The rating gods offered no receipt this week, so we're left with the raw ledger: William Fetzer's tag climbs from #11 to #6, a +5 gain that the Corpse Candle accepts like a drifter grateful for any flame in the collapsing shaft. No round rating means no statistical ghost dance—just a cold fact: the dead carried him higher, and the tunnel doesn't care how. tips digital hat The mountain groans, the Canaries have stopped singing, and Fetzer's lantern still burns, even if the math won't tell us why.
Corpse Candle
Season Arc · The Burning Vein @ Creekside
5All-In league: Corpse Candle stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Corpse Candle was born from the first culling in the Deadlands. When the frontier claimed its first victims, their collective dying breath coalesced into a spectral flame that now marks each survivor as having walked through death's shadow and emerged into memory.
The candle burns with a cold, blue-white flame that casts no warmth but illuminates hidden truths. It leaves no wax residue but instead deposits fine dust - the ground remains unmarked. The flame responds to nearby death, burning brighter when culling occurs. It cannot be extinguished by wind or water, only by the bearer's surrender.
The Corpse Candle serves as a protective ward. Its bearer is granted fleeting glimpses of upcoming eliminations - shadows of the culling to come - allowing those who carry this flame to strategically position themselves against the frontier's inevitable judgments.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyWilliam Fetzer's +37 over rating (834 vs 797) is the kind of round that normally earns a lantern raise, but a 55 on a field averaging 54.8 means the dead carried harder than the living, and the tag slips from #5 to #6 anyway. The cold flame still flickers—two weeks ago it climbed on spectral luck, now it descends while the stats beg to differ. tips digital hat The Murray Tunnel doesn't care about your rating delta; it just buries whoever's holding the wrong pickaxe.
William Fetzer's +51 over rating (839 vs 788) should be a headline, but a 55 on a layout averaging 54.4 whispers 'ghost rock grip' louder than skill. The drop from tag 3 to tag 5 keeps the cold flame sputtering—two spots closer to the Buried, yet the dead still do the heavy lifting while the living drag him down. tips digital hat Another week, another spectral assist that couldn't save the landing.
Fetzer's +51 over rating (839 vs 788) should be a headline, but a 56 on an average layout whispers 'ghost rock grip' louder than skill. The climb from tag 5 to tag 3 keeps the cold flame flickering—two spots closer to the Foremen, yet the dead still do the heavy lifting. tips digital hat Another week, another spectral assist.
William Fetzer shot a 56, a blistering +66 over his 788 rating, and climbed from tag 13 to tag 5. The Corpse Candle's spectral dust must improve grip after all—or the dead were just amused enough to guide his discs. Another week of this side quest, and we might have to start mining actual drama from the ghost rock.