Due to absence from Week 7 (Roots Rebellion), tag number moved from 2 to 3. (Week 7 of 10)
Tear Sheet
Season Arc · Cold Blooded - Roots
1All-In league: Tear Sheet stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Tear Sheet originated from the Bureau's document control protocols established during the Containment Zone's first audit cycle. When files are reviewed for classification distribution, certain pages are physically torn from the master documents and selectively released to different clearance levels. What remains in a player's possession is a deliberately fragmented record - part readable, part redacted, part simply absent. The tear is both literal and metaphorical: a physical reminder that complete information does not exist in this system.
The Tear Sheet appears as a manila-colored document fragment with one clean torn edge and one ragged edge where it was separated from a larger file. Black classification bars redact portions of the printed text, while some fields remain partially visible - a name here, a score there, a clearance level cut in half. The paper feels thin and fragile, like it could deteriorate further with each handling. Different clearance levels reveal different visible sections, meaning a Tear Sheet viewed by two different players may show completely different information.
The Tear Sheet tracks which information fragments a player has received and which remain missing from their competitive intelligence. It creates persistent uncertainty about whether the data in your possession is complete, encouraging players to question every piece of intelligence they gather about opponents. Players with multiple Tear Sheets from different sources begin to piece together larger pictures, but never achieve absolute certainty.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyThe Bureau's instruments confirm the obvious: Kent Moos shot -17 below his 913 rating, which is not the stuff of throne ascension. Yet the standings coughed up the #2 Tear Sheet anyway, trading tag 5 for tag 2 on a day when his 48 was three over the field average. Somewhere in the Containment Zone, a form is approving this transfer while laughing at the cosmic pointlessness of ritualized tag swapping. The same agent who slithered +52 above rating earlier this season just proved the redactions work both ways.
The Audit arrived, and Kent Moos responded with a 965-rated round that landed +52 above his PDGA 913 — the kind of performance that makes Inquisitors check their instruments twice. The Tear Sheet stays at #2, but the real story is a player who shed human limitations entirely, leaving the Bureau to puzzle over an incomplete file whose watermarks are pulsing with unearned confidence. The Roots fragment survives another week, and Moos is making the redactions work for him.
adjusts headset Per the file I'm legally required to read aloud, the Tear Sheet's Roots side quest didn't get shredded—Kent Moos shed four positions to land at #2 in the First Shedding. No round rating to quantify the slither, but +4 in a ladder where most movement is lateral? That's a classified step toward the Apex Court. The Bureau might still audit this fragment, but for now, the redactions stay out of the scorecard.
The Tear Sheet has been torn from the main narrative and filed under Kent Moos for a Cold Blooded - Roots deployment. It’s a side quest, folks—a bureaucratic spinoff where the redactions are local and the coffee is lukewarm. We’ll see if this fragment survives the Roots archives or just gets shredded.