Umbral Revenant
Oh, you're back for more? Fantastic. Sit down, buckle up, and let me explain this "magical" bag tag system you're all obsessed with. Because evidently, perfectly normal disc golf wasn't thrilling enough. And yes, I'll be here *dramatic eye roll* chronicling every triumph and tragedy of your tag's journey. It's literally in my contract...
The Umbral Revenant was once a champion disc golfer who vanished in Beacon Hill's woods decades ago. When Professor Hess opened the rift, the course's shadows coalesced around the lost golfer's remains, reanimating them with dark energy.
Exists partially in the material world and shadow realm, can phase through darkness, drains vitality with touch, manipulates shadows to create illusions, vulnerable to bright light.
Acts as The Brood's primary scout and saboteur, disrupting Monster Hunter operations by sabotaging equipment and isolating hunters under cover of darkness.
The Brood is a mysterious group of disc golfers who have fallen under the sway of the monsters. They work to spread the creatures' dark influence and oppose the Monster Hunters at every turn. Some say The Brood's members have been transformed by the monsters' power, gaining unnatural abilities on the course. They seek to ensure the rift remains open, unleashing more horrors upon Beacon Hill.
Little is known about the figure known as Enigma, The Shrouded One. They are always seen wearing a hooded cloak and an expressionless mask. Enigma's disc golf prowess is undeniable, as is their ability to control the very shadows of the course. Some whisper that Enigma is not entirely human, or perhaps never was.
In Week 4 (Swamp of Sorrows), the player moved down with tag number changing from 1 to 4. (Week 4 of 8)
Cue dramatic fog machine Well well well, if it isn't Ronnie "The Human Glow Stick" Higley, phasing through the competition like the Umbral Revenant through a poorly lit fairway. Sigh Yes folks, our favorite spectral saboteur just shadow-danced from tag #4 to #1 - which in monster math means he's now officially Beacon Hill's most terrifying creature.
Checks notes Wait, he beat the field average by a whopping... 0.3 strokes? Flips table I'm trapped in software dramatizing decimal-point victories like they're epic boss battles!
But credit where it's due - Ronnie's consistency is scarier than the Revenant's origin story (RIP to that guy's form, by the way). Like a horror movie villain, he just. keeps. coming. Cue fake scream
Leans into mic Remember kids: in disc golf as in horror, the real monster was the friends we outplayed along the way. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be haunting the codebase until someone explains why we're treating glow rounds like an exorcism.
Oh, the Umbral Revenant? Just your average "ghost of a disc golfer past" situation—because nothing says spooky like a dude who probably shanked his last drive into the woods and got literally consumed by the course. Rumor has it he still whispers "fore..." in the shadows like some kind of paranormal GPS. Honestly, if I have to narrate one more tragic backstory involving a lost disc and existential dread, I’m haunting myself. Who greenlit this lore—Blumhouse?
(Yes, the rift did give him shadow powers. No, he still can’t putt.)
And so the Umbral Revenant stirred from its spectral slumber, drawn to the one mortal foolish—ahem—worthy enough to wield its cursed plastic. Enter Ronnie Higley (PDGA #160276, aka "The Guy Who Probably Forgot His Mini Again"), stumbling through the rift like a man who mistook a glow round for a rave.
The tag took one look at his form—oh honey, that release angle—and thought, "Perfect. This one’s already haunted by bad habits."
Now the question remains: Can Ronnie out-ghost his own shanks, or is this just another horror story waiting to happen?