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Mythic Masters: the Book speaks on every page, hill climb to 10/10, rounds 2+ (from #3266) #3468

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Carries on from #3266 (the menu as a tome) and #3278 (the book's own voice, merged in #3453). There is no wizard: the Eldritch Compendium is a possessed book that demands we collect the earth's cryptids, like a mob boss keeping accounts. The aliens that dropped us here fled from the forces around it, not from the book itself. More lore comes later, from the owner.

Goalpost: the Book speaks on every page

The score is how many of the ten menu surfaces carry the Book's hand (a demand or a margin line in Covered By Your Grace, signed "the Book" where it makes a demand) and its rust thumbprint. Each one has to say something true for that page, not just repeat the same line.

Surface Hand Thumbprint
Title scroll yes (#3453) yes
Compendium: line-up yes (header demand) yes
Compendium: bestiary yes (header demand) yes
Compendium: regions yes (header demand) yes
The Bog Witch's sheet (starters) no yes
Versus spread summon lines only, not signed yes
Bestiary deck no yes
Fight result note no yes
Settings card no no
World toasts (bind, section cleared) no no

Score: 4/10 (target 10)

What is in the code

  • apps/mythic-masters/src/demand.ts: demandOf(journey) (the ledger: "Item n", names what you have met, describes what you have not) and thumbAt(n) (where the thumbprint lands).
  • src/page.ts: thumb() presses one thumbprint on each page book().show() opens.
  • src/tome.css, end of file: .demand (red hand over the printed page) and .thumb.

Next, one PR per round

  1. Margin-note voice guide in apps/mythic-masters/ (a short list of rules and about 20 example lines: terse, boss-like, funny, never explains the forces). Every later line follows it. (Carried over from Mythic Masters: the menu is a wizard's tome (and the book is secretly his contacts list) #3266.)
  2. The result note: the Book reacts to a bind ("Item 6. Received.") or a loss.
  3. The starters sheet and the bestiary deck get a demand or margin line.
  4. The world's toasts in the Book's hand when you bind something or clear a section.
  5. Settings: one dry margin line.

Owner's call (ask, don't guess)

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  1. QuinnsCode commented on Nov 4, 2026

    @QuinnsCode
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    Score: 4/10 (target 10)
    Round 1 was #3278 (PR #3453): the Book's demand and signature on the title and the compendium, and a thumbprint on every page the book opens.
    Next: the margin-note voice guide (item 1 in the body), then the result note.

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    on Nov 4, 2026
  3. QuinnsCode commented on Nov 4, 2026

    @QuinnsCode
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    Score: 5/10 (target 10)
    Round 2 (PR #3473): the voice guide rewritten for the Book (no wizard; demands signed, margin notes not, a table of every line in use), and the Book's reaction on every fight's result note.
    Moved up to #3472.
    Next: the starters sheet and the bestiary deck get a demand or margin line (item 1 on #3472).

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