Subcarrier Testimony
The Flare Witch Project @ Roots·Competition group The Claimants·
All-In · only the number moves
Marvin Atene
RAD
White
Season Arc · The Flare Witch Project @ Roots
5
#13Now
#8Best
#15Started
26Weeks
All-In league: Subcarrier Testimony stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptEncoded Truth Between the Scanlines
TroubleSignal Degrades Without Perfect Synchronization
Only Excellence Reveals the Color
Your Attendance Means Nothing Here
Rainbow Artifacts of Failure
During the Chaintrix's initial calibration, engineers discovered that attendance data alone (luminance) couldn't predict survival. They embedded a subcarrier frequency that measured performance quality (chrominance). Players who showed up recorded in black and white. Players who excelled recorded in full color. But only those who could decode composite signals could see the difference.
Oscillates at exactly 3.579545 MHz—the NTSC color subcarrier frequency that exists between scanlines, invisible to standard black-and-white playback and revealing truth only when proper decoding circuits engage. Contains full performance spectrum compressed into a frequency band narrower than a single VHS tracking line. Degrades into rainbow artifacts when players fail to maintain signal phase consistency across multiple simulations, proving that color truth requires synchronized commitment.
Acts as the secondary witnessing layer that captures performance quality data invisible to attendance-only tracking, proving that in the Chaintrix, showing up records your presence but only excellence encodes your color.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyrewind sound Let's see that rating climb again in slo-mo. Marvin came in at a cool +7 over form—904 round rating against a 897 PDGA baseline—and the arena responded by yanking him from tag 15 straight to tag 8. That's not just survival; that's the simulation finally rendering him in full color instead of grayscale. He matched his personal average (52 to the 52.0 chart), sat just slightly behind the field (52 to 52.4), and still waltzed through seven positions because consistency at an elevated frequency is exactly what the chrominance measures. The phase held. The signal didn't bleed. From side-quest whisper to legitimate contender, Marvin just proved that excellence doesn't require dramatic upsets—it requires showing up and executing at a level the Chaintrix recognizes as worthy of technicolor. Welcome to the color broadcast, kid. The VHS tracking's gonna hate you for it.
Subcarrier Testimony is drifting to a local frequency. Marvin Atene picks up the signal at The Flare Witch Project @ Roots. It’s a side quest in color—if the phase holds. If not? Just rainbow static. Don't let the signal bleed out, Marvin.
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