Editing Alpin Criss (section)

===Pro Wrestling in the Metaverse===
After two uneventful weeks trying to find a "home" within the metaverse, Alpin Criss discovered a small arena build in the middle of a crowded shopping mall. The owner of the very basic arena was none other than Icy Blackburn.

Icy would tell Alpin that he was going to start up a wrestling promotion, which would put on wrestling shows similar to the WWE but in a virtual world. He called his promotion SWE (Secondlife Wrestling Entertainment). And was recruiting people to join his roster.

Although Alpin loved the idea of virtual wrestling, he did not think he was experienced enough with basic SL controls to be very good.

Icy convinced Alpin that he could learn to wrestle, and Icy rezzed his pro wrestling system to give a demonstration and lesson.

The most advanced pro wrestling system at that time was created by TonyB Hax. It was a modification of the sex bed programs that used a simple command script to rez and align poseballs for two avatars to get into position to wrestle. Instead of a bed, a person would rez a pro wrestling mat that would also rez two poseballs upon which wrestlers would sit to wrestle.

Poseballs are small objects that avatars sit on in order to give the proper permissions to animate. Poseballs were and still are the most widely used method of doing multi-avatar coordinated animations.

Little did Icy or Alpin know that when they sat on the pro wrestling poseballs, the future of virtual wrestling would be changed forever.

Icy began his lesson, and almost immediately Alpin was severely disappointed.

Icy's description of his vision for his federation involved live matches that would feature wrestlers springing around the ring and beating each other all over the arena in front of a live crowd.

Alpin's imagination conjured up an image of wrestlers bouncing all over the mats, working in and out of the ring and in and out of the corners to pull off an exciting match in front of a live audience.

But nothing of the sort happened in that lesson, because poseballs do not allow wrestlers to actually move around the ring.

Instead, the system that Icy saw as the life blood of his fledgling federation would only allow wrestlers to pick from an assorted list of moves and transition almost instantly from one to the next.

Without being able to so much as take a step or having an option to "sell" an injury.

As Icy demonstrated the first few moves, images of exciting matches where heels would roll out of the ring to shake off a brutal attack; where wrestlers would fly through the air delivering punishing elbow drops from the top ropes; or where wrestlers would shoot the ropes and rebound for a high impact lariat were completely shattered.

The limitations of the poseball mat were obvious, and at that moment Alpin decided to put into motion a plan to do better.