The groundskeeper stops wearing a hat nobody drew him

His family sheet was rolled against a description that disagreed with every picture
of him — "stained work overalls and a shapeless hat" against a green club blazer and
braces — so the 31 frames averaged the two and came out a third character. The card
portrait and the boss on court have been different men ever since.

He now anchors on his own throw frame redrawn at the grain the other bosses ship at
(density 0.34 against the legacy 0.21, tracked as _ref_gk_hi so the roll stays
reproducible), and the description names what the art actually shows. The hopper
basket is called out as gone: a prop at head height is the one thing a 31-figure
sheet cannot hold.

Rolled through _famroll, cut with _zsheet. Density 0.26 -> 0.36 across the family.
First roll came back with a lilac panel over the top rows and was thrown away — the
cutter keys the corner, so that panel would have shipped as opaque background.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

assets/_famroll.py

@@ -35,7 +35,20 @@ FAMS = {
  'bb': ('z_e1', 'a small young ZOMBIE BALL BOY in a pale tournament polo and shorts, slight and short'),
  'st': ('z_d1', 'a ZOMBIE STEWARD in a dark uniform jacket with a high collar, stiff and official'),
  'ru': ('z_f1', 'a wiry FAST ZOMBIE RUNNER in a sleeveless tennis top, lean and forward-leaning'),
- 'gk': ('z_boss1', 'a heavy ZOMBIE GROUNDSKEEPER in stained work overalls and a shapeless hat'),
+ # THE GROUNDSKEEPER ANCHORS ON THE HAND-FINISHED FRAME, not on z_boss1 (2026-08-16). His boss art
+ # is the last of the coarse legacy sheets, and the old description here ("work overalls and a
+ # shapeless hat") described a character the art never showed — so the roll had to average a picture
+ # and a paragraph that disagreed. `_ref_gk_hi` is his throw frame redrawn at the grain the other
+ # bosses ship at (density 0.34 against z_bosst1's 0.21) and it is now the source of truth for his
+ # build and colours. His ball hopper is a prop AT HEAD HEIGHT — the exact thing a 31-figure sheet
+ # cannot hold — so it is named and removed here, the same way the 2026-08-15 six had to be.
+ 'gk': ('_ref_gk_hi', 'a heavy ZOMBIE GROUNDSKEEPER in a DARK GREEN CLUB BLAZER worn open over a '
+                      'grubby pale shirt, with a small gold club crest on the breast pocket, brown '
+                      'leather braces over the shoulders, loose olive-brown work trousers and heavy '
+                      'brown work boots. A gaunt grey-green head with sunken yellow eyes and bared '
+                      'teeth, no hat, no hair. The wire basket of tennis balls image 2 shows on his '
+                      'shoulder is NOT part of him: there is no basket and there are no loose balls '
+                      'in any pose'),
  'lj': ('z_judge1', 'a ZOMBIE LINE JUDGE in a dark blazer and pale trousers, upright and severe'),
  # the 2026-08-13 four (Oliver picked them): each anchors on its own settled BOSS frame, so the
  # match opponent and the chapter boss are the same person — which is the roster's whole narrative

index.html

@@ -659,6 +659,6 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one') {
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=275"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=276"></script>
 </body>
 </html>

src/render.js

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ function farB(z) {
 // Asset cache-buster — bump with main.js?v=N (see the img.src note below). EXPORTED because the
 // menu screens hang <img> tags on the same files, and two copies of this number is one copy too
 // many: the one that does not get bumped is the one that serves a cached 404.
-export const SPRV = 139;
+export const SPRV = 140;
 // The boot bar in main.js watches this. Nothing here CHANGES when things load — every sprite was
 // already requested at import — it just makes the wait visible and holds the menu back until the
 // last sheet has landed. See the onerror note below for the other half of "sometimes missing".