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Mythic Masters: hill-climb the Eldritch Compendium look toward the owner's reference images #3011

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@QuinnsCode

Follow-up to the tome design spike in #3004. The owner will attach reference images to this issue. Until they're here, this waits.

The loop, once the references are here

  1. Put each reference beside a screenshot of the matching screen: the title scroll, the Bog Witch's sheet, the compendium spread (Line-up, Bestiary, Regions), a result note, and the Versus bestiary deck.
  2. Write down the gaps, one screen at a time: paper colour and texture, edge wear, ink colour, fonts and sizes, ornaments, how the smoke over unmet cryptids looks, and the page turn.
  3. Change one thing, take a new screenshot from the same state, and compare again. Keep a change only if it brings the screen closer to the reference.
  4. Commit each round's screenshots to apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-<date>/, and paste a before/after pair in a comment here.
  5. Check in with the owner every few rounds instead of running unattended to the end.

Where things are

  • The look lives in apps/mythic-masters/src/tome.css. The torn paper edge is the #torn SVG filter in index.html.
  • Bestiary entries and the two-page split are in src/compendium.ts. The page turn is turnPage in src/main.ts.
  • Fonts are in public/fonts (SIL OFL). A new font must be open-licence and served locally, because the desktop build runs offline.
  • To get a screen into a given state: mythicMasters.journey.begin([...]), push ids onto state().seen or state().journal, then journey.journal(true) and journey.tab("bestiary").

Keep

  • Body text is easy to read. Hand-written text never goes below 18 px.
  • An unmet cryptid never shows its name or picture (test/compendium.test.ts).
  • The page turn is skipped under reduced motion. Check the layout at phone width too.

Known gaps from the spike

  • The Versus deck's colour photos clash with the parchment.
  • On a phone, the settings button sits close to the compendium's close button.

Activity

  1. QuinnsCode commented on Nov 4, 2026

    @QuinnsCode
    OwnerAuthor

    Stalled: waiting for the owner's reference images. Nothing has been attached since 2026-11-01. Attach them here and the next round can start (the loop is in the body).

  2. QuinnsCode commented on Nov 6, 2026

    @QuinnsCode
    OwnerAuthor

    Triage 2026-11-06 (Bolt): superseded, nothing to redo here.

    The look this issue meant to climb has been climbed in the tome UI hill climb since #3004: #3604 (rounds 10 to 73), #3662 (74 to 77), now #3671 (rounds 78+). It works from the owner's own brief (an eldritch tome, ink that soaks in, the bestiary folio); no reference images were attached here.

    Two gaps from the spike move to #3671 to check:

    • The Versus deck's colour photos clash with the parchment.
    • On a phone, the settings button sits close to the compendium's close button.

    If you still want to climb toward specific reference images, attach them on #3671. This issue holds no other work.

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