Mythic Masters: the menu is a wizard's tome (and the book is secretly his contacts list) #3266

Direction for the whole menu layer of Mythic Masters: keep making it look and read like a wizard's tome, our eldritch book of horrors. Related: #3246 (HUD loop), #3256 (versus screen as a book), #3263 (grimoire follow-ups). This is a direction issue, so nothing here closes it; each piece is its own PR.

The look

• Every menu is a page of the same book: title scroll, versus spread, journal, bestiary, result screen, settings, pause, the world's toasts. Today the title, journal and bestiary are paper (tome.css), the versus screen just joined, and the rest are still dark panels.
• One set of fonts and parchment (Grenze Gotisch, Covered By Your Grace, IM Fell English), ribbons for navigation, ink for anything spent, margin notes in the book's own voice.
• Funny, not literal: a grimoire with opinions, smudges, coffee rings and a bookmark nobody put there.

The secret (late, late, late game)

The book is not a necronomicon. It is the wizard's list of contacts, and the beasts are his friends. We kidnapped them all. Nothing in the early game says so; it is only seeded:

• Margin notes that read oddly like a phone book on a second look ("call back re: Thursday", "owes me a boat").
• Pages carry numbers and little "last spoken" dates; summoning is, in hindsight, a very rude phone call.
• A late reveal: the title page re-reads as "Contacts", the beasts' pages show who they were friends with, and the ending has to be about what we do about it.
• Decide the reveal's trigger (all pages filled? the last region's mythic?) and keep every earlier line true under both readings.

Pieces to do, one PR each

• The result, pause and settings screens as book pages.
• Page-turn between menu screens, one shared page component.
• Margin-note voice guide in the repo (a short list of rules and 20 example lines) so every writer keeps it consistent and the double reading works.
• The wizard himself: whose handwriting, what is his name, one recurring stain.

Taste decisions here are yours; ask before the reveal copy ships.