adjusts headset with audible static Bryant Adams just piloted the glitch-engine up ten positions—from tag #14 straight into the PREFERRED tier at #4—and here's where it gets weird: a 912 round rating against a 927 PDGA rating reads as -15 below form, which should be a soft disappointment, but the simulation doesn't care about "should." He scored 50 against a 50.6 field average (barely a whisper), yet the Vandal Hymn's corrupted hymn apparently resonates louder than decimal points. The arena's verdict? Survival through pure momentum—tag #4 doesn't ask questions when the broadcast booth is still glitching. rewind sound Let's see that rating drop again in slo-mo. The simulation loves dramatic replays. Here's the thing nobody wants to admit: Bryant didn't dominate the course. He just didn't collapse, and in a ladder format where absence means forfeit and every week rewrites the survival board, not collapsing is its own kind of Blockbuster card upgrade.
Vandal Hymn
Season Arc · The Flare Witch Project @ Roots
10All-In league: Vandal Hymn stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleBorn from the moment a challenger tore the 'RECORDING' stamp from a trail cam and scrawled their name over the lens, Vandal Hymn began as an act of digital blasphemy. The footage glitched violently, replaying the same three seconds of a disc veering impossibly off-course—each loop louder, more distorted. Witnesses claimed the audio carried a rhythmic pulse, like a corrupted hymn from a forgotten channel. The Claimants adopted it as their battle standard, believing that true survival lies not in adaptation, but in rewriting the code through force. It is said that when a Vandal Hymn bearer wins, the course’s neon grids stutter in time with their breath.
Vandal Hymn manifests as a pulsing interference pattern across all nearby screens—camcorder feeds, scorecards, even glow tape strands—each flicker forming a fragment of a looping, untraceable melody. When activated, it induces a low-frequency vibration in chrome tags, causing them to hum like struck tuning forks. Discs thrown under its influence appear on playback with trailing afterimages, as if moving through degraded film stock. The entity resists erasure; attempts to delete footage containing its signature frequency result in corrupted files that regenerate overnight with new, impossible footage.
A sonic siege weapon that drowns out the Flare Witch’s whispers with raw, distorted defiance. It turns the Claimant’s presence into an auditory invasion, overwhelming sensors and shaking the resolve of rivals who rely on precision. This is not subtle warfare—it is psychological bombardment, a declaration that the bearer will not be archived, only remembered as the one who made the machines scream.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyrewind sound Let's see that rating drop again in slo-mo. Bryant Adams just vaulted from tag #8 to tag #1—a seven-position demolition that doesn't need round-by-round receipts to feel catastrophic for everyone else in the field. His PDGA rating sits at 924, and whatever he threw this week, the arena didn't just nod; it bowed. The Vandal Hymn finally found its true believer, and the neon grids aren't stuttering anymore—they're genuflecting. The course didn't rewrite itself this time. Bryant did. From the booth, I'm contractually obligated to remind you this is still just plastic and chains, but the simulation's verdict is written in chrome: the defaced trail cam's chosen one doesn't corrupt the game anymore. He becomes it.
Due to absence from Week 2 (Ridge Return), tag number moved from 1 to 5. (Week 2 of 9)