. Semiotics interprets the text as a communicative act, transmission of messages, and content of statement and in this sense it is suitable for structural analysis of the content categories in sport.

The content of sport is a competition-physical contest of two or more opponents. In sport there cannot be an individual act of expression. The actual content of the competition, the essence of sporting contest, suppose the presence of the opponent. Even if an athlete is making a single attempt to establish the record of divingor lifting on a balloon into the stratosphere, he competes not only with himself, but with the opponent who has made the previous record.

Sport originally is a communication system that exists only as a collective act of expression and calling not only the sense function of the text, but also its meaning, interpretation. This is one of the main principles of sport as a semiotic structure. Sport can be denoted exactly because it is a collective product, a communicative system. In the semiotic structure of sport the category content is represented in the physical (body) competition. The denoted one here becomes the body of an athlete: gestures, moves, postures acquire the meaning of a sign. To express some content, these signs should line up in a certain sintagmatic row - the code, to acquire the sense, the meaning. Competition always involves an opponent, therefore the code of one athlete faces with anothers one (or with many). To get the necessary result-the victory in the competition- each of the opponents does best to outdo the other: to realize his code and to destroy enemy's code. The interaction of these codes forms the text of the competition, which is perceived by the audience. The main points that determine the codes and the text of the competition are opponents' idea (intention) and the implementation of this plan. Dynamic interaction of these moments, their struggles determines the nature of the text, make up the main content of the competition.

Compulsory presence of an opponent and his code defines the dialog of the competition text. In Linguistics, dialog relations are relations between all sorts of utterances in speech communication. Russian linguist MM Bakhtin presents this definition: "Any two statements if we compare them in semantic plane will be in dialog relation" [6]. In the semiotic structure of sport dialogical interaction of codes of the opponents does not exhaust dialogic relations of the competition text. Dialogic relations include all participants of the competition: athletes, judges and spectators. Bakhtin philosophically represented text as an expression of consciousness, something reflective (subjective reflection of the objective world). When the text becomes an object of our cognition, we may talk about the reflection of the reflection. This definition, in our view, expresses the essence of sports text. The rules of the competition, representing the category of the form in sport, are always objective - they are, as given, are independent from the will of the players. The competition itself, being as a content of sport, is always subjective, because it includes the contrary not only in the process itself (the opponents), but also in its assessment (the fans). The result of the contest, expressing in the sport the category of the meaning has dual content: it is objective in its form-as a necessary result of competition and subjective in its content-as an ambiguous reflection of the result.

Sports competition can have many different forms: a single match or mileage, two-rounded match (at home and visiting), a qualifying tournament for the championship, the championship itself, consisting of a certain number of rounds, etc. As defined by the Eco, the structure will have a meaning if it functions as the code that can generate various messages. "The position can be structured if it meets the following two conditions: it must be a system with intercom; and this connection, invisible when viewing a single system can be found while examining its transformations, due to which in two different systems can be found commonalities" [7]. Commonalities which are inherent to any contest are a system of lottery or a format (match, tournament, and championship), the event itself and outcome (final result). The necessary conditions for competition are - all participants before the start are on an equal position, and after finish the only winner is brought out. Competitions, as a rule, consist of several stages and are not limited with only one stage. Such long competitions cannot not be visual by way of perception, thus the content of the competition is passed as a verbal description or formed as a table or a protocol, which is essentially the same written text. Such a text can be represented as an inter text, describing the content of the competition by the means of common language.

Sport is represented as a visual sign structure with a closed system of communicative relations. This is the peculiarity of sport in comparison with language and other semiotic structures. We will define visual communication of competition as the "visual sports text”. Sports competition is a single semantic unit, in which the visual sports text is seized by the audience in its pure form (perceived directly), and fixed a certain result. In sports, directly related to sport games, such a separate sports event is called the "game”. The term game is multi-valued and is used in different contexts. The term "game” denotes any sports event as a unit of competition. Visual sports text can be perceived directly within a certain time interval between the beginning and the end of the game. The game is limited by temporary, spatial or conditional scopes (90 minutes, 100 meters of the race, a player or a team gaining the required amount of points first). The result of the game becomes a part of the sports text of the competition and has an impact on the determination of the winner. A game can be divided into smaller units (round, period, time) and the results of these units add up to the overall outcome of the competition. The intermediate nature of a game in relation to competition, does not change its conditions: it (the game) always starts with score 0:0, although it admits dead heat final outcome. The competition may coincide with the game, if it consists of one stage, or takes place in a short period of time. Visual sports text consists of interaction between participants' codes of sports game. The minimum number of codes is-two (boxing, tennis, chess), the maximum is not limited (mass marathons involve thousands of people).

There are two types of sports visual codes. In the first case, the competitors are present in the game simultaneously. Interaction of opponents' codes takes place directly here- athlete’s code varies depending on the opponent's code. This code we define as the diacode. As well as in dialogue, there can be two or more participants of diacode. The second case: the opponents in the game are presented not simultaneously but one by one. One athlete (or a team) appears on the sports ground with the previously prepared code. Code interaction occurs indirectly-competitors do not interfere in each other’s codes. This is what we call monocode. Monocode can be represented by two athletes (pair skating) or more (group synchronized swimming). A necessary condition here is one team affiliation. The text of the game is always represented by the whole product - it does not matter whether it is formed of diacodes or monocodes.

As mentioned above, sport is a closed conditional gaming communicational sign system. Visual sign structures that make up codes, text and language of sports, we define as Basic. In sport, there are another signs serving for the basic sign structures. Generally, any item that is included into sports competition is a sign by its nature. These signs we call subsidiary. There is a great amount of subsidiary signs: pucks, sticks, balls, rackets, skates, football boots, form and its color, emblems of clubs or coats of arms of the country on this form, sports grounds and stadiums, scoreboards, gestures of referees, red and yellow cards, scarves, fan hats and jerseys with paraphernalia of their favorite club, etc.

A process in which something functions as a sign, Morris called semiosis. Semiosis involves three factors: the thing that appears as a sign (significant mean by Morris's classification); the thing that indicates the sign (designat); the impact, in virtue of which the relevant thing turns to interpreter as a sign (interpretant). Based on these three members of the ternary relations of semiosis, Morris examines binary relations: of one signs with the others (sintactic dimension of semiosis), signs to their objects (semantic dimension of semiosis) and signs to interpreters (pragmatic dimension of semiosis). Syntactics, semantics and pragmatics are involved in studying of these measurements [8]. From the position of our study, we note that syntactic studies the category of form, while pragmatics deals with content and semantics-meaning. Among other classifications of signs the best known is Peirce’s classification, which was based on the same principle of ternary. Ternary classification of Charles S. Pierce examines a sign in relation to itself, to the denoted object and towards interpretant [9] (Figure 1).

While the logical analysis of Pierce’s classification we should note that on each level-both the sign and its relations - there is a gradual (via representation) ascent from a simple form (compliance and submission) to the complex one (the convention and the law). A ternary principle of building this classification basically follows traditional notion of a sign, known as semiotic triangle [10]: There are many variants known, representing the semiotic triangle. According to Mechkovskaya, opened by stoics triad "the signified-the meaning-the thing” remains logical- semiotic invariant of searches or as the coordinate axis of a single system. By its nature, this triangle expresses interaction of three categories, claimed us- form (the meaning), content (the thing) and values (the signified). These categories are present on each level of the semiotic structure-in sign, text and language (Figure 2).

A necessary condition of any semiotic system existence is the compulsory presence of categories of form, content and value. The triad serves a distinctive feature of semiotics comparing with other structural entities. Ratio of categories in each structural element changes and the forefront always becomes one of them, whether the form, content or value. Based on triadic classification of Pierce, we present a classification of sports signs, where each unit corresponds to a certain visual phenomenon of sports communication: There is also a group of signs classified as values, which we define as the key signs (Figure 3). The interrelation between these signs expresses the result of sports game. In linguistic literature this concept corresponds to the term "keyword". Regarding visual sports text key signs reflect the process of achieving a result, help to comprehend the meaning of the game better. Key signs reveal semantics of games, they belong to the category of value, and the value or the meaning in sport expresses the result. As in every sport result is determined in accordance with their specific rules and has a different manifestation, and then key signs gain different incarnation. In sports games key signs are productive actions that define the score of the match. In football and hockey they are goals, in basketball and volleyball-points, in athletics- seconds and centimeters, in weightlifting-kilograms and grams. The key signs are also the results of individual segments of a match: half, period, set.

On the second level of the perception of the game, when the visual sports text translates into graphic, the key signs are transformed into official technical protocol of the competition. The main function of the key signs is to specify the process of understanding. Key signs act as an expresser of common sense, the result of game, that combine the main content of the competition text. Thus, they contract information. The contracting occurs due to the "secondary” information, and the remaining one, provided by key signs, is the most significant. Lukin noted that these statements are true particularly concerning non-fiction texts [11]. The result, as a sign that expresses the value category, is the crucial key sign. The entire text of the game can be contracted to a single result. In sports, there are several criteria to determine the result. Based on these criteria, all sports can be divided into a number of common groups and create a semiotic classification of sports, which would be based on the result as a sign that expresses the value category.

A Semiotic Classification of Sports According to the Criteria of the Outcome

a) Quantitative criteria of result. They include sports, where the winner is determined by objective indicators related to the system of measurement (the shortest time, maximum weight, the greatest height and length): athletics and weightlifting, skating, swimming, skiing, and cycling.

b) Qualitative assessment of results. Sports with subjective statements: figure skating, gymnastics, diving, boxing, wrestling.

c) Conditional criteria of determining the result. These are sports, where wins the team with the largest amount of conditional objective points (goals in football, points in basketball); or the smallest (penalty points in equestrian sport). They include all sports games.

d) Complex criteria of evaluation. Here can be combined: the quantitative, qualitative and conditional indicators (in various combinations) in ski jumping the length of the jump is added to the assessment of the jump technique. This group includes all the all-rounds, including different sports: modern pentathlon (combines equestrian, shooting, fencing, swimming, and cross), Nordic combined (ski jumping and ski race), biathlon (skiing and shooting).

Thus, the semiotic structure of sport is a unity of form, content and meaning. The same triadic division has any significant structure on any level of its building-in the sign, text and language. The category of form in the semiotic structure of sport is expressed in rules of the competition, which are language by its nature. The content is competitions that can be represented as a text, composed of athletes' codes. The meaning of sport comes down to identifying of a winner. In the semiotic structure of sports, we define it as a result expressing the category of value.

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Building a Lean Team: Part II

A functioning team is the essential foundation of success. Guido Schmidt from Digamore tells us in the second part, how to improve the work process and goes deeper into the topic SCUM.

Check out the first part of Building a Lean Team:

Building a Lean Team: Part I

Improving the work process

We set up the whole work process, team culture requirements and game vision structure in the best and most reasonable way we could. But of course, no plan survives reality unchanged. That’s why we also put a lot of emphasis on observing and improving our work process. It wasn’t enough to just set up and use SCRUM, we wanted the team to

Visualization of the three pillars of a lean team: work climate, ownership and work processes.

eventually own and shape the process on its own. For that we intentionally reserved two whole days per 2-week sprint. One day for planning and one day for reviews and retrospectives. Maybe it seemed like a huge waste of time initially, which was also the first feedback we got from the team. Why not use this time to pull off additional work? A good question that deserves a good answer.

First off, we know that implementing a new work process always requires a lot of time and effort. Everyone wants change but nobody wants to change. So we said that we intentionally invest this time into making this process work and that we are aware that it means we have less time to do actual work – and that’s ok.

Second, we need this time to prepare our plan for the next sprint. We invest one whole day to make sure we can work for the remaining two weeks without having to re-adjust constantly. The main idea was to create two weeks of quiet, during which people can get stuff done without being constantly interrupted.

Third, we invest another day to reflect on how the last two weeks worked out. It is a timeframe that is short enough for people to not forget the problems they had. And by allowing ourselves the time to sit back one day and reflect, we can make improvements to the way we work.

Clearly defining all areas of responsibility for everyone helps the team immensely in growing trust.

In a retrospective, people can bring forward topics they want to improve. The members of the team are the best people to ask this since they are the ones doing the actual work and having the actual problems. Of course, we also highlight things which went well. If you have to discuss uncomfortable issues, it is especially important to also be aware of the good things that happened within the last two weeks in order to avoid communicating an impression that things are worse than they really are. The most important part of the retrospective, however, are the real issues. The stuff that really annoys the team. Things that demotivate – things that cost an extraordinary amount of time, frustrating behavior of managers, unfair blaming of people and other uncomfortable circumstances.

However, by putting such a great emphasis on a positive and constructive team culture, we were always able to keep difficult discussions at an objective level. We were able to talk about things which annoyed us very calmly and we eventually resolved these problems by fostering understanding on all involved parties. Every team will have their share of issues, problems and personal annoyances. This is normal and every team will face these issues. The difference between a good and a bad team is how they deal with them.

At the end of each retrospective we put together a set of actions that we were going to try out to improve things. In the following retrospective, we then re-evaluated these actions to see whether they did improve anything. If they did, we kept them. If not, we dropped them and tried something else.

How did it work out?

Brace yourselves – winter is coming! And with it a lot of discussions about a lot of very very basic things. When we started working with SCRUM (note: an agile software development framework for managing product development) it was new to all of us. None of us had worked with SCRUM before, so we hired an external consulting company to help us implement it in our process correctly. These guys also helped us with understanding the meaning behind certain agile concepts, why they made sense and what it was that people benefited from. Some of the things we spent hours and hours talking about them:

1. What are the team’s benefits from using SCRUM at all? – Isn’t it a huge waste of time? 2. Why are we using »story points« and not just a time estimation just as »normal« people do? – And if we are using story points, what the hell is this »complexity«? 3. What’s the exact granularity of our stories per feature? – Is it ok to just say »League User Interface« (like one story per feature)? – Should we make a story for each screen of the League Interface (four to five user stories)? – Or should we create a story for each interface element with all their behaviors and states (more like 30+ user stories)? 4. Aside from this, we also had fights and troubles concerning coding architecture, art-style or which features were still within the vision and which weren’t. We had a huge scope on our plate and from time to time underestimated the effort it took to get certain features implemented, which led to fights about what features to push back and what should be achieved in certain milestones.

Basically, we went through all the insanity of game development you can expect in every company and project. Every team will face these problems. Accepting that teams will have these issues and knowing how to handle them is key. There is no perfect project out there, where everything runs smoothly from start to finish. Projects are messy. And projects change during development, as does the market and its requirements.

People leave, new people join, but the world continues to turn. In today’s fast paced society, it’s even almost impossible to take reliable predictions two or three years into the future. Who can say what revolution is waiting around the corner, which will make your key USP totally worthless half way into your current project. And if it happens, do you continue with your original plan or would it be better to adjust? And if the answer is yes, how would you do that exactly?

Game development is full of tough questions and hard calls, which is also why the retrospective is the most important meeting in our whole development process in order to be able to adapt to the »unknown unknowns«. Thanks to our mature discussion culture and ability to talk about uncomfortable topics, we were able to greatly improve the efficiency of our work process.

When we started with planning meetings at the start of a sprint, they tended to last seven hours or longer. Those were extremely exhausting days, full of uncertainties, questions and unclear requirements of what we wanted to achieve over the next two weeks, but we stuck to it. During every retrospective, we not only identified the three worst problems, but also found ways to improve these long and exhausting meetings. We had to go a long way, but in doing so our meetings became very reliable and humane. It now rarely takes us more than 1.5 hours to complete our plan for the next 14 days. So yes, it is possible to improve the efficiency of your work process by up to 80 percent and more!

What are the team’s benefits from using SCRUM at all?

Especially in the beginning of the production process, people were wondering why we would use SCRUM at all. How does the team benefit from it and why would we »waste« two (!) days every bi-weekly sprint sitting around and talking? The very first step to get everyone on board was to acknowledge that it does take time to get a new work process implemented and that the management is willing to invest this time. It meant that we accepted that implementing new features would take longer in the first couple of months!

An early draft of »Football Empire«’s »start a match screen«.

Just accepting and acknowledging this fact took a huge amount of pressure off us, since we made clear that we did not expect the team to implement a new and unknown process and push for a super-fast implementation of new things at the same time. When people are trying to adapt to new processes, it takes time to get everything in place properly. In addition, we spoke about the process and what we expected from it – for ourselves and for the team.

1. By using SCRUM, we ultimately expected a more accurate time estimation – Measuring how many story points the team would be able to complete every two weeks would eventually allow a reliable forecast of how much work the team could pull off in reality, including all the disruptions, discussions, ambiguities and hidden efforts.

2. A more reliable project plan – A more reliable plan meant better-quality planning. It was a lot easier to push estimated features back and forth and tell whether a feature would fit into the next milestone or not. Of course, we wanted to push as much stuff as possible into each new build, but when the numbers said that it was going to be a problem, we could adjust early enough to rather focus on the most important features.

3. Transparency – We always made all efforts, plans and estimations publicly. We showed the current state to our team and discussed our plans and whether the team felt it was realistic or not. In several cases, we also changed the contents of certain milestones to what the team felt was more useful or easier to implement.

Players can individualize their club grounds with way more than 20 different buildings.

4. Less overtime – More accurate planning will lead to more reasonable milestones which again will prevent nasty surprises. And avoiding those will prevent people from having to do overtime to get forgotten things into the next milestone.

Why are we using story points?

Estimating story points means to not just estimate »how long something takes to implement« but to determine the rough complexity of a given task. Of course, in the end, we want to re-interpret story points back to a time estimation – that’s the whole point of it. Doing it via story points will in fact improve the quality of the time estimation. Let’s say two programmers are to estimate how long a specific task will take them to implement. Programmer Lenny says he can do it in one day, while Carl argues he would probably need around five days to do the same. In this case a time estimation with regard to the whole team is very inaccurate. Both guys, however, can agree on a rough complexity rating for the task.

It’s just that Lenny can do the same thing a lot faster than Carl. Nevertheless, Lenny can’t do everything alone and Carl has other areas of expertise. What we want is an accurate estimation of what the whole team and not only individual members can achieve. When both guys agree on the complexity of a story, they can eventually agree on a reasonable amount of story points for the task at hand. Our definition of complexity includes the following aspects:

1. Amount of expected iterations – This aspect applies for tasks that encompass a lot of quick iterations, e.g. on how a specific window should scroll. Should it snap at certain key elements? And with how much inertia should it scroll? In this case, it makes sense to just implement something, try it out, adjust it, try it out again, etc … Tasks like this are more complex than tasks with clear and easy requirements.

2. Scope of the task – The sheer scope of a task contributes to its complexity. If a task requires to touch all 200 items in the game manually, it is more complex than if it requires to just touch the last 10.

3. Communication effort – If a task can be completed without having to bother the other departments, it is less complex than if it is a task where coders, designers and artists have to synchronize in order to finalize it.

4. Testing effort – If a task uses randomization, it is more complex than if it doesn’t. That applies to all tasks that need several test-runs before their implementation can be finished.

5. Amount of different technologies used – Every technology used contributes to complexity. If a task is to just create an icon, it is less complex than the task of creating a user interface which not only uses icons, but also sounds and that has to function on an Android and an iOS device.

6.Dependencies – The more dependencies, the higher a task’s complexity. If a task only touches the frontend alone, it is less complex than if the backend has to provide specific data before the frontend can show it.

With all of these aspects elaborated, the team eventually settled on a magnitude of how many storypoints each task was worth. That allowed us to greatly improve the quality of our planning forecasts.

What’s the granularity of our user stories?

We were experimenting with various granularities. We wrote stories which were very big in the beginning and almost encompassed whole features. This method brought several disadvantages with it since we could not always complete a whole feature in one sprint, which meant that these stories could also not be completed.

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After that we went into the opposite direction and created stories which were extremely small and detailed, even going so far as to have a story for each interface element. Which, on one side, was a good indicator for what had been achieved. On the other side, it created a lot of dependencies between stories, which made the whole point somewhat useless. Plus, the overhead on the management team exploded and it was very difficult to keep up with the team. In this scenario, people were implementing things faster than we could design and document them.

Eventually we settled in the middle. Stories were basically written »screen by screen«, while the interface elements were described on the according wiki page.

Summary

So, in the end and in my opinion, there are three main points you should adhere to when creating a good team and – as a direct result – a good product:

1. Ensure a good work climate. – Make it a topic. – Emphasize it. – A good work climate and team culture is the basis of everything that comes after. Get it right from the beginning because otherwise there is no point in trying to build anything on top as nothing will work out properly.

2. Create a framework of clear responsibilities which your team can eventually outgrow. – Provide a safe environment for people where everyone can voice their concerns and where it’s clear who has which responsibilities and who has to make the call. – Be rigid at the beginning. – Be flexible when the team is ready for it.

3. Improve the process (the »retrospective« within the SCRUM process). – Ensure that the management is behind this approach. There’s no point in trying to improve things when the management is not willing to invest time into doing so. – Regularly reflect about how everyone did and what the most pressing issues are. – Don’t try to fix everything at once. Take the three worst issues and fix those, then take the next three issues and so forth. – Ensure that the time-frame between taking action and reviewing it is short enough. Otherwise people will forget what they have agreed upon.

About the Author:

Guido Schmidt is Project Lead at Digamore Entertainment GmbH

Guido is an industry veteran with more than 15 years of experience. He worked on the »Anno« and »The Settlers« franchise (e.g. »Anno 1404« and »The Settlers Online«) and is now responsible for the upcoming Football Empire.

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