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The Alewife Arsonists are a collective of commuters who hail from the Alewife Station of the Boston MTA Red Line.

The Concrete Cathedral (a.k.a. Alewife Station), home stadium of the Alewife Arsonists , is not merely a subway station; it is a massive intermodal transit hub, and celebrated masterpiece of Brutalist architecture. It is where the Red Line subway, a sprawling multi-story parking garage, and a cavernous busway all collide. It is the fabled End of the Line, the final stop on the Red Line, the place where the city's main artery frays into the suburbs and the adjacent Alewife Brook Reservation swampland.

The Alewife Arsonists draw their power from three distinct sources within Alewife Station, a commuting trinity of urban motion:

• The Altar of Steel (Subway Platform): This is where matches are held, on the South End of Platform B. The game grid is a shimmering projection of light directly over the third rail. it draws its energy from the raw, pungent electricity powering the Red Line. The screech of an arriving train is the opening bell, while the automated "Stand clear of the closing doors" can freeze opposing teams like deer in the hedalights.

• The Altar of Fumes (Busway): The Arsonists feed off of the commuter rage and chaotic energy of the commute. The cacophany of buses and clouds of diesel fumes fill the cavernous bus terminal. Psychic entities of the Alewife Arsonists can cause the idling buses to rev their engines in unison, sending waves of thick, vision-obscuring, pattern-disrupting diesel fumes onto the platform — a valuable home-field advantage.

• The Altar of Rust (The Garage): The fans, as well as various unseen entities and generational spirits, plus a few ghosts, are not permitted to enter the hazardous platform area to watch matches in person. Instead, they gather in their traditional seats: the thousands of abandoned, rusted-out vehicles that haunt the dark corners of the Alewife Station parking garage, one of the largest and most confusing concrete labyrinths in the Commonwealth. There, they tune in to The Spark, a pirate radio broadcast emanating from deep within Alewife Station, and listen to the announcer, the mysterious Brake Master Cylinder, call the Alewife games in that signature gravelly voice.

The Alewife Arsonists are known for showering their opponents with chirps during games. They create a collective chorus of shouts, channeling every Townie who has ever shouted at a passing yuppie from a triple-parked sedan, every Southie who's ever shouted from the porch to keep walking, every Boston driver who's ever been cut off by someone who had to cross 4 lanes of traffic to do it, every Red Sox fan when there's a Yankee on the field. One of the Arsonists' favorite battle cries, reserved for their bitter rivals the Boylston Boogers , is "GO BACK TO WELLESLEY!"

Arsonist patterns are fueled by a mix of commuter impatience and frustration, plus an erratic aggressiveness that is prone to causing self-destructive flameouts. They don't win by being better than their opponents, they win by wearing down their opponents with noise, throwing them off guard with their erratic and aggressive play, and wearing them out until their defenses are lowered, at which point they either go for the win, or self-immolate.