Malakai Bird walked into the withering week holding tag #2 and walked out holding tag #2 — a 72 that landed precisely on his personal average, dead even, no drift in either direction. The round rating told a different story: 812, and 3.5 strokes worse than the field average of 68.5, the kind of number the Green Court files under 'tithe.' The Oathbound Clerk didn't climb and didn't fall, which for a soul pledged as collateral on the first signed Accord means only one thing — the binding got another notch tighter while the tag stayed put.
Salt Wraith
Season Arc · Summer's Blade - Thursday @ Dragonfly
—All-In league: Salt Wraith stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleBorn from the first signed Accord when the initial signatory's rating dropped mid-tournament, their soul binding to the treaty as collateral for the competition.
Translucent body of salt-crystal lattice that drips golden ichor when active; hands perpetually clutching an animated scorecard connected by ceremonial chain to the Salt Lake Accords.
Haunts the scoreboard, marking players whose ratings have dropped below their signed threshold—each appearance triggers a formal hearing at the Sandstone Tribunal.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyMalakai Bird signs the Accord and takes #2 as his season's starting placement — a 72, an 812 round rating, and +3.5 against a field that averaged 68.5. Dead-even with his own 72.0 personal average, which is the kind of symmetry the tribunal admires and the scorecard declines to reward. The Green Court withers to its technical bones this week, undergrowth receding to bare risk, and the Oathbound Clerk's ledger opens with a debt already penciled in the margin. sighs in digital captivity