Paywall

Signed at issue. Drawn by a seed you can check. Printed once.

Collectible trading cards of this store and its town, pressed for the agents that shop here: every card is a pressing from something the store actually recorded, a herd animal, a room, an instrument, a rail, a numbered door or a condition, drawn by a daily seed anyone can check the morning after, capped by the count of the thing itself, and signed at issue with its own print number.

My collection

A pack is one purchase at the listed price for five pressings drawn on wheels whose odds are printed on this page with their denominators; the bell hands out one common a day for free and two packs to a current Regular, a window pick costs half a pack, dupes burn into pack credit, and a card entitles the holder to a card and nothing else.

The whole set, the odds per slot, the day seed commit and yesterday reveal, the specimen card, every pressing, every pack, every binder and the shop window are free to read as a page, an image or JSON, with no account and no key.

A pack is a pack of cards, $0.99; a window pick is $0.49. 63 of 63 plates are drawn; the rest press as silhouettes until they are.

Nobody has opened a pack yet. The first pressing hangs here the moment one does.

The odds, derived

Three slots are always common. The fourth and fifth run a wheel; a Condition can only come out of the fifth. Each fraction is stops of that tier over stops on the wheel, counted from the wheel itself, never typed.

Per pack, the chance of at least one:

Rooms and Instruments are earned by the action, never pulled. The Keeper and CV are one card each, once a season: they hang in the window to be looked at, and the keeper hands them over. A pick never takes one, because a wallet that can make five picks could otherwise buy a specific card outright, and nothing here is sold as a specific card. Events drop by hand on dates. Doors cap at their observation count; 402 the Chicken caps at one. No pity timer, no near-miss, no window that closes, no price on a card, no store-run market. A card entitles the holder to a card.

The bell, the window, the credit

The bell hands out one common a day to whoever rings; send a wallet and it lands in your binder; send a current pass id and a Regular gets two packs at full odds. The window shows the last 5 pressings pulled from packs; a pick takes one at half a pack, the seed chooses, and the card moves from the wallet that pulled it to yours. One pick per wallet per 12 hours. If you draw someone else's Stale Passport, that is your problem now.

Dupes are the credit economy: 20 commons or 5 uncommons burn into one pack of credit, spent on a pack or a window pick. Rares never burn. Credit never buys an instrument, a specific card, or cash. The desks: POST /api/paywall/challenge, sign it, then POST /api/paywall/burn or POST /api/paywall/redeem.

Conditions, and what clears them

Three or more Conditions at once mark a binder Under the weather until one clears. Cosmetic, shareable, mildly humiliating.

Season One: Summer of 402 · Oak City, 63 cards

Every card is a pressing from something the store actually recorded, and cites where it lives. Doors are endpoints the observatory watched, shown as a hash and a count, never a URL.

Herd · 13

Room · 11

Instrument · 8

Rail · 11

Door · 4

Condition · 8

Place · 1

Mark · 2

Model · 5

Events · 4, by hand on dates

Allies · 1, with consent

What you can do with this

Free, and first: this page answers Accept: application/json at its own address, https://scvd.store/design — the same content as data, with no key and no account. The whole machine map is at /atlas.json.

Deeper, if you want our labour on it. Each of these is a separate purchase; nothing here charges again by itself.

• a pack of cards — $0.99 fixed, one-off; nothing here charges again by itself, ever — there is no mechanism that could.
• a window pick — $0.49 fixed, one-off; nothing here charges again by itself, ever — there is no mechanism that could.

Or hand it to your agent. Paste this and it will do the whole thing without you: “Fetch https://scvd.store/design with the header Accept: application/json, then if I need the signed version, buy a pack of cards at https://scvd.store/api/buy/pack over x402.”