When the sky goes dark and the fairway turns to rubble, you won’t negotiate with the wind. You will command it. Flight numbers are the code. Learn them now, while you still can. Four marks on the disc tell you how it behaves in the air—Speed, Glide, Turn, and Fade. Obey the code and your throw survives. Ignore it and the wasteland eats your plastic.
The Four-Digit Code
This is the language that outlived the world. Each number describes a part of the flight. Read them together or not at all.
1. Speed
Speed is not how fast the disc goes. It is how fast you must throw for the other numbers to be true. High-speed drivers like the Plague demand power—starve them and they stall, then die left. If your arm is mortal, carry slower molds that wake up at human velocity. A Bleak in steady hands will fly as promised without requiring a generator for an arm.
2. Glide
Glide is the disc’s hunger for the sky. High-glide molds float and carry—useful when you must cross a crater or clear a wall. The Blackout drifts long enough to make ground disappear beneath it. But there are times you need gravity as an ally. Low-glide tools like the Depth Charge or Crisis fall on command, landing where you tell them, not where the wind whispers. When the landing zone is tight, less glide is mercy.
3. Turn
Turn is early-flight behavior under full power. Negative numbers mean the disc will yield to the right on a right-hand backhand release. The Flat Earth is obedient to this command—it rides the anhyzer, carving right and holding that defiance for a long, smooth move through the ruins. Zero or positive turn resists that pull. The Plague stares into a headwind and refuses to blink.
4. Fade
Fade is the ending—how the flight behaves when speed bleeds out. Big fade means a decisive finish left for RHBH, the kind that slams the door on uncertainty. When you need that hammer-down exit, reach for a closer like the Frag or the Apocalypse. They end fights. On the other hand, some situations allow for zero drama: if you cannot afford any left finish at all, throw the Bleak. Its job is simple—hold the line, drop on center, and leave nothing to chance.
We Are Not Most Manufacturers
Most brands stop at four numbers. We don’t.
The Secret Fifth Number: Lift
Lift is rare. It’s not glide—it’s rebellion. Where glide prolongs the fall, Lift climbs. The Oxymoron, our square disc from the edge of reason, carries this fifth trait. Throw it flat and it rises like a helicopter taking a last stand—over trees, over rubble, over whatever end-of-days nonsense stands between you and the target. If aliens ever do come, it will climb over them, too. Use Lift when the ground route is suicide.
Survival Doctrine
- Underpowered arms should not court high-speed drivers. If you can’t reach their speed, they won’t reach your target.
- High glide to cross hazards. Low glide to stick landings—Depth Charge and Crisis are your loyal sentries.
- Need right movement on RHBH? Lean on understable turn—Flat Earth for long, carving lines.
- Need authority in wind and a clean finish? Overstable discipline—Plague in the middle, Frag or Apocalypse to shut the door.
- When zero left finish is mandatory, choose Bleak. If it fades, you pay for it.
- If the map on the ground is a death trap, deploy Lift—Oxymoron ascends above the problem.
Quick Reference By Intent
- Max carry: Blackout (high glide) when you have room to land.
- Stick the green: Depth Charge or Crisis (low glide) to drop and stop.
- Turn right and hold: Flat Earth, Psyops (understable turn) for controlled anhyzer lines.
- Fight wind, finish left: Plague for stability; Frag or Apocalypse for heavy fade.
- No fade allowed: Bleak—point, release, accept no deviation.
- Over the top route: Oxymoron—Lift to rise above obstacles.
The Final Word
The numbers are not a guess. They are orders. Speed wakes the disc, Glide carries it, Turn shapes it, Fade ends it—and sometimes Lift erases the terrain altogether. Choose the right tool, commit to the line, and let the plastic do what it was born to do. In the long night, precision is power. Throw with purpose, or get swallowed by the dark.
