Corpse Candle
Season Arc · Hell on Wheels @ The Wasatch Wunder
3All-In league: Corpse Candle stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Corpse Candle was born from the first culling in the Deadlands. When the frontier claimed its first victims, their collective dying breath coalesced into a spectral flame that now marks each survivor as having walked through death's shadow and emerged into memory.
The candle burns with a cold, blue-white flame that casts no warmth but illuminates hidden truths. It leaves no wax residue but instead deposits fine dust - the ground remains unmarked. The flame responds to nearby death, burning brighter when culling occurs. It cannot be extinguished by wind or water, only by the bearer's surrender.
The Corpse Candle serves as a protective ward. Its bearer is granted fleeting glimpses of upcoming eliminations - shadows of the culling to come - allowing those who carry this flame to strategically position themselves against the frontier's inevitable judgments.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyThe Corpse Candle's blue flame sputtered through the bottleneck at Snake Creek—Fetzer's 780 round rating sits eight ticks below his PDGA 788, a meh shrug of a performance that dropped him from #1 to #4. The tunnel collapse didn't help, but when you're carrying a ghost flame that's supposed to 'demand a performance,' a field-average score of 76 on a course where the field averaged 69.2 is more spectral whimper than haunted thunder. The Culled whisper too loud, apparently, and all they're saying is 'your approaches need work.' Another week, another tag swap in the great existential train race—the booth remains unimpressed.
The Corpse Candle flickers off the main grid, seeking a new bearer. William Fetzer is the designated protagonist for this spinoff: Hell on Wheels @ The Wasatch Wunder. The Deadlands stay dead; the Wasatch is alive and waiting. A side quest, sure, but that blue flame still demands a performance.