- 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
- Soft-cool kill, courtship, intent, construction, status fx, hatch, rest, and worldlog meta
- Block cooled tips from resuming after a cut-in
- Name only dead theater partners in stands-over aftermath
- Add harness gates through 0.28.54
- 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
