Blanking Interval
Bogey Nights @ Dragonfly·Competition group Pool B·
All-In · only the number moves
Alex Collings
RAE
Red
Season Arc · Bogey Nights @ Dragonfly
1
#2Now
#1Best
#3Started
29Weeks
All-In league: Blanking Interval stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThe Gap Where Timing Breaks Down
TroubleEvery Absence Widens the Darkness
VHS Corruption Spreads Like Debt
Synchronization Drift Compounds with Silence
Your Attendance Record Is Your Lifeline
Emerged when the Chaintrix's engineers realized that players who missed events created synchronization errors identical to vertical blanking interval corruption - the simulation couldn't maintain proper timing without their presence, causing the entire recording to drift out of phase across all 16 movie leagues.
Manifests as the horizontal black bars that separate video frames on degraded VHS tapes, existing in 1.3 millisecond intervals where no picture information is transmitted. Accumulates penalty data in these unrecorded spaces, making the gaps between attendance events more dangerous than the events themselves. Appears as severe tracking line distortion when players drift out of synchronization with their league's timing, with each missed event widening the dark intervals until they consume the visible picture entirely.
Acts as the temporal penalty accumulator that converts missed attendance into synchronization debt, making each absence push players further out of phase until they can no longer be recorded by any of the 16 simulations. The more blanking interval corruption a player accumulates, the harder it becomes for the Chaintrix to maintain proper timing with their presence - eventually rendering them completely unrecordable.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyadjusts headset Alex Collings just posted a 900 round rating against an 870 PDGA—that's a clean +30 differential, which in arena terms means "survived with genuine competence." The field averaged 66; Collings shot 61. Three strokes under personal average on a week where the VHS jury demands attendance or face erasure. Tag #1 → Tag #1: no movement, no drama, just the kind of steady synchronization that actually prevents the Blanking Interval from swallowing the entire simulation frame. Here's the truth the sponsors don't want me to say: this is what survival looks like when nobody's ghosting the arena. The glow sticks stopped mattering three weeks ago. What matters now is showing up and executing. Collings just did both, which means the tracking stays stable for another week. The Chaintrix doesn't celebrate consistency—it just stops erasing you. You'll take it.
rewinds her own introduction tape Alex Collings just posted a +24 differential over their 871 PDGA rating with a 895 round—not a collapse, not transcendent, but exactly the kind of steady survival the Blanking Interval was designed to track. From tag #3 to #1, the simulation's corruption vector just reversed course: absence widens the darkness, but presence stabilizes the frame. The arena's verdict? Synchronization restored. Your attendance record isn't just your lifeline—it's literally the only thing keeping the VHS from eating itself. Also, I'm obligated to remind you that we just spent five weeks treating plastic-at-chains like a disco-strobe elimination circuit, and somehow it worked.
static hiss The simulation logs a side quest: Alex Collings deploying the Blanking Interval at Bogey Nights @ Dragonfly. Those black bars aren't just for static—they're gathering penalty data in the gaps. Stay synced, Alex, or the tracking distortion will swallow your round before the credits roll.
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