The twelve-rung ladder: director, champion, physio and mascot walk on

Oliver's four picks, each rolled off its own settled BOSS frame through the
family pipeline (rows in _famroll.py) — the rung and the chapter boss are the
same person. matchFoe decoupled from bossArt's cycling on his call: the match
ladder is 12 with the champion capping rung 12; chapters keep their ten.

The champion refused to bulk through four rolls (words lost, then a new
pair-reference in char_ref only half-won), so his mass is stature: OPPONENTS
rows carry an optional world height h read by zombieH — champion 2.1 m, the
Bulk 2.0 m — and the serve aims at the body actually drawn. HEAD_CROP measured
for all four; ramp test extended to 12 rungs.

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

test.js

@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ test('the opponent card is a RAMP: it starts easy and only gets harder', () => {
   // invisible until someone plays ten opponents deep.
   const { matchFoe, TUNE } = cfg;
   let lastSpeed = 0, lastWhiff = 1e9;
-  for (let n = 1; n <= 10; n++) {
+  for (let n = 1; n <= 12; n++) {          // twelve rungs since 2026-08-13 (champion caps 12)
     const f = matchFoe(n);
     const speed = (TUNE.matchSpeedBase + (n - 1) * TUNE.matchSpeedPer) * (f.speed ?? 1);
     const whiff = TUNE.matchFlub * Math.pow(TUNE.matchFlubKeep, n - 1) * (f.flub ?? 1);
@@ -682,7 +682,11 @@ test('the opponent card is a RAMP: it starts easy and only gets harder', () => {
     assert.ok(f.short.length <= 8, `${f.short} fits the board's 8-char slot`);
   }
   // ...and the opening must actually be gentle: opponent one is the softest thing on the card.
-  assert.ok((matchFoe(1).speed ?? 1) < (matchFoe(10).speed ?? 1) * 0.6, 'the shambler is no champion');
+  assert.ok((matchFoe(1).speed ?? 1) < (matchFoe(12).speed ?? 1) * 0.6, 'the shambler is no champion');
+  // the four 2026-08-13 families wear their own bodies, and the big two carry real stature
+  for (const [n, fam] of [[5, 'ma'], [8, 'ph'], [11, 'dr'], [12, 'ch']])
+    assert.equal(matchFoe(n).fam, fam, `rung ${n} wears its own family`);
+  assert.ok(matchFoe(12).h > 1.85, 'the champion stands taller than a stock body');
 });
 
 test('the first opponent cannot paint lines: its returns are width-clamped', () => {