- Introduce bounded happiness probe to improve event diagnostics
- Update happiness drain logic to limit processed occurrences per tick
- Enhance telemetry for happiness processing times and maximum items
- Refactor narrative development to include new home-related events
- Improve narrative thread handling for home establishment and recovery
- Introduce new narrative probes for episode grammar, ensemble balance, and prose redundancy
- Implement narrative presentation coverage tracking for better event visibility
- Update harness scenarios to include new narrative ingestion and persistence tests
- Refactor event emission to include narrative development IDs and presentations
- Expand InterestCandidate to support narrative presentation models and roles
- Route confirmed life events into evidence-based threads, consequences, and Legacy chapters
- Schedule episode shots with critical interrupts, replay guards, and a combat budget
- Admit emerging main characters through story momentum instead of spectacle
- Remove causal heat, hard-arc memory writes, and synthetic epilogue continuity
- Expand narrative harness coverage, soak auditing, and product documentation
