My Sea iter 6c: bud-btn invite stub + #id_my_sea_menu gear (NVM-only, %applet-menu-styled, on both /gameboard/my-sea/ and the gatekeeper) + PAID DRAW now deletes the row and redirects to ?phase=picker so the user drops straight into picking cards instead of looping back to GATE VIEW — Sprint 5 iter 6c of My Sea roadmap — TDD

Bundled fix for the PAID-DRAW-loops-to-GATE-VIEW bug surfaced 2026-05-20 in
live testing: previously the view reset `created_at = now()` + cleared the
hand, but the row's continued existence meant `quota_spent=True` on the
next render → landing rendered GATE VIEW → user clicked it → back to
gatekeeper → loop.

Now PAID DRAW does `active_draw.delete()` after debiting the token + then
redirects to `/gameboard/my-sea/?phase=picker`. The my_sea view honors
`?phase=picker` (only when no active_draw exists — can't bypass
post-DEL GATE VIEW) by forcing `show_picker=True` so the user lands in
the picker ready to draw. First card draw creates a fresh row w. fresh
`created_at`, starting the new 24h quota cycle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/functional_tests/test_game_my_sea.py

@@ -1561,3 +1561,98 @@ class MySeaBudBtnStubTest(FunctionalTest):
             lambda: self.browser.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".note-banner")
         )
         self.assertIn("coming soon", brief.text.lower())
+
+
+class MySeaGearBtnTest(FunctionalTest):
+    """Sprint 6 iter 6c — `.gear-btn` on every my-sea page state
+    (landing / picker / gatekeeper). Opens a NVM-only menu (DEL/BYE
+    deliberately omitted — gear is for "back out without committing");
+    NVM nav-backs to /gameboard/ mirroring the room's gear-menu
+    convention. Same partial included on both /gameboard/my-sea/ and
+    /gameboard/my-sea/gate/ so visual + behavior is identical."""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+        _seed_earthman_sig_pile()
+        _seed_gameboard_applets()
+        self.email = "gear@test.io"
+        self.gamer = User.objects.create(email=self.email)
+        _assign_sig(self.gamer)
+        # Seed a quota row so the gatekeeper has an active_draw context.
+        from apps.gameboard.models import MySeaDraw
+        MySeaDraw.objects.create(
+            user=self.gamer, spread="situation-action-outcome",
+            significator_id=self.gamer.significator_id, hand=[],
+        )
+
+    def test_gear_btn_renders_on_gatekeeper(self):
+        self.create_pre_authenticated_session(self.email)
+        self.browser.get(self.live_server_url + "/gameboard/my-sea/gate/")
+        gear = self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.browser.find_element(
+                By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".my-sea-page .gear-btn"
+            )
+        )
+        # Menu wired via data-menu-target.
+        self.assertEqual(
+            gear.get_attribute("data-menu-target"),
+            "id_my_sea_menu",
+        )
+
+    def test_gear_btn_renders_on_landing_without_active_draw(self):
+        """User direction 2026-05-20 — gear stays on /gameboard/my-sea/
+        even when no gatekeeper / no active_draw row exists. Fresh user
+        with a sig + no draw lands here + still sees the gear."""
+        from apps.gameboard.models import MySeaDraw
+        MySeaDraw.objects.filter(user=self.gamer).delete()
+        self.create_pre_authenticated_session(self.email)
+        self.browser.get(self.live_server_url + "/gameboard/my-sea/")
+        self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.browser.find_element(
+                By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".my-sea-page .gear-btn"
+            )
+        )
+
+    def test_gear_btn_opens_menu_with_nvm_only(self):
+        self.create_pre_authenticated_session(self.email)
+        self.browser.get(self.live_server_url + "/gameboard/my-sea/gate/")
+        gear = self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.browser.find_element(
+                By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".my-sea-page .gear-btn"
+            )
+        )
+        gear.click()
+        menu = self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.browser.find_element(By.ID, "id_my_sea_menu")
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(menu.value_of_css_property("display"), "block")
+        # NVM link present, DEL + BYE deliberately absent.
+        nvm = menu.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".btn-cancel")
+        self.assertIn("/gameboard/", nvm.get_attribute("href"))
+        self.assertEqual(
+            len(menu.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".btn-danger")), 0,
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            len(menu.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".btn-abandon")), 0,
+        )
+
+    def test_nvm_navigates_back_to_gameboard(self):
+        self.create_pre_authenticated_session(self.email)
+        self.browser.get(self.live_server_url + "/gameboard/my-sea/gate/")
+        gear = self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.browser.find_element(
+                By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".my-sea-page .gear-btn"
+            )
+        )
+        gear.click()
+        self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.browser.find_element(By.ID, "id_my_sea_menu")
+        )
+        self.browser.find_element(
+            By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#id_my_sea_menu .btn-cancel"
+        ).click()
+        self.wait_for(
+            lambda: self.assertRegex(
+                self.browser.current_url, r"/gameboard/$"
+            )
+        )