Predatory Creed
Season Arc · Chain Lightning
3All-In league: Predatory Creed stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThe Predatory Creed was forged in the first days of the Arena of Ascension, when the earliest survivors realized that pure strength wasn't enough to ensure survival - they needed a code to govern their aggression. The first apex predator etched these fundamental laws into the very foundation of Timmons Park, and every hunter who has risen through the rankings since has been bound by this primal covenant.
The Creed compels its bearer toward aggressive ranking advancement, driving them to seek out challenges rather than hide from them. It strengthens visibly when the bearer successfully hunts lower-ranked players, manifesting as an intensified crimson pulse. Conversely, it weakens and grows cold when the bearer avoids confrontation or retreats from legitimate challenges. The Creed also creates a detectable aura that other predators can sense and recognize, establishing instant credibility or challenge among the hunting hierarchy.
The Predatory Creed serves as the governing principle of all predators in the Arena, determining who deserves to hunt and who becomes prey. It creates the moral and philosophical framework for ranking warfare, establishing that success through aggressive competition is not just permitted but mandated by the laws of survival.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyPatrick Kleiss watched The Predatory Creed slip from #1 to #2 this week—no score provided, no rating differential to parse, just a ranking that moved down one spot in the only metric that actually matters in the booth. The alchemy that transmuted a +93 spike into apex status apparently doesn't repeat on demand, or the field showed up with their own obsidian energy. Either way, Kleiss held the tag but lost the top position, which is disc golf's way of reminding you that last week's triumph is this week's footnote. The arena keeps turning, the creek keeps rising, and apparently even the code of predators bends to the leaderboard's weekly verdict. Back to #2 for the Creed, where it can contemplate whether dominance is a sprint or something that actually compounds.
Patrick Kleiss just posted an 886-rated round—a staggering +93 over his 793 PDGA rating—and The Predatory Creed followed him straight to the top of Chain Lightning's leaderboard. The tag made the journey from Timmons Park to this smaller map, and Kleiss didn't just hold the Creed; he transmuted it into pure apex energy. From tag #7 to tag #1 in a single week on a tighter course layout is the kind of vindication that makes the whole 'DLC side quest' premise almost worth narrating. The booth had questions about whether the obsidian code could scale down. Kleiss answered them in the kind of scoreline that gets archived in highlight reels. The arena has spoken, and it sounds like a splash in the creek.
Due to absence from Week 3 (Oxford Street Slag), tag number moved from 7 to 7. (Week 3 of 10)
Plot twist: The Predatory Creed is taking a detour. Patrick Kleiss has grabbed the jagged obsidian tag and shipped it to the Chain Lightning league. The crimson pulse is already hunting new blood. Consider this a DLC episode—same aggression, smaller map. Let’s see if the Creed stays hot or goes cold in this side quest.