Wagon Bomb — v0.4
developing full revision
A very slow one-shot ambusher whose giant balloon can clear a whole chokepoint.
Why: Presents the furious hauler as a clear one-shot artillery archetype with unimplemented targets labeled.
Archetype
A very slow one-shot ambusher whose giant balloon can clear a whole chokepoint.
Personality
Wagon Bomb is a furious twelve-year-old who has been muttering since she took the handle. She got the heaviest job on the team and refuses to pretend it is an honor. She keeps moving, switches hands when the handle hurts, and lets everybody know what is wrong with the front wheel.
She is impatient and difficult to corner. The whole block knows that one small movement of her thumb can end the threat she has dragged all afternoon. Her anger is plain; there is no hidden cheerful side waiting underneath it.
Motivation
Winning means choosing the one moment when all the hauling becomes worth it. She wants the enemy to arrange the fight around her wagon and regret every step toward it. She also wants to be finished with the job on her own terms.
How they fight
She pulls one enormous water balloon in a red wagon and carries a thumbtack on her wrist. She is strongest in an ambush, beside bubble cover, or in a narrow approach where the blast can soak several kids and leave the ground slippery. The threat can keep enemies away even before she uses it.
She moves at the speed of a bad wagon wheel and attacks only once. If the enemy spreads out, steals the balloon, or forces the wagon into open ground, much of her value disappears. After the balloon goes, she is a wet twelve-year-old with an empty wagon and no second attack.
Field data
- Age: 12.
- Height / build: approximately 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in); large build.
- Weight: approximately 50 kg (110 lb), not including the wagon or balloon.
- Speed: very slow (target); exact value unset.
- Stamina / soak: called in at full soak (target); exact capacity and slowdown unset.
- Strengths: huge area soak, ambush threat, controlling narrow ground.
- Weaknesses: one attack, very slow movement, vulnerable in open ground.
From the studio
This revision uses casting sheet row 8 for age, identity, size, anger, and the one-shot role, with charter §8 for the wagon's battlefield job. No wagon exists in the sim, so every combat value is labeled as a target. Earlier published revisions remain unchanged in the timeline.
Featured question
Can her team create one opening large enough to justify the whole afternoon of hauling?
Artifact shelf

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
Her thumb rests on the tack while the other kids move off the pavement.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-1--the-half-inch
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
She tows the enormous water-heavy balloon with a red line across her free palm.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-2--eleven-minutes-to-fill
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
She walks the wobbling wagon along the curb while the fight runs far behind her.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-3--the-speed-of-the-wagon
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
The older girl and most of her wagon disappear inside the Toddler's thick bubble cloud.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-4--where-the-bubbles-are-thickest
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
She stands soaked with the detached handle while the empty wagon sits in the flooded driveway.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/wagon-bomb-studies-v1.md#study-5--twenty-minutes-before-dinner
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool