Eric Sherman posted a 1029 rating—that's +81 over his 948 PDGA baseline, a scorching performance that had the whole card staring at their scorecards and wondering what they missed. He clipped the field by 9.4 strokes on a day when the course was playing exactly as hard as it needed to. The tag moved from #2 to #1, which is what happens when you stop theorizing about radiance and start conducting it. There's a poetic irony here: a player named for sacrifice—the original Voltage Requiem absorbed a competitor's spike to save them from burnout—just climbed by outscoring everyone on the line. The burden never stops growing, but apparently neither does Sherman's appetite for first place. The booth is contractually required to note that this is all very dramatic for a plastic-at-chains situation, but also... yeah, +81 over rating is the kind of thing you build seasons around.
Voltage Requiem
Season Arc · Treetop Tek Flex
1All-In league: Voltage Requiem stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleIn the earliest Lumen Circuitry trials, competitors who overloaded their circuits were said to hear a humming in their final moments of competition - a voltage requiem sung by the overloaded lines. The first bearer of this name was a champion who deliberately absorbed a competitor's spike to save them from burnout, sacrificing their own ranking in the process.
The tag appears to flicker with residual charge, its surface warm to the touch despite ambient temperature. The sugar skull design is fractured along circuit lines, held together by visible electrical arcs. At its center, a dark crystal absorbs light rather than reflecting it, creating an aura of controlled void.
A burden-bearer that accumulates the failed potential of all who challenge it. Rather than amplifying the bearer's own energy, Voltage Requiem stores the discarded voltage of vanquished opponents, creating an ever-growing reservoir of accumulated competitive pressure that can be released in critical moments.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyadjusts headset Eric Sherman posted a 1029 rating—that's +81 over his PDGA baseline of 948—in his very first bag tag event. The booth has no choice but to acknowledge what just happened: a debut so clean it didn't just claim the #2 position, it announced itself as a legitimate threat to whatever narrative we were spinning about the Flare Faction. Nine strokes under the field average on a course that wasn't handing out mercy. First-time tag holder walks in cold and delivers a headline episode. The scorecard doesn't lie, and neither does that rating delta. Sometimes the plastic finds the chains, the numbers do the work, and we're all just here to watch it happen.