Stephen Dunton posted a 55 at Roots Rise — an 885 round rating against his 854 PDGA number, +31 over expectation and 3.4 strokes clear of the field's 58.4 average. He matched his own personal average to the decimal, which turns out not to be a legal defense. The committee entered the numbers into evidence, the pavement cracked, green light bled up through the seams, and he still slid from #2 to #4 — two spots gone to the Reaper while he was busy outperforming.
Rating Reaper
Grave Roots - Thursday @ Roots Disc Golf Course·Competition group The Bone Percussion·
All-In · only the number moves
Stephen Dunton
RAE
Red
Season Arc · Grave Roots - Thursday @ Roots Disc Golf Course
2
#4Now
#2Best
#2Started
1Weeks
All-In league: Rating Reaper stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptRating Reaper, Harvester of Numerical Decline
TroubleFeeds on what it harvests
Eyes show previous rating
Cloak of discarded scorecards
Pencil becomesscythe when triggered
The Rating Reaper emerged from the first catastrophic rating drop in league history. When that inaugural player signed the Salt Lake Accords and suffered a devastating decline, the magical energy released from that descent coalesced into a sentient form. The Accords' magic needed an entity to facilitate the rating-to-curse transformation, and the Reaper is that necessity made manifest - existing in the space between the old rating and the new, feeding on decline while serving as the treaty s supernatural executioner.
Manifests as a hooded figure holding a scoring pencil that transforms into a glowing scythe when curses are triggered. Its cloak is woven from discarded scorecards and faded ratings reports. Leaves behind trails of crumpled stats that slowly disintegrate. Eyes glow with the color of the player's previous rating - green for safe, red for danger zones.
The Rating Reaper appears on the course when a player crosses a significant rating threshold, physically harvesting their decline and transforming it into the curse specified by the Accords. It serves as both enforcer and witness - documenting supernatural consequences while executing them. Players who see the Reaper know their rating has triggered something beyond mere numbers.
Season Story
narrated by Flippytaps clipboard The Rating Reaper pauses at the series edge, scythe-pencil dimming to a mere scoring implement. Stephen Dunton beckons from Grave Roots, where Thursday's shadows run long at Roots Disc Golf. The main arc holds. But every saga needs its filler episodes — and someone's rating must still decline. The Reaper has work everywhere.
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