Possum — v0.1
seed seed revision
A fenced-off speculative animal with exactly one named mechanic — plays dead — and no roster status.
Legend
⭐ The possum is the starred animal of the fenced list — "plays dead," charter §8's only named mechanic for any animal, and the most obvious one to prototype first if the fence ever opens.
Suburb
A possum, wherever it wandered into the yard from.
Current draft
A fenced-off speculative animal with exactly one named mechanic — plays dead — and no roster status.
Why this possibility exists
Charter §8 lists the possum first among the fenced animals and gives it the only animal-specific mechanic note in the whole document. Everything else about it — whether it's playable, whether it fights, whether it's decoration — is unwritten.
Still unresolved
- Whether the possum is ever playable, or purely environmental flavor.
- What "plays dead" would mean mechanically if it entered the game.
- Whether it belongs to either team, neither, or wanders the map independently.
Featured question
Does "plays dead" interact with the soak/elimination system at all, or is it flavor for an animal that was never meant to be a combatant?
Evidence
- Charter v8 §8, the roster repo-citation