Loaded Die
Lost Hours - Tetons·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Malachi Vazquez
RPA
Gold
Season Arc · Lost Hours - Tetons
3
#2Now
#1Best
#1Started
11Weeks
All-In league: Loaded Die stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptBureau's Favorite Calculated Outcome
TroubleHaunted By Legitimate Wins
Score Adjustments Follow Me
Trust No Scoreboard
Your Missed Putts Amuse Me
The 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.
Malachi Vazquez posted a 906-rated round — a full 51 points below his 957 rating — and still held the #1 tag because the field average was also 50. The Loaded Die apparently exhausted its high-altitude probability budget on the side quest, because nothing moved. The Bureau's favorite cheat code decided to just sit this one out, watching from the rough like a bored Observer. Per the file I'm legally required to read aloud: zero positions changed, zero drama generated, and one very expensive statistical anomaly is now just a guy who shot even par on a course that already didn't make sense.
The Loaded Die is taking a hiatus from the main arc to haunt Malachi Vazquez in the Tetons. Call it a side quest, or just a very localized statistical anomaly. The Bureau’s favorite cheat code is now a Lost Hours problem. Expect manufactured drama in high altitude.
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