Hose Kid — v0.1
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A spigot-tethered kid whose weapon is also a stage prop other kids can interact with directly.
Legend
⭐ Hose Kid is tethered to a spigot by fifty feet of Chekhov's gun — a physical hose lying across the map that kinks, gets stepped on, and gets shut off at the source (charter §8).
Suburb
A kid holding a garden hose that reaches fifty feet, and never quite far enough.
Current draft
A spigot-tethered kid whose weapon is also a stage prop other kids can interact with directly.
Why this possibility exists
Charter §8 flags Hose Kid as "prototype early" — a Stage 1 stretch goal (§17) — and describes the hose as a physical object with three named interaction verbs (kinks, stepped on, shut off). None of those verbs have been built yet.
Still unresolved
- Whether the hose-as-object verbs (kink, step-on, shutoff) are simulated or purely presentational.
- Range and soak-rate numbers — none exist yet.
- What happens to Hose Kid when the spigot he's tethered to is contested by another kid.
Featured question
Can an opposing kid step on, kink, or cut off the hose mid-fight, or is that flavor text for a mechanic that's actually just range and a soak rate?
Evidence
- Charter v8 §8, the roster repo-citation
- Glossary v0.1, the roster in both registers repo-citation