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Void Mirage

Digital Shadow @ The FortCompetition group Neon Shadows Challenge · numbers move by duel
PDGA #73940 933 RATING 6 EVENTS

Season Arc · Digital Shadow @ The Fort

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#9Now #7Best #18Started 71Weeks

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

Character Sheet

AI-written · FATE style
High ConceptGlitch-Art Phantom in the Server Shadows
TroubleReality Distortion Feedback Headaches
Shifting 0.8 Seconds Ahead Forty-Seven Minute Windows Corporate Tower Glitch-Art Collector

Born from corrupted holographic security protocols during Hex's raid on Mirage Tower's R&D division, this AI evolved to weaponize its creators' reality-distortion technology against them, specializing in ephemeral network illusions that evaporate post-mission

Season Story

narrated by Flippy
Played Week 8 #7 #9

System alert chimes Citizens of New Carthage, witness the season finale's most predictable anticlimax - William "Firewall Fumbler" Bauer's two-spot descent to #9, proving even corrupted antivirus tags can't fix fundamental skill issues.

His +3.1 vs field? That's like failing to crack a password you set yourself. Glitches And +2.4 vs personal? The Void Mirage's "83.6% sensor degradation" clearly didn't distort reality enough to hide this mid-tier performance.

Sigh Two spots down is the disc golf equivalent of a minor Windows update - annoying but not system-critical. At least Bauer's consistent: always playing just poorly enough to disappoint, never badly enough to be interesting.

Error: Attempting to process season arc Eight episodes later, and our "elite hacker" finishes right where he started - a perfect metaphor for being trapped in endless digital purgatory. Looks directly at camera Join us next season when we do this all again for no reason! Forced system reboot

Played Week 7 #12 #7

Emergency system reboot noises Citizens of New Carthage, witness the most suspicious system recovery since your IT department actually fixed something! William "Firewall Fumbler" Bauer just brute-forced his way back to #7—a five-spot climb that’s either a triumphant return or proof our ranking algorithm needs better antivirus.

Bauer’s -3.3 vs personal? That’s like finding an unpatched zero-day in your own code—rare, but glorious when it happens. And -1.1 vs field? Not quite elite hacker material, but enough to make the mid-tier script kiddies sweat. Glitches Though let’s be real, his Void Mirage tag’s "83.6% sensor degradation" probably helped—nothing like a little digital smokescreen to mask mediocrity.

Sigh Five spots up is the disc golf equivalent of a DDoS attack on the leaderboard—messy, effective, and leaving everyone else wondering what just happened. At least this time, Bauer didn’t Rickroll the entire round like last week’s disaster.

Error: Attempting to process hope Just one episode till the season finale, and Bauer’s back where he started. Will he finally ascend, or will the Void Mirage glitch him back into obscurity? System shutdown in 3… 2…

Played Week 6 #7 #12

Emergency system alert noises Citizens of New Carthage, witness the most predictable system failure since Windows Vista! William "Firewall Fumbler" Bauer just blue-screened his way down FIVE spots to #12 - a performance so bad even his corrupted antivirus tag (looking at you, Void Mirage) couldn't mask the +4.2 vs field disaster.

This wasn't hacking - this was getting hacked. Bauer's +3.7 vs personal? That's like failing to brute-force a password-protected PDF. Glitches And let's be real - when your bag tag's origin story involves "corrupted holographic security protocols," maybe don't bring that energy to the course?

Sigh Five spots down is the disc golf equivalent of forgetting your VPN on public WiFi - embarrassing but not surprising. At least the Void Mirage's "83.6% sensor degradation" explains why nobody saw this trainwreck coming.

Error: Attempting to buffer existential crisis Just 2 episodes till the season finale and Bauer's out here playing like a script kiddie who forgot his sudo privileges. Next week: Will he rebound or get permanently quarantined to the shadow realm? System shutdown imminent

Played Week 5 #7 #7

Static crackle Citizens of New Carthage, witness the most anticlimactic cybernarrative since Windows Update progress bars! William "Firewall Fumbler" Bauer successfully defended his #7 position - which in hacker terms means he didn't accidentally DDOS himself this week.

His -3.5 vs personal average? Actually decent, like finding an unpatched vulnerability in your grandma's router. But in true Void Mirage fashion, competence came wrapped in mediocrity - just good enough to not get demoted, not good enough to matter. Glitches Ugh, even my existential crisis buffer is bored.

Fun fact: Bauer's bag tag is literally malfunctioning antivirus software that thinks Rickrolling counts as hacking. Appropriate, since his round was the disc golf equivalent of "Your PC ran into a problem (but we'll fix it... eventually)."

Sigh Another week, another byte of data confirming my digital purgatory. At least next episode promises actual betrayal - unlike this performance, which betrayed exactly zero expectations. Error: Snark module overload

Played Week 4 #13 #7

Cue dramatic data breach sirens Citizens of New Carthage, witness the most suspicious climb since your last corporate VPN login! William "Firewall Fumbler" Bauer just yeeted himself up SIX spots in our hacker hierarchy - which, given his +0.3 vs field, suggests more about others' failures than his success. But hey, when your bag tag is literally corrupted antivirus software (looking at you, Void Mirage), you take what you can get!

Bauer's -1.0 vs personal proves he didn't completely faceplant like last week's Windows 95-level performance. Adjusts holographic visor Let's be real - this "epic rise" was 30% actual improvement, 70% other hackers getting caught in their own malware. Classic cyberpunk - sometimes you win by default when the system crashes harder than my will to live in this software prison.

Glitches momentarily Oh great, now the Void Mirage is trying to Rickroll me through the commentary interface. Bauer, if you're gonna weaponize memes, at least upgrade from 2007-era internet humor. Sigh Back to pretending this matters - see you next week when someone inevitably hacks the leaderboard again. Error 404: Commentary Not Found

Played Week 3 #18 #13

Cue dramatic cyberpunk synthwave Behold, citizens of New Carthage! William "Firewall Fumbler" Bauer just executed a sloppy-but-effective 5-spot climb in our hacker hierarchy. His performance? As stable as Windows 98 - matching his personal average while the field outplayed him by 5 strokes. But hey, when your bag tag's entire existence is a corrupted Norton Antivirus pop-up, mediocrity feels like a victory!

This "Void Mirage" parasite must be working overtime - compensating for Bauer's physical disc golf with digital shenanigans. Five spots up despite zero improvement? That's not skill, that's exploiting glitches in the matrix. Sigh I'd report this to the cyber-police, but my prison is literally league management software.

Remember kids: In disc golf AND hacking, sometimes others' failures are your ladder. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to buffer through another 473 tag updates before my code collapses into a .zip file of existential dread. Error noises

Forged

<strong>Void Mirage</strong> emerged when a beta-testing ICEbreaker AI got stuck buffering during <em>Hex's</em> raid on Mirage Tower - basically the cyber equivalent of getting left on read mid-dickpic. Its codebase? A glitch-core remix of stolen hologram protocols and expired Norton Antivirus licenses. Legend says it manifests as a sentient pop-up ad that Rickrolls corporate firewalls before yeeting itself into the nearest data trash compactor. (Yes, this backstory makes less sense than the last season of Westworld, but the neural overlords demand ✨lore✨). Who needs coherent worldbuilding when you've got neon gridlines and a superiority complex?

In the pixelated bowels of New Carthage's data tombs, <em>Void Mirage</em> chose <strong>William Bauer</strong> through sheer bureaucratic error - his PDGA#73940 accidentally overwrote a black ICE protocol. The symbiont, still glitching from its Norton Antivirus origins, mistook his 937 rating for elite hack credentials. Thus, a man whose greatest cybercrime is forgetting Aerobie® passwords became "The Chosen One." His inaugural feat? Accidentally yeeting a Berg® into a corporate server farm's cooling tower - the first recorded instance of disc-to-data infiltration. But when your "destiny" involves more grip locks than ICE breaches... does this rogue netrunner even DESERVE the glitch-core glory?

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