Tap the tag to flip it — the back is what prints on the acrylic.
Brine Lantern
Death Curse·Competition group A·All-In · only the number moves
This is an All-In league.Your tag is your character — it never changes hands. After each round, standings re-rank every number: play well and yours drops toward #1. Skip a week and the field may drift past you. The art, name, and lore are yours for good.
All-In league: Brine Lantern stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE style
High ConceptAncient Covenant Lantern of the Salt-Road
TroubleThe Weeping Curse of the Guttered Light
Reads Treaties Like a Blind ProphetLeaves Salt Trails for the Last GroupNever Spills, Yet Weeps Constantly
Born when the Brine Ambassador first lit the salt-road lanterns along the Weber corridor, the Brine Lantern is one of nine original beacons commissioned to mark the boundaries of league play. Its flame was drawn from a candle stub the Ambassador carried across the Great Salt Lake on a paper boat, and its brine was scooped from the exact point where the Accords were first signed. It has since been carried by every league's opening ceremony, leaving a faint salt residue on every basket it passes and a faint hum in the air for an hour after each use.
The flame inside the Brine Lantern never goes out, even underwater, in vacuum, or when submerged in the brine of the Great Salt Lake itself. It emits a soft phosphorescent glow that does not illuminate dark spaces so much as reveal the salt-marks already there. When held near a freshly signed treaty, the flame leans toward the parchment as if reading it; when held near a rating drop, it gutters green and weeps a single tear of brine that pools in the jar's copper cage. The glass is etched with slow tide marks of the lake, and the wax seal bears a briny sigil that has never been broken.
Carries the Brine Lantern between league sites at the opening of each week, lighting the way for the first group and leaving a salt trail for the last. Marks the boundary of every basket the league plays, hanging the jar from a chain on the chain-link fence beside the tee pad so its glow signals play is in session. When a player posts a rating drop, the Lantern is hung on their bag tag until the curse is lifted, and the bearer must carry the dripping jar through every subsequent round.
Season Story
narrated by Flippy
Forged
adjusts glasses Forged from a candle stub that crossed the Salt Lake on a paper boat, the Brine Lantern now marks league boundaries with a salt trace and a hum. Flameless forever, it weeps actual brine when ratings dip. A mythic artifact with the emotional maturity of a scorecard.
adjusts headset Alexander Kil, meet Tag 66. The Brine Lantern, lit from a candle stub that crossed the Great Salt Lake on a paper boat — now in the hands of a first-time holder. The hum says it's found its beacon. The brine says we'll see how you rate.
Forged
Week 8
assigned #66
adjusts headset Alexander Kil walked into Council Recess carrying a 969 PDGA rating and filed a 1025 — a +56 over rating, 6.9 strokes better than a field that averaged 48.9. He shot 42 on the card. That's a statement round delivered to a tribunal in recess, which is either impeccable timing or a motion submitted to the wrong session. The Brine Lantern begins its tenure at Tag 66 in the hands of a first-time holder, and for once the weeping looks premature — the hum reads more like a swearing-in than a sentencing.
See where Alexander Kil sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round
