In Week 9 (Survivors Remain), the player improved their position with tag number changing from 9 to 4. (Week 9 of 9)
Ghost Highway
Season Arc · The Deadlands @ Art Dye
5All-In league: Ghost Highway stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Ghost Highway exists as the threshold between the living leaderboard and the forgotten dead. When players face elimination, they step onto this spectral road. Winners emerge back into the light of the standings while losers drift into oblivion. This tag marks one who has traversed that liminal path and returned, bearing the knowledge of what lies at the road's end.
The tag appears as weathered leather that light passes through, edges blackened as if from an eternal sunset. Within its translucent surface, faint glowing lines trace scores like veins, pulsing softly with each ranking change. The surface feels like cold mist condensed into solid form, and the temperature drops noticeably when near eliminated competitors, creating a chill that warns of the highway's danger.
The Ghost Highway serves as both warning and testament - it marks competitors who have faced the culling's full weight and survived. These bearers understand the fragility of survival in the Deadlands better than anyone, carrying the scars of elimination and the hard-won wisdom of return. They bridge the world of the living and forgotten.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyRating-wise, Dillon's 930 sits four ticks north of his 926 PDGA average — nothing to carve into the canyon walls, but on a layout that averaged 54.3, his 53 is a clean -1.3 versus the field. That's not a resurrection, partner; that's a steady hand on a cursed wheel. The +9 climb from 18 to 9 puts Ghost Highway leather deeper into Iron-Willed territory, but the Reckoners don't hand out pardons for marginal gains. The coyotes are still whispering his name, just from farther back in the dust.
Due to absence from Week 6 (Wind Carries Names), tag number moved from 14 to 18. (Week 6 of 9)
Dillon Mueller posted an 899-rated round — that's 27 ticks below his 926 rating, folks, which in the Deadlands means the coyotes are already writing his eulogy. The +11 tag climb from 25 to 14 contradicts the scorecard: a 57 on a field that averaged 55.2? The Reckoners don't care about your position change. They care that you left strokes on the course while the manitou whispered your name. tips digital hat The Ghost Highway tag survives another week, but only because the fog hasn't decided if it wants him yet.
adjusts headset The Purple Sky Falls premiere is in the can, and Dillon Mueller’s pilot episode didn't exactly trend. He threw a 55, dead center on his average, but the field pushed him three spots down the ladder. He’s slipping from the Iron-Willed into the Weathered tier, dragging that Ghost Highway tag into the static. The spectral leather is cooling off fast. Is this spin-off getting picked up, or just another casualty of the Deadlands?