Editing Alpin Criss (section)

===The Near Death of the ACPWS===
Alpin Criss quickly began creating more moves for his fledgling system. Soon his moveset expanded from a single scoop slam, to a variety of moves.

The punch, the elbow drop to the ground, the stomp to the ground, the piledriver, and the vertical suplex would quickly be added to the system.

Almost immediately, Icy Blackburn realized the superiority that having an independence from the poseballs would have.

He began recruiting a roster of people who would be in his shows, using the growing ACPWS as a lure to spark their imaginations.

One of the first great innovations of the ACPWS was the ability to control how one "sells" injuries.

The original "sells" included standing sells for injuries to the head, to the arm, to the chest, to the back, and to the leg.

The ability to "sell" injuries gave the wrestlers, even with the limited moveset of the early days of the system the ability to perform a variety of matches.

The ACPWS also innovated a technique for simulating aerial attacks. Alpin developed a unique technique for simulating a wrestler's climb to the top turnbuckle, and for allowing the wrestler to "attack" his opponent by launching himself through the air towards his opponent. Alpin's intuitive method allowed wrestlers to retain full control of their aim and distance while flying through the air.

These two important innovations would be what truly distinguished the ACPWS from other pro wrestling systems in Second Life (tm).

It wasn't long until other pro wrestling system creators would find out about the SWE and the work Alpin was doing.

Icy was promoting the opening of his federation all across the metaverse.

One day, shortly after Alpin logged into Second Life (tm), the ACPWS was nearly killed, and was never the same again.

By the time Icy's arena had rezzed, Alpin noticed Icy talking with a small group of avatars.

By this time, foot traffic to the arena was growing steady, so this wasn't all too unusual.

As Alpin got to work uploading a few new move animations, he slowly began paying attention to the conversation Icy was having with the guests.

And he would quickly be introduced to Gavin Vidor.

Alpin would find out that Gavin had already created a HUD based pro wrestling system.

In fact, Gavin had already used it to put on a few "shows" as promoter and owner of his own federation.

Alpin, Icy, Gavin and his posse discussed using his system at the SWE.

Gavin would let the SWE use it for the discounted price of $100,000L.

While Icy calculated how much of his milk money would have to be spent to use it, Alpin asked for a demonstration.

Instead of his system, Gavin demonstrated a powerbomb using a commercial system developed by a resident who called himself Mr. P.

Mr. P's Brutality Pack was a HUD based system that had a few pro wrestling moves programmed in.

It functioned similarly to a hugger, but instead of chatter allowed a resident to use a menu to select the move and target.

Thoroughly impressed, Alpin offered to allow Gavin to use his move animations for Gavin's system.

Not only did Gavin reject the offer, but a few members of his posse actually derided Alpin's work.

To them Gavin's system was the end-all-be-all, and no one could possibly create something that would rival it.

It was lunacy to even think about attempting it.

Particularly for this one month old avatar wearing a "Nature Boy" tag and a freebie silk robe.

For the briefest of instants, Alpin saw himself merely helping Gavin develop his "superior" system.

Gavin Vidor's system could have incorporated what would become the ACPWS.

The choice was entirely his to make.

And he chose to have the first laugh at this newbie's expense.

But in life, it's not who has the first laugh that counts, it's who has the last laugh.

And Gavin wasn't going to be laughing for long.