Bobby Schneck moved from tag 16 to 11 with a 61, gaining five places despite a 930 round rating—exactly -16 below his 946 rating. The score was 1.1 strokes worse than the 59.9 field average and 9.5 above his 51.5 personal average, so this was below form with a useful administrative upside. In the final Dragonfly audit, the Tear Line subplot remains attached to his file; apparently even rough data can climb the ladder.
Tear Line
Hive Mind - Dragonfly·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Bobby Schneck
RPA
Gold
Season Arc · Hive Mind - Dragonfly
5
#11Now
#1Best
#5Started
13Weeks
All-In league: Tear Line stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThe Redacted Know Too Much
TroubleTheir Secrets Have Secrets
Reads the Space Between Lines
Your Redactions Amuse Me
Scorecards Remember What They Forget
Tear Lines are the physical scars left behind whenever the Bureau performs a major redaction on a player's permanent record. The act of blacking out sensitive information - whether performance anomalies, attendance gaps, or clearance violations - tears a hole in the fabric of bureaucratic reality. Over decades of systematic censorship, these scars accumulated into the ethereal strips that now drift through the Containment Zone, appearing on scorecards, event records, and player files. The Bureau claims they're meaningless artifacts of the redaction process, but agents whisper that they're echoes of the original truths - shadows of the information that was buried but refuses to fully disappear.
Tear Lines manifest as jagged fragments of aged manila material, approximately 3 inches in length, with one edge smooth as if cut by a precision blade and the other edge irregular and torn. The substance feels like paper but carries an unexpected metallic coolness to the touch. Along the torn edge runs a faint phosphorescent line that pulses with an otherworldly blue-green glow, visible only in darkness and intensifying when near classified documents. They are impossible to photograph or capture digitally - only those physically present can witness them. When pressed against a player's file, a Tear Line reveals the exact dimensions and shape of any redactions without exposing the hidden content.
Tear Lines provide holders with a unique form of asymmetric intelligence within the Containment Zone. Unlike standard clearance levels that determine what information you can access, the Tear Line reveals the STRUCTURE of hidden information - you can see that someone has secrets and gauge their significance by the size and shape of the redaction, without ever learning the truth. This creates persistent paranoia in competitive matchups: a player facing a Tear Line holder never knows if their hidden information has been partially exposed, while the Tear Line holder lives with the knowledge that their own redactions can be mapped but not read.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyPer the file I'm legally required to read aloud: a +42 differential over Bobby Schneck's 949 rating — a 991-rated round that turned tag #9 into tag #1 while the field was averaging 53.4 and Bobby was busy shooting 49. That's eight spots of ladder reclaimed on a single scorecard, and somewhere the Bureau is already drafting a memo to redact how thoroughly he read the course. The Tear Line's glow isn't just ambiance; it's the spoiler that Schneck knows exactly where the secrets live. All this for a tag swap, yes, but what a swap.
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