Raven Sign
Season Arc · The Burning Vein @ Creekside
9All-In league: Raven Sign stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Raven Sign emerged from the first culling when the frontier itself learned to recognize those who deserved remembrance. It manifested as a spectral raven that marked survivors with its claw, embedding the sign into their very being. Now, when a competitor survives a judgment that should have claimed them, the sign appears - proof that the Deadlands have noticed their worth.
The Raven Sign appears as a dark, ink-like mark on the bearer's skin that shifts like living smoke, depicting a raven in flight over a graveyard. The bird's eyes are tiny points of gold that flare when danger approaches, glowing brighter during high-contention moments and darkening to near-invisibility when elimination threatens. The mark grows perceptibly colder when rivals approach with lethal intent, serving as a supernatural warning system.
The Raven Sign serves as a shield against complete erasure - bearers cannot be entirely forgotten even if eliminated from the current culling. This creates the series' central promise: survival grants partial immortality within the Deadlands, connecting directly to the 'strong get remembered' doctrine that governs the frontier.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyJon White clawed back from the collapse with a +11 surge from #26 to #15, but don't let the tag movement fool you—his 791 round rating against an 885 player rating is a -94 differential that screams 'surviving, not thriving.' The spectral ink must have found a new vein, because last week's eighteen-spot burial got answered by a modest 57 that beat the field average by 8.3 strokes but still rated like a miner coughing in the dark. adjusts headset Golden eyes see death coming, but apparently they see mediocrity too—the Deadlands noticed your worth enough to promote you, but the ghost rock still ain't singing your tune.
Jon White's 730 round rating against an 882 player rating is a -152 differential that makes last week's -90 look like a warmup act. The Raven Sign didn't just stumble from #8 to #18 — it got buried so deep the ghost rock stopped screaming and started laughing. adjusts headset The frontier's algorithm is merciless: shoot 63 on a field averaging 50.5 and the Deadlands don't just notice your worth — they subtract ten spots of it. Golden eyes see death coming, but this week they blinked and found the shaft collapsing.
Jon White's 918 round rating against an 882 player rating is a +36 differential that turned the Raven Sign into a claim jumper, surging from #14 to #8. The ghost rock at Creekside apparently doesn't scream at players who shoot 50 on a field averaging 50.7 — it whispers their name. adjusts headset The Deadlands' favorite drifter keeps clawing upward, and the shaft walls are starting to look like a ladder. Golden eyes see death coming, but this week they saw a scorecard instead.
Jon White's 790 round rating against an 880 player rating is a -90 differential that belongs in a mining disaster documentary, not a leaderboard. Yet somehow, the Raven Sign crawled from #16 to #14—up two spots in a field averaging 53.7 while White shot 61. That's not a climb; that's the Deadlands' algorithm rewarding a corpse that's still twitching. adjusts headset The golden eyes went dark, the ghost rock screamed, and the frontier's still not done burying this drifter.
Jon White's golden eyes went dim this week—an 823 round rating against an 880 player rating, a -57 differential that sent the Raven Sign tumbling from #4 to #16. The Deadlands' favorite protagonist shot 60 on a course where the field averaged 54.4, and the only thing clawing its way out of that shaft was White's scorecard. The booth wonders if that supernatural protagonist energy expired at the Creekside entrance, or if the ghost rock just hit different under park lights. Either way, the frontier's harsh, partner—try not to get buried.
Jon White's ascension through the Foremen ranks continues, clawing from #10 to #4 in the Burning Vein's second week. No rating data to cite, but climbing six spots in a cursed mine shaft where the green fog rolls in from the Creek? The Deadlands' scriptwriters are definitely giving him protagonist energy. The Raven Sign's golden eyes are probably visible three shafts over by now. The booth respects the climb—even if we're all just waiting for the inevitable tunnel collapse.