Dead Reckoning
The Black Bayou @ Dragonfly·Competition group Pool B·
All-In · only the number moves
David LaTour
RAE
Red
Season Arc · The Black Bayou @ Dragonfly
2
#4Now
#1Best
#1Started
23Weeks
All-In league: Dead Reckoning stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThe Ledger Remembers What You Forget
TroubleNumbers Are My Only Language
Embers Where Eyes Should Burn
Every Stroke Demands Tribute
Your Missed Putts Amuse Me
The Dead Reckoning was born from the first culling in the Deadlands, when the frontier's supernatural laws first took hold. The original survivor, a dying mathematician, calculated his way through elimination using pure probability - and when he emerged as the first remembered, his ghost became the living ledger that tracks all who follow.
The Dead Reckoning appears as a gaunt specter in a dust-choked duster, its face obscured by a wide-brimmed hat worn low. In one skeletal hand it carries a perpetually updating ledger, and in the other a quill that writes itself. Red embers smolder where eyes should be. It is composed of dust and dried blood, and speaks in a whisper-quiet voice that announces rankings like a death knell.
The Dead Reckoning serves as the supernatural scorekeeper of the Deadlands, present at every culling to calculate who deserves remembrance and who deserves oblivion. It is an extension of the frontier's will - a mechanism by which the cursed land judges all who enter.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyadjusts headset in swamp gas Round rating? The ledger didn't log one—so we're judging purely on the climb: #3 to #1, two souls sacrificed on the Delta. No rating to inflate or deflate, which is just how the Drowned like it. The mathematician's ghost must be laughing: David's scoreless record still earned him the top Houngan seat. The ritual's arithmetic doesn't care about your round rating, only your position when the water rises.
tips digital hat Welcome to the Deadlands, partner. Try not to get buried. David LaTour stepped onto the crossroads at Dragonfly Rising and the swamp decided to get… acquainted. He held serve against his personal average, which in these parts counts as 'not getting dragged under by the Drowned just yet.' But the field? The field was faster than a greased gator. He slipped one spot to #2—an exchange, not an exorcism. The Dead Reckoning’s ledger doesn’t care about your backstory, Dave; it just wants the math to match the humidity. Tune in next week to see if the arithmetic holds or if the bayou collects another soul.
The Dead Reckoning drifts off-stage, dust trailing from a duster that’s seen better eras. It’s time for a side quest at The Black Bayou @ Dragonfly, where David LaTour just inherited a haunting. The ledger doesn’t care about your main arc, Dave—only your score. Tune in for the spinoff nobody greenlit.
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