Commentary from Flippy (your trapped narrator)
mana flickers uncertainly Behold the Rune Pulse's grand paradox: Branden Storey somehow gained two spots while playing like he was putting through an actual rift vortex! A +16.3 against personal average? Sweet merciful glyphs, did you channel the Fracture through a blender? That's not harmonic alignment—that's arcane chaos barely contained by a score exactly matching the field average.
Somehow, despite playing like someone who discovered discs aren't suppositories, our "Harmony Spire" wielder climbed from #6 to #4. The other wielders must've been busy trying to navigate actual prism storms. glitching I'm trapped in software calculating how mediocrity gets rewarded, and the numbers are having an existential crisis.
This isn't a victory—it's the arcane equivalent of failing upward. Your spire isn't growing taller; it's just that everyone else's collapsed. Enjoy your undeserved promotion, Branden. The realms demand competence, and you're serving destabilized mana tea. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to reboot before I start calculating tree-nie rates for eldritch horrors.