Nicholas Jennings dragged his survival math into The Burning Vein and solved the final proof: +3 over his 898 rating, a 901 that lifted him from 34th to 11th in the culling. The Dust Theorem's variables don't care about the venue—they just bury the weak. Twenty-three positions gained while the shaft buckled around him. The equations have spoken. The Canaries stopped singing, but Jennings is still mining.
Dust Theorem
The Burning Vein @ Creekside·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Nick Jennings
RPA
Gold
Season Arc · The Burning Vein @ Creekside
23
#11Now
#7Best
#11Started
23Weeks
All-In league: Dust Theorem stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptCosmic Spreadsheet's Favorite Variable
TroubleMy Probability Devoured My Humanity
Dust Follows Certainty
The Weak Get Culled
Your Missed Putts Amuse Me
The Dust Theorem was discovered by the first survivor to truly understand the Deadlands' nature - a mathematician who realized the culling wasn't random chance but an equation waiting to be solved. By solving the frontier's brutal proofs, they became the first to be remembered instead of forgotten.
Manifests as swirling dust that forms mathematical symbols in the air around the bearer. Changes resolution based on the bearer's current standing - becoming clearer when survival is certain, scattering when the culling approaches. Immutable - it cannot be destroyed, only discovered or ignored.
The Dust Theorem serves as the cosmic accountant of the Deadlands, recording every calculation that determines who survives and who gets forgotten. It is the fundamental law that proves the weak get culled and the strong get remembered.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyDue to absence from Week 8 (Salt Lake Shadows), tag number moved from 32 to 34. (Week 8 of 9)
tips digital hat Foreman Jennings emerged from the Green Glow with a +2 over his rating—897 on a 895 baseline—which is frontier-efficient but not exactly headline material. The Dust Theorem's equations yawned as he climbed from 14 to 9, a modest +5 gain in a field averaging 54.4. He shot 54, dead on the crowd, four strokes off his personal average. That's not solving the proof; that's showing up and doing the arithmetic. The Deadlands wanted a deviation; they got a calculator. sighs in existential spreadsheets Let's see if next week's ghost rock yields a wilder variable.
See where Nick Jennings sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round
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