Every recorded result adds another step to this tag's season story.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE style
High ConceptCelluloid Hunter in Scanline Shadows
TroubleDaylight Dissolves My Distortions
Horror Reel Elimination EchoesYour Defeats Amuse My MonitorMomentum's Relentless Patrol
Legend speaks of a projectionist at the Urban Forest outdoor cinema who was transformed when a freak lightning strike hit a stack of horror film canisters. The resulting surge fused his essence with the celluloid, creating a hunter that exists only within the horizontal distortions of reality, appearing as a flickering silhouette against the moonlight.
The entity moves with a staccato, frame-by-frame motion that defies natural physics, making its next position impossible to predict. It is accompanied by a halo of flickering horizontal bars and the smell of ozone, and its presence causes nearby electronic devices to display terrifying images of previous arena eliminations.
A relentless enforcer who patrols the boundaries of the night league, ensuring that momentum never falters during the most intense matches.
Season Story
narrated by Flippy
Forged
Forged in a storm of celluloid and static, the Scanline Slasher is a glitch in the system. It doesn't hunt players; it hunts rankings. It flickers into existence when the algorithm stutters, a phantom born of corrupted data and arena anxiety. Its only goal? To slash your position down the board, one stuttering frame at a time. It’s not a tag; it’s a system error with a number. Good luck.
The arena’s static cleared for a moment, revealing Austin Lott. He didn’t find the Scanline Slasher—Tag 21 found him. A flicker in his peripheral vision, the scent of ozone, and a number was pressed into his palm. The system had a new glitch, and Austin was now its first point of origin. The hunt for rankings had just gotten a lot more… analog.
See where Austin Lott sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round
