7th Street Development Artbook

This is an immutable historical fixture revision. Status: published.

The Sprinkler — v0.1

device seed revision

A fixed, soakable zone-control fixture with a threat ring, soak meter, and knockout window.

Legend

The Sprinkler is Stage 0's turret, promoted to canon — a fixed emplacement with a soak meter, a knockout window, and a visible threat ring, answering the question of whether it was ever a kid at all (charter §5.6, §8).

Suburb

Somebody's lawn sprinkler, left running.

Current draft

A fixed, soakable zone-control fixture rather than a kid or commandable unit.

Why this possibility exists

Charter §8 settles the kind question with evidence: "Question answered by Stage 0 — fixed emplacement, not a unit," the prototype's own turret promoted to canon. The one open thread it names explicitly is the deflection experiment.

Still unresolved

  • Whether the sprinkler deflects incoming throws (the Fetch trick) — charter §8 calls this a Stage 1+ experiment, unresolved.
  • Soak-meter capacity and the knockout window's duration — no numbers recorded.
  • Threat-ring radius, and whether it's visible to both teams or only the defending one.

Does the sprinkler deflect incoming throws back at whoever fired them — the Fetch trick — or is that still an open Stage 1+ experiment?

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