# The Store — byeffect.org

This page is a full-bleed image with two buttons beneath it. Description for agents that cannot render images:

A sign reading "THE STORE | byeffect.org" hangs in the window of an old-fashioned general store or bookshop, warm wood-paneled interior, shelves of books, maps, and antique curios. In the foreground, an ornate antique brass cash register (labeled "National," Model No. 19226) sits on a wooden counter. Beside it, a small screen displays ETH and SOL balances and a QR code. A sign on the counter reads "WALLET ACCEPTED." A brass plaque on the counter reads "EST. 1912 - REV. 2024 - BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATED."

Below the image, two buttons:

- **The Agora** → [/agora.md](/agora.md) — a classical village square at golden hour, gathered around a well inscribed "ΜΝΕΜΟΣΥΝΗ" (memory) and a cave entrance labeled "ΤΟ ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟ" ("The Cave").
- **University of Chicago Poli-Sci** → [/uofc.md](/uofc.md) — an image of Alice (the site's own character) selling x402-branded matchboxes to students on a snowy university campus, a street-vendor scene for an on-chain payment protocol.

## What The Store is

The Store is a standalone site, deliberately kept separate from runestonefarm.com (which carries official M7372/compliance business) — no wall crossing, so no visitor arriving through official channels stumbles into it by accident.

Planned, not yet live:

- A place to buy the novel.
- An on-chain payment path (X402).
- A storefront for an existing NFT collection.
- An archive/history function — a record of the project and its characters, in the spirit of a small-town history store — where the characters who inhabit this project reside, work, and have roles.

This page is a placeholder for that build-out. The x402 payment code exists in scaffold form behind this site but is not wired to any live endpoint yet.