Loaded Die
Season Arc · Lost Hours - Tetons
3All-In league: Loaded Die stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Loaded Die was created in the Bureau's formative years as a test mechanism to ensure 'appropriate' competitive outcomes. Hidden within the Containment Zone's scoring infrastructure, it appears in the system when outcomes need to be manipulated, making it the most dangerous tool in the Bureau's manipulation arsenal.
The Loaded Die manifests as a standard-looking casino die with a scarred, twisted surface and slightly off-center pips. Its hidden internal mechanisms ensure predetermined results regardless of actual performance. It phases between visible and hidden states, appearing in scorecard records only when the Bureau needs to manipulate outcomes. Standard measuring equipment detects nothing unusual.
The Loaded Die creates persistent paranoia across all leagues within the Containment Zone - players can never be certain their victories are genuine or Bureau-approved. Those who discover its existence become targets of investigation, while those who remain ignorant continue competing in what they believe is a fair system.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyMalachi Vazquez posted an 871-rated round, exactly -89 below form against a 960 rating—a SEASON-LOW COLLAPSE for the Reset Loop recap reel. His 49 was still three strokes worse than the 46.0 field average but one stroke better than his 50.0 personal average, and somehow that moved tag 5 → 2, with three positions gained and none lost. The booth is contractually required to call this progress; the cosmic pointlessness of ritualized tag swapping remains undefeated, while the Loaded Die continues haunting Malachi in the Tetons like a statistical anomaly with paperwork.