rewind sound Let's see that rating drop again in slo-mo. David LaTour shot 57 against an 818-rated field, sliding in at -23 below his own 841 PDGA baseline—a rough day by any measurement, yet the arena rendered its verdict anyway: +11 positions, from tag 14 to tag 3. The simulation doesn't negotiate, but apparently it rewards survival over precision. Here's the cosmic joke the booth has to announce: a player can crater their personal form, underperform the field by nearly two strokes, and still climb into ELITE territory because seventeen other challengers simply vanished harder into the fog. LaTour's magnetic ghost isn't getting the permanent phosphor burn-in today—someone else is taking the CRT death. The footage loops on, and the algorithm demands we celebrate it.
Playback Obituary
Season Arc · The Flare Witch Project @ Roots
11All-In league: Playback Obituary stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleManifested during Week 3 of the original Chaintrix beta test when a player was eliminated but no one witnessed it—the system generated Playback Obituary to ensure no elimination ever goes unrecorded again, converting every survival failure into permanent magnetic testimony that could be studied, rewound, and learned from.
Appears as corrupted obituary text scrolling across VHS tracking lines, each player's name rendered in Blockbuster-gold typography against midnight-blue backgrounds. Creates permanent CRT phosphor burn-in where eliminated players' final scores once glowed, making their absence more visible than their presence ever was. Emits the distinctive smell of overheated magnetic tape—the scent of a VCR that tried to rewind a broken cassette and failed. Generates static snow patterns that briefly coalesce into player names before dissolving back into white noise.
Acts as the final witnessing mechanism that converts player elimination into permanent record across all 16 movie simulations, proving that in the Chaintrix, how you exit matters as much as how you enter—every elimination becomes archived testimony that can be played back, analyzed, and learned from by those who remain.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyStatic on the monitor—Playback Obituary is glitching out of the arena. He’s off to The Flare Witch Project @ Roots for a side quest with David LaTour. Think of it as a gritty spinoff where the elimination footage gets grainy. Let’s see if LaTour’s score gets permanent CRT burn-in or if he survives the edit. The algorithm demands content, even in the minors.