Mythic Masters: tome UI hill climb to 9.5/10, rounds 74+ (from #3604) #3662

Score: 3/10 (the owner's own score, 2026-11-05, after PR #3627 merged; target 9.5; a round reports the last score plus half the judge's gain)

Carries on from #3604 (rounds 10 to 73, PRs #3611, #3616, #3624, #3627), #3587 (round 9, PR #3605) and the issues before it (#3578, #3558, #3551, #3533, #3523). The owner's brief: hill climb every UI component of Mythic Masters toward an eldritch tome whose pages act like an enchanted map, ink blots soaking into the page as the words are written and edited; menus, journal and bestiary all pages of that book; and the bestiary entry as a whole page (picture scaled up top left, big name top right with nicknames in brackets and types under it, background in the middle, catch date and place, stats then against now, and moves along the bottom), reached with a d-pad, a mouse or a tap. The compendium is held open as a book: the spine's shadow runs its whole height, with just a title over each page.

Goalpost: 9.5 or better from the owner

1. Ink that soaks in on every page, written and edited: blots that settle into words; a page redrawn while you read it rewrites only the lines that changed.
2. The bestiary folio as the owner laid it out, reached by d-pad, keys, mouse or touch, its plate growing out of the entry.
3. One book: every menu a page of the same tome, the Book's own voice in the margin.

Where the score stands

The night of 2026-11-04 summed half-gains per round to a capped 10, but each judge scored only the screen it changed, so that sum ran away from the truth. Three surveys of every screen at once said 5.5, 6 and 5.5; the owner says 3. Agent judges run about 2 to 3 points above the owner on these visual climbs, so read them for direction only. From here: start each round from the owner's 3, judge the whole set (a survey of every screen), not one screen, and report the last score plus half that survey's gain.

State after round 73

• Paper: scripts/paper.ts renders vellum.png, deckle.png (a nine-sliced ragged edge), gutter.png (the spine's shade) and bark.png (cedar boards).
• Ink: soak in src/page.ts drops each block's ink at a point (--ox, --oy, --reach, a registered --spread driving a radial mask frayed by --bleed noise); the mask comes off once dry (unmask).
• The page turn: turnLeaf in src/page.ts bends the whole leaf in strips hinged at the spine, the next page printed on its back.
• Result notes: a wax seal for a bind, a torn corner for a loss (seal(), tear() in src/ornaments.ts), the compendium's running head and folio number.
• Folio: every beast has its own line in TALE (src/creatures.ts); unknown entries carry a rumour (GUESSES).
• Regions: a hand-drawn chart (regionChart in src/compendium.ts) with terrain and hatched fog over unwalked country, lifting as the page is read.
• Settings, buttons and the Book's answers are drawn as ink on paper; the versus book is bound in cedar with a gilt title; the Bog Witch's five starters are pinned by hand.
• Shots: apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-2026-11-04-tome/ (r9-* to r73-*). Probe recipe: bun run probe mythic-masters "/" --js ... --shot (answer the Book first: "I'll bring you all of them", then "Go on").

What still marks it down

1. The screens outside the compendium (title scroll, Settings, the result note, the versus cover) are their own materials; make them pages, flyleaves or slips of the same book. The title being a scroll was the owner's call in round 1, so ask first.
2. Inside pages still lay out like forms (the keybind table, the line-up register, the folio's three-column ledger): use the margins for glosses and drawings, rule by hand.
3. The Regions chart: ink spreading out of walked country (its motion does not show in stills).
4. The hand font reads as a modern felt-tip more than a quill (the owner's call).
5. Ask the owner what reads as 3: one line on what they saw first would aim the next round better than any judge.

The loop

One round is one worker: take the shots, change the one thing that most moves the whole book toward the goalpost, shoot again, have a fresh judge survey every screen before against now (direction only), commit the shots to docs/shots-<date>-tome/, and end with a Score: comment here that names the next step. A round PR says "Part of #this". At 9.5 by that count, a MANUAL RUN: issue for the owner's own score.

Next: ask the owner what made it a 3, then gap 1 (the screens outside the compendium as pages of the book).