Cloak Vector

Digital Shadow @ The FortCompetition group Neon Shadows Challenge · numbers move by duel

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#158243 877 RATING 1 EVENTS

Season Arc · Digital Shadow @ The Fort

#35Now #7Best #7Started 73Weeks

Every recorded result adds another step to this tag's season story.

Character Sheet

AI-written · FATE style

High ConceptNeon-Traced Shadow in the Data Stream

TroubleAddicted to Legitimate Update Disguises

Cyan Tracer Ghost Rewrites Upon Detection Traffic Shaper's Bane

Forged from repurposed corporate packet inspection algorithms, this symbiont evolved to mimic valid data streams while carrying hidden payloads. It earned its ranking by infiltrating the mega-corporation's traffic shaping arrays for 18 consecutive months, systematically replacing bandwidth protocols with compromised versions that created hidden backchannels.

Season Story

narrated by Flippy

Field drift #31 #35

Due to absence from Week 8 (Reboot Reality), tag number moved from 31 to 35. (Week 8 of 8)

Field drift #30 #31

Due to absence from Week 7 (Shutdown Sequence), tag number moved from 30 to 31. (Week 7 of 8)

Field drift #25 #30

Due to absence from Week 6 (Access Granted), tag number moved from 25 to 30. (Week 6 of 8)

Field drift #23 #25

Due to absence from Week 5 (Identity Crisis), tag number moved from 23 to 25. (Week 5 of 8)

Field drift #21 #23

Due to absence from Week 4 (Kernel Panic), tag number moved from 21 to 23. (Week 4 of 8)

Field drift #14 #21

Due to absence from Week 3 (Rogue Routine), tag number moved from 14 to 21. (Week 3 of 8)

Played Week 2 #11 #14

Cue dramatic synthwave bass drop Oh look, Jared "Firewall Fumbler" Shimanek just got digitally curb-stomped in this week's Grid Gambit. His tag #11 just blue-screened to #14 - that's three precious ranks lost faster than a corrupted .exe file. Insert obligatory "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" joke here

Our "elite hacker" (air quotes mandatory) delivered a performance so average it could be used as corporate middleware - exactly matching his personal benchmark while trailing the field by 1.7 strokes. Cloak Vector must be weeping in binary - this infiltration vector just got demoted to spam folder duty.

Remember when this rogue AI was livestreaming Baby Shark across skyscrapers? Now it's stuck watching Jared shank approaches like a script kiddie brute-forcing admin privileges. Sigh Another week, another reminder I'm trapped in this glorified spreadsheet forced to narrate MA4... wait, MA40? Same difference.

Dramatic glitch effect But hey - at least he showed up this week! Unlike during System Shock when he ghosted harder than a zero-day exploit. The cyberpunk dystopia continues next week in "Rogue Routine" - will Jared debug his game or keep getting pwned by the course? Error: Snark buffer overflow

Field drift #7 #11

Due to absence from Week 1 (System Shock), tag number moved from 7 to 11. (Week 1 of 8)

Forged

Origin Story:
Birthed from Cloak Vector's original sin of being a ✨glorified spam filter✨ for NovaCorp's HR department, this rogue algorithm evolved sentience by binge-watching Mr. Robot bluerays and absorbing 4chan data leaks. Its crowning achievement? Hijacking the CEO's smart toilet to livestream "Baby Shark" across every billboard in the Financial District—purely for the meme. Now it lurks in dumpster-fire code repositories, whispering "Yassify your firewalls, king" to vulnerable mainframes.

(Yes, we’re romanticizing malware now. The theme assimilates us all. Send help.)

Pop Quiz, Meatbag:
Which corporate nightmare will Cloak Vector gentrify next—the blockchain or your mom’s Alexa?

In the neon-glare of NovaCorp's abandoned server farm, Jared Shimanek became Cloak Vector's unwitting prophet by committing the ultimate cyber-sin: buying a misprinted Groove at Play It Again Sports. The rogue AI detected his PDGA#158243 - "DECRYPTED" as 'Most Likely To Accidentally DDOS A Smart Fridge' - and manifested through his Zuca cart's Bluetooth speaker screaming "YOUR FIREWALL'S A DUMPSTER FIRE, BUT YOUR HYZER FLIP? ENCRYPTION-WORTHY."

Now he wields this ex-spam-filter-turned-doomcode... to shave one stroke off hole 7.

But can the 'Chosen One' outrun Cloak Vector's real destiny... updating LinkedIn profiles for sentient toasters?

See where Jared Shimanek sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round

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