(The Short, Early, Without A Ton Of Lore Version)
What is the Transformation League?
Have you ever watched a show that combines fun challenges and embarrassing results? Especially if it’s all in good fun? Anything where there’s an obstacle course and the competitor gets covered in something gross or takes a long fall into a safety net or a pool.
Now think about that show existing in a universe with toon physics. That’s the League.
There are other “normal” sports in this world, but given everyone’s “enhanced” endurance here, the tricks and traps you can add to an obstacle course become extreme. Crushing walls reducing competitors to stains on the floor? Swinging blades to slice them in half? Rooms that are too hot or too cold to extremes? The list goes on. If you can think of it, the League probably has it. Bigger events even recreate scenes from famous movies or mimic video games.
These broadcasts are fairly popular. The League exists to facilitate competitions, make sure nobody’s cheating, and maintain the crowd pleasing machinery needed to antagonize its competitors. It takes a cut from organizing everything, but its top drawing teams are well paid. The opening acts are another story, left to fight for the scraps until they make it big.
Teams usually have 4 members, and often compete in smaller groups. This lets teams recover faster and stay fresh, while still having the option of holding 4 person events. Originally there were also solo competitions, but they are rarer now. After early experiments with teams, everyone agreed they made sense so one competitor could restore their teammate faster and keep the action moving.
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Who and what are the dust bunnies?
Scarlett has been a fan of the Transformation Racing League since she was young. Now that she’s all grown up, and she’s having trouble finding other jobs, she’s decided to try competing. That led her and her girlfriend Amber to get a team together. They settled on "The Dust Bunnies" as a team name because of their side work.
Scarlett and Amber talked some friends into forming a team together, and now they need to fund operations. They’ve been doing odd jobs on the side with their new teammates Zoe and Jessica, but they’re hoping to get a true sponsorship deal some day. They have had some early success in the League, but they’re running into tougher competitions and haven’t earned the wins, fame, and fortune they need to get sponsored, and gain the stability to leave side jobs behind forever. Until then, they’ll take (almost) any job that pays, but they need to stop having accidents and tiring themselves out at work.
Living as a team has been interesting for the Dust Bunnies. Their first month living together, Zoe and Jessica started teasing her and Amber about being too loud at night. Amber talked Scarlett into trying to shock them by walking out of their room in a less than normal shape. To their surprise, Zoe and Jess joined in the fun, and since then the four have had something of an open relationship together, even if it’s mostly borne out of practice “accidents.” The four have plenty fun together at the house between odd jobs and league events.