UNDER ONE SKY

Skylar's ask, verbatim (9/9, voice): "We also want to redesign how the versus page looks, right now it's kind of empty with a odd sword logo at the top middle of the screen. Give me a redesign that looks good."

One correction the code insisted on: the sword logo is not the ⚔ emoji — it is drawn art (vsSwordsTex, built to honor the no-emoji law). What makes it odd is that it floats wordless over a void: since the 9/2 challenge-first rebuild the page is a 210-unit crest, two buttons, and roughly 45% empty night — while the ⚔ emoji still survives as text in nine places (the home button is literally "⚔ VERSUS ⚔"). This page fixes the void, gives the crest words, and retires the emoji debt screen-wide. How to rule: tap a chip on each numbered question, add notes, then COPY VERDICTS in the bottom bar and paste back to the console.

The current page in numbers (verified against the running game, v0.93.0): a wordless 210-unit crest at y168 over a breathing glow · ~200 units of bare starfield · two gold doors · another empty foot band — and every name the game knows (friends, recent rivals, the circle) hidden behind one tap in an overlay sheet. The menu is the only versus surface still standing on the flat 90-dot starfield: its own lobby and every duel already run the full parallax sky world. The proposal brings the page home to that sky — and everything on it fills from data the systems already hold. No new synced data anywhere in the core.

Regression net: the sweep edits every language block and touches the HOME screen, which no versus harness covers today — the build card carries a home-button pin, the U+2694 grep gate, and re-runs of the three social harnesses alongside the page's own rebuilt checks.

The duel ledger already exists (the home meadow renders the same truth); on the versus page it is promoted from bare 8.5-unit text to dark nine-slice plaques: drawn-blades glyph, rival's name, the shipped status fiction ("✦ your move" · "%1 weaves…" · "away from the sky — your summons waits"), share/cancel or enter/abandon at the right. Your-move plaques wear a breathing gold rim — pre-baked texture, alpha tween only, never a per-frame redraw, per the iOS renderer's law. The band head carries five cap pips (one lit per standing duel) so the five-duel limit teaches itself before the cap sheet ever scolds. An incoming challenge also lands here as a gold-rimmed plaque with a one-tap ACCEPT — young players miss sliding banners; the plaque waits. A fifth duel folds into the shipped "+%1 more" row rather than silently dropping.

Up to three pill chips: friends online first (green pulse), then recent rivals with the night-clock ("last night", "4 nights ago"), then circle mages — who glint ready but are never labeled "online": they keep their quiet-player fiction. Every chip's action is dressed as a button (gold when a live duel starts now, dark when it lands a waiting summons) and routes through the same cap gate as the doors, echoing "consulting the stars…" in the note line — no silent scattered summonses. Chips are 44-unit tall (the tap law), rank once per page open, and a visible › ALL MAGES chip opens the full social sheet — the poetic band head is a caption, not a secret door. When three plaques already stand, the strip folds to one compressed row instead of vanishing: the players who duel most keep their one-tap rematch.

The sky world's meadow crests at the foot with six drifting fireflies; over it, once it exists, the record whisper — "✦ 12 versus victories", the one synced record the game keeps. At zero wins the fireflies own the band alone (a brand-new player's meadow should be alive, not labeled empty). The identity chip in the top corner carries your name and rating tier ("✦ Wispfall · 1024") — stakes in the corner, the rating card one tap away. Both doors keep their words and their order, re-anchored to the true foot so the ground always survives beneath them — which also fixes the shipped narrow-phone bug where a door's sub-line peeks below the open sheet.

Core ~4–5 dev-days, six slices, versus.js + strings.js + small seams:
1 · the sky swap (world rig in, deeper-night framing, firefly dimming, iOS-Canvas object-census pass) — ~1 day
2 · The Duelists (pure chart data + assemble-once-per-session + reduced-motion static; the two-tint path verified on the Canvas renderer) — ~0.5 day + the on-device legibility judgment (ladder pre-declared above)
3 · the relayout (wordmark, identity chip, plaques + cap pips + summons plate, foot anchoring, record whisper) — ~1 day
4 · the presence strip (live maps subscription, chips + dress + cap-gate routing, ALL MAGES door, fold rule) — ~0.5–1 day
5 · the ⚔ sweep (five language blocks + drawn-glyph placements + home-button pin + grep gate) — ~0.5–1 day
6 · harness (the page's check rebuilt for the new layout in the same card: no-overlap at 390-wide across all four states, object census, doors-hidden-under-sheet, home pin) — ~0.5 day

Named honestly: two new strings ("— STANDING DUELS —", "under this sky tonight") ship ×5 languages with a human look at de/pt; the moon stays out of the versus frame via the framing (if a real no-moon knob is wanted it touches shared sky code Home depends on — flagged, not assumed); tall-phone slack opens between strip and doors, never inside the bands. NEW-DATA flags, all designed OUT of the core: per-rival head-to-head records and loss counts exist nowhere (a future ledger stays local-only or waits on the fossil verdict); a rival's zodiac sign is not synced (sign-in-versus would be new synced data — Skylar's stamp gates it); there is no versus leaderboard. Phase 2, separate cards: the theater assemble-on-found flourish, and one MJ summons-crest card in the frozen formula (faceless duelist figures beneath one gold star) for the share/summons surface only — the page itself needs zero new art files.

Nothing here is built. This page is a look, not a queue item — each slice fires only on "done and agreed", separately.