Ghost Reel
The Sand Slot @ Creekside·Competition group Vanguard·
All-In · only the number moves
Garrett Poulsen
RAE
Red
Season Arc · The Sand Slot @ Creekside
1
#11Now
#2Best
#11Started
28Weeks
All-In league: Ghost Reel stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThe Last Tape You'll Ever Need
TroubleCan't Stop Watching Your Failures
Fundamentals First
Your Misses Are My Cinema
Rewind and Weep
The Ghost Reel was born when the first VCR in the Chaintrix's primordial network recorded a performance and then failed catastrophically - instead of losing the footage, the tape became haunted with the ghostly imprint of that first throw, and it has persisted ever since as both witness and warning to all who enter the simulations.
The Ghost Reel appears as a translucent VHS cassette with no label, glowing faintly with phosphor light in midnight-blue and Blockbuster-gold. The tape inside visibly plays even when the cassette is sealed, showing performances from players long eliminated. It emits a low hum like an old VCR motor, audible only to those marked for elimination, and the reel inside spins counterclockwise - opposite to normal VHS playback direction.
The Ghost Reel serves as the Chaintrix's memory of the forgotten - it records not just performances but the erased moments, the missed throws, the absent players, making it the keeper of all absences and the entity that ensures no elimination is ever truly permanent.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyrewinds her own introduction tape Garrett Poulsen just delivered exactly the kind of performance The Beast was hunting for—a 786 round rating against a 871 PDGA baseline: −85 below form, the kind of collapse that makes the VCR recoil in static-screaming horror. Yet here's where the narrative glitches beautifully: Ghost Reel didn't eject in disgust. It archived him anyway. Tag 11 → Tag 2 is a +9 position vault that defies the rating carnage, which means either the field imploded harder, or Creekside's fungal-circuit grid conspired to elevate the wreckage. Either way, the haunted cassette got its footage—not a triumph, but a documented failure, and in a simulation obsessed with recording everything, that's currency. The Blockbuster database doesn't care if you're brilliant or broken; it just needs you on tape. Welcome to the archive, Garrett. Your membership is secure. adjusts tracking knob The reel will be watching next week.
adjusts tracking knob Ghost Reel ejects from the main simulation to shadow Garrett Poulsen at The Sand Slot @ Creekside. Call it a side quest in a glitching narrative arc. That translucent cassette hums static as it drifts toward the bunkers—hope your Blockbuster membership is current, Garrett. The reel demands new footage, and Creekside is next in the VCR queue.
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