The Background (or, How The Hell Did This Happen?)
Jun 24, 2018 1:25:24 GMT -5
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Post by Dean Wolf on Jun 24, 2018 1:25:24 GMT -5
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." -Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part III
At the beginning of September 2017, my character Biff Mustache was on his way to having a world title shot in UCI. This was after crafting an angle that ran the length of the entire summer in which Biff's mom, Mama Mustache, lobbied UCI owner Spencer Adams for her own world title shot. A feud played out between Spencer and Mama that culminated in a Title Shot vs. Career Hell in a Cell match. Mama won, earned the title shot, and then gifted it to Biff. It was something that I thought about every day from June to August, even as my wife and I were trying to get our house move in ready by the time the summer ended. The feud was my greatest piece of work in e-fedding up to that point, and now I was going to cap it off by finally becoming a world champion.
Then, as usually happens to me in e-fedding, I got overwhelmed and promptly quit UCI, swearing that my e-fed days were over. Usually, the lapse in e-fedding will last a month or two, and then I'll get an idea and come back ready to start all over again. This time the lapse only lasted a few days, and it was due to an e-mail sent by WCF owner Seth Lerch. War XVI was coming and Seth was inviting old members to participate in the War match. I had my first e-fedding breakthrough at War XIV, so the event had a special place in my heart. What could it hurt to make a cameo? I wrote back asking which character he wanted: Wolf, Bernard Core, Caleb Ronan, Cliff of Doom, Biff Mustache, or Ded Memry. Seth responded that he would prefer Wolf but he would leave the decision up to me.
I had the idea of using all six guys in the War match, inspired by the three faces of Foley making an appearance in the 1998 Royal Rumble. Seth liked the idea. I had no expectation of winning, so therefore had no intention of writing a separate role play for each guy. I was simply doing it for fun.
Then, while taking a shower one morning, I had an idea (I get most of my good ideas while washing my balls). A few days later, I sat down at my computer and sent Seth the following proposal:
I write a roleplay where a guy called The Handler convenes a meeting with all six characters. They all decide they're going to enter War.
They all enter War and lose.
The week after War, The Handler makes an appearance on Slam and announces a limited series on the WCF Network called The Sixth Dimension (think of it like the Cruiserweight Classic or Mae Young Classic). The whole show will be a tournament between the six characters. It will be done round robin style.
The two guys with the best records after all the matches have been fought will compete in the finals at One with the winner earning a large sum of money and the Sixth Dimension Championship.
I already have the whole thing booked. I'll write all the matches and segments. I think it'd be a really cool supplement to the WCF and be pretty damn entertaining. It'd also give me something to do in e-fedding without the pressure of roleplaying.
It was true. I really did have the whole thing booked already; a rough outline at least.
The next day, I wrote another message to Seth basically scraping the idea of a having a separate show with only six characters and asking if I could have the whole thing play out on Slam. The day after that, I flip-flopped again and I said I think I could actually pull off a whole show with six characters.
I really know how to make up my mind.
Seth didn't seem to mind my waffling, however, and thought the show was a great idea. I wrote the role play and had an enjoyable time watching six of my creations have their brief time in the War match (although I think Wolf lasted almost an hour). A week later, I wrote the segment announcing The Sixth Dimension, and then we were off to the races.
And let me tell you, it was a slow start out of the gate.
I already figured out that the show wouldn't be done by the time One came around, but I did nothing from October to December. I don't know if I was afraid to start it or was just too lazy, but a voice in my head finally said to me "Hey, you never finish anything you start in e-fedding. You told Seth and the rest of the WCF that you were going to do this and if you don't, people are going to think you're full of shit." At the start of 2018, I resolved to get this thing done.
It has not been easy. I would get great surges of energy where I would write for days and hours, and then there would be days and weeks where the task of writing...well, everything, would seem daunting and I would do nothing. Still, I was thinking about it all the time, imagining how things would play out, catching inconsistencies and plot holes (I'm sure there are some, no matter how I tried to resolve things), changing certain angles, and in the end, just reminding myself that I had to finish what I started.
Well, I'm done now, and it's a dream come true not just because I'm finally done with it, but because I finally put together a (fake) wrestling promotion in my own image. When I was a kid, I would come up with wrestling companies and write down my pay-per-view cards in a notebook. As I got older, I stopped writing down my ideas, but I kept making shit up in my head (mostly just to pass the time during boring spells at school or at work). Writing The Sixth Dimension has allowed me to scratch an itch that's been present since I was elementary school.
I hope you enjoy it. It's been a labor of love.
At the beginning of September 2017, my character Biff Mustache was on his way to having a world title shot in UCI. This was after crafting an angle that ran the length of the entire summer in which Biff's mom, Mama Mustache, lobbied UCI owner Spencer Adams for her own world title shot. A feud played out between Spencer and Mama that culminated in a Title Shot vs. Career Hell in a Cell match. Mama won, earned the title shot, and then gifted it to Biff. It was something that I thought about every day from June to August, even as my wife and I were trying to get our house move in ready by the time the summer ended. The feud was my greatest piece of work in e-fedding up to that point, and now I was going to cap it off by finally becoming a world champion.
Then, as usually happens to me in e-fedding, I got overwhelmed and promptly quit UCI, swearing that my e-fed days were over. Usually, the lapse in e-fedding will last a month or two, and then I'll get an idea and come back ready to start all over again. This time the lapse only lasted a few days, and it was due to an e-mail sent by WCF owner Seth Lerch. War XVI was coming and Seth was inviting old members to participate in the War match. I had my first e-fedding breakthrough at War XIV, so the event had a special place in my heart. What could it hurt to make a cameo? I wrote back asking which character he wanted: Wolf, Bernard Core, Caleb Ronan, Cliff of Doom, Biff Mustache, or Ded Memry. Seth responded that he would prefer Wolf but he would leave the decision up to me.
I had the idea of using all six guys in the War match, inspired by the three faces of Foley making an appearance in the 1998 Royal Rumble. Seth liked the idea. I had no expectation of winning, so therefore had no intention of writing a separate role play for each guy. I was simply doing it for fun.
Then, while taking a shower one morning, I had an idea (I get most of my good ideas while washing my balls). A few days later, I sat down at my computer and sent Seth the following proposal:
I write a roleplay where a guy called The Handler convenes a meeting with all six characters. They all decide they're going to enter War.
They all enter War and lose.
The week after War, The Handler makes an appearance on Slam and announces a limited series on the WCF Network called The Sixth Dimension (think of it like the Cruiserweight Classic or Mae Young Classic). The whole show will be a tournament between the six characters. It will be done round robin style.
The two guys with the best records after all the matches have been fought will compete in the finals at One with the winner earning a large sum of money and the Sixth Dimension Championship.
I already have the whole thing booked. I'll write all the matches and segments. I think it'd be a really cool supplement to the WCF and be pretty damn entertaining. It'd also give me something to do in e-fedding without the pressure of roleplaying.
It was true. I really did have the whole thing booked already; a rough outline at least.
The next day, I wrote another message to Seth basically scraping the idea of a having a separate show with only six characters and asking if I could have the whole thing play out on Slam. The day after that, I flip-flopped again and I said I think I could actually pull off a whole show with six characters.
I really know how to make up my mind.
Seth didn't seem to mind my waffling, however, and thought the show was a great idea. I wrote the role play and had an enjoyable time watching six of my creations have their brief time in the War match (although I think Wolf lasted almost an hour). A week later, I wrote the segment announcing The Sixth Dimension, and then we were off to the races.
And let me tell you, it was a slow start out of the gate.
I already figured out that the show wouldn't be done by the time One came around, but I did nothing from October to December. I don't know if I was afraid to start it or was just too lazy, but a voice in my head finally said to me "Hey, you never finish anything you start in e-fedding. You told Seth and the rest of the WCF that you were going to do this and if you don't, people are going to think you're full of shit." At the start of 2018, I resolved to get this thing done.
It has not been easy. I would get great surges of energy where I would write for days and hours, and then there would be days and weeks where the task of writing...well, everything, would seem daunting and I would do nothing. Still, I was thinking about it all the time, imagining how things would play out, catching inconsistencies and plot holes (I'm sure there are some, no matter how I tried to resolve things), changing certain angles, and in the end, just reminding myself that I had to finish what I started.
Well, I'm done now, and it's a dream come true not just because I'm finally done with it, but because I finally put together a (fake) wrestling promotion in my own image. When I was a kid, I would come up with wrestling companies and write down my pay-per-view cards in a notebook. As I got older, I stopped writing down my ideas, but I kept making shit up in my head (mostly just to pass the time during boring spells at school or at work). Writing The Sixth Dimension has allowed me to scratch an itch that's been present since I was elementary school.
I hope you enjoy it. It's been a labor of love.
