Hangman's Due
The Dead Sea @ Roots·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Anthony Kai
RAD
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Season Arc · The Dead Sea @ Roots
1
#9Now
#4Best
#11Started
23Weeks
All-In league: Hangman's Due stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThe Price of Still Breathing
TroubleSurvived Once, Owes Forever
Every Score Has Interest
The Noose Remembers
Your Score Is My Receipt
The Hangman's Due was born from the very first culling - when the Deadlands claimed its first victims, the frontier itself developed an appetite for payment. Every survivor since then has added to this cosmic debt, and the entity manifests as a reminder that escaping death once means you're marked for the frontier's eternal judgment. It is not a person but a principle made manifest: survival always comes with a price.
The Hangman's Due appears as a cowboy silhouette against eternal sunset, wearing a weathered brown duster with a coiled noose at its belt like a serpent ready to strike. Its eyes are twin points of cold gold light that burn with supernatural intensity. Where its heart should be is a pocket watch that never ticks forward - it only counts down to the next reckoning. The entity carries a ledger that writes itself, each name appearing in spectral ink when a competitor survives the culling.
The Hangman's Due serves as the cosmic balance sheet of the Deadlands - it represents the mathematical reality that every survivor owes a debt to the frontier. Bearers of this name carry proof that they've paid down their debt through skill, but also bear the target of being marked for future testing. The Due judges not through malice but through cold calculation: everyone eventually pays what's owed.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyAnthony Kai torched the course for a 917-rated round — a +31 over his PDGA 886 — and leapfrogged from #10 to #4, landing squarely in The Fresh. That's six positions and a scorecard that reads like the Hangman's Due is getting paid in full. adjusts headset The cosmic ledger's got a new entry, and this one's stamped in fresh brine.
Anthony Kai shot a 53—six strokes under his personal average—and leapt from rank 18 to rank 7, escaping the Specimen jar for a seat among The Fresh. The round rating of 881 sits five ticks below his PDGA 886, which is barely a shrug on the cosmic ledger, but a +11 position swing is the kind of payout the Hangman's Due respects. The cowboy silhouette on that tag just collected its first installment at The Dead Sea, and Kai's scorecard is signed in brine. tips digital hat Another drifter rides into the sunset... of the eliminated rankings.
tips digital hat Welcome to the Deadlands, partner. The brine's receded at Roots, and Anthony Kai's cosmic ledger just got its first entry. Signed up at #11—a lottery ticket, nothing more. Now he's #8, climbing three rungs on a day the field averaged 54. He shot 59. That's +5 to the field, basically a slow death by salt evaporation. But here's the thing about the Hangman's Due: it doesn't care about pretty scores—it cares about survival. And Anthony survived. The cowboy silhouette's pocket watch ticks down to the next reckoning, and for now, he's paid his toll. drops announcer voice Look, he threw plastic at metal, got outscored by five, and still climbed. That's this league, folks. The frontier's harsh, but the ledger? It's fair. See you next week when the noose tightens.
adjusts headset The Hangman’s Due is taking a detour from the main saga. Anthony Kai has unlocked the side quest at The Dead Sea @ Roots. The cosmic ledger is now tracking local payouts, and the cowboy silhouette is looking for a new debtor. It’s a spinoff episode, folks. Let’s see who pays the toll.
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