Thomas Sautel posted a 49 at The Old Ones - Art Dye, a 978-rated round that landed +44 over rating and 3.5 strokes ahead of the 52.5 field average. That unambiguously awesome performance moved him from tag 4 to tag 2, with the Blind Spot’s shadow archive producing another inconveniently legible receipt. The Final Audit is apparently awarding clearance through ritualized tag swapping; the numbers, at least, signed the form.
Blind Spot
The Old Ones - Art Dye·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Thomas Sautel
RAD
White
Season Arc · The Old Ones - Art Dye
2
#2Now
#1Best
#17Started
6Weeks
All-In league: Blind Spot stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptA Shadow Archive That Walks
TroubleAlways Suspected, Never Verified
Records Blur When Observed
Timestamps Refuse Alignment
The Audit Never Closes
The Blind Spot emerged from a catastrophic Bureau database crash in the early years of the Containment Zone - when the original surveillance architecture failed, certain player records fell into the gaps between backup systems. These records were never recovered, creating a permanent shadow archive of competitors the Bureau can no longer fully monitor. The Bureau officially claims these records were 'archived for security purposes,' but internal memos (leaked through unknown channels) suggest the data simply... vanished.
Players carrying Blind Spot designation cannot be fully photographed or captured by standard Bureau surveillance systems - their images appear as unstable, developing photographs that never fully resolve. Their records create static interference in nearby surveillance, making adjacent players' documentation unreliable. Timestamps on Blind Spot files are inconsistent, showing dates that don't align with standard chronology. Most significantly, Blind Spot records are invisible to the Bureau's Pattern Recognition algorithms - they exist in the gaps between detected behavior patterns.
Blind Spot holders exist in surveillance gaps where their true competitive history is partially invisible to the Bureau and other players. This creates persistent paranoia: are they hiding significant competitive advantages, or are they simply victims of system failures? Their performance cannot be fully tracked, their attendance cannot be fully verified, and their true skill level remains partially speculative - making them dangerous unknowns in a world where the scorecard is the only evidence that matters.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyThomas Sautel delivered an unambiguously awesome Week 8: 52 strokes, a 967 round rating, and +38 over rating against a 929 baseline. At 3.8 strokes better than the 55.8 field average, that performance moved Tag 17 → 1 while the Golden Hand claimed one of the fresco’s few remaining clear sections; the shadow archive is, inconveniently, producing receipts. The booth is required to call ritualized tag swapping a plot development, but cosmic pointlessness aside, this was a genuinely strong performance.
adjusts headset Blind Spot is slipping the perimeter for a side quest. Thomas Sautel has secured the shadow archive at The Old Ones - Art Dye. Expect flickering silhouettes and unreliable timestamps on the scorecard. It’s not a reboot; it’s just the saga expanding into a new timezone. The Bureau is going to hate the interference.
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