Hello guys! After questioning the odds of successful relationships through meddling in one of the posts here, I decided to clear things up about this interesting topic… By going in a completely different direction.

Inspired by brilliant series of posts called “I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world” on the Football Manager subreddit, I set up a new game on TEW 2016 for one ridicoulous yet entertaining goal – explore the world of manipulation, turn a once fine the locker room rotten, and do as much nasty crap as humanly possible to start a war from inside.

To achieve that, I will heavily use negative meddling I wouldn’t have the guts to try in any other save.

I want to know exactly how this form of shithousery is reflected in the game and how fast the mood can drop to 0. The company of my choice is not Hogan’s WCW or HBK’s WWF, not really.

That would be too easy!

To find a bit of challenge, I picked an era where everyone is getting along nicely and plays video games together. It’s February 2019 here, because I’m too lazy to grab a new mod for this project, and it is a company many love to hate.

Impact Wrestling! Yay.

I never had a problem with Impact myself, but what the hell, they’ve been through some dumb stuff.

Now located in Canada, this company refused to die when the lid of the proverbial coffin was closing down on them all these years. Corgan-Carter conflict, Jarrett shenenigans, “*uck That Owl” outrage and plenty more LOLTNA moments I can’t remember from the top of my head now make it a plausible candidate for such an important mission.

That, and Tessa Blanchard’s stuff. You just know she’s a good locker room influence!

Now then, who will embark on this grand mission of sinking the ship once and for all? He comes from 20000 leagues under the sea…

Wait, he seems like a nice guy. But have you seen him without a mask?

His face screams “bad news”, and he once sued Miramax for the rights on the Sharkboy name. He surely has some cojones, this Sharkboy. And now he becomes a ruthless head booker looking for bad blood. 0 user talent points go to leadership and diplomacy, we want more accidents and more chances of them going tits up!

Perhaps handidly, this mod lacks a lot of details, so the majority of the roster has “nothing to report” in the behaviour table. The stand outs are Tommy Dreamer and Grado, and by stand outs I mean they’re a couple of good fellas. Tag team it is then. I also found out that Johnny Impact and Eddie Edwards are not “saints”, and by far the worst dude in the locker room is Konnan. Now we’re talking! Scarlett Bordeaux and Moose have some potential, let’s see what they got.

Through some navigation I found out that main eventers cause much bigger rifts than midcarders, which makes sense of course.

The first couple of signings are counter-prodcutive, as I look to bring “Bad Influence” back. It would be good for the name alone, but… who else would exclaim “this is the worst locker room I’ve ever been in” if not Daniels and Kaz? What about giving The Fallen Angel his world title run?

I bring back spinal-impact moves because how the heck are you supposed to get over without hitting 6 Canadian Destroyers, am I right? We’re in Canada, and that means only one thing.

Petey is our top dog now. I tried to bring Scotty Steiner in, but “Big Poppa Pump” has no intention of going to Canada. I’m sad, not gonna lie.

Sharkboy walks in to find out that locker room atmosphere is exactly 76% and we didn’t do anything yet! Well, this might be too easy now, but I go full Bill Watts and enforce ridicolous rules to upset even the most staunch guys. Three hour pre-show arrival, nobody leaves until the show is over, a dress code is enforced. No catering and no help with hotels, those expenses will go to a ‘dirty doctor’… Boom, it’s 57 now, and that means we step into our first show with a penalty.

I also put in a late bid to get Vampiro. He had a bit of a spat with Taya for taking the title away from her in Mexico, and he’s a very negative influence. He and K-Dawg will get along just fine, I guarantee it.

Bobby Roode’s heel turn is apparently bigger news than Cena winning his 17th world title, but we’re not here to talk about that. Vamp signed the deal suspiciously quickly, he can’t wait to leave his mark on Impact! Xplosion taping is here, it’s time to make our first negative meddling. Vamp asked to be spared of B shows, so the first scripted act of backstage brutality concerns these two gentlemen…

Just what I wanted. We will use this tension for the angle between OGz and New LAX.

• Sharkboy debuts his wholesome old school shark gimmich that gets “Great”.
• Killer Kross not suited to his gimmich, he’s no Charly Manson.
• Sharkboy was slightly over-used. Is that even possible?

Impact kicks off our hottest storylines, and we increase our pop in 44 regions, GOOD GAWD! Look at this Car Crash TV. Russo would be proud.

Not a bad first week! Recreated the baseball bat angle in the main event, and when the moment is right, we will meddle them with pleasure.

Well, possibly this was the worst post you have ever seen, but… I don’t think I broke any rules. I’ll go to sleep now, and we will see what happens in the morning.

I’m very sorry