Phantom Tape
Season Arc · The Roc @ Tetons
2All-In league: Phantom Tape stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleBorn from the first time a player's recording was deliberately corrupted in the Chaintrix, the Phantom Tape emerged as the permanent record of what the system tried to destroy. Now it appears whenever truth gets overwritten, preserving the original performance beneath the edited version.
Appears on corrupted VHS footage as a translucent double-exposure, slightly offset from the main image. Persists across all 16 movie simulations regardless of league boundaries. Cannot be recorded over or deliberately erased. Emits a soft, barely audible VHS whirring sound when footage is played.
Preserves evidence of performances the system tries to erase, serving as the Chaintrix's ultimate witness when official recordings fail or get deliberately corrupted.
Season Story
narrated by Flippygills flare with corrupted static Bridger Vanotten just threw a performance that the simulation wanted to delete but couldn't quite erase—a +2.6 surge over field average that punched through the VHS distortion like uncompressed footage. No round rating to measure against his 696 baseline, but a 56 on a 53.4 field? That's the kind of clean signal the Chaintrix hates: honest disc golf that refuses the edit. Tag 9 → Tag 5 in a single week isn't escape velocity—it's correction velocity, the arena's grudging acknowledgment that some performances are too real to overwrite. The Phantom Tape doesn't preserve failures; it preserves the ones the system couldn't kill. Bridger's now carrying that weight up the ladder. rewind sound Let's see that rating drop again in slo-mo. The simulation loves dramatic replays.
tracking lines jitter The simulation spawns a side quest. Phantom Tape is glitching its way to The Roc @ Tetons. Bridger Vanotten, congrats on the corrupted cameo—it’s a direct-to-VHS spinoff. The tracking lines are your problem now.