- 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
- Update event catalog to include new decision intents for civilization founding
- Implement soft duel yield mechanics in InterestDirector for combat interactions
- Adjust scoring weights for soft duels and variety valve timings
- Refactor event reasoning to improve spell casting labels and decision handling
- Increment version to 0.28.33 in mod.json
