Mythic Masters: the wizard himself (handwriting, name, one recurring stain) #3278

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1. QuinnsCode commented on Nov 3, 2026

   

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   There is no wizard.
   At a high level this is like a possessed book. It sort've demands things of us like a weird jersey mob boss. I will add some depth mechanics there over time, but basically the book demands we capture these things. The aliens that abducted us are literally like turning tail and running. They didn't like whatever was attached to this. They weren't as scared of this book per se more the forces surrounding it you really didn't get details with them high tailing it out of there haha.
   so yea the book is basically like YOU NEED TO COLLECT EARTH CRYPTIDS and you figure you might as well please this thing or stop whatever is coming by controlling it? no idea but for now cryptid collections and I can add to the lore as we go on!
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3. QuinnsCode commented on Nov 3, 2026

   

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   Per your note there is no wizard: the book is the voice. Nothing shipped yet; here are options to pick from. Fonts available today in tome.css: Grenze Gotisch (titles), Covered By Your Grace (hand), IM Fell English (body).

   1. Whose hand is the book in

   • A. Its own, one hand throughout. Covered By Your Grace for every demand, written like a ledger: terse, underlined, numbered ("Item 7: the one with the antlers. Bring it."). Reads as a mob boss keeping accounts.
   • B. Two hands. IM Fell body is the book's old formal hand; the demands are scrawled over it in Covered By Your Grace, pressed hard, a little too large. Reads as something old that got impatient.
   • C. Hand that degrades. Starts neat in IM Fell and gets more scrawled in the hand font as demands go unmet (tied to the collection count). Needs a bit more code.

   2. What the book calls itself / us

   • A. Nothing. Never named. It says "you" and "the Book".
   • B. It signs "— the Book". Short, boss-like, no lore commitment.
   • C. It calls us by a job title ("Collector", "Courier"), the way a boss gives you a nickname.

   3. One recurring stain (appears on every page, a different place each time, never explained)

   • A. A dark ring, like something wet set down on the page. Cheap and readable.
   • B. A thumbprint in rust-brown. Someone held this page. Hints at the forces without saying.
   • C. A small burn at one corner that creeps a little further each chapter.

   My pick: 1B, 2B, 3B. Reply with letters (e.g. "1B 2B 3C") and I'll build it. Leaving this and #3266 open.
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