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The App — The Spell Book

The Spell Book is where PriceOS keeps its lenses: pill-toggleable modifiers that change how you see the platform rather than what's on it. Spells stack, persist across sessions, and follow your account. Half the fun is discovering what a combination does to a page you thought you knew — this page removes the guesswork about what each pill does, while leaving the platform's genuine mysteries mysterious (they're mysteries on purpose).

How: Triple-tap the MY PD header in settings; triple-tap the SPELL BOOK header to flip back.

Opening it

Triple-tap the MY PD header in settings. The settings panel flips to the Spell Book; triple-tap the SPELL BOOK header to flip back. That's the whole trick — no menu item, no button. Casting or dispelling any spell announces itself in a toast, and a few carry incantations: ☽ Reading the Birth Skies ☽, ⑃ Rumor Has It… ⑃, ∾ The Net Is Cast ∾.

Spells are per-user and presentational — nothing here changes your data or anyone else's view of the platform, with the two deliberate exceptions noted below (Deactivate and Echo Chamber, which change what reaches you and how you appear).

Reading lenses — the art and the market, re-seen

Celestial Tracker ♃ — every Output's astrological big three appears as a silent glyph run on card edges and Output titles: sun sign · the TRUE mint-moon disc (its shade is the moon's real illumination the night the Output was minted) · rising sign. Computed by the platform's real natal engine from each Output's mint moment; hold on the glyphs for the reading. No words render — the order is the label.
Stargazing ⍟ — the celestial backdrop: the platform's astrological substrate comes forward and the room turns night-sky.
Aura ⦿ — every Output wears a breathing halo sampled from its own colors, with rarity scaling the glow's reach. The grid becomes a field of presences.
Fog — artworks arrive fogged and reveal as you reach them; drifting wisps replace certainty. The pill's own label wears the fog.
Degen ⚔ — the anti-lens: the art is deliberately absent. Every tile becomes a data slab — #id, ❖ rarity score and edition rank, primary trait, Fate, ask — and the sort snaps to price. Shop like a terminal; the art waits at the end.
Price Ghost ᗝ — the price layer goes spectral: numbers haunt the interface instead of leading it.
Gossip Protocol ⑃ — the feed's one shared sentence is retold as plain-English rumor — every event gets one of dozens of tellings, seeded per event so a story keeps its wording everywhere it appears. Actors, links, and the exact price survive the retelling. The Tribunal is deliberately immune: the court record stays sworn.
Redacted! @ — strips identity from the interface. Browse the market without the who.

Instruments — the deep reads

Tribunal ⚻ — every Output's +More gains a case file: the chain of custody with per-hand tenure and flip reads, the money, what's on the block, standing offers, the parties' per-wallet in/out/net, numbered findings of fact, and a double-struck ruling stamp (ON THE BLOCK · UNDER CLAIM · TIGHTLY HELD · AT REST). Built entirely from the record already on the page; anything the record doesn't hold is named OFF THE RECORD, never invented.
Sybil Net ∾ — Cartography grows a forensic layer: animated dotted lines chain wallet clusters linked by real unpriced wallet-to-wallet transfers. Focus a wallet and the map narrows to its net.
Arbitrage Map ⇄ — listed Outputs asking below their trait cohort's average ask wear a live discount badge (⇄ −38%) and a heat ring that scales with the gap. Cohorts come from real listings only; an Output with no comparables never flags.
Tarot Spread ▯▯▯ — a themed reading: three real Major Arcana drawn into Past / Present / Future, each card wearing one of your own Collected Outputs as its face, with genuine upright and reversed meanings woven into a read. Deterministic per day, with a re-roll. Unlocks at 22 Outputs collected — below that, the cards lie face down with your count.
Spite Book ⌧ — your private grudge ledger of names. Write a real @user or project onto a page of the book and that name renders struck through — dimmed, italic, crossed out — everywhere it appears across the site: their listings, bids, feed activity, and holder chips. Scratch a name out to lift it.
The Watch ⬬ — a floating live-stat chip that follows you; its watch hits route into your Pings.
Audience ● — the live-presence layer: the breathing dot and headcount on Project pages, including yours. See Projects & Minting.
Panopticon ⎌ — the all-seeing view of who is where, platform-wide, live. Turning it on requires explicit consent — watching the room means being visible in it — which is exactly the trade the next spell exists to break.

Wards — controlling what reaches you

Offer Shield ⍲ — incoming offers under half the collection floor are silently kept out of your Pings. Casting it raises a visible ward. It fails open: if the floor can't be read, nothing is ever swallowed.
Echo Chamber ≫ — mutuals only: pings and the artist roster filter to the people you follow who follow you back. The toast says what it means: MUTUALS ONLY.
Deactivate ⊖ — the public ragequit, both halves. Visitors to your profile see an understated account deactivated shell — while you keep using PD normally, with a quiet cue that the veil is up. You also stop broadcasting to the Panopticon and Audience counts: one-way glass, you still see the room.
The Hammer ⟙ — the mute. Its badge counts what you've silenced. Always the last pill, by convention.

The cast

Digital Familiar ⚝ — a small creature accompanies you around the platform; tap it to meet it, customize it in settings.
NPC — the off-screen cast wanders in: the platform's regulars, aware of its surfaces, occasionally offering commentary of debatable value.

The mystery

One pill reads ????. It toggles nothing, reveals nothing, and answers every tap with ????. The documentation team has nothing further at this time.

Spells vs. display modes

Display modes (Settings & Display) change how the interface renders — light, dark, zen. Spells change what the interface foregrounds. Modes are ergonomics; spells are worldviews. They compose freely: a Celestial + Gossip + Aura session is a genuinely different platform from a Degen + Price Lens one, and both are the same ledger underneath.