- Introduce new probes for combat lifecycle, scheduler bounds, and exposure
- Implement narrative scheduler health probe in harness scenarios
- Update InterestCandidate to include approved presentation details
- Refactor EventPresentability to manage candidate approval and caching
- Improve IdleHitchProbe to track performance metrics during narrative events
- Open war/disaster/outbreak crisis overlays with epilogue_crisis closers
- Keep Duel pairs hot only on owned cast; park sleep/freeze; drop ambient scrap pins
- Require a fallen theater partner for survivor aftermath; let king_killed cut mid-fight
- Gate crisis, combat cold, king cut-in, and living-partner aftermath in harness
- Introduce variety valve mechanics for cut-in opportunities during combat
- Improve fight balance calculations and scoring based on participant counts
- Add new scenarios for testing variety valve interactions and combat focus
- Update combat event handling to prioritize live fighters over bystanders
- Increment version to 0.27.6 in mod.json