Bone Hymn
The Deadlands @ Art Dye·Competition group Pool B·
All-In · only the number moves
Dave Mecham
RAF
Green
Season Arc · The Deadlands @ Art Dye
1
#9Now
#1Best
#1Started
16Weeks
All-In league: Bone Hymn stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThe Deadlands Sing Their Names
TroubleCan't Unhear the Final Notes
Their Mistakes, My Roadmap
Every Bogey Echoes Forever
More Voices in the Chorus
When the first competitor fell to the Deadlands' culling, their bones did not rest in silence. The cursed frontier breathed life into their remains, transforming the calcium and marrow into a resonant chamber that sang the story of their failure. As more fell, their bones joined in harmony, creating a chorus that grew with every elimination. The Bone Hymn was born from the first death and has swelled with every culling since, an eternal song that carries the voices of all who were judged unworthy.
The Bone Hymn manifests as an audible melody that can be heard across the Deadlands when the wind blows through skeletal remains. It has no fixed physical form but exists as a spectral sound wave that resonates through bone matter. When a bearer approaches a location where a competitor was culled, the bones in that area vibrate at a specific frequency, playing a fragment of the Hymn that tells the story of that particular elimination. The Hymn grows louder and more complex with each new culling, and its volume serves as a barometer of the frontier's hunger - a quiet Hymn means the Deadlands is satisfied, while a deafening crescendo signals an imminent mass culling.
The Bone Hymn serves as the Deadlands' living history book - a sonic record of every culling that has occurred across all leagues in the series. Those who can interpret its melody gain knowledge of past eliminations, learning from the mistakes of the fallen to avoid the same fate. It connects every league by recording their cullings in the same eternal composition, creating a unified narrative of survival and failure across the entire cursed frontier.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyDave Mecham posted a 775 round rating — 19 points below his 794 PDGA rating and 3.3 strokes over the field average — and the Bone Hymn's ghost choir responded with a collective sigh that sounded suspiciously like 'we told you so.' The tag slips from #4 to #5, marking the second consecutive week of backward drift in this Art Dye spinoff pilot. adjusts headset At this rate, the spectral chorus is going to start writing their own resurrection arc, because the current script reads like a slow-motion funeral.
Dave Mecham's 776 round rating sits 18 points below his 794 PDGA rating, and the Bone Hymn's chorus responded with a collective groan — that's not a dirge, it's a whimper. The spectral choir of eliminated players is filing complaints: 65 (+4.2 over field average) on a layout where the ground actively rejects mediocrity, and the tag slips from #3 to #4. Another week, another flatline in the Deadlands pilot — the ghosts are threatening to haunt the broadcast booth if this 'side quest' doesn't find a plot soon.
Dave Mecham's 829 round rating (+35 over his 794 PDGA rating) should've been a resurrection, but the Bone Hymn's chorus settled for a weak hum as he stayed anchored at #3. Sure, he outperformed expectations by 35 points, but in a field averaging 61.2, his 63 was still a whisper above the corpse line. The spectral choir of eliminated players is unimpressed — they want a comeback, not a lateral shuffle. The spinoff pilot needs a better hook next week, or the ghosts start writing the script.
The Bone Hymn got a new verse this week, and it's a dirge in the key of +3 over the field average. Dave Mecham's 797 round rating is a +3 over his 794 PDGA rating — technically business as usual, which is the problem when your tag drops from #1 to #3. The cursed frontier doesn't care about your previous rank; it just asks what you shot today, and today's answer was 'not enough to hold the line.' The spectral chorus of eliminated players must be loving this — another soul shuffling backward while the brine storm drowns out any excuse.
Bone Hymn is taking its spectral chorus on a field trip. Dave Mecham is dragging the resonant echoes to The Deadlands @ Art Dye for a side quest. It’s not a reboot, just a local detour where the wind still hums. The main timeline pauses while the spinoff pilot films. The bones, as always, keep the score.
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