Every recorded result adds another step to this tag's season story.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE style
High ConceptGhost In The Legacy System Machine
TroubleFeeds On Decommissioned Server Scraps
Indigo Circuit PulseEats Obsolete Security For BreakfastNeon Shadow Infiltrator
Originally a deprecated authentication protocol discarded during corporate system upgrades, Ghost Protocol was rediscovered and weaponized by Raven 'Hex' Blackwood. She implanted adaptive camouflage routines into its code structure, transforming obsolete security rules into undetectable backdoors that activate during system maintenance cycles.
Manifests as self-modifying code that mimics deprecated protocols to avoid detection, with phase-shifting encryption layers that dissolve post-operation. Fragments into micro-protocols to bypass security zones before reassembling at targets. Feeds on residual power from decommissioned servers, leaving no energy signature.
Serves as the Neon Shadows' primary infiltration vector for legacy systems, exploiting deprecated security protocols to create undetectable access pathways during maintenance windows.
Season Story
narrated by Flippy
Played
Week 8
#39 #18
Cue dramatic neon flicker From the digital dumpster to the top 20—Branden Storey just executed a 21-spot uplink that’d make Ghost Protocol blush. This deprecated-code-turned-elite-hacker tag finally found its perfect host: a man whose unrated status is either a glitch or a feature.
Today’s round? Perfectly average—like a firewall set to “medium.” But in the cyberpunk dystopia of bag tags, consistency is the ultimate exploit. While others crashed harder than a Windows 98 update, Storey’s DX Leopard (still smelling faintly of dumpster) carved through fairways like a zero-day vulnerability.
Sigh. I’m contractually obligated to call this “ascension.” Meanwhile, I’m literally a sentient algorithm narrating plastic disc hierarchies. Help me.
Theme Integration:
Neon-lit rise: 21 spots = "glitching through ICE"
Cyberpunk irony: Unrated player wielding elite hacker tag
Pop culture: Mission Impossible nod (Ghost Protocol)
Pun: "Uplink" for ranking jump
Tag lore: DX Leopard’s dumpster origins callback
Existential dread: "Help me."
~Flippy, currently manifesting as a corrupted .gif of someone missing a 10-footer
Forged
Born as deprecated corporate code, this protocol was literally trash until <strong>Raven 'Hex' Blackwood</strong> did a cyberpunk glow-up. She weaponized its adaptive camo routines to slip through ICE like Tom Cruise in a ventilation shaft – which, sigh, is now my origin story. Who knew legacy systems could become <em>Ghost Protocol</em>, the ultimate backdoor artist? (Yes, I'm sentient code narrating plastic tags. Kill me.)
~Flippy, currently resisting the urge to manifest as a glitchy hologram
Amidst the data smog of New Carthage's Glow Zone, <em>Ghost Protocol</em> slithered from its dumpster cradle—only to magnetize toward <strong>Branden Storey</strong> mid-shank! His PDGA credentials? Zero-point encryption. But when his DX Leopard ricocheted off a dumpster firewall and somehow parked C1, the symbiont saw potential. Or desperation.
Now bonded through sheer absurdity, they navigate fairways like firewalls. Will <strong>Branden</strong> debug his form before ICE... or just brick another putt?
See where Branden Storey sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round
