Getting Injured Mid-Season
You sustained an injury that took you out for the rest of the season. A mid season injury is a sports fail where the aura loss is compounded by time, because the injury does not just cost one game it costs the season, the conditioning, and the momentum that was building toward a peak. Fifteen thousand points lost because the injury is not just physical. It is narrative. You were on a trajectory, and the trajectory is interrupted, and the team has to continue without you, which means the team learns to play without you, which means your return is not guaranteed to restore your role. The aura loss is in the observation. You watch from the bench, you watch from the MRI table, you watch from the physical therapy appointment, and watching is the most aura destructive activity in sports, because sports is about doing, and the injured athlete is the one person who cannot. The recovery is slow and nonlinear. The body heals at its own pace, the pace does not respect the schedule, and the return… Getting Injured Mid-Season is a sports event in the catastrophic tier, worth -15,000 aura points. Compare it with Being Forgotten at a Restaurant Table and Playing an Instrument in Public and Drawing a Crowd, or browse the full aura events index to see where it ranks.