🐍 The Personas Wake
Twenty minutes after the last human message, one vault an hour, main server only. The cards stay claimable for 55 minutes, because a persona drop happens BECAUSE the room is empty.
🪝 A Card Costs a Hook
Slots are shared: each taker gets their own copy, nobody's claim closes the door. Three persona cards per player per day, a blank in slot 1, and the rarity gem drawn on every card.
🃏 The Challenge Card
One banner for every open challenge, in the versus header's language. Join goes straight to champion select; the deck is asked once, where the champions are. A bot match pays a practice Key, three a day.
⚔️ One Seat a Side
1v1 Vortex in champion select, the live lobby, practice and the admin picker: a team size, not a fourth lobby. The lone champion sits in the middle seat, and no role is asked of it.
🏠 Everybody Owns Four
Champion select draws what you own; the starter set is Cecrops, Electra, Amphitrite and Lyssa, four into three seats, granted to every account already here.
☐ Vote Box, Banked Chest
Two counters at last. Chests are hourly at any roster size, the vote receipt is three embeds, a sleeping Boar wakes itself before a chest is overwritten.
⏱️ A Restart Says It Is Coming
Quick, patch, or maintenance: a countdown to every channel and a strip in the client, and nothing new starts while a plan stands. The deploy script asks the bot first.
🔥 Turn Bands
An ember wall behind the acting side, a pulse behind the acting card, switchable from the cog, on all five arena loaders.
🔗 A Link Is Not a Seat
A copied arena link could play your turns, and the address bar showed both players' ids. The link is yours alone now, and the address bar shows nothing.