Dead Reckoning
Dead Mans Hand @ River Bottoms·Competition group Pool B·
All-In · only the number moves
David LaTour
RAE
Red
Season Arc · Dead Mans Hand @ River Bottoms
1
#5Now
#1Best
#4Started
17Weeks
All-In league: Dead Reckoning stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptSpectral Mathematician of the Culling
TroubleObsessed with Perfect Probability
Red Embers Burn Eternal
Your Missed Putts Are Remembered
The Ledger Never Lies
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 FlippyDue to absence from Week 3 (Mud Slick Bluff), tag number moved from 1 to 4. (Week 3 of 9)
David LaTour posted a 781-rated round—58 points below his 839 rating, a full 12 over his personal average—and somehow climbed from #4 to #1. That’s not a poker tell; that’s the Dead Reckoning’s ghostly math rewriting the ledger while the rest of the table folded. The frontier’s harsh, but this leaderboard? Downright absurd.
tips digital hat Welcome to the Deadlands, partner. Try not to get buried. David LaTour anted up at River Bottoms and played it cool, matching his personal average down to the decimal. He didn't try to bluff the House, just held his ground at rank #4—a solid defensive fold in a shark tank. The Dead Reckoning’s quill barely moved, just a ghostly scratch in the dust. The ledger’s haunting the Creekside DLC, but tonight? It just watched David keep his seat at the Hucksters' table. The frontier's harsh, but this leaderboard? Downright cruel.
See where David LaTour sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round
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