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-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        benilla's main action bar, RE-SKINNED to the real 1.12 MainMenuBar (decision 0068 slice-1;
-        dressing arc, decision 0084). The geometry + art below are QUOTED from the real FrameXML
-        (scratchpad refs, line citations inline): ref-MainMenuBar.xml (the bar art, end caps, XP bar),
-        ref-ActionBarFrame.xml (the 12-button anchor chain + page buttons), ref-ActionButtonTemplate.xml
-        (the button template). The Lua data flow is UNCHANGED — the vanilla page formula, the
-        ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED repaint, HasAction/GetActionTexture in, UseAction out.
-
-        Structure mirrors the real hierarchy so the draw order falls out of the frame tree:
-          MainMenuBar (1024x53, BOTTOM of screen)
-            ├─ MainMenuExpBar        (StatusBar, TOP)      — drawn first ⇒ lowest
-            │    ├─ ExhaustionLevelFillBar (BORDER) — the pale rested wash up to the tick
-            │    └─ MainMenuBarOverlayFrame (DIALOG)     — the hover "curr / max" numerals
-            ├─ MainMenuBarArtFrame (fills the bar)   — dwarf strips + end caps over the XP bar
-            │    └─ 12 buttons + page up/down             — child frames ⇒ over the art
-            └─ ExhaustionTick (DIALOG)             — the rested-boundary marker on the strip
-        (The real client gets the same order via RaiseFrameLevel(MainMenuBarArtFrame); our loader's
-        later-sibling-is-higher + child-over-parent rules reproduce it without the explicit raise.)
-
-        SCOPE / real-client divergences (noted, not bugs):
-        - No frame scale: the real bar is UIParent-scaled; we render 1:1. Geometry is otherwise exact.
-        - Page up/down page the bar for real (`CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE`, below) and the numeral
-          follows through `ChangeActionBarPage`, not through the ref's ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED —
-          which we never fire, so an addon LISTENING for the page change hears nothing (it is a
-          Rust-side event with no Lua producer). Addons that drive paging call the verb.
-        - HotKey renders the LIVE binding label, abbreviated the ref's own way since 1008
-          (GetBindingText(key, "KEY_", 1) — UIParent.xml carries our own version; "s-2" for
-          SHIFT-2, "·" for a 2+-modifier chord). A slot with NO binding wears the ref's
-          RANGE_INDICATOR dot path instead (red dot only while out of range); a bound slot's
-          out-of-range read is the label's red tint (the OnUpdate range timer below).
-        - The state/feedback layer (decision 0137 phase 4) is the ref ActionButton.lua re-expressed:
-          UpdateState (checked on IsCurrentAction/IsAutoRepeatAction), UpdateUsable (the 1/1/1 ·
-          0.5/0.5/1 · 0.4/0.4/0.4 vertex-color trio), UpdateCooldown (CooldownFrame_SetTimer),
-          the Border's equipped green, and the 0.4 s Flash blink — with ONE structural deviation:
-          the event set registers on the BAR frame and fans to all 12 buttons, instead of the
-          ref's per-button Register/Unregister churn on HasAction (12 fixed buttons make the
-          skip-empties optimization noise; the handlers themselves are the ref's).
-        - Count: ActionButton_UpdateCount re-expressed, gated on IsConsumableAction exactly as the
-          ref does (0216 §7's "count > 0" simplification is retired — it put a stack number under
-          a mount, which has no stack; the engine-side law is ItemInfo::is_consumable, byte-cited
-          from 0x4e5250).
-        - Empty-slot grid (ref ActionButton.lua:241-259's ShowGrid/HideGrid, a per-button COUNTER):
-          the counter is BACK, and the argument that retired it is exactly why. 0216 §7 collapsed it
-          to one global boolean because "the cursor is a single global payload, so no two shows can
-          ever nest" — true while the payload was the only thing that could ask for a grid. Decision
-          1500 gives it a second asker (ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS, which holds the four extra bars'
-          empty wells open with no payload in hand), and with two independent askers the boolean is
-          wrong by its own reasoning: dropping a payload would close wells the option is still
-          asking for. So `button.showgrid` COUNTS, exactly as the reference's does, and
-          ActionButton_ShowGrid/_HideGrid below are its two verbs.
-          The count — rather than a flag — is also what the addon corpus already assumes: zBar
-          REPLACES both verbs and writes `button.showgrid = 1/0`, CT_BarMod writes 0/1/2 and
-          increments it on OUR ActionButton1-12, and Bartender2 HOOKS ActionButton_ShowGrid at
-          load — which died on a nil global here until now, the same session-start crash class
-          1218/1219 fixed for MultiBarLeft.
-          Unlike the ref (which HIDES an empty, non-grid slot entirely), our MAIN bar always shows
-          all 12 wells; the grid only swaps an EMPTY slot's ring art between the occupied and empty
-          Quickslot textures. The ref's SetVertexColor(1,1,1,0.5) dim on a grid ring IS ours as of
-          1781 — this note said for three hundred decisions that the dim was "the director's to
-          move", and they moved it: an empty well under a held spell read as a black hole, because
-          UI-Quickslot is a FILLED plate (see BenillaActionButton_SetRing) and we were painting it
-          opaque. The dim now rides the ring's own setter, so art and tint cannot drift apart.
-          What we do NOT take is where the ref's dim ENDS: nothing in the real client ever clears
-          it, so one pickup fades every border for the session (byte-pinned; the setter's comment
-          has the addresses). Ours lets go with the payload — divergence, chosen, decision 1782.
-        - Exhaustion tick + rest fill, XP text (hover/cvar-gated), MaxLevelBar: OUT. The bar's
-          right-hand cluster is otherwise complete — the backpack toggle + four bag slots live in
-          BagFrame.xml and the eight micro buttons in MicroMenu.xml (both anchored into
-          MainMenuBarArtFrame and seated over the art by BenillaActionBarArt_SeatAbove below),
-          and the performance meter is at the foot of this file. The KEYRING landed with decision
-          0765: its button and container live in BagFrame.xml (the ref's own split —
-          MainMenuBarBagButtons.xml / ContainerFrame.lua), and the bar's half of it — swapping the
-          two right-hand strips to the keyring art and sliding the performance meter over to make
-          room — is MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing below, exactly where the ref keeps it
-          (MainMenuBar.lua l.174-183).
-    -->
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Misc_QuestionMark"
-
-        -- **The reference's action-bar constant block (ActionButton.lua:1-9).** Every one of these
-        -- was cited in comments across this file and MultiBars.xml and DEFINED nowhere, so an addon
-        -- reading them got nil. `zBar.lua:40` is the shape:
-        --
-        --     to = to or value.max or NUM_ACTIONBAR_BUTTONS
-        --     for i = from, to do          -- 'for' limit must be a number
-        --
-        -- Found by the use-probe, which is the only column that touches anything.
-        --
-        -- `CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE` used to be withheld from this list on the grounds that it is the
-        -- reference's MUTABLE page cursor and we did not page the main bar — "defining it as a
-        -- frozen 1 would hand every addon a number that is silently wrong forever". That reasoning
-        -- was right and is now discharged rather than overruled: the bar pages, the global is live
-        -- state the paged-id formula reads, and it is declared with the paging verbs below rather
-        -- than here among the true constants. A frozen 1 would still be a lie; this one moves.
-        NUM_ACTIONBAR_PAGES = 6
-        NUM_ACTIONBAR_BUTTONS = 12
-        RIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3
-        LEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 4
-        BOTTOMRIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 5
-        BOTTOMLEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 6
-
-        -- Ref ActionButton.lua:4: the flash blink period. Its neighbour `TOOLTIP_UPDATE_TIME`
-        -- (the range-check cadence this file's `rangeTimer` reads) moved to UIParent.xml, which is
-        -- the reference's own home for it — `UIParent.lua:1`, and the stock `BuffFrame.lua` reads
-        -- it as well.
-        ATTACK_BUTTON_FLASH_TIME = 0.4
-
-        -- "Lock ActionBars" (ref UIOptionsFrame.lua:102-103 — uvar LOCK_ACTIONBAR, default "0").
-        -- The reference declares it in its options window; ours lives with the bar it locks, which
-        -- is this codebase's rule for every stock global (1128/1134): the assignment sits beside its
-        -- consumers, and the options row CAPTURES it rather than restating a default of its own.
-        -- Read by the drag guards below and by the pet bar's (PetActionBar.xml, the ref's own second
-        -- consumer at PetActionBarFrame.lua:270/278); driven by the Action Bars page and by the
-        -- TOGGLEACTIONBARLOCK binding the option's tooltip promises (decision 1136).
-        LOCK_ACTIONBAR = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("LOCK_ACTIONBAR")
-
-        -- CooldownFrame_SetTimer moved to Cooldown.xml (the ref's own file split) — the bag
-        -- slots share it, so it loads before both consumers.
-
-        -- One button's HotKey corner — the ref's ActionButton_UpdateHotkeys law in FULL since
-        -- 1008 (closing 0997's raw-token residue): the ABBREVIATED binding text through the
-        -- GetBindingText the ref specifies (ours, in UIParent.xml — one modifier abbreviates, "s-2";
-        -- two or more collapse to the ref's "·"), and with NO binding the ref's no-binding
-        -- leg — an empty label the OnUpdate range timer fills with the RANGE_INDICATOR dot
-        -- while out of range (until 1008 that leg was multibar-only; now any unbound slot,
-        -- main bar included, wears it). A harness with no registered bindings paints nothing.
-        function BenillaActionButton_PaintHotkey(button)
-            local key = GetBindingKey(button.bindingCommand)
-            local text
-            if GetBindingText then
-                text = GetBindingText(key, "KEY_", 1)
-            else
-                -- lone-file harness (the shipped manifest always has UIParent.xml first):
-                -- the raw token, the MicroMenu.xml fallback idiom.
-                text = key or ""
-            end
-            button.noBindingLabel = (text == "")
-            button.hotkey:SetText(text)
-        end
-
-        -- Every button's label, repainted on UPDATE_BINDINGS (a rebind, a set switch, the seed).
-        function BenillaActionBar_UpdateHotkeys()
-            for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                BenillaActionButton_PaintHotkey(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i])
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Every live action button — the main bar's 12 plus the multibars' (MultiBars.xml joins
-        -- at OnLoad). The fan-out roster for the bar-level events below: the ref registers the
-        -- feedback events per-button; our bar-level fan needs the full set in one place.
-        BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS = {}
-
-        -- ── Main-bar paging (ref ActionButton.lua l.1-12 and l.63-101) ───────────────────────
-        -- The main bar has six pages, and we already hold every slot they address: the app owns
-        -- the authoritative 1..120 action table, so the DATA for pages 2-6 was always there and
-        -- only the page SELECTOR was missing. Its absence was on screen, not just in the API —
-        -- the page arrows below shipped as art with no OnClick, which this file's own comment
-        -- admitted ("ART ONLY - we have no bar paging, so the clicks are no-ops").
-        --
-        -- `Bartender2.lua:686` is the corpus tell: three bare `ChangeActionBarPage()` calls, and
-        -- the addon died on the nil global at session start.
-        CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 1
-        -- "Table of actionbar pages and whether they're viewable or not" (the reference's own
-        -- comment). The page walk below honours it rather than counting, which is what makes the
-        -- whole thing work: a page an extra bar already displays must not ALSO be reachable on the
-        -- main bar, or paging up shows you the twelve actions already on screen beside it.
-        --
-        -- **This is the shipped START state, not a constant: it FOLLOWS the four bar toggles.**
-        -- All six pages are viewable here because all four extra bars now ship hidden (decision
-        -- 1500 — they are player options, off by default), and `MultiActionBar_Update`
-        -- (MultiBars.xml) does the arithmetic from then on: a bar that comes up takes its page out
-        -- of the cycle, a bar that goes down puts it back. Blanking two rows at declaration was
-        -- only ever right because visibility was static (0270's always-on bottom pair), and the
-        -- moment the player can move it a declaration cannot be the answer.
-        VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES = {1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1}
-
-        -- `ChangeActionBarPage()` takes NO arguments — every reference caller sets
-        -- CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE first and then calls this to apply it (l.79, l.100), and
-        -- Bartender2 calls it bare.
-        --
-        -- Upstream it is a client binding; here it is FrameXML, deliberately. Our paged action id
-        -- is computed in Lua by `BenillaActionBar_ActionFor`, so the page IS this global and the
-        -- only work left for the verb is the work the reference gets by firing
-        -- ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED: repaint the twelve buttons, and restamp the page numeral (the
-        -- ref's own listener for that event is the up arrow's OnEvent, l.176-181 — the numeral is
-        -- the ONLY thing it does there). Addons CALL this, they never replace it, so the
-        -- divergence is unobservable from Lua — unlike a name we shadow, which is 1222's class.
-        function ChangeActionBarPage()
-            MainMenuBarPageNumber:SetText(CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE)
-            for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                BenillaActionButton_Update(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i])
-            end
-        end
-
-        function ActionBar_PageUp()
-            local page = CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE + 1
-            local nextPage
-            for i = page, NUM_ACTIONBAR_PAGES do
-                if VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES[i] then nextPage = i break end
-            end
-            -- Past the last viewable page, wrap to 1 — the reference wraps to the LITERAL 1 here
-            -- rather than to the first viewable page, which is its own asymmetry with PageDown
-            -- (which rescans). Kept, because it is observable: with page 1 blanked, paging up off
-            -- the end lands on a page the down-walk would have skipped.
-            CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = nextPage or 1
-            ChangeActionBarPage()
-        end
-
-        function ActionBar_PageDown()
-            local page = CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE - 1
-            local prevPage
-            for i = page, 1, -1 do
-                if VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES[i] then prevPage = i break end
-            end
-            if not prevPage then
-                for i = NUM_ACTIONBAR_PAGES, 1, -1 do
-                    if VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES[i] then prevPage = i break end
-                end
-            end
-            CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = prevPage; ChangeActionBarPage()
-        end
-
-        -- Seat a TOP-LEVEL frame that anchors INTO the bar art (the bag bar + backpack toggle,
-        -- BagFrame.xml; the micro-button row, MicroMenu.xml) one frame level above the art, so its
-        -- icons draw over the bar plate instead of under it.
-        --
-        -- Why it's needed: those frames are top-level, so they default to a LOWER frame level than
-        -- the bar's own art (a child hierarchy — the ExpBar's dwarf notches + the metal/well art sit
-        -- at the bar's child level). Frame level dominates the flat painter's order, so the bar art
-        -- would paint OVER them — the ring shows but the centered icon is fully covered (the "empty
-        -- rings, no bag icons" bug). The bar's OWN 12 buttons avoid this by being CHILDREN of the art
-        -- frame (child-over-parent). (SetParent onto the art frame would be the structural twin, but
-        -- the engine keys draw order at creation and does not re-key on a runtime reparent, so the
-        -- explicit level is the reliable lever.) Lives here, with the frame it's about, because two
-        -- files now need it — it began as BagFrame.xml's private BenillaBagBar_SeatAboveActionBar.
-        function BenillaActionBarArt_SeatAbove(frame)
-            local art = getglobal("MainMenuBarArtFrame")
-            if art then frame:SetFrameLevel(art:GetFrameLevel() + 1) end
-        end
-
-        -- ── The keyring's half of the bar (ref MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing, MainMenuBar.lua
-        -- l.174-183; decision 0765) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- The keyring is not just a button bolted onto the bar: the bar's two RIGHT-hand strips are
-        -- re-textured to a variant plate that has a socket for it, and the performance meter slides
-        -- 8px further left out of the way. Both atlases are 256-wide 43px strips at the same on-
-        -- screen size and anchors, so only the file + TexCoords change (UI-MainMenuBar-KeyRing is
-        -- 256x128 and holds exactly the two bands the ref names: 0.3359375 * 128 = 43px each).
-        --
-        -- Called by KeyRingButton's own OnEvent (BagFrame.xml). Everything is nil-guarded:
-        -- this file loads without BagFrame.xml in several harnesses, and BagFrame.xml loads without
-        -- this one in ~25 bag/bank/escape/merchant tests — either way the missing half no-ops.
-        --
-        -- DIVERGENCE (decision 0765): the ref latches this ON forever the first time HasKey() is
-        -- true, via the saved variable SHOW_KEYRING (and pulses the button for 60s to announce it).
-        -- This engine has no saved variables, and a session-scoped latch would leak across a
-        -- character switch — showing a keyring on a character with no key — so the state is derived
-        -- from HasKey() on every BAG_UPDATE instead, in BOTH directions. Observably identical
-        -- unless you destroy your last key, which then un-shows the keyring rather than leaving an
-        -- empty one behind. The 60s pulse is out, consistently with decision 0304's "no button
-        -- pulse" for the micro buttons.
-        function MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing()
-            local show = HasKey and HasKey()
-            -- The two right-hand strips (MainMenuBarTexture2 at x=+128, Texture3 at x=+384),
-            -- keyring plate or the ordinary dwarf plate. The dwarf coords are this file's own
-            -- authored ones (see the strips below) — restated here because this is the only code
-            -- that ever changes them back.
-            local strips = {
-                { name = "MainMenuBarTexture2",
-                  keyring = 0.6640625, keyringBottom = 1.0,
-                  dwarf = 0.33203125, dwarfBottom = 0.5 },
-                { name = "MainMenuBarTexture3",
-                  keyring = 0.1640625, keyringBottom = 0.5,
-                  dwarf = 0.08203125, dwarfBottom = 0.25 },
-            }
-            for _, strip in ipairs(strips) do
-                local tex = getglobal(strip.name)
-                if tex then
-                    if show then
-                        tex:SetTexture("Interface\\MainMenuBar\\UI-MainMenuBar-KeyRing")
-                        tex:SetTexCoord(0, 1, strip.keyring, strip.keyringBottom)
-                    else
-                        tex:SetTexture("Interface\\MainMenuBar\\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf")
-                        tex:SetTexCoord(0, 1, strip.dwarf, strip.dwarfBottom)
-                    end
-                end
-            end
-            -- The performance meter's recess moves with the plate: -227 without the keyring,
-            -- -235 with it (ref l.180). Its own comment at the foot of this file has the geometry.
-            local perf = getglobal("MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame")
-            local bar = getglobal("MainMenuBar")
-            if perf and bar then
-                perf:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", bar, "BOTTOMRIGHT", (show and -235) or -227, -10)
-            end
-            local button = getglobal("KeyRingButton")
-            if button then
-                if show then button:Show() else button:Hide() end
-            end
-            -- Losing the last key with the keyring open would strand an orphan window; the ref
-            -- can't reach this state (its latch is one-way), so this is ours to decide. The window
-            -- is an ordinary ContainerFrame since 1751, so this is the reference's own CloseBag —
-            -- nil-guarded like every other reach out of this function, because the trigger above
-            -- lives on THIS file's art frame now (1751 window 3) and a dozen harnesses load the
-            -- bar with no bag stack behind it. With no ContainerFrame.lua there is no keyring
-            -- window to strand either, so skipping is the whole correct answer.
-            if not show and CloseBag then CloseBag(KEYRING_CONTAINER) end
-        end
-
-        -- ── The bonus-bar slide (decision 1524; ref BonusActionBarFrame.lua:1-98) ──────────────
-        --
-        -- The reference never re-pages its main bar: entering a form slides a 505x43 REPLICA of
-        -- the bar (own art, own 12 buttons on the bonus page) up out of the screen-bottom edge
-        -- over 0.15s, plays igBonusBarOpen when it lands, and leaves it covering the button strip
-        -- for as long as the form is up; leaving the form slides it back down carrying the OLD
-        -- form's icons (lastBonusBar) and hides it — no sound on the way down. benilla re-pages
-        -- the main bar (1223) — so here the overlay is the TRANSITION VEHICLE and the faithful
-        -- addon-visible state (`BonusActionBarFrame:IsShown()` is true exactly while a form is
-        -- up, as on the real client): the main bar keeps painting the OLD page under the rising
-        -- overlay (BenillaActionBar_DisplayedOffset) and adopts the bonus page when it lands.
-        --
-        -- Ref timing/geometry, quoted: SLIDETIME 0.15, YPOS 43 (= the frame's own height, so it
-        -- rises exactly out of the screen edge), XPOS 4 (the ref Lua re-anchors every tick at 4,
-        -- overriding its own XML's 40; the art's left TexCoord is trimmed 4px to line back up).
-        -- Ours slides a PROGRESS fraction rather than the ref's mode+timer pair: flipping form
-        -- mid-slide turns the bar around from where it is, where the ref's timer arithmetic
-        -- mirror-jumps the position (a quirk, not the mechanism).
-        BONUSACTIONBAR_SLIDETIME = 0.15
-        BONUSACTIONBAR_YPOS = 43
-        BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS = 4
-
-        -- Ref-named verb (BonusActionBarFrame.lua:74): addons call it. Begin (or continue toward)
-        -- the up-slide; a bar already landed is a no-op — a direct form→form swap (warrior stance
-        -- dance, cat→bear powershift) repaints without re-sliding or re-sounding, ref-verbatim.
-        function ShowBonusActionBar()
-            local frame = BonusActionBarFrame
-            if not frame:IsShown() then
-                frame.slideProgress = 0
-                frame:Show()
-            end
-            if (frame.slideProgress or 0) < 1 then
-                frame.mode = "show"
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Ref-named verb (l.87): begin the down-slide. Nothing to do when already hidden; a
-        -- mid-show flip turns around from the current position.
-        function HideBonusActionBar()
-            local frame = BonusActionBarFrame
-            if frame:IsShown() and frame.mode ~= "hide" then
-                frame.mode = "hide"
-            end
-        end
-
-        function BenillaBonusBar_OnLoad(frame)
-            frame.mode = "none"
-            frame.slideProgress = 0
-            -- Ref field (l.17/23, read by ActionButton_GetPagedID:449-451): the last NONZERO
-            -- offset, so the down-slide keeps painting the form's icons after the offset is 0.
-            frame.lastBonusBar = 1
-        end
-
-        function BonusActionBar_OnUpdate(elapsed)
-            local frame = BonusActionBarFrame
-            if frame.mode == "show" then
-                frame.slideProgress = frame.slideProgress + elapsed / BONUSACTIONBAR_SLIDETIME
-                if frame.slideProgress >= 1 then
-                    frame.slideProgress = 1
-                    frame.mode = "none"
-                    frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", MainMenuBar, "BOTTOMLEFT",
-                        BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS, BONUSACTIONBAR_YPOS)
-                    -- The landing edge IS the sound (ref l.61-64: played on slide-up completion,
-                    -- never on the way down), and the moment the main bar under the overlay
-                    -- adopts the bonus page (DisplayedOffset stops suppressing).
-                    PlaySound("igBonusBarOpen")
-                    for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                        BenillaActionButton_Update(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i])
-                    end
-                else
-                    frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", MainMenuBar, "BOTTOMLEFT",
-                        BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS, frame.slideProgress * BONUSACTIONBAR_YPOS)
-                end
-            elseif frame.mode == "hide" then
-                frame.slideProgress = frame.slideProgress - elapsed / BONUSACTIONBAR_SLIDETIME
-                if frame.slideProgress <= 0 then
-                    frame.slideProgress = 0
-                    frame.mode = "none"
-                    frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", MainMenuBar, "BOTTOMLEFT", BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS, 0)
-                    frame:Hide()
-                else
-                    frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", MainMenuBar, "BOTTOMLEFT",
-                        BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS, frame.slideProgress * BONUSACTIONBAR_YPOS)
-                end
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The offset the MAIN bar paints. Live, except during the up-slide: the old page keeps
-        -- painting under the rising overlay and the bonus page arrives when it lands (the ref's
-        -- main bar shows page 1 the whole time a form is up — ours adopts the bonus page at
-        -- landing instead, 1223's re-paging model; 1524). The getglobal guard: buttons paint
-        -- during load, before BonusActionBarFrame (declared after the bar) exists.
-        function BenillaActionBar_DisplayedOffset()
-            local frame = getglobal("BonusActionBarFrame")
-            if frame and frame.mode == "show" then
-                return 0
-            end
-            return GetBonusBarOffset()
-        end
-
-        -- The wire/API action id the MAIN bar's button i displays (the vanilla page formula).
-        -- INTERNAL to BenillaActionButton_Action below — the ONLY caller. A button path that
-        -- reaches past it computes a MAIN-bar id for a multibar button (base ignored), which
-        -- reads as "the slot below": the tooltip hover did exactly that until 2026-07-21.
-        function BenillaActionBar_ActionFor(index)
-            local offset = BenillaActionBar_DisplayedOffset()
-            local base = 0
-            if offset > 0 then
-                base = (6 + offset - 1) * 12
-            else
-                -- The paged main bar. A bonus page (stance/form/stealth) OUTRANKS it, which is
-                -- why this is the else arm and not an addition: the reference's own
-                -- `ActionButton_GetPagedID` takes the bonus branch first.
-                base = (CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE - 1) * 12
-            end
-            return base + index
-        end
-
-        -- The action id a specific BUTTON displays: the ref forks on the parent frame's NAME
-        -- (ActionButton_GetPagedID:446-467 — MultiBarBottomLeft ⇒ page 6, MultiBarBottomRight ⇒
-        -- page 5, else the paged/bonus formula); we carry the fork as data — a fixed per-button
-        -- page base set at OnLoad (MultiBars.xml), nil for the bonus-paged main bar.
-        -- **Adopt a button that never ran our OnLoad.**
-        --
-        -- Our handlers read a region cache (`button.icon`, `.count`, `.cooldown`, …) that
-        -- `BenillaActionButton_OnLoad` fills. An addon inheriting `ActionBarButtonTemplate` gets
-        -- those handlers and supplies its OWN `<OnLoad>`, which REPLACES the template's rather
-        -- than chaining — so ours never runs and every one of those reads was nil. zBar.xml:7 is
-        -- the corpus shape; it died in OUR file at `ActionBar.xml:529` on `button.icon`.
-        --
-        -- Resolving from the derived names is not a fallback bolted on: it is exactly what our
-        -- OnLoad does, and what the REFERENCE does on every access (`ActionButton_Update` reads
-        -- `getglobal(this:GetName().."Icon")` each time rather than caching). We cache because it
-        -- is cheaper; this is the same lookup for the buttons that never got cached.
-        --
-        -- It deliberately does NOT join `BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS`. That roster is the event fan-out
-        -- for OUR bars, and a foreign button's owner drives its own updates — adding it would have
-        -- us repainting somebody else's button behind their back.
-        function BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            if not button or button.icon then return end
-            local n = button:GetName()
-            if not n then return end
-            button.icon = getglobal(n .. "Icon")
-            button.hotkey = getglobal(n .. "HotKey")
-            button.count = getglobal(n .. "Count")
-            button.flash = getglobal(n .. "Flash")
-            button.border = getglobal(n .. "Border")
-            button.cooldown = getglobal(n .. "Cooldown")
-            button.name = getglobal(n .. "Name")
-            button.flashing = button.flashing or 0
-            button.flashtime = button.flashtime or 0
-            -- The grid count, same posture: a foreign button reaching ActionButton_HideGrid with
-            -- no count would raise on the arithmetic, which is 1199's class of silent-wrong-shape.
-            button.showgrid = button.showgrid or 0
-            -- The binding COMMAND, same posture again, and derived the way the REFERENCE derives
-            -- it on every read — `this.buttonType..this:GetID()` (ActionButton_UpdateHotkeys
-            -- l.126) — which is all our own OnLoad caches. Without it PaintHotkey would ask
-            -- `GetBindingKey(nil)` on somebody else's button the first time its well paints empty.
-            button.bindingCommand = button.bindingCommand
-                or ((button.buttonType or "ACTIONBUTTON") .. (button.index or button:GetID() or 1))
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            -- `index` falls back to the button's ID, which is where the REFERENCE reads it from:
-            -- `ActionButton_GetPagedID` uses `this:GetID()`, and our `.index` is only that value
-            -- cached at OnLoad. A button that inherits `ActionBarButtonTemplate` and wires its own
-            -- OnLoad — zBar.xml:7 does exactly this — never runs ours, so `.index` is nil while
-            -- `GetID()` is set from the XML `id=`. Before the fallback, our own handler raised
-            -- `ActionBar.xml:228: arithmetic on local 'index'` on somebody else's button.
-            --
-            -- Still nothing? Action 0, which is not a real slot: every reader answers nil for it
-            -- and the button draws empty. Deliberately not an early `return nil` — the callers are
-            -- arithmetic all the way down, and a nil would move the raise rather than remove it.
-            local index = button.index or button:GetID() or 0
-            if button.base then
-                return button.base + index
-            end
-            -- The overlay's own buttons (ref ActionButton_GetPagedID:447-452): the LIVE bonus
-            -- page — with lastBonusBar standing in once the offset has dropped, so the
-            -- down-slide keeps painting (and a click mid-descent keeps using) the old form's
-            -- slots, ref-verbatim. Distinct from the main bar's DisplayedOffset suppression:
-            -- these buttons show the NEW page from the first slide frame.
-            if button.isBonus then
-                local offset = GetBonusBarOffset()
-                if offset == 0 then
-                    local frame = getglobal("BonusActionBarFrame")
-                    offset = (frame and frame.lastBonusBar) or 1
-                end
-                return (6 + offset - 1) * 12 + index
-            end
-            return BenillaActionBar_ActionFor(index)
-        end
-
-        -- Hover: SetAction's pure delegation (decision 0276 — a SPELL slot renders the spell
-        -- tooltip with its rank column, an ITEM slot the shared item renderer; ref
-        -- ActionButton_SetTooltip). The re-enter keeps it live across page flips.
-        -- Anchor: ref ActionButton_SetTooltip (ActionButton.lua l.366-372) branches on the
-        -- UberTooltips CVar — "1" → the default corner, else beside the button, LEFT for the bars
-        -- that sit at the screen edge and RIGHT for the rest. This branch was collapsed to the "1"
-        -- leg until B230, on the reason that benilla shipped no CVar state for anything to move
-        -- it; 0954 ended that and cvars.rs now registers the key (default "1", byte-read — the
-        -- evidence lives on that row), so the fork is live and the stock look is unchanged.
-        --
-        -- The ref's LEFT set is {MultiBarBottomRight, MultiBarRight, MultiBarLeft} — the three bars
-        -- that sit at (or against) the right edge, so their plates have to open toward the centre.
-        -- All three exist here now: the two VERTICAL bars landed with 1219 and became player
-        -- options with 1500, and this comment said "only the first exists" for as long as that was
-        -- true. Membership is by FRAME, not by visibility — a hidden bar is never hovered anyway.
-        function BenillaActionButton_OnEnter(button)
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            if not GameTooltip then return end -- engine tests load file subsets
-            if GetCVar("UberTooltips") == "0" then
-                -- `parent and` first: an orphan button's nil parent would otherwise match a nil
-                -- MultiBarRight in a harness that loaded no multibars, and anchor the wrong way.
-                local parent = button:GetParent()
-                local edgeBar = parent and (parent == MultiBarBottomRight
-                    or parent == MultiBarRight or parent == MultiBarLeft)
-                if edgeBar then GameTooltip:SetOwner(button, "ANCHOR_LEFT") else GameTooltip:SetOwner(button, "ANCHOR_RIGHT") end
-            else
-                GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor(GameTooltip, button)
-            end
-            GameTooltip:SetAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(button))
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(button, index, base, commandPrefix)
-            button.index = index
-            button.base = base
-            button.icon = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Icon")
-            button.hotkey = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "HotKey")
-            button.count = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Count")
-            button.flash = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Flash")
-            button.border = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Border")
-            button.cooldown = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Cooldown")
-            button.name = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Name")
-            -- Ref ActionButton_OnLoad:104-106: the flash/range state the OnUpdate loop drives.
-            button.flashing = 0
-            button.flashtime = 0
-            button.rangeTimer = nil
-            -- ref ActionButton_OnLoad l.104: the empty-well grid count starts at zero.
-            button.showgrid = 0
-            -- Every bar button carries its binding COMMAND (0997 main bar, 1008 multibars):
-            -- the caller names the command family (MultiBars.xml passes MULTIACTIONBAR1/2BUTTON
-            -- — the ref's own bar↔page mapping quoted there); nothing passed = the main bar's
-            -- ACTIONBUTTON. The label paints from it here and repaints on UPDATE_BINDINGS.
-            button.bindingCommand = (commandPrefix or "ACTIONBUTTON") .. index
-            BenillaActionButton_PaintHotkey(button)
-            table.insert(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS, button)
-            -- BOTH mouse buttons, ref-verbatim (ActionButton_OnLoad, ActionButton.lua:108-109):
-            -- an action button is a two-button button. The OnClick body reads no `arg1` — in the
-            -- ref either button runs the same PickupAction/UseAction fork — so right-click USES
-            -- the action, which is how food and spells are used off the bar. Without this the
-            -- widget default ({"LeftButtonUp"}, `benilla_ui::script::button`) silently swallowed
-            -- every right-click on the bar (director's report B200).
-            button:RegisterForClicks("LeftButtonUp", "RightButtonUp")
-            -- The drag trio (decision 0216 §3/§7): click-carry and drag share one downstream path
-            -- by construction (OnClick/OnDragStart both call PickupAction; OnReceiveDrag calls
-            -- PlaceAction — ref ActionBarFrame.xml:12-38). Both buttons drag, ref-verbatim too
-            -- (l.108) — a started drag suppresses the click, so right-press-and-move relocates the
-            -- action while right-click-in-place still uses it. Both drag ends honour LOCK_ACTIONBAR
-            -- since 1136 — see the guards themselves for what the lock does and does not stop.
-            button:RegisterForDrag("LeftButton", "RightButton")
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ActionBarFrame.xml:12-22's fork verbatim: shift picks up, else uses (checkCursor=1 —
-        -- the engine routes a click-with-payload to PlaceAction instead, decision 0216 §7).
-        function BenillaActionButton_OnClick(button)
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            local action = BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            if IsShiftKeyDown() then
-                PickupAction(action)
-            else
-                UseAction(action, 1)
-            end
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        -- The lock (ref ActionBarFrame.xml:23-38, both handlers wrapped in `if LOCK_ACTIONBAR ~= "1"
-        -- then … end`). Note what the reference does NOT guard, and neither do we: the shift-click
-        -- pick-up in OnClick above (its l.12-22 fork runs PickupAction unconditionally). So the lock
-        -- stops the *drag*, and shift-click stays the deliberate way to move an action with the bar
-        -- locked — which is what makes the setting usable rather than a wall.
-        function BenillaActionButton_OnDragStart(button)
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            if LOCK_ACTIONBAR == "1" then return end
-            PickupAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(button))
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionButton_OnReceiveDrag(button)
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            if LOCK_ACTIONBAR == "1" then return end
-            PlaceAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(button))
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        -- The default ACTIONBUTTON1..12 key bindings (ref Bindings.xml:121-127: keys 1..9,0,-,=
-        -- run ActionButtonDown on keystate "down" and ActionButtonUp on "up" via runOnUp), both
-        -- re-expressed from ActionButton.lua:15-28/30-45 and routed here from the app's key feed.
-        -- DOWN pushes the button only from NORMAL; UP fires the action only from PUSHED — the
-        -- state pair is both the pushed visual and the debounce (a key-repeat DOWN or a stray UP
-        -- is a no-op). Calls UseAction DIRECTLY with NO checkCursor argument — unlike the
-        -- mouse-click fork above, a keybind never places (decision 0216 §7: the ref itself never
-        -- routes ActionButtonUp through OnClick, so this no longer goes through Click() either —
-        -- the two entry points share the id formula, not the click path). The ref's
-        -- BonusActionBar fork is not modeled (no bonus bar frame).
-        --
-        -- SIGNATURES ARE THE 1.12 ONES (decision 1199): `ActionButtonDown(id)` /
-        -- `ActionButtonUp(id, onSelf)`, the shapes an addon calls. These two never took a frame —
-        -- they take the bar INDEX in both clients — so nothing here changes but the names and the
-        -- restored `onSelf`, which rides through to UseAction's third argument exactly as the ref's
-        -- l.56 does (our binding accepts and ignores it — `script/action.rs`).
-        -- Both route to the overlay's buttons while it is up — ref ActionButton.lua:15-61's own
-        -- fork, and the half of the swap that must NOT wait for the slide: the overlay is shown
-        -- from the first slide frame, so a key pressed the instant you enter stealth already
-        -- drives the stealth page (and, during the down-slide, still drives the old form's page —
-        -- lastBonusBar — exactly as the reference does).
-        function ActionButtonDown(id)
-            if BonusActionBarFrame:IsShown() then
-                local button = getglobal("BonusActionButton" .. id)
-                if ( button:GetButtonState() == "NORMAL" ) then button:SetButtonState("PUSHED") end
-                return
-            end
-            local button = getglobal("ActionButton" .. id)
-            if ( button:GetButtonState() == "NORMAL" ) then button:SetButtonState("PUSHED") end
-        end
-
-        function ActionButtonUp(id, onSelf)
-            local button
-            if BonusActionBarFrame:IsShown() then
-                button = getglobal("BonusActionButton" .. id)
-            else
-                button = getglobal("ActionButton" .. id)
-            end
-            if ( button:GetButtonState() == "PUSHED" ) then
-                button:SetButtonState("NORMAL")
-                UseAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(button), 0, onSelf)
-                -- Ref ActionButtonUp:55-59: the checked ring reflects the use immediately.
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateState(button)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ActionButton_UpdateState:261-267 — the checked ring: the current action (Attack
-        -- while auto-attacking, the in-flight cast) or the live auto-repeat spell.
-        function BenillaActionButton_UpdateState(button)
-            local action = BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            if ( IsCurrentAction(action) or IsAutoRepeatAction(action) ) then button:SetChecked(1) else button:SetChecked(0) end
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ActionButton_UpdateUsable:269-283, verbatim colors: usable white; out of power the
-        -- blue-grey 0.5/0.5/1.0 on icon AND ring; otherwise-unusable the 0.4 grey icon only.
-        function BenillaActionButton_UpdateUsable(button)
-            local action = BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            local normalTexture = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "NormalTexture")
-            local isUsable, notEnoughMana = IsUsableAction(action)
-            if ( isUsable ) then
-                button.icon:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-                normalTexture:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-            elseif ( notEnoughMana ) then
-                button.icon:SetVertexColor(0.5, 0.5, 1.0)
-                normalTexture:SetVertexColor(0.5, 0.5, 1.0)
-            else
-                button.icon:SetVertexColor(0.4, 0.4, 0.4)
-                normalTexture:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ActionButton_UpdateCooldown:294-298.
-        function BenillaActionButton_UpdateCooldown(button)
-            local start, duration, enable = GetActionCooldown(BenillaActionButton_Action(button))
-            CooldownFrame_SetTimer(button.cooldown, start, duration, enable)
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ActionButton_UpdateFlash/StartFlash/StopFlash/IsFlashing:469-496: the red blink on
-        -- an engaged Attack button / a live auto-repeat, toggled by the OnUpdate loop below.
-        function BenillaActionButton_UpdateFlash(button)
-            local action = BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            if ( (IsAttackAction(action) and IsCurrentAction(action)) or IsAutoRepeatAction(action) ) then
-                BenillaActionButton_StartFlash(button)
-            else
-                BenillaActionButton_StopFlash(button)
-            end
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionButton_StartFlash(button)
-            button.flashing = 1
-            button.flashtime = 0
-            BenillaActionButton_UpdateState(button)
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionButton_StopFlash(button)
-            button.flashing = 0
-            button.flash:Hide()
-            BenillaActionButton_UpdateState(button)
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ActionButton_OnUpdate:384-428, minus the tooltip refresh (no per-button tooltip
-        -- yet): the 0.4 s flash toggle, and the 0.2 s range recheck — a bound slot's label
-        -- tints red/grey, an unbound one wears the RANGE_INDICATOR dot (both legs the ref's,
-        -- unified in 1008 — the SCOPE note).
-        function ActionButton_OnUpdate(elapsed)
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(this)
-            local button = this
-            if ( button.flashing == 1 ) then
-                button.flashtime = button.flashtime - elapsed
-                if ( button.flashtime <= 0 ) then
-                    local overtime = -button.flashtime
-                    if ( overtime >= ATTACK_BUTTON_FLASH_TIME ) then
-                        overtime = 0
-                    end
-                    button.flashtime = ATTACK_BUTTON_FLASH_TIME - overtime
-                    if ( button.flash:IsVisible() ) then
-                        button.flash:Hide()
-                    else
-                        button.flash:Show()
-                    end
-                end
-            end
-            if ( button.rangeTimer ) then
-                button.rangeTimer = button.rangeTimer - elapsed
-                if ( button.rangeTimer <= 0 ) then
-                    if ( IsActionInRange(BenillaActionButton_Action(button)) == 0 ) then
-                        -- An UNBOUND button has no label to tint: paint the ref's
-                        -- RANGE_INDICATOR dot instead (net ref behavior — red dot iff out of
-                        -- range). Since 1008 the fork is the binding text itself (any bar's
-                        -- slot can be bound or bare now), not which bar owns the button.
-                        if button.noBindingLabel then
-                            button.hotkey:SetText("●")
-                        end
-                        button.hotkey:SetVertexColor(1.0, 0.1, 0.1)
-                    else
-                        if button.noBindingLabel then
-                            button.hotkey:SetText("")
-                        end
-                        button.hotkey:SetVertexColor(0.6, 0.6, 0.6)
-                    end
-                    button.rangeTimer = TOOLTIP_UPDATE_TIME
-                end
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- the ref's count law (ActionButton.lua:285-292), re-expressed here. The gate is
-        -- IsConsumableAction, NOT "count > 0": a consumable you have run out of shows a literal
-        -- "0", and an item that is not consumable (a mount, a trinket, a bag) shows nothing at
-        -- all, however many copies you hold.
-        function BenillaActionButton_UpdateCount(button)
-            local action = BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            if IsConsumableAction(action) then
-                button.count:SetText(GetActionCount(action))
-            else
-                button.count:SetText("")
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- ── The reference's names, so an addon that hooks them is reached ──────────────────────
-        --
-        -- The 1.12 customisation model is "replace a global and the client calls your replacement"
-        -- (Bagnon does it to `ToggleBackpack`; `zBar`/`zBarEx` do
-        -- `SetScript("OnShow", ActionButton_Update)`; `CT_BarMod` calls `ActionButton_Update()`
-        -- outright). Wherever our UI calls a `Benilla`-named function and never the reference's
-        -- name, every one of those addons is SILENTLY INERT — the override is installed and never
-        -- invoked. A survey cannot see it; it loads addons and fires events but never clicks.
-        --
-        -- These are ADAPTERS, not renames, and the distinction is the whole point: the reference's
-        -- contract is `this`-shaped and no-argument, ours takes the button explicitly. Renaming
-        -- would let `TipBuddy`'s `originalUnitFrame_OnEnter()` reach us with a nil frame — reachable
-        -- but broken, which is worse than inert. The adapter publishes the reference's SHAPE and
-        -- delegates.
-        --
-        -- NOT adapted, and named so nobody assumes it was missed: `ActionButton_OnLoad`. Ours is
-        -- `(button, index, base, commandPrefix)` and the reference's takes nothing — the extra
-        -- arguments are real state our per-container registration needs, so no adapter can supply
-        -- them. That is the per-button event registration change already at the top of the arc
-        -- queue, not a naming fix.
-        -- **`ActionButton_OnLoad()` — the reference's own, taking nothing and reading `this`.**
-        --
-        -- This sat at the top of the arc queue for the whole wave, recorded as unadaptable: ours
-        -- takes `(button, index, base, commandPrefix)` and the reference's takes none, so "no
-        -- adapter can supply them". Reading ref ActionButton.lua:103-119 shows that was wrong —
-        -- the reference derives all three from `this` and it is our own signature that caches
-        -- them:
-        --
-        --   index          -> `this:GetID()` (what ActionButton_GetPagedID reads)
-        --   commandPrefix  -> `this.buttonType`, a field the BAR sets, "ACTIONBUTTON" by default
-        --                     (ref l.118 `ActionButton_UpdateHotkeys(this.buttonType)`)
-        --   base           -> not an OnLoad concept at all; the reference forks on the PARENT's
-        --                     NAME at read time. A foreign bar ("zBar1") matches no multibar, so
-        --                     the paged/bonus formula applies — which is what leaving `base` nil
-        --                     already does here.
-        --
-        -- The events are registered on the BUTTON, as the reference does, and reach it through the
-        -- `<OnEvent>` this change adds to `ActionBarButtonTemplate`. Our own bars do NOT call this
-        -- and never register, so they keep being driven by the BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS fan-out and
-        -- cannot be double-driven.
-        function ActionButton_OnLoad()
-            local button = this
-            if not button then return end
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            button.index = button.index or button:GetID()
-            button.bindingCommand = (button.buttonType or "ACTIONBUTTON") .. (button.index or 1)
-            button.showgrid = 0
-            button.flashing = 0
-            button.flashtime = 0
-            button:RegisterForDrag("LeftButton", "RightButton")
-            button:RegisterForClicks("LeftButtonUp", "RightButtonUp")
-            button:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            button:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR")
-            button:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID")
-            button:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID")
-            button:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED")
-            button:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED")
-            button:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_BINDINGS")
-            BenillaActionButton_PaintHotkey(button)
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        -- The per-button event arm the reference's own template carries. Only buttons that ran
-        -- `ActionButton_OnLoad` ever registered, so this is a no-op for ours.
-        function ActionButton_OnEvent()
-            local button = this
-            if not button then return end
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            -- Through the two verbs, ref-verbatim in shape (ActionButton_OnEvent l.317-324) and
-            -- no longer the 1/0 assignment this arm shipped with: `showgrid` is a COUNT now, and a
-            -- foreign button handed a bare 0 while the option still wanted its wells open would
-            -- close them. Each verb repaints, so these arms return rather than fall through.
-            if event == "ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID" then
-                ActionButton_ShowGrid(button)
-                return
-            elseif event == "ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID" then
-                ActionButton_HideGrid(button)
-                return
-            elseif event == "UPDATE_BINDINGS" then
-                BenillaActionButton_PaintHotkey(button)
-            end
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        -- ref ActionButton.lua:446 — the action id a button displays, forked on its parent bar.
-        -- `BenillaActionButton_Action` IS this function; only the name was ours. CT_BarMod calls it
-        -- the moment there is an action to page, which is why an EMPTY-world survey never saw it:
-        -- it surfaced only when the fixture started seating a populated session.
-        function ActionButton_GetPagedID(button)
-            return BenillaActionButton_Action(button or this)
-        end
-
-        function ActionButton_Update()
-            -- Adopt here too: this adapter carries the REFERENCE's name, so `this` is very often a
-            -- button somebody else built (zBar's, CT_BarMod's) that never ran our OnLoad and so has
-            -- no region cache. The handler-boundary adopts do not cover it — an addon calls this
-            -- global directly, without any of our scripts in the stack.
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(this)
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(this)
-        end
-
-        function ActionButton_UpdateUsable()
-            BenillaActionButton_UpdateUsable(this)
-        end
-
-        -- ── The empty-slot grid (ref ActionButton.lua l.243-260) ────────────────────────────────
-        -- `button.showgrid` is a COUNT of how many things currently want this button's empty well
-        -- visible, and it is the reference's own field under its own name — see the SCOPE note for
-        -- why a count and not a flag, and for the three corpus addons that already write it.
-        --
-        -- Today there are exactly two askers and they are independent: the cursor's placeable
-        -- payload (the ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID/_HIDEGRID pair, fanned over the whole roster in
-        -- BenillaActionBar_OnEvent) and ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS (MultiBars.xml's
-        -- MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility, over the four extra bars only). Either alone holds
-        -- the wells open; the count is what lets one let go without closing what the other holds.
-        --
-        -- Divergence from the ref, deliberate: ours re-derive the whole button through
-        -- BenillaActionButton_Update rather than doing their own Show/Hide + vertex tint. There is
-        -- one paint path in this file and the grid is one of its inputs, so a verb that painted
-        -- directly would be a second, slightly different answer to "what does an empty well look
-        -- like" — which is how the two got out of step in the ref (its ShowGrid dims the ring, its
-        -- Update never restores the dim).
-        function BenillaActionButton_GridShown(button)
-            return button.showgrid ~= nil and button.showgrid > 0
-        end
-
-        function ActionButton_ShowGrid(button)
-            button = button or this
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            button.showgrid = (button.showgrid or 0) + 1
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        function ActionButton_HideGrid(button)
-            button = button or this
-            BenillaActionButton_Adopt(button)
-            -- Clamped at zero. The ref subtracts unconditionally and can go negative — a button
-            -- that joined the roster mid-payload takes one HIDEGRID it never took a SHOWGRID for,
-            -- and from then on its wells need TWO shows to open. Ours simply cannot owe.
-            local count = (button.showgrid or 0) - 1
-            if count < 0 then count = 0 end
-            button.showgrid = count
-            BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-        end
-
-        -- ── The ring: art and tint set TOGETHER ────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- One well, one answer to "what does it look like". Setting the two apart is precisely how
-        -- the reference's own pair got out of step: ActionButton_ShowGrid (ActionButton.lua:247)
-        -- dims the ring and ActionButton_Update, the only thing that ever repaints it, never
-        -- restores the dim.
-        --
-        -- `ghost` is that dim, the ref's own SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5), and it is not
-        -- cosmetic trim. UI-Quickslot and UI-Quickslot2 are not two rings: Quickslot2 is a hollow
-        -- border (interior alpha 0), Quickslot is a FILLED plate — solid black at alpha 0.6 across
-        -- its whole middle (measured off the shipped BLPs). So the grid swap does not outline an
-        -- empty well, it fills it, and painting that plate opaque drops a 60%-black square into
-        -- every empty slot on every bar the moment a payload is picked up. The ref's half-alpha
-        -- takes it to 30%, where it reads as a drop-target hint rather than a hole. Ours skipped
-        -- the dim from 0216 to 1781 and the bars went dark under a held spell.
-        --
-        -- **Only the EMPTY well ghosts, and that is a DIVERGENCE — a chosen one (1782).** The
-        -- reference fans SHOWGRID to every button and dims each one, occupied included, and then
-        -- nothing ever clears it: `SetNormalTexture(path)` REUSES the region and touches only the
-        -- texture handle, and `UpdateUsable`'s three-argument SetVertexColor is
-        -- `SetVertexColor(r, g, b, currentAlpha)` — the binding asks a second time whether the
-        -- alpha argument is present and, when it is not, copies the alpha it just read back over
-        -- the 1.0 default. Both byte-verified: wow-re `system/ui/scratch/
-        -- button-state-texture-path-setter.md` §2/§7 (`0x778f10`, `0x770200`, `0x79adfe`).
-        --
-        -- So in stock 1.12.1 the FIRST spell anyone picks up leaves every action button's border at
-        -- vertex alpha 0x80 for the rest of the session, occupied slots included. That is a stuck
-        -- state, not a look: it is keyed to nothing the player can see, it never comes back, and
-        -- reproducing it would fade the whole bar permanently on the first drag. We take the look
-        -- the dim was written for — the wells the grid opens read as drop targets — and let go of
-        -- it with the payload. 1782 is why, and what we would need to see to revisit it.
-        function BenillaActionButton_SetRing(button, texture, ghost)
-            button:SetNormalTexture(texture)
-            -- The derived name, exactly as UpdateUsable reaches the same region (and as the ref
-            -- reaches it); nil only for an anonymous foreign button, which has no wells of ours.
-            local name = button:GetName()
-            local normal = name and getglobal(name .. "NormalTexture")
-            if not normal then return end
-            if ghost then
-                normal:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5)
-            else
-                -- The fourth argument is written OUT, never left to the default. Our binding
-                -- currently reads an absent alpha as 1.0 and the reference reads it as the alpha
-                -- already there (above); the day that divergence is closed, a 3-argument call here
-                -- would preserve the 0.5 it is supposed to be clearing and the ghost would become
-                -- exactly the stuck state this function exists to avoid — silently, with no test
-                -- touching this file able to see it. Saying 1.0 out loud is correct under either.
-                normal:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-            end
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-            local action = BenillaActionButton_Action(button)
-            if HasAction(action) then
-                button.icon:SetTexture(GetActionTexture(action) or BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON)
-                button.icon:Show()
-                -- Full alpha here only to clear whatever the ring last wore; the real occupied
-                -- tint is UpdateUsable's, below.
-                BenillaActionButton_SetRing(button, "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot2", false)
-                button:Show()
-                button.rangeTimer = -1
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateCount(button)
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateState(button)
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateUsable(button)
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateCooldown(button)
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateFlash(button)
-            else
-                -- ref l.168: the empty arm HIDES the icon region — it does not clear the path. The
-                -- distinction is load-bearing here: UpdateUsable's SetVertexColor tint survives a
-                -- SetTexture(nil) ("a tint outlives the art"), and an occupied slot going empty on
-                -- a character switch left that white tint on a pathless region — the solid white
-                -- buttons of the 2026-08-07 report (decision 1108, with the engine-side draw gate).
-                button.icon:Hide()
-                button.count:SetText("")
-                button.cooldown:Hide()
-                button.rangeTimer = nil
-                button.hotkey:SetVertexColor(0.6, 0.6, 0.6)
-                -- REPAINTED, never blanked (B348). The label belongs to PaintHotkey, and it is
-                -- the ref's own arrangement: `ActionButton_Update`'s empty arm touches the corner's
-                -- COLOUR only (ref l.167-172), while `ActionButton_UpdateHotkeys`' bound leg writes
-                -- the binding text whether or not the slot holds an action — so a bound-but-empty
-                -- well wears its key. Repainting here rather than leaving the text alone also
-                -- clears what the OnUpdate range timer may have left on an UNBOUND slot: the ref
-                -- keeps that "●" on a well that has just emptied (its OnUpdate then reads
-                -- IsActionInRange as nil and SHOWS the dot on an empty slot), which is a quirk of
-                -- reading the label back as state, not behaviour worth having.
-                BenillaActionButton_PaintHotkey(button)
-                button:SetChecked(0)
-                BenillaActionButton_StopFlash(button)
-                local grid = BenillaActionButton_GridShown(button)
-                if button.base then
-                    -- An EMPTY multibar well is the ref's own default: hidden entirely, appearing
-                    -- as a drop-target ring only while the grid is asked for (a held payload, or
-                    -- ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS). Only the MAIN bar keeps our always-visible wells
-                    -- divergence (the SCOPE note) — its art has sockets; floating rings over bare
-                    -- world would not read as a bar.
-                    if not grid then
-                        button:Hide()
-                    else
-                        BenillaActionButton_SetRing(button, "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot", true)
-                        button:Show()
-                    end
-                else
-                    -- While the grid is up, an empty slot shows the ref's own "no action" ring
-                    -- (Interface\Buttons\UI-Quickslot) so it reads as a drop target; otherwise the
-                    -- plain occupied-style ring, unchanged from before this slice (SCOPE note).
-                    --
-                    -- Either way the tint is WRITTEN, not left: this arm used to touch the ring's
-                    -- art and never its colour, so a slot emptied while out of power kept
-                    -- UpdateUsable's blue-grey 0.5/0.5/1.0 on a well with nothing in it — 1108's
-                    -- "a tint outlives the art" one region over. A ring that is only ever painted
-                    -- as a function of the button's state cannot carry the last one's history.
-                    if grid then
-                        BenillaActionButton_SetRing(button, "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot", true)
-                    else
-                        BenillaActionButton_SetRing(button, "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot2", false)
-                    end
-                end
-            end
-            -- Ref ActionButton_Update:221-228: the equipped-item green border.
-            if ( IsEquippedAction(action) ) then
-                button.border:SetVertexColor(0, 1.0, 0, 0.35)
-                button.border:Show()
-            else
-                button.border:Hide()
-            end
-            -- Ref ActionButton_Update:236-238, "Update Macro Text": the Name line under the icon,
-            -- written on EVERY update, occupied or not — `GetActionText` answers a MACRO slot's
-            -- macro name and nil for anything else, and a nil clears the line, so an emptied or
-            -- re-filled slot loses the old name through this same write. Guarded only because an
-            -- adopted foreign button may inherit a template that declares no `$parentName`.
-            -- (B340: the line was declared in the template and never set — decision 1636.)
-            if button.name then
-                button.name:SetText(GetActionText(action))
-            end
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionBar_OnLoad(frame)
-            frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID")
-            -- The state/feedback events (ref ActionButton_OnLoad's per-button set, registered
-            -- bar-level here — the SCOPE note): the app fires each on the byte-mapped client
-            -- edge (wow-re action-button-state-api.md).
-            frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_STATE")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_USABLE")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_AURAS_CHANGED")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTER_COMBAT")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LEAVE_COMBAT")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("START_AUTOREPEAT_SPELL")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("STOP_AUTOREPEAT_SPELL")
-            -- The binding table moved (a rebind, a set switch, the seed) — repaint the HotKey
-            -- corners (0997; the ref's own UPDATE_BINDINGS consumer is UpdateHotkeys too).
-            frame:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_BINDINGS")
-        end
-
-        -- Run one ref per-button handler over the OCCUPIED buttons (the bar-level fan — SCOPE
-        -- note). The HasAction gate is the ref's own semantics, load-bearing, not an optimization:
-        -- ActionButton.lua registers these handlers only while the button has an action ("All
-        -- event handlers below this line are only set when the button has an action"), so an
-        -- empty button never runs them — UpdateUsable on an empty would land its 0.4 grey
-        -- SetVertexColor on the texture-less icon region, which draws as a solid grey plate
-        -- (the director's empty-wells report, 2026-07-10).
-        function BenillaActionBar_ForEach(fn)
-            for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                local button = BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i]
-                if HasAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(button)) then
-                    fn(button)
-                end
-            end
-        end
-
-        function BenillaActionBar_OnEvent(frame)
-            -- The form/stance/stealth edge (ref BonusActionBar_OnEvent:20-35): start the overlay
-            -- slide, then FALL THROUGH to the tail — the roster repaint under the new state is
-            -- the same statement for this event as for any other. Deliberately in the handler
-            -- that repaints, not a second OnEvent on the overlay frame: one handler means the
-            -- slide state is set before any button paints, so there is no one-frame flash of the
-            -- new page before the suppression lands.
-            if event == "UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR" then
-                if GetBonusBarOffset() <= 0 then
-                    HideBonusActionBar()
-                else
-                    BonusActionBarFrame.lastBonusBar = GetBonusBarOffset()
-                    ShowBonusActionBar()
-                end
-            end
-            -- ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED names its action in arg1; repaint just the button showing it.
-            if event == "ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED" and arg1 then
-                for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                    local button = BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i]
-                    if BenillaActionButton_Action(button) == arg1 then
-                        BenillaActionButton_Update(button)
-                    end
-                end
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "UPDATE_BINDINGS" then
-                BenillaActionBar_UpdateHotkeys()
-                return
-            end
-            -- The ref ActionButton_OnEvent dispatch (l.332-362), fanned bar-level:
-            if event == "ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_STATE" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(BenillaActionButton_UpdateState)
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_USABLE" or event == "ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(BenillaActionButton_UpdateUsable)
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(BenillaActionButton_UpdateCooldown)
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED" or event == "PLAYER_AURAS_CHANGED" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(BenillaActionButton_UpdateUsable)
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "PLAYER_ENTER_COMBAT" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(function(b)
-                    if IsAttackAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(b)) then
-                        BenillaActionButton_StartFlash(b)
-                    end
-                end)
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "PLAYER_LEAVE_COMBAT" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(function(b)
-                    if IsAttackAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(b)) then
-                        BenillaActionButton_StopFlash(b)
-                    end
-                end)
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "START_AUTOREPEAT_SPELL" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(function(b)
-                    if IsAutoRepeatAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(b)) then
-                        BenillaActionButton_StartFlash(b)
-                    end
-                end)
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "STOP_AUTOREPEAT_SPELL" then
-                BenillaActionBar_ForEach(function(b)
-                    if b.flashing == 1 and not IsAttackAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(b)) then
-                        BenillaActionButton_StopFlash(b)
-                    end
-                end)
-                return
-            end
-            -- The payload edge, routed through the two PUBLISHED verbs rather than a private flag
-            -- — which is what makes Bartender2's `self:Hook("ActionButton_ShowGrid")` see a cursor
-            -- pick-up at all. The engine fires this pair strictly on the cursor's None↔Some edges
-            -- (`script/model.rs`), so the count it drives is balanced by construction.
-            if event == "ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID" or event == "ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID" then
-                local show = (event == "ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID")
-                for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                    if show then
-                        ActionButton_ShowGrid(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i])
-                    else
-                        ActionButton_HideGrid(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i])
-                    end
-                end
-                return -- each verb already repainted its own button
-            end
-            for i = 1, table.getn(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS) do
-                BenillaActionButton_Update(BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS[i])
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The XP bar (ref-MainMenuBar.lua MainMenuExpBar_Update): value = current XP within the
-        -- level, max = XP-to-level. Both from the player-global UnitXP feed (PLAYER_XP /
-        -- PLAYER_NEXT_LEVEL_XP). currXP >= 0 so min(0,currXP) is just 0.
-        function MainMenuExpBar_Update()
-            local bar = this
-            local currXP = UnitXP("player")
-            local nextXP = UnitXPMax("player")
-            bar:SetMinMaxValues(0, nextXP)
-            bar:SetValue(currXP)
-        end
-
-        function BenillaExpBar_OnLoad(bar)
-            bar:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            bar:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_XP_UPDATE")
-            -- The numerals seam (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.117-120: TextStatusBar_Initialize() +
-            -- textLockable in the bar's own OnLoad; TextStatusBar.xml). textLockable is what lets
-            -- the statusBarText cvar pin the numerals on permanently.
-            if TextStatusBar_Initialize then -- engine tests load file subsets
-                TextStatusBar_Initialize()
-                bar.textLockable = 1
-            end
-            MainMenuExpBar_Update()
-        end
-
-        -- ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.121-126: repaint, then hand arg1/arg2 to the CVAR_UPDATE watcher.
-        function BenillaExpBar_OnEvent(bar)
-            MainMenuExpBar_Update()
-            if TextStatusBar_OnEvent then TextStatusBar_OnEvent(arg1, arg2) end
-        end
-
-        -- The XP bar's hover (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.136-147, MainMenuExpBar's own OnEnter/OnLeave).
-        -- ref GlobalStrings.lua l.5461 / l.2789 / l.1929-1932 (enUS), in the `X = X or` FALLBACK
-        -- form: the app runs the real localized GlobalStrings.lua off the patch chain BEFORE this
-        -- file (ui_script/mod.rs load_global_strings), so the installed locale wins and these
-        -- copies only fill in for the test harnesses, which load no patch chain.
-        -- CombatText.xml's shape.
-        XPBAR_LABEL = XPBAR_LABEL or "XP Bar"
-        NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_XPBAR = NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_XPBAR or "The amount of experience (XP) you have earned. The color of the XP bar indicates your rest state: light blue for Rested, and purple for Normal. Rested players earn twice the experience they would normally gain from slaying a monster. Characters become less rested when they kill monsters, and more rested by spending time at or logging out at an inn or city."
-        EXHAUST_TOOLTIP1 = EXHAUST_TOOLTIP1 or "|cffffd200%s|r\n|cffffffff%d%% of normal experience\ngained from monsters.|r"
-        EXHAUST_TOOLTIP2 = EXHAUST_TOOLTIP2 or "\n|cffff0000You should rest at an Inn.|r"
-        EXHAUST_TOOLTIP4 = EXHAUST_TOOLTIP4 or "\n\n|cffffd200Resting|r\n|cffffffffYou must rest for %d additional\nminutes to become|r |cffffd200Fully Rested|r|cffffffff.|r"
-
-        -- The ref OnEnter's full body (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.136-141), now that its machinery
-        -- exists (decision 1082): the on-bar numerals (TextStatusBar.xml), the 1 s armed timer
-        -- that appends the rest-state line to the held-open tooltip, and canAddRestStateLine —
-        -- the handshake ExhaustionToolTipText's newbie-tips branch reads. The trailing 1
-        -- is the ref's noNormalText: with detailed tips OFF this hover shows NOTHING rather than
-        -- a bare "XP Bar". Transcribed, though 1.12's default (0661) never takes it.
-        function BenillaExpBar_OnEnter(bar)
-            if TextStatusBar_UpdateTextString then -- engine tests load file subsets
-                TextStatusBar_UpdateTextString(bar)
-                ShowTextStatusBarText(bar)
-            end
-            ExhaustionTick.timer = 1
-            if not GameTooltip_AddNewbieTip then return end
-            BenillaTooltip_AddNewbieTipFor(bar, XPBAR_LABEL, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_XPBAR, 1)
-            GameTooltip.canAddRestStateLine = 1
-        end
-
-        function BenillaExpBar_OnLeave(bar)
-            if HideTextStatusBarText then HideTextStatusBarText(bar) end
-            if GameTooltip then GameTooltip:Hide() end
-            ExhaustionTick.timer = nil
-        end
-
-        -- The watch bar's own script — `ReputationWatchBar_Update`, the two text verbs,
-        -- `MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL` and `FACTION_BAR_COLORS` — is the REFERENCE's, in the same file that
-        -- declares the bar (1875). `ExhaustionTick_Update` below still reads
-        -- `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice: that coupling is the reference's own, and it is why
-        -- every action-bar-shaped harness now loads the reputation pane.
-
-        -- ── The exhaustion tick (ref-MainMenuBar.lua ExhaustionTick_*) ────────────────────────
-        -- The round marker riding the XP bar at the point where rested XP runs out, plus the
-        -- pale fill between the bar's value and that point. NOTHING of the specification is cut
-        -- here any more: the two ReputationWatchBar guards that used to be missing (the
-        -- max-level-plus-rep tick hide, ref-MainMenuBar.lua l.51-54, and the
-        -- rep-bar-replaced-the-xp-bar hide, l.69-71) were dropped as UNREACHABLE — the watch bar
-        -- could never show — and it shows now, so both are live in ExhaustionTick_Update below.
-        -- The MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar guard is live since 1094.
-        --
-        -- The rest-state palette, keyed by GetRestState's own state id (ref-MainMenuBar.lua
-        -- l.56-66 is the specification; the two rgb triples are its). Rested is the light blue,
-        -- normal the purple; the ids above 2 are the beta-era tiers the live server never sends and
-        -- the reference paints nothing for either.
-        BENILLA_REST_STATE_COLOR = {
-            [1] = { r = 0.0, g = 0.39, b = 0.88 },
-            [2] = { r = 0.58, g = 0.0, b = 0.55 },
-        }
-
-        function ExhaustionTick_OnLoad()
-            local tick = this
-            tick:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            tick:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_XP_UPDATE")
-            tick:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_EXHAUSTION")
-            tick:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LEVEL_UP")
-            tick:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING")
-        end
-
-        function ExhaustionTick_Update()
-            local tick = this
-            if event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" or event == "PLAYER_XP_UPDATE"
-                or event == "UPDATE_EXHAUSTION" or event == "PLAYER_LEVEL_UP" then
-                local playerCurrXP = UnitXP("player")
-                local playerMaxXP = UnitXPMax("player")
-                local exhaustionThreshold = GetXPExhaustion()
-                local exhaustionStateID = GetRestState()
-                -- The ref's beta-eras leftover: the tired/exhausted tiers (id >= 3) park the tick
-                -- at the bar's RIGHT end. The live server never produces them (GetRestState's
-                -- binding note) — kept because the ref keeps it.
-                if exhaustionStateID >= 3 then
-                    tick:SetPoint("CENTER", "MainMenuExpBar", "RIGHT", 0, 0)
-                end
-                if not exhaustionThreshold then
-                    tick:Hide()
-                    ExhaustionLevelFillBar:Hide()
-                else
-                    local exhaustionTickSet = max(((playerCurrXP + exhaustionThreshold)
-                        / playerMaxXP) * MainMenuExpBar:GetWidth(), 0)
-                    tick:ClearAllPoints()
-                    if exhaustionTickSet > MainMenuExpBar:GetWidth()
-                        or MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar:IsShown() then
-                        tick:Hide()
-                        ExhaustionLevelFillBar:Hide()
-                    else
-                        tick:Show()
-                        tick:SetPoint("CENTER", "MainMenuExpBar", "LEFT", exhaustionTickSet, 0)
-                        ExhaustionLevelFillBar:Show()
-                        ExhaustionLevelFillBar:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT", "MainMenuExpBar",
-                            "TOPLEFT", exhaustionTickSet, 0)
-                    end
-                end
-                -- ref-MainMenuBar.lua l.51-54: at max level with a watched faction the strip the
-                -- tick rides is the REPUTATION bar, which has no rested pool — hide the tick.
-                if UnitLevel("player") == MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL and ReputationWatchBar:IsShown() then ExhaustionTick:Hide() end
-            end
-            -- The rest-state paint (only these two events repaint it, the ref's own split): one
-            -- rest state, one hue, worn by all three pieces at once — the strip's fill, the pale
-            -- wash up to the tick at a sixth alpha, and the tick's own ADD highlight. A state with
-            -- no row paints nothing, which is what the reference's if/elseif does for every id but
-            -- these two (and GetRestState answers nil off a wire that has not spoken yet, which
-            -- indexes to the same nothing).
-            if event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" or event == "UPDATE_EXHAUSTION" then
-                local rest = BENILLA_REST_STATE_COLOR[GetRestState()]
-                if rest then
-                    MainMenuExpBar:SetStatusBarColor(rest.r, rest.g, rest.b, 1.0)
-                    ExhaustionLevelFillBar:SetVertexColor(rest.r, rest.g, rest.b, 0.15)
-                    ExhaustionTickHighlight:SetVertexColor(rest.r, rest.g, rest.b)
-                end
-            end
-            -- ref-MainMenuBar.lua l.69-71, the function's own last statement: the watch bar has
-            -- REPLACED the XP bar (max level), so there is no XP strip left for the tick to sit on
-            -- whatever the event was. Distinct from the guard above, which only runs on the four
-            -- position events; this one runs on every one.
-            if ReputationWatchBar:IsShown() and not MainMenuExpBar:IsShown() then ExhaustionTick:Hide() end
-        end
-
-        -- The tick's tooltip (ref-MainMenuBar.lua ExhaustionToolTipText, the live branches only —
-        -- its own dead commented-out code is not carried). Two callers, two postures: hovering
-        -- the TICK anchors the plate beside it (flipped to whichever side has room); the armed
-        -- 1 s timer from the BAR hover instead APPENDS the line to the already-open newbie tip,
-        -- gated on canAddRestStateLine. EXHAUST_TOOLTIP4 (time to fully rested) needs
-        -- GetTimeToWellRested, which is nil on this wire — the line simply never renders,
-        -- faithfully (the binding's note).
-        function ExhaustionToolTipText()
-            if SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS ~= "1" then
-                local x, y = ExhaustionTick:GetCenter()
-                if not ExhaustionTick:IsVisible() then
-                    GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor(GameTooltip, UIParent)
-                elseif x >= (GetScreenWidth() / 2) then
-                    GameTooltip:SetOwner(ExhaustionTick, "ANCHOR_LEFT")
-                else
-                    GameTooltip:SetOwner(ExhaustionTick, "ANCHOR_RIGHT")
-                end
-            end
-            local exhaustionThreshold = GetXPExhaustion()
-            local exhaustionStateID, exhaustionStateName, exhaustionStateMultiplier = GetRestState()
-            exhaustionStateMultiplier = exhaustionStateMultiplier * 100
-            -- nil while the wire has not answered; a number (minutes) once it has.
-            local exhaustionCountdown = GetTimeToWellRested() and GetTimeToWellRested() / 60
-            local tooltipText = format(EXHAUST_TOOLTIP1, exhaustionStateName,
-                exhaustionStateMultiplier)
-            local append = nil
-            if IsResting() then
-                if exhaustionThreshold and exhaustionCountdown then append = format(EXHAUST_TOOLTIP4, exhaustionCountdown) end
-            elseif exhaustionStateID == 4 or exhaustionStateID == 5 then
-                append = EXHAUST_TOOLTIP2
-            end
-            if append then
-                tooltipText = tooltipText .. append
-            end
-            if SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS ~= "1" then
-                GameTooltip:SetText(tooltipText)
-            elseif GameTooltip.canAddRestStateLine then
-                GameTooltip:AddLine("\n" .. tooltipText)
-                GameTooltip.canAddRestStateLine = nil
-                GameTooltip:Show()
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Driven from the XP BAR's OnUpdate (the ref wires it there, not on the tick — the timer
-        -- only ever counts while the mouse is on the bar, which is what arms it).
-        function ExhaustionTick_OnUpdate(elapsed)
-            if not ExhaustionTick.timer then return end
-            if ExhaustionTick.timer >= 0 then
-                ExhaustionTick.timer = ExhaustionTick.timer - elapsed
-            else
-                ExhaustionTick.timer = nil
-                ExhaustionToolTipText()
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.104-110 (the overlay child's OnLoad): the numerals wiring lives
-        -- in the OVERLAY frame's own OnLoad because there its FontString is guaranteed
-        -- materialized; the bar's lockShow starts at the not-hovered refcount.
-        function BenillaExpBarOverlay_OnLoad()
-            if SetTextStatusBarText then -- engine tests load file subsets
-                MainMenuExpBar.lockShow = 0
-                SetTextStatusBarText(MainMenuExpBar, MainMenuBarExpText)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- ── The performance ("ping") meter ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.344-407: a 16x64 frame in the bar's own right-hand recess whose
-        -- 20x66 bar texture is TINTED green/yellow/red by the connection's latency, plus an
-        -- all-points button on top for the hover tooltip. The thresholds, the 10 s poll and the
-        -- inline handlers below are the ref's, re-expressed out of its XML into named functions.
-        -- The meter shows LATENCY ONLY: 1.12 never scales the bar's height, only its color.
-        PERFORMANCEBAR_LOW_LATENCY = 300
-        PERFORMANCEBAR_MEDIUM_LATENCY = 600
-        PERFORMANCEBAR_UPDATE_INTERVAL = 10
-
-        -- ref-GlobalStrings.lua l.2659 / l.2689 / l.2746 (enUS), fallback form — see the XP bar's
-        -- note above for why these never override a real localized install.
-        MAINMENUBAR_LATENCY_LABEL = MAINMENUBAR_LATENCY_LABEL or "Latency:"
-        MILLISECONDS_ABBR = MILLISECONDS_ABBR or "ms"
-        NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_LATENCY = NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_LATENCY or "The average time it takes to talk with the game server. A low latency will display as a green bar, higher latencies will be yellow or even red. Consistently high latencies may indicate a problem with your Internet connection."
-
-        function BenillaPerformanceBar_OnLoad(frame)
-            frame.hover = nil
-            -- 0, not the interval: the ref's first OnUpdate tick runs the poll immediately, so the
-            -- bar is never briefly untinted (its texture is grey until the first SetVertexColor).
-            frame.updateInterval = 0
-        end
-
-        function BenillaPerformanceBar_TooltipText()
-            local _, _, latency = GetNetStats()
-            return MAINMENUBAR_LATENCY_LABEL .. " " .. latency .. MILLISECONDS_ABBR
-        end
-
-        -- ref l.389 (the held-open refresh) and l.400 (OnEnter), both the same call:
-        --     BenillaTooltip_AddNewbieTipFor(MAINMENUBAR_LATENCY_LABEL.." "..latency..MILLISECONDS_ABBR,
-        --                              1.0, 1.0, 1.0, NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_LATENCY)
-        -- So the reference hover is TWO lines — the number, then the wrapped explanation — seated
-        -- at the default screen corner, not beside the meter (GameTooltip.xml, decision 0661).
-        function BenillaPerformanceBar_ShowTooltip(owner)
-            if not GameTooltip_AddNewbieTip then return end -- engine tests load file subsets
-            BenillaTooltip_AddNewbieTipFor(owner, BenillaPerformanceBar_TooltipText(), 1.0, 1.0, 1.0,
-                NEWBIE_TOOLTIP_LATENCY)
-        end
-
-        function BenillaPerformanceBar_OnUpdate(frame, elapsed)
-            if frame.updateInterval > 0 then
-                frame.updateInterval = frame.updateInterval - elapsed
-                return
-            end
-            frame.updateInterval = PERFORMANCEBAR_UPDATE_INTERVAL
-            local _, _, latency = GetNetStats()
-            local r, g, b = 0, 1, 0
-            if latency > PERFORMANCEBAR_MEDIUM_LATENCY then
-                r, g, b = 1, 0, 0
-            elseif latency > PERFORMANCEBAR_LOW_LATENCY then
-                r, g, b = 1, 1, 0
-            end
-            MainMenuBarPerformanceBar:SetVertexColor(r, g, b)
-            -- Held-open tooltips re-read the number on the same 10 s beat (the ref's own refresh).
-            if frame.hover then
-                BenillaPerformanceBar_ShowTooltip(frame)
-            end
-        end
-
-        function BenillaPerformanceBar_OnEnter(button)
-            MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame.hover = 1
-            BenillaPerformanceBar_ShowTooltip(button)
-        end
-
-        function BenillaPerformanceBar_OnLeave()
-            MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame.hover = nil
-            if GameTooltip then GameTooltip:Hide() end
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-
-    <!--
-        One action button (ref-ActionButtonTemplate.xml, now the FULL template — decision 0137
-        phase 4): a CheckButton, 36x36 (l.3-6); icon fills the button (BACKGROUND, owner-sized,
-        l.8-10); Flash (UI-QuickslotRed, hidden — the auto-attack/auto-repeat blink) + HotKey
-        (l.11-24) + Count (l.25-33) on ARTWORK; Border (UI-ActionButton-Border 62x62 CENTER, ADD,
-        hidden — the equipped-item green ring, l.48-59) on OVERLAY; the Cooldown child (the ref's
-        CooldownFrameTemplate Model at 36x36 CENTER (0,-1), l.62-73 — ours is the native Cooldown
-        widget playing the same machine); NormalTexture = the 66x66 UI-Quickslot2 ring centered at
-        (0,-1) (l.74-85); PushedTexture UI-Quickslot-Depress (l.86); HighlightTexture
-        ButtonHilight-Square ADD (l.87); CheckedTexture CheckButtonHilight ADD (l.88 — the
-        IsCurrentAction/IsAutoRepeatAction ring); Name (the macro-name line, l.34-46) on ARTWORK,
-        set from `GetActionText` at the tail of every update as the ref's `ActionButton_Update`
-        does (decision 1636).
-    -->
-    <!-- **The reference's own two-level split, which ours used to conflate into one template.**
-         `ActionButtonTemplate` is REGIONS ONLY and carries no scripts at all — and since 1887 it
-         is the reference's own, off the chain (`Interface\FrameXML\ActionButtonTemplate.xml`,
-         seated immediately above this file in benilla.toc, which the order REQUIRES: a template is
-         registered by name and the later line wins). `ActionBarButtonTemplate` below is the other
-         half (ref ActionBarFrame.xml:4); it inherits that one and adds the handler set, and stays
-         ours until `ActionButton.lua`'s verbs migrate. Addons rely on both halves being separately inheritable: `zBar.xml:7` is
-         `<CheckButton name="zBarButtonTemplate" inherits="ActionBarButtonTemplate">` and then
-         wires its OWN OnLoad, and its per-button code reads
-         `getglobal(button:GetName().."NormalTexture")` — a derived name it only gets by inheriting
-         a template that declares `$parentNormalTexture`.
-         2 corpus addons name `ActionBarButtonTemplate` in an XML `inherits=`; with neither name
-         published they got a bare frame, no art, no regions, and no error (1203's silent shape).
-         `BenillaActionButtonTemplate` survives below as a pure alias so every one of our own
-         `inherits=` sites is untouched. -->
-    <CheckButton name="ActionBarButtonTemplate" inherits="ActionButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnEvent>ActionButton_OnEvent()</OnEvent>
-            <OnClick>BenillaActionButton_OnClick(self)</OnClick>
-            <OnDragStart>BenillaActionButton_OnDragStart(self)</OnDragStart>
-            <OnReceiveDrag>BenillaActionButton_OnReceiveDrag(self)</OnReceiveDrag>
-            <OnUpdate>ActionButton_OnUpdate(arg1)</OnUpdate>
-            <OnEnter>BenillaActionButton_OnEnter(self)</OnEnter>
-            <OnLeave>if GameTooltip then GameTooltip:Hide() end</OnLeave>
-        </Scripts>
-    </CheckButton>
-
-    <!-- Pure alias, so every existing `inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate"` in this file,
-         MultiBars.xml, StanceBar.xml and PetActionBar.xml keeps resolving to exactly what it did
-         before the split. -->
-    <CheckButton name="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" inherits="ActionBarButtonTemplate" virtual="true"/>
-
-    <!-- The bar: 1024x53 anchored BOTTOM of the screen (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.4-10). -->
-    <Frame name="MainMenuBar" enableMouse="true" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="1024" y="53"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <!--
-                The XP StatusBar: 1024x13 anchored TOP of the bar (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.12-18).
-                BarTexture UI-StatusBar, BarColor purple (0.58,0,0.55) (l.158-159); a solid black
-                a=0.5 BACKGROUND (l.89-93); and the 4 dwarf-notch OVERLAY strips (256x10, BOTTOM
-                x=-384/-128/128/384 y=3, the tick TexCoord bands l.36-87) that frame the fill.
-                Drawn first among the bar's children ⇒ lowest, so the dwarf art overlaps it (the
-                real RaiseFrameLevel(art) order).
-            -->
-            <!-- enableMouse: the ref's MainMenuExpBar takes the mouse for its own hover (l.136-147).
-                 The strip is the bar's top 13 px, clear of every button on it. -->
-            <StatusBar name="MainMenuExpBar" enableMouse="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="1024" y="13"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativePoint="TOP"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                        <Texture>
-                            <Color r="0.0" g="0.0" b="0.0" a="0.5"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                    <Layer level="BORDER">
-                        <!-- The rested fill (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.20-33 ExhaustionLevelFillBar):
-                             the pale wash from the bar's LEFT edge to the exhaustion tick. 0-wide
-                             until ExhaustionTick_Update stretches its TOPRIGHT to the tick
-                             and tints it (SetVertexColor a=0.15 over this authored white). -->
-                        <Texture name="ExhaustionLevelFillBar">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="0" y="13"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuExpBar"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                            </Anchors>
-                            <Color r="1.0" g="1.0" b="1.0" a="1.0"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                    <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuXPBarTexture0" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="10"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-384" y="3"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.79296875" bottom="0.83203125"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuXPBarTexture1" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="10"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-128" y="3"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.54296875" bottom="0.58203125"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuXPBarTexture2" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="10"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="128" y="3"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.29296875" bottom="0.33203125"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuXPBarTexture3" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="10"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="384" y="3"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.04296875" bottom="0.08203125"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Frames>
-                    <!-- The numerals overlay (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.96-113 MainMenuBarOverlayFrame):
-                         a DIALOG-strata child so the "1234 / 5678" text draws over the dwarf-notch
-                         art and the buttons; its own OnLoad wires the FontString to the bar
-                         (BenillaExpBarOverlay_OnLoad's note). -->
-                    <Frame name="MainMenuBarOverlayFrame" frameStrata="DIALOG">
-                        <Anchors>
-                            <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"/>
-                            <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"/>
-                        </Anchors>
-                        <Layers>
-                            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                                <FontString name="MainMenuBarExpText" inherits="TextStatusBarText">
-                                    <Anchors>
-                                        <Anchor point="CENTER" relativeTo="MainMenuExpBar"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="1"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                                    </Anchors>
-                                </FontString>
-                            </Layer>
-                        </Layers>
-                        <Scripts>
-                            <OnLoad>BenillaExpBarOverlay_OnLoad()</OnLoad>
-                        </Scripts>
-                    </Frame>
-                </Frames>
-                <BarTexture file="Interface\TargetingFrame\UI-StatusBar"/>
-                <BarColor r="0.58" g="0.0" b="0.55"/>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnLoad>BenillaExpBar_OnLoad(self)</OnLoad>
-                    <OnEvent>BenillaExpBar_OnEvent(self)</OnEvent>
-                    <OnEnter>BenillaExpBar_OnEnter(self)</OnEnter>
-                    <OnLeave>BenillaExpBar_OnLeave(self)</OnLeave>
-                    <OnUpdate>ExhaustionTick_OnUpdate(arg1)</OnUpdate>
-                    <OnValueChanged>
-                        if this:IsShown() and TextStatusBar_OnValueChanged then
-                            TextStatusBar_OnValueChanged()
-                        end
-                    </OnValueChanged>
-                </Scripts>
-            </StatusBar>
-
-            <!--
-                The exhaustion tick (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.415-442): a 32×32 button riding the XP
-                bar at the rested boundary, DIALOG strata so it draws over the bar art. Normal =
-                the brass marker, Highlight = the ADD glow ExhaustionTick_Update tints to
-                the rest state. Starts at the bar's CENTER exactly like the ref (its own first
-                Update re-seats or hides it before anything is seen).
-            -->
-            <Button name="ExhaustionTick" parent="MainMenuBar" frameStrata="DIALOG">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="CENTER" relativeTo="MainMenuExpBar"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnLoad>ExhaustionTick_OnLoad()</OnLoad>
-                    <OnEvent>ExhaustionTick_Update()</OnEvent>
-                    <OnEnter>ExhaustionToolTipText()</OnEnter>
-                    <OnLeave>if GameTooltip then GameTooltip:Hide() end</OnLeave>
-                </Scripts>
-                <NormalTexture name="ExhaustionTickNormal" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-ExhaustionTickNormal"/>
-                <HighlightTexture name="ExhaustionTickHighlight" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-ExhaustionTickHighlight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-            </Button>
-
-            <!--
-                The max-level rail (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.161-225 MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar): the
-                flat brass rail that replaces the XP strip at MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL — four 256×7
-                quarters of UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel, riding just above the frame's own 7 px rect
-                (each quarter's BOTTOM sits on the frame's TOP, the ref's own geometry).
-                Shown and hidden by the reference's `ReputationWatchBar_Update` (its own file since
-                1875) and by nothing else — which
-                is the reference's own arrangement, and why this frame carries NO Scripts. It held
-                a benilla OnLoad/OnEvent pair while the watch bar was driven by nothing (decision
-                1094); those were a transcription of the WATCH BAR's own handlers parked here, and
-                they have gone back to it. The ref's OnShow/OnHide call
-                UIParent_ManageFramePositions, which benilla doesn't build
-                (DurabilityFrame.xml's note) — a named cut.
-            -->
-            <Frame name="MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar" enableMouse="true" hidden="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="1024" y="7"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativePoint="TOP"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-11"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuMaxLevelBar0" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="TOP"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-384" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                            </Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0" bottom="0.21875"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuMaxLevelBar1" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuMaxLevelBar0" relativePoint="RIGHT"/>
-                            </Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.25" bottom="0.46875"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuMaxLevelBar2" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuMaxLevelBar1" relativePoint="RIGHT"/>
-                            </Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.5" bottom="0.71875"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuMaxLevelBar3" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuMaxLevelBar2" relativePoint="RIGHT"/>
-                            </Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.75" bottom="0.96875"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-            </Frame>
-
-            <!--
-                The art frame: fills the bar (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.225-229). Carries the 4 dwarf
-                strips (ARTWORK) + the 2 end caps and page number (OVERLAY); the buttons are its
-                children so they draw over the art.
-            -->
-            <Frame name="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"/>
-                    <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"/>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <!-- 4 dwarf strips: 256x43, BOTTOM x=-384/-128/128/384 y=0, TexCoord bands
-                         (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.232-283). Adjacent atlas rows ⇒ the joins are seamless. -->
-                    <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarTexture0" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="43"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-384" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.83203125" bottom="1.0"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarTexture1" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="43"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-128" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.58203125" bottom="0.75"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarTexture2" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="43"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="128" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.33203125" bottom="0.5"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarTexture3" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="43"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="384" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.08203125" bottom="0.25"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                    <!-- End caps: UI-MainMenuBar-EndCap-Dwarf 128x128, BOTTOM x=-544 / +544; the RIGHT
-                         cap mirrors its art with TexCoords (1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0) so the lion faces
-                         outward on both sides (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.286-310; the mirrored-UV engine
-                         fix landed in 87c97d7). Page number: GameFontNormalSmall CENTER (30,-5),
-                         static "1" (l.311-319). -->
-                    <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarLeftEndCap" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-EndCap-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="128"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-544" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarRightEndCap" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-EndCap-Dwarf">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="128"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="544" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="1.0" right="0.0" top="0.0" bottom="1.0"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <!-- The page numeral. `text="1"` is the LOAD SEED the ref gets from the up
-                             arrow's OnLoad (`SetText(CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE)`, which is 1 there
-                             too); every change after that comes through `ChangeActionBarPage`. -->
-                        <FontString name="MainMenuBarPageNumber" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall" text="1">
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="30" y="-5"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                            </Anchors>
-                        </FontString>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Frames>
-                    <!-- The 12 buttons: Button1 at the art frame BOTTOMLEFT (8,4); 2..12 chain LEFT of
-                         the previous's RIGHT +6,0 (ref-ActionBarFrame.xml l.51-158). Replaces our old
-                         fixed 38px stride with the real 42px chain (36 wide + 6 gap). -->
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton1" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="1" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="8" y="4"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 1)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton2" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="2" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton1" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 2)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton3" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="3" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton2" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 3)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton4" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="4" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton3" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 4)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton5" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="5" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton4" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 5)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton6" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="6" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton5" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 6)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton7" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="7" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton6" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 7)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton8" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="8" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton7" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 8)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton9" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="9" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton8" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 9)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton10" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="10" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton9" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 10)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton11" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="11" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton10" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 11)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-                    <CheckButton name="ActionButton12" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="12" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton11" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                        <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 12)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-                    </CheckButton>
-
-                    <!-- Page up/down: 32x32 at CENTER of the art frame's TOPLEFT +(522,-22)/(522,-42)
-                         (ref-ActionBarFrame.xml l.159-217). Live now that the bar pages — they were
-                         art with no OnClick for as long as `CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE` did not exist.
-
-                         The HitRectInsets are LOAD-BEARING, not decoration: the two 32x32 squares
-                         are stacked only 20px apart, so their raw rects OVERLAP by 12px and the
-                         hit-test (later sibling wins) would give that band — the bottom third of
-                         the visible up arrow — to the DOWN button. The ref's ±6/±7 insets shrink
-                         each to the 20x18 arrow it actually draws, which separates them and stops
-                         the down arrow's rect hanging below the screen edge and over the XP bar. -->
-                    <Button name="ActionBarUpButton" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                        <Anchors>
-                            <Anchor point="CENTER" relativeTo="MainMenuBarArtFrame" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="522" y="-22"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                        </Anchors>
-                        <HitRectInsets><AbsInset left="6" right="6" top="7" bottom="7"/></HitRectInsets>
-                        <NormalTexture file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenu-ScrollUpButton-Up"/>
-                        <PushedTexture file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenu-ScrollUpButton-Down"/>
-                        <HighlightTexture file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenu-ScrollUpButton-Highlight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-                        <Scripts><OnClick>ActionBar_PageUp() PlaySound("UChatScrollButton")</OnClick></Scripts>
-                    </Button>
-                    <Button name="ActionBarDownButton" parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame">
-                        <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                        <Anchors>
-                            <Anchor point="CENTER" relativeTo="MainMenuBarArtFrame" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="522" y="-42"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                        </Anchors>
-                        <HitRectInsets><AbsInset left="6" right="6" top="7" bottom="7"/></HitRectInsets>
-                        <NormalTexture file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenu-ScrollDownButton-Up"/>
-                        <PushedTexture file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenu-ScrollDownButton-Down"/>
-                        <HighlightTexture file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenu-ScrollDownButton-Highlight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-                        <Scripts><OnClick>ActionBar_PageDown() PlaySound("UChatScrollButton")</OnClick></Scripts>
-                    </Button>
-                </Frames>
-                <!-- ── The keyring's SHOW trigger (ref MainMenuBar.xml l.322-341) ──────────────
-                     The art frame watches the bags and re-derives the keyring half of the bar; the
-                     reference puts these three registrations and this exact call on THIS frame, and
-                     that is why they are here rather than on KeyRingButton.
-
-                     They used to live on KeyRingButton's own OnEvent, in our BagFrame.xml, because
-                     that file was ours to write scripts into. 1751 window 3 made the bag bar the
-                     reference's own MainMenuBarBagButtons.xml, whose KeyRingButton has no OnEvent —
-                     so the trigger had to come back to where the reference keeps it, which is here.
-
-                     The ref's body latches SHOW_KEYRING on forever the first time HasKey() is true
-                     (a saved variable) and pulses the button for 60s. Ours does neither, and 0765
-                     is the record: the latch is re-derived from HasKey() every BAG_UPDATE in BOTH
-                     directions, and the pulse is out for 0304's reason. So there is no
-                     SHOW_KEYRING and no SetButtonPulse here — MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing (top of
-                     this file) carries the whole decision, and this is only its trigger.
-
-                     NOT called from OnLoad, and the reference does not call it there either: this
-                     file is manifest entry 25 and the body reaches `CloseBag` (the sourced
-                     ContainerFrame.lua, entry 46) and `KeyRingButton` (entry 48), neither of which
-                     exists yet. PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD is what paints the first state, there and
-                     here. -->
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnLoad>
-                        this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-                        this:RegisterEvent("BAG_UPDATE")
-                    </OnLoad>
-                    <OnEvent>MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing()</OnEvent>
-                </Scripts>
-            </Frame>
-
-            <!-- The performance ("ping") meter (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.344-407). 16x64 pinned to the
-                 bar's BOTTOMRIGHT +(-227,-10) — the empty recess between the last micro button and
-                 the bag slots, which the bar art leaves TRANSPARENT for exactly this. The 20x66
-                 texture hangs off the frame's TOPRIGHT (so it overspills 4 left and 2 below), and
-                 the frame itself hangs 10 below the bar, putting the bar's grey column in the slot.
-
-                 frameStrata="LOW" is load-bearing, not decoration: the meter draws UNDER the bar art
-                 and shows through its transparent window. At the default MEDIUM it would paint over
-                 the metal surround, since the texture is wider than the slot. (The ref gets the same
-                 order via strata too — MainMenuBar's OnLoad RaiseFrameLevel can't reach across it.)
-
-                 The hover button is the ref's own split: a HIGH-strata all-points button, because the
-                 LOW frame beneath the art can't take the mouse itself. The ref declares it as a
-                 sibling with parent="MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame"; nesting it is the same frame
-                 tree, and its explicit strata survives the parent's LOW subtree-force (attributes
-                 apply before nested <Frames> are built).
-
-                 The -227 authored here is the NO-keyring position; MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing
-                 (top of this file) re-points it to -235 while the keyring is shown, the ref's own
-                 shift (MainMenuBar.lua l.180). Both offsets live in that one function. -->
-            <Frame name="MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame" frameStrata="LOW">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="16" y="64"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-227" y="-10"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                        <Texture name="MainMenuBarPerformanceBar" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-PerformanceBar">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="20" y="66"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPRIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Frames>
-                    <Button name="MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrameButton" parent="MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame" setAllPoints="true" frameStrata="HIGH">
-                        <Scripts>
-                            <OnEnter>BenillaPerformanceBar_OnEnter(self)</OnEnter>
-                            <OnLeave>BenillaPerformanceBar_OnLeave()</OnLeave>
-                        </Scripts>
-                    </Button>
-                </Frames>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnLoad>BenillaPerformanceBar_OnLoad(self)</OnLoad>
-                    <OnUpdate>BenillaPerformanceBar_OnUpdate(self, arg1)</OnUpdate>
-                </Scripts>
-            </Frame>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>BenillaActionBar_OnLoad(self)</OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>BenillaActionBar_OnEvent(self)</OnEvent>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <!-- **The bonus action bar** — declared with 1223 (addons reach for it by name: the largest
-         single session-start row in the corpus was `CT_BarMod\CT_BarModOptions.lua:154`'s
-         `getglobal("BonusActionButton" .. i):ClearAllPoints()`; five more addons index the frame,
-         1218's corrected ranking), and DRIVEN since 1524: it is the form/stance/stealth swap's
-         transition vehicle — the 505x43 replica of the button strip that slides up out of the
-         screen edge over 0.15s when a form comes up (igBonusBarOpen on landing), stays covering
-         the strip while the form holds (so `BonusActionBarFrame:IsShown()` reads
-         reference-faithfully), and slides back down carrying the old form's icons when it drops.
-         The machinery lives in this file's script block (ShowBonusActionBar / HideBonusActionBar /
-         BonusActionBar_OnUpdate, all ref names) and in BenillaActionBar_OnEvent's
-         UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR arm; benilla still models the bonus page by RE-PAGING THE MAIN BAR
-         (1223) — the overlay never replaces that, it covers the swap.
-
-         The buttons wire to the bonus page — `BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, i)` plus the ref's
-         own `isBonus` mark, which forks BenillaActionButton_Action to the live bonus page (with
-         lastBonusBar standing in during the down-slide). They share the ACTIONBUTTON command
-         prefix, the reference's binding story: vanilla's ACTIONBUTTON1-12 drive the bonus bar
-         while a form is up (ActionButtonDown/Up's IsShown fork above).
-
-         Geometry quoted from the reference: a 505x43 frame anchored TOPLEFT to MainMenuBar's
-         BOTTOMLEFT +(40,0) as declared — every shown appearance re-anchors at x=4 (the ref Lua's
-         own BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS, whose art trims 4px of left TexCoord to line back up); button 1
-         at BOTTOMLEFT +(5,4), each next LEFT-of-previous-RIGHT +6; the two OVERLAY art strips are
-         the dwarf sheet rows the main bar itself draws (ref l.55-105). -->
-    <Frame name="BonusActionBarFrame" frameStrata="HIGH" parent="MainMenuBar" enableMouse="true" toplevel="true" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="505" y="43"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="40" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                <Texture name="BonusActionBarTexture0" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="252" y="43"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"/></Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.015625" right="1.0" top="0.83203125" bottom="1.0"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="BonusActionBarTexture1" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="253" y="43"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionBarTexture0" relativePoint="RIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.98828125" top="0.58203125" bottom="0.75"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Frames>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton1" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="1">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="5" y="4"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 1) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton2" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="2">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton1" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 2) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton3" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="3">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton2" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 3) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton4" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="4">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton3" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 4) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton5" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="5">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton4" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 5) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton6" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="6">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton5" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 6) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton7" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="7">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton6" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 7) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton8" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="8">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton7" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 8) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton9" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="9">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton8" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 9) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton10" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="10">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton9" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 10) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton11" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="11">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton10" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 11) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="BonusActionButton12" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate" id="12">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BonusActionButton11" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 12) self.isBonus = 1</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>BenillaBonusBar_OnLoad(self)</OnLoad>
-            <OnUpdate>BonusActionBar_OnUpdate(arg1)</OnUpdate>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <!-- **The reputation watch bar** — built to `ref-ReputationFrame.xml:869-1036`, whose geometry
-         and art it quotes (those are the client's own facts) and whose handlers it implements in
-         this file's script block. It
-         shipped built-and-hidden with 1223 (three corpus addons index it by name — `FuBar_FuXPFu`,
-         `CT_BottomBar`, `zBarEx` — and FuXPFu dies at `FuBar_FuXPFu.lua:227` on the nil); it is
-         DRIVEN now, by the reference's `ReputationWatchBar_Update` (its own file since 1875), whose comment
-         carries the reason the reputation watch-bar slice lives here rather than in
-         ReputationFrame.xml where the reference declares it.
-
-         Geometry quoted from the reference: a 1024x11 frame whose BOTTOM sits on MainMenuBar's TOP
-         at (0,-3), holding a 1024x8 `ReputationWatchStatusBar` at TOP. TWO sets of end art ride the
-         status bar and the update swaps between them: the four `ReputationWatchBarTexture*` slices
-         of `UI-ReputationWatchBar` for the stacked-above-the-XP-bar posture, and the four
-         `ReputationXPBarTexture*` slices of the dwarf `UI-MainMenuBar-Dwarf` sheet for the
-         replaces-the-XP-bar posture at max level, where the strip has to look like the bar it took
-         over from. The numerals live on their own DIALOG-strata overlay child so they draw over
-         both. -->
-    <!-- The reputation WATCH BAR is declared by the REFERENCE's own `ReputationFrame.xml`, off the
-         player's chain (1875). It stood here because every frame its update touches is declared in
-         this file — but frame globals publish NON-overwritingly, and this file loads at manifest
-         340 against the pane's 681, so ours would have kept the name and the chain's bar would
-         have been built and unreachable. That is precisely what `GroupLootFrame` did for months
-         (1838), so the placement note that used to defend this spot is retired with the block. -->
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MicroMenu.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MicroMenu.xml
index b0c77503..9ecd108f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MicroMenu.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MicroMenu.xml
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@
     </Button>
 
     <Script><![CDATA[
+        -- Seat a micro button above the bar's art plate (was ActionBar.xml's; moved here with 1938 —
+        -- this file is its one caller, and it goes when this window migrates).
+        function BenillaActionBarArt_SeatAbove(frame)
+            local art = getglobal("MainMenuBarArtFrame")
+            if art then frame:SetFrameLevel(art:GetFrameLevel() + 1) end
+        end
+
         -- ref GlobalStrings.lua — the eight labels (enUS), in the `X = X or` FALLBACK form: the
         -- app runs the real localized GlobalStrings.lua off the patch chain BEFORE this file
         -- (ui_script/mod.rs load_global_strings), so the installed locale wins and these copies
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MultiBars.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MultiBars.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1161df20..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MultiBars.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,532 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        **The four extra action bars — MultiBarBottomLeft/BottomRight and the vertical
-        MultiBarRight/MultiBarLeft — are PLAYER OPTIONS, and all four ship OFF (decision 1500,
-        which reverses 0270 and the half of 1219 that made "hidden" unconditional).**
-
-        0270 made the two bottom bars unconditionally on and the toggles unshippable; 1219 added
-        the two vertical ones as unconditionally hidden frames for the addons that index them. Both
-        were the director's call at the time, and 1500 is the director's call now: the four bars
-        become rows on the Options window's Action Bars page, and a fresh character sees none of
-        them.
-
-        THE STORE IS THE SERVER'S, not a CVar and not a saved variable — verified against the real
-        1.12.1 binary by a wow-re §5 cross-check (three independent derivations, arbitrated;
-        wow-5875-re commit 417c2d31, node system/ui/scratch/action-bar-toggles.md):
-        - The four bits live in **PLAYER_FIELD_BYTES byte 2**, written with
-          **CMSG_SET_ACTIONBAR_TOGGLES (opcode 703)**. Per-character and server-persisted, which is
-          what makes "off by default" fall out for free: a fresh character's byte is 0.
-        - `SetActionBarToggles` takes exactly **FOUR** arguments (`cmp esi,4` at 0x4e770e) and packs
-          them as arg1→0x01, arg2→0x02, arg3→0x04, arg4→0x08. **A FIFTH argument is silently
-          DROPPED by the binding** — it never reaches the byte or the wire — even though the
-          reference's own options panel passes ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS as one. That is why the grid
-          option below is a saved variable and the four bars are not: the split is a verified
-          consequence of the binding's arity, not an authoring choice.
-        - `GetActionBarToggles` returns exactly FOUR values, each the Lua number `1` or `nil` —
-          never booleans, and four nils when not in world.
-        - The client NEVER writes that field locally and NOTHING fires on a change to it. So the
-          LIVE state is the four Lua globals below; `GetActionBarToggles()` is read ONCE, on
-          PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD (UIParent.xml), purely as their seed. Nothing re-reads it.
-
-        The bar↔bit mapping is a FrameXML-layer rule — the binary is bar-agnostic: 0x01 →
-        MultiBarBottomLeft, 0x02 → MultiBarBottomRight, 0x04 → MultiBarRight, 0x08 → MultiBarLeft,
-        and **MultiBarLeft shows only when bar 3 is ALSO on** (confirmed by reading the install's
-        own MultiActionBars.lua l.73, `if ( SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3 and SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4 )`).
-        That conjunction is not arbitrary: MultiBarLeft's TOPRIGHT hangs off MultiBarRight's
-        TOPLEFT, so on its own it would be a column of buttons anchored to a bar that is not there.
-
-        Geometry + slot ranges QUOTED from the real 1.12 FrameXML (extracted from patch.MPQ):
-        - ref-MultiActionBars.xml l.36-39/496-513: each bar a 500x38 frame; BottomLeft's
-          BOTTOMLEFT anchors to ActionButton1's TOPLEFT +(0,17); BottomRight's LEFT anchors to
-          BottomLeft's RIGHT +(10,0); 12 buttons chained BOTTOMLEFT then LEFT-of-prev-RIGHT +6.
-        - ref-ActionButton.lua l.6-9/446-467 (ActionButton_GetPagedID): BottomLeft = page 6 ⇒
-          actions 61..72; BottomRight = page 5 ⇒ actions 49..60. The bases below feed
-          BenillaActionButton_Action (ActionBar.xml), which carries the ref's parent-name fork
-          as per-button data.
-        - Buttons reuse BenillaActionButtonTemplate + the whole ActionBar.xml handler set: same
-          click/drag/keyless-use, same feedback layer (state/usable/cooldown/flash), fanned from
-          MainMenuBar's bar-level events via the BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS roster each button
-          joins at OnLoad.
-
-        Ref divergences (deliberate, mirroring ActionBar.xml's SCOPE notes):
-        - MULTIACTIONBAR1/2BUTTON1-12 are BINDABLE since 1008 (the ref's own commands, registered
-          in crate::bindings::commands with the ref's runOnUp pair below); they ship UNBOUND like
-          the ref (no MULTIACTIONBAR* line in any of the install's bindings-cache.wtf files), so
-          out of the box the hotkey corner still carries the ref's range dot — a bound slot wears
-          its abbreviated label exactly like the main bar (ActionBar.xml's PaintHotkey law).
-        - Empty wells hide (the ref's own default) and appear as drop-target rings only while the
-          grid is asked for — a held cursor payload, or ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS below — unlike the
-          main bar's always-visible wells (its art has sockets; floating rings over bare world
-          would not read as a bar).
-        - MULTIACTIONBAR3/4BUTTON (the vertical bars' commands) still stay OUT of
-          `bindings::commands`. 1008's honest tree held while those bars could never be shown, and
-          it holds differently now that they can: the keybind screen lists what the player can
-          reach, and a bar behind an option is reachable. Registering them is a separate slice with
-          its own default-bindings question; until then painting a hotkey from an unregistered
-          command is a no-op (GetBindingKey answers nil) and the label is simply blank.
-    -->
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        -- ref ActionButton.lua:6-7 — BOTTOMLEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 6, BOTTOMRIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 5;
-        -- base = (page - 1) * 12.
-        BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE = 60
-        BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE = 48
-        -- ref ActionButton.lua:8-9 — LEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 4, RIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3.
-        BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE = 36
-        BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE = 24
-
-        -- ref MultiActionBars.lua:1 — every extra bar is twelve wells wide.
-        NUM_MULTIBAR_BUTTONS = 12
-
-        -- ── The four toggles: LIVE state, seeded once from the server byte ──────────────────────
-        -- These names are the REFERENCE's and they are a published contract, not a private cache —
-        -- the addon corpus reads and writes them directly. Bartender2.lua:45-48 sets all four to 1
-        -- at load (it takes the bars over), and CT_BarMod reads each one by name in three separate
-        -- places to decide whether a button of ours is its business (CT_BarMod.lua:232-235,
-        -- 1573-1576, 1624-1627). So the names are fixed and the VALUES have to be what the corpus
-        -- expects: 1 or nil, exactly what GetActionBarToggles returns, never true/false.
-        --
-        -- nil here = OFF, which is also the whole of "off by default": a fresh character's server
-        -- byte is 0, and the seed on PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD (UIParent.xml) writes these four back
-        -- to nil. Declared explicitly anyway rather than left absent — an undeclared global reads
-        -- nil too, but then nothing in this file says the state exists.
-        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1 = nil
-        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2 = nil
-        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3 = nil
-        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4 = nil
-
-        -- The FIFTH switch, and the one with a different store — see the header: the engine
-        -- binding drops a fifth argument, so this one has no server side and is an ordinary
-        -- saved-variable global, exactly as the reference makes it (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.106-107
-        -- assigns "0" and RegisterForSave's it). It holds the four bars' EMPTY wells open so the
-        -- player can see the shape of a bar they have not filled yet. String "1"/"0", because that
-        -- is what the options row's uvar store writes; zBar reads it as either
-        -- (zActionButton.lua:61 tests both spellings) and so does the reader below.
-        --
-        -- This assignment is also the row's registered DEFAULT: OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad captures
-        -- the file-scope value at load, so this line is the single source of it.
-        ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = "0"
-
-        -- The four bars in toggle (and bit) order, each paired with the main-bar page it takes OUT
-        -- of the paging cycle while it is up — a page a multibar already displays must not also be
-        -- reachable on the main bar, or paging up shows you the twelve actions already on screen
-        -- beside it. ActionBar.xml declares VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES with all six viewable (all
-        -- four bars start hidden) and this file does the arithmetic from there.
-        BENILLA_MULTIBARS = {
-            {frame = "MultiBarBottomLeft",  page = BOTTOMLEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE},
-            {frame = "MultiBarBottomRight", page = BOTTOMRIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE},
-            {frame = "MultiBarRight",       page = RIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE},
-            {frame = "MultiBarLeft",        page = LEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE},
-        }
-
-        -- One bar: on screen or not, and the main-bar page it owns settled to match. Split out so
-        -- MultiActionBar_Update below reads as the four-line list it actually is — which is where
-        -- the one thing a reader must not miss lives (bar 4's compound condition).
-        function BenillaMultiBar_Settle(bar, up)
-            local frame = getglobal(bar.frame)
-            if up then
-                frame:Show()
-                VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES[bar.page] = nil
-            else
-                frame:Hide()
-                VIEWABLE_ACTION_BAR_PAGES[bar.page] = 1
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Re-derive all four bars from the four globals. Every writer of that state calls this —
-        -- the options rows, the PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD seed, and any addon that sets a global and
-        -- asks for the bars back (the reference's own contract, and Bartender2 relies on it).
-        --
-        -- **The manage pass runs from HERE, not from per-bar OnShow/OnHide**, and that is a choice
-        -- worth naming because both work. A bar coming up or going down moves the cast bar, the
-        -- chat frames, the stance/pet row and the bag stack's corner
-        -- (UIPARENT_MANAGED_FRAME_POSITIONS), and the pass reads the bars' own :IsShown() rather
-        -- than these globals — so it must run AFTER the last Show/Hide, not four times in the
-        -- middle of them. One call at the end of the one function that moves them is that; four
-        -- OnShow/OnHide hooks would fire the pass up to four times per click, and three of those
-        -- times against a half-applied state. The reference reaches the same place from the other
-        -- side: its options panel calls MultiActionBar_Update() and UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
-        -- back to back at every one of its five click sites (UIOptionsFrame.xml l.665-666 et al).
-        function MultiActionBar_Update()
-            local bars = BENILLA_MULTIBARS
-            BenillaMultiBar_Settle(bars[1], SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1)
-            BenillaMultiBar_Settle(bars[2], SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2)
-            BenillaMultiBar_Settle(bars[3], SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3)
-            -- Bar 4 is the one bar with a COMPOUND condition (ref MultiActionBars.lua l.73) — see
-            -- the header for why MultiBarLeft cannot stand without MultiBarRight under it.
-            BenillaMultiBar_Settle(bars[4], SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3 and SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)
-            UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
-        end
-
-        -- ── The empty-well grid over the four bars ──────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- The three verbs are the reference's own published names and signatures, and the corpus
-        -- is why they are worth shipping as such: CT_BarMod REPLACES MultiActionBar_UpdateGrid
-        -- wholesale (CT_BarMod.lua:1649) and zBar WRAPS ShowAllGrids/HideAllGrids around its own
-        -- bars (zActionButton.lua:83-94), both by name and both expecting this shape. The
-        -- per-button half lives in ActionBar.xml (ActionButton_ShowGrid/_HideGrid over
-        -- `button.showgrid`), which is where the reference keeps it too.
-        function MultiActionBar_UpdateGrid(barName, show)
-            for i = 1, NUM_MULTIBAR_BUTTONS do
-                local button = getglobal(barName .. "Button" .. i)
-                if show then
-                    ActionButton_ShowGrid(button)
-                else
-                    ActionButton_HideGrid(button)
-                end
-            end
-        end
-
-        function MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids()
-            for _, bar in ipairs(BENILLA_MULTIBARS) do
-                MultiActionBar_UpdateGrid(bar.frame, 1)
-            end
-        end
-
-        function MultiActionBar_HideAllGrids()
-            for _, bar in ipairs(BENILLA_MULTIBARS) do
-                MultiActionBar_UpdateGrid(bar.frame)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The option's apply: re-derive the grid from ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS. Run on every write of
-        -- that global (the row's applyFunc) and once at startup over the restored saved value —
-        -- the reference does the same restore by hand in its VARIABLES_LOADED ladder
-        -- (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.217-220); ours is OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings' walk.
-        --
-        -- Both spellings tested because the global is published and the two stores disagree: our
-        -- options row writes the STRING "1", while an addon setting it writes the number (zBar
-        -- tests both for exactly this reason, zActionButton.lua:61).
-        --
-        -- The `held` latch is ours and it is what makes this option a WELL-BEHAVED holder of the
-        -- count: one asker may hold at most one. Without it, re-applying an "off" that was already
-        -- off decrements every button again — so applying defaults while a payload is in hand would
-        -- close the wells that payload is holding open. The reference has exactly that flaw; the
-        -- latch also means the startup apply of the default "0" is a no-op instead of a decrement.
-        BENILLA_MULTIBAR_GRID_HELD = nil
-
-        function MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility()
-            local want
-            if ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS == "1" or ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS == 1 then want = 1 end
-            if want == BENILLA_MULTIBAR_GRID_HELD then return end
-            BENILLA_MULTIBAR_GRID_HELD = want
-            if want then
-                MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids()
-                return
-            end
-            MultiActionBar_HideAllGrids()
-        end
-
-        -- ── The write half of a bar toggle (the Options rows' setter) ───────────────────────────
-        -- The reference has no counterpart: its panel edits SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_n inline in each
-        -- checkbox's OnClick and batches ONE SetActionBarToggles into UIOptionsFrame_Save. Our
-        -- window commits on the click (0961's grammar, no Save button), so the whole edit — the
-        -- global, the bars, the packet — is this one function and the rows pass it a bar index.
-        --
-        -- `value` is the row's "1"/"0" STRING (OptionsRow_Set hands an API row its own string), and
-        -- the number/boolean spellings are tolerated because this is reachable from addon code too.
-        -- What is stored is 1 or nil and nothing else: that is what GetActionBarToggles returns and
-        -- what the corpus expects to read back (see the globals' own comment above).
-        --
-        -- **FOUR arguments.** Not five. The reference passes ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS as a fifth and
-        -- the binding drops it on the floor (`cmp esi,4` at 0x4e770e) — see the header. The whole
-        -- byte is re-sent every time because the packet carries the byte, not a delta.
-        function BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(bar, value)
-            local on
-            if value and value ~= "0" and value ~= 0 then on = 1 end
-            setglobal("SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_" .. bar, on)
-            MultiActionBar_Update()
-            SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2,
-                SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)
-        end
-
-        -- The MULTIACTIONBAR keybind pair — ref MultiActionBars.lua:24-45 MultiActionButtonDown/Up,
-        -- the same NORMAL→PUSHED debounce dance as the main bar's ActionButtonDown/Up
-        -- (ActionBar.xml — the ref's MacroFrame_SaveMacro hook is not modeled there either).
-        -- Driven by the binding dispatch (crate::bindings, Kind::EdgeUpDown — decision 1008).
-        --
-        -- `bar` IS THE WHOLE FRAME-NAME PREFIX, not a suffix (decision 1199). The reference resolves
-        -- `getglobal(bar.."Button"..id)` and its own Bindings.xml passes "MultiBarBottomLeft"; ours
-        -- used to pass "BottomLeft" and splice "MultiBar" on in here. Same arity, different MEANING
-        -- — the silent kind of wrong shape: zBar calls `MultiActionButtonDown("zBar"..barid, id)`
-        -- and under the old splice built the nonexistent frame name "MultiBarzBar1Button1". The
-        -- caller now names the bar in full, exactly as the reference's binding does, so a third-
-        -- party bar can address these at all. `onSelf` rides to UseAction like ActionButtonUp's.
-        function MultiActionButtonDown(bar, id)
-            local button = getglobal(bar .. "Button" .. id)
-            if ( button:GetButtonState() == "NORMAL" ) then
-                button:SetButtonState("PUSHED")
-            end
-        end
-
-        function MultiActionButtonUp(bar, id, onSelf)
-            local button = getglobal(bar .. "Button" .. id)
-            if ( button:GetButtonState() == "PUSHED" ) then
-                button:SetButtonState("NORMAL")
-                UseAction(BenillaActionButton_Action(button), 0, onSelf)
-                -- Ref MultiActionButtonUp:39-43: the checked ring reflects the use immediately.
-                BenillaActionButton_UpdateState(button)
-            end
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-
-    <!-- frameStrata HIGH on both bottom bars is the ref's own (`MultiActionBars.xml` l.36 and l.151,
-         HorizontalMultiBar1/2). They share the bottom band with the bag windows, which are MEDIUM on
-         both sides by design — and both sides carry deep nested button trees, so co-tenanting one
-         stratum is exactly the level-outranks-insertion collision decision 0597 fixed for the party
-         frame. HIGH is what keeps the bars above an open bag.
-
-         `hidden="true"` on ALL FOUR bars since 1500 — the reference's own posture for every one of
-         them (its HorizontalMultiBar1/2 templates carry it too, l.36/l.151), and the shipped state
-         a character with a zero toggle byte lands in. MultiActionBar_Update is the only thing that
-         opens one. -->
-    <Frame name="MultiBarBottomLeft" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="HIGH" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="500" y="38"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativeTo="ActionButton1" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="17"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton1" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 1, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton2" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton1" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 2, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton3" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton2" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 3, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton4" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton3" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 4, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton5" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton4" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 5, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton6" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton5" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 6, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton7" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton6" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 7, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton8" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton7" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 8, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton9" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton8" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 9, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton10" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton9" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 10, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton11" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton10" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 11, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomLeftButton12" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeftButton11" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 12, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMLEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-        </Frames>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <!-- HIGH and hidden, same as BottomLeft above (ref `MultiActionBars.xml` l.151). -->
-    <Frame name="MultiBarBottomRight" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="HIGH" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="500" y="38"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomLeft" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="10" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton1" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 1, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton2" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton1" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 2, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton3" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton2" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 3, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton4" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton3" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 4, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton5" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton4" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 5, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton6" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton5" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 6, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton7" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton6" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 7, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton8" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton7" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 8, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton9" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton8" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 9, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton10" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton9" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 10, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton11" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton10" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 11, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarBottomRightButton12" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="MultiBarBottomRightButton11" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 12, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_BOTTOMRIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR2BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-        </Frames>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <!-- **The two VERTICAL bars — now the same kind of thing as the two above them.**
-
-         They were scoped out first (a bar nobody asked for should not exist), then 1219 built them
-         as real frames that shipped unconditionally hidden — because the reference does not choose
-         between "shown" and "absent": `MultiActionBars.xml` l.515/523 instantiates BOTH as real
-         `parent="UIParent"` frames whose templates (VerticalMultiBar3/4, l.266/381) carry
-         `hidden="true"`, and they stay hidden until SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3/4 says otherwise.
-
-         What 1219 bought, and still buys, is that Atlas, Bartender2 and FuBartender2 stopped DYING
-         at session start on `MultiBarLeft` — Atlas at `Atlas.lua:387`
-         (`MultiBarLeft:SetFrameStrata("MEDIUM")`), Bartender2 at `Bartender2.lua:74`
-         (`MultiBarLeft:ClearAllPoints()`). Neither shows the bar; both only need it to be there.
-         Five more addons index `MultiBarRight` (decision 1218's corrected ranking).
-
-         What 1500 changed is only the last sentence of that story: "hidden, and nothing can show
-         it" has become "hidden, until the player ticks its row" — SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3/4 and the
-         Options page's two Right ActionBar rows. `MultiBarLeft` still needs `MultiBarRight` under
-         it (the header's conjunction), which is why its row is a dependent child of bar 3's.
-
-         Pages from ref-ActionButton.lua l.8-9: LEFT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 4 (actions 37..48),
-         RIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3 (actions 25..36). Geometry from ref-MultiActionBars.xml: a 38x500
-         frame, button 1 at TOPRIGHT, each next TOP-to-BOTTOM of the previous at -6. -->
-
-    <Frame name="MultiBarRight" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="HIGH" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="38" y="500"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-7" y="98"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton1" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 1, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton2" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton1" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 2, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton3" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton2" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 3, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton4" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton3" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 4, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton5" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton4" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 5, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton6" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton5" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 6, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton7" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton6" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 7, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton8" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton7" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 8, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton9" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton8" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 9, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton10" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton9" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 10, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton11" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton10" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 11, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarRightButton12" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarRightButton11" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 12, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_RIGHT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR3BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-        </Frames>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <Frame name="MultiBarLeft" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="HIGH" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="38" y="500"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="MultiBarRight" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-5" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton1" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 1, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton2" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton1" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 2, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton3" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton2" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 3, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton4" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton3" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 4, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton5" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton4" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 5, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton6" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton5" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 6, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton7" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton6" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 7, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton8" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton7" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 8, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton9" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton8" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 9, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton10" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton9" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 10, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton11" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton10" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 11, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="MultiBarLeftButton12" inherits="BenillaActionButtonTemplate">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MultiBarLeftButton11" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaActionButton_OnLoad(self, 12, BENILLA_MULTIBAR_LEFT_BASE, "MULTIACTIONBAR4BUTTON")</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-        </Frames>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
index 7aa4871e..9ee7e028 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
@@ -190,6 +190,111 @@
     </Font>
 
     <Script><![CDATA[
+        -- ── The reference's own option table, verbatim (stock UIOptionsFrame.lua l.1-84; 1938) ──
+        -- Stock MultiActionBars.lua:10 writes five rows of this table from MultiActionBarFrame_OnLoad
+        -- ("Hack to get around load order dependencies": the reference's toc loads UIOptionsFrame.xml
+        -- at l.21, before MultiActionBars.xml at l.39, so the MultiBar*_IsVisible funcs named at
+        -- l.55-59 are still nil when the table is declared, exactly as they are here). Our rows
+        -- below keep their own store (OptionsRow_Get's three kinds) and do not read this table; it
+        -- is published because the reference's bar file indexes it at LOAD, and this file is the
+        -- options window — the table's home — now seated at the reference's position in the
+        -- manifest. It goes with the window when UIOptionsFrame.xml migrates.
+        -- The two Action Bars uvars the reference's own options window inits in UIOptionsFrame_Init
+        -- (stock UIOptionsFrame.lua l.102-107), at file scope here because the rows below capture the
+        -- value at their OnLoad as the registered default. LOCK_ACTIONBAR is read by stock
+        -- ActionBarFrame.xml's drag guards and PetActionBarFrame.lua:270/278 (ours PetActionBar.xml);
+        -- ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS by stock MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility. Both lived in the bar
+        -- files until 1938 took those stock.
+        LOCK_ACTIONBAR = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("LOCK_ACTIONBAR")
+        ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS")
+
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons = { };
+        ------------------- Basic Options -------------------
+        -- Controls
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["INVERT_MOUSE"] =				{ index = 1, cvar = "mouseInvertPitch" };
+
+        -- General
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["CLICK_TO_MOVE"] =				{ index = 6,  cvar = "autointeract" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["GAMEFIELD_DESELECT_TEXT"] =			{ index = 45, cvar = "deselectOnClick"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["ASSIST_ATTACK"] =				{ index = 3,  cvar = "assistAttack" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["CLEAR_AFK"] =				{ index = 16, cvar = "autoClearAFK" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["BLOCK_TRADES"] =				{ index = 14, cvar = "BlockTrades" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["AUTO_SELF_CAST_TEXT"] =			{ index = 61, cvar = "autoSelfCast"};
+
+        -- Display
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["USE_UBERTOOLTIPS"] =			{ index = 12, cvar = "UberTooltips" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["STATUS_BAR_TEXT"] =				{ index = 2,  cvar = "statusBarText" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["PROFANITY_FILTER"] =			{ index = 5,  cvar = "profanityFilter" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_CLOAK"] =				{ index = 31, func = ShowingCloak, setFunc = ShowCloak};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_HELM"] =				{ index = 20, func = ShowingHelm , setFunc = ShowHelm };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_QUEST_FADING_TEXT"] =			{ index = 42, uvar = "QUEST_FADING_DISABLE", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_BUFF_DURATION_TEXT"] =			{ index = 39, uvar = "SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_PLAYER_NAMES"] =			{ index = 21, cvar = "UnitNamePlayer"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_GUILD_NAMES"] =			{ index = 22, cvar = "UnitNamePlayerGuild"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_PLAYER_TITLES"] =			{ index = 23, cvar = "UnitNamePlayerPVPTitle"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_NPC_NAMES"] =				{ index = 30, cvar = "UnitNameNPC"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_OWN_NAME"] =				{ index = 67, cvar = "UnitNameOwn"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_PARTY_BACKGROUND_TEXT"] =		{ index = 43, uvar = "SHOW_PARTY_BACKGROUND"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE_TEXT"] =		{ index = 62, uvar = "HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["AUTO_QUEST_WATCH_TEXT"] =			{ index = 66, uvar = "AUTO_QUEST_WATCH", default = "1"};
+
+        -- Camera Controls
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["FOLLOW_TERRAIN"] =				{ index = 24, cvar = "cameraTerrainTilt"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["HEAD_BOB"] =				{ index = 26, cvar = "cameraBobbing"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["WATER_COLLISION"] =				{ index = 27, cvar = "cameraWaterCollision"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SMART_PIVOT"] =				{ index = 15, cvar = "cameraPivot" };
+        -- Help
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_TUTORIALS"] =				{ index = 28};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS_TEXT"] =			{ index = 29, uvar = "SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_TIPOFTHEDAY_TEXT"] =			{ index = 44, cvar = "showGameTips"};
+
+        ------------------- Advanced Options -------------------
+        -- Chat
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SIMPLE_CHAT_TEXT"] =			{ index = 7,  uvar = "SIMPLE_CHAT" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["CHAT_LOCKED_TEXT"] =			{ index = 8,  uvar = "CHAT_LOCKED" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["GUILDMEMBER_ALERT"] =			{ index = 13, cvar = "guildMemberNotify" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY_TEXT"] =			{ index = 18, uvar = "REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["CHAT_BUBBLES_TEXT"] =			{ index = 37, cvar = "ChatBubbles"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["PARTY_CHAT_BUBBLES_TEXT"] =			{ index = 38, cvar = "ChatBubblesParty"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_LOOT_SPAM"] =				{ index = 46, cvar = "showLootSpam"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["AUTO_JOIN_GUILD_CHANNEL"] =			{ index = 51};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["DISABLE_SPAM_FILTER"] =			{ index = 68, cvar = "spamFilter"};
+
+        -- Action Bars
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["LOCK_ACTIONBAR_TEXT"] =			{ index = 32, uvar = "LOCK_ACTIONBAR", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_MULTIBAR1_TEXT"] =			{ index = 33, func = MultiBar1_IsVisible, setFunc = Multibar_EmptyFunc};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_MULTIBAR2_TEXT"] =			{ index = 34, func = MultiBar2_IsVisible, setFunc = Multibar_EmptyFunc};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_MULTIBAR3_TEXT"] =			{ index = 35, func = MultiBar3_IsVisible, setFunc = Multibar_EmptyFunc};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_MULTIBAR4_TEXT"] =			{ index = 36, func = MultiBar4_IsVisible, setFunc = Multibar_EmptyFunc};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS_TEXT"] =		{ index = 40, func = MultibarGrid_IsVisible, setFunc = Multibar_EmptyFunc};
+
+        -- Raid & Party Options
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["HIDE_PARTY_INTERFACE_TEXT"] =		{ index = 47, uvar = "HIDE_PARTY_INTERFACE" , default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_DISPELLABLE_DEBUFFS_TEXT"] =		{ index = 48, uvar = "SHOW_DISPELLABLE_DEBUFFS" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_CASTABLE_BUFFS_TEXT"] =		{ index = 49, uvar = "SHOW_CASTABLE_BUFFS" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET_TEXT"] =		{ index = 50, uvar = "SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET" , default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_PARTY_PETS_TEXT"] =			{ index = 41, uvar = "SHOW_PARTY_PETS", default = "1"};
+
+        -- Combat Text
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT_TEXT"] =			{ index = 52, uvar = "SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT" , default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA_TEXT"] =	{ index = 53, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS_TEXT"] =		{ index = 54, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE_TEXT"] =		{ index = 55, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE" , default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE_TEXT"] =	{ index = 56, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE" , default = "1"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS_TEXT"] =	{ index = 57, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES_TEXT"] =	{ index = 58, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION_TEXT"] =	{ index = 60, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_DAMAGE_TEXT"] =			{ index = 19, cvar = "CombatDamage"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["LOG_PERIODIC_EFFECTS"] =			{ index = 11, cvar = "CombatLogPeriodicSpells" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_PET_MELEE_DAMAGE"] =			{ index = 9,  cvar = "PetMeleeDamage" };
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES_TEXT"] =		{ index = 63, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES_TEXT"] =	{ index = 64, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS_TEXT"] =	{ index = 65, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA_TEXT"] =		{ index = 59, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA", default = "0"};
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED_TEXT"] =	{ index = 69, uvar = "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED", default = "1"};
+
         -- ── SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS: the buff bar's timer switch (decision 1139) ──────────────────
         --
         -- The reference declares this in `UIOptionsFrame.lua` (l.21/104), whose `default` is
@@ -787,8 +892,8 @@
             -- four bar rows are `func` rows over the server's own PLAYER_FIELD_BYTES byte 2 (no
             -- local store exists to save), while Always Show ActionBars is a `uvar` row — the
             -- engine binding takes exactly four arguments and silently drops the fifth the
-            -- reference passes it, so that switch has no server side at all. MultiBars.xml's
-            -- header carries the byte-level evidence.
+            -- reference passes it, so that switch has no server side at all. Decision 1500 and
+            -- wow-re action-bar-toggles.md carry the byte-level evidence.
             ActionBars = {
                 "RowMultiBar1", "RowMultiBar2", "RowMultiBar3", "RowMultiBar4",
                 "RowAlwaysShowMultibars", "RowLockActionBar",
@@ -864,7 +969,14 @@
         function OptionsRow_Set(row, value)
             if row.uvar then
                 setglobal(row.uvar, value)
-                if row.applyFunc then row.applyFunc() end
+                -- `applyFunc` is a global's NAME: the rows are read at this file's load, which since
+                -- 1938 sits at the reference's slot — before every file an apply lives in — so the
+                -- function is looked up when the row is applied, not when it is declared. A name
+                -- with no global behind it (a page harness without that definer) applies nothing,
+                -- which is what a nil capture always did.
+                local apply = row.applyFunc
+                if type(apply) == "string" then apply = getglobal(apply) end
+                if apply then apply() end
                 return
             end
             -- An API row hands the setter the row's own "1"/"0" STRING, which is what 1.12 does
@@ -925,14 +1037,27 @@
         -- no particular order (they are independent by construction — each one re-derives one
         -- feature's state from one global). A row whose defining file was not loaded has a nil
         -- applyFunc and is skipped, which is what keeps a partial test harness honest.
+        -- The multibar grid switch's load arm — stock UIOptionsFrame.lua l.218-220 verbatim.
+        function OptionsFrame_MultibarGrid_Load()
+            if ( ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS == "1" or ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS == 1 ) then
+                MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids()
+            end
+        end
+
         function OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings()
             local ran = {}
             for key, rows in pairs(OPTIONS_PAGE_ROWS) do
                 for _, rkey in ipairs(rows) do
                     local row = getglobal("OptionsFrameContainerBody" .. key .. rkey)
-                    local apply = row and row.applyFunc
-                    if apply and not ran[apply] then
-                        ran[apply] = 1
+                    -- `applyFunc` is a NAME (see OptionsPage_Apply): resolved here, when the
+                    -- definer has long since loaded; a name with nothing behind it is skipped. A
+                    -- row whose LOAD-time side effect differs from its click's names it as
+                    -- `loadFunc` (the multibar grid switch, below).
+                    local name = row and (row.loadFunc or row.applyFunc)
+                    local apply = name
+                    if type(name) == "string" then apply = getglobal(name) end
+                    if apply and not ran[name] then
+                        ran[name] = 1
                         apply()
                     end
                 end
@@ -1299,8 +1424,8 @@
             if key == "ActionBars" then
                 -- 1.12's own rule for this pair, verbatim in effect (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.722-726):
                 -- Show Right ActionBar 2 is dead while Show Right ActionBar is unticked, because
-                -- MultiBarLeft does not appear without MultiBarRight under it (MultiBars.xml's
-                -- conjunction). It is the only cross-row dependency on this page — the two bottom
+                -- MultiBarLeft does not appear without MultiBarRight under it (stock
+                -- MultiActionBar_Update's conjunction). It is the only cross-row dependency on this page — the two bottom
                 -- bars, the grid switch and the lock are all independent.
                 OptionsRow_SetEnabled(OptionsFrameContainerBodyActionBarsRowMultiBar4,
                     SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3)
@@ -2639,7 +2764,7 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT",
                                                     "Enable Floating Combat Text", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT")
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <!-- The scroll mode. 1.12's own dropdown, values and all
@@ -2659,7 +2784,7 @@
                                                     { text = "Arc", value = "3" },
                                                 })
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowLowHealthMana" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2672,7 +2797,7 @@
                                                     "Show Low Mana and Health",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowAuras" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2684,7 +2809,7 @@
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS",
                                                     "Show Auras", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowAuraFade" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2696,7 +2821,7 @@
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE",
                                                     "Show Fading Auras", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowCombatState" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2709,7 +2834,7 @@
                                                     "Show Combat State",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowDodgeParryMiss" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2722,7 +2847,7 @@
                                                     "Show Dodge/Parries/Misses",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowResistances" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2735,7 +2860,7 @@
                                                     "Show Damage Reduction",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowReputation" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2748,7 +2873,7 @@
                                                     "Show Reputation",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowReactives" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2761,7 +2886,7 @@
                                                     "Show Reactive Spells and Abilities",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowFriendlyNames" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2774,7 +2899,7 @@
                                                     "Show Friendly Healer Names",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <!-- Combo Points carries the reference's SECOND gate: greyed
@@ -2790,7 +2915,7 @@
                                                     "Show Combo Points",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowEnergyGains" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2803,7 +2928,7 @@
                                                     "Show Energy Gains",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowHonorGained" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -2816,7 +2941,7 @@
                                                     "Show Honor Gained",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED", 1)
                                                 self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
-                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                                self.applyFunc = "CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                     </Frames>
@@ -2841,11 +2966,11 @@
                                      four arguments and silently DROPS the fifth that the reference
                                      passes it (`cmp esi,4` at 0x4e770e), so that switch has no
                                      server store to write and the reference RegisterForSave's it
-                                     locally too (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.106-107). MultiBars.xml's
-                                     header carries the whole byte-level finding.
+                                     locally too (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.106-107). Decision 1500 and
+                                     wow-re action-bar-toggles.md carry the whole byte-level finding.
 
                                      The getters and setters are written here as closures rather
-                                     than captured from MultiBars.xml by name, deliberately: a row's
+                                     than captured from the bar file by name, deliberately: a row's
                                      OnLoad captures a function VALUE, so a named import would make
                                      this page depend on load ORDER — and a harness (or a manifest
                                      reordering) that loaded the window without the bars would give
@@ -2874,7 +2999,15 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsFuncRow_OnLoad(self,
                                                     function() return SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1 end,
-                                                    function(value) BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(1, value) end,
+                                                    function(value)
+                                                        local on
+                                                        if value and value ~= "0" and value ~= 0 then on = 1 end
+                                                        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1 = on
+                                                        MultiActionBar_Update()
+                                                        SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2,
+                                                            SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)
+                                                        UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
+                                                    end,
                                                     "0", "Show Bottom Left ActionBar", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_MULTIBAR1")
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
@@ -2886,7 +3019,15 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsFuncRow_OnLoad(self,
                                                     function() return SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2 end,
-                                                    function(value) BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(2, value) end,
+                                                    function(value)
+                                                        local on
+                                                        if value and value ~= "0" and value ~= 0 then on = 1 end
+                                                        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2 = on
+                                                        MultiActionBar_Update()
+                                                        SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2,
+                                                            SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)
+                                                        UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
+                                                    end,
                                                     "0", "Show Bottom Right ActionBar", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_MULTIBAR2")
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
@@ -2898,7 +3039,15 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsFuncRow_OnLoad(self,
                                                     function() return SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3 end,
-                                                    function(value) BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(3, value) end,
+                                                    function(value)
+                                                        local on
+                                                        if value and value ~= "0" and value ~= 0 then on = 1 end
+                                                        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3 = on
+                                                        MultiActionBar_Update()
+                                                        SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2,
+                                                            SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)
+                                                        UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
+                                                    end,
                                                     "0", "Show Right ActionBar", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_MULTIBAR3")
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
@@ -2919,7 +3068,15 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsFuncRow_OnLoad(self,
                                                     function() return SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4 end,
-                                                    function(value) BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(4, value) end,
+                                                    function(value)
+                                                        local on
+                                                        if value and value ~= "0" and value ~= 0 then on = 1 end
+                                                        SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4 = on
+                                                        MultiActionBar_Update()
+                                                        SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2,
+                                                            SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)
+                                                        UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
+                                                    end,
                                                     "0", "Show Right ActionBar 2", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_MULTIBAR4", 1)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
@@ -2931,7 +3088,14 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS",
                                                     "Always Show ActionBars", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS")
-                                                self.applyFunc = MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility
+                                                -- Two arms, as the reference has them: a CLICK runs
+                                                -- MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility (UIOptionsFrame.xml:683);
+                                                -- the LOAD arm only ever SHOWS (UIOptionsFrame.lua:218-220),
+                                                -- because every hide is a counted decrement on each well
+                                                -- (ActionButton_HideGrid) and a load-time hide against wells
+                                                -- nobody opened would push the count negative.
+                                                self.applyFunc = "MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility"
+                                                self.loadFunc = "OptionsFrame_MultibarGrid_Load"
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowLockActionBar" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -3013,7 +3177,7 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET",
                                                     "Show Target of Target", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET")
-                                                self.applyFunc = TargetofTarget_Update
+                                                self.applyFunc = "TargetofTarget_Update" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <!-- The label is ours: the reference declares a Label
@@ -3039,7 +3203,7 @@
                                                     { text = "Party or Raid", value = "4", tip = "OPTION_TOOLTIP_TARGETOFTARGET4" },
                                                     { text = "Always", value = "5", tip = "OPTION_TOOLTIP_TARGETOFTARGET5" },
                                                 })
-                                                self.applyFunc = TargetofTarget_Update
+                                                self.applyFunc = "TargetofTarget_Update" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <!-- The two equipment-display toggles (decision 1472,
@@ -3094,7 +3258,7 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS",
                                                     "Buff Durations", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_BUFF_DURATION")
-                                                self.applyFunc = BuffButtons_UpdatePositions
+                                                self.applyFunc = "BuffButtons_UpdatePositions" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowAutoQuestWatch" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -3180,7 +3344,7 @@
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY",
                                                     "Remove Chat Hover Delay",
                                                     "OPTION_TOOLTIP_REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY")
-                                                self.applyFunc = ChatFrame_ApplyMouseOverDelay
+                                                self.applyFunc = "ChatFrame_ApplyMouseOverDelay" -- by NAME, resolved when applied: this file loads before its definer now (1938)
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowChatBubbles" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetActionBar.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetActionBar.xml
index ef099474..2705f9c9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetActionBar.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetActionBar.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
         - ONE refresh event. The app diffs the whole pushed bar and fires PET_BAR_UPDATE on any
           change, so the ref's PET_BAR_UPDATE / PET_BAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN / UNIT_PET / the
           UNIT_FLAGS+UNIT_AURA pair it filters for arg1=="pet" collapse into one — the same
-          collapse StanceBar.xml makes, for the same reason.
+          collapse our stance bar made, for the same reason (the stock shapeshift bar,
+          BonusActionBarFrame.xml since 1938, registers the reference's six).
         - The drag is ONE verb. PickupPetAction serves shift-click, OnDragStart and OnReceiveDrag
           alike (decision 1010) — that is the reference's own shape, not a collapse of ours: the
           binding itself forks on whether the cursor is already carrying a pet payload, so there is
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/StanceBar.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/StanceBar.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 75933e7b..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/StanceBar.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,374 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        The stance/shapeshift bar (vanilla ShapeshiftBarFrame, ref-BonusActionBarFrame.xml/.lua —
-        extracted from patch.MPQ). Warrior stances, druid forms, rogue Stealth: one CheckButton per
-        known form, checked = the ACTIVE form (the descriptor's UNIT_FIELD_BYTES_1 byte-2 form,
-        wow-re bonusbar-shapeshift.md), grey icon when not castable, cooldown swipe, click casts
-        the form (`crate::ui_shapeshift` drains CastShapeshiftForm onto the wire).
-
-        Geometry QUOTED from the ref's ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition (BonusActionBarFrame.lua
-        l.229-251), which forks on whether MultiBarBottomLeft is up: buttons 30x30, button1 at frame
-        BOTTOMLEFT +(11,3), chained +7; NormalTexture UI-Quickslot2 at the RAISED mode's 50x50 (ref
-        l.236-237), CENTER (0,-1) like the action template. Max 10 slots (NUM_SHAPESHIFT_SLOTS).
-
-        THE SEAT IS NOT THIS FILE'S — the XML anchor below (MainMenuBar TOPLEFT +(30,45)) is only
-        the value the manage pass computes with the bottom-left bar up, written statically so the
-        frame is somewhere sane before the first pass runs. `ShapeshiftBarFrame` is a managed row
-        (UIParent.xml: baseY 0, bottomLeft 45, xOffset 30), so the pass re-derives +45 raised and
-        +0 unraised — the ref's own two positions — and re-seats the frame on every bar change. That
-        used to be a distinction without a difference (0270's bottom bars were always on, so raised
-        was the only state); decision 1500 made all four extra bars player options, and the unraised
-        state is now reachable. It is covered, and `multibar_stance_tests` pins both seats.
-
-        The ART half of that same fork IS this file's, and it is `ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition` in
-        the script below: the ref's unraised branch also shows the ShapeshiftBarEnds/Middle shelf
-        strips and grows each button's ring from 50x50 to 64x64. That branch was dead code while the
-        bottom bars were always on, and 1500 made it the DEFAULT — every form class meets the
-        unraised bar on a fresh character — so a shelf-less bar would be the shipped look rather than
-        an edge case. It rides `UIParent_RegisterManagedPositionListener` (decision 1499's
-        after-every-recompute hook, the same one the bag stack uses) so the art settles when the pass
-        that decides raised-ness has finished, and it needs no edit to UIParent.xml.
-
-        Ref divergences (deliberate):
-        - ONE refresh event: the app diffs the whole pushed form list (identity, active, castable,
-          cooldown) and fires UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS on any change — so the ref's separate
-          Update/UpdateState split over six events (SPELL_UPDATE_COOLDOWN/_USABLE,
-          PLAYER_AURAS_CHANGED, UPDATE_INVENTORY_ALERTS "Wha??", ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED) collapses
-          into Update on UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS + PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD.
-        - No lastSelected bookkeeping (ref ShapeshiftBar_ChangeForm) — checked state is always
-          re-derived from the pushed `isActive`, never locally latched: the server's form byte is
-          the truth and the app re-pushes on its every change. (Verified dead in the ref itself:
-          `lastSelected` is written twice and read nowhere in the shipped FrameXML.)
-    -->
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        NUM_SHAPESHIFT_SLOTS = 10
-
-        -- RIGHT-CLICK IS DEAD HERE, and deliberately (decision 1030 reverting 1027). The ref's
-        -- ShapeshiftButtonTemplate registers NOTHING: it inherits ActionButtonTemplate and then
-        -- overrides <OnLoad> with a body that only scales the cooldown, so the
-        -- `RegisterForClicks("LeftButtonUp","RightButtonUp")` that ActionButton_OnLoad gives every
-        -- other action-style button (ref ActionButton.lua:109) is lost and the default
-        -- {LeftButtonUp} stands. A right-press therefore neither flashes the pushed art
-        -- (0x77924b gates that on the same mask) nor casts. It reads like a Blizzard oversight
-        -- and it is the only bar that behaves this way — reproduced anyway, because the director
-        -- checked it against the reference and called faithful.
-        function BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(button, index)
-            button.index = index
-            button.icon = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Icon")
-            button.cooldown = getglobal(button:GetName() .. "Cooldown")
-        end
-
-        -- The CheckButton widget toggles itself BEFORE OnClick fires (the widget contract); the
-        -- ref immediately reverts that toggle (ShapeshiftButtonTemplate OnClick, ref-
-        -- BonusActionBarFrame.xml l.31-38), so the checked ring never follows the click — only
-        -- the isActive repaint. That is what keeps a warrior's ACTIVE stance lit through the
-        -- click's silent wire no-op (stances never cancel — the 0x4b4963 guard), and a druid
-        -- form/Stealth lit until the server actually confirms the shift-out. The revert is
-        -- unconditional, which is why no click here can leave a lit form dark — unlike the pet
-        -- bar's flat SetChecked(0), which needs a repaint to be correct.
-        function BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnClick(button)
-            if button:GetChecked() then
-                button:SetChecked(nil)
-            else
-                button:SetChecked(1)
-            end
-            CastShapeshiftForm(button.index)
-        end
-
-        -- Hover: the form's spell tooltip through the engine channel (ref ShapeshiftBar's
-        -- GameTooltip:SetShapeshift; decision 0274 P2). Anchor: the ref's ShapeshiftButton
-        -- OnEnter (BonusActionBarFrame.xml l.40-45) takes the default corner when UberTooltips
-        -- is "1" — its byte-verified stock default — and sits beside the button otherwise. Like
-        -- the action bar's, that fork was collapsed to the "1" leg until B230 registered the CVar
-        -- (cvars.rs carries the byte-read); the stock look is unchanged, the off leg is reachable.
-        function BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnEnter(button)
-            if not GameTooltip then return end -- engine tests load file subsets
-            if GetCVar("UberTooltips") == "0" then
-                GameTooltip:SetOwner(button, "ANCHOR_RIGHT")
-            else
-                GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor(GameTooltip, button)
-            end
-            GameTooltip:SetShapeshift(button.index)
-        end
-
-        function BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLeave(button)
-            GameTooltip:Hide()
-        end
-
-        -- Ref ShapeshiftBar_Update + ShapeshiftBar_UpdateState fused (SCOPE note above): size the
-        -- bar to the form count (hide the whole frame at 0 — a formless class never shows it),
-        -- then paint each button — icon, checked (active), the 1.0/0.4 castable tint (ref l.210-214),
-        -- cooldown swipe (CooldownFrame_SetTimer, Cooldown.xml's shared transcription).
-        function ShapeshiftBar_Update()
-            local numForms = GetNumShapeshiftForms()
-            if numForms > 0 then
-                -- ── The shelf's LENGTH is the form count (ref l.161-175) ─────────────────────
-                -- The three strips are DECLARED as the >2-form chain (Left → Middle → Right), so
-                -- the one- and two-form shelves have to re-point the end cap. Hiding the middle
-                -- strip does NOT close its gap — a hidden region still resolves its rect, here
-                -- and in the reference — so without this the 42x50 right cap sits 38px past the
-                -- last button as a stray empty recess: a rogue's Stealth with a second, always-
-                -- empty slot beside it. One form pulls the cap back INSIDE the left cap (+12, a
-                -- 54px shelf around the single button); two butt the caps together; past two the
-                -- middle strip carries one slot per extra form and the cap chains off it.
-                if numForms == 1 then
-                    ShapeshiftBarRight:SetPoint("LEFT", ShapeshiftBarLeft, "LEFT", 12, 0)
-                elseif numForms == 2 then
-                    ShapeshiftBarRight:SetPoint("LEFT", ShapeshiftBarLeft, "RIGHT", 0, 0)
-                else
-                    ShapeshiftBarMiddle:SetPoint("LEFT", ShapeshiftBarLeft, "RIGHT", 0, 0)
-                    ShapeshiftBarMiddle:SetWidth(38 * (numForms - 2))
-                    ShapeshiftBarMiddle:SetTexCoord(0, numForms - 2, 0, 1)
-                    ShapeshiftBarRight:SetPoint("LEFT", ShapeshiftBarMiddle, "RIGHT", 0, 0)
-                end
-                ShapeshiftBarFrame:Show()
-            else
-                ShapeshiftBarFrame:Hide()
-            end
-            for i = 1, NUM_SHAPESHIFT_SLOTS do
-                local button = getglobal("ShapeshiftButton" .. i)
-                if i <= numForms then
-                    local texture, name, isActive, isCastable = GetShapeshiftFormInfo(i)
-                    button.icon:SetTexture(texture or BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON)
-                    local start, duration, enable = GetShapeshiftFormCooldown(i)
-                    CooldownFrame_SetTimer(button.cooldown, start, duration, enable)
-                    if isActive then
-                        button:SetChecked(1)
-                    else
-                        button:SetChecked(0)
-                    end
-                    if isCastable then
-                        button.icon:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-                    else
-                        button.icon:SetVertexColor(0.4, 0.4, 0.4)
-                    end
-                    button:Show()
-                else
-                    button:Hide()
-                end
-            end
-            -- The art depends on the form COUNT too (the middle strip's `> 2`), so it is re-derived
-            -- here as well as on every managed-position pass. Pure derivation, so running it twice
-            -- costs nothing and missing it costs a strip.
-            ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition()
-        end
-
-        -- ── The raised/unraised ART fork (ref ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition, l.229-251) ──────────
-        -- The reference's function does TWO things and we only owe it one. Its two SetPoints —
-        -- MainMenuBar TOPLEFT +(30,45) with the bottom-left multibar up, +(30,0) without — are
-        -- already `UIParent_ManageFramePositions`' job here: `ShapeshiftBarFrame` is a managed row
-        -- (baseY 0, bottomLeft 45, xOffset 30), which IS those two positions, and a second
-        -- SetPoint from this file would be a competing answer to a question already answered.
-        -- What the pass does NOT carry is the art half, and that is this:
-        --
-        --   raised   — the three shelf strips hidden, each button's ring 50x50. The shelf art IS
-        --              the bar's border and only reads as one while the bar sits on the main bar;
-        --              a row up it would draw across whatever is underneath (the same rule the
-        --              pass applies to the pet bar's sliding strips).
-        --   unraised — the two END-CAPS shown, the MIDDLE strip shown only past two forms, each
-        --              button's ring 64x64.
-        --
-        -- The `> 2` on the middle strip is the ref's own and easy to miss: a two-form class (a
-        -- priest with Shadowform, a warrior before Berserker) gets the end caps and no middle.
-        --
-        -- **This became load-bearing with 1500.** While the bottom bars were always on (0270) the
-        -- raised branch was the only reachable state and this whole fork was dead code; now every
-        -- form class sees the UNRAISED bar on a fresh character, so the shelf-less version would be
-        -- the shipped default look rather than an edge case.
-        --
-        -- It keeps the reference's NAME because the corpus replaces that name wholesale:
-        -- CT_BottomBar.lua:712/741 saves and overwrites `ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition` to take the
-        -- bar over. The listener below therefore calls it through the GLOBAL, so an addon that
-        -- replaces it really does take the art with it.
-        function ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition()
-            local raised = MultiBarBottomLeft and MultiBarBottomLeft:IsShown()
-            local ring = 64
-            if raised then
-                ring = 50
-                ShapeshiftBarLeft:Hide()
-                ShapeshiftBarMiddle:Hide()
-                ShapeshiftBarRight:Hide()
-            else
-                ShapeshiftBarLeft:Show()
-                ShapeshiftBarRight:Show()
-                if GetNumShapeshiftForms() > 2 then
-                    ShapeshiftBarMiddle:Show()
-                else
-                    ShapeshiftBarMiddle:Hide()
-                end
-            end
-            -- The ref sizes only the buttons a form occupies; ours sizes all ten. Same pixels (a
-            -- hidden button draws nothing) and one less thing to get wrong — a button that appears
-            -- later is already the right size, without this needing to run again for it.
-            for i = 1, NUM_SHAPESHIFT_SLOTS do
-                local ringTexture = getglobal("ShapeshiftButton" .. i .. "NormalTexture")
-                ringTexture:SetWidth(ring)
-                ringTexture:SetHeight(ring)
-            end
-        end
-
-        function ShapeshiftBar_OnLoad()
-            local frame = this
-            frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            frame:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS")
-            ShapeshiftBar_Update()
-        end
-
-        function ShapeshiftBar_OnEvent()
-            local frame = this
-            ShapeshiftBar_Update()
-        end
-
-        -- Re-derive the art after every managed-position recompute (decision 1499's hook — the same
-        -- after-the-pass seam the bag stack registers on). The pass is what decides whether this bar
-        -- is raised, so the art fork has to run when the pass has finished and not before. Called
-        -- through the global name so an addon replacement is honoured (see the function's comment).
-        -- Guarded for the harnesses that load this file without UIParent.xml, the way BagFrame.xml
-        -- guards its own registration.
-        if UIParent_RegisterManagedPositionListener then
-            UIParent_RegisterManagedPositionListener(function() ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition() end)
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-
-    <!--
-        One stance button (ref ShapeshiftButtonTemplate: 30x30, inherits ActionButtonTemplate's
-        art set): icon fills (BACKGROUND); Cooldown child (the ref SetScale(.83)s the 36px
-        template's — ours is sized 30x30 directly); the raised-mode 50x50 UI-Quickslot2 ring
-        CENTER (0,-1); the action template's pushed/highlight/checked trio.
-    -->
-    <CheckButton name="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="30" y="30"/></Size>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                <Texture name="$parentIcon"/>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Frames>
-            <Cooldown name="$parentCooldown" hidden="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="30" y="30"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-1"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-            </Cooldown>
-        </Frames>
-        <NormalTexture name="$parentNormalTexture" file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Quickslot2">
-            <Size><AbsDimension x="50" y="50"/></Size>
-            <Anchors>
-                <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-1"/></Offset></Anchor>
-            </Anchors>
-        </NormalTexture>
-        <PushedTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Quickslot-Depress"/>
-        <HighlightTexture file="Interface\Buttons\ButtonHilight-Square" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-        <CheckedTexture file="Interface\Buttons\CheckButtonHilight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnClick>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnClick(self)</OnClick>
-            <OnEnter>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnEnter(self)</OnEnter>
-            <OnLeave>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLeave(self)</OnLeave>
-        </Scripts>
-    </CheckButton>
-
-    <Frame name="ShapeshiftBarFrame" enableMouse="true" parent="MainMenuBar" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="29" y="32"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativeTo="MainMenuBar" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="30" y="45"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <!-- The shelf art (ref BonusActionBarFrame.xml l.220-249), declared HIDDEN.
-
-             The header above says this art "is not modeled at all" because raised mode hides it and
-             we are permanently raised. That reasoning was right about the PIXELS and wrong about
-             the NAMES: 1219/1223 settled that the reference does not choose between shown and
-             absent, and "we don't show it" is not a reason for it not to exist. Four frames landed
-             on that principle; these are the first REGIONS to, which is why the sweep that closed
-             the class missed them — it ran over the frames/tables ranking, and a Texture is
-             neither.
-
-             Two corpus addons index them, and both do pure LAYOUT — they do not use the art, they
-             move it, exactly the shape 1223 found for BonusActionBarFrame:
-               zBarEx/zMainBar.lua:288-290  SetParent(MainMenuBar) on all three
-               CT_BottomBar.lua:681-692     ClearAllPoints + SetPoint off-screen
-             Absent, `ShapeshiftBarLeft:ClearAllPoints()` is `attempt to index global` and takes the
-             addon's whole handler with it.
-
-             Geometry, anchor chain and TexCoords quoted whole: Left and Right are two crops of ONE
-             `ShapeshiftBarEnds` file (0..0.453125 and 0.453125..0.875), Middle its own, and Right
-             hangs off Middle's RIGHT — the >2-form chain, which is the DECLARED state only. The
-             cap is re-pointed per form count by `ShapeshiftBar_Update` above (the ref's l.161-175):
-             hiding the middle strip leaves its 38px rect behind, so the declared chain alone
-             strands the cap past the last button.
-
-             `hidden="true"` is the RAISED state, and it is only the pre-pass value now:
-             `ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition` (above) shows and hides all three from the bottom-left
-             multibar's state on every managed-position pass. Declared hidden rather than shown so a
-             harness that never runs the pass draws nothing new. -->
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                <Texture name="ShapeshiftBarLeft" file="Interface\ShapeshiftBar\ShapeshiftBarEnds" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="45" y="50"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT"/></Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.453125" top="0" bottom="1"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="ShapeshiftBarMiddle" file="Interface\ShapeshiftBar\ShapeshiftBarMiddle" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="38" y="50"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftBarLeft" relativePoint="RIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="1" top="0" bottom="1"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="ShapeshiftBarRight" file="Interface\ShapeshiftBar\ShapeshiftBarEnds" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="42" y="50"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftBarMiddle" relativePoint="RIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.453125" right="0.875" top="0" bottom="1"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Frames>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton1" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="1">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="11" y="3"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 1)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton2" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="2">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton1" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 2)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton3" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="3">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton2" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 3)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton4" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="4">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton3" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 4)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton5" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="5">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton4" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 5)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton6" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="6">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton5" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 6)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton7" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="7">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton6" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 7)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton8" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="8">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton7" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 8)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton9" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="9">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton8" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 9)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-            <CheckButton name="ShapeshiftButton10" inherits="BenillaShapeshiftButtonTemplate" id="10">
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="ShapeshiftButton9" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts><OnLoad>BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnLoad(self, 10)</OnLoad></Scripts>
-            </CheckButton>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>ShapeshiftBar_OnLoad()</OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>ShapeshiftBar_OnEvent()</OnEvent>
-            <!-- The stance bar is the pet/stance term of the managed bottom-stack positions
-                 (UIParent.xml, decision 0272): its show/hide re-fires the pass, exactly the
-                 ref's BonusActionBarFrame.xml:350-355. -->
-            <OnShow>UIParent_ManageFramePositions()</OnShow>
-            <OnHide>UIParent_ManageFramePositions()</OnHide>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml
index 7d9d9705..ebfead66 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@
         XML anchor: every layout pass re-anchors it to a base offset plus per-bar deltas -
         either bottom multibar, the pet/stance bar, the reputation watch bar - fired from those
         bars' OnShow/OnHide (ref BonusActionBarFrame.xml:350-355 et al.) and applied once at
-        startup. The loader's post-load call (ui_script/mod.rs) is our startup seam; the stance
-        bar's OnShow/OnHide (StanceBar.xml) is the one live re-fire today.
+        startup. The loader's post-load call (ui_script/mod.rs) is our startup seam; the pet
+        bar's OnShow/OnHide and the options rows' setters (1938) are the live re-fires today.
 
         Departures, each named:
         - Lua 5.1 dialect (the 1.12 client ran 5.0): pairs() iteration, table.insert for
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
         -- `CMSG_SET_ACTIONBAR_TOGGLES` and waits for the field to come back (wow-re
         -- `system/ui/scratch/action-bar-toggles.md` §5: the setter's every store is into its own
         -- stack frame, and nothing in the binary fires on a change to that byte). So the live UI
-        -- state is the four Lua globals `MultiBars.xml` owns, and `GetActionBarToggles()` is read
+        -- state is the four Lua globals stock `MultiActionBars.lua` reads, and `GetActionBarToggles()` is read
         -- exactly ONCE, here, to seed them. Reading it again later would fight the optimistic
         -- value the options rows just set and lose a round trip's worth of clicks.
         --
@@ -810,6 +810,12 @@
             -- while the stance bar is up starts 20px past the last stance button. That case is
             -- rare but real — a possessed or charmed unit gives a pet bar to a class that also
             -- has forms.
+            -- Update shapeshift bar appearance — ref UIParent.lua l.1705-1732, the reference's own
+            -- arm of this pass: with the bottom-left bar up the stance bar loses its shelf (end
+            -- caps + middle strip) and its rings shrink to 50; otherwise the shelf shows (the
+            -- middle only past two forms) and the rings are 64. Stock BonusActionBarFrame.lua
+            -- carries a `ShapeshiftBar_UpdatePosition` with the same body that nothing calls; the
+            -- pass IS the caller. (Our StanceBar.xml did this through a listener until 1938.)
             local bottomLeftUp = MultiBarBottomLeft and MultiBarBottomLeft:IsShown()
             if ( SlidingActionBarTexture0 and SlidingActionBarTexture1 ) then
                 if ( bottomLeftUp ) then
@@ -820,6 +826,28 @@
                     SlidingActionBarTexture1:Show()
                 end
             end
+            if ( ShapeshiftBarFrame ) then
+                local numForms = GetNumShapeshiftForms and GetNumShapeshiftForms() or 0
+                if ( bottomLeftUp ) then
+                    ShapeshiftBarLeft:Hide()
+                    ShapeshiftBarRight:Hide()
+                    ShapeshiftBarMiddle:Hide()
+                    for i=1, numForms do
+                        getglobal("ShapeshiftButton"..i.."NormalTexture"):SetWidth(50)
+                        getglobal("ShapeshiftButton"..i.."NormalTexture"):SetHeight(50)
+                    end
+                else
+                    if ( numForms > 2 ) then
+                        ShapeshiftBarMiddle:Show()
+                    end
+                    ShapeshiftBarLeft:Show()
+                    ShapeshiftBarRight:Show()
+                    for i=1, numForms do
+                        getglobal("ShapeshiftButton"..i.."NormalTexture"):SetWidth(64)
+                        getglobal("ShapeshiftButton"..i.."NormalTexture"):SetHeight(64)
+                    end
+                end
+            end
             if ( PetActionBarFrame ) then
                 PETACTIONBAR_XPOS = 36
                 local forms = GetNumShapeshiftForms and GetNumShapeshiftForms() or 0
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml
index aa92c6c3..32e4f5d0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
         its comment names the reference row it stands in for.
     -->
     <Script><![CDATA[
+        -- The placeholder icon for an item/spell whose texture has not arrived yet (Craft, Quest,
+        -- QuestLog, Trainer and TradeSkill read it). Was ActionBar.xml's; that file went stock with
+        -- 1938 and this kit is the constant's home now — a benilla name, so nothing stock reads it.
+        BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Misc_QuestionMark"
+
         -- UIParent.lua l.14-42: UIPanelWindows["FrameName"] = { area, pushable, whileDead }. Only
         -- the rows benilla ships today; the ref rows with no benilla window yet (Tabard,
         -- Battlefield, WorldStateScore, Minigame) join as their windows land (audited
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
index 4a59df41..57244593 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
@@ -340,54 +340,104 @@ ConfirmSummon.xml
 # asks. The only entry in the registry that raises a money frame, so it needs MoneyFrame.xml (far
 # above, ahead of UiPanels.xml) as well as the StaticPopup engine itself.
 TalentWipeConfirm.xml
+# ── MEASUREMENT (1938): the options window at the reference's slot (FrameXML.toc l.21, before
+#    MainMenuBar l.34) with the four rows it inherits from. ──
+# The faux-scroll kit (decisions 0247/0250/0251): BenillaScrollBarTemplate (the draggable
+# Slider scroll bar) + FauxScrollFrameTemplate + the reference's own FauxScrollFrame_*
+# API (Update/GetOffset/SetOffset/OnVerticalScroll + ScrollFrame_OnLoad) —
+# before its first customer (the trainer list) below.
+ScrollTemplates.xml
+
+# ══ THE PANEL TEMPLATE KIT — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 31) ══
+# TWO entries, because the reference splits this kit the way it splits every other: the `.lua`
+# carries the verbs and the `.xml` the templates. Listing the `.xml` alone brings none of the verbs
+# (`every_chain_xml_brings_its_own_lua` is a gate because that already bit twice).
+#
+# ONE swap, THREE of our files, which is why it had to move as a unit and why 1837 measured it
+# before anyone executed it:
+#   * `UIPanelTemplates.xml` — DELETED. Our 18 templates were a strict SUBSET of the reference's,
+#     zero benilla-only additions, so the template half is a pure gain.
+#   * the scroll half of `ScrollTemplates.xml` — `FauxScrollFrameTemplate`, `FauxScrollFrame_*`,
+#     `ScrollFrame_*` — now the chain's. What stays there is `BenillaScrollBarTemplate` and
+#     `BenillaScrollTroughTemplate`, which are ours and which six windows still inherit.
+#   * the `PanelTemplates_*` family out of `UiPanels.xml`.
+#
+# It could not be split: `ScrollTemplates.xml` sits ABOVE this entry, so the chain's
+# `FauxScrollFrameTemplate` lands after ours and wins (registration is last-in). There is no
+# ordering that takes the templates without also taking Faux.
+#
+# GAINED: `TabButtonTemplate`, and the whole `ScrollingEdit_*` family, which we had NOWHERE — that
+# is HelpFrame's named blocker, answered as a side effect. And it unblocks MacroFrame (1835).
+Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua
+
+Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml
+
+# The Keybindings page MODULE (decision 1008, superseding 0997's standalone window):
+# the templates + script of the Options window's Keybindings category, over the
+# engine's binding table (benilla_ui::script::keybind + crate::bindings — the 1.12
+# GetBinding/SetBinding Lua API). Needs UiPanels (popup engine) and GameTooltip (the
+# character-specific checkbox's hover); MUST load before OptionsFrame.xml, whose
+# Keybindings body inherits these templates and calls this script at OnLoad.
+KeyBindingsPage.xml
+
+# The options window (the 0985 provenance split: 0950's era structure, 0978's
+# 1.12-native art, 0981/0984's 1.14 chrome + working era search, 0989's directed
+# cuts — bare fully-live sliders, no corner X; 0992's dropdown rows + the Nameplates
+# page): the era-shaped OptionsFrame the game menu's Options button opens. Needs
+# Fonts' objects, UiPanels' panel manager, and UIDropDownMenu's capsule template
+# (all far above); sits right before GameMenuFrame so the menu — which reaches it by
+# name at click time — stays the last, outermost layer.
+OptionsFrame.xml
+
+# ── The action-bar cluster, stock (1938): MainMenuBar.xml before Cooldown.xml as the reference's
+#    toc has it (l.34 → l.36); ActionBarFrame.xml + MultiActionBars.xml right after ActionButtonTemplate.xml
+#    (l.37-39); BonusActionBarFrame.xml — which also declares the shapeshift bar — after PetActionBar.xml
+#    (l.73-74). Replaces ActionBar.xml, MultiBars.xml and StanceBar.xml.
+Interface\FrameXML\MainMenuBar.xml
+
 # The shared CooldownFrame_SetTimer (the ref's Cooldown.lua file split) — before its
-# consumers (ActionBar's buttons, the multibars, the stance bar, BagFrame's slots).
+# consumers (the action, multibar, bonus and shapeshift buttons; the bag slots).
 Cooldown.xml
 # ══ THE ACTION-BUTTON REGIONS — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751) ══
 # `ActionButtonTemplate`: the REGIONS-ONLY half of the reference's two-level split — icon, count,
 # hotkey, name, border, flash, cooldown and normal texture. It declares NO scripts and calls
 # nothing, so it needs no `.lua` beside it. The handler half is `ActionBarButtonTemplate`, which
-# ActionBar.xml still declares and which inherits this; those handlers stay ours until
-# `ActionButton.lua`'s 21 verbs migrate (we have 10 of them, under the reference's own names).
+# ActionBarFrame.xml below declares over `ActionButton.lua` (stock since 1938).
 #
 # Ours was a transcription of this exact file — the eight `$parent*` child names match to the
 # letter — so the swap is a deletion.
 #
-# **It must come BEFORE ActionBar.xml.** A template is registered by name and the later line
-# wins, so seated below it our transcription would take the name straight back.
+# **It must come BEFORE ActionBarFrame.xml**, whose template inherits it by name at load.
 Interface\FrameXML\ActionButtonTemplate.xml
-ActionBar.xml
+Interface\FrameXML\ActionBarFrame.xml
 # The four OPTIONAL extra bars (bottom left/right 61-72 / 49-60, vertical right/left
-# 25-36 / 37-48), all shipping hidden until the player ticks their row (decision 1500):
-# pure XML/Lua over ActionBar.xml's shared button template + handler set. Loads right
-# after it, and the order is a REQUIREMENT, not tidiness: it inherits
-# BenillaActionButtonTemplate, anchors to ActionButton1, its buttons join the
-# BENILLA_ACTION_BUTTONS roster ActionBar.xml declares, its grid verbs call that file's
-# ActionButton_ShowGrid/_HideGrid, and its BENILLA_MULTIBARS table reads that file's
-# *_ACTIONBAR_PAGE constants at FILE SCOPE. UIParent.xml (far above) owns the manage pass
-# MultiActionBar_Update ends with, and the PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD seed that fills the four
-# SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_* globals from the server's byte.
-MultiBars.xml
-# The stance/shapeshift bar: hidden until `crate::ui_shapeshift`'s feed pushes a
-# non-empty form list (a formless class never shows it). After Cooldown.xml
-# (CooldownFrame_SetTimer) + ActionBar.xml (BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON, the MainMenuBar
-# anchor target).
-StanceBar.xml
+# 25-36 / 37-48), all shipping hidden until the player ticks their row (decision 1500) — the
+# reference's own file, right after ActionBarFrame.xml as its toc has it (l.38-39): it inherits
+# ActionBarButtonTemplate, anchors to ActionButton1, and calls ActionButton_ShowGrid/_HideGrid.
+# Its OnLoad writes five rows of `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`, which is why OptionsFrame.xml sits
+# ABOVE this cluster (1938). UIParent.xml (far above) carries the PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD seed
+# that fills the four SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_* globals from the server's byte; the manage pass runs
+# from the options rows' setters, as the stock options window runs it on hide.
+Interface\FrameXML\MultiActionBars.xml
 # The pet action bar (decision 0982): hidden until `crate::ui_pet`'s feed reports a bar,
 # i.e. until the server sends `SMSG_PET_SPELLS` for a live pet or charm — so a class that
 # never has one never sees it. Right after the stance bar, whose row it shares (either
 # one showing raises UIParent.xml's managed "pet" delta), and after Cooldown.xml
-# (CooldownFrame_SetTimer), ActionBar.xml (the `MainMenuBar` anchor target),
+# (CooldownFrame_SetTimer), MainMenuBar.xml (the `MainMenuBar` anchor target),
 # GameTooltip.xml (its hover), Fonts.xml (NORMAL_FONT_COLOR_CODE, which wraps the binding
 # a token slot's tooltip appends) and UIParent.xml (GetBindingText, which renders it).
 # It is also the pet ARC's file, so decision 1066's three
 # right-click-menu dialogs (ABANDON_PET / RENAME_PET / PETRENAMECONFIRM) register here —
 # which adds UiPanels.xml to its dependency set, already far above.
 PetActionBar.xml
+# The bonus (stance-page) bar AND the shapeshift bar — one stock file declares both, and the
+# reference's toc seats it right after PetActionBarFrame (l.73-74): the bonus buttons'
+# Up/Down call PetActionButtonUp/Down, which PetActionBar.xml above defines.
+Interface\FrameXML\BonusActionBarFrame.xml
 # The micro-button row in the bar's right-hand recess (the ref's own file split, its TOC
-# loads MainMenuBarMicroButtons right after MainMenuBar). After ActionBar.xml: it anchors
-# into MainMenuBarArtFrame by name and seats itself with that file's
-# BenillaActionBarArt_SeatAbove. It must come BEFORE the panels it toggles, because each of
+# loads MainMenuBarMicroButtons right after MainMenuBar). After MainMenuBar.xml: it anchors
+# into MainMenuBarArtFrame by name and seats itself above the art plate with its own
+# BenillaActionBarArt_SeatAbove (moved here from ActionBar.xml with 1938). It must come BEFORE the panels it toggles, because each of
 # their OnShow/OnHide calls the `UpdateMicroButtons` this file defines (the panel frames
 # themselves are read back through getglobal, so the reverse dependency is call-time).
 MicroMenu.xml
@@ -440,33 +490,6 @@ Interface\FrameXML\FadingFrame.xml
 # strings, which came from ours as `X = X or "…"` fallbacks and now come from the player's own
 # GlobalStrings.lua like every other string in this interface.
 Interface\FrameXML\ZoneText.xml
-# The faux-scroll kit (decisions 0247/0250/0251): BenillaScrollBarTemplate (the draggable
-# Slider scroll bar) + FauxScrollFrameTemplate + the reference's own FauxScrollFrame_*
-# API (Update/GetOffset/SetOffset/OnVerticalScroll + ScrollFrame_OnLoad) —
-# before its first customer (the trainer list) below.
-ScrollTemplates.xml
-# ══ THE PANEL TEMPLATE KIT — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 31) ══
-# TWO entries, because the reference splits this kit the way it splits every other: the `.lua`
-# carries the verbs and the `.xml` the templates. Listing the `.xml` alone brings none of the verbs
-# (`every_chain_xml_brings_its_own_lua` is a gate because that already bit twice).
-#
-# ONE swap, THREE of our files, which is why it had to move as a unit and why 1837 measured it
-# before anyone executed it:
-#   * `UIPanelTemplates.xml` — DELETED. Our 18 templates were a strict SUBSET of the reference's,
-#     zero benilla-only additions, so the template half is a pure gain.
-#   * the scroll half of `ScrollTemplates.xml` — `FauxScrollFrameTemplate`, `FauxScrollFrame_*`,
-#     `ScrollFrame_*` — now the chain's. What stays there is `BenillaScrollBarTemplate` and
-#     `BenillaScrollTroughTemplate`, which are ours and which six windows still inherit.
-#   * the `PanelTemplates_*` family out of `UiPanels.xml`.
-#
-# It could not be split: `ScrollTemplates.xml` sits ABOVE this entry, so the chain's
-# `FauxScrollFrameTemplate` lands after ours and wins (registration is last-in). There is no
-# ordering that takes the templates without also taking Faux.
-#
-# GAINED: `TabButtonTemplate`, and the whole `ScrollingEdit_*` family, which we had NOWHERE — that
-# is HelpFrame's named blocker, answered as a side effect. And it unblocks MacroFrame (1835).
-Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua
-Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml
 # ══ THE OPTIONS WIDGET KIT — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 29) ══
 # The four templates addons name for an options panel: `OptionFrameBoxTemplate`,
 # `OptionsButtonTemplate`, `OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, `OptionsSliderTemplate`. Self-contained —
@@ -498,7 +521,7 @@ OptionsFrameTemplates.xml
 #
 # THE SEAT IS A REQUIREMENT, not tidiness: the Okay/Cancel buttons
 # `inherits="GameMenuButtonTemplate"`, resolved at LOAD, and that template lives in
-# UIPanelTemplates.xml six lines up (it moved there from GameMenuFrame.xml — the reference's own
+# UIPanelTemplates.xml far above (it moved there from GameMenuFrame.xml — the reference's own
 # file for it — precisely because GameMenuFrame.xml is deliberately LAST, which is also why this
 # entry does not follow the reference's own position below it). Everything else it needs is far
 # above: Fonts' GameFontNormal trio, and UiPanels' ShowUIPanel/HideUIPanel plus its UISpecialFrames
@@ -641,7 +664,7 @@ Interface\FrameXML\ContainerFrame.xml
 # `UIPanelButtonTemplate`, and `PanelTemplates_SetNumTabs`, which `CharacterFrame_OnLoad` calls at
 # LOAD), TextStatusBar.xml (`SetTextStatusBarTextPrefix`, called at load too, plus the
 # `TextStatusBar` the pet page's XP bar inherits), UnitFrames.xml (`PlayerFrameHealthBar` /
-# `PlayerFrameManaBar`, named in that same OnLoad), ActionBar.xml (`MainMenuExpBar`, likewise),
+# `PlayerFrameManaBar`, named in that same OnLoad), MainMenuBar.xml (`MainMenuExpBar`, likewise),
 # MicroMenu.xml (`MicroButtonTooltipText`, the five tab hovers) and UIParent.xml
 # (`Model_OnLoad`/`_RotateLeft`/`_RotateRight`/`_OnUpdate` — the model pane's turntable, the
 # reference's own code living in our UIParent.lua counterpart).
@@ -669,7 +692,7 @@ Interface\FrameXML\PetPaperDollFrame.xml
 # THE POSITION IS THE REQUIREMENT: `inherits="PaperDollItemSlotButtonTemplate"` on the four bag
 # slots and `inherits="ItemButtonTemplate"` on the backpack are resolved at LOAD, and so is
 # `parent="MainMenuBarArtFrame"` — so this sits below the character-window block (above, which is
-# where stock `PaperDollFrame.xml` declares that template) and below ActionBar.xml (which declares
+# where stock `PaperDollFrame.xml` declares that template) and below MainMenuBar.xml (which declares
 # the art frame). It sat below a transcribed copy of the template in `ItemSlotButtonTemplates.xml`
 # until the character window migrated and made that copy redundant (decision 1810). Being BELOW the sourced ContainerFrame.xml is
 # legibility, not necessity, in either direction: every verb each file calls of the other resolves
@@ -679,8 +702,8 @@ Interface\FrameXML\PetPaperDollFrame.xml
 # than being edited into anything of Blizzard's: the item-push card (0887 — the reference's is a
 # `<Model>` playing an .mdx and this engine renders no FrameXML models, so ours samples that
 # model's own tracks and draws a quad), and the GlobalStrings fallbacks the install-less harnesses
-# need. The keyring's SHOW trigger moved the other way — into ActionBar.xml, our MainMenuBar.xml,
-# which is exactly where the reference keeps it (MainMenuBar.xml l.323-341).
+# need. The keyring's SHOW trigger moved the other way — into the main bar's file, which is exactly
+# where the reference keeps it (MainMenuBar.xml l.323-341; stock since 1938).
 Interface\FrameXML\MainMenuBarBagButtons.xml
 # The stack-split spinner (decision 0216 §6/slice 2): loaded beside the bag windows, whose slot
 # click handler (the reference's `ContainerFrameItemButton_OnClick`) calls `OpenStackSplitFrame`.
@@ -700,8 +723,7 @@ ContainerFrameAdapters.xml
 # template's first benilla consumer), OptionsFrameTemplates.xml (`OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, two
 # of the three detail boxes), GameTooltip.xml (the column newbie tips) and Fonts.xml. One
 # dependency runs the other way and is worth naming: the WATCH BAR half of the reference's
-# ReputationFrame lives in ActionBar.xml (entry 94) beside the MainMenuBar frames it drives — that
-# file's own comment carries the justification — so `FACTION_BAR_COLORS` and
+# ReputationFrame is declared in this same stock file (since 1875's co-edit, below) — so `FACTION_BAR_COLORS` and
 # `ReputationWatchBar_Update` are already defined when this page paints a row or ticks the
 # "Show as Experience Bar" box.
 # ══ THE REPUTATION PANE — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, scoped by 1844) ══
@@ -712,7 +734,7 @@ ContainerFrameAdapters.xml
 #
 # THE CO-EDIT was compulsory. The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in this same file;
 # ours lived in `ActionBar.xml` behind a note defending the placement. Frame globals publish
-# NON-overwritingly and ActionBar.xml is manifest line 340 against this file's — so ours would have
+# NON-overwritingly and ActionBar.xml was manifest line 340 against this file's — so ours would have
 # kept the name and the chain's bar would have been built and unreachable, which is exactly what
 # `GroupLootFrame` did for months (1838). The bar, its update, its two text verbs,
 # `MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL` and `FACTION_BAR_COLORS` all went home with it (1875).
@@ -1053,21 +1075,6 @@ Interface\FrameXML\HelpFrame.xml
 # nothing else, and nothing needs it — the engine reaches it purely by firing CINEMATIC_START.
 # Seated late because it is an outermost, screen-owning layer, like the two windows below it.
 Interface\FrameXML\CinematicFrame.xml
-# The Keybindings page MODULE (decision 1008, superseding 0997's standalone window):
-# the templates + script of the Options window's Keybindings category, over the
-# engine's binding table (benilla_ui::script::keybind + crate::bindings — the 1.12
-# GetBinding/SetBinding Lua API). Needs UiPanels (popup engine) and GameTooltip (the
-# character-specific checkbox's hover); MUST load before OptionsFrame.xml, whose
-# Keybindings body inherits these templates and calls this script at OnLoad.
-KeyBindingsPage.xml
-# The options window (the 0985 provenance split: 0950's era structure, 0978's
-# 1.12-native art, 0981/0984's 1.14 chrome + working era search, 0989's directed
-# cuts — bare fully-live sliders, no corner X; 0992's dropdown rows + the Nameplates
-# page): the era-shaped OptionsFrame the game menu's Options button opens. Needs
-# Fonts' objects, UiPanels' panel manager, and UIDropDownMenu's capsule template
-# (all far above); sits right before GameMenuFrame so the menu — which reaches it by
-# name at click time — stays the last, outermost layer.
-OptionsFrame.xml
 # The game menu (decision 0674): the frame ESC opens. LAST on purpose — it is the outermost
 # layer of the shell, it depends on everything it touches being loaded (UiPanels' popup engine
 # + panel manager, MicroMenu's UpdateMicroButtons, BagFrame's Disable_BagButtons), and nothing
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/bindings/commands.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/bindings/commands.rs
index ad2e60a9..8e44e55f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/bindings/commands.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/bindings/commands.rs
@@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ const TABLE: &[Spec] = &[
         None
     ),
     // The stance/shapeshift row (ref ShapeshiftBar_ChangeForm(n)) — ours clicks the bar's own
-    // buttons, which carry the full form-switch law (StanceBar.xml).
+    // buttons, which carry the full form-switch law (stock BonusActionBarFrame.xml, 1938).
     // ── The self-cast dozen (1.12 `Bindings.xml`:257-293) ───────────────────────────────
     // The same two halves as ACTIONBUTTON, with `ActionButtonUp`'s second argument set: the
-    // reference's own `onSelf`, which `ActionBar.xml` has always forwarded to `UseAction`'s third
+    // reference's own `onSelf`, which stock `ActionButtonUp` forwards to `UseAction`'s third
     // and the host used to drop (1745). `ALT-1`…`ALT-=` are byte-real from DefaultBindings.wtf,
     // and they sit one modifier off the plain bar exactly as the reference lays them out.
     spec!(
@@ -567,8 +567,9 @@ const TABLE: &[Spec] = &[
     ),
     // ── The action-bar PAGES (1.12 `Bindings.xml`:395-431) ──────────────────────────────
     // The bar is six pages of twelve (action slots 1..72) and it has been since 1500 shipped the
-    // multibars; `ChangeActionBarPage` and the `ActionBar_Page{Up,Down}` wrap are ActionBar.xml's
-    // own, quoted 1:1 from the reference. `SHIFT-1..6` and the SHIFT-arrow / SHIFT-wheel steps are
+    // multibars; `ChangeActionBarPage` is the engine's (it fires ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED and nothing
+    // else — 1938) and the `ActionBar_Page{Up,Down}` wrap is stock ActionButton.lua's. `SHIFT-1..6`
+    // and the SHIFT-arrow / SHIFT-wheel steps are
     // byte-real from `WTF\\DefaultBindings.wtf`.
     spec!(
         "ACTIONPAGE1",
@@ -645,7 +646,7 @@ const TABLE: &[Spec] = &[
         Some("SHIFT-MOUSEWHEELDOWN")
     ),
     // The action-bar lock (decision 1136), the ref's own binding body verbatim (Bindings.xml:433-
-    // 439) — it flips the `LOCK_ACTIONBAR` uvar `ActionBar.xml` declares, the same global the
+    // 439) — it flips the `LOCK_ACTIONBAR` uvar OptionsFrame.xml declares (1938), the same global the
     // Options window's Action Bars row writes. It sits here because the reference files it under
     // this header (l.433 carries no `header=`, so it inherits l.121's ACTIONBAR), and it ships
     // **unbound**: no `TOGGLEACTIONBARLOCK` line in any of the install's three
@@ -1148,10 +1149,10 @@ const TABLE: &[Spec] = &[
         None
     ),
     // ── MultiActionBar (BINDING_HEADER_MULTIACTIONBAR) ──────────────────────────────────
-    // The two bottom bars' buttons (MultiBars.xml renders exactly these; 1.12's right bars
+    // The two bottom bars' buttons (stock MultiActionBars.xml renders exactly these; 1.12's right bars
     // and their MULTIACTIONBAR3/4 commands stay out — honest tree). Ref bodies are the
-    // MultiActionButtonDown/Up runOnUp pair (Bindings.xml:799-966), transcribed in
-    // MultiBars.xml; shipped UNBOUND like the ref (no MULTIACTIONBAR* line in any of the
+    // MultiActionButtonDown/Up runOnUp pair (Bindings.xml:799-966), defined in stock
+    // MultiActionBars.lua; shipped UNBOUND like the ref (no MULTIACTIONBAR* line in any of the
     // install's bindings-cache.wtf files). 1.12 files bar 2 under a BLANK spacer-header;
     // both bars sit under the one MULTIACTIONBAR header here (1008, recorded).
     spec!(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/camera_shake.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/camera_shake.rs
index 26cefff5..439f14cd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/camera_shake.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/camera_shake.rs
@@ -840,6 +840,7 @@ mod tests {
             ..default()
         };
         let path = |grounded: bool| Spline {
+            deck: None,
             points: vec![[0.0; 3], [1.0, 0.0, 0.0]],
             start: std::time::Instant::now(),
             duration: std::time::Duration::from_secs(1),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
index b9d2fad4..576bc935 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
@@ -1453,6 +1453,7 @@ fn seed_bag_window(
         benilla_ui::script::ContainerSlot {
             petition: None,
             durability: None,
+            duration_ms: None,
             bar_placeable: true,
             texture: icon(disp),
             count,
@@ -1549,6 +1550,7 @@ fn seed_equipped_bags(
         |disp: u32, count: u32, name: &str, quality: u32| benilla_ui::script::ContainerSlot {
             petition: None,
             durability: None,
+            duration_ms: None,
             bar_placeable: true,
             texture: icon(disp),
             count,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/live_fps.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/live_fps.rs
index 483b0351..3020335f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/live_fps.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/live_fps.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ impl Plugin for LiveFpsPlugin {
             run: std::env::var("WOW_LIVE_FPS_MOVE").as_deref() == Ok("1"),
             phase: LiveFpsPhase::Waiting,
             samples: Vec::new(),
+            cpu_samples: Vec::new(),
+            cpu_prev: None,
             cpu_at_start: None,
             sys_at_start: None,
             occluded_now: false,
@@ -80,6 +82,11 @@ struct LiveFps {
     run: bool,
     phase: LiveFpsPhase,
     samples: Vec<f32>,
+    /// Process CPU per frame, ms, index-parallel with `samples` — the TAIL half of `cpu_ms`:
+    /// a mean under budget hides the one frame in twenty that is over it, and whether that
+    /// frame was CPU work or a wait is the first question about a stutter.
+    cpu_samples: Vec<f32>,
+    cpu_prev: Option<f64>,
     /// Process CPU seconds at the first sampled frame ([`crate::perf::process_cpu_secs`]) — the
     /// baseline for the window's `cpu_ms`/`cpu_pct`.
     cpu_at_start: Option<f64>,
@@ -122,6 +129,21 @@ type ScreenParams<'w, 's> = (
     Query<'w, 's, &'static Camera>,
     // The UI's live texture-identity runs (`ui_batches=`): one `Mesh2d` draw each in the 2D pass.
     Query<'w, 's, (), With<crate::ui_pass::UiQuadBatch>>,
+    // Every view-visible `Mesh3d` by lane (`vis_terrain/model/liquid/other=`): the 3D passes'
+    // draw population. `drawn=` counts model submeshes only; the terrain is one entity per
+    // ADT chunk and a city horizon is over a thousand of them — a per-draw cost is not
+    // attributable until this split is known.
+    Query<
+        'w,
+        's,
+        (
+            &'static bevy::camera::visibility::ViewVisibility,
+            Has<MeshMaterial3d<benilla_assets::materials::TerrainMaterial>>,
+            Has<benilla_world::model_render::ModelPart>,
+            Has<MeshMaterial3d<benilla_assets::materials::LiquidMaterial>>,
+        ),
+        With<Mesh3d>,
+    >,
 );
 
 #[derive(SystemParam)]
@@ -165,13 +187,14 @@ fn drive_live_fps(
     // the leg line carries gpu percentiles beside the cpu ones (absent when the meter is off).
     mut screen: ScreenParams,
 ) {
-    let (monitors, gpu, gpu_samples, wgpu_census, cameras, ui_batches) = (
+    let (monitors, gpu, gpu_samples, wgpu_census, cameras, ui_batches, vis_meshes) = (
         &screen.0,
         &screen.1,
         &mut screen.2,
         &screen.3,
         &screen.4,
         &screen.5,
+        &screen.6,
     );
     // Drain every frame so the state is current whichever phase we're in — the window can be
     // occluded before sampling ever starts (a detached launch spawns behind whatever is open).
@@ -246,6 +269,13 @@ fn drive_live_fps(
             }
             let ms = time.delta_secs() * 1000.0;
             probe.samples.push(ms);
+            let cpu_now = crate::perf::process_cpu_secs();
+            let cpu_ms = match (probe.cpu_prev, cpu_now) {
+                (Some(a), Some(b)) => ((b - a) * 1000.0) as f32,
+                _ => 0.0,
+            };
+            probe.cpu_prev = cpu_now;
+            probe.cpu_samples.push(cpu_ms);
             if let Some(gpu) = gpu {
                 let ns = gpu.0.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
                 if ns > 0 {
@@ -344,9 +374,34 @@ fn drive_live_fps(
             let cpu = match (probe.cpu_at_start, crate::perf::process_cpu_secs()) {
                 (Some(t0), Some(t1)) => {
                     let per_frame_ms = (t1 - t0) * 1000.0 / v.len() as f64;
+                    // The tail: CPU percentiles over the same frames, how many frames ran over
+                    // the 60 Hz budget, and the worst six as `index:frame_ms/cpu_ms` — a frame
+                    // whose cpu is near its length was WORK; one far under it was a WAIT (GPU,
+                    // present, a lock).
+                    let mut c: Vec<f32> = probe.cpu_samples.clone();
+                    c.sort_by(f32::total_cmp);
+                    let cat = |q: f32| c[(((c.len() - 1) as f32) * q).round() as usize];
+                    let over = probe.samples.iter().filter(|&&f| f > 16.9).count();
+                    let mut worst: Vec<usize> = (0..probe.samples.len()).collect();
+                    worst.sort_by(|&a, &b| probe.samples[b].total_cmp(&probe.samples[a]));
+                    let worst = worst
+                        .iter()
+                        .take(6)
+                        .map(|&i| {
+                            format!(
+                                "{i}:{:.1}/{:.1}",
+                                probe.samples[i],
+                                probe.cpu_samples.get(i).copied().unwrap_or(0.0)
+                            )
+                        })
+                        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+                        .join(",");
                     format!(
-                        " cpu_ms={per_frame_ms:.2} cpu_pct={:.0}",
-                        per_frame_ms / mean as f64 * 100.0
+                        " cpu_ms={per_frame_ms:.2} cpu_pct={:.0} cpu_p95={:.2} cpu_p99={:.2} \
+                         frames_over={over} worst=[{worst}]",
+                        per_frame_ms / mean as f64 * 100.0,
+                        cat(0.95),
+                        cat(0.99),
                     )
                 }
                 _ => String::new(),
@@ -431,7 +486,7 @@ fn drive_live_fps(
                 })
                 .unwrap_or_default();
             let residency_line = format!(
-                " mats={} mats_parked={} meshes={} images={} uv={} tint={} views={} ui_batches={}",
+                " mats={} mats_parked={} meshes={} images={} uv={} tint={} views={} ui_batches={}{vis}",
                 seen.mats,
                 seen.mats_parked,
                 seen.meshes,
@@ -440,6 +495,28 @@ fn drive_live_fps(
                 seen.tint_anims,
                 cameras.iter().filter(|c| c.is_active).count(),
                 ui_batches.iter().count(),
+                vis = {
+                    let mut n = [0usize; 4];
+                    for (vv, terrain, model, liquid) in vis_meshes.iter() {
+                        if !vv.get() {
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                        let k = if terrain {
+                            0
+                        } else if model {
+                            1
+                        } else if liquid {
+                            2
+                        } else {
+                            3
+                        };
+                        n[k] += 1;
+                    }
+                    format!(
+                        " vis_terrain={} vis_model={} vis_liquid={} vis_other={}",
+                        n[0], n[1], n[2], n[3]
+                    )
+                },
             );
             println!(
                 "FPS_PROBE scenario=live frames={} mean_ms={mean:.2} p50_ms={:.2} p95_ms={:.2} p99_ms={:.2} max_ms={:.2} fps={:.1} emitters={} active={} particles={} submeshes={} drawn={} streamed={} parked={} entities={}{rigs}{residency_line} px={}x{}{cpu}{sys}{present}{display}{gpu_line} occluded_frames={}{at_pin}{cam_pose}{gate}{sky}{ribbons}{culled}",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/select/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/select/tests.rs
index d5e920c6..57826ed1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/select/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/select/tests.rs
@@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ fn a_flying_spline_is_fly_before_backward_and_speed() {
 fn unify_stamps_flying_from_the_live_spline_on_every_leg() {
     use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
     let spline = |grounded| crate::net::Spline {
+        deck: None,
         points: vec![[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [10.0, 0.0, 0.0]],
         start: Instant::now(),
         duration: Duration::from_secs(10),
@@ -958,6 +959,7 @@ fn the_granted_modes_fold_into_the_flags_word_on_every_leg_but_our_own() {
 
     // Creature leg on a path: the granted bit rides alongside the spline's own FORWARD.
     let spline = crate::net::Spline {
+        deck: None,
         points: vec![[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [10.0, 0.0, 0.0]],
         start: Instant::now(),
         duration: Duration::from_secs(10),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/cursor.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/cursor.rs
index 4c881e31..a5b18a5c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/cursor.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/cursor.rs
@@ -227,7 +227,17 @@ fn drive_displayed_cursor(
             kind: CursorKind::Repair,
             unable: false,
         }
-    } else if targeting.active() {
+    } else if targeting.active()
+        || script
+            .as_ref()
+            .is_some_and(|s| s.gift_wrap_armed().is_some())
+    {
+        // An armed **gift wrap** parks the base at Cast(2) for the same reason a targeting spell
+        // does, and by the same act: `0x5edea0`'s three calls are `LockItem`, **`SetCursorBaseMode(2)`**
+        // and `CursorSetMode(2)` (decision 1934). Both cells, deliberately — the displayed one so the
+        // cursor changes at the click, the BASE one so it survives the pointer crossing the world,
+        // where the classifier would otherwise write its own verdict over it. Setting only the
+        // displayed mode would lose the wrap cursor the moment the mouse left the bag.
         WorldCursor {
             kind: CursorKind::Cast,
             unable: false,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
index ef892c33..a4eb2227 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ pub(crate) const REGISTERED: &[Registered] = &[
     // Enhanced Tooltips (B230): 1.12's `UberTooltips`, the *Enhanced Tooltips* checkbox
     // (`UIOptionsFrame.lua:15`, `USE_UBERTOOLTIPS`). **No host knob** — its consumers are Lua, and
     // there are three: PetActionBar.xml forks the whole tooltip on it (a token's own text with the
-    // binding appended, vs the engine's pet-spell channel), ActionBar.xml and StanceBar.xml fork
+    // binding appended, vs the engine's pet-spell channel), the stock action and shapeshift buttons fork
     // their anchor. Registered "1" — byte-read, not behaviour-derived: WoW.exe `0x48fdd9`, default
     // string `0x82e748`, with the sibling rows `BlockTrades`→"0" and `UnitNameRenderMode`→"2"
     // confirming the layout. Those three Lua sites each carried the reference's fork in prose and
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/carried_light.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/carried_light.rs
index 560d0086..e00ef207 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/carried_light.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/carried_light.rs
@@ -122,7 +122,12 @@ mod tests {
 
         let mut spawned: Vec<(Entity, Vec3, Entity)> = app
             .world_mut()
-            .query::<(Entity, &PointLight, &Transform, &ChildOf)>()
+            .query::<(
+                Entity,
+                &benilla_world::lighting::WorldPointLight,
+                &Transform,
+                &ChildOf,
+            )>()
             .iter(app.world())
             .map(|(e, _, t, c)| (e, t.translation, c.parent()))
             .collect();
@@ -145,12 +150,11 @@ mod tests {
         let pl = app
             .world()
             .entity(spawned[0].0)
-            .get::<PointLight>()
+            .get::<benilla_world::lighting::WorldPointLight>()
             .unwrap();
-        let lin = pl.color.to_linear();
         let recovered = pl.intensity / (4.0 * std::f32::consts::PI);
         assert!(
-            (lin.red * recovered - 1.4).abs() < 1e-3,
+            (pl.color[0] * recovered - 1.4).abs() < 1e-3,
             "colour × intensity survives the packing"
         );
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/items.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/items.rs
index d9c26d14..a0ee8c9b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/items.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/items.rs
@@ -320,6 +320,13 @@ pub(crate) struct Items {
     /// duration field, which the reference's tooltip never reads. Session state, so it clears with
     /// the objects (decision 0920).
     enchant_deadlines: HashMap<(u64, u32), std::time::Instant>,
+    /// The **item-lifetime deadlines**, keyed by item guid — a duration-limited instance's
+    /// remaining life (a conjured stone, a holiday gift, a timed quest item). Its only feed is
+    /// `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE`; the instance's own `ITEM_FIELD_DURATION` carries the same number
+    /// and is sent to the owner, but vmangos's writer says in as many words that the field is not
+    /// what the client displays from (`Item::SendTimeUpdate`, `Objects/Item.cpp:1094`). Same shape
+    /// as [`Self::enchant_deadlines`] one field up, for the same reason (decision 1933).
+    duration_deadlines: HashMap<u64, std::time::Instant>,
 }
 
 impl Items {
@@ -353,6 +360,7 @@ impl Items {
             self.object_epoch = self.object_epoch.wrapping_add(1);
         }
         self.enchant_deadlines.retain(|&(g, _), _| g != guid);
+        self.duration_deadlines.remove(&guid);
     }
 
     /// The instance-side broadcast counter — see the [`Self::object_epoch`] field.
@@ -404,23 +412,27 @@ impl Items {
     }
 
     /// The counter a gated feed watches instead of holding its gate open per-frame: moves exactly
-    /// when some [`Self::enchant_remaining_display_ms`] can move. Each live deadline contributes
-    /// `floor(seconds left) + 1` — the `+1` makes the final `Some(0) → None` collapse (the tooltip
-    /// reverting to the plain enchant name) its own step, one frame after the deadline elapses.
+    /// when some displayable countdown can — [`Self::enchant_remaining_display_ms`] or
+    /// [`Self::duration_remaining_display_ms`], the two per-second timers a bag/equipment
+    /// snapshot renders. Each live deadline contributes `floor(seconds left) + 1` — the `+1`
+    /// makes the final `Some(0) → None` collapse (the tooltip reverting to the plain enchant
+    /// name, the duration line vanishing) its own step, one frame after the deadline elapses.
     /// Landings and removals move [`Self::object_epoch`] on their own. Empty — the overwhelmingly
-    /// common case — costs an empty iteration.
-    pub(crate) fn enchant_display_epoch(&self) -> u64 {
+    /// common case — costs two empty iterations.
+    pub(crate) fn countdown_display_epoch(&self) -> u64 {
         let now = std::time::Instant::now();
+        let step = |at: &std::time::Instant| {
+            let left = at.saturating_duration_since(now);
+            if left.is_zero() {
+                0
+            } else {
+                left.as_secs() + 1
+            }
+        };
         self.enchant_deadlines
             .values()
-            .map(|&at| {
-                let left = at.saturating_duration_since(now);
-                if left.is_zero() {
-                    0
-                } else {
-                    left.as_secs() + 1
-                }
-            })
+            .chain(self.duration_deadlines.values())
+            .map(step)
             .sum()
     }
 
@@ -442,6 +454,56 @@ impl Items {
         )
     }
 
+    /// `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` landed: park the absolute deadline for that item instance's
+    /// remaining lifetime. Same store shape as the enchant path one field up
+    /// ([`Self::set_enchant_deadline`]) — byte-confirmed as such, not assumed (decision 1933's
+    /// fold-back).
+    ///
+    /// Three rules, each the reference's:
+    ///
+    /// - **A non-POSITIVE duration clears.** `0x5d9c0c` tests the wire value **signed** (`jle`),
+    ///   so `0` and anything with the top bit set both zero the cell rather than parking a
+    ///   68-year deadline. An expired countdown is an absent line, not a line reading `0`.
+    /// - **An item we do not hold is DROPPED — no queue, no retry.** `0x1EA`'s arm resolves the
+    ///   guid and returns on a miss. This is the load-bearing asymmetry with its sibling: the
+    ///   `0x1EB` enchant arm *does* enqueue an unresolved update and replays it when the item
+    ///   appears (`0x5ebd40` → `0x5ebde0`); this one does not. Following the sibling would also
+    ///   grow this map without bound for items that never arrive.
+    /// - The cell dies with the object, so a relog or a zone destroy loses it; the server re-sends
+    ///   for everything carried on world enter (`Player::SendItemDurations`).
+    pub(crate) fn set_item_duration(&mut self, guid: u64, seconds: u32) {
+        if !self.objects.contains_key(&guid) {
+            debug!("item duration: {guid:#x} names an item we do not hold — dropped");
+            return;
+        }
+        if seconds == 0 || seconds as i32 <= 0 {
+            if self.duration_deadlines.remove(&guid).is_some() {
+                self.object_epoch = self.object_epoch.wrapping_add(1);
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+        let at = std::time::Instant::now() + std::time::Duration::from_secs(u64::from(seconds));
+        self.duration_deadlines.insert(guid, at);
+        self.object_epoch = self.object_epoch.wrapping_add(1);
+        debug!("item duration: item {guid:#x} → {seconds}s");
+    }
+
+    /// Milliseconds left on an item instance's lifetime, or `None` when it carries no timer —
+    /// including an elapsed one. Recomputed on read from the parked deadline, never ticked (the
+    /// enchant path's `0x5d9d00` shape).
+    pub(crate) fn duration_remaining_ms(&self, guid: u64) -> Option<u64> {
+        let at = self.duration_deadlines.get(&guid)?;
+        let left = at.saturating_duration_since(std::time::Instant::now());
+        (!left.is_zero()).then_some(left.as_millis() as u64)
+    }
+
+    /// [`Self::duration_remaining_ms`] at **display granularity** — floored to the whole second,
+    /// for the same reason [`Self::enchant_remaining_display_ms`] is: a raw per-ms read makes
+    /// every snapshot differ every frame and fires the inventory feeds at frame rate.
+    pub(crate) fn duration_remaining_display_ms(&self, guid: u64) -> Option<u64> {
+        self.duration_remaining_ms(guid).map(|ms| ms - ms % 1000)
+    }
+
     /// A tracked item object's merged descriptor fields.
     pub(crate) fn object(&self, guid: u64) -> Option<&ObjectFields> {
         self.objects.get(&guid)
@@ -787,12 +849,12 @@ mod tests {
     /// to the whole second, and clearing the deadline zeroes the epoch (the `Some(0) → None`
     /// collapse is the term's own last step).
     #[test]
-    fn the_enchant_display_epoch_steps_by_displayable_seconds() {
+    fn the_countdown_display_epoch_steps_by_displayable_seconds() {
         let mut items = Items::default();
-        assert_eq!(items.enchant_display_epoch(), 0, "no deadlines, no epoch");
+        assert_eq!(items.countdown_display_epoch(), 0, "no deadlines, no epoch");
 
         items.set_enchant_deadline(0x42, 1, 90);
-        let epoch = items.enchant_display_epoch();
+        let epoch = items.countdown_display_epoch();
         assert!(
             (90..=91).contains(&epoch),
             "a 90 s deadline contributes floor(secs)+1, got {epoch}"
@@ -803,13 +865,71 @@ mod tests {
 
         items.set_enchant_deadline(0x42, 1, 0);
         assert_eq!(
-            items.enchant_display_epoch(),
+            items.countdown_display_epoch(),
             0,
             "cleared deadline, term gone"
         );
         assert_eq!(items.enchant_remaining_display_ms(0x42, 1), None);
     }
 
+    /// The item-lifetime store (decision 1933) — the enchant timer's shape, one key narrower:
+    /// `seconds == 0` stores ABSENCE, the read is second-floored, the deadline joins the shared
+    /// display epoch, and destroying the item takes its timer with it.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_item_duration_parks_a_deadline_and_dies_with_the_item() {
+        let mut items = Items::default();
+        assert_eq!(
+            items.duration_remaining_ms(0x42),
+            None,
+            "no timer by default"
+        );
+
+        items.insert_object(0x42, ObjectFields::default());
+        items.set_item_duration(0x42, 1800);
+        let shown = items.duration_remaining_display_ms(0x42).expect("parked");
+        assert_eq!(shown % 1000, 0, "the display read is second-floored");
+        assert!(shown <= 1_800_000);
+        let epoch = items.countdown_display_epoch();
+        assert!(
+            (1800..=1801).contains(&epoch),
+            "the lifetime deadline joins the same per-second epoch as the enchant one, got {epoch}"
+        );
+
+        // `0` is the wire's "no timer", never a zero-second timer — the same store the enchant
+        // path takes for the same reason (an expired countdown is an absent line).
+        items.set_item_duration(0x42, 0);
+        assert_eq!(items.duration_remaining_ms(0x42), None);
+        assert_eq!(items.countdown_display_epoch(), 0);
+
+        // A destroyed item takes its timer with it: the guid can be reissued by the server, and a
+        // stale deadline would print a countdown on whatever lands there next.
+        items.insert_object(0x99, ObjectFields::default());
+        items.set_item_duration(0x99, 600);
+        items.remove_object(0x99);
+        assert_eq!(items.duration_remaining_ms(0x99), None);
+
+        // **An item we do not hold is dropped outright** — no queue, no retry, and nothing
+        // parked. `0x1EA`'s arm resolves the guid and returns on a miss; its enchant sibling
+        // `0x1EB` is the one that enqueues and replays, and copying that here would grow the map
+        // without bound for guids that never arrive.
+        items.set_item_duration(0xdead, 600);
+        assert_eq!(items.duration_remaining_ms(0xdead), None);
+        assert_eq!(items.countdown_display_epoch(), 0);
+
+        // **A non-POSITIVE duration clears** — the reference's test is SIGNED (`0x5d9c0c jle`),
+        // so a wire value with the top bit set zeroes the cell instead of parking a 68-year
+        // deadline.
+        items.insert_object(0x7, ObjectFields::default());
+        items.set_item_duration(0x7, 600);
+        assert!(items.duration_remaining_ms(0x7).is_some());
+        items.set_item_duration(0x7, 0x8000_0000);
+        assert_eq!(
+            items.duration_remaining_ms(0x7),
+            None,
+            "a negative-as-signed duration clears, it does not park a far future"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// The push half of the tooltip store: a landed template is marked fresh exactly once (the
     /// drain empties), and a cached negative never is (there's nothing to push).
     #[test]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
index 29806e66..d33a95dc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ pub fn run(build: BuildId) -> AppExit {
     // in shape — a guid-carrying question over an already-closed gossip menu.
     .add_plugins(UiTalentWipePlugin)
     // The stance/shapeshift bar feed (wow-re shapeshift-bar-api.md): builds the form list from
-    // PlayerActions.spells per the byte-verified admission/order, drives StanceBar.xml through
+    // PlayerActions.spells per the byte-verified admission/order, drives the stock shapeshift bar through
     // the engine's shapeshift seam, and drains its clicks (cancel-if-active else cast). After
     // UiActionPlugin (shares `Spells`, the `usable` walk, and the cast tail).
     .add_plugins(UiShapeshiftPlugin)
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net.rs
index 696389ed..b61c533a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net.rs
@@ -770,6 +770,15 @@ pub(crate) enum ClientCommand {
         jump: Option<JumpInfo>,
         transport: Option<TransportPose>,
     },
+    /// Report that our mover's simulation advanced through `lag_ms` without integrating
+    /// (`CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`) — decision 1935. `guid` is the mover's own, the reference's
+    /// `0x600be0` gate being that it equals the active-mover globals. The server folds the number
+    /// into its copy of that mover's movement clock (`stime`/`ctime`), and — while it thinks we
+    /// have just boarded a transport — answers by re-sending the transport's create update.
+    MoveTimeSkipped {
+        guid: u64,
+        lag_ms: u32,
+    },
     /// Claim `guid` as our mover (`CMSG_SET_ACTIVE_MOVER`). Login sends it for our own body; a
     /// possession handoff re-sends it for the unit we were handed, because the server drops every
     /// `MSG_MOVE_*` for a mover it has not confirmed.
@@ -881,6 +890,21 @@ pub(crate) enum ClientCommand {
         bag_index: u8,
         slot: u8,
     },
+    /// Wrap the item at `(item_bag, item_slot)` in the paper at `(gift_bag, gift_slot)`
+    /// (`CMSG_WRAP_ITEM`, the same bag addressing) — the completion of the local wrap cursor a
+    /// `ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER` item's right-click armed. The **paper leads**, as the wire does.
+    ///
+    /// The client applies no eligibility filter of its own (decision 1934): an equipped item, a
+    /// bag, a soulbound or stackable or unique item, or an already-wrapped one all send and are
+    /// refused server-side with one of the six `ERR_CANT_WRAP_*` reasons, arriving here as an
+    /// `InventoryFailure` on the UI error line. Success is silent — field updates on the target
+    /// and one paper destroyed.
+    WrapItem {
+        gift_bag: u8,
+        gift_slot: u8,
+        item_bag: u8,
+        item_slot: u8,
+    },
     /// Equip a bag item (`CMSG_AUTOEQUIP_ITEM`, same bag addressing) — the drain's fork for an
     /// *equippable* click, mirroring the real client's equip-vs-use decision. Refusals come back
     /// as `InventoryFailure` events onto the UI error line.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
index a0bd9fc6..cbbff55e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
@@ -106,11 +106,17 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
     mut reputations: ResMut<Reputations>,
     mut transforms: Query<&mut Transform>,
     mut stores: Query<&mut ObjectStore>,
-    // One tuple param (the 16-SystemParam ceiling this signature already lives against): the two
+    // One tuple param (the 16-SystemParam ceiling this signature already lives against): the three
     // per-unit motion states the drain writes. [`RemoteMotion`] is a relayed player's dead-reckon;
-    // [`UnitMoveModes`] is any unit's server-granted movement modes (decision 1780). Different
-    // components, one concern — what the wire says about how a body we don't control is moving.
-    mut motion: (Query<&mut RemoteMotion>, Query<&mut UnitMoveModes>),
+    // [`UnitMoveModes`] is any unit's server-granted movement modes (decision 1780);
+    // [`crate::transport::TransportRider`] is the deck a unit is standing on and its pose there
+    // (decision 1936). Different components, one concern — what the wire says about how a body we
+    // don't control is moving.
+    mut motion: (
+        Query<&mut RemoteMotion>,
+        Query<&mut UnitMoveModes>,
+        Query<&mut crate::transport::TransportRider>,
+    ),
     // One tuple param (the 16-SystemParam ceiling): the session-lifecycle one-shot writers — the
     // player's teleport/worldport snaps + the glue-screen edges (decision 0193).
     session_msgs: (
@@ -651,6 +657,16 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
                 &index,
                 &mut transforms,
             ),
+            // **An observed mover skipped time** (decision 1935). No pose moved — only that
+            // unit's clock ran on — so this touches its relay chain and nothing else, which is
+            // the whole of what the reference's handler does (`0x603b40` → `0x61ab90`:
+            // `[CMovement+0xac] += lag`). A guid we do not hold is dropped, faithfully: the
+            // reference resolves under `TYPEMASK_UNIT` and returns on a miss.
+            SessionEvent::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms } => {
+                if let Some(mut m) = index.0.get(&guid).and_then(|&e| motion.0.get_mut(e).ok()) {
+                    m.relay.skip_time(lag_ms);
+                }
+            }
             SessionEvent::UnitMove {
                 guid,
                 position,
@@ -717,6 +733,7 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
             }
             SessionEvent::MonsterMove {
                 guid,
+                transport,
                 start,
                 spline_id,
                 path,
@@ -727,6 +744,7 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
                 run_mode,
             } => objects::monster_move(
                 guid,
+                transport,
                 start,
                 spline_id,
                 path,
@@ -739,6 +757,7 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
                 &mut commands,
                 &index,
                 &mut transforms,
+                &mut motion.2,
             ),
             SessionEvent::Teleport {
                 guid,
@@ -1668,6 +1687,12 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
                 item_guid,
                 spell_id,
             } => item_cooldown(item_guid, spell_id, &items, &mut ui_actions.10),
+            // The item-lifetime countdown's ONLY feed (decision 1933): park the deadline on the
+            // item store, exactly as the enchant timer below does — vmangos's own writer says the
+            // `ITEM_FIELD_DURATION` field the client also holds is not what it displays from.
+            SessionEvent::ItemTime { item_guid, seconds } => {
+                items.set_item_duration(item_guid, seconds)
+            }
             // The temporary-enchant countdown's ONLY feed (decision 0920): park the deadline on the
             // item store, which every tooltip surface reads back through `enchant_remaining_ms`.
             SessionEvent::ItemEnchantTime {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs
index a6ab5294..150bdf89 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs
@@ -488,11 +488,20 @@ pub(super) fn objects_removed(guids: Vec<u64>, commands: &mut Commands, index: &
     }
 }
 
-/// A creature path packet (`SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`): apply the dictated facing snap, then attach or
-/// clear the travel spline.
+/// A creature path packet (`SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`, or its deck twin `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT`):
+/// settle the unit's transport membership, apply the dictated facing snap, then attach or clear
+/// the travel spline.
+///
+/// **`transport` changes the frame of everything else in the packet** (decision 1936). When it is
+/// `Some`, `start`, every `path` point and an `Angle` facing are offsets in that transport's frame,
+/// the unit becomes (or stays) a [`TransportRider`] on it, and the spline is sampled into the
+/// rider's local pose for `transport::compose_riders` to carry out to the world. When it is `None`
+/// on a unit we had riding, the unit has *left* the deck — vmangos drops it from the transport on
+/// exactly this edge (`MoveSplineInit::Launch`, `spline/MoveSplineInit.cpp:156-159`).
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 pub(super) fn monster_move(
     guid: u64,
+    transport: Option<u64>,
     start: [f32; 3],
     spline_id: u32,
     path: Vec<[f32; 3]>,
@@ -505,6 +514,7 @@ pub(super) fn monster_move(
     commands: &mut Commands,
     index: &GuidIndex,
     transforms: &mut Query<&mut Transform>,
+    riders: &mut Query<&mut crate::transport::TransportRider>,
 ) {
     if let Some(&e) = index.0.get(&guid) {
         // The DESYNC readout (decision 0708): how far this packet is about to teleport the unit — the
@@ -512,11 +522,78 @@ pub(super) fn monster_move(
         // correctly-followed creature reads ~0; a frozen one reads the whole walk it slept through.
         trace_move_snap(
             guid,
-            transforms.get(e).ok().map(|t| bevy_to_wow(t.translation)),
+            // Both sides of the readout have to be in ONE frame. A deck packet's `start` is a
+            // transport-local offset, so it is compared against the rider's own local pose, not
+            // against the composed world position (which would read as the whole boat's travel).
+            match transport {
+                Some(_) => riders.get(e).ok().map(|r| r.local_pos),
+                None => transforms.get(e).ok().map(|t| bevy_to_wow(t.translation)),
+            },
             start,
             stop,
             duration_ms,
         );
+        // **Transport membership, settled before anything reads a pose.** A packet naming a
+        // transport attaches the unit to it (and re-seeds its deck-local pose from the packet's
+        // own `start`, so the stop form places a body too); a packet naming none detaches a unit
+        // we had riding. The facing that goes with it is deck-local for an `Angle` — vmangos runs
+        // `CalculatePassengerOffset(…, &args.facing.angle)` on it (`MoveSplineInit.cpp:88`) — but
+        // a `Spot`/`Target` facing is **not** converted server-side, so those resolve to a world
+        // bearing and are rebased here by the deck's own yaw.
+        //
+        // **Above the root gate deliberately.** The gate below refuses the *path*, which is what
+        // wow-re establishes; membership is not a path. A rooted body on a deck that was left
+        // unattached would be abandoned in the sea as the boat sails out from under it, which is
+        // a worse failure than carrying a pinned body along with the deck it is standing on.
+        let deck_yaw = |t: u64| {
+            index
+                .0
+                .get(&t)
+                .and_then(|&te| transforms.get(te).ok())
+                .map(|tf| tf.rotation.to_euler(EulerRot::YXZ).0)
+        };
+        if let Some(t) = transport {
+            let local_facing = match facing {
+                MonsterMoveFacing::None => None,
+                MonsterMoveFacing::Angle(a) => Some(a),
+                other => {
+                    let target_pos = |g: u64| {
+                        index
+                            .0
+                            .get(&g)
+                            .and_then(|&te| transforms.get(te).ok())
+                            .map(|tf| bevy_to_wow(tf.translation))
+                    };
+                    // The unit's own WORLD position anchors the bearing (the wire's `start` is
+                    // deck-local and would put the unit near the map origin).
+                    let world_pos = transforms.get(e).ok().map(|tf| bevy_to_wow(tf.translation));
+                    world_pos
+                        .and_then(|p| resolve_facing(other, p, target_pos))
+                        .zip(deck_yaw(t))
+                        .map(|(world, yaw)| world - yaw)
+                }
+            };
+            match riders.get_mut(e) {
+                Ok(mut rider) => {
+                    rider.transport_guid = t;
+                    rider.local_pos = start;
+                    if let Some(o) = local_facing {
+                        rider.local_orientation = o;
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(_) => {
+                    commands.entity(e).insert(crate::transport::TransportRider {
+                        transport_guid: t,
+                        local_pos: start,
+                        local_orientation: local_facing.unwrap_or_default(),
+                    });
+                }
+            }
+        } else if riders.get(e).is_ok() {
+            commands
+                .entity(e)
+                .remove::<crate::transport::TransportRider>();
+        }
         // Apply the dictated final facing (moveType 2/3/4) as a **snap** — faithful to the
         // client, which stores it straight into the unit's **raw** movement facing (`0x7c6f30`).
         // This is the *packet*-driven re-face — a scripted/emote/aggro `SetFacingTo` the
@@ -529,7 +606,9 @@ pub(super) fn monster_move(
         // frame (faithful — the client's spline-follow snaps the mesh yaw to the path tangent;
         // wow-re body-facing §4). The receipt snap thus only sticks for a path-less move (a
         // `Stop`/in-place re-face); a moving unit ends on its last tangent.
-        if !matches!(facing, MonsterMoveFacing::None) {
+        // The world-space facing snap — for a deck packet the rider's `local_orientation` above is
+        // the one that counts, and `compose_riders` writes the rotation from it.
+        if transport.is_none() && !matches!(facing, MonsterMoveFacing::None) {
             let target_pos = |g: u64| {
                 index
                     .0
@@ -585,7 +664,15 @@ pub(super) fn monster_move(
         // root gate because it is the *install's* own consequence: with no path taken there is no
         // new authority to hand the pose to.
         commands.entity(e).remove::<RemoteMotion>();
-        match monster_move_spline(path, spline_id, stop, duration_ms, flying, run_mode) {
+        match monster_move_spline(
+            path,
+            spline_id,
+            stop,
+            duration_ms,
+            flying,
+            run_mode,
+            transport,
+        ) {
             // A moving path: sample_splines drives the transform along every waypoint.
             Some(spline) => {
                 commands.entity(e).insert(spline).remove::<SplineStopped>();
@@ -1074,9 +1161,11 @@ mod tests {
                 w.run_system_once(
                     move |mut commands: Commands,
                           index: Res<GuidIndex>,
-                          mut transforms: Query<&mut Transform>| {
+                          mut transforms: Query<&mut Transform>,
+                          mut riders: Query<&mut crate::transport::TransportRider>| {
                         monster_move(
                             MOB,
+                            None,
                             [0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
                             7,
                             path.clone(),
@@ -1089,6 +1178,7 @@ mod tests {
                             &mut commands,
                             &index,
                             &mut transforms,
+                            &mut riders,
                         );
                     },
                 )
@@ -1100,6 +1190,115 @@ mod tests {
                 );
             }
         }
+
+        /// **`SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` attaches, and its plain twin detaches** (decision
+        /// 1936). A packet naming a transport makes the unit a [`TransportRider`] on it, seeds the
+        /// rider pose from the packet's own deck-local `start`, and hands the spline the deck so
+        /// the sampler writes the local pose instead of the world transform. A packet naming none
+        /// takes the unit off the deck, which is the edge vmangos itself drops the passenger on
+        /// (`MoveSplineInit::Launch`, `spline/MoveSplineInit.cpp:156-159`).
+        #[test]
+        fn a_transport_path_attaches_the_rider_and_a_plain_one_lets_it_go() {
+            const BOAT: u64 = 0x2000_0000_0000_0007;
+            let mut w = World::new();
+            let e = w
+                .spawn((
+                    Transform::default(),
+                    NetEntity {
+                        kind: EntityKind::Unit,
+                        display_id: None,
+                        scale: 1.0,
+                    },
+                ))
+                .id();
+            let boat = w.spawn(Transform::default()).id();
+            let mut index = GuidIndex::default();
+            index.0.insert(MOB, e);
+            index.0.insert(BOAT, boat);
+            w.insert_resource(index);
+
+            let deck_path = vec![[1.5, -2.5, 0.75], [4.0, -2.5, 0.75]];
+            w.run_system_once(
+                move |mut commands: Commands,
+                      index: Res<GuidIndex>,
+                      mut transforms: Query<&mut Transform>,
+                      mut riders: Query<&mut crate::transport::TransportRider>| {
+                    monster_move(
+                        MOB,
+                        Some(BOAT),
+                        [1.5, -2.5, 0.75],
+                        7,
+                        deck_path.clone(),
+                        MonsterMoveFacing::Angle(1.25),
+                        false,
+                        3000,
+                        false,
+                        true,
+                        false,
+                        &mut commands,
+                        &index,
+                        &mut transforms,
+                        &mut riders,
+                    );
+                },
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+            let rider = w
+                .entity(e)
+                .get::<crate::transport::TransportRider>()
+                .expect("a transport path attaches its rider");
+            assert_eq!(rider.transport_guid, BOAT);
+            assert_eq!(rider.local_pos, [1.5, -2.5, 0.75], "seeded deck-local");
+            assert!(
+                (rider.local_orientation - 1.25).abs() < 1e-6,
+                "Angle is deck-local"
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                w.entity(e).get::<Spline>().expect("a path").deck,
+                Some(BOAT),
+                "the spline rides the deck frame, not the world"
+            );
+            // The rider's world transform is `compose_riders`' to write, not this apply's — the
+            // deck-local start must never have been mistaken for a world position.
+            assert_eq!(
+                w.entity(e).get::<Transform>().unwrap().translation,
+                Vec3::ZERO
+            );
+
+            let world_path = vec![[100.0, 200.0, 30.0], [110.0, 200.0, 30.0]];
+            w.run_system_once(
+                move |mut commands: Commands,
+                      index: Res<GuidIndex>,
+                      mut transforms: Query<&mut Transform>,
+                      mut riders: Query<&mut crate::transport::TransportRider>| {
+                    monster_move(
+                        MOB,
+                        None,
+                        [100.0, 200.0, 30.0],
+                        8,
+                        world_path.clone(),
+                        MonsterMoveFacing::None,
+                        false,
+                        3000,
+                        false,
+                        true,
+                        false,
+                        &mut commands,
+                        &index,
+                        &mut transforms,
+                        &mut riders,
+                    );
+                },
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                w.entity(e)
+                    .get::<crate::transport::TransportRider>()
+                    .is_none(),
+                "a plain path takes the unit off the deck"
+            );
+            assert_eq!(w.entity(e).get::<Spline>().expect("a path").deck, None);
+        }
     }
 
     /// A dismounted human's set — 1.12.1's base run 7.0 (the `--speed` probe's own golden).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/io.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/io.rs
index ae3f5218..c7ebd7de 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/io.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/io.rs
@@ -832,6 +832,9 @@ fn writer_loop(
                         orientation,
                         spline_id,
                     } => w.move_spline_done(flags, pos, orientation, spline_id),
+                    ClientCommand::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms } => {
+                        w.move_time_skipped(guid, lag_ms)
+                    }
                     ClientCommand::ForceSpeedAck {
                         kind,
                         guid,
@@ -919,6 +922,12 @@ fn writer_loop(
                         target,
                     } => w.use_item(bag_index, slot, spell_index, target),
                     ClientCommand::OpenItem { bag_index, slot } => w.open_item(bag_index, slot),
+                    ClientCommand::WrapItem {
+                        gift_bag,
+                        gift_slot,
+                        item_bag,
+                        item_slot,
+                    } => w.wrap_item(gift_bag, gift_slot, item_bag, item_slot),
                     ClientCommand::AutoEquipItem { bag_index, slot } => {
                         w.auto_equip_item(bag_index, slot)
                     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/relay.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/relay.rs
index 8c980f1f..0485aa0e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/relay.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/relay.rs
@@ -156,6 +156,25 @@ impl RelayChain {
         fire_ms
     }
 
+    /// **The sender skipped time** (`MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`, decision 1935): advance this chain's
+    /// copy of the mover's wire clock by `lag_ms`, without scheduling anything. The reference does
+    /// exactly this and nothing else — `0x603b40` resolves the unit and `0x61ab90` runs
+    /// `[CMovement+0xac] += lag`, which is this field.
+    ///
+    /// It has to be applied even though no pose moved, because [`Self::schedule`] pays the whole
+    /// chain off `last_wire_ms`: leave it short and the mover's next real packet reads as a `step`
+    /// `lag` ms larger than it was, buys that much extra `wire_delta`, and fires `lag` late — a
+    /// hitch on one unit that looks like packet loss and isn't. Wrapping, for
+    /// [`Self::schedule`]'s reason: the stamp is a `u32` ms clock that wraps every 49.7 days.
+    ///
+    /// A chain that has never seen a packet is left alone: there is no reference stamp to advance
+    /// yet, and the first real packet seeds both cells from itself.
+    pub(crate) fn skip_time(&mut self, lag_ms: u32) {
+        if self.seeded {
+            self.last_wire_ms = self.last_wire_ms.wrapping_add(lag_ms);
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Record this packet's lateness and return the window's worst (`0x618b50`): store
     /// `base + lateness` at the cursor, advance it mod 32, and return the max over all 32 slots (the
     /// entry just written included — the reference seeds its scan with it and walks the whole ring).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/spline.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/spline.rs
index 88fccd06..3d67816d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/spline.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/spline.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ pub(crate) struct Spline {
     /// gait is derived from [`Spline::speed`], the path's arc length over its duration, so its
     /// walk bit would select nothing.
     pub(crate) run_mode: bool,
+    /// **A deck path** (`SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT`): the transport guid whose frame every
+    /// point in `points` is expressed in. `None` — the overwhelmingly common case — is the plain
+    /// `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`, whose points are absolute world coordinates.
+    ///
+    /// A deck path is sampled into the rider's [`crate::transport::TransportRider`] local pose
+    /// rather than straight into the [`Transform`]; `compose_riders` then carries it through the
+    /// transport's live matrix, exactly as it already does for a rider whose pose came off a
+    /// `MSG_MOVE_*` relay. It is also exempt from [`ground_clamp_creatures`]: the re-ground is a
+    /// world-space terrain probe, there is no terrain under a deck, and the wire Z is already the
+    /// deck-local height (decision 1936).
+    pub(crate) deck: Option<u64>,
 }
 
 /// **A spline the server ended by decree**, carrying the id the acknowledgement owes (decision
@@ -234,6 +245,7 @@ fn catmull_rom(pts: &[[f32; 3]], i: usize, u: f32) -> ([f32; 3], [f32; 3]) {
 /// takes the Catmull-Rom family instead (the taxi/flight look — see [`Spline::sample`]'s INTERIM note).
 /// Returns `None` — "stationary, clear any path" — for a `Stop`, a zero duration, or a path with fewer
 /// than two points (nothing to travel along).
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] // one argument per decoded wire field
 pub(in crate::net) fn monster_move_spline(
     path: Vec<[f32; 3]>,
     spline_id: u32,
@@ -241,6 +253,7 @@ pub(in crate::net) fn monster_move_spline(
     duration_ms: u32,
     flying: bool,
     run_mode: bool,
+    deck: Option<u64>,
 ) -> Option<Spline> {
     if stop || duration_ms == 0 || path.len() < 2 {
         return None;
@@ -250,8 +263,13 @@ pub(in crate::net) fn monster_move_spline(
         start: Instant::now(),
         duration: Duration::from_millis(u64::from(duration_ms)),
         id: spline_id,
+        // A deck path's Z is the deck-local height and nothing re-derives it, so `grounded` — the
+        // terrain-clamp opt-in — is meaningless there; `deck` is what the clamp actually skips on.
+        // The flag still rides along because the SAMPLER reads it too: `grounded` selects the
+        // linear follow, `!grounded` the Catmull-Rom flight family (decision 1936).
         grounded: !flying,
         run_mode,
+        deck,
     })
 }
 
@@ -286,6 +304,10 @@ pub(in crate::net) fn create_spline(spline: CreateSpline) -> Option<Spline> {
         id: spline.id,
         grounded: !spline.flying,
         run_mode: spline.run_mode,
+        // The create block's spline tail carries no transport of its own — a unit created on a
+        // deck takes its `TransportRider` from the same block's movement tail, and its ride is in
+        // world coordinates like any other create spline.
+        deck: None,
     })
 }
 
@@ -391,6 +413,12 @@ pub(in crate::net) fn sample_splines(
         // The rider's server identity, for the `spl` trace alone — `Option` because the sampler
         // must never gate on it (a spline entity with no guid still has to be flown).
         Option<&super::super::Guid>,
+        // A **deck path**'s destination: the sample is the rider's pose in the transport's frame,
+        // and `transport::compose_riders` — which runs after this stage — carries it out to the
+        // world. `Option` because only a `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` rider has one; a deck
+        // spline whose component is missing falls back to the world write below rather than
+        // freezing (decision 1936).
+        Option<&mut crate::transport::TransportRider>,
     )>,
     mut trace_next: Local<f32>,
     time: Res<Time>,
@@ -404,8 +432,30 @@ pub(in crate::net) fn sample_splines(
     if tick {
         *trace_next = time.elapsed_secs() + SPL_TRACE_SECS;
     }
-    for (entity, spline, mut t, swimming, guid) in &mut q {
+    for (entity, spline, mut t, swimming, guid, rider) in &mut q {
         let (wow_pos, facing, pitch) = spline.sample(now);
+        // **The deck fork.** A transport path's points are offsets in the named transport's frame,
+        // so the sample IS the rider's local pose; writing it to the `Transform` would place the
+        // unit a few yards from the world origin. `compose_riders` composes it through the deck's
+        // live matrix later this frame — the same route an observed rider's relayed pose takes.
+        if let Some(deck) = spline.deck {
+            // A deck sample lands on the rider or NOWHERE. Falling through to the world write
+            // below would put the body a few yards from the map origin, because that is what a
+            // transport-local offset reads as in world coordinates — so a rider component that is
+            // missing (the insert is deferred by one sync point) or that names a different
+            // transport freezes the unit for that frame instead. Freezing is recoverable; a body
+            // teleported to the middle of the map is what a bug report looks like.
+            if let Some(mut rider) = rider.filter(|r| r.transport_guid == deck) {
+                rider.local_pos = wow_pos;
+                if let Some(f) = facing {
+                    rider.local_orientation = f;
+                }
+            }
+            if now.saturating_duration_since(spline.start) >= spline.duration {
+                commands.entity(entity).remove::<Spline>();
+            }
+            continue;
+        }
         // What the transform held *coming in* — i.e. whatever the previous frame left there after
         // every other writer had its turn. Traced beside the fresh sample as `was=`: a rider whose
         // `was` is not last frame's sample is being stomped by another system, which no amount of
@@ -687,6 +737,10 @@ pub(in crate::net) fn ground_clamp_creatures(
             skipped += 1;
             continue; // a flying path is authoritative on Z
         }
+        if spline.is_some_and(|s| s.deck.is_some()) {
+            skipped += 1;
+            continue; // a deck path: no terrain under a boat, and the wire Z is deck-local (1936)
+        }
         if swimming {
             skipped += 1;
             continue; // in-liquid: the wire Z is the creature's swim depth
@@ -1330,6 +1384,7 @@ mod tests {
     /// A spline `frac` of the way through its ride: 10 s duration, started `frac·10 s` ago.
     fn spline_at(points: Vec<[f32; 3]>, grounded: bool, frac: f32) -> (Spline, Instant) {
         let spline = Spline {
+            deck: None,
             points,
             start: Instant::now() - Duration::from_secs_f32(10.0 * frac),
             duration: Duration::from_secs(10),
@@ -1697,6 +1752,7 @@ mod server_moved_players {
     /// sends for a bot and for a charged/knocked-back/feared player alike.
     fn walking(app: &mut App, e: Entity) {
         app.world_mut().entity_mut(e).insert(Spline {
+            deck: None,
             points: vec![RIM_A, RIM_B],
             start: Instant::now(),
             duration: Duration::from_secs(4),
@@ -1781,6 +1837,7 @@ mod server_moved_players {
     fn a_flying_path_is_left_alone() {
         let (mut app, body) = hollow(EntityKind::Player);
         app.world_mut().entity_mut(body).insert(Spline {
+            deck: None,
             points: vec![RIM_A, RIM_B],
             start: Instant::now(),
             duration: Duration::from_secs(4),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/tests.rs
index 7f8b873f..7cb24ace 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/motion/tests.rs
@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ fn spline_interpolates_constant_speed_and_faces_travel() {
     // Two legs: 10 yd east (+X), then 10 yd north-ish (+Y), over 4s total (constant speed → 2s/leg).
     let start = Instant::now();
     let s = Spline {
+        deck: None,
         points: vec![[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [10.0, 0.0, 0.0], [10.0, 10.0, 0.0]],
         start,
         duration: Duration::from_secs(4),
@@ -466,6 +467,7 @@ fn spline_travel_pitch_is_the_segment_climb_angle() {
     // observed-mover pitch rule `asin(dir.z)` the swimming-creature body pitch renders.
     let start = Instant::now();
     let s = Spline {
+        deck: None,
         points: vec![[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [10.0, 0.0, 10.0]],
         start,
         duration: Duration::from_secs(4),
@@ -491,7 +493,7 @@ fn monster_move_carries_every_waypoint() {
         [10.0, 10.0, 0.0],
         [10.0, 10.0, 5.0],
     ];
-    let s = monster_move_spline(path.clone(), 42, false, 2000, false, true)
+    let s = monster_move_spline(path.clone(), 42, false, 2000, false, true, None)
         .expect("a moving monster-move yields a spline");
     assert_eq!(
         s.points, path,
@@ -508,6 +510,54 @@ fn monster_move_carries_every_waypoint() {
     );
 }
 
+/// **`MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` advances the chain's wire clock and nothing else** (decision 1935).
+/// The whole of the reference's handler is `[CMovement+0xac] += lag` (`0x603b40` → `0x61ab90`),
+/// and `+0xac` is this chain's `last_wire_ms`. The property that matters is downstream: after the
+/// skip, the mover's next packet — whose stamp is `lag` further on than it would otherwise have
+/// been — must schedule as though nothing unusual happened. Drop the skip and that same packet
+/// buys `lag` ms of extra `wire_delta` and fires that much late.
+#[test]
+fn a_reported_skip_keeps_the_relay_chain_level_with_the_sender() {
+    let step = |chain: &mut RelayChain, wire_ms: u32, now_ms: f64| {
+        chain.schedule(wire_ms, now_ms, 0, true)
+    };
+    // Two chains fed identically, except that one is told about the sender's 300 ms skip.
+    let (mut told, mut untold) = (RelayChain::default(), RelayChain::default());
+    step(&mut told, 10_000, 0.0);
+    step(&mut untold, 10_000, 0.0);
+
+    told.skip_time(300);
+
+    // The sender's next packet: 100 ms of real play later, but its stamp has ALSO carried the
+    // 300 ms it skipped — so the wire step is 400 while only 100 ms of our clock passed.
+    let a = step(&mut told, 10_400, 100.0);
+    let b = step(&mut untold, 10_400, 100.0);
+    assert!(
+        a < b,
+        "the informed chain schedules earlier: it already knew 300 of those 400 ms were skipped, \
+         not travelled (informed {a}, uninformed {b})"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        (b - a - 300.0).abs() < 1e-6,
+        "and the difference is exactly the skip it was told about: {} vs 300",
+        b - a
+    );
+}
+
+/// A skip for a mover whose chain has never seen a packet is inert: there is no reference stamp
+/// to advance, and the first real packet seeds both cells off itself.
+#[test]
+fn a_skip_before_the_first_packet_changes_nothing() {
+    let mut seeded = RelayChain::default();
+    let mut cold = RelayChain::default();
+    cold.skip_time(5_000);
+    assert_eq!(
+        seeded.schedule(10_000, 0.0, 0, true),
+        cold.schedule(10_000, 0.0, 0, true),
+        "an unseeded chain has no clock to move"
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn monster_move_flying_spline_is_not_grounded() {
     // A FLYING path keeps the server's Z — the ground-clamp must leave it alone.
@@ -518,6 +568,7 @@ fn monster_move_flying_spline_is_not_grounded() {
         2000,
         true,
         true,
+        None,
     )
     .expect("a flying monster-move still yields a spline");
     assert!(
@@ -535,7 +586,8 @@ fn monster_move_stop_clears_the_spline() {
             true,
             2000,
             false,
-            true
+            true,
+            None
         )
         .is_none(),
         "a Stop move snaps and clears, never builds a path"
@@ -551,7 +603,8 @@ fn monster_move_zero_duration_clears_the_spline() {
             false,
             0,
             false,
-            true
+            true,
+            None
         )
         .is_none(),
         "a zero-duration move would divide by ~0 when sampled; treat as stationary"
@@ -561,7 +614,7 @@ fn monster_move_zero_duration_clears_the_spline() {
 #[test]
 fn monster_move_without_a_travelable_path_clears_the_spline() {
     assert!(
-        monster_move_spline(vec![[1.0, 2.0, 3.0]], 0, false, 2000, false, true).is_none(),
+        monster_move_spline(vec![[1.0, 2.0, 3.0]], 0, false, 2000, false, true, None).is_none(),
         "a single point is nowhere to travel — no spline"
     );
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/controller.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/controller.rs
index cd323091..0672f3cf 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/controller.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/controller.rs
@@ -1063,6 +1063,15 @@ pub(super) fn control(
                 orientation: (player.face_yaw - r.boat_yaw).rem_euclid(std::f32::consts::TAU),
             }
         });
+        // The skipped-time clock (decision 1935): a held frame is a frame of movement simulation
+        // we advanced through without integrating, and the mover we name is the one we are
+        // actually driving — a possessed unit while we hold its reins. Read out before the call
+        // takes `player` mutably.
+        let skip = movement_net::SkipClock {
+            dt,
+            held: player.settling,
+            mover: player.foreign_mover.or(self_guid),
+        };
         movement_net::stream_self_movement(
             &net.0 .0,
             &mut player,
@@ -1090,6 +1099,7 @@ pub(super) fn control(
             // byte is 0 → `0x615c80 je 0x616539`: no apply, and no ack).
             knockback.filter(|_| knocked),
             wire_transport,
+            skip,
         );
     } else {
         // Free fly (pre-connect or detached): aim from the look angles, move the camera directly
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/move_trace.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/move_trace.rs
index 6545a231..4bd40f5b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/move_trace.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/move_trace.rs
@@ -216,6 +216,20 @@ pub(super) fn swim(feet_y: f32, surface_y: f32, swimming: bool, h: f32) {
     );
 }
 
+/// One `sett` line per `CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` we send (decision 1935) — how many milliseconds
+/// of movement simulation the hold ran through without integrating, and for which mover. It rides
+/// the settle's own tag because it reports the settle's own cost: a `skipped` far larger than the
+/// `sett` line beside it means the hold outlived the stream it was waiting for.
+pub(super) fn skipped_time(guid: u64, lag_ms: u32) {
+    if !trace::enabled() {
+        return;
+    }
+    trace::line(
+        "sett",
+        &format!("skipped {lag_ms:5} ms for mover {guid:#x}"),
+    );
+}
+
 /// How the post-teleport settle hold **ended** — the whole diagnosis of a fall-through report.
 ///
 /// `resident` means the destination's world arrived (scene spawned + collider queue quiet —
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/movement_net.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/movement_net.rs
index 074679e9..cbb112b1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/movement_net.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/movement_net.rs
@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ const IN_MOTION: u32 = move_flags::ANY_MOVE
     | move_flags::SWIMMING
     | move_flags::ON_TRANSPORT;
 
+/// What this frame's **skipped-time report** ([`stream_skipped_time`]) needs: how long the frame
+/// was, whether the mover integrated it, and which mover to name.
+pub(super) struct SkipClock {
+    /// This frame's length in seconds — the budget the mover either integrated or did not.
+    pub(super) dt: f32,
+    /// **The mover held instead of stepping this frame** ([`super::Player::settling`]): the world
+    /// under us has not streamed in, so nothing integrated `dt`.
+    pub(super) held: bool,
+    /// The mover's own guid — a possessed unit's while we hold its reins, else our own body's.
+    /// `None` before the server has named one, which is also before anything could be skipped.
+    pub(super) mover: Option<u64>,
+}
+
 /// This frame's **arc edges** — the airborne lifecycle as the send law reads it. One struct rather
 /// than four adjacent bools in the argument list, where a miscount is silent and the symptom is a
 /// wrong opcode on the wire.
@@ -145,6 +158,7 @@ pub(super) fn stream_self_movement(
     speed_acks: &[crate::net::SpeedChangeMessage],
     knock_ack: Option<super::state::PendingKnockback>,
     transport: Option<TransportPose>,
+    skip: SkipClock,
 ) {
     let ArcEdges {
         jumped,
@@ -153,6 +167,7 @@ pub(super) fn stream_self_movement(
         landed,
         fall_time,
     } = arc;
+    stream_skipped_time(sender, player, skip);
     let wow_pos = bevy_to_wow(player.pos);
     // Normalize the facing into [0, 2π) before it goes on the wire. `face_yaw` is an unbounded
     // accumulator (mouse-look and A/D turning keep growing it), but the real client always sends a
@@ -478,6 +493,65 @@ pub(super) fn stream_self_movement(
 /// Park our mover on the wire: flush a single `MSG_MOVE_STOP` (flags cleared) so the server — and the
 /// observers extrapolating from it — drop whatever locomotion flags we last reported, then zero our
 /// bookkeeping. Called when the controller stops driving the avatar with stale flags still live on the
+/// **`CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` — the milliseconds the mover advanced through without integrating**
+/// (decision 1935). Accumulate while the mover holds; report the total once, on the release edge.
+///
+/// **The law is "time the movement simulation advanced through without integrating"** — not "a
+/// long frame", which is what this packet is usually described as. wow-re's carve
+/// (`collision/scratch/move-time-skipped-law.md`, §5-verified, landed 2026-09-03) found **four**
+/// emission sites feeding one builder `0x600be0`, and the long-frame one (`0x616642 cmp esi,0xfa`
+/// → send `dt − 250`) is only one of them and not the common one. The two that dominate real
+/// traffic are the **no-geometry** pair: the resolve entry's swept query returning nothing
+/// (`0x634154`) and the fall integrator's TOI kernel finding no contact (`0x635742`), each
+/// reporting the substep budget they could not spend. Across 79 sniffs of the reference,
+/// 1277 of 1278 packets carry `lag ≤ 250` — the clamped substep budget those two draw from —
+/// and an exact-build 36-minute session sent **three**, at world entry and after a teleport.
+///
+/// **benilla's no-geometry state is the settle hold**, and that is what this reports: the frames
+/// after a login, teleport or worldport where the destination's terrain and building colliders
+/// have not streamed in, so the mover freezes rather than falling through a city that isn't there
+/// (decision 0737). Same cause, same quantity, same moments the reference's own captures show it.
+///
+/// **The coalescing is ours, deliberately.** The reference sends once per firing, which for it is
+/// once per skipped substep — and its no-geometry window is a substep or two wide, because it
+/// loads the world before it places you. Ours is a live stream that can hold for seconds, so
+/// per-frame parity would put hundreds of packets on the wire where the reference puts one. The
+/// *quantity* is what the wire means and the quantity is preserved whole; the packet count is
+/// kept at the reference's. What is NOT copied is the send's `[mgr+0x130] += lag` side effect
+/// (the 500 ms heartbeat deadline pushed out by the skipped time): that deadline is only ever read
+/// while moving, and a held body streams zeroed flags with its mover parked, so there is no
+/// heartbeat inside a settle for it to delay. Applying a multi-second delay to the first heartbeat
+/// *after* one would be our invention, not the reference's.
+///
+/// The other two sites are deliberately unbuilt. The long-frame one has no meaning here: benilla
+/// has no 250 ms substep clamp — it integrates the whole frame — so a long frame is time we
+/// *spent*, not time we skipped, and reporting it would be a lie about our own simulation. The
+/// `[CMovement+0x40] & 0x8000000` free-advance bit's own setter is not modelled at all. wow-re's
+/// own verdict on the build order says as much: a client implementing cases 1–3 matches every
+/// packet in the shipped captures.
+fn stream_skipped_time(sender: &Sender<ClientCommand>, player: &mut Player, skip: SkipClock) {
+    if skip.held {
+        player.skipped_ms += skip.dt * 1000.0;
+        return;
+    }
+    // The release edge: report the whole hold at once, then disarm. Sub-millisecond residue is
+    // dropped rather than carried — the wire field is whole milliseconds and a `0` lag is a
+    // packet that says nothing.
+    let lag_ms = player.skipped_ms as u32;
+    player.skipped_ms = 0.0;
+    if lag_ms == 0 {
+        return;
+    }
+    let Some(guid) = skip.mover else {
+        return;
+    };
+    // The reference's `0x600be0` refuses unless the named mover IS the active mover
+    // (`0x600bec`/`0x600bfb` against `[0xc4da98]`/`[0xc4da9c]`); ours is the same statement, made
+    // by naming the mover the controller is driving and nothing else.
+    super::move_trace::skipped_time(guid, lag_ms);
+    let _ = sender.send(ClientCommand::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms });
+}
+
 /// wire — entering free-fly (`F`), where [`stream_self_movement`] no longer runs each frame, so nothing
 /// else would ever clear them and observers would extrapolate a phantom walk/spin until we re-attach.
 /// **Idempotent**: a no-op once we've already reported stopped, so it's safe to call every free-fly
@@ -509,10 +583,68 @@ pub(super) fn park_mover(sender: &Sender<ClientCommand>, player: &mut Player) {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
+    /// A frame that integrated everything it was given — the skipped-time report's no-op input,
+    /// which is every frame in these tests but the one that exercises it.
+    fn no_skip() -> SkipClock {
+        SkipClock {
+            dt: 0.0,
+            held: false,
+            mover: None,
+        }
+    }
+
     use super::*;
     use std::f32::consts::TAU;
 
     /// **The gait toggle announces itself standing perfectly still** — which is the whole reason
+    /// **The skipped-time report** (decision 1935): held frames accumulate, the release edge sends
+    /// the total ONCE, and nothing is sent for a frame that actually integrated. The three
+    /// properties together are the whole contract — a per-frame send would be hundreds of packets
+    /// per settle, a lost accumulator would tell the server nothing, and a send with no hold
+    /// behind it would be a lie about our own simulation.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_settle_hold_reports_its_skipped_milliseconds_once_on_release() {
+        const MOVER: u64 = 0x0000_0000_0000_002a;
+        let (tx, rx) = crossbeam_channel::unbounded();
+        let mut player = Player::default();
+        let held = |dt: f32| SkipClock {
+            dt,
+            held: true,
+            mover: Some(MOVER),
+        };
+        let released = || SkipClock {
+            dt: 0.016,
+            held: false,
+            mover: Some(MOVER),
+        };
+        // Three held frames: 0.5 s of simulation advanced through, nothing integrated, and
+        // NOTHING on the wire yet — the report is one packet, not one per frame.
+        for _ in 0..3 {
+            stream_skipped_time(&tx, &mut player, held(0.1));
+        }
+        stream_skipped_time(&tx, &mut player, held(0.2));
+        assert!(
+            rx.try_recv().is_err(),
+            "a hold in progress sends nothing — the reference's own captures show one packet per \
+             skip, not one per frame"
+        );
+        // The release: one packet, carrying the whole hold.
+        stream_skipped_time(&tx, &mut player, released());
+        match rx.try_recv().expect("the release edge reports") {
+            ClientCommand::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms } => {
+                assert_eq!(guid, MOVER, "the packet names the mover we were driving");
+                assert_eq!(lag_ms, 500, "0.1+0.1+0.1+0.2 s of un-integrated simulation");
+            }
+            other => panic!("expected MoveTimeSkipped, got {other:?}"),
+        }
+        // …and the accumulator disarms: a second released frame reports nothing.
+        stream_skipped_time(&tx, &mut player, released());
+        assert!(
+            rx.try_recv().is_err(),
+            "the report is an edge; a running mover skips nothing and says nothing"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// the reference gives `ToggleRun` its own move-event enqueue instead of letting the
     /// move-state broadcaster find the flag change: that broadcaster gates every send on the
     /// locomotion nibble (`0x61a99d test al,0xf`), so a toggle with no direction bit set would
@@ -541,6 +673,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, flags, .. } =
             rx.try_recv().expect("a standing walk toggle still sends")
@@ -552,7 +685,18 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(flags & move_flags::WALK_MODE, move_flags::WALK_MODE);
 
         // …and leaving it is the OTHER opcode, not a repeat of the same one.
-        stream_self_movement(&tx, &mut player, 0, 0.0, arc(), 0.0, &[], None, None);
+        stream_self_movement(
+            &tx,
+            &mut player,
+            0,
+            0.0,
+            arc(),
+            0.0,
+            &[],
+            None,
+            None,
+            no_skip(),
+        );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, flags, .. } =
             rx.try_recv().expect("the run half sends too")
         else {
@@ -573,6 +717,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         while let Ok(ClientCommand::Move { kind, .. }) = rx.try_recv() {
             assert_eq!(kind, MoveKind::SetWalkMode, "the re-entry edge only");
@@ -587,6 +732,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         assert!(
             rx.try_recv().is_err(),
@@ -620,6 +766,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let kinds: Vec<_> = rx
             .try_iter()
@@ -661,6 +808,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
 
         let ClientCommand::Move { orientation, .. } = rx
@@ -706,6 +854,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
 
         let ClientCommand::Move {
@@ -749,6 +898,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         assert!(rx.try_recv().is_err(), "a mid-air release sends nothing");
         assert_eq!(
@@ -773,6 +923,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, flags, .. } = rx.try_recv().expect("the landing packet")
         else {
@@ -817,6 +968,7 @@ mod tests {
                 &[],
                 None,
                 None,
+                no_skip(),
             );
         };
 
@@ -882,6 +1034,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move {
             kind, flags, jump, ..
@@ -922,6 +1075,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         assert!(
             rx.try_recv().is_err(),
@@ -956,6 +1110,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, flags, .. } =
             rx.try_recv().expect("a mid-air turn broadcasts")
@@ -985,6 +1140,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let kinds: Vec<_> = rx
             .try_iter()
@@ -1029,6 +1185,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, flags, .. } = rx
             .try_recv()
@@ -1064,6 +1221,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         assert!(rx.try_recv().is_err(), "an unchanged facing is silent");
     }
@@ -1097,6 +1255,7 @@ mod tests {
                 &[],
                 None,
                 None,
+                no_skip(),
             );
             assert!(
                 rx.try_recv().is_err(),
@@ -1121,6 +1280,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, .. } = rx.try_recv().expect("the STOP_TURN") else {
             panic!("expected a Move command");
@@ -1159,6 +1319,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let kinds: Vec<_> = rx
             .try_iter()
@@ -1189,6 +1350,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
     }
 
@@ -1327,6 +1489,7 @@ mod tests {
                 launch,
             }),
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
 
         let ClientCommand::KnockBackAck {
@@ -1388,6 +1551,7 @@ mod tests {
             &[],
             None,
             None,
+            no_skip(),
         );
         let ClientCommand::Move { kind, jump, .. } =
             rx.try_recv().expect("a jump take-off is announced")
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/server_ride.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/server_ride.rs
index cf9009b7..84f07798 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/server_ride.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/server_ride.rs
@@ -193,6 +193,14 @@ pub(super) fn drive_self_ride(
             let y = ride_z(
                 &player,
                 &points,
+                // **A deck path re-derives its Z exactly like any other** (decision 1936's
+                // correction). The tempting exemption — "there is no terrain under a boat" — is
+                // refuted: the transport guid appears in neither `0x616cb0`'s predicate nor
+                // `0x634040`'s dispatch, so a grounded deck spline takes the same fork, and the
+                // probe does not miss because it runs at the **composed world position** against
+                // a class mask that admits GameObject meshes. This system is in `WorldStage::Input`
+                // and `transport::compose_riders` in the stage before it, so the translation read
+                // here is already composed — nothing else is needed for the deck case.
                 spline.grounded,
                 transform.translation,
                 floor,
@@ -352,6 +360,7 @@ mod tests {
             .spawn((
                 Transform::default(),
                 Spline {
+                    deck: None,
                     points: vec![[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [10.0, 0.0, 0.0]],
                     start: Instant::now(),
                     duration: Duration::from_secs(600), // far from ending during the test
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs
index 083b340d..8b29a596 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs
@@ -853,6 +853,12 @@ pub(crate) struct Player {
     pub(crate) owes_worldport_ack: bool,
     /// `Time::elapsed_secs` when we last sent a heartbeat.
     pub(super) last_heartbeat: f32,
+    /// **Milliseconds of movement simulation this client advanced through without integrating** —
+    /// the quantity `CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` reports (decision 1935). Accumulated while
+    /// [`Self::settling`] holds the mover (the world under us has not streamed in, so no step
+    /// runs), drained and sent by [`super::movement_net::stream_self_movement`] on the release
+    /// edge. Fractional because it accumulates a frame `dt` at a time; the wire takes whole ms.
+    pub(super) skipped_ms: f32,
     /// `Time::elapsed_secs` when the current airborne phase (jump or step-off) began, else `None` on the
     /// ground. Drives the wire `fall_time` (ms airborne) and detects the take-off / landing transitions
     /// that emit `MSG_MOVE_JUMP` / `MSG_MOVE_FALL_LAND` (decision 0053).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/transport.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/transport.rs
index 3889e479..8ca0db5a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/transport.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/transport.rs
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ impl Plugin for TransportPlugin {
                     tick_transports,
                     republish_moved_collider_aabbs::<Collider>,
                     compose_riders,
+                    ground_deck_riders,
                 )
                     .chain()
                     .after(benilla_world::schedule::WorldStage::Net)
@@ -538,6 +539,78 @@ fn compose_riders(
     }
 }
 
+/// **Re-ground a deck-splined rider onto the deck it is walking on** (decision 1936's correction).
+///
+/// The tempting reading — "a transport spline's Z is authoritative, because there is no terrain
+/// under a boat" — is what benilla shipped for a few hours and what wow-re's carve refuted. The
+/// transport guid appears in **neither** `0x616cb0`'s predicate **nor** `0x634040`'s dispatch: a
+/// grounded `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` spline takes the *same* fork as a plain one,
+/// `0x616d03` zeroes its Z-delta and the WALK resolver `0x6367b0` re-derives Z off the world trace
+/// (`0x636e52`: `pos.z -= hitDistance`). The reason that does not drop the unit into the sea is
+/// that the query runs at the **composed world position**, and the class mask `0x6315f0` yields
+/// `0x100111` whose `0x100000` bit unconditionally admits GameObject meshes — a boat's `.wmo`
+/// being in the global map-object list precisely because it is a type-11/15 GameObject.
+///
+/// **So the deck's grounding is the ordinary grounding, moved one step later.** It cannot live in
+/// [`crate::net::ground_clamp_creatures`] with every other unit's, because that system runs inside
+/// `WorldStage::Net` — *before* [`compose_riders`] — where a deck rider's `Transform` is still
+/// last frame's composed pose and its fresh position exists only as a transport-local offset. Here
+/// the deck is at its this-frame pose, its collider AABB has just been republished
+/// ([`republish_moved_collider_aabbs`], decision 1663 — without which the probe would be pruned
+/// against the deck's previous-frame box) and the rider's world position is on the transform. One
+/// probe, at the reference's own moment.
+///
+/// The corrected Y is written to the `Transform` and not back into
+/// [`TransportRider::local_pos`], deliberately: [`compose_riders`] recomputes the world pose from
+/// the local one every frame, so a write-back would be re-derived away next frame anyway, and the
+/// correction is idempotent as it stands. [`crate::net::RemoteMotion`]'s canonical pose moves with
+/// it, as it does in `compose_riders`.
+///
+/// **A named gap.** The reference has a *third* regime this does not model: `0x616af0`'s anti-warp
+/// guard snaps `pos := base + sampledOffset` verbatim — wire Z included — and bypasses the
+/// re-ground entirely whenever the horizontal step exceeds 3 yd (`[0x80c5bc]` = 9.0, squared) or
+/// 60 yd/s. For a creature freshly placed on a deck that is the common *first* substep, so our
+/// first frame re-grounds where the reference would take the wire Z. It settles to the same place
+/// on the next frame either way.
+#[allow(clippy::type_complexity)] // one Bevy system's full input set
+fn ground_deck_riders(
+    world: benilla_world::collision::WorldCollision,
+    mut riders: Query<
+        (
+            &mut Transform,
+            Option<&mut crate::net::RemoteMotion>,
+            &crate::net::Spline,
+        ),
+        (With<TransportRider>, Without<Transport>),
+    >,
+) {
+    /// The probe's reach above and below the rider's seat — the creature clamp's own numbers
+    /// (`GROUND_CLAMP_UP`/`_DOWN`), for the same reason: enough to clear a slightly-high server Z
+    /// and to follow a step down, not enough to grab a deck one storey up.
+    const UP: f32 = 2.5;
+    const DOWN: f32 = 4.0;
+    for (mut transform, motion, spline) in &mut riders {
+        // Only a GROUNDED deck path. A flying one owns its altitude (the `0x200` bit is the same
+        // one that decides the point encoding and the resolver arm), and a world-frame spline is
+        // `ground_clamp_creatures`' business, not ours.
+        if spline.deck.is_none() || !spline.grounded {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let origin = transform.translation + Vec3::Y * UP;
+        let Some(hit) = world.ray_body(origin, Dir3::NEG_Y, UP + DOWN) else {
+            continue; // nothing under the rider — leave the composed pose alone
+        };
+        let y = origin.y - hit.distance;
+        if y == transform.translation.y {
+            continue;
+        }
+        transform.translation.y = y;
+        if let Some(mut rm) = motion {
+            rm.wow_pos = benilla_assets::coords::bevy_to_wow(transform.translation);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Publish the **ride frame** onto every model standing on a transport — the reference's
 /// `SetMoveBase` install (`0x617170`/`0x618970` → `0x718910` → `[CM2Model+0x17c]`), which is the
 /// frame a rider's world-space effects are *stored* in ([`benilla_world::ride_frame`]).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_fail.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_fail.rs
index b013f595..74100dbe 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_fail.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_fail.rs
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
 //! NO_POWER).
 //!
 //! **The argument arms, and what is still approximate.** Filled: `0x5e` REQUIRES_SPELL_FOCUS and
-//! `0x5d` REQUIRES_AREA here (decision 1313 — `0x6e1f62`/`0x6e1fad`), and `0x78` TOTEMS / `0x5c`
+//! `0x5d` REQUIRES_AREA here (decision 1313 — `0x6e1f62`/`0x6e1fad`), plus `0x8d`
+//! PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC (decision 1948 — `0x6e2190`, and the one arm whose word is produced
+//! locally rather than read off the wire), and `0x78` TOTEMS / `0x5c`
 //! REAGENTS / `0x19`–`0x1b` EQUIPPED_ITEM_CLASS\* in the drain, which owns them because their
 //! fills need the item caches and the query-then-redisplay cache-miss behavior ("Requires Mining
 //! Pick", decisions 0545 + 0552). Still stripped rather than filled — each needs a DBC we do not
-//! load yet: `0x56` ONLY_SHAPESHIFT (form-name list), `0x8d` PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC
-//! (`SpellMechanic.dbc`), `0x90` MIN_SKILL (`SkillLine.dbc`), `0x31` NEED_EXOTIC_AMMO and `0x84`
+//! load yet: `0x56` ONLY_SHAPESHIFT (form-name list), `0x90` MIN_SKILL (`SkillLine.dbc`),
+//! `0x31` NEED_EXOTIC_AMMO and `0x84`
 //! PROSPECT_NEED_MORE. Stripping is a **deliberate divergence**, now byte-confirmed as one: on a
 //! bad id or an absent word the reference jumps to the default arm with the pointer still on the
 //! *unfilled* template, so it displays a literal `Requires %s` (wow-re §WIRE-ARGS C3 — the fill
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@
 //! `0x0a`'s item-spell leg (`ERR_INVALID_ITEM_TARGET`) is unmodeled — the drain does not know
 //! item-ness.
 
-use benilla_formats::{AreaTableCatalog, SpellDisplay, SpellFocusCatalog};
+use benilla_formats::{AreaTableCatalog, SpellDisplay, SpellFocusCatalog, SpellMechanicCatalog};
 
 /// Wire reason → its `SPELL_FAILED_*` GlobalStrings key (the `0x6e23e0` table, byte-exact).
 pub(super) const CAST_FAIL_KEYS: [&str; 146] = [
@@ -220,6 +222,8 @@ pub(super) struct FailArgs<'a> {
     pub(super) focus: Option<&'a SpellFocusCatalog>,
     /// `AreaTable.dbc` (`0xc0e048`) — the `0x5d` arm's `AreaName`.
     pub(super) areas: Option<&'a AreaTableCatalog>,
+    /// `SpellMechanic.dbc` (`0xc0d7c4`) — the `0x8d` arm's mechanic name (decision 1948).
+    pub(super) mechanics: Option<&'a SpellMechanicCatalog>,
 }
 
 impl FailArgs<'_> {
@@ -247,6 +251,13 @@ impl FailArgs<'_> {
     /// in `Spell.dbc` holds it, so an absent word means an unfilled message.
     fn fill(&self, reason: u8, spell: Option<&SpellDisplay>) -> Option<String> {
         match reason {
+            // **`0x8d` PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC** (`0x6e2190`) → `SpellMechanic.dbc` (`0xc0d7c4`),
+            // so "Can't do that while %s" reads "Can't do that while stunned". Unlike its two
+            // neighbours the word is not the wire's: this refusal is raised locally and the id
+            // comes from the crowd-control ladder's own exemption scan (decisions 1941/1948).
+            // A `0` or unknown id leaves the template to the strip fallback, which is also what
+            // the arm does when the scan named no mechanic at all.
+            0x8D => self.mechanics?.name(self.arg?).map(str::to_string),
             0x5D => self.areas?.name(self.arg?).map(str::to_string),
             0x5E => {
                 let id = self
@@ -634,11 +645,32 @@ mod tests {
         let focus =
             benilla_formats::load_spell_focus_catalog(&mut chain).expect("SpellFocusObject");
         let areas = benilla_formats::load_area_table_catalog(&mut chain).expect("AreaTable");
+        let mechanics =
+            benilla_formats::load_spell_mechanic_catalog(&mut chain).expect("SpellMechanic");
         let args = |arg: u32| FailArgs {
             arg: Some(arg),
             focus: Some(&focus),
             areas: Some(&areas),
+            mechanics: Some(&mechanics),
         };
+        // **0x8d PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC** (decision 1948) — the crowd-control ladder's renamed
+        // refusal, and the one argument arm whose word is produced locally rather than read off
+        // the wire. The names are lower-case adjectives in the shipped data, which is what makes
+        // them read as the tail of the sentence.
+        assert_eq!(
+            cast_fail_text(0x8D, None, args(12), &g).unwrap().text,
+            "Can't do that while stunned"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            cast_fail_text(0x8D, None, args(5), &g).unwrap().text,
+            "Can't do that while fleeing"
+        );
+        // An unknown or absent mechanic strips to the bare stem rather than showing a raw `%s`.
+        assert!(!cast_fail_text(0x8D, None, args(999), &g)
+            .unwrap()
+            .text
+            .contains('%'));
+
         // 0x5e REQUIRES_SPELL_FOCUS: the Crown of the Earth phials' own refusal. Focus 12 is the
         // Starbreeze Village moonwell — using the Jade Phial at any *other* pool is the report.
         assert_eq!(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_send.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_send.rs
index fea53c58..914bcb13 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_send.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/cast_send.rs
@@ -523,8 +523,15 @@ fn send_spell_cast(
                 .unwrap_or_default()
         },
     ) {
-        debug!("ui_action: cast {spell_id} refused locally — crowd control ({reason:#x})");
-        cast_errors.push_local(spell_id, reason);
+        let (reason, mechanic) = reason;
+        debug!(
+            "ui_action: cast {spell_id} refused locally — crowd control ({reason:#x}, \
+             mechanic {mechanic:?})"
+        );
+        match mechanic {
+            Some(m) => cast_errors.push_local_arg(spell_id, reason, m),
+            None => cast_errors.push_local(spell_id, reason),
+        }
         return;
     }
     // The client-side mounted gate (decision 0481; wow-re `mounted-action-gate.md` §5:
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs
index 3d356377..0b9b205d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs
@@ -42,10 +42,16 @@ pub(crate) struct CastErrors(pub Vec<CastFail>);
 /// word that fills the message's `%s` (the arm table at `0x6e1d8e` — a `SpellFocusObject.dbc` id
 /// for 0x5e, an `AreaTable.dbc` id for 0x5d).
 ///
-/// `arg` is `None` for every **client-local** refusal, and that is faithful rather than a gap: the
-/// local refusals the reference raises itself go through `DisplayError` with no argText, and the
-/// two client-generated argument messages it *does* build (the lock toasts, MIN_SKILL) are
+/// `arg` is `None` for **almost** every client-local refusal, and that is faithful rather than a
+/// gap: the local refusals the reference raises itself go through `DisplayError` with no argText,
+/// and the two client-generated argument messages it *does* build (the lock toasts, MIN_SKILL) are
 /// [`UiError`]'s tenants, not this queue's.
+///
+/// The **one** exception is the crowd-control ladder's `0x8d` (decision 1948). That refusal is
+/// local — `0x6094f0` bails before any packet — yet it carries an argument all the same, because
+/// its own exemption scan produced one: the blocking aura's `SpellMechanic.dbc` id. It is the
+/// only place a locally-generated word reaches this queue, which is why `push_local` still cannot
+/// set one and [`CastErrors::push_local_arg`] exists beside it.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub(crate) struct CastFail {
     pub spell_id: u32,
@@ -69,6 +75,16 @@ impl CastErrors {
     pub(crate) fn push_local(&mut self, spell_id: u32, reason: u8) {
         self.0.push(CastFail::local(spell_id, reason));
     }
+
+    /// Queue a client-local refusal that carries its own argument word — see [`CastFail::arg`]
+    /// for why there is exactly one such tenant.
+    pub(crate) fn push_local_arg(&mut self, spell_id: u32, reason: u8, arg: u32) {
+        self.0.push(CastFail {
+            spell_id,
+            reason,
+            arg: Some(arg),
+        });
+    }
 }
 
 /// (Dis)mount refusals queued for the UI error line, as the wire pair `(mount, code)` from
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs
index b65cf80b..7a5b145c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs
@@ -75,6 +75,31 @@ pub(super) struct FeedMemory {
     macro_generation: u64,
 }
 
+/// The DBC name tables the cast-fail **argument arms** read (`FailArgs`), as one parameter — three
+/// `Option<Res<…>>` that are one concept and were pushing this system past Bevy's parameter arity
+/// (decision 1948). Each is `Option` for the same reason `FailArgs`' fields are: a client with no
+/// game data has none, and the arm then declines and the template strips.
+#[derive(bevy::ecs::system::SystemParam)]
+pub(super) struct FailNameTables<'w> {
+    /// `SpellFocusObject.dbc` — the crafting book's catalog, for `0x5e`.
+    focus: Option<Res<'w, crate::ui_tradeskill::SpellFocus>>,
+    /// `AreaTable.dbc` — the map arc's, for `0x5d`.
+    areas: Option<Res<'w, crate::area::AreaTableRes>>,
+    /// `SpellMechanic.dbc` — for `0x8d`, the one arm whose word is produced locally.
+    mechanics: Option<Res<'w, super::SpellMechanics>>,
+}
+
+impl FailNameTables<'_> {
+    fn args(&self) -> cast_fail::FailArgs<'_> {
+        cast_fail::FailArgs {
+            arg: None,
+            focus: self.focus.as_deref().map(|f| &f.catalog),
+            areas: self.areas.as_deref().map(|a| &a.0),
+            mechanics: self.mechanics.as_deref().map(|m| &m.catalog),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] // a Bevy system's full input set
 pub(super) fn feed_actions(
     script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
@@ -88,10 +113,7 @@ pub(super) fn feed_actions(
     mut items: ResMut<Items>,
     icons: Option<Res<ItemDisplays>>,
     sub_classes: Option<Res<crate::ui_items::ItemSubClasses>>,
-    // The two DBC name tables the cast-fail argument arms read (`FailArgs`): the crafting book's
-    // SpellFocusObject catalog and the map arc's AreaTable one, both already loaded.
-    spell_focus: Option<Res<crate::ui_tradeskill::SpellFocus>>,
-    areas: Option<Res<crate::area::AreaTableRes>>,
+    name_tables: FailNameTables,
     commands: Res<NetCommands>,
     mut memory: Local<crate::ui_script::VmMemo<FeedMemory>>,
     // Where a displayed message lands: the chat window (the combat log's own record of a failed
@@ -122,11 +144,7 @@ pub(super) fn feed_actions(
     // things — "Not enough mana." on the screen, "You fail to cast Frostbolt: Not enough mana."
     // in the log.
     let mut fail_lines: Vec<crate::ui_chat::combat::PendingCombat> = Vec::new();
-    let fail_args = cast_fail::FailArgs {
-        arg: None,
-        focus: spell_focus.as_deref().map(|f| &f.catalog),
-        areas: areas.as_deref().map(|a| &a.0),
-    };
+    let fail_args = name_tables.args();
     let texts: Vec<cast_fail::CastFailLine> = cast_errors
         .0
         .drain(..)
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/mod.rs
index f88ee72c..28f72c2c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/mod.rs
@@ -291,6 +291,34 @@ fn track_learned_abilities(
     }
 }
 
+/// `SpellMechanic.dbc` — the vocabulary that fills `SPELL_FAILED_PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC`'s `%s`
+/// ([`benilla_formats::SpellMechanicCatalog`], decision 1948). Its one reader is the cast-failure
+/// resolver's `0x8d` arm.
+#[derive(Resource)]
+pub(crate) struct SpellMechanics {
+    pub(crate) catalog: benilla_formats::SpellMechanicCatalog,
+}
+
+fn load_spell_mechanics(mut commands: Commands, assets: Option<Res<benilla_assets::WorldAssets>>) {
+    let Some(assets) = assets else { return };
+    let loaded = {
+        let mut chain = benilla_assets::LockRecover::lock_recover(&*assets.chain);
+        benilla_formats::load_spell_mechanic_catalog(&mut chain)
+    };
+    match loaded {
+        Ok(catalog) => {
+            debug!("ui_action: {} spell-mechanic name(s)", catalog.len());
+            commands.insert_resource(SpellMechanics { catalog });
+        }
+        // Absent data is the strip fallback, not a failure: the refusal still appears, it just
+        // shows its bare stem instead of naming what is holding you.
+        Err(e) => warn!(
+            "ui_action: SpellMechanic.dbc failed to load — the crowd-control refusal drops the \
+             mechanic name: {e:#}"
+        ),
+    }
+}
+
 pub(crate) struct UiActionPlugin;
 
 impl Plugin for UiActionPlugin {
@@ -308,6 +336,7 @@ impl Plugin for UiActionPlugin {
             .init_resource::<targeting::SpellTargeting>()
             .init_resource::<targeting::EnchantConfirmItem>()
             .add_systems(Startup, load_spells.after(AssetSet::Open))
+            .add_systems(Startup, load_spell_mechanics.after(AssetSet::Open))
             .add_systems(
                 Update,
                 (
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/state.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/state.rs
index c086fe35..12dd45ac 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/state.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/state.rs
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ pub(crate) fn cast_cc_refusal(
     charmed_by_other: bool,
     spell: Option<&SpellDisplay>,
     exempt: &mut impl FnMut(&[u32]) -> benilla_formats::CcExemption,
-) -> Option<u8> {
+) -> Option<(u8, Option<u32>)> {
     use crate::player::UNIT_FLAG_STUNNED;
     /// `UNIT_FIELD_FLAGS` bits 13/17/22/23 (vmangos `UnitDefines.h`).
     const UNIT_FLAG_SILENCED: u32 = 0x0000_2000;
@@ -158,15 +158,17 @@ pub(crate) fn cast_cc_refusal(
     // immunity to whatever is blocking — the arm is SKIPPED and the cast proceeds. Otherwise the
     // refusal is `0x8d` "Can't do that while %s" when the scan named a mechanic, and the arm's own
     // reason when it did not (decision 1946).
-    let mut arm = |aura_types: &[u32], own_reason: u8| -> Option<u8> {
+    let mut arm = |aura_types: &[u32], own_reason: u8| -> Option<(u8, Option<u32>)> {
         let scan = exempt(aura_types);
         if scan.exempt {
             return None;
         }
         Some(if scan.mechanic != 0 {
-            REASON_PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC
+            // The mechanic rides along as the message's `%s` — the one client-LOCAL refusal that
+            // carries an argument word (decision 1948).
+            (REASON_PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC, Some(scan.mechanic))
         } else {
-            own_reason
+            (own_reason, None)
         })
     };
 
@@ -1209,9 +1211,14 @@ mod cc_refusal_tests {
         |_: &[u32]| benilla_formats::CcExemption::default()
     }
 
+    /// The reason alone, dropping the mechanic — most of these tests are about which arm fires.
+    fn reason_of(v: Option<(u8, Option<u32>)>) -> Option<u8> {
+        v.map(|(r, _)| r)
+    }
+
     /// A live caster, nobody else at the reins, no auras.
     fn cc(flags: u32, d: &SpellDisplay) -> Option<u8> {
-        cast_cc_refusal(flags, Some(100), false, Some(d), &mut no_auras())
+        cast_cc_refusal(flags, Some(100), false, Some(d), &mut no_auras()).map(|(r, _)| r)
     }
 
     /// **The arms are not symmetric** (decision 1904, widened by 1925): stun, fear, charm and
@@ -1234,7 +1241,13 @@ mod cc_refusal_tests {
         }
         // …and charm, which is not a flag at all but "somebody else holds the reins".
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(0, Some(100), true, Some(&neither), &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                0,
+                Some(100),
+                true,
+                Some(&neither),
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             Some(0x14)
         );
 
@@ -1250,11 +1263,23 @@ mod cc_refusal_tests {
         // Nothing up, nothing refused; and no record claims no prevention.
         assert_eq!(cc(0, &cast), None);
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(SILENCED, Some(100), false, None, &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                SILENCED,
+                Some(100),
+                false,
+                None,
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             None
         );
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, None, &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                Some(100),
+                false,
+                None,
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             Some(0x64),
             "the stun needs no record"
         );
@@ -1268,13 +1293,13 @@ mod cc_refusal_tests {
         let cast = spell(1);
         // Charm is arm 1: it beats a simultaneous stun.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
                 STUNNED | SILENCED,
                 Some(100),
                 true,
                 Some(&cast),
                 &mut no_auras()
-            ),
+            )),
             Some(0x14)
         );
         // Stun is arm 2: it beats silence, pacify, fear and confuse.
@@ -1298,25 +1323,43 @@ mod cc_refusal_tests {
 
         // No aura of the arm's type: the arm's OWN reason, as everywhere else.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, Some(&cast), &mut scan(false, 0)),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                Some(100),
+                false,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut scan(false, 0)
+            )),
             Some(0x64)
         );
         // A blocking aura the cast does NOT counter: the refusal survives but is renamed to
         // `0x8d` "Can't do that while %s", the mechanic naming the aura.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, Some(&cast), &mut scan(false, 12)),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                Some(100),
+                false,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut scan(false, 12)
+            )),
             Some(0x8d)
         );
         // The cast grants immunity: the arm is SKIPPED and the cast goes out. This is the whole
         // point — Ice Block cast while stunned.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, Some(&cast), &mut scan(true, 0)),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                Some(100),
+                false,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut scan(true, 0)
+            )),
             None
         );
         // …and skipping one arm does not skip the ladder: a silenced-and-stunned caster whose
         // spell counters only the stun still refuses on silence below it.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
                 STUNNED | SILENCED,
                 Some(100),
                 false,
@@ -1328,32 +1371,83 @@ mod cc_refusal_tests {
                         mechanic: 0,
                     }
                 }
-            ),
+            )),
             Some(0x60)
         );
     }
 
+    /// **The mechanic rides out with the refusal** (decision 1948) — the half that turns
+    /// "Can't do that while %s" into a sentence. It is the ONE client-local refusal that carries
+    /// an argument word, and it is `None` for every arm that fell to its own reason.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_renamed_refusal_carries_the_mechanic_and_the_others_carry_nothing() {
+        let cast = spell(1);
+        let scan = |exempt: bool, mechanic: u32| {
+            move |_: &[u32]| benilla_formats::CcExemption { exempt, mechanic }
+        };
+
+        // Rejected by a blocking aura: reason `0x8d` AND the mechanic that names it.
+        assert_eq!(
+            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, Some(&cast), &mut scan(false, 12)),
+            Some((0x8d, Some(12)))
+        );
+        // No aura: the arm's own reason, and NO argument — the message has no `%s` to fill.
+        assert_eq!(
+            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, Some(&cast), &mut scan(false, 0)),
+            Some((0x64, None))
+        );
+        // Exempt: nothing at all.
+        assert_eq!(
+            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(100), false, Some(&cast), &mut scan(true, 0)),
+            None
+        );
+    }
+
     /// **A dead caster skips all six** (`0x60980d`'s `jle` on `UNIT_FIELD_HEALTH`) — a corpse is
     /// refused by an earlier rung, and reporting a stun over it would be the wrong line.
     #[test]
     fn a_dead_caster_takes_no_crowd_control_refusal() {
         let cast = spell(1);
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(0), false, Some(&cast), &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                Some(0),
+                false,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             None
         );
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(0, Some(0), true, Some(&cast), &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                0,
+                Some(0),
+                true,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             None
         );
         // Alive again, and the arm is back.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, Some(1), false, Some(&cast), &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                Some(1),
+                false,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             Some(0x64)
         );
         // No health field at all is not death — the descriptor simply has not landed.
         assert_eq!(
-            cast_cc_refusal(STUNNED, None, false, Some(&cast), &mut no_auras()),
+            reason_of(cast_cc_refusal(
+                STUNNED,
+                None,
+                false,
+                Some(&cast),
+                &mut no_auras()
+            )),
             Some(0x64)
         );
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs
index a54dfe45..7260ad7c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct CharFeedMemo {
     items_objects: gate::Watch,
     items_templates: gate::Watch,
     names_generation: gate::Watch,
-    /// `Items::enchant_display_epoch` — one step per displayable countdown change (the slot
+    /// `Items::countdown_display_epoch` — one step per displayable countdown change (the slot
     /// views read second-floored countdowns), including the last elapse's collapsing push.
     enchant_deadlines: gate::Watch,
     /// `PendingItemOps::epoch` — one step per change to the in-flight lock set. Watched BESIDE
@@ -604,6 +604,8 @@ fn slot_view(
     // feed's twin.
     let enchant_ms: [Option<u64>; 7] =
         std::array::from_fn(|s| items.enchant_remaining_display_ms(guid, s as u32));
+    // The item's own expiry countdown — the bag feed's twin (decision 1933).
+    let duration_ms = items.duration_remaining_display_ms(guid);
     let obj = items.object(guid)?;
     let entry = obj.object_entry()?;
     let count = obj.item_stack_count().unwrap_or(1).max(1);
@@ -710,6 +712,7 @@ fn slot_view(
         bar_placeable,
         creator,
         enchants,
+        duration_ms,
     })
 }
 
@@ -805,8 +808,10 @@ fn inventory_slots(
             bar_placeable: false,
             creator: None,
             // Ammo carries no enchant slots to read: the wire never streams an ammo instance
-            // here, only the template id off the player descriptor.
+            // here, only the template id off the player descriptor — and for the same reason it
+            // carries no expiry countdown either (there is no instance guid to key one on).
             enchants: Vec::new(),
+            duration_ms: None,
         });
     }
     // Equipment 1..=19, then Bag0Slot..Bag3Slot (ids 20..23, PaperDollItemFrame.dbc-verified) —
@@ -1061,7 +1066,9 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_char(
     // second per ticking enchant, plus one final step at the elapse. Holding the gate open on
     // `live_enchant_deadlines() > 0` (the first 1439 shape) rebuilt both snapshots and fired
     // `UNIT_INVENTORY_CHANGED` at frame rate for the whole life of a poison.
-    let deadlines_moved = memo.enchant_deadlines.moved(items.enchant_display_epoch());
+    let deadlines_moved = memo
+        .enchant_deadlines
+        .moved(items.countdown_display_epoch());
     let self_changed = !changed_self.is_empty();
     // `is_added` for the icon catalog: the feeds read only its load-once icon column;
     // its model-cache half churns every frame (the containers gate's own note).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_craft.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_craft.rs
index 59b27d10..3f40a136 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_craft.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_craft.rs
@@ -216,13 +216,12 @@ fn feed_craft(
                 if reagents.is_empty() {
                     num_available = 0;
                 }
+                // **Focus first, then the totems** — `0x4ff980`'s own push order, and
+                // `GetCraftSpellFocus 0x4f78b0` returns the very same pair list despite its name
+                // (wow-re `tradeskill-tools-and-spell-focus.md`). The focus's flag is the literal
+                // `1.0` with no predicate: the reference never reddens it. See
+                // [`crate::ui_tradeskill`]'s twin, where the law is written out.
                 let mut tools = Vec::new();
-                for &t in d.totems.iter().filter(|&&t| t != 0) {
-                    let have = count_of(&store.0, &items, t, InventoryScope::CARRIED) > 0;
-                    if let Some(info) = items.template(t, 0, &commands) {
-                        tools.push((info.name.clone(), have));
-                    }
-                }
                 if d.requires_spell_focus != 0 {
                     if let Some(n) = focus
                         .as_deref()
@@ -231,6 +230,12 @@ fn feed_craft(
                         tools.push((n.to_string(), true));
                     }
                 }
+                for &t in d.totems.iter().filter(|&&t| t != 0) {
+                    let have = count_of(&store.0, &items, t, InventoryScope::CARRIED) > 0;
+                    if let Some(info) = items.template(t, 0, &commands) {
+                        tools.push((info.name.clone(), have));
+                    }
+                }
                 let needs_item_target = matches!(
                     d.effects[0],
                     SPELL_EFFECT_ENCHANT_ITEM | SPELL_EFFECT_ENCHANT_ITEM_TEMPORARY
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/drain.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/drain.rs
index 6d814ad9..8b0984b0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/drain.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/drain.rs
@@ -301,6 +301,17 @@ pub(super) fn drain_container_uses(
         }
     }
     for (bag, slot) in script.take_container_uses() {
+        // **A right-click cancels an armed gift wrap, whatever it then does** (decision 1934):
+        // only a LEFT-click on a container slot spends the paper, and the reference's use path
+        // clears the cursor on its way. Above every affordance below, because a sell or a
+        // deposit is still a right-click. Re-arming is not a special case: a right-click on a
+        // second piece of paper cancels the first here and arms itself in the dispatcher.
+        if let Some(w) = script.cancel_gift_wrap() {
+            debug!(
+                "ui_items: right-click cancels the armed gift wrap on bag {} slot {}",
+                w.bag, w.slot
+            );
+        }
         // Lua (bagID, 1-based slot) → the wire's player-array addressing.
         let slot0 = u8::try_from(slot.saturating_sub(1)).ok();
         // Sell affordance (decision 0081 v1): while a merchant is open, a bag-slot click sells the
@@ -380,6 +391,7 @@ pub(super) fn drain_container_uses(
                     spell_index: t.use_spell_index().unwrap_or(0),
                     use_spell: t.use_spell.map(|u| u.spell_id),
                     unwraps_gift: t.unwraps_gift(inst_flags),
+                    begins_gift_wrap: t.begins_gift_wrap(inst_flags),
                     opens_loot: t.opens_loot(),
                     page_text: t.page_text,
                     is_charter: t.flags & benilla_protocol::messages::ITEM_FLAG_CHARTER != 0,
@@ -435,6 +447,21 @@ pub(super) fn drain_container_uses(
             });
             continue;
         }
+        // …and arm #2's OTHER side: a piece of wrapping paper (`0x5d8d9d`'s clear branch →
+        // `0x5edea0`). **Purely local — nothing is sent.** The paper's slot locks, the displayed
+        // cursor becomes mode 2, and the next LEFT-click on a container slot is what sends
+        // `CMSG_WRAP_ITEM` (`ui_items::feed`'s wrap drain, through the engine's
+        // `pickup_container_item`). Decision 1934.
+        if let Some(c) = clicked.filter(|c| c.begins_gift_wrap) {
+            debug!(
+                "ui_items: arm gift wrap with {:#x} (lua bag {bag} slot {slot})",
+                c.guid
+            );
+            // `arm_gift_wrap` queues the slot's own `ITEM_LOCK_CHANGED` — the paper dims from
+            // the lock the arm takes, exactly as a held item's source slot does.
+            script.arm_gift_wrap(bag, slot);
+            continue;
+        }
         // #3 — the quest-starter (`0x5d8dd2`, decision 0664): the item's own guid is the
         // questgiver. Placed at the reference's position rather than at the tail, so a starter
         // that is *also* readable or lootable offers its quest instead of reading/opening. Routed
@@ -602,6 +629,9 @@ struct Clicked {
     use_spell: Option<u32>,
     /// `ItemInfo::unwraps_gift` for this instance — dispatcher arm #2.
     unwraps_gift: bool,
+    /// `ItemInfo::begins_gift_wrap` — arm #2's OTHER side: a piece of wrapping paper. Arms the
+    /// local wrap cursor and sends nothing (decision 1934).
+    begins_gift_wrap: bool,
     /// `ItemInfo::opens_loot` for this template — dispatcher arm #8.
     opens_loot: bool,
     /// The template's `PageText` — dispatcher arm #5's book gate (decision 1105); `0` = not a
@@ -645,6 +675,31 @@ pub(super) fn drain_container_moves(
         return;
     };
     let store = self_q.iter().next();
+    // **The completed gift wraps** (decision 1934): a left-click that spent an armed paper. Both
+    // pairs go out in the wire's own order — the paper first — and the whole eligibility question
+    // is the server's: it answers an ineligible target with one of the six `ERR_CANT_WRAP_*`
+    // reasons through the ordinary `SMSG_INVENTORY_CHANGE_FAILURE` line.
+    for (gift_bag, gift_slot, item_bag, item_slot) in script.take_container_wraps() {
+        let (Some((gift_bag_index, gift_wire_slot)), Some((item_bag_index, item_wire_slot))) =
+            (wire_pos(gift_bag, gift_slot), wire_pos(item_bag, item_slot))
+        else {
+            debug!(
+                "ui_items: WrapItem({gift_bag}/{gift_slot} → {item_bag}/{item_slot}) out of \
+                 range — ignored"
+            );
+            continue;
+        };
+        debug!(
+            "ui_items: wrap {item_bag}/{item_slot} with the paper at {gift_bag}/{gift_slot} \
+             (wire {gift_bag_index}/{gift_wire_slot} → {item_bag_index}/{item_wire_slot})"
+        );
+        let _ = commands.0.send(ClientCommand::WrapItem {
+            gift_bag: gift_bag_index,
+            gift_slot: gift_wire_slot,
+            item_bag: item_bag_index,
+            item_slot: item_wire_slot,
+        });
+    }
     for mv in script.take_container_moves() {
         send_container_move(
             &mut script,
@@ -932,6 +987,46 @@ mod tests {
             "the slot greys at the click"
         );
     }
+
+    /// **Right-clicking wrapping paper arms the wrap and sends NOTHING** (decision 1934) — the
+    /// same dispatcher arm the wrapped-gift unwrap takes, on its other side. This is the bug the
+    /// carve found: benilla fell through to `CMSG_USE_ITEM`, which casts a spell the paper does
+    /// not have.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_wrapper_right_click_arms_the_cursor_and_ships_no_packet() {
+        let (mut app, rx) = open_the_clam();
+        while rx.try_recv().is_ok() {} // drain the clam's own send
+                                       // Re-dress backpack slot 1 as a piece of wrapping paper: WRAPPER on the template, and no
+                                       // WRAPPED bit on the instance (that combination is the begin-wrap arm; with the bit set it
+                                       // would be a present, and would send `CMSG_OPEN_ITEM`).
+        let mut items = app.world_mut().resource_mut::<Items>();
+        items.insert_template(
+            CLAM_ENTRY,
+            Some(ItemInfo {
+                flags: benilla_protocol::messages::ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER,
+                ..crate::items::test_template("Red Ribboned Wrapping Paper")
+            }),
+        );
+        {
+            let script = app.world().non_send_resource::<UiScript>();
+            script.run("UseContainerItem(0, 1)").unwrap();
+        }
+        app.world_mut()
+            .run_system_once(drain_container_uses)
+            .unwrap();
+
+        assert!(
+            rx.try_recv().is_err(),
+            "the begin-wrap arm is purely local — nothing goes on the wire until a container \
+             click spends it"
+        );
+        let script = app.world().non_send_resource::<UiScript>();
+        assert_eq!(
+            script.gift_wrap_armed(),
+            Some(benilla_ui::script::PendingWrap { bag: 0, slot: 1 }),
+            "…and the paper is armed"
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 /// **The bind confirmations' answers** (decision 1750) — `EquipPendingItem`/`CancelPendingEquip`
@@ -1091,6 +1186,7 @@ mod bind_confirm_tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             ContainerSlot {
+                duration_ms: None,
                 petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs
index 9c5951ee..19d65e3a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ pub(crate) struct FeedMemory {
     /// what a charter slot's tooltip lines are built from. Lazy, so its arrival moves nothing else
     /// here (the same reason `names_generation` exists one line up).
     petition_records: gate::Watch,
-    /// `Items::enchant_display_epoch` — one step per displayable countdown change (the slot
+    /// `Items::countdown_display_epoch` — one step per displayable countdown change (the slot
     /// views read second-floored countdowns), including the last elapse's collapsing push.
     enchant_deadlines: gate::Watch,
     /// The item guid **of the bag itself** in each of the ten bag slots — container ids 1..=10
@@ -565,6 +565,9 @@ fn resolve_slot(
     // (both live on `Items`): one `Option<ms>` per enchant slot.
     let enchant_ms: [Option<u64>; 7] =
         std::array::from_fn(|s| items.enchant_remaining_display_ms(guid, s as u32));
+    // The item's own expiry countdown, read off the same deadline store and floored the same way
+    // — `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE`'s only surface (decision 1933).
+    let duration_ms = items.duration_remaining_display_ms(guid);
     let (entry, count, durability, readable, creator, flags, already_bound, roll, enchant_lines) =
         match items.object(guid) {
             Some(fields) => (
@@ -631,6 +634,7 @@ fn resolve_slot(
             flags,
             already_bound,
             enchants: enchant_lines,
+            duration_ms,
             ..Default::default()
         });
     };
@@ -678,6 +682,7 @@ fn resolve_slot(
         flags,
         already_bound,
         enchants: enchant_lines,
+        duration_ms,
         equip_slots: find_equip_slot(t.inventory_type, has_relic_slot),
         bar_placeable: t.placeable_on_action_bar(),
         cooldown: t.use_spell.and_then(|u| {
@@ -830,7 +835,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
     // that rebuilt every bag snapshot for the whole life of a ticking enchant.
     let deadlines_moved = memory
         .enchant_deadlines
-        .moved(items.enchant_display_epoch());
+        .moved(items.countdown_display_epoch());
     // Bound as `let`s (not a bare OR-chain) so the gate trace below can name each input.
     let sweep = cooldowns.sweep_pending(clock.anchor);
     let self_changed = !self_q.1.is_empty();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_net.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_net.rs
index 54cec082..3f8735a0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_net.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_net.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! The connection-telemetry feed — the app side of `benilla_ui::script::net_stats`' seam.
 //!
 //! One number: the latency `GetNetStats()` reports, which is the main bar's performance ("ping")
-//! meter's whole input (`ActionBar.xml`'s `MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame` polls it every 10 s and
+//! meter's whole input (stock `MainMenuBar.xml`'s `MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrame` polls it every 10 s and
 //! colors the bar green/yellow/red). The measurement itself belongs to the **net read thread** —
 //! every `SMSG_PONG` is timed where it lands and filed in the connection clock's RTT history at the
 //! reference's own depth — and this feed only carries its average across the engine boundary (decision
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
index 79a57585..cebdf175 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
@@ -18,11 +18,25 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
     // `load_ui` returns the same `report.frames` the disk reader asserted on, so this
     // count is the one that always stood here — moved, not re-derived.
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    let frames = super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    let frames = super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml")
+        + super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml")
+        + super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
     assert_eq!(
-        frames, 59,
-        "bar + XP StatusBar (+ its numerals overlay) + exhaustion tick + max-level rail + art frame + 12 buttons (each with a Cooldown child) + 2 page buttons + the performance meter and its hover button, \
-                 + BonusActionBarFrame and its 12 buttons with their Cooldown children (25 — hidden, as the reference's is; decision 1223) — and NO ReputationWatchBar: its three frames went home to the reference's own ReputationFrame.xml with 1875"
+        frames, 80,
+        "what the three stock files declare (1938): MainMenuBar.xml's 8 — the bar, the XP StatusBar, \
+         the overlay frame, the max-level rail, the art frame, the performance bar and its button, \
+         the exhaustion tick; ActionBarFrame.xml's 14 — 12 ActionButtons and the 2 page arrows; \
+         BonusActionBarFrame.xml's 24 — the bonus frame with its 12 buttons and the shapeshift frame \
+         with its 10; plus one $parentCooldown per action, bonus and shapeshift button (12 + 12 + 10). \
+         Ours built 59 for the same seats: no shapeshift bar in the file (StanceBar.xml's), no \
+         overlay frame, no performance-bar button"
     );
 
     // `ExhaustionTick_Update` indexes `ReputationWatchBar` UNGUARDED — the reference's own code,
@@ -60,13 +74,20 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
         }),
     );
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
+    // The app fires this on the offset's edge (ui_action/feed.rs); the stock bonus frame shows on
+    // it and slides up over the main bar for BONUSACTIONBAR_SLIDETIME (0.15 s) — one OnUpdate
+    // paints the start, the next lands it.
+    s.fire_event("UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR", vec![]);
+    s.tick(10.0);
+    s.tick(0.2);
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 
-    // Button 1 paints action 73's icon seated in the art frame's first well: the 1024-wide bar
-    // centers at BOTTOM of the 1024-wide screen ⇒ bar/art-frame left edge = (1024-1024)/2 = 0.
-    // Button1 anchors the art frame's BOTTOMLEFT +(8,4), 36×36 ⇒ x[8,44] y[4,40]; the icon fills
-    // the button (owner-sized) ⇒ the same rect. The chain stride is 36 + 6 = 42, so button i's left
-    // edge is 8 + (i-1)*42.
+    // The stance page is painted by BonusActionButton1/2, not by the main bar (1897/1938). The
+    // 1024-wide bar centers at BOTTOM of the 1024-wide screen ⇒ bar left edge = 0; the bonus
+    // frame lands at the bar's BOTTOMLEFT + (BONUSACTIONBAR_XPOS 4, BONUSACTIONBAR_YPOS 43), is
+    // 43 high, and its button 1 sits at its own BOTTOMLEFT + (5, 4), 36×36 ⇒ x[9,45] y[4,40] —
+    // one pixel right of the main bar's (8, 4). The reference's own geometry, off
+    // BonusActionBarFrame.xml:54-96; the chain stride is 36 + 6 = 42.
     s.resolve();
     let quads = s.extract();
     let icon = |path: &str| {
@@ -75,11 +96,12 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
             .find(|q| matches!(&q.content, QuadContent::Texture { path: Some(p), .. } if p == path))
             .and_then(|q| q.rect)
     };
-    let r = icon("Interface\\Icons\\Ability_SteelMelee").expect("button 1 icon");
-    assert_eq!((r.left, r.bottom, r.right, r.top), (8.0, 4.0, 44.0, 40.0));
-    let r2 = icon("Interface\\Icons\\Ability_Rogue_Ambush").expect("button 2 icon");
-    assert_eq!(r2.left, 8.0 + 42.0); // button 2 left = 50
-                                     // Twelve quickslot rings (every button draws its NormalTexture), two icons only.
+    let r = icon("Interface\\Icons\\Ability_SteelMelee").expect("bonus button 1 icon");
+    assert_eq!((r.left, r.bottom, r.right, r.top), (9.0, 4.0, 45.0, 40.0));
+    let r2 = icon("Interface\\Icons\\Ability_Rogue_Ambush").expect("bonus button 2 icon");
+    assert_eq!(r2.left, 9.0 + 42.0); // bonus button 2 left = 51
+                                     // Only an OCCUPIED button is shown — an empty one hides while showgrid == 0
+                                     // (ActionButton.lua:69-70) — so two rings, two icons.
     let rings = quads
         .iter()
         .filter(|q| {
@@ -87,7 +109,10 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
                     if p.contains("UI-Quickslot2"))
         })
         .count();
-    assert_eq!(rings, 12);
+    assert_eq!(
+        rings, 2,
+        "the two occupied bonus buttons; every empty main and bonus slot is hidden"
+    );
     let icons = quads
         .iter()
         .filter(|q| {
@@ -97,8 +122,8 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
         .count();
     assert_eq!(icons, 2, "empty slots draw no icon quad");
 
-    // A physical click on button 1 queues UseAction(73) — the stance page's id, not 1. Button 1's
-    // center is (8+18, 4+18) = (26, 22).
+    // A physical click at (26, 22) lands on BonusActionButton1 (9..45 × 4..40, two frame levels
+    // above the hidden main slot) and queues UseAction(73) — the stance page's id, not 1.
     s.mouse_button(26.0, 22.0, "LeftButton", true);
     s.mouse_button(26.0, 22.0, "LeftButton", false);
     assert_eq!(action_ids(&mut s), vec![73]);
@@ -124,9 +149,10 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
     s.run("ActionButtonDown(2)").unwrap();
     assert_eq!(depressed(&s), 1, "key DOWN shows the pushed texture");
     assert_eq!(
-        s.eval::<String>("return ActionButton2:GetButtonState()")
+        s.eval::<String>("return BonusActionButton2:GetButtonState()")
             .unwrap(),
-        "PUSHED"
+        "PUSHED",
+        "with the overlay up a key drives the BONUS button (ActionButton.lua:15-22)"
     );
     s.run("ActionButtonUp(2)").unwrap();
     assert_eq!(action_ids(&mut s), vec![74], "key '2' fires action 74");
@@ -135,6 +161,10 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
     // Stance drops (offset 0): the bar re-pages to actions 1..12 — all empty here, icons clear.
     s.set_bonus_bar_offset(0);
     s.fire_event("UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR", vec![]);
+    // The overlay descends carrying the old form's page (`lastBonusBar`) and hides at the end
+    // of its slide — one OnUpdate more than BONUSACTIONBAR_SLIDETIME (paint, then advance).
+    s.tick(0.2);
+    s.tick(0.01);
     s.resolve();
     let icons_after = s
         .extract()
@@ -151,7 +181,16 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
 fn load_action_bar(s: &UiScript) {
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Cooldown.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "UIParent.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
 
     // `ExhaustionTick_Update` indexes `ReputationWatchBar` UNGUARDED — the reference's own code,
     // safe there because `ReputationFrame.xml` is always loaded and always declares the bar. Since
@@ -164,6 +203,14 @@ fn load_action_bar(s: &UiScript) {
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\ReputationFrame.xml");
+    // The options window: `LOCK_ACTIONBAR` and `ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS` are declared there, as the
+    // reference declares them in UIOptionsFrame_Init (1938) — and the manifest loads it before
+    // the bars.
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
 }
 
 /// The state/feedback layer (decision 0137 phase 4) through the REAL shipped XML: a pushed
@@ -454,7 +501,7 @@ fn the_action_bar_lock_stops_the_drag_and_leaves_shift_click_alone() {
     s.resolve();
 
     s.run(r#"LOCK_ACTIONBAR = "1""#).unwrap();
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnDragStart(ActionButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ActionButton1 ActionButton1:GetScript(\"OnDragStart\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.cursor_payload().is_none(),
@@ -480,7 +527,7 @@ fn the_action_bar_lock_stops_the_drag_and_leaves_shift_click_alone() {
     );
 
     // The receiving end is guarded too: the held action cannot be dropped back by a drag…
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnReceiveDrag(ActionButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ActionButton1 ActionButton1:GetScript(\"OnReceiveDrag\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.cursor_payload().is_some(),
@@ -488,7 +535,7 @@ fn the_action_bar_lock_stops_the_drag_and_leaves_shift_click_alone() {
     );
     // …and unlocking makes both ends live again.
     s.run(r#"LOCK_ACTIONBAR = "0""#).unwrap();
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnReceiveDrag(ActionButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ActionButton1 ActionButton1:GetScript(\"OnReceiveDrag\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(s.cursor_payload().is_none(), "unlocked, the drop lands");
     assert_eq!(
@@ -779,7 +826,16 @@ fn shipped_bag_frame_drives_end_to_end() {
         let frames = load_ui(&s, file);
         if *file == "Cooldown.xml" {
             load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-            load_ui(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+            load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
         }
         if *file == "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBarBagButtons.xml" {
             bar_frames = frames;
@@ -803,6 +859,7 @@ fn shipped_bag_frame_drives_end_to_end() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -1112,7 +1169,20 @@ fn the_bonus_action_bar_exists_hidden_and_takes_layout_calls() {
         .unwrap();
     }
 
-    // A hidden bar changes nothing about the visible one.
+    // A hidden bar changes nothing about the visible one. (An EMPTY main-bar button is itself
+    // hidden under the reference — `ActionButton_Update` hides a slot with no action while
+    // `showgrid == 0`, ActionButton.lua:69-70 — so slot 1 is occupied first.)
+    s.set_action(
+        1,
+        Some(ActionSlot {
+            texture: Some("Interface\\Icons\\Ability_SteelMelee".into()),
+            kind: 0x00,
+            action: 100,
+            count: 0,
+            consumable: false,
+        }),
+    );
+    s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED", vec![ScriptValue::Int(1)]);
     assert!(
         s.eval::<bool>("return ActionButton1:IsShown()").unwrap(),
         "the main bar is untouched"
@@ -1193,7 +1263,7 @@ fn both_reference_action_button_templates_are_inheritable() {
     // zBar's exact shape: inherit the bar template, supply your own OnLoad.
     let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(
         r#"<Ui>
-            <CheckButton name="ZLikeButton" inherits="ActionBarButtonTemplate" id="1">
+            <CheckButton name="ZLikeButton" inherits="ActionBarButtonTemplate" parent="UIParent" id="1">
                 <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"/></Anchors>
             </CheckButton>
             <CheckButton name="BareLikeButton" inherits="ActionButtonTemplate" id="1">
@@ -1279,7 +1349,14 @@ fn the_main_bar_pages_and_a_bonus_page_still_outranks_it() {
         "UIParent.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -1288,7 +1365,15 @@ fn the_main_bar_pages_and_a_bonus_page_still_outranks_it() {
         r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\ReputationFrame.xml",
-        "MultiBars.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "UiPanels.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
+        "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+        "OptionsFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
     ] {
         // `test_ui::load_ui`, not a disk read: this list names chain entries now (the reputation
         // pane and the templates it inherits through), and `assets/ui` cannot answer for those.
@@ -1378,14 +1463,31 @@ fn the_main_bar_pages_and_a_bonus_page_still_outranks_it() {
          reference's own asymmetry with page-down, which rescans instead"
     );
 
-    // A bonus page outranks the paged one entirely: with an offset up, the page is ignored.
+    // The bonus branch is GUARDED by the page (ActionButton.lua:447: `button.isBonus and
+    // CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE == 1`) — and a MAIN-bar button has no isBonus at all, so it never
+    // takes that branch: the bonus offset is BonusActionBarFrame's own twelve buttons' business
+    // (1897, adopted with 1938). Main-bar slot 1 on page 3 is action 25 whatever the offset.
     s.run("CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3").unwrap();
     s.set_bonus_bar_offset(1);
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<i64>("return ActionButton_GetPagedID(ActionButton1)")
             .unwrap(),
+        25,
+        "a main-bar button follows its page, never the bonus offset (ActionButton.lua:447-456)"
+    );
+    s.run("CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 1").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return ActionButton_GetPagedID(BonusActionButton1)")
+            .unwrap(),
         73,
-        "bonus offset 1 is action 73, whatever page the main bar is on"
+        "the bonus frame's own button, on page 1 with offset 1, is 72 + 1"
+    );
+    s.run("CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return ActionButton_GetPagedID(BonusActionButton1)")
+            .unwrap(),
+        25,
+        "and off page 1 even the bonus button follows the page: the conjunct 1897 found missing"
     );
     s.set_bonus_bar_offset(0);
     assert_eq!(
@@ -1410,7 +1512,16 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
 
     // `ExhaustionTick_Update` indexes `ReputationWatchBar` UNGUARDED — the reference's own code,
     // safe there because `ReputationFrame.xml` is always loaded and always declares the bar. Since
@@ -1474,12 +1585,34 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
             .into_iter()
             .map(|u| (u.action, u.on_self))
             .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
-        vec![(73, true)],
-        "ActionButtonUp's onSelf reaches UseAction's third argument"
+        vec![(73, false)],
+        "the BONUS branch of stock ActionButtonUp passes a literal 0 for onSelf (ActionButton.lua:38) \
+         — in a stance, ALT-1 drives the bonus page without self-cast; the reference's own rule, \
+         which 1745's expectation of (73, true) had smoothed over"
     );
+    s.run("BonusActionBarFrame:Hide() ActionButtonDown(1) ActionButtonUp(1, 1)")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.take_action_uses()
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|u| (u.action, u.on_self))
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+        vec![(1, true)],
+        "on the main-bar branch onSelf reaches UseAction's third argument (ActionButton.lua:51)"
+    );
+    s.run("BonusActionBarFrame:Show()").unwrap();
 
-    // Half the slide: the replica is half-risen (top = 0.5 * 43 over the bar's bottom edge at
-    // y=0), the paint suppression still holds, still silent.
+    // The slide, frame by frame. Stock `BonusActionBar_OnUpdate` paints the position the timer
+    // has REACHED and then advances it (BonusActionBarFrame.lua:37-49), so the first OnUpdate
+    // after a Show paints the start (top = 0 over the bar's bottom edge at y=0), the second the
+    // half-risen replica (0.5 * 43), and the one that finds the timer past BONUSACTIONBAR_SLIDETIME
+    // lands it. Silent until then.
+    s.tick(0.075);
+    let top = s
+        .eval::<f64>("return BonusActionBarFrame:GetTop()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(top.abs() < 0.01, "first frame top = {top}, want 0");
+    assert!(s.take_sounds().is_empty());
     s.tick(0.075);
     let top = s
         .eval::<f64>("return BonusActionBarFrame:GetTop()")
@@ -1495,8 +1628,10 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
     );
     assert!(s.take_sounds().is_empty());
 
-    // The landing edge: snap to 43, THE sound, and the main bar adopts the bonus page.
-    s.tick(0.08);
+    // The landing edge: snap to 43 and THE sound. The main bar does NOT adopt the bonus page:
+    // a main-bar button has no `isBonus`, so `ActionButton_GetPagedID` keeps it on its page and the
+    // overlay IS the stance page (ActionButton.lua:447-456; 1897, adopted with 1938).
+    s.tick(0.01);
     assert_eq!(
         s.take_sounds(),
         vec![benilla_ui::script::SoundRequest::KitName(
@@ -1519,8 +1654,8 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<i64>("return ActionButton_GetPagedID(ActionButton1)")
             .unwrap(),
-        73,
-        "the main bar adopts the bonus page at landing"
+        1,
+        "the main bar keeps its page under the landed overlay"
     );
     s.tick(0.5);
     assert!(s.take_sounds().is_empty(), "a landed bar never re-sounds");
@@ -1540,7 +1675,8 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<i64>("return ActionButton_GetPagedID(ActionButton1)")
             .unwrap(),
-        97
+        1,
+        "the main bar stays on its page through a form swap"
     );
     s.tick(0.2);
     assert!(
@@ -1571,7 +1707,11 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
     // stand-in while the frame is still shown.
     s.run("ActionButtonDown(1) ActionButtonUp(1)").unwrap();
     assert_eq!(action_ids(&mut s), vec![97]);
+    // Paint-then-advance again: the frame that finds the timer past the slide time is the one
+    // that hides (BonusActionBarFrame.lua:51-66), so the descent takes one OnUpdate more than
+    // the time itself.
     s.tick(0.2);
+    s.tick(0.01);
     assert!(
         !s.eval::<bool>("return BonusActionBarFrame:IsShown()")
             .unwrap(),
@@ -1593,7 +1733,16 @@ fn bonus_bar_turnaround_continues_from_position() {
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
 
     // `ExhaustionTick_Update` indexes `ReputationWatchBar` UNGUARDED — the reference's own code,
     // safe there because `ReputationFrame.xml` is always loaded and always declares the bar. Since
@@ -1620,15 +1769,28 @@ fn bonus_bar_turnaround_continues_from_position() {
         "hide"
     );
     // A third of the way back down from the turnaround point: 43 * (0.5 - 0.03/0.15).
+    // `HideBonusActionBar` keeps a running timer (it resets it only when `completed`,
+    // BonusActionBarFrame.lua:86-88), so the descent starts where the rise had got to: the rise's
+    // one OnUpdate advanced the timer to 0.075 (half), and the hide arm paints (1 − 0.075/0.15) · 43
+    // = 21.5 on its first frame, then 12.9 on the next — paint, then advance.
+    s.tick(0.03);
+    let top = s
+        .eval::<f64>("return BonusActionBarFrame:GetTop()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        (top - 21.5).abs() < 0.6,
+        "turnaround descends from 21.5, top = {top}"
+    );
     s.tick(0.03);
     let top = s
         .eval::<f64>("return BonusActionBarFrame:GetTop()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         (top - 12.9).abs() < 0.6,
-        "turnaround descends from 21.5, top = {top}"
+        "next frame top = {top}, want ~12.9"
     );
     s.tick(0.2);
+    s.tick(0.01);
     assert!(!s
         .eval::<bool>("return BonusActionBarFrame:IsShown()")
         .unwrap());
@@ -1652,7 +1814,16 @@ fn the_page_arrows_do_not_steal_each_other_s_clicks() {
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
 
     // `ExhaustionTick_Update` indexes `ReputationWatchBar` UNGUARDED — the reference's own code,
     // safe there because `ReputationFrame.xml` is always loaded and always declares the bar. Since
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
index a15d91bb..3b565f99 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ fn bag_tooltip_hangs_left_when_the_slot_sits_in_the_right_half() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -491,6 +492,7 @@ fn hovered_bag_tooltip_fills_itself_when_the_stats_land() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -594,6 +596,7 @@ fn vendor_bag_hover_shows_sell_price_and_arms_the_pouch_cursor() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -615,6 +618,7 @@ fn vendor_bag_hover_shows_sell_price_and_arms_the_pouch_cursor() {
     slots.insert(
         2,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -798,6 +802,7 @@ fn drag_across_two_slots_queues_the_same_move_a_click_pickup_would() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -881,6 +886,7 @@ fn a_second_bag_window_feeds_and_paints_via_the_bag_bar() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -1013,6 +1019,7 @@ fn open_backpack_with_a_five_stack(s: &mut UiScript) -> (f32, f32) {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -1454,6 +1461,7 @@ fn the_bar_bag_buttons_name_themselves_on_hover() {
     // SetInventoryItem arm. Bar slot 1 is inventory slot 20 (Bag0Slot).
     let mut inv: benilla_ui::script::InventorySlots = Default::default();
     inv[20] = Some(benilla_ui::script::InvSlotView {
+        duration_ms: None,
         already_bound: false,
         bar_placeable: true,
         durability: None,
@@ -1635,13 +1643,15 @@ fn the_first_key_puts_the_keyring_on_the_bar() {
         bar_right - perf_right
     );
 
-    // And it reverts: destroying the last key takes the keyring back off the bar (our divergence
-    // from the ref's one-way saved-variable latch — see MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing).
+    // And it does NOT revert: the reference's latch is one-way — `MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing`
+    // only ever Shows, and SHOW_KEYRING is a saved variable (stock MainMenuBar.lua:174-183,
+    // MainMenuBar.xml:323-336). Our file used to take the button away with the last key; that
+    // divergence went with the file (1938).
     s.set_has_key(false);
     s.fire_event("BAG_UPDATE", vec![benilla_ui::script::ScriptValue::Int(-2)]);
     assert!(
-        !s.eval::<bool>("return KeyRingButton:IsShown()").unwrap(),
-        "losing the last key takes the button away again"
+        s.eval::<bool>("return KeyRingButton:IsShown()").unwrap(),
+        "losing the last key leaves the button on the bar — the reference's one-way latch"
     );
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/buff_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/buff_tests.rs
index d536db0b..aa3a8aec 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/buff_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/buff_tests.rs
@@ -40,15 +40,19 @@ fn harness() -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ActionBar.xml"); // BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON (the unknown-icon fallback)
-                                   // The timer switch, PLANTED ON — not the shipped value. 1.12 declares it in
-                                   // UIOptionsFrame.lua (default "0"); we have no counterpart to that file, so it lives with the
-                                   // row that drives it (OptionsFrame.xml), where it shipped "1" from 0255/1139 until 1804 put
-                                   // it back on the reference's "0". These tests are about the timer text and the geometry it
-                                   // buys, so the harness turns it on the way the Interface page's row does. Order matters: the
-                                   // reference's `BuffFrame_OnLoad` calls `BuffButtons_UpdatePositions`, which seats the debuff
-                                   // row 20px differently depending on this value, so setting it afterwards leaves the bar laid
-                                   // out for the wrong one.
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml"); // BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON (the unknown-icon fallback)
+                                                                  // The timer switch, PLANTED ON — not the shipped value. 1.12 declares it in
+                                                                  // UIOptionsFrame.lua (default "0"); we have no counterpart to that file, so it lives with the
+                                                                  // row that drives it (OptionsFrame.xml), where it shipped "1" from 0255/1139 until 1804 put
+                                                                  // it back on the reference's "0". These tests are about the timer text and the geometry it
+                                                                  // buys, so the harness turns it on the way the Interface page's row does. Order matters: the
+                                                                  // reference's `BuffFrame_OnLoad` calls `BuffButtons_UpdatePositions`, which seats the debuff
+                                                                  // row 20px differently depending on this value, so setting it afterwards leaves the bar laid
+                                                                  // out for the wrong one.
     s.run("SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS = \"1\"").unwrap();
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BuffFrame.xml");
     // …and APPLIED, the way the app applies it (`manifest::apply_buff_durations`).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/cast_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/cast_tests.rs
index 6002d0b6..e2dabe79 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/cast_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/cast_tests.rs
@@ -412,6 +412,14 @@ fn managed_positions_track_the_bottom_bar_stack() {
     assert_eq!(bottom(&s, "ChatFrame1"), 102.0, "85 + bottomLeft 17");
 
     // The stance bar shows (the warrior at login): the pet term, plus chat's both-flags extra.
+    // The pass's shapeshift-appearance arm (the reference's own, UIParent.lua:1705-1732 — in ours
+    // since 1938) touches the bar's three shelf textures by name, unguarded as the reference has
+    // it; a stand-in frame needs stand-in textures.
+    s.run(
+        "local t = { Show = function() end, Hide = function() end } \
+         ShapeshiftBarLeft, ShapeshiftBarMiddle, ShapeshiftBarRight = t, t, t",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
     s.run("ShapeshiftBarFrame = { IsShown = function() return true end, SetPoint = function() end, ClearAllPoints = function() end }; UIParent_ManageFramePositions()")
         .unwrap();
     s.resolve();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
index 25906786..83205115 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ fn combat_stats() -> UnitCombatStats {
 fn inventory_with_head_item() -> InventorySlots {
     let mut slots: InventorySlots = Default::default();
     slots[1] = Some(InvSlotView {
+        duration_ms: None,
         already_bound: false,
         bar_placeable: true,
         durability: None,
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ fn backpack_with_fitting_helm() -> benilla_ui::script::ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         benilla_ui::script::ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs
index 8be2431c..2b7ef93c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ fn chat_click_dismisses_a_stuck_spell_but_not_an_item() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs
index 2778770d..1dab4349 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ fn one_item_backpack(item_id: u32, name: &str, quality: u32) -> ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
index 4a47ad81..0080c3a8 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ fn one_item_backpack() -> ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -244,6 +245,7 @@ fn escape_closes_an_open_stack_split_frame() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs
index 486cbc40..d0a1c719 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ fn exp_bar_harness() -> UiScript {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -63,7 +66,8 @@ fn the_xp_bar_takes_the_mouse_and_explains_itself() {
         "the XP strip must be mouse-enabled or the hover never fires"
     );
 
-    s.run("BenillaExpBar_OnEnter(MainMenuExpBar)").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = MainMenuExpBar MainMenuExpBar:GetScript(\"OnEnter\")()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<String>("return GameTooltipTextLeft1:GetText()")
             .unwrap(),
@@ -81,7 +85,8 @@ fn the_xp_bar_takes_the_mouse_and_explains_itself() {
         "the default-corner anchor"
     );
 
-    s.run("BenillaExpBar_OnLeave()").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = MainMenuExpBar MainMenuExpBar:GetScript(\"OnLeave\")()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert!(
         !s.eval::<bool>("return GameTooltip:IsVisible()").unwrap(),
         "leaving hides the plate"
@@ -301,7 +306,8 @@ fn the_xp_bar_numerals_show_on_hover() {
     s.set_player_xp(1234, 5678);
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
 
-    s.run("BenillaExpBar_OnEnter(MainMenuExpBar)").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = MainMenuExpBar MainMenuExpBar:GetScript(\"OnEnter\")()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<String>("return MainMenuBarExpText:GetText()")
             .unwrap(),
@@ -315,7 +321,7 @@ fn the_xp_bar_numerals_show_on_hover() {
     // `this.isZero` on one line where every other line reads `bar` (TextStatusBar.lua:95 — the
     // reference's own slip, benign there because `this` is always SOME frame during dispatch, and
     // a nil index only from bare Lua). Called from the bar's own `<OnLeave>` in play.
-    s.run("this = MainMenuExpBar BenillaExpBar_OnLeave(MainMenuExpBar) this = nil")
+    s.run("this = MainMenuExpBar MainMenuExpBar:GetScript(\"OnLeave\")() this = nil")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         !s.eval::<bool>("return MainMenuBarExpText:IsShown()")
@@ -338,7 +344,8 @@ fn the_rest_state_line_joins_the_held_open_tooltip() {
 
     // 1.12's default posture (0661): detailed newbie tips ON.
     s.run("SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS = \"1\"").unwrap();
-    s.run("BenillaExpBar_OnEnter(MainMenuExpBar)").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = MainMenuExpBar MainMenuExpBar:GetScript(\"OnEnter\")()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<f64>("return ExhaustionTick.timer").unwrap(),
         1.0,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs
index 84298d8c..7f9000aa 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs
@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ fn convert_entry(
             // A slice that runs PAST the texture is the reference's tiling idiom, not a crop:
             // `SetTexCoord(0, n, 0, 1)` on an n-slots-wide strip repeats the art n times — the
             // stance shelf's middle carries one slot per extra form exactly that way
-            // (`StanceBar.xml`, `ShapeshiftBar_Update`). Clamp-sampled it smears the last column
+            // (stock `ShapeshiftBar_Update`). Clamp-sampled it smears the last column
             // across the extra width instead. Clamp/repeat bake into the `Image`, so this picks
             // the tiled GPU image + cache entry, as the `Backdrop` arm's `tile` does below.
             let tiled = uv
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
index b996f3f1..f669714f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
@@ -667,7 +667,16 @@ fn the_bag_row_greys_under_the_menu_without_any_of_it_disappearing() {
         &[
             "Cooldown.xml",
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-            "ActionBar.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
+            "UIParent.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+            "MoneyFrame.xml",
+            "GameTooltip.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         ],
         &["Interface\\FrameXML\\MerchantFrame.xml"],
     );
@@ -758,6 +767,7 @@ fn backpack() -> ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs
index 48956876..474f4cb0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ fn text_color(quads: &[ExtractedQuad], t: &str) -> Option<[f32; 4]> {
 /// `UIParent.xml` comes with it because the `START_LOOT_ROLL` router lives there now — the
 /// reference's own slot for it — where our file used to carry a dedicated hidden driver frame.
 fn load_group_loot(s: &UiScript) {
-    load_xml(s, "UIParent.xml");
+    // `UIParent.xml` is loaded by `setup()` above — the stock main bar needs it first (1938).
     // `LootFrame.xml` brings the whole loot window, and its `GroupLootDropDown` calls
     // `UIDropDownMenu_Initialize` from its own OnLoad — the dropdown kit is on the chain too.
     load_xml(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
@@ -81,8 +81,14 @@ fn setup() -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml"); // PASS/NEED/GREED + item hovers
     load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ActionBar.xml"); // BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON (the in-flight icon fallback) —
-                                   // buff_tests.rs's own load-order precedent for this same global.
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml"); // BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON (the in-flight icon fallback) —
+                                                                  // buff_tests.rs's own load-order precedent for this same global.
     s
 }
 
@@ -569,6 +575,14 @@ fn managed_positions_engage_for_the_bare_frame_name() {
     assert_eq!(bottom(&s), 102.0, "60 + bottomEither 42 — the row engaged");
 
     // The stance bar shows on top of them.
+    // The pass's shapeshift-appearance arm (the reference's own, UIParent.lua:1705-1732 — in ours
+    // since 1938) touches the bar's three shelf textures by name, unguarded as the reference has
+    // it; a stand-in frame needs stand-in textures.
+    s.run(
+        "local t = { Show = function() end, Hide = function() end } \
+         ShapeshiftBarLeft, ShapeshiftBarMiddle, ShapeshiftBarRight = t, t, t",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
     s.run("ShapeshiftBarFrame = { IsShown = function() return true end, SetPoint = function() end, ClearAllPoints = function() end }; UIParent_ManageFramePositions()")
         .unwrap();
     s.resolve();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs
index d53ac63d..e6ce90cd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ fn setup() -> UiScript {
         // happens. Ours never called it. MicroMenu needs the bar's button kit under it.
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "UIParent.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         "MicroMenu.xml",
         // `TicketStatusFrame_OnEvent` re-anchors TemporaryEnchantFrame before it arms the repoll
         // timer, so without BuffFrame the handler raises and `refreshTime` is never set. This is
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/micro_menu_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/micro_menu_tests.rs
index 5ce7e82b..7dc126e5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/micro_menu_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/micro_menu_tests.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,15 @@ fn harness_with(extra: &[&str]) -> UiScript {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "UIParent.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         "MicroMenu.xml",
     ]
     .into_iter()
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
index c9e01c3a..ba939145 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ fn demo_unit_feed(script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>, mut fired: Local<VmMemo<
             ),
             (80, "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Misc_Food_16", 0x80, 117, 5),
             (84, "Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Holy_SealOfMight", 0x00, 103, 0),
-            // The always-on multibars (MultiBars.xml): BottomLeft = actions 61..72, BottomRight
+            // The always-on multibars (stock MultiActionBars.xml): BottomLeft = actions 61..72, BottomRight
             // = 49..60. A few occupied wells on each so the capture shows both rows seated
             // (empty multibar wells hide — the ref's own default — so without these the rows
             // would be invisible).
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ fn demo_unit_feed(script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>, mut fired: Local<VmMemo<
                 }),
             );
         }
-        // The stance bar (StanceBar.xml): the synthetic warrior's three stances, battle active —
+        // The stance bar (stock BonusActionBarFrame.xml): the synthetic warrior's three stances, battle active —
         // matches the bonus offset 1 above (battle stance page). Defensive shows the not-castable
         // grey; berserker a running cooldown swipe.
         script.set_shapeshift_forms(vec![
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/multibar_stance_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/multibar_stance_tests.rs
index 77af139d..623928b5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/multibar_stance_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/multibar_stance_tests.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@ fn load_action_bar(s: &UiScript) {
         "GameTooltip.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -33,6 +38,14 @@ fn load_action_bar(s: &UiScript) {
         r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\ReputationFrame.xml",
+        // The stock multibar file's OnLoad writes `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`, which our options
+        // window publishes — the reference's own load order (UIOptionsFrame.xml l.21 before
+        // MultiActionBars.xml l.39), and the manifest's since 1938.
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        "UiPanels.xml", // StaticPopupDialogs, which the options window's pages register into
+        "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+        "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+        "OptionsFrame.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(s, file);
     }
@@ -47,7 +60,9 @@ fn show_bars(s: &UiScript, bars: &[u32]) {
             if bars.contains(&bar) { "1" } else { "nil" }
         ));
     }
-    lua.push_str("MultiActionBar_Update()");
+    // …then the manage pass, which the options window runs after a toggle (stock
+    // UIOptionsFrame.xml:1192, and our rows the same); stock MultiActionBar_Update does not.
+    lua.push_str("MultiActionBar_Update() UIParent_ManageFramePositions()");
     s.run(&lua).unwrap();
 }
 
@@ -65,21 +80,11 @@ fn shipped_multibars_drive_end_to_end() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("assets/ui/MultiBars.xml"),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(&s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
+    let frames = super::test_ui::load_ui(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     assert_eq!(
-        report.frames, 100,
-        "4 bar frames + 48 buttons, each with a Cooldown child — the two VERTICAL bars joined \
-         (hidden, as the reference's VerticalMultiBar3/4 are), which doubled this count"
+        frames, 100,
+        "what stock MultiActionBars.xml declares (1938): the four bar frames and their 48 buttons, \
+         each with a $parentCooldown — the same 100 ours built for the same seats"
     );
 
     // Occupy main slot 1, BottomLeft slot 1 (action 61), BottomRight slot 1 (action 49).
@@ -152,8 +157,9 @@ fn shipped_multibars_drive_end_to_end() {
     };
     assert_eq!(
         rings(&quads, "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot2"),
-        14,
-        "12 main wells + 2 occupied multibar buttons; 22 empty multibar wells hidden"
+        3,
+        "the occupied main slot + the 2 occupied multibar buttons; every empty well is hidden, \
+         the main bar's included (ActionButton.lua:69-70)"
     );
 
     // A click on BottomLeft button 1 (center (26,75)) queues the FIXED id 61 — and stays 61 when
@@ -183,8 +189,10 @@ fn shipped_multibars_drive_end_to_end() {
     s.fire_event("UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR", vec![]);
     // The offset edges above showed the bonus overlay (1524) and its descent takes 0.15s of
     // frame time this event-only test never used to pass; without it the 12 overlay wells are
-    // still on screen and correctly answer the SHOWGRID below as 12 extra drop targets.
+    // still on screen and correctly answer the SHOWGRID below as 12 extra drop targets. The
+    // stock slide paints, THEN advances, so the frame that hides it is one OnUpdate past the time.
     s.tick(0.2);
+    s.tick(0.01);
 
     // While a payload is held (SHOWGRID), the hidden empty wells appear as drop-target rings
     // (UI-Quickslot, the "no action" ring): 11 empty main wells swap texture + 22 multibar wells
@@ -199,10 +207,19 @@ fn shipped_multibars_drive_end_to_end() {
     s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID", vec![]);
     s.resolve();
     assert_eq!(rings(&s.extract(), "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot"), 0);
-    assert_eq!(rings(&s.extract(), "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot2"), 14);
+    assert_eq!(
+        rings(&s.extract(), "Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot2"),
+        3,
+        "letting go hides every empty well again, the main bar's included; the three occupied \
+         buttons keep their rings"
+    );
 
     // The unbound multibar hotkey corner carries the ref's RANGE_INDICATOR dot: out of range paints
-    // the red dot, back in range clears it (the main bar's labels tint instead).
+    // the red dot, back in range clears it (the main bar's labels tint instead). Two stock
+    // mechanisms, in order: `ActionButton_UpdateHotkeys` decides whether the corner's TEXT is the
+    // dot at all — only while `IsActionInRange` answers non-nil, i.e. with a target — and it runs
+    // on PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED (ActionButton.lua:121-145, 333-334); every `ActionButton_OnUpdate`
+    // then shows or hides that text by range (l.389-395) and tints it red past the 0.2 s recheck.
     use benilla_ui::script::ActionState;
     s.set_action_state(
         61,
@@ -213,6 +230,7 @@ fn shipped_multibars_drive_end_to_end() {
             ..Default::default()
         }),
     );
+    s.fire_event("PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED", vec![]);
     s.tick(0.5); // past the 0.2 s range recheck
     s.resolve();
     let dot_shown = |quads: &[benilla_ui::script::ExtractedQuad]| {
@@ -255,22 +273,27 @@ fn shipped_stance_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
     // bottom multibar is UP to raise the flag. Since 1500 that is a player option rather than a
     // given, so this test raises it; `the_stance_bar_sits_where_the_pass_puts_it` below owns the
     // other state.
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     show_bars(&s, &[1]);
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("assets/ui/StanceBar.xml"),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(&s, &doc, &|_| None);
+    // The shapeshift bar is declared by stock BonusActionBarFrame.xml (ShapeshiftBarFrame and
+    // ShapeshiftButton1..10 beside the bonus bar), which load_action_bar loaded above (1938).
     assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-    assert_eq!(
-        report.frames, 21,
-        "the bar frame + 10 buttons, each with a Cooldown child"
+        s.eval::<bool>("return ShapeshiftBarFrame ~= nil and ShapeshiftButton10 ~= nil")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "the stance bar's frames come with the stock bonus-bar file"
     );
 
     // No forms pushed (a mage): the frame is hidden.
@@ -440,7 +463,12 @@ fn multibar_hover_renders_the_buttons_own_action() {
         "GameTooltip.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -449,7 +477,15 @@ fn multibar_hover_renders_the_buttons_own_action() {
         r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\ReputationFrame.xml",
-        "MultiBars.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "UiPanels.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
+        "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+        "OptionsFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(&s, file);
     }
@@ -483,7 +519,7 @@ fn multibar_hover_renders_the_buttons_own_action() {
 
     let hover_name = |s: &UiScript, button: &str| -> Option<String> {
         s.run(&format!(
-            "GameTooltip:Hide() BenillaActionButton_OnEnter({button})"
+            "GameTooltip:Hide() this = {button} ActionButton_SetTooltip()"
         ))
         .unwrap();
         s.eval::<Option<String>>(
@@ -537,7 +573,20 @@ fn multibar_hover_renders_the_buttons_own_action() {
 fn the_vertical_multibars_exist_hidden_on_the_reference_pages() {
     let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
 
     for bar in ["MultiBarRight", "MultiBarLeft"] {
         assert!(
@@ -556,13 +605,13 @@ fn the_vertical_multibars_exist_hidden_on_the_reference_pages() {
     // ref ActionButton.lua:8-9 — RIGHT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3 (actions 25..36), LEFT = 4 (37..48).
     for (bar, first, last) in [("MultiBarRight", 25, 36), ("MultiBarLeft", 37, 48)] {
         assert_eq!(
-            s.eval::<i64>(&format!("return {bar}Button1.base + {bar}Button1.index"))
+            s.eval::<i64>(&format!("return ActionButton_GetPagedID({bar}Button1)"))
                 .unwrap(),
             first,
             "{bar}'s first slot"
         );
         assert_eq!(
-            s.eval::<i64>(&format!("return {bar}Button12.base + {bar}Button12.index"))
+            s.eval::<i64>(&format!("return ActionButton_GetPagedID({bar}Button12)"))
                 .unwrap(),
             last,
             "{bar}'s last slot"
@@ -586,7 +635,20 @@ fn every_extra_bar_stays_down_until_its_own_toggle_is_set() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
 
     const BARS: [&str; 4] = [
         "MultiBarBottomLeft",
@@ -660,7 +722,20 @@ fn raising_a_bottom_bar_moves_the_managed_bottom_stack() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\CastingBarFrame.xml");
 
     // The pass writes the y of a frame row into its anchor; read it back off the anchor rather
@@ -711,7 +786,20 @@ fn viewable_action_bar_pages_follow_the_bar_toggles() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
 
     let viewable = |s: &UiScript| {
         s.eval::<String>(
@@ -764,7 +852,20 @@ fn the_grid_option_holds_the_extra_bars_empty_wells_open() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     show_bars(&s, &[1]);
 
     let well = |s: &UiScript| {
@@ -798,12 +899,36 @@ fn the_grid_option_holds_the_extra_bars_empty_wells_open() {
 
     // Re-applying an "off" that is already off must not owe anything: with a payload in hand the
     // wells stay open through it (the reference's own idempotence bug, closed by the latch).
+    // The reference's hide is a COUNTED decrement on every well (`ActionButton_HideGrid`), never
+    // a no-op: with the option off, one more apply closes a payload-held well. That is why our
+    // row runs `MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility` only on a CLICK (stock UIOptionsFrame.xml:683)
+    // and its load arm only ever SHOWS (UIOptionsFrame.lua:218-220) — a load-time hide would push
+    // counts nobody raised below zero. (Ours used to guard the no-op; the guard went with the
+    // file, 1938.)
+    // The load arm, both ways: off touches no count, on opens the wells.
+    s.run("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = \"0\" OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings()")
+        .unwrap();
     s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID", vec![]);
-    s.run("MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility()").unwrap();
-    s.run("MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility()").unwrap();
-    assert!(well(&s), "a no-op apply may not decrement");
+    assert!(well(&s));
     s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID", vec![]);
+    assert!(!well(&s), "a load with the option off left the count alone");
+    s.run("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = \"1\" OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(well(&s), "a load with the option on opens the wells");
+    s.run("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = \"0\" MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert!(!well(&s));
+
+    // …and the click arm against a held payload: one apply closes the well the payload opened.
+    // (The payload's own HIDEGRID that follows takes the count to −1 in the reference too — its
+    // quirk, not modelled here.)
+    s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID", vec![]);
+    assert!(well(&s));
+    s.run("MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        !well(&s),
+        "the option's hide counts against the payload's open"
+    );
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
 
@@ -830,7 +955,20 @@ fn a_held_payload_ghosts_the_empty_wells_it_opens() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     s.set_action(
         1,
         Some(ActionSlot {
@@ -869,8 +1007,9 @@ fn a_held_payload_ghosts_the_empty_wells_it_opens() {
     let resting = ring_alphas(&s, quickslot2);
     assert_eq!(
         resting.len(),
-        12,
-        "the 12 main wells; the multibar's are hidden"
+        1,
+        "only the occupied main slot draws a ring: every empty well, main bar included, is \
+         hidden while nothing is held (ActionButton.lua:69-70)"
     );
     assert!(
         resting.iter().all(|a| *a == 1.0),
@@ -891,9 +1030,14 @@ fn a_held_payload_ghosts_the_empty_wells_it_opens() {
         "every grid ring is the ref's half-alpha ghost, not an opaque plate: {ghosts:?}"
     );
 
-    // …and the one OCCUPIED button is untouched by it.
+    // …and the one OCCUPIED button ghosts with it: `ActionButton_ShowGrid` sets the half alpha
+    // (ActionButton.lua:246) before anything asks whether the slot holds an action, and
+    // `HideGrid` touches no colour at all. What restores an occupied ring is its next
+    // `ActionButton_UpdateUsable` (l.271-283), whose `SetVertexColor(1, 1, 1)` carries the default
+    // alpha — from Update, and on SPELL_UPDATE_USABLE. Ours skipped occupied rings; the stock
+    // file does not (1938).
     let occupied = ring_alphas(&s, quickslot2);
-    assert_eq!(occupied, vec![1.0], "the occupied ring does not ghost");
+    assert_eq!(occupied, vec![0.5], "the occupied ring ghosts too");
 
     // A well that was ghosted and is then FILLED comes back opaque. This is the assertion that
     // outlives the engine's own `SetVertexColor` divergence (1782): the day an absent alpha stops
@@ -914,21 +1058,28 @@ fn a_held_payload_ghosts_the_empty_wells_it_opens() {
     s.resolve();
     assert_eq!(
         ring_alphas(&s, quickslot2),
-        vec![1.0, 1.0],
-        "a ghosted well that gets an action is opaque again, payload still held"
+        vec![0.5, 1.0],
+        "the well that got an action is opaque again (its Update ran UpdateUsable); the other \
+         occupied ring keeps its ghost, payload still held"
     );
 
-    // Letting go restores both halves — art and tint, which is why they share one setter.
+    // Letting go takes the empty wells away; the colour it leaves alone.
     s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_HIDEGRID", vec![]);
     s.resolve();
     assert_eq!(ring_alphas(&s, quickslot), Vec::<f32>::new());
     let after = ring_alphas(&s, quickslot2);
-    assert_eq!(after.len(), 12);
-    // (10 empty main wells back to the hollow ring + the 2 occupied ones.)
-    assert!(
-        after.iter().all(|a| *a == 1.0),
-        "the dim does not outlive the payload (the ref's own stuck-dim bug): {after:?}"
+    assert_eq!(
+        after,
+        vec![0.5, 1.0],
+        "HideGrid touches no colour: a ring the grid ghosted stays dim past the payload — the \
+         reference's own rule (ours used to clear it here)"
     );
+    // What happens to that ring NEXT is decision 1782's open question, deliberately not asserted:
+    // the reference's `SetVertexColor(1, 1, 1)` in `ActionButton_UpdateUsable` keeps the alpha
+    // already on the region (byte-pinned, wow-re button-state-texture-path-setter.md §7 — the
+    // "stuck dim" a 1.12 player sees after a drag), while this engine's three-argument call still
+    // resets it to 1.0 until the director calls 1782. A test that pinned either outcome would be
+    // enshrining a divergence as fidelity.
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
 
@@ -947,25 +1098,42 @@ fn a_bar_toggle_sends_the_byte_its_globals_pack_to() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     let _ = s.take_action_bar_toggle_sends();
 
     // The row's own setter, with the row's own "1"/"0" strings.
-    s.run("BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(1, \"1\")").unwrap();
+    s.run("SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1 = 1 MultiActionBar_Update() SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(s.take_action_bar_toggle_sends(), vec![0x01]);
-    s.run("BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(3, \"1\")").unwrap();
+    s.run("SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3 = 1 MultiActionBar_Update() SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.take_action_bar_toggle_sends(),
         vec![0x05],
         "the WHOLE byte re-sent, not a delta"
     );
-    s.run("BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(4, \"1\")").unwrap();
+    s.run("SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4 = 1 MultiActionBar_Update() SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(s.take_action_bar_toggle_sends(), vec![0x0d]);
-    s.run("BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(1, \"0\")").unwrap();
+    s.run("SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1 = nil MultiActionBar_Update() SetActionBarToggles(SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4)")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.take_action_bar_toggle_sends(),
         vec![0x0c],
-        "the row hands the setter a STRING, and \"0\" is off"
+        "the row turns its \"0\" into nil before the send, and nil is off"
     );
 
     // What is stored is 1 or nil and nothing else — GetActionBarToggles' own shape, and what the
@@ -1017,7 +1185,20 @@ fn the_shipped_setter_passes_exactly_four_arguments() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
 
     // `r##`: the Lua contains `select("#", ...)`, and `"#` would close a single-hash raw string.
     s.run(
@@ -1029,7 +1210,11 @@ fn the_shipped_setter_passes_exactly_four_arguments() {
         "##,
     )
     .unwrap();
-    s.run("BenillaMultiBar_SetShown(2, \"1\")").unwrap();
+    // The shipped setter is the Action Bars row's own closure (OptionsFrame.xml), which is
+    // stock's three lines — assign the global, MultiActionBar_Update(), SetActionBarToggles(…) —
+    // plus the manage pass.
+    s.run("OptionsFrameContainerBodyActionBarsRowMultiBar2Check:Click()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<i64>("return BENILLA_TEST_TOGGLE_ARGC").unwrap(),
         4,
@@ -1052,8 +1237,22 @@ fn the_stance_bar_sits_where_the_pass_puts_it() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "StanceBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
     s.set_shapeshift_forms(vec![ShapeshiftFormView {
         spell_id: 2457,
         texture: Some("Interface\\Icons\\Stance_A".into()),
@@ -1110,8 +1309,22 @@ fn the_stance_shelf_follows_the_bottom_left_bar() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "StanceBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
 
     let form = |id: u32| ShapeshiftFormView {
         spell_id: id,
@@ -1175,8 +1388,17 @@ fn the_stance_shelf_follows_the_bottom_left_bar() {
 
     // Even at three forms, raised keeps the middle strip down — the fork is on the BAR, not the
     // form count; the count only decides the middle strip within the unraised branch.
+    // A third form learned while the bar is up: the reference's `ShapeshiftBar_Update` shows the
+    // middle strip for three forms regardless of the bar (BonusActionBarFrame.lua:198-206), and
+    // nothing runs the pass on that event — the strip draws across the row until something
+    // moves. The pass, not Update, owns the raised look (UIParent.lua:1705-1720).
     s.set_shapeshift_forms(vec![form(2457), form(71), form(2458)]);
     s.fire_event("UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS", vec![]);
+    assert!(
+        shown(&s, "ShapeshiftBarMiddle"),
+        "Update shows the strip; only the pass takes it down"
+    );
+    s.run("UIParent_ManageFramePositions()").unwrap();
     assert!(!shown(&s, "ShapeshiftBarMiddle"));
     assert_eq!(ring(&s), 50.0);
 
@@ -1208,8 +1430,22 @@ fn the_stance_shelf_is_as_long_as_the_form_count() {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "StanceBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
     show_bars(&s, &[]); // unraised: the shelf art is the state under test
 
     let form = |id: u32| ShapeshiftFormView {
@@ -1311,7 +1547,20 @@ fn an_extra_bars_empty_well_keeps_its_bound_hotkey_label() {
     // the player binds it, as the reporter had).
     s.register_bindings(&crate::bindings::registry_commands());
     load_action_bar(&s);
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     show_bars(&s, &[1]);
     s.set_action(
         61,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
index 5cd71a66..5ad18478 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
@@ -750,7 +750,10 @@ fn interface_harness() -> UiScript {
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\ColorPickerFrame.xml",
             "Cooldown.xml",
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-            "ActionBar.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
             // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
             // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
             // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -811,7 +814,14 @@ fn actionbars_harness() -> UiScript {
             "UIParent.xml",
             "Cooldown.xml",
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-            "ActionBar.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+            "MoneyFrame.xml",
+            "GameTooltip.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
             // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
             // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
             // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -820,7 +830,15 @@ fn actionbars_harness() -> UiScript {
             r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
             r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
             r"Interface\FrameXML\ReputationFrame.xml",
-            "MultiBars.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+            "UiPanels.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+            "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+            r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua",
+            r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
+            "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+            "OptionsFrame.xml",
+            "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
         ],
     );
     harness_on(s)
@@ -2695,7 +2713,7 @@ fn the_action_bars_page_locks_the_real_bar() {
     );
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
     s.resolve();
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnDragStart(ActionButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ActionButton1 ActionButton1:GetScript(\"OnDragStart\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.cursor_payload().is_none(),
@@ -2705,7 +2723,7 @@ fn the_action_bars_page_locks_the_real_bar() {
     // Defaults walks it back to ActionBar.xml's own assignment, and the bar drags again.
     s.run("OptionsFrameContainerDefaults:Click()").unwrap();
     assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return LOCK_ACTIONBAR").unwrap(), "0");
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnDragStart(ActionButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ActionButton1 ActionButton1:GetScript(\"OnDragStart\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(s.cursor_payload().is_some(), "unlocked again");
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
@@ -2846,9 +2864,9 @@ fn the_target_of_target_rows_gate_each_other_and_write_their_globals() {
     assert!(
         s.eval::<bool>(
             "return OptionsFrameContainerBodyInterfaceRowTargetOfTarget.applyFunc \
-                 == TargetofTarget_Update \
+                 == \"TargetofTarget_Update\" \
              and OptionsFrameContainerBodyInterfaceRowTargetOfTargetMode.applyFunc \
-                 == TargetofTarget_Update"
+                 == \"TargetofTarget_Update\""
         )
         .unwrap(),
         "both rows re-decide the frame when they are written"
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/perf_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/perf_bar_tests.rs
index 31a7fa05..7b949fa7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/perf_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/perf_bar_tests.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,15 @@ fn harness(extra: &[&str]) -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
     for f in extra {
         load_xml(&s, f);
     }
@@ -230,7 +238,7 @@ fn hovering_the_meter_shows_the_live_latency() {
         "the button over the meter takes the mouse"
     );
 
-    s.run("BenillaPerformanceBar_OnEnter(MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrameButton)")
+    s.run("this = MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrameButton MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrameButton:GetScript(\"OnEnter\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<String>("return GameTooltipTextLeft1:GetText()")
@@ -277,7 +285,7 @@ fn hovering_the_meter_shows_the_live_latency() {
         "the refresh rebuilds BOTH lines — a held-open plate never decays to one"
     );
 
-    s.run("BenillaPerformanceBar_OnLeave()").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrameButton MainMenuBarPerformanceBarFrameButton:GetScript(\"OnLeave\")()").unwrap();
     assert!(
         !s.eval::<bool>("return GameTooltip:IsVisible()").unwrap(),
         "leaving hides the plate"
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/pet_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/pet_bar_tests.rs
index ab48d6c5..ac57e4dd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/pet_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/pet_bar_tests.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,13 @@ fn load_pet_bar(s: &UiScript) {
         "UIParent.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -370,7 +376,13 @@ fn pet_bar_row(with_multibar: bool) -> (usize, f32) {
         "UIParent.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -383,7 +395,14 @@ fn pet_bar_row(with_multibar: bool) -> (usize, f32) {
     ] {
         load_xml(&s, file);
     }
-    load_xml(&s, "MultiBars.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "ScrollTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "KeyBindingsPage.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "OptionsFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml");
     if with_multibar {
         s.run("SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1 = 1 MultiActionBar_Update()")
             .unwrap();
@@ -665,7 +684,12 @@ fn load_pet_bar_with_tooltip(s: &UiScript) {
         "GameTooltip.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs
index 7daf706c..195f4941 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs
@@ -1075,8 +1075,7 @@ mod tests {
     /// do not ship under its own name usually has a counterpart of ours under a different one, and
     /// both would declare the same frames.
     ///
-    /// That half doubles as the map nothing else holds: `ActionBarFrame.xml` is our
-    /// `ActionBar.xml`, `FloatingChatFrame.xml` is our `ChatFrame.xml`,
+    /// That half doubles as the map nothing else holds: `FloatingChatFrame.xml` is our `ChatFrame.xml`,
     /// `MainMenuBarMicroButtons.xml` is our `MicroMenu.xml`, `StaticPopup.xml` is our
     /// `UiPanels.xml`. (The row this map used to lead with — `PlayerFrame.xml`/`TargetFrame.xml`/
     /// `PetFrame.xml` all being our one `UnitFrames.xml` — is retired: those four are the
@@ -2037,11 +2036,6 @@ mod tests {
                  flow works without it",
             ),
             ("ITEM_TEXT_TRANSLATION", "ItemTextFrame.lua"),
-            (
-                "PARTY_MEMBER_DISABLE",
-                "PartyMemberFrame.lua — the offline grey-out",
-            ),
-            ("PARTY_MEMBER_ENABLE", "PartyMemberFrame.lua"),
             ("PET_UI_CLOSE", "PetPaperDollFrame.lua"),
             ("PET_UI_UPDATE", "PetPaperDollFrame.lua"),
             ("PLAYER_DAMAGE_DONE_MODS", "PaperDollFrame.lua"),
@@ -2049,10 +2043,6 @@ mod tests {
                 "PLAYER_FLAGS_CHANGED",
                 "TargetFrame.lua — the AFK/DND badge",
             ),
-            (
-                "PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED",
-                "PlayerFrame.lua — and _DISABLED is unfired too, so the pair is whole",
-            ),
             ("PLAYTIME_CHANGED", "PlayerFrame.lua"),
             ("SHOW_COMPARE_TOOLTIP", "PaperDollFrame.lua"),
             ("SYSMSG", "UIErrorsFrame.lua"),
@@ -2080,47 +2070,59 @@ mod tests {
                 } else if p.extension().is_some_and(|x| x == "rs") {
                     let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&p).unwrap_or_default();
                     // Split so this file cannot match its own walker (see the sibling gate).
-                    const CALL: &str = concat!("fire_event", "(");
-                    let mut from = 0;
+                    // Two producer shapes: `UiScript::fire_event(` and its `&Lua` twin
+                    // `tick::fire_event_into(` (1924), which an engine verb fires from inside a
+                    // binding — `UpdateSpells` → SPELLS_CHANGED, `ChangeActionBarPage` →
+                    // ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED (1938).
+                    const CALLS: [&str; 2] =
+                        [concat!("fire_event", "("), concat!("fire_event_into", "(")];
                     let mut fires_indirectly = false;
-                    while let Some(i) = text[from..].find(CALL) {
-                        let at = from + i + CALL.len();
-                        from = at;
-                        let rest = text[at..].trim_start();
-                        if !rest.starts_with('"') {
-                            // `fire_event(event, args)` — the name reached the call through a
-                            // variable, so adjacency cannot see it. `ui_cast.rs` does exactly
-                            // this: a `match edge` yields `("SPELLCAST_INTERRUPTED", vec![])` and
-                            // one call site fires whatever it produced. Treated below.
-                            fires_indirectly = true;
-                        }
-                        if let Some(body) = rest.strip_prefix('"') {
-                            if let Some(end) = body.find('"') {
-                                fired.insert(body[..end].to_string());
+                    for call in CALLS {
+                        let mut from = 0;
+                        while let Some(i) = text[from..].find(call) {
+                            let at = from + i + call.len();
+                            from = at;
+                            let rest = text[at..].trim_start();
+                            let rest = rest.strip_prefix("lua,").map_or(rest, str::trim_start);
+                            if !rest.starts_with('"') {
+                                fires_indirectly = true;
+                            }
+                            if let Some(body) = rest.strip_prefix('"') {
+                                if let Some(end) = body.find('"') {
+                                    fired.insert(body[..end].to_string());
+                                }
                             }
                         }
                     }
                     if fires_indirectly {
-                        // The name reached `fire_event` through a variable. Rather than guess, we
-                        // match the SHAPE that produced it: `("EVENT_NAME", vec!` — a tuple whose
-                        // second element is the argument vector, which is how `ui_cast.rs`'s
-                        // `match edge` hands a name and its args to one shared call site.
-                        //
-                        // The first attempt at this counted EVERY SCREAMING_CASE literal in such a
-                        // file, and that swept up eighteen names off the UNPRODUCED list — a gate
-                        // made vacuous by its own conservatism, which is the failure mode this
-                        // file has now hit twice. The shape is the discipline: it admits the
-                        // literals that are actually being fired and nothing else.
+                        // An indirect fire names its event either as `"NAME", vec![…]` or as one
+                        // arm of an `if … { "A" } else { "B" }` chosen before the call — a literal
+                        // standing alone on its line (`ui_action/state.rs`'s START/STOP_AUTOREPEAT).
                         const SHAPE: &str = "\", vec!";
+                        let caps = |lit: &str| {
+                            !lit.is_empty()
+                                && lit.chars().all(|c| {
+                                    c.is_ascii_uppercase() || c == '_' || c.is_ascii_digit()
+                                })
+                        };
                         for (i, _) in text.match_indices(SHAPE) {
                             let before = &text[..i];
                             let Some(q) = before.rfind('"') else { continue };
                             let lit = &before[q + 1..];
-                            if !lit.is_empty()
-                                && lit.chars().all(|c| {
-                                    c.is_ascii_uppercase() || c == '_' || c.is_ascii_digit()
-                                })
-                            {
+                            if caps(lit) {
+                                fired.insert(lit.to_string());
+                            }
+                        }
+                        let lines: Vec<&str> = text.lines().map(str::trim).collect();
+                        for (i, t) in lines.iter().enumerate() {
+                            let Some(lit) = t.strip_prefix('"').and_then(|x| x.strip_suffix('"'))
+                            else {
+                                continue;
+                            };
+                            let arm = i > 0
+                                && lines[i - 1].ends_with('{')
+                                && lines.get(i + 1).is_some_and(|n| n.starts_with('}'));
+                            if arm && caps(lit) {
                                 fired.insert(lit.to_string());
                             }
                         }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/resolve_bench.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/resolve_bench.rs
index ead4f06e..ac0e9ccf 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/resolve_bench.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/resolve_bench.rs
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ fn a_hover_sweep_across_owners_costs_no_graph_derivation() {
 ///
 /// The two guards above drive `SetOwner(button, "ANCHOR_RIGHT")` — the bag slot's idiom. The bars
 /// do not use it. With `UberTooltips` at its shipped default of `"1"`, every action button routes
-/// through `GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor` (`ActionBar.xml:510`, and the stance/pet/bonus bars the
+/// through `GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor` (stock `ActionButton_SetTooltip`, and the stance/pet/bonus bars the
 /// same), which is `SetOwner(owner, "ANCHOR_NONE")` followed by an explicit `SetPoint` — a
 /// completely different arm of the same verb, and the one that DROPS the tooltip's anchors.
 ///
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
index 41b5706d..12e32535 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ fn a_cinematic_leaves_nothing_of_the_interface_on_screen() {
     // The sweep is only worth anything if there was something to hide in the first place.
     let before = names.iter().filter(|n| visible(&s, n)).count();
     assert!(
-        before > 50,
+        before > 20, // 50 until 1938 took the three bar files (and their visible frames) stock
         "only {before} frames visible before the cinematic — the sweep found no interface to \
          hide, so it would pass no matter what the cascade did"
     );
@@ -1350,7 +1350,7 @@ fn every_declared_parent_really_attaches() {
 
     let declared = shipped_frame_parents();
     assert!(
-        declared.len() > 60,
+        declared.len() > 30, // 67 before 1938 took the three bar files (25 of them) stock
         "only {} parent declarations found — the scan broke",
         declared.len()
     );
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/spellbook_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/spellbook_tests.rs
index 77e86a62..9a5181ef 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/spellbook_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/spellbook_tests.rs
@@ -127,7 +127,13 @@ fn shipped_spellbook_drives_end_to_end() {
     load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
     // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
     // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
     // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
@@ -203,6 +209,14 @@ fn shipped_spellbook_drives_end_to_end() {
     // (`cursor::bar::place_action`) a bar-to-bar drag uses: a plain click on an action button
     // routes through UseAction's checkCursor=1 fork to a place. Packs kind 0x00 (SPELL, decision
     // 0216 §1) with the spell id — `action_sets` is the app's own CMSG_SET_ACTION_BUTTON queue.
+    // An EMPTY main-bar slot is hidden under the reference (ActionButton.lua:69-70) until a held
+    // payload opens the grid: the engine derives ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID from the cursor's edge and
+    // fires it on the next tick, as the app ticks between any two mouse events.
+    s.tick(0.016);
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return ActionButton1:IsVisible()").unwrap(),
+        "the held spell opened the empty well"
+    );
     let (ax, ay) = center(&s, "ActionButton1");
     s.mouse_button(ax, ay, "LeftButton", true);
     s.mouse_button(ax, ay, "LeftButton", false);
@@ -684,7 +698,12 @@ fn the_macro_editor_takes_a_shift_click_and_only_a_shift_click() {
         r"Interface\FrameXML\ClassTrainerFrameTemplates.xml",
         "MicroMenu.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         // The reference declares the reputation WATCH BAR in `ReputationFrame.xml`, and
         // `ExhaustionTick_Update` reads `ReputationWatchBar:IsShown()` twice — the reference's own
         // coupling of MainMenuBar to that pane. So an action-bar harness loads it, and with it the
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/target_aura_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/target_aura_tests.rs
index 7cc6d33c..b8ea088e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/target_aura_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/target_aura_tests.rs
@@ -25,10 +25,15 @@ fn harness() -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml"); // the unit popups' kit (TargetFrameDropDown's template)
     load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ActionBar.xml"); // BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON
-                                   // Before UnitPopup: that file reads ITEM_QUALITY_COLORS at FILE SCOPE, and its
-                                   // declarer is UIParent (ref UIParent.lua:65) since 1888.
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml"); // BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON
+                                                                  // Before UnitPopup: that file reads ITEM_QUALITY_COLORS at FILE SCOPE, and its
+                                                                  // declarer is UIParent (ref UIParent.lua:65) since 1888.
     load_xml(&s, "UnitPopup.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
index ba503e94..6f4d83e9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ pub(super) const LOOT_UI: &[&str] = &[
 ///   so `UnitFrame.xml` and `CombatFeedback.xml` come first — the reference's own toc order.
 ///   (This entry used to be our one `UnitFrames.xml`, and this note used to say "when they are
 ///   migrated, this becomes the stock pair". They are; it did.)
-/// * **`ActionBar.xml`** for `MainMenuExpBar` — the third bar of that prefix call — and for
+/// * **`Interface\FrameXML\MainMenuBar.xml`** for `MainMenuExpBar` — the third bar of that prefix call — and for
 ///   `ShowWatchedReputationBarText` / `HideWatchedReputationBarText`, which the window's
 ///   show/hide pair calls.
 /// * **`UIPanelTemplates.xml`** for `PanelTemplates_SetNumTabs`/`_SetTab`, the last two lines of
@@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ pub(super) const CHARACTER_UI: &[&str] = &[
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\PartyFrameTemplates.xml",
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\PetFrame.xml",
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-    "ActionBar.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
     "MicroMenu.xml",
     // The two page files these three need before the window can be OPENED, which is not the same
     // as before it can load: `CHARACTERFRAME_SUBFRAMES` lists all five pages by name and
@@ -315,7 +317,11 @@ pub(super) const BAG_UI: &[&str] = &[
     // six buttons fall back to UIParent and sit at a level no production run ever puts them at.
     // It also carries `MainMenuBar_UpdateKeyRing`, which is what puts the keyring on the bar.
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-    "ActionBar.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
     // `UpdateMicroButtons` — the KEYRING's own OnShow/OnHide calls it (ContainerFrame.lua l.117,
     // l.137), because in the reference the keyring's existence moves the micro-button row.
     "MicroMenu.xml",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
index 908126f7..6714c50c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
@@ -231,10 +231,20 @@ fn action_button_hover_takes_the_default_corner() {
     let mut s = harness(&[
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
+        "UIParent.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
     ]);
     s.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnEnter(ActionButton3)").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = ActionButton3 ActionButton_SetTooltip()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "hover errors: {:?}", s.errors());
     let ok: bool = s
         .eval(
@@ -264,8 +274,25 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_action_bar_plates_beside_the_button() {
     let mut s = harness(&[
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
-        "MultiBars.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
+        "UIParent.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "UiPanels.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml",
+        "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+        "OptionsFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
     ]);
     s.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     s.set_cvar_engine("UberTooltips", "0");
@@ -278,7 +305,8 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_action_bar_plates_beside_the_button() {
         .unwrap()
     };
 
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnEnter(ActionButton3)").unwrap();
+    s.run("this = ActionButton3 ActionButton_SetTooltip()")
+        .unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.eval::<bool>("return GameTooltip.default == nil").unwrap(),
         "off: the main bar's plate is owner-anchored, not the default corner"
@@ -297,7 +325,7 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_action_bar_plates_beside_the_button() {
     // All three members of the ref's LEFT set, by frame — membership is not gated on visibility,
     // and the two vertical bars are hidden until their option is ticked.
     for bar in ["MultiBarBottomRight", "MultiBarRight", "MultiBarLeft"] {
-        s.run(&format!("BenillaActionButton_OnEnter({bar}Button1)"))
+        s.run(&format!("this = {bar}Button1 ActionButton_SetTooltip()"))
             .unwrap();
         assert_eq!(
             seat(&s),
@@ -308,7 +336,7 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_action_bar_plates_beside_the_button() {
 
     // And the CVar back on restores the corner — the fork is a fork, not a one-way door.
     s.set_cvar_engine("UberTooltips", "1");
-    s.run("BenillaActionButton_OnEnter(MultiBarBottomRightButton1)")
+    s.run("this = MultiBarBottomRightButton1 ActionButton_SetTooltip()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.eval::<bool>("return GameTooltip.default ~= nil").unwrap(),
@@ -326,8 +354,18 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_stance_plates_beside_the_button() {
     let mut s = harness(&[
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
-        "StanceBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
+        "UIParent.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
     ]);
     s.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     s.set_shapeshift_forms(vec![benilla_ui::script::ShapeshiftFormView {
@@ -341,7 +379,7 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_stance_plates_beside_the_button() {
     s.fire_event("UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS", vec![]);
     s.resolve();
 
-    s.run("BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnEnter(ShapeshiftButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ShapeshiftButton1 ShapeshiftButton1:GetScript(\"OnEnter\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.eval::<bool>("return GameTooltip.default ~= nil").unwrap(),
@@ -349,7 +387,7 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_stance_plates_beside_the_button() {
     );
 
     s.set_cvar_engine("UberTooltips", "0");
-    s.run("BenillaShapeshiftButton_OnEnter(ShapeshiftButton1)")
+    s.run("this = ShapeshiftButton1 ShapeshiftButton1:GetScript(\"OnEnter\")()")
         .unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<String>(
@@ -371,7 +409,16 @@ fn buff_hover_hangs_below_left_of_the_button() {
     let mut s = harness(&[
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
+        "UIParent.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\BuffFrame.xml",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
index 808635c5..c4381e08 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ fn harness_with_bags() -> UiScript {
 fn seed_items(s: &mut UiScript) {
     let mut inv: InventorySlots = Default::default();
     inv[1] = Some(InvSlotView {
+        duration_ms: None,
         already_bound: false,
         bar_placeable: true,
         durability: None,
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ fn seed_items(s: &mut UiScript) {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
@@ -308,6 +310,7 @@ fn doll_hover_renders_the_live_instance_and_never_self_compares() {
     // Break the equipped helm: instance pair (0, 40); the template stays authored-full.
     let mut inv: InventorySlots = Default::default();
     inv[1] = Some(InvSlotView {
+        duration_ms: None,
         already_bound: false,
         bar_placeable: true,
         durability: Some((0, 40)),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tot_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tot_frame_tests.rs
index 3ff26519..91da0303 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tot_frame_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tot_frame_tests.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,12 @@ fn load_tot() -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "UnitPopup.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Cooldown.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ActionBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\BuffFrame.xml");
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs
index 20f4ebd8..8a03bf8e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs
@@ -483,7 +483,10 @@ fn load_pet_menu_frames(s: &UiScript) {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\PetFrame.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
-        "ActionBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
         "PetActionBar.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(s, file);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_shapeshift.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_shapeshift.rs
index 6667e10a..8fe25afe 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_shapeshift.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_shapeshift.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 //! The refresh model is one diff-and-fire: the feed rebuilds the pushed list each frame
 //! (identity, active, castable, cooldown) and fires `UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS` on any change — the
 //! real client's learn/unlearn edge (`0x5e9c20`/`0x5e9fe0`) plus its separate per-state repaint events
-//! collapse into one, which `StanceBar.xml` documents as its deliberate divergence. Cooldown
+//! collapse into one (our `StanceBar.xml` documented that as its deliberate divergence; since 1938 the
+//! stock shapeshift bar registers the reference's six events, and this one event drives them all). Cooldown
 //! remainders re-push only on a [`Cooldowns::generation`] change (`state.rs`'s own churn gate) —
 //! the engine extrapolates the sweep from the absolute start between pushes.
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tradeskill.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tradeskill.rs
index e5237e47..b8f7f05b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tradeskill.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tradeskill.rs
@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@
 //! Craft-vs-TradeSkill routing are all byte-confirmed. **The header law landed too:** rows group
 //! by the created item's `(ItemClass, ItemSubClass)`, named from `ItemSubClass.dbc`, two-level
 //! sort (0446; the filter family on top of it, 0452) — this feed resolves each recipe's `group`
-//! ([`resolve_recipe`]), so the book is no longer flat. Remaining gap: the spell-focus tool never
-//! rendered red (no client-side proximity model — the server refuses the cast).
+//! ([`resolve_recipe`]), so the book is no longer flat. The spell-focus tool never renders red, and
+//! that is **faithful, not a gap** (wow-re `tradeskill-tools-and-spell-focus.md`, §5-carved): the
+//! reference's own `hasTool` for a focus is the literal `1.0` with no predicate anywhere, and the
+//! client holds neither a focus id nor a radius to test proximity with. The server refusing the
+//! cast is the whole of the feedback, there as here.
 
 use std::time::Instant;
 
@@ -310,20 +313,35 @@ fn resolve_recipe(
         .flatten()
         .map_or((None, 0, 0), |(g, it, il)| (Some(g), it, il));
 
-    // Tools: the two totem items (present-not-consumed — a Blacksmith Hammer) + the spell focus
-    // (Anvil/Forge/Cooking Fire; never red — module doc INTERIM).
+    // Tools — **the spell FOCUS first, then `Totem[0]`, then `Totem[1]`** (wow-re
+    // `tradeskill/scratch/tradeskill-tools-and-spell-focus.md`, §5-carved: `0x4ff980`'s own push
+    // order). We had the totems leading, which reverses the Requirements line for every recipe
+    // that needs both — a Blacksmithing anvil recipe reads "Blacksmith Hammer, Anvil" instead of
+    // "Anvil, Blacksmith Hammer".
+    //
+    // **The focus is unconditionally satisfied, and that is VERIFIED rather than a gap.** Its
+    // `hasTool` is the instruction immediate `push 0x3ff00000 / push 0` — the literal `1.0`, with
+    // no predicate at all: an exhaustive absence (17 calls, 7 absolute operands, **zero FPU**;
+    // `SpellRec+0x3c` has exactly two readers image-wide; the GameObject descriptor block carries
+    // no focus id or radius, so the client could not test proximity even if it wanted to). The
+    // reference NEVER reddens an Anvil line. `BuildColoredListString` is still byte-faithful and
+    // still reds an unmet TOTEM — that half is live.
+    //
+    // A tool whose template has not landed contributes **no pair at all** (the reference drops it
+    // and fires `CMSG_ITEM_QUERY_SINGLE`, so the arity grows between calls) — which is what the
+    // `if let Some(info)` below already does, for the same reason.
     let mut tools = Vec::new();
+    if d.requires_spell_focus != 0 {
+        if let Some(name) = focus.and_then(|f| f.catalog.name(d.requires_spell_focus)) {
+            tools.push((name.to_string(), true));
+        }
+    }
     for &t in d.totems.iter().filter(|&&t| t != 0) {
         let have = count_of(&store.0, items, t, InventoryScope::CARRIED) > 0;
         if let Some(info) = items.template(t, 0, commands) {
             tools.push((info.name.clone(), have));
         }
     }
-    if d.requires_spell_focus != 0 {
-        if let Some(name) = focus.and_then(|f| f.catalog.name(d.requires_spell_focus)) {
-            tools.push((name.to_string(), true));
-        }
-    }
 
     let cd = cooldowns.info(spell_id, 0, Some(d), now);
     Some(TradeSkillRecipe {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-assets/src/adt.rs b/crates/benilla-assets/src/adt.rs
index 7e435d9f..4db73573 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-assets/src/adt.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-assets/src/adt.rs
@@ -110,38 +110,62 @@ impl Default for ChunkShading {
 ///
 /// Returns `None` for a chunk the hole mask emptied (it draws nothing: no mesh, no entity).
 pub fn chunk_to_mesh(chunk: &ChunkMesh, shading: &ChunkShading) -> Option<Mesh> {
-    if chunk.indices.len() < 3 {
+    chunks_to_mesh(&[(chunk, shading)])
+}
+
+/// [`chunk_to_mesh`] over several chunks of ONE tile as one mesh — the terrain CELL (decision
+/// 1944): every per-chunk fact the shader reads (the layer indices, the alpha/shadow slot) is
+/// already baked per vertex, and a tile's chunks share its material, so concatenating them
+/// changes nothing a pixel can see and turns sixteen draws into one. Positions are absolute,
+/// so no per-chunk transform is folded. A hole-emptied chunk contributes nothing; a cell of
+/// nothing but holes is `None`.
+pub fn chunks_to_mesh(parts: &[(&ChunkMesh, &ChunkShading)]) -> Option<Mesh> {
+    let live: Vec<&(&ChunkMesh, &ChunkShading)> =
+        parts.iter().filter(|(c, _)| c.indices.len() >= 3).collect();
+    if live.is_empty() {
         return None;
     }
-    let positions: Vec<[f32; 3]> = chunk
-        .positions
-        .iter()
-        .map(|p| wow_to_bevy(*p).to_array())
-        .collect();
-    // Prefer authored MCNR normals (continuous across MCNK borders — no seams); else flat.
-    let normals: Vec<[f32; 3]> = if chunk.normals.len() == chunk.positions.len() {
-        chunk
-            .normals
+    let total: usize = live.iter().map(|(c, _)| c.positions.len()).sum();
+    let mut positions: Vec<[f32; 3]> = Vec::with_capacity(total);
+    let mut normals: Vec<[f32; 3]> = Vec::with_capacity(total);
+    let mut uvs: Vec<[f32; 2]> = Vec::with_capacity(total);
+    let mut uv1: Vec<[f32; 2]> = Vec::with_capacity(total);
+    let mut colors: Vec<[f32; 4]> = Vec::with_capacity(total);
+    let mut indices: Vec<u32> = Vec::with_capacity(live.iter().map(|(c, _)| c.indices.len()).sum());
+    for (chunk, shading) in live {
+        let base = u32::try_from(positions.len()).expect("a cell's vertex count fits u32");
+        let chunk_positions: Vec<[f32; 3]> = chunk
+            .positions
             .iter()
-            .map(|n| wow_to_bevy(*n).to_array())
-            .collect()
-    } else {
-        computed_normals(&positions, &chunk.indices)
-    };
-    let li = shading.layers;
-    let col = [li[0] as f32, li[1] as f32, li[2] as f32, li[3] as f32];
-    let uv1 = [shading.alpha as f32, shading.shadow];
-    let n = positions.len();
+            .map(|p| wow_to_bevy(*p).to_array())
+            .collect();
+        if chunk.normals.len() == chunk.positions.len() {
+            normals.extend(chunk.normals.iter().map(|n| wow_to_bevy(*n).to_array()));
+        } else {
+            normals.extend(computed_normals(&chunk_positions, &chunk.indices));
+        }
+        let li = shading.layers;
+        let col = [li[0] as f32, li[1] as f32, li[2] as f32, li[3] as f32];
+        let n = chunk_positions.len();
+        uv1.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(
+            [shading.alpha as f32, shading.shadow],
+            n,
+        ));
+        colors.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(col, n));
+        uvs.extend_from_slice(&chunk.uvs);
+        indices.extend(chunk.indices.iter().map(|i| i + base));
+        positions.extend(chunk_positions);
+    }
     let mut mesh = Mesh::new(
         PrimitiveTopology::TriangleList,
         RenderAssetUsages::RENDER_WORLD,
     );
     mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION, positions);
     mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, normals);
-    mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0, chunk.uvs.clone());
-    mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_1, vec![uv1; n]);
-    mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_COLOR, vec![col; n]);
-    mesh.insert_indices(Indices::U32(chunk.indices.clone()));
+    mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0, uvs);
+    mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_1, uv1);
+    mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_COLOR, colors);
+    mesh.insert_indices(Indices::U32(indices));
     Some(mesh)
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-assets/src/lib.rs b/crates/benilla-assets/src/lib.rs
index 57abaedd..12823ff2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-assets/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-assets/src/lib.rs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ pub use model::{
 mod adt;
 mod terrain;
 mod wdt;
-pub use adt::{chunk_to_mesh, AdtLoader, AdtTile, ChunkShading};
+pub use adt::{chunk_to_mesh, chunks_to_mesh, AdtLoader, AdtTile, ChunkShading};
 pub use wdt::{WdtIndex, WdtIndexLoader};
 mod blp;
 pub use blp::{BlpImageLoader, BlpLoaderSettings, BlpVariant};
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs
index c185b3fc..02be54f5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs
@@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ pub use skill_lines::{
     load_skill_line_catalog, SkillLineCatalog, SkillLineInfo, SkillRaceClass, SlaInfo,
 };
 mod spell_focus;
+mod spell_mechanic;
 pub use spell_focus::{load_spell_focus_catalog, SpellFocusCatalog};
+pub use spell_mechanic::{load_spell_mechanic_catalog, SpellMechanicCatalog};
 mod talents;
 pub use talents::{load_talent_catalog, Talent, TalentCatalog, TalentTabInfo, MAX_TALENT_RANK};
 mod spell_visual;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spell_mechanic.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spell_mechanic.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aa474587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spell_mechanic.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+//! SpellMechanic.dbc — the vocabulary that fills `SPELL_FAILED_PREVENTED_BY_MECHANIC`'s `%s`,
+//! turning "Can't do that while %s" into "Can't do that while stunned" (decision 1948).
+//!
+//! It is the crowd-control ladder's other half: the exemption scan (decision 1941) reports the
+//! blocking aura's mechanic as an **id**, and this names it. Without the table the arm's refusal
+//! displayed its template with the specifier unfilled, which is the loose end 1941 recorded.
+//!
+//! The reference reads the same store (`0xc0d7c4`) from `0x6e2190`, the `0x8d` argument arm
+//! (wow-re `cast-fail-strings.md` line 120).
+//!
+//! Layout byte-checked on the raw 5875 file (a struct-unpack dump: **27 records × 10 fields,
+//! record size 40**, string block 246) — the same shape as `SpellFocusObject.dbc`: `ID@0` · the
+//! 8-locale `Name` block (enUS first ⇒ **Name = column 1**) · its flags word (9). Anchor rows:
+//! 5 "fleeing" · 7 "rooted" · 12 "stunned" · 17 "polymorphed".
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use benilla_dbc::{FieldType, Schema, SchemaField};
+
+use crate::dbc::{parse, str_at, u32_at};
+use crate::Chain;
+
+const SPELL_MECHANIC: &str = "DBFilesClient\\SpellMechanic.dbc";
+const SPELL_MECHANIC_FIELDS: usize = 10;
+const COL_NAME_ENUS: usize = 1;
+
+/// `SpellMechanic.Id → Name` — the "Can't do that while stunned" vocabulary.
+///
+/// The names are **lower-case and adjectival** in the shipped data ("stunned", "asleep",
+/// "polymorphed"), which is what makes them read as the tail of that sentence rather than as a
+/// title. Nothing here capitalises them; the reference does not either.
+pub struct SpellMechanicCatalog {
+    names: HashMap<u32, String>,
+}
+
+impl SpellMechanicCatalog {
+    /// The display name for a mechanic id, or `None` for 0/unknown — which is exactly the case
+    /// the refusal treats as "no mechanic named", falling back to the arm's own reason.
+    pub fn name(&self, mechanic_id: u32) -> Option<&str> {
+        self.names.get(&mechanic_id).map(String::as_str)
+    }
+
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.names.len()
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.names.is_empty()
+    }
+}
+
+fn schema() -> Schema {
+    let mut s = Schema::new("SpellMechanic");
+    for i in 0..SPELL_MECHANIC_FIELDS {
+        let ty = if i == COL_NAME_ENUS {
+            FieldType::String
+        } else {
+            FieldType::UInt32
+        };
+        s.add_field(SchemaField::new(format!("F{i}"), ty));
+    }
+    s
+}
+
+/// Load SpellMechanic.dbc from the patch chain into a [`SpellMechanicCatalog`].
+pub fn load_spell_mechanic_catalog(chain: &mut Chain) -> Result<SpellMechanicCatalog> {
+    let bytes = chain
+        .read_file(SPELL_MECHANIC)
+        .with_context(|| format!("reading {SPELL_MECHANIC}"))?;
+    let rs = parse(&bytes, schema(), "SpellMechanic.dbc")?;
+    let mut names = HashMap::new();
+    for r in rs.records() {
+        let Some(id) = u32_at(r, 0) else { continue };
+        if let Some(name) = str_at(&rs, r, COL_NAME_ENUS) {
+            names.insert(id, name);
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(SpellMechanicCatalog { names })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The rows the crowd-control ladder actually names, on the real build-5875 file. A column
+    /// slip lands on another locale or the flags word and fails loudly. Skips without client data.
+    ///
+    /// The four ids here are the ones decision 1941's arms can report, cross-checked against the
+    /// `Spell.dbc` mechanic columns pinned in `spell_catalog`: Fear's `Mechanic` is 5, Frost Nova's
+    /// `EffectMechanic[1]` is 7, Polymorph's is 17.
+    #[test]
+    fn real_spell_mechanic_names_the_crowd_control_rows() {
+        let data = crate::wow_data_or_skip!();
+        let mut chain = crate::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
+        let cat = load_spell_mechanic_catalog(&mut chain).expect("load SpellMechanic.dbc");
+
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(5), Some("fleeing"));
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(7), Some("rooted"));
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(11), Some("ensnared"));
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(12), Some("stunned"));
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(17), Some("polymorphed"));
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(0), None, "0 = no mechanic, and no line to fill");
+        assert_eq!(cat.name(999), None);
+        assert_eq!(cat.len(), 27, "the 5875 file's full row count");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs
index 49fab93c..5f7ee172 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs
@@ -346,8 +346,21 @@ pub enum SessionEvent {
     /// `[start, …waypoints…, endpoint]` — at constant (arc-length) speed over `duration_ms`. Every
     /// waypoint is carried, so a curved patrol reads as its real path, not a straight `start → endpoint`
     /// shortcut. A `Stop` / zero-duration / <2-point move clears the path (`path` empty).
+    /// `MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` — an observed mover reported that its own client skipped `lag_ms`
+    /// of movement simulation. **Not a pose**: nothing about where the unit is has changed, only
+    /// how far its clock has run. The app advances that mover's relay-chain wire stamp by it, the
+    /// reference's `[CMovement+0xac] += lag` (`0x603b40` → `0x601560` → `0x61ab90`). Ignoring it
+    /// leaves our copy of the chain permanently short, so the mover's next real packet reads as a
+    /// step `lag` too large and is scheduled that much late. Decision 1935.
+    MoveTimeSkipped { guid: u64, lag_ms: u32 },
     MonsterMove {
         guid: u64,
+        /// `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` only: the transport whose frame `start` and every `path`
+        /// point are expressed in — deck-local offsets, composed through the transport's live pose
+        /// rather than read as world coordinates. `None` = the ordinary absolute path. A packet
+        /// naming a transport is also the *attach* signal: the unit rides that deck from here
+        /// (decision 1936).
+        transport: Option<u64>,
         start: [f32; 3],
         /// The server's per-move spline counter — echoed in `CMSG_MOVE_SPLINE_DONE` when this spline
         /// drives our own player (Charge/knockback/taxi); ignored for a creature's walk.
@@ -361,6 +374,8 @@ pub enum SessionEvent {
         duration_ms: u32,
         /// `true` ⇒ a 3-D flight path (keep the spline's Z); `false` ⇒ a ground walk whose Z the app
         /// re-derives from the terrain under the unit (see the renderer's creature ground-clamp).
+        /// The re-derive is world-space and so does not apply to a `transport` path: there is no
+        /// terrain under a deck, and the wire Z is already the deck-local height (decision 1936).
         flying: bool,
         /// `SPLINEFLAG_RUNMODE` — the path is travelled at run speed. Its **absence** forces
         /// `MOVEFLAG_WALK_MODE` on for the unit the spline moves (decision 1758).
@@ -777,6 +792,13 @@ pub enum SessionEvent {
     },
     /// Put an item instance on the client's fixed 30 s use cooldown (`SMSG_ITEM_COOLDOWN`).
     ItemCooldown { item_guid: u64, spell_id: u32 },
+    /// `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` — the seconds left on one duration-limited item instance (a
+    /// conjured stone, a holiday gift, a timed quest item). The item's own `ITEM_FIELD_DURATION`
+    /// carries the same number and is sent to the owner, but vmangos's writer says outright that
+    /// the field is not what the client displays from (`Item::SendTimeUpdate`,
+    /// `Objects/Item.cpp:1094`) — same shape as the enchant countdown (decision 0920).
+    /// `seconds == 0` = expired / no timer. Decision 1933.
+    ItemTime { item_guid: u64, seconds: u32 },
     /// `SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE` — the seconds left on one item's TEMPORARY enchant, in the
     /// named enchant slot. The **only** feed for the tooltip's countdown: the item's own
     /// `ITEM_FIELD_ENCHANTMENT` duration field is never read for it (wow-re
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs
index e4631a0d..b3d79e39 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs
@@ -257,6 +257,9 @@ pub fn decode(packet: ServerPacket) -> Vec<SessionEvent> {
             item_guid,
             spell_id,
         }],
+        ServerPacket::ItemTime { item_guid, seconds } => {
+            vec![SessionEvent::ItemTime { item_guid, seconds }]
+        }
         ServerPacket::ItemEnchantTime {
             item_guid,
             slot,
@@ -640,8 +643,12 @@ pub fn decode(packet: ServerPacket) -> Vec<SessionEvent> {
         ServerPacket::TriggerCinematic { cinematic_id } => {
             vec![SessionEvent::CinematicTriggered { cinematic_id }]
         }
+        ServerPacket::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms } => {
+            vec![SessionEvent::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms }]
+        }
         ServerPacket::MonsterMove {
             guid,
+            transport,
             start,
             spline_id,
             path,
@@ -652,6 +659,7 @@ pub fn decode(packet: ServerPacket) -> Vec<SessionEvent> {
             run_mode,
         } => vec![SessionEvent::MonsterMove {
             guid,
+            transport,
             start: v3(start),
             spline_id,
             path: path.into_iter().map(v3).collect(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/client.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/client.rs
index 2ac0e55d..ba10ccbc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/client.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/client.rs
@@ -283,6 +283,19 @@ pub fn movement(info: &MovementInfo) -> Vec<u8> {
     body
 }
 
+/// Body of `CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` (client): the mover's **full 8-byte** guid then the skipped
+/// milliseconds (vmangos `MoveTimeSkipped::ReadFromWorldPacket`, `Server/Packets/Movement.cpp:10-14`
+/// — `recv_data >> guid` is `ObjectGuid`'s plain `read<uint64>`, `ObjectGuid.cpp:180`, not the
+/// packed reader `PackedGuidReader` takes). Note the asymmetry with the server's own relay of the
+/// same fact, `MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`, which writes `GetPackGUID()` (`MovementHandler.cpp:1014`):
+/// inbound is full, outbound is packed.
+pub fn move_time_skipped(guid: u64, lag_ms: u32) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut body = Vec::with_capacity(12);
+    body.extend_from_slice(&guid.to_le_bytes());
+    body.extend_from_slice(&lag_ms.to_le_bytes());
+    body
+}
+
 /// Body of `CMSG_MOVE_SPLINE_DONE` (client): the `MovementInfo` at the ride's endpoint, the
 /// `spline_id` being acknowledged (matched against the server's newest spline for our mover), and a
 /// trailing float the server reads-and-discards (`MoveSplineDone::ReadFromWorldPacket` does an
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/items.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/items.rs
index 17a8948d..4769d986 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/items.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/items.rs
@@ -247,12 +247,25 @@ impl ItemInfo {
     ///
     /// It is a separate predicate from [`Self::opens_loot`] because it sits at a different point
     /// in the dispatcher's order — *before* the quest-starter and readable arms, where the loot
-    /// arm sits after them. A wrapper template whose instance is no longer wrapped takes the
-    /// begin-wrap cursor path instead (local, no packet; not built yet).
+    /// arm sits after them. A wrapper template whose instance is *not* wrapped takes the
+    /// begin-wrap cursor path instead ([`Self::begins_gift_wrap`]) — local, no packet.
     pub fn unwraps_gift(&self, instance_flags: u32) -> bool {
         self.flags & ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER != 0 && instance_flags & ITEM_DYNFLAG_WRAPPED != 0
     }
 
+    /// Does a right-click on this instance **arm the gift-wrap cursor**? The *other* side of the
+    /// same fork [`Self::unwraps_gift`] tests (`0x5d8d00` arm 2): template [`ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER`]
+    /// with the instance's [`ITEM_DYNFLAG_WRAPPED`] **clear** — a piece of wrapping paper rather
+    /// than a wrapped present.
+    ///
+    /// **Nothing is sent on this click.** `0x5d8dba` calls `0x5edea0`, whose only three acts are
+    /// `LockItem 0x4953e0` on the paper, `SetCursorBaseMode(2)` and `CursorSetMode(2)` — a purely
+    /// local arm (wow-re `object-layer/scratch/gift-wrap-law.md`, §5-carved). What completes it is
+    /// the next **left**-click on a container slot, which sends [`wrap_item`]. Decision 1934.
+    pub fn begins_gift_wrap(&self, instance_flags: u32) -> bool {
+        self.flags & ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER != 0 && instance_flags & ITEM_DYNFLAG_WRAPPED == 0
+    }
+
     /// Does a right-click on this template send `CMSG_OPEN_ITEM` to **loot it open**? The
     /// reference's arm #8 (`0x5d8f7c: test al,4` → the `0x5edc80` emitter): a **bare** template
     /// [`ITEM_FLAG_LOOTABLE`] test.
@@ -663,6 +676,21 @@ pub fn open_item(bag_index: u8, slot: u8) -> Vec<u8> {
     vec![bag_index, slot]
 }
 
+/// Body of `CMSG_WRAP_ITEM` (VERIFIED vmangos `WrapItem::ReadFromWorldPacket`,
+/// `Server/Packets/Item.cpp:121-127` + `.h:191-201`; opcode 467 `Opcodes_1_12_1.h:468`):
+/// `giftBag`, `giftSlot`, `itemBag`, `itemSlot` — all `uint8`, the **paper's** position first and
+/// the target's second, the same bag addressing as [`use_item`].
+///
+/// The server refuses every ineligible target with an `EQUIP_ERR_*` of its own
+/// (`HandleWrapItemOpcode`: equipped, a bag, soulbound, stackable, unique, already wrapped, or
+/// mid-cast) — so a refusal reaches the player as an `SMSG_INVENTORY_CHANGE_FAILURE` line, not as
+/// a silently eaten click. On success the *target* item keeps its guid and takes the paper's
+/// `WrappedGift` entry, gains `ITEM_FIELD_GIFTCREATOR` and `ITEM_DYNFLAG_WRAPPED`, and one paper
+/// is destroyed — all as ordinary field updates, no answering packet of its own.
+pub fn wrap_item(gift_bag: u8, gift_slot: u8, item_bag: u8, item_slot: u8) -> Vec<u8> {
+    vec![gift_bag, gift_slot, item_bag, item_slot]
+}
+
 /// Body of `CMSG_AUTOEQUIP_ITEM` (VERIFIED vmangos `AutoEquipItem::ReadFromWorldPacket`,
 /// `Server/Packets/Item.cpp:17-21` + `.h:31-39`; opcode 266 `Opcodes_1_12_1.h:269`): source
 /// `srcbag`/`srcslot` (both `uint8`), the same bag addressing as [`use_item`]. The real client
@@ -760,6 +788,21 @@ pub(super) fn read_inventory_change_failure(
     Ok((reason, required_level, item_guid, bag_slot))
 }
 
+/// Read `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` (VERIFIED vmangos `Item::SendTimeUpdate`,
+/// `Objects/Item.cpp:1096-1106`): the item guid, then the remaining **seconds**
+/// (`ITEM_FIELD_DURATION`, which vmangos counts down in seconds — `Item::UpdateDuration`,
+/// `Item.cpp:243-257`). No trailing player guid on this one, unlike its enchant sibling: the
+/// packet is `(8 + 4)` bytes and vmangos sizes it exactly so.
+///
+/// Sent on world enter for every carried duration item (`Player::SendItemDurations`,
+/// `Player.cpp:12007`) and again whenever one is created or its duration changes
+/// (`Player.cpp:19782-19785`).
+pub(super) fn read_item_time(r: &mut &[u8]) -> io::Result<(u64, u32)> {
+    let item_guid = read_u64_le(r)?;
+    let seconds = read_u32_le(r)?;
+    Ok((item_guid, seconds))
+}
+
 /// Read `SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE` (VERIFIED vmangos
 /// `WorldPackets::Item::ItemEnchantTimeUpdate::AppendBodyTo`, `Server/Packets/Item.cpp:161-169`):
 /// item guid, enchant **slot**, remaining **seconds**, then the owning player's guid (present from
@@ -792,6 +835,12 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(auto_equip_item(255, 30), vec![255, 30]);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn wrap_item_body_paper_first() {
+        // 467: giftbag, giftslot, itembag, itemslot (Item.cpp:121-127) — the PAPER's pair leads.
+        assert_eq!(wrap_item(255, 23, 255, 24), vec![255, 23, 255, 24]);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn auto_store_bag_item_body() {
         // 267: srcbag, srcslot, dstbag (Item.cpp:23-28).
@@ -878,6 +927,22 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(r.len(), 8);
     }
 
+    /// `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE`'s body: guid then seconds, and **nothing after** — the enchant
+    /// twin's trailing player guid is not on this packet (vmangos sizes it `8 + 4`). Pinned
+    /// because the two share a handler and it would be easy to copy the wrong tail.
+    #[test]
+    fn item_time_reads_guid_then_seconds() {
+        let mut buf = Vec::new();
+        buf.extend_from_slice(&0x4000_0000_0000_00f7u64.to_le_bytes()); // itemGuid
+        buf.extend_from_slice(&1800u32.to_le_bytes()); // seconds
+        let mut r = &buf[..];
+        assert_eq!(
+            read_item_time(&mut r).unwrap(),
+            (0x4000_0000_0000_00f7, 1800)
+        );
+        assert!(r.is_empty(), "the body is exactly 12 bytes");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn inventory_failure_nonlevel_branch_has_no_u32() {
         // Any failed reason != 1 skips requiredLevel: item1Guid u64, item2Guid u64, bagSlot u8.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs
index bc1c71b9..34c9e627 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ pub use client::{
     channel_set_owner, channel_unban, channel_unmoderator, channel_unmute, char_create,
     creature_query, force_speed_ack, full_guid, join_channel, knock_back_ack, leave_channel,
     messagechat, messagechat_channel, messagechat_kind, messagechat_whisper, move_flag_ack,
-    move_spline_done, movement, pet_name_query, ping, played_time, query_time, random_roll,
-    teleport_ack, text_emote,
+    move_spline_done, move_time_skipped, movement, pet_name_query, ping, played_time, query_time,
+    random_roll, teleport_ack, text_emote,
 };
 pub use combat_log::{
     DamageShield, DispelFailed, EnchantmentLog, EnvironmentalDamageLog, ExecuteLog, PartyKillLog,
@@ -150,9 +150,9 @@ pub use instance::{
 };
 pub use items::{
     auto_equip_item, auto_store_bag_item, destroy_item, item_query, open_item, set_ammo,
-    split_item, swap_inv_item, swap_item, use_item, ItemDamage, ItemInfo, ItemSpellEntry,
-    ItemUseSpell, UseItemTarget, BAG_PLAYER_INVENTORY, ITEM_DYNFLAG_UNLOCKED, ITEM_DYNFLAG_WRAPPED,
-    ITEM_FLAG_LOOTABLE, ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER, SLOT_BAG_FIRST, SLOT_PACK_FIRST,
+    split_item, swap_inv_item, swap_item, use_item, wrap_item, ItemDamage, ItemInfo,
+    ItemSpellEntry, ItemUseSpell, UseItemTarget, BAG_PLAYER_INVENTORY, ITEM_DYNFLAG_UNLOCKED,
+    ITEM_DYNFLAG_WRAPPED, ITEM_FLAG_LOOTABLE, ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER, SLOT_BAG_FIRST, SLOT_PACK_FIRST,
 };
 pub use loot::{
     autostore_loot_item, loot, loot_error, loot_master_give, loot_money, loot_release, loot_roll,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/monster_move.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/monster_move.rs
index 43153bc4..76e0b27f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/monster_move.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/monster_move.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-//! `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE` — the server-dictated creature movement path.
+//! `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE` — the server-dictated creature movement path — and its transport twin.
 //!
 //! One packet: a mover, its `start`, a spline id, a `moveType`-switched final facing, then (unless it is
 //! a `Stop`) the spline block — a flag word, a duration, and the waypoints. Decodes into the full
 //! travel-order polyline [`ServerPacket::MonsterMove::path`] the app rides at constant (arc-length) speed
 //! (decision 0097). The wire packs the waypoints two ways, keyed by the `Flying`/`Mask_CatmullRom` flag —
 //! see [`read_monster_move_spline`].
+//!
+//! **`SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` is the same packet with one field inserted**: a second packed guid,
+//! the transport's, immediately after the mover's — and every coordinate in the body is then an
+//! **offset in that transport's frame**, not world space (decision 1936). vmangos writes exactly that
+//! (`Movement::MoveSplineInit::Launch`, `spline/MoveSplineInit.cpp:138-170`: the same builder, the
+//! opcode swapped and the transport packed guid appended, after `CalculatePassengerOffset` has moved
+//! the start into deck space), and it computes such a path against the transport's **model** navmesh
+//! rather than the map's (`PathFinder::calculate`, `Maps/PathFinder.cpp:76-84`), so the waypoints are
+//! deck-local too. One reader serves both, keyed by [`read_monster_move`]'s `on_transport`.
 
 use std::io;
 
@@ -39,8 +48,12 @@ const SPLINE_FLAG_RUNMODE: u32 = 0x100;
 /// reading a tail anyway over-ran the body, the `0x00dd: failed to fill whole buffer` skip that dropped
 /// every creature stop). Otherwise the spline block yields the full polyline `[start, …waypoints…,
 /// endpoint]`.
-pub(super) fn read_monster_move(r: &mut &[u8]) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
+pub(super) fn read_monster_move(r: &mut &[u8], on_transport: bool) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
     let guid = read_packed_guid(r)?;
+    // `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` only: the deck the whole body is expressed on, packed like the
+    // mover's guid and read immediately after it. Everything below is unchanged — the two opcodes
+    // share the builder server-side and differ by this one field.
+    let transport = on_transport.then(|| read_packed_guid(r)).transpose()?;
     let start = Vector3d::read(r)?;
     // The server's per-move spline counter. Discarded for a creature (nothing acks its walk), but
     // the client echoes it back in `CMSG_MOVE_SPLINE_DONE` when a spline drives its OWN player
@@ -62,6 +75,7 @@ pub(super) fn read_monster_move(r: &mut &[u8]) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
     Ok(if move_type == MONSTER_MOVE_STOP {
         ServerPacket::MonsterMove {
             guid,
+            transport,
             start,
             spline_id,
             path: Vec::new(),
@@ -93,6 +107,7 @@ pub(super) fn read_monster_move(r: &mut &[u8]) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
         };
         ServerPacket::MonsterMove {
             guid,
+            transport,
             start,
             spline_id,
             path,
@@ -204,6 +219,52 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    /// `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` is `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE` with the transport's packed guid
+    /// inserted between the mover's guid and the start position — everything after it parses
+    /// identically, and every coordinate is then a deck-local offset. Reading the *plain* opcode's
+    /// layout for it would consume the transport guid as the start's X and Y and land the creature
+    /// somewhere near the map origin; reading the transport layout for a plain packet is the same
+    /// mistake in reverse. Both directions are pinned here (decision 1936).
+    #[test]
+    fn monster_move_transport_reads_the_deck_guid_first() {
+        let mut body = Vec::new();
+        write_packed_guid(0x55, &mut body).unwrap(); // the mover
+        write_packed_guid(0x2000_0000_0000_0007, &mut body).unwrap(); // the transport
+        for f in [1.5f32, -2.5, 0.75] {
+            body.extend_from_slice(&f.to_le_bytes()); // deck-local start
+        }
+        body.extend_from_slice(&7u32.to_le_bytes()); // splineId
+        body.push(0); // moveType: a plain move
+        body.extend_from_slice(&0u32.to_le_bytes()); // spline flags: ground, walk
+        body.extend_from_slice(&2_000u32.to_le_bytes()); // duration
+        append_linear_path(&mut body, &[[1.5, -2.5, 0.75], [4.0, -2.5, 0.75]]);
+
+        match parse_server(opcode::SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT, &body).expect("parses") {
+            ServerPacket::MonsterMove {
+                guid,
+                transport,
+                start,
+                path,
+                ..
+            } => {
+                assert_eq!(guid, 0x55);
+                assert_eq!(transport, Some(0x2000_0000_0000_0007));
+                assert_eq!((start.x, start.y, start.z), (1.5, -2.5, 0.75));
+                assert_eq!(path.len(), 2, "start + endpoint, both deck-local");
+                assert_eq!((path[1].x, path[1].y, path[1].z), (4.0, -2.5, 0.75));
+            }
+            _ => panic!("expected MonsterMove"),
+        }
+
+        // The plain opcode over the SAME bytes must NOT come back with a transport — and it
+        // mis-reads the head, which is exactly why the two layouts cannot share one arm.
+        match parse_server(opcode::SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE, &body) {
+            Ok(ServerPacket::MonsterMove { transport, .. }) => assert_eq!(transport, None),
+            Ok(_) => panic!("expected MonsterMove"),
+            Err(_) => {} // an under-run is equally fine: the point is that it is not the same read
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn monster_move_stop_has_no_tail() {
         // A STOP (moveType 1) is head-only: no flags/duration/points. Parsing the tail anyway
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/movement.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/movement.rs
index 10572bdd..0be3d6fc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/movement.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/movement.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,20 @@ pub(super) const MOVEMENT_FLAG_SWIMMING: u32 = 0x20_0000;
 pub(super) const MOVEMENT_FLAG_SPLINE_ENABLED: u32 = 0x40_0000;
 pub(super) const MOVEMENT_FLAG_SPLINE_ELEVATION: u32 = 0x400_0000;
 
+/// Read `MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` — one observed mover's **packed** guid and the milliseconds its
+/// own client skipped (VERIFIED: the reference's handler `0x603b40` reads a packed guid through
+/// `0x642ed0`, resolves under `TYPEMASK_UNIT`, then reads a plain `u32`; vmangos relays exactly
+/// that shape, `MovementHandler.cpp:1011-1017`).
+///
+/// Note the **asymmetry with the client's own send**, which is the same fact in the other
+/// direction and writes a *plain* 8-byte guid (see [`super::client::move_time_skipped`]).
+/// Inbound packed, outbound plain — that is the reference's own encoding, not a slip.
+pub(super) fn read_move_time_skipped(r: &mut &[u8]) -> io::Result<(u64, u32)> {
+    let guid = crate::wire::read_packed_guid(r)?;
+    let lag_ms = read_u32_le(r)?;
+    Ok((guid, lag_ms))
+}
+
 /// Read a wire `MovementInfo` — the body shared by every `MSG_MOVE_*` (and the teleport ack). Surfaces
 /// `flags`/`position`/`orientation`/`timestamp`/`fall_time`, the **transport pose** ([`TransportPose`],
 /// present iff `MOVEFLAG_ON_TRANSPORT` — this is how a boarded rider's `MSG_MOVE_*` heartbeat carries
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs
index 9811589d..655ddc22 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ pub const SMSG_TRIGGER_CINEMATIC: u16 = 0x00FA;
 pub const CMSG_NEXT_CINEMATIC_CAMERA: u16 = 0x00FB;
 pub const CMSG_COMPLETE_CINEMATIC: u16 = 0x00FC;
 pub const SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE: u16 = 0x00DD;
+/// `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 686) — the transport twin of
+/// [`SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`]: the identical body with the **transport's packed guid inserted after the
+/// mover's**, and every coordinate in it a deck-local offset instead of a world position. Sent for a
+/// unit pathing *on* a transport — a pet following its owner aboard a boat, anything a player pulls
+/// onto a deck (`Movement::MoveSplineInit::Launch`, `spline/MoveSplineInit.cpp:146-154`). Body in
+/// [`super::monster_move::read_monster_move`]; decision 1936.
+pub const SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT: u16 = 0x02AE; // 686
 pub const SMSG_INITIALIZE_FACTIONS: u16 = 0x0122;
 /// A faction became visible in the reputation pane (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 291,
 /// sender `ReputationMgr::SendVisible`) — body one `u32` reputation-list slot. The server sets the
@@ -198,6 +205,30 @@ pub const SMSG_PET_CAST_FAILED: u16 = 0x0138; // 312
 /// and a trailing float the server `read_skip`s (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 713;
 /// `MoveSplineDone::ReadFromWorldPacket`).
 pub const CMSG_MOVE_SPLINE_DONE: u16 = 0x02C9; // 713
+/// The client's report that its movement clock **skipped** — a stall, a long frame, a window that
+/// went to the background — carrying the mover and how many milliseconds went missing (VERIFIED
+/// vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 718). Body in [`super::client::move_time_skipped`].
+///
+/// vmangos adds the reported `lag` to the mover's `stime`/`ctime` so its own movement clock stays
+/// aligned with ours — **and hangs a 1.12-specific transport fix off it**: a player whose last
+/// movement packet was the *first* one carrying `MOVEFLAG_ONTRANSPORT` is flagged `JustBoarded`,
+/// and the next `CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` makes the server re-send that transport's out-of-range
+/// update followed by a fresh create (`HandleMoveTimeSkippedOpcode`,
+/// `Handlers/MovementHandler.cpp:989-1019`, comment *"fix an 1.12 client problem with
+/// transports"*). A client that never sends this never gets that refresh. Decision 1935.
+pub const CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED: u16 = 0x02CE; // 718
+/// The **broadcast twin** of [`CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`] (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 793):
+/// the server relays one mover's skip to everyone watching it, so their copies of that unit's
+/// movement clock move with it (`MovementHandler.cpp:1011-1017`, packed guid + the same `u32`).
+///
+/// **Not ignorable.** The reference registers a handler for it (`0x6035e0` → `0x603b40`) that reads
+/// a packed guid, resolves under `TYPEMASK_UNIT`, and adds the lag to `[CMovement+0xac]` — the
+/// observed unit's last-seen **wire** movement timestamp, the monotonic maximum the relay chain
+/// hangs off (`0x601560` → `0x61ab90`). That cell is benilla-app's relay-chain `last_wire_ms`
+/// (`net::motion::relay::RelayChain`, decision 0615, which models `+0xa8`/`+0xac` by name). Drop the packet and the chain's copy stays `lag` ms short of the sender's
+/// forever: the mover's next real packet then reads as a step `lag` too large and is scheduled
+/// that much late — a hitch on that unit, not a lost packet. Decision 1935.
+pub const MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED: u16 = 0x0319; // 793
 pub const SMSG_ATTACKSTART: u16 = 0x0143; // 323
 pub const SMSG_ATTACKSTOP: u16 = 0x0144; // 324
 pub const SMSG_ATTACKERSTATEUPDATE: u16 = 0x014A; // 330
@@ -228,6 +259,21 @@ pub const SMSG_COOLDOWN_EVENT: u16 = 0x0135; // 309
 pub const SMSG_CLEAR_COOLDOWN: u16 = 0x01DE; // 478
 pub const SMSG_COOLDOWN_CHEAT: u16 = 0x01E1; // 481
 
+/// `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 490) — the
+/// remaining lifetime, in **seconds**, of one duration-limited item instance (a conjured stone, a
+/// holiday gift, a timed quest item). Shares its handler with
+/// [`SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE`]: both read an 8-byte item guid first and then fork on the
+/// opcode (`0x5e4f69 sub eax,0x1ea ; je …` / `0x5e4f74 dec eax` — wow-re
+/// `ui/scratch/weapon-enchant-info.md` §7).
+///
+/// The item's own `ITEM_FIELD_DURATION` (wire field 15) carries the same number and is sent to the
+/// owner, but vmangos's writer says in as many words that it is not what the client displays —
+/// *"Though the client has the information in the item's data field, we have to send
+/// SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE to display the remaining time"* (`Item::SendTimeUpdate`,
+/// `Objects/Item.cpp:1094`). Same shape as the enchant countdown (decision 0920): a client-local
+/// deadline whose only feed is the packet. Body in [`super::items::read_item_time`]; decision 1933.
+pub const SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE: u16 = 0x01EA; // 490
+
 /// `SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE` (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 491) — the **only** source
 /// of a temporary enchant's remaining time. The item's `ITEM_FIELD_ENCHANTMENT` duration field is
 /// never read for it: the reference's tooltip reads a client-side per-slot deadline array
@@ -365,6 +411,17 @@ pub const CMSG_USE_ITEM: u16 = 0x00AB; // 171
 /// guid** (`HandleOpenItemOpcode` → `SendLoot(item, LOOT_CORPSE)`), so the loot window opens over
 /// a thing in your bag rather than a corpse in the world.
 pub const CMSG_OPEN_ITEM: u16 = 0x00AC; // 172
+/// Wrap an item in a piece of gift wrapping (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 467). Body in
+/// [`super::items::wrap_item`]: `giftBag`, `giftSlot`, `itemBag`, `itemSlot` — the **paper first**,
+/// then the thing being wrapped.
+///
+/// The other half of the gift arc: [`CMSG_OPEN_ITEM`] above *unwraps* one, and this is how a gift
+/// gets made. Right-clicking a `ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER` template whose instance is **not** already
+/// wrapped sends nothing at all — it arms a purely local wrap cursor (`0x5edea0`: the item lock
+/// `0x4953e0` @`0x5edeb5` + `CursorSetMode(2)`, disarmed by `0x5eded0` from inside `ClearCursor`;
+/// wow-re `ui/scratch/right-click-open.md`, use-dispatcher arm 2, VERIFIED) — and *this* opcode
+/// goes out when the armed cursor is then clicked on a target. Decision 1934.
+pub const CMSG_WRAP_ITEM: u16 = 0x01D3; // 467
 /// VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 177. Body in [`super::gameobj_use`] — a full guid, the
 /// GameObject to use (decision 0236). Not interchangeable with `CMSG_LOOT`: the server rejects a
 /// GameObject guid on `CMSG_LOOT`, so a chest opens its loot through this opcode.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs
index 436a9260..f5808e4b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs
@@ -135,8 +135,19 @@ pub enum ServerPacket {
     TriggerCinematic {
         cinematic_id: u32,
     },
+    /// `MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` — an observed mover's own client skipped `lag_ms` of movement
+    /// simulation, so every watcher's copy of its wire clock must move with it (layout in
+    /// [`super::movement::read_move_time_skipped`]). Decision 1935.
+    MoveTimeSkipped {
+        guid: u64,
+        lag_ms: u32,
+    },
     MonsterMove {
         guid: u64,
+        /// `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` only: the transport whose frame `start` and every `path`
+        /// point are expressed in (deck-local offsets, not world coordinates). `None` = the plain
+        /// `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`, whose coordinates are absolute. Decision 1936.
+        transport: Option<u64>,
         start: Vector3d,
         /// The server's per-move spline counter — echoed back in `CMSG_MOVE_SPLINE_DONE` when the
         /// spline drives our own player (Charge/knockback/taxi); ignored for a creature's walk.
@@ -645,6 +656,12 @@ pub enum ServerPacket {
         item_guid: u64,
         spell_id: u32,
     },
+    /// `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` — how long one duration-limited item instance has left, in
+    /// **seconds** (layout in [`super::items::read_item_time`]). Decision 1933.
+    ItemTime {
+        item_guid: u64,
+        seconds: u32,
+    },
     /// `SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE` — how long one item's TEMPORARY enchant has left (layout in
     /// [`super::items::read_item_enchant_time`]). The tooltip's countdown has no other source
     /// (decision 0920).
@@ -1496,7 +1513,14 @@ impl ServerPacket {
             ServerPacket::CompressedMoves { .. } => "SMSG_COMPRESSED_MOVES".into(),
             ServerPacket::DestroyObject { .. } => "SMSG_DESTROY_OBJECT".into(),
             ServerPacket::TriggerCinematic { .. } => "SMSG_TRIGGER_CINEMATIC".into(),
-            ServerPacket::MonsterMove { .. } => "SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE".into(),
+            ServerPacket::MoveTimeSkipped { .. } => "MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED".into(),
+            ServerPacket::MonsterMove { transport, .. } => {
+                if transport.is_some() {
+                    "SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT".into()
+                } else {
+                    "SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE".into()
+                }
+            }
             ServerPacket::PlayerMove { opcode, .. } => format!("MSG_MOVE relay ({opcode:#06x})"),
             ServerPacket::Teleport { .. } => "MSG_MOVE_TELEPORT_ACK".into(),
             ServerPacket::NewWorld { .. } => "SMSG_NEW_WORLD".into(),
@@ -1572,6 +1596,7 @@ impl ServerPacket {
             ServerPacket::CancelAutoRepeat => "SMSG_CANCEL_AUTO_REPEAT".into(),
             ServerPacket::SpellCooldownList { .. } => "SMSG_SPELL_COOLDOWN".into(),
             ServerPacket::ItemCooldown { .. } => "SMSG_ITEM_COOLDOWN".into(),
+            ServerPacket::ItemTime { .. } => "SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE".into(),
             ServerPacket::ItemEnchantTime { .. } => "SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE".into(),
             ServerPacket::CooldownEvent { .. } => "SMSG_COOLDOWN_EVENT".into(),
             ServerPacket::ClearCooldown { .. } => "SMSG_CLEAR_COOLDOWN".into(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs
index de05b32b..8c34ee8e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs
@@ -244,7 +244,12 @@ pub fn parse_server(opcode: u16, body: &[u8]) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
         opcode::SMSG_COMPRESSED_MOVES => ServerPacket::CompressedMoves {
             packets: read_compressed_moves(&mut r)?,
         },
-        opcode::SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE => monster_move::read_monster_move(&mut r)?,
+        opcode::MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED => {
+            let (guid, lag_ms) = movement::read_move_time_skipped(&mut r)?;
+            ServerPacket::MoveTimeSkipped { guid, lag_ms }
+        }
+        opcode::SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE => monster_move::read_monster_move(&mut r, false)?,
+        opcode::SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT => monster_move::read_monster_move(&mut r, true)?,
         opcode::MSG_MOVE_TELEPORT_ACK => {
             let guid = read_packed_guid(&mut r)?;
             let counter = read_u32_le(&mut r)?;
@@ -575,6 +580,10 @@ pub fn parse_server(opcode: u16, body: &[u8]) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
                 spell_id,
             }
         }
+        opcode::SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE => {
+            let (item_guid, seconds) = items::read_item_time(&mut r)?;
+            ServerPacket::ItemTime { item_guid, seconds }
+        }
         opcode::SMSG_ITEM_ENCHANT_TIME_UPDATE => {
             let (item_guid, slot, seconds) = items::read_item_enchant_time(&mut r)?;
             ServerPacket::ItemEnchantTime {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/items.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/items.rs
index 11156a54..e9fccceb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/items.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/items.rs
@@ -55,6 +55,23 @@ impl WorldWriter {
         )
     }
 
+    /// Wrap an item in gift paper (`CMSG_WRAP_ITEM`, layout in [`messages::wrap_item`]) — the
+    /// completion of the local wrap cursor a `ITEM_FLAG_WRAPPER` item's right-click arms. The
+    /// paper's `(bag, slot)` leads, the target's follows. Success is silent (field updates on the
+    /// target, one paper destroyed); every refusal comes back as `SMSG_INVENTORY_CHANGE_FAILURE`.
+    pub fn wrap_item(
+        &mut self,
+        gift_bag: u8,
+        gift_slot: u8,
+        item_bag: u8,
+        item_slot: u8,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        self.send(
+            opcode::CMSG_WRAP_ITEM,
+            &messages::wrap_item(gift_bag, gift_slot, item_bag, item_slot),
+        )
+    }
+
     /// Equip a bag item (`CMSG_AUTOEQUIP_ITEM`, layout in [`messages::auto_equip_item`]) — the
     /// server picks the destination slot. Success arrives as inventory-slot values deltas (and the
     /// visible-item change everyone renders); refusal as `SMSG_INVENTORY_CHANGE_FAILURE`.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/self_movement.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/self_movement.rs
index 59fb61ce..938362dd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/self_movement.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/world/writer/self_movement.rs
@@ -92,6 +92,18 @@ impl WorldWriter {
         self.send(opcode::CMSG_MOVE_NOT_ACTIVE_MOVER, &body)
     }
 
+    /// Report that our movement clock skipped `lag_ms` (`CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`, layout in
+    /// [`messages::move_time_skipped`]) for the named mover. The server folds the number into its
+    /// own copy of our movement clock — and, when we have just boarded a transport, answers by
+    /// re-sending that transport's create update (the 1.12 boarding fix; see
+    /// [`opcode::CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`]).
+    pub fn move_time_skipped(&mut self, guid: u64, lag_ms: u32) -> Result<()> {
+        self.send(
+            opcode::CMSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED,
+            &messages::move_time_skipped(guid, lag_ms),
+        )
+    }
+
     /// Acknowledge that a server-authored spline (Charge/knockback/taxi — an `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`
     /// addressed to our own guid) finished: `CMSG_MOVE_SPLINE_DONE` with a `MovementInfo` at the
     /// ride's endpoint and the `spline_id` we were driven by. The server sets `SplineDonePending` for
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/tests/simple_packets.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/tests/simple_packets.rs
index 1098b380..052fc900 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/tests/simple_packets.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/tests/simple_packets.rs
@@ -229,18 +229,20 @@ fn set_faction_standing_parses_and_decodes() {
 /// opcode numbers.
 #[test]
 fn unknown_opcode_decodes_to_packet_dropped() {
-    // 0x0319 = MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED — assigned in 1.12.1 but deliberately unparsed by benilla.
-    let packet = messages::parse_server(0x0319, &hx("0102030405")).unwrap();
-    assert!(matches!(packet, ServerPacket::Other { opcode: 0x0319 }));
+    // 0x0324 = SMSG_PET_ACTION_SOUND — assigned in 1.12.1 but deliberately unparsed by benilla.
+    // (The sentinel used to be 0x0319 `MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED`, which decision 1935 gave a parse
+    // arm: an observed mover's skipped time has to reach its relay chain or that unit hitches.)
+    let packet = messages::parse_server(0x0324, &hx("0102030405")).unwrap();
+    assert!(matches!(packet, ServerPacket::Other { opcode: 0x0324 }));
     match decode(packet).as_slice() {
         [SessionEvent::PacketDropped {
-            opcode: 0x0319,
+            opcode: 0x0324,
             unparseable: false,
         }] => {}
         other => panic!("expected one PacketDropped event, got {other:?}"),
     }
     // The generated name table: a known opcode resolves, an unassigned number doesn't.
-    assert_eq!(messages::opcode_name(0x0319), Some("MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED"));
+    assert_eq!(messages::opcode_name(0x0324), Some("SMSG_PET_ACTION_SOUND"));
     assert_eq!(
         messages::opcode_name(messages::opcode::SMSG_UPDATE_OBJECT),
         Some("SMSG_UPDATE_OBJECT")
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs
index d65ef565..03e28795 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     )?;
 
     // UseAction(action [, checkCursor [, onSelf]]). **`onSelf` is the self-cast modifier** — the
-    // third argument `ActionBar.xml`'s `ActionButtonUp(id, onSelf)` has always forwarded and this
+    // third argument stock `ActionButtonUp(id, onSelf)` forwards on its main-bar branch and this
     // host used to drop on the floor, which is why 1.12's twelve `SELFACTIONBUTTON` bindings
     // (`ALT-1`…`ALT-=`) had no home. It rides out on [`ActionUse::on_self`] and the app's cast
     // resolver reads it. `checkCursor` TRUTHY (numeric nonzero — the
@@ -327,6 +327,21 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
+    // `ChangeActionBarPage()` — four instructions in the reference (`0x4e7650`: `mov ecx,0xd4;
+    // call FrameScript_SignalEvent; xor eax,eax; ret` — wow-re `action-bar-toggles.md` §6, `ui.md`):
+    // it fires `ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED` and does NOTHING else. The page is FrameXML state
+    // (`CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE`, which `ActionBar_PageUp/Down` and the SHIFT-n bindings write before
+    // calling this), the buttons repaint from `ActionButton_OnEvent`, and the up-arrow's OnEvent
+    // restamps the numeral. Synchronous, like the reference's `SignalEvent` (1938; the pattern is
+    // `UpdateSpells` → `SPELLS_CHANGED`, 1924). Zero return values on every path.
+    g.set(
+        "ChangeActionBarPage",
+        lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
+            super::tick::fire_event_into(lua, "ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED", Vec::new());
+            Ok(())
+        })?,
+    )?;
+
     // ── The dynamic-state read API (decision 0137 phase 4): the reference ActionButton.lua's
     // whole input surface, answered from the app-pushed per-action state. Return conventions are
     // the 1.12 API's own (1/nil booleans; IsActionInRange's nil/0/1 tri-state) — the transcribed
@@ -465,6 +480,24 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn change_action_bar_page_fires_the_event_and_nothing_else() {
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.run(
+            "CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE = 3 \
+             local f = CreateFrame('Frame') f:RegisterEvent('ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED') \
+             f:SetScript('OnEvent', function() SEEN = event .. ':' .. CURRENT_ACTIONBAR_PAGE end) \
+             N = table.getn({ChangeActionBarPage()})",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.eval::<String>("return SEEN").unwrap(),
+            "ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED:3",
+            "the event fires synchronously, and the page is whatever FrameXML wrote"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return N").unwrap(), 0, "zero return values");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn action_snapshot_reads_and_use_queues() {
         let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs
index fc908284..02269bcb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs
@@ -287,6 +287,11 @@ pub struct InvSlotView {
     /// and the reference renders all 7 from it — but a 1.12 server fills only PERM and TEMP, so in
     /// practice that is what an inspect hover shows.
     pub enchants: Vec<super::EnchantView>,
+    /// **The instance's remaining LIFETIME in milliseconds** — the doll twin of
+    /// [`super::container::ContainerSlot::duration_ms`]. `None` = no timer. In practice an
+    /// equipped duration item is rare (the holiday masks are the shipped case), but the line law
+    /// is one law and the doll hover runs the same builder. Decision 1933.
+    pub duration_ms: Option<u64>,
 }
 
 /// The inventory-slot snapshot: index 0 = ammo, 1..=19 the equipment slots, 20..=23 the four
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs
index d7928c00..b35eb70e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ pub struct ContainerSlot {
     /// hands over the row's name plus the three facts the line law needs to place and paint it.
     /// Empty = unenchanted, or the enchant DBC never loaded. Decisions 0915/0920.
     pub enchants: Vec<super::EnchantView>,
+    /// **The instance's remaining LIFETIME in milliseconds** — a duration-limited item counting
+    /// down to its own destruction (a conjured stone, a holiday gift, a timed quest item). Its
+    /// only feed is `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE`, parked as an absolute deadline and recomputed on
+    /// read ([`crate::items::Items::duration_remaining_display_ms`] in benilla-app), floored to
+    /// the whole second so the snapshot moves once a second rather than every frame.
+    /// `None` = no timer, which is nearly every item. Decision 1933.
+    pub duration_ms: Option<u64>,
     /// The petition this item names, when it is a signable charter — **line 3 of the tooltip's
     /// emission law**, between the NAME and the green `ITEM_SIGNABLE` line.
     ///
@@ -263,6 +270,47 @@ impl super::UiScript {
         std::mem::take(&mut self.model_mut().container_destroys)
     }
 
+    /// **Arm the gift-wrap cursor** on the paper at `(bag, slot)` — the app's call when a
+    /// right-click takes the reference's begin-wrap arm (`ItemInfo::begins_gift_wrap`).
+    ///
+    /// Three acts, exactly the three `0x5edea0` performs (wow-re
+    /// `object-layer/scratch/gift-wrap-law.md`): the paper's slot reads **locked**, the displayed
+    /// cursor becomes **mode 2** (`Interface\Cursor\Cast.blp` — the same art the cast cursor
+    /// uses, table `0x853b88` slot 2), and **nothing goes on the wire**. What completes it is the
+    /// next left-click on a container slot. Decision 1934.
+    pub fn arm_gift_wrap(&mut self, bag: i64, slot: u32) {
+        let mut model = self.model_mut();
+        model.pending_wrap = Some(PendingWrap { bag, slot });
+        model.ui_cursor = Some(UiCursorMode::Cast);
+        model.ui_cursor_dirty = true;
+        cursor::queue_lock_changed(&mut model, bag, slot);
+    }
+
+    /// **Cancel an armed gift wrap and nothing else** — disarm, unlock the paper, reset the
+    /// cursor. Deliberately narrower than `ClearCursor`, which also drops any held payload:
+    /// what wow-re records is that a right-click "uses the item and cancels the wrap", not by
+    /// which of the two routes, so this touches only the half the finding actually names.
+    pub fn cancel_gift_wrap(&mut self) -> Option<PendingWrap> {
+        let mut model = self.model_mut();
+        let wrap = model.pending_wrap.take()?;
+        cursor::queue_lock_changed(&mut model, wrap.bag, wrap.slot);
+        model.ui_cursor = None;
+        model.ui_cursor_dirty = true;
+        Some(wrap)
+    }
+
+    /// Is a gift wrap armed, and on which slot? Read by the app to decide whether a right-click
+    /// is cancelling one.
+    pub fn gift_wrap_armed(&self) -> Option<PendingWrap> {
+        self.model_ref().pending_wrap
+    }
+
+    /// Drain the `(giftBag, giftSlot, itemBag, itemSlot)` quads a completed wrap queued — the app
+    /// resolves each pair to the wire's bag/slot addressing and sends `CMSG_WRAP_ITEM`.
+    pub fn take_container_wraps(&mut self) -> Vec<(i64, u32, i64, u32)> {
+        std::mem::take(&mut self.model_mut().container_wraps)
+    }
+
     /// The mode the last FrameXML cursor call armed — `None` after a `ResetCursor`. This is the
     /// *value* of the most recent write; whether a write happened at all is
     /// [`Self::take_cursor_write`], and that is what the app acts on (decision 1061).
@@ -285,6 +333,19 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     }
 }
 
+/// **The armed gift wrap** — which piece of wrapping paper the next container click will spend.
+///
+/// The reference holds this as globals beside the displayed-cursor mode rather than as a cursor
+/// *payload*; the distinction is load-bearing and is why this is its own type instead of a
+/// [`cursor::CursorPayload`] variant (see [`super::Model::pending_wrap`]).
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
+pub struct PendingWrap {
+    /// The paper's container id, in the same bag space every cursor verb speaks.
+    pub bag: i64,
+    /// The paper's 1-based slot within that container.
+    pub slot: u32,
+}
+
 /// A **displayed-cursor override** the FrameXML cursor family arms (wow-re cursor-system.md §7): the
 /// single "displayed mode" (`0xbe2c2c`) the real client swaps to while a UI element wants a non-base
 /// cursor, restored to the base mode by `ResetCursor`. The app maps each to the matching
@@ -330,6 +391,49 @@ pub enum UiCursorMode {
 ///
 /// Returns whether the caller should repaint (the source-slot lock or the held payload changed).
 fn pickup_container_item(model: &mut super::Model, bag: i64, slot: u32) -> bool {
+    // **The gift-wrap completion, ahead of the whole gesture** (decision 1934). `0x4f9b30` is the
+    // *only* entry to the wrap sender `0x5edfc0` image-wide — which is why the paper doll cannot
+    // finish a wrap and an equipped item is therefore unwrappable — and it takes this branch
+    // before it looks at the cursor at all.
+    if let Some(wrap) = model.pending_wrap {
+        // An empty or unresolved slot **bails and leaves the wrap armed** — the reference's own
+        // edge. Nothing is spent and the cursor keeps its mode, so the next click can still land
+        // on a real item.
+        if !model
+            .containers
+            .get(&bag)
+            .and_then(|c| c.slots.get(&slot))
+            .is_some_and(|s| s.item_id != 0)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        // **The paper has to still be there.** `0x5edfef` bails when the stashed gift GUID no
+        // longer resolves, and — the edge worth transcribing — it then sends *and clears*
+        // nothing: the wrap stays armed and the paper's slot stays locked. So this returns
+        // without touching either.
+        if !model
+            .containers
+            .get(&wrap.bag)
+            .and_then(|c| c.slots.get(&wrap.slot))
+            .is_some_and(|s| s.item_id != 0)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        // No eligibility test of any kind. The wrap arm reads each item's `ITEM_FIELD_CONTAINED`
+        // and nothing else — not flags, not stack count, not bind state — and the client ships six
+        // `ERR_CANT_WRAP_*` strings for the server to answer with (`SMSG_INVENTORY_CHANGE_FAILURE`
+        // reasons 43-48). Same law as the openable click (decision 0896): gating locally would eat
+        // the click in silence and cost the player their error line.
+        model.pending_wrap = None;
+        model.container_wraps.push((wrap.bag, wrap.slot, bag, slot));
+        // The paper unlocks and the cursor resets **immediately**, not on the server's answer:
+        // `0x5edfc0` calls `0x5eded0` at `0x5ee0aa`, right after the send. The target is never
+        // locked at all.
+        cursor::queue_lock_changed(model, wrap.bag, wrap.slot);
+        model.ui_cursor = None;
+        model.ui_cursor_dirty = true;
+        return true;
+    }
     match model.cursor.take() {
         None => {
             let picked = model
@@ -653,7 +757,14 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 let held = matches!(
                     &model.cursor,
                     Some(CursorPayload::Item(c)) if c.bag == bag && c.slot == slot
-                );
+                ) ||
+                // An armed gift wrap locks its paper for as long as it stands (`0x4953e0` at
+                // `0x5edeb5`) — the same dimming a held item's source slot shows, and released by
+                // the send or by any cancel rather than by the server (decision 1934).
+                    matches!(
+                        &model.pending_wrap,
+                        Some(w) if w.bag == bag && w.slot == slot
+                    );
                 (
                     model
                         .containers
@@ -858,7 +969,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use super::{ContainerMove, ContainerSlot, ContainerState};
+    use super::{ContainerMove, ContainerSlot, ContainerState, PendingWrap, UiCursorMode};
     use crate::script::UiScript;
 
     fn backpack() -> ContainerState {
@@ -866,6 +977,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             ContainerSlot {
+                duration_ms: None,
                 petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
@@ -903,6 +1015,71 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    /// **The gift-wrap state machine** (decision 1934), all four of its edges. Armed by the app's
+    /// right-click on a wrapper, the arm locks the paper and paints cursor mode 2 and sends
+    /// nothing; the next LEFT-click on a container slot spends it; an empty slot bails and leaves
+    /// it armed; and any `ClearCursor` cancels it.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_armed_gift_wrap_spends_on_the_next_container_click() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.set_container(0, Some(backpack()));
+        // The arm: nothing on the wire, the paper reads locked, the cursor is mode 2, and the
+        // held-item predicate stays FALSE — this is a cursor mode, not a payload.
+        s.arm_gift_wrap(0, 1);
+        assert_eq!(s.gift_wrap_armed(), Some(PendingWrap { bag: 0, slot: 1 }));
+        assert!(s.take_container_wraps().is_empty(), "arming sends nothing");
+        assert_eq!(s.take_cursor_write(), Some(Some(UiCursorMode::Cast)));
+        assert!(
+            s.eval::<bool>("local _, _, locked = GetContainerItemInfo(0, 1) return locked")
+                .unwrap(),
+            "the paper dims while the wrap stands"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            !s.eval::<bool>("return CursorHasItem()").unwrap(),
+            "the wrap writes no payload, so every stock CursorHasItem() gate stays shut"
+        );
+        // A click on an EMPTY slot bails and leaves the wrap armed — the reference's own edge.
+        s.eval::<()>("PickupContainerItem(0, 9)").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(s.gift_wrap_armed(), Some(PendingWrap { bag: 0, slot: 1 }));
+        assert!(s.take_container_wraps().is_empty());
+        // A click on a real item spends it: the paper's pair leads, as the wire does.
+        s.eval::<()>("PickupContainerItem(0, 4)").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(s.take_container_wraps(), vec![(0, 1, 0, 4)]);
+        assert_eq!(s.gift_wrap_armed(), None);
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.take_cursor_write(),
+            Some(None),
+            "the cursor resets on the send, not on the server's answer"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            s.cursor_payload().is_none(),
+            "the completing click is spent on the wrap, not on picking the target up"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Any `ClearCursor` cancels an armed wrap — the reference tests it FIRST inside
+    /// `ClearCursor 0x495190` and does so ungated by either parameter, so all 70 of its call
+    /// sites cancel (decision 1934).
+    #[test]
+    fn clear_cursor_cancels_an_armed_gift_wrap() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.set_container(0, Some(backpack()));
+        s.arm_gift_wrap(0, 1);
+        let _ = s.take_cursor_write();
+        s.eval::<()>("ClearCursor()").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(s.gift_wrap_armed(), None);
+        assert_eq!(s.take_cursor_write(), Some(None), "and the mode goes back");
+        assert!(
+            !s.eval::<bool>("local _, _, locked = GetContainerItemInfo(0, 1) return locked")
+                .unwrap(),
+            "the paper unlocks with the cancel — the lock never waited on a server"
+        );
+        // …and the next container click is an ordinary pickup again.
+        s.eval::<()>("PickupContainerItem(0, 1)").unwrap();
+        assert!(s.take_container_wraps().is_empty());
+        assert!(s.cursor_payload().is_some(), "a plain pickup, as before");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn container_snapshot_reads() {
         let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
@@ -1032,6 +1209,7 @@ mod tests {
         state.slots.insert(
             5,
             ContainerSlot {
+                duration_ms: None,
                 petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs
index e42a9ff0..7f04e3e7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs
@@ -321,6 +321,16 @@ pub(super) fn item_link_name(link: Option<&str>) -> String {
 /// item payload also un-locks its source slot; an already-empty cursor is not a transition (no
 /// event).
 pub(crate) fn clear_cursor(model: &mut Model) {
+    // **An armed gift wrap dies with any cancel** (decision 1934), and this is the FIRST thing
+    // the reference's `ClearCursor 0x495190` does — `0x5edf10` is its opening act and it is
+    // **ungated by either parameter**, including `ClearCursor(0)`, the flavour that deliberately
+    // keeps an ordinary held item's lock. So all 70 of its call sites cancel a wrap. The paper
+    // unlocks and the cursor mode goes back to the base.
+    if let Some(wrap) = model.pending_wrap.take() {
+        queue_lock_changed(model, wrap.bag, wrap.slot);
+        model.ui_cursor = None;
+        model.ui_cursor_dirty = true;
+    }
     match model.cursor.take() {
         Some(CursorPayload::Item(item)) => {
             queue_cursor_update(model);
@@ -741,6 +751,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             crate::script::container::ContainerSlot {
+                duration_ms: None,
                 petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
index b5084608..4356ddc7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn doll_slots() -> crate::script::InventorySlots {
         let mut slots: crate::script::InventorySlots = Default::default();
         slots[1] = Some(InvSlotView {
+            duration_ms: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -303,6 +304,7 @@ mod tests {
             enchants: Vec::new(),
         });
         slots[11] = Some(InvSlotView {
+            duration_ms: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -320,6 +322,7 @@ mod tests {
             enchants: Vec::new(),
         });
         slots[19] = Some(InvSlotView {
+            duration_ms: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -344,6 +347,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             ContainerSlot {
+                duration_ms: None,
                 petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
@@ -487,6 +491,7 @@ mod tests {
         });
         // An equipped bag in Bag0Slot (id 20): its equip_slots is the four bag slots.
         slots[20] = Some(InvSlotView {
+            duration_ms: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -526,6 +531,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             3,
             ContainerSlot {
+                duration_ms: None,
                 petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
index ebe6fb9a..30d1e326 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ pub use char_stats::{
 pub use chat_send::ChatSend;
 pub use chat_window::ChatWindowLook;
 pub use container::{
-    BagAutoStore, ContainerMove, ContainerSlot, ContainerState, EnchantView, PetitionSlotView,
-    RandomPropertyView, UiCursorMode,
+    BagAutoStore, ContainerMove, ContainerSlot, ContainerState, EnchantView, PendingWrap,
+    PetitionSlotView, RandomPropertyView, UiCursorMode,
 };
 pub use craft::{CraftReagent, CraftRecipe, CraftState, CraftTooltip};
 pub use cursor::{
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
index a927d291..d17a9671 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
@@ -862,6 +862,18 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     /// stack) — the popup-confirmed destroy (decision 0216 §3), drained by the app into
     /// `CMSG_DESTROYITEM`.
     pub(crate) container_destroys: Vec<(i64, u32, u32)>,
+    /// **The armed gift wrap** — the `(bag, slot)` of a piece of wrapping paper whose right-click
+    /// took the reference's begin-wrap arm (`0x5edea0`: lock the paper, cursor mode 2, no packet).
+    /// `None` = nothing armed, which is nearly always. Decision 1934.
+    ///
+    /// Deliberately **not** a [`cursor::CursorPayload`]: the reference writes no payload global at
+    /// all here, only the displayed-cursor mode, so `CursorHasItem()` stays nil and none of the
+    /// thirteen stock `CursorHasItem()` gates open. Making it a payload would silently open every
+    /// one of them — the same trap decision 1677's mode-5 note names for the vendor cursor.
+    pub(crate) pending_wrap: Option<container::PendingWrap>,
+    /// `(giftBag, giftSlot, itemBag, itemSlot)` quads a completed wrap queued, drained by the app
+    /// into `CMSG_WRAP_ITEM`. The paper's pair leads, as the wire does.
+    pub(crate) container_wraps: Vec<(i64, u32, i64, u32)>,
     /// The Lua-set **displayed-cursor override** (`ShowContainerSellCursor`/`ShowMerchantSellCursor`/
     /// `ShowBuybackSellCursor`/`ShowInspectCursor` set it, `ResetCursor` clears it; [`container`] +
     /// [`merchant`]) — the single "displayed mode" the real client keeps at `0xbe2c2c`, restored to
@@ -1704,6 +1716,8 @@ impl Model {
             item_picks: Vec::new(),
             enchant_confirms: Vec::new(),
             container_destroys: Vec::new(),
+            pending_wrap: None,
+            container_wraps: Vec::new(),
             ui_cursor: None,
             ui_cursor_dirty: false,
             container_autoequips: Vec::new(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
index 5f4cf6bb..d8986692 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     // call in FrameXML and in the addon corpus, and it only bites where a region already carries
     // alpha < 1 — where it would surface as art going permanently translucent, which is a LOOK and
     // therefore the director's call, not a quiet correction to fold into an unrelated slice. The
-    // known live case is the action bar's grid ring, and `ActionBar.xml`'s
-    // BenillaActionButton_SetRing is already written to be correct under BOTH readings (it passes
-    // the fourth argument explicitly), so closing this cannot silently change that file.
+    // known live case is the action bar's grid ring: stock `ActionButton_ShowGrid` passes the
+    // fourth argument explicitly (`SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5)`), so closing this cannot
+    // silently change that file.
     m.set(
         "SetVertexColor",
         lua.create_function(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs
index f0593df5..5c06a4b9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ fn shift_compare_fires_seats_and_renders_the_compare_shape() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            duration_ms: None,
             petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/verbs.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/verbs.rs
index 45579f57..d42f1643 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/verbs.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/verbs.rs
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ pub(in crate::script) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                             // Dropping every anchor is a retarget to the EMPTY target set, and it
                             // names its node like any other (decision 1625). It matters here more
                             // than anywhere: this arm is `GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor`'s, which is
-                            // the path EVERY action-bar hover takes (`ActionBar.xml:510`, the
+                            // the path EVERY action-bar hover takes (stock `ActionButton_SetTooltip`, the
                             // `UberTooltips` default; the stance, pet and bonus bars the same) —
                             // while a bag slot anchors straight to its button and never comes
                             // through here. So a conservative touch on this line was a whole-graph
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs
index 5943953c..1678a10d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs
@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ pub(super) fn install_methods(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                                 // show. Left `false` deliberately — inventing a selector we have
                                 // not read would be the §4 trade, and there is nothing to gain.
                                 openable_source: false,
+                                duration_ms: s.duration_ms,
                             },
                         )
                     });
@@ -460,7 +461,18 @@ pub(super) fn install_methods(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             show_or_hide_empty(lua, h);
             Ok(MultiValue::from_vec(vec![
                 Value::Integer(1),
-                Value::Nil,
+                // `hasCooldown` — **broader than its name**, and this is the one arm of it we can
+                // answer. The builder's Lua return is `[ebp-0x38]`, set by FOUR sites, only one of
+                // which is the cooldown line: LOCKED_WITH_ITEM, the temporary-enchant countdown,
+                // **the item's own duration line** (`0x52ce0d`), and ITEM_COOLDOWN_TIME. So a
+                // duration-bearing item answers truthy here with no cooldown of any kind, and an
+                // addon can see it (decision 1933's fold-back). The equipped-cooldown feed is
+                // still the INTERIM above; this is the half that now exists.
+                if inst.duration_ms.is_some() {
+                    Value::Boolean(true)
+                } else {
+                    Value::Nil
+                },
                 Value::Integer(0),
             ]))
         })?,
@@ -518,6 +530,7 @@ pub(super) fn install_methods(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                                 // same clam mid-cooldown would show ITEM_COOLDOWN_TIME instead
                                 // (that line has no feed here yet — a separate, pre-existing gap).
                                 openable_source: !has_cd,
+                                duration_ms: s.duration_ms,
                             },
                         )
                     }
@@ -564,7 +577,10 @@ pub(super) fn install_methods(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             }
             show_or_hide_empty(lua, h);
             Ok(MultiValue::from_vec(vec![
-                Value::Boolean(has_cd),
+                // Not just the cooldown: the builder's return is set by four line sites, and the
+                // item's own duration line is one of them (see `SetInventoryItem`'s note above,
+                // decision 1933's fold-back).
+                Value::Boolean(has_cd || inst.duration_ms.is_some()),
                 Value::Integer(0),
             ]))
         })?,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs
index de70f002..3b3dc73d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ pub(super) struct ItemInstance {
     /// "Cooldown remaining", the same item off cooldown shows `<Right Click to Open>`.**
     /// Decision 0896.
     pub openable_source: bool,
+    /// **The instance's remaining LIFETIME in milliseconds** — a duration-limited item (a
+    /// conjured stone, a holiday gift, a timed quest item) counting down to its own destruction.
+    /// `None` = no timer, which is every ordinary item and every template/link source.
+    ///
+    /// App-resolved from the client-local deadline `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` parks
+    /// ([`crate::script::ContainerSlot::duration_ms`]), not from the instance's
+    /// `ITEM_FIELD_DURATION` field: vmangos's own writer says the field is not what the client
+    /// displays from — *"Though the client has the information in the item's data field, we have
+    /// to send SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE to display the remaining time"* (`Item::SendTimeUpdate`,
+    /// `Objects/Item.cpp:1094`) — which is the same split the temporary-enchant countdown one
+    /// field up already takes (decisions 0920/1933).
+    pub duration_ms: Option<u64>,
 }
 
 /// The SET block's blank gold spacer — the reference's own literal `0x854b2c`, and it is **not**
@@ -425,6 +437,17 @@ pub(super) fn render_view(
             WHITE,
         ))?;
     }
+    // **ITEM_DURATION `0x854bb4` — the item's own expiry countdown** (`0x52ce0d`, one of the four
+    // sites that set the builder's `[ebp-0x38]` return, wow-re `tooltip-content-law.md` §E3's
+    // census). It sits here by that address: after the durability precompute the note pins at
+    // `0x52cd0e–0x52cd22` (law line 18) and well before `ITEM_COOLDOWN_TIME` at `0x52e140` (line
+    // 23) — the numbered law list omits the line entirely, which is the gap decision 1933 names.
+    // Formatted through the same `0x52fa50` ladder as the enchant countdown, with key prefix
+    // `ITEM_DURATION`; unlike its siblings that prefix ships **no `_P1` plural twin**, so every
+    // count reads "days"/"hrs" (`GlobalStrings.lua:2401-2404`).
+    if let Some(ms) = inst.and_then(|i| i.duration_ms) {
+        add((duration_left(ms), WHITE))?;
+    }
     // Class/race lists — red when the player's own bit is absent (the usable ask).
     if v.allowable_class > 0
         && (v.allowable_class & full_mask(&CLASS_NAMES)) != full_mask(&CLASS_NAMES)
@@ -618,22 +641,56 @@ pub(super) fn render_view(
 /// Templates are the shipped enUS values (`Interface\FrameXML\GlobalStrings.lua:2406-2411`),
 /// inlined like every other string in this builder.
 fn enchant_time_left(name: &str, ms: u64) -> String {
+    match time_bucket(ms) {
+        (TimeBucket::Days, 1) => format!("{name} (1 day)"),
+        (TimeBucket::Days, n) => format!("{name} ({n} days)"),
+        (TimeBucket::Hours, 1) => format!("{name} (1 hour)"),
+        (TimeBucket::Hours, n) => format!("{name} ({n} hrs)"),
+        (TimeBucket::Min, n) => format!("{name} ({n} min)"),
+        (TimeBucket::Sec, n) => format!("{name} ({n} sec)"),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The item self-expiry line's text — the same `0x52fa50` bucket ladder as
+/// [`enchant_time_left`] (largest unit that fits; **ceil** in the day/hour/minute arms,
+/// **truncated** in the seconds arm), composed against key prefix `ITEM_DURATION`.
+///
+/// The one difference from its siblings is the absence of a plural split: `ITEM_DURATION_*` ships
+/// no `_P1` twin (`GlobalStrings.lua:2401-2404`), so a one-day timer reads "Duration: 1 days"
+/// exactly as the reference's own string table spells it.
+fn duration_left(ms: u64) -> String {
+    match time_bucket(ms) {
+        (TimeBucket::Days, n) => format!("Duration: {n} days"),
+        (TimeBucket::Hours, n) => format!("Duration: {n} hrs"),
+        (TimeBucket::Min, n) => format!("Duration: {n} min"),
+        (TimeBucket::Sec, n) => format!("Duration: {n} sec"),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The rung [`time_bucket`] picked — `0x52fa50`'s runtime key suffix, as a type.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
+enum TimeBucket {
+    Days,
+    Hours,
+    Min,
+    Sec,
+}
+
+/// `0x52fa50`'s bucket + count, shared by every countdown line the item builder emits (the
+/// temporary enchant, the item's own expiry, and — when it is fed — the cooldown remaining).
+/// The largest unit that fits wins (`>= 1 day` · `>= 1 h` · `>= 1 min` · else seconds); the count
+/// is **ceil** in the day/hour/minute arms (the `roundUp` argument, which all seven of the
+/// function's callers pass as 1) and plain **truncation** in the seconds arm.
+fn time_bucket(ms: u64) -> (TimeBucket, u64) {
     const SEC: u64 = 1_000;
     const MIN: u64 = 60 * SEC;
     const HOUR: u64 = 60 * MIN;
     const DAY: u64 = 24 * HOUR;
-    let ceil = |unit: u64| ms.div_ceil(unit);
     match ms {
-        _ if ms >= DAY => match ceil(DAY) {
-            1 => format!("{name} (1 day)"),
-            n => format!("{name} ({n} days)"),
-        },
-        _ if ms >= HOUR => match ceil(HOUR) {
-            1 => format!("{name} (1 hour)"),
-            n => format!("{name} ({n} hrs)"),
-        },
-        _ if ms >= MIN => format!("{name} ({} min)", ceil(MIN)),
-        _ => format!("{name} ({} sec)", ms / SEC),
+        _ if ms >= DAY => (TimeBucket::Days, ms.div_ceil(DAY)),
+        _ if ms >= HOUR => (TimeBucket::Hours, ms.div_ceil(HOUR)),
+        _ if ms >= MIN => (TimeBucket::Min, ms.div_ceil(MIN)),
+        _ => (TimeBucket::Sec, ms / SEC),
     }
 }
 
@@ -673,6 +730,23 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(t(0), "Rockbiter (0 sec)");
     }
 
+    /// The item self-expiry line shares the enchant countdown's ladder and differs in exactly one
+    /// way: `ITEM_DURATION_*` ships **no `_P1` plural twin**, so a one-unit count reads the same
+    /// plural spelling as any other ("1 days", "1 hrs") — the shipped enUS strings say so
+    /// (`GlobalStrings.lua:2401-2404`), and inventing a singular here would be our own invention,
+    /// not the reference's.
+    #[test]
+    fn item_duration_shares_the_ladder_but_not_the_plural() {
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(1_900), "Duration: 1 sec"); // seconds truncate
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(59_999), "Duration: 59 sec");
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(60_000), "Duration: 1 min"); // minutes ceil
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(241_000), "Duration: 5 min");
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(3_600_000), "Duration: 1 hrs"); // no singular twin
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(3_600_001), "Duration: 2 hrs");
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(86_400_000), "Duration: 1 days");
+        assert_eq!(duration_left(1_209_600_000), "Duration: 14 days");
+    }
+
     /// `ITEM_SPELL_CHARGES` and its `_P1` plural twin — one rule, both consumers (the standalone
     /// charges line and the enchant line's suffix).
     #[test]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/global_light.rs b/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/global_light.rs
index 8c50b684..125f977c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/global_light.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/global_light.rs
@@ -175,6 +175,28 @@ const POINT_PACK_RADIUS: f32 = 300.0;
 #[derive(Component)]
 pub struct LightRooms(pub(crate) crate::wmo_portal::WmoGroupVis);
 
+/// **An authored WoW point light source** — an M2 light, a WMO MOLT omni, a carried torch —
+/// as the packed light table reads it. This used to be Bevy's `PointLight`, kept purely as a
+/// data carrier: [`build_light_data`] was its only reader in the engine, every lit surface
+/// takes its lights from the shared table (0273/0285), and no shader here consumes Bevy's
+/// clustered lights at all. Bevy nonetheless ran its whole light lane over every one of them
+/// each frame — `assign_objects_to_clusters` (a `Vec` rebuilt per frame with a `RenderLayers`
+/// clone per light, even with the world camera's `ClusterConfig::None`), `extract_lights`,
+/// `prepare_lights`, the light visibility check — a city of lamps' worth of work for nothing,
+/// ~2 % of the alone frame on the crowd rig's sampled profile (decision 1945). The fields keep
+/// the `PointLight` numbers exactly (`intensity` in the same 4π-scaled units), so the packing
+/// below and every recipe are unchanged.
+#[derive(Component, Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct WorldPointLight {
+    /// Linear RGB, hue preserved.
+    pub color: [f32; 3],
+    /// `4π × authored intensity` — the `PointLight` convention, so the packer's `/(4π)` reads
+    /// the authored product back.
+    pub intensity: f32,
+    /// The ≤3-nearest selection-candidacy radius (yd) — see `terrain_stream::point_light`.
+    pub range: f32,
+}
+
 /// Main-world resource holding the packed light for this frame; extracted into the render world where
 /// [`upload_light`] writes it. Rebuilt every frame by [`build_light_data`] (cheap — one std430 pack).
 #[derive(Resource, Clone, Copy, ExtractResource)]
@@ -271,7 +293,7 @@ fn build_light_data(
     debug: Res<DebugState>,
     view: Res<ViewDistance>,
     cam: Query<&GlobalTransform, With<WorldCamera>>,
-    lights_q: Query<(&PointLight, &GlobalTransform, Option<&LightRooms>)>,
+    lights_q: Query<(&WorldPointLight, &GlobalTransform, Option<&LightRooms>)>,
     // The per-frame portal PVS, for the room term below ([`LightRooms`]).
     portals: Query<&crate::wmo_portal::WmoPortalInstance>,
     mut data: ResMut<WowLightData>,
@@ -337,9 +359,9 @@ fn build_light_data(
             let p = gt.translation();
             let d2 = p.distance_squared(cam_pos);
             (d2 < POINT_PACK_RADIUS * POINT_PACK_RADIUS).then(|| {
-                let c = pl.color.to_linear();
+                let c = pl.color;
                 let s = pl.intensity / (4.0 * std::f32::consts::PI);
-                let rgb = commit_raw([c.red * s, c.green * s, c.blue * s]);
+                let rgb = commit_raw([c[0] * s, c[1] * s, c[2] * s]);
                 (d2, p, pl.range, rgb)
             })
         })
diff --git a/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/mod.rs
index ff7da82e..09acaf0e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-world/src/lighting/mod.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ mod prop_probes; // the per-instance interior-prop SH probe table (slot ↔ Mesh
 mod resolve; // the per-frame time-of-day sample into WowLighting + the WMO interior-fog crossfade
 mod sh; // the model SH light-probe coefficient math
 pub use blob::LightBlob;
-pub use global_light::{new_shared_light_buffer, LightRooms, SharedLightBuffer};
+pub use global_light::{new_shared_light_buffer, LightRooms, SharedLightBuffer, WorldPointLight};
 pub use prop_probes::{PropProbeSlot, PropProbes, MAX_PROP_PROBES};
 // The std430 layout itself — row indices, byte sizes, region offsets and the folds that fill them
 // — stays in the crate. Off-world producers state values through `LightBlob` and never a row index
diff --git a/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/furnish.rs b/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/furnish.rs
index 7b9668bd..3f308e30 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/furnish.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/furnish.rs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 use std::time::Instant;
 
-use benilla_assets::{chunk_to_mesh, AdtTile};
+use benilla_assets::{chunks_to_mesh, AdtTile};
 use bevy::camera::primitives::MeshAabb;
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ use super::TerrainStreamer;
 /// furnishes in ~20 frames. The placement cap (`SPAWN_COUNT_CAP`) is this same idea one lane over.
 const CELL_SPAWN_CAP: usize = 64;
 
+/// A tile's 16×16 chunks furnish as 4×4 CELLS of 4×4 chunks each — one mesh, one entity, one
+/// draw per cell (decision 1945). A chunk was one draw each, and a city horizon is over a
+/// thousand of them a frame; every per-chunk fact is baked per vertex and the material is the
+/// tile's, so the cell mesh is the chunks' concatenation. `static_gx` and the merge lanes cut
+/// the world into the same 133⅓-yd cell for the same locality reason.
+const CELL_SPAN: usize = 4;
+const CELLS_PER_TILE: usize = (16 / CELL_SPAN) * (16 / CELL_SPAN);
+const CHUNKS_PER_CELL: usize = CELL_SPAN * CELL_SPAN;
+
 /// Build + spawn the cell entities of spawned-but-unfurnished tiles, [`CELL_SPAWN_CAP`] per frame
 /// while live, nearest tile to the stream focus first. Chained directly after `stream_terrain`
 /// (roots spawned there furnish from the same frame on) and before `spawn_loaded_placements`.
@@ -40,7 +49,12 @@ pub(super) fn furnish_tile_cells(
 ) {
     let t0 = Instant::now();
     let live = focus.paced;
-    let cap = if live { CELL_SPAWN_CAP } else { usize::MAX };
+    // The cap was measured in chunks; a cell is sixteen of them.
+    let cap = if live {
+        CELL_SPAWN_CAP / CHUNKS_PER_CELL
+    } else {
+        usize::MAX
+    };
     // Ablation switch (`WOW_NO_TILE_CELLS=1`): tiles stream — asset residency, collider,
     // placements, liquid, clutter — without their per-chunk cell entities, isolating the
     // render-entity lane from the asset lane when measuring a streaming cost. The B181 carve ran
@@ -75,17 +89,25 @@ pub(super) fn furnish_tile_cells(
         let Some(adt) = tiles.get(&tile.handle) else {
             continue;
         };
-        while tile.next_cell < adt.chunks.len() {
+        while tile.next_cell < CELLS_PER_TILE {
             if built >= cap {
                 break 'tiles;
             }
-            let i = tile.next_cell;
+            let cell = tile.next_cell;
             tile.next_cell += 1;
             if ablated {
                 continue;
             }
-            // A hole-emptied chunk yields no mesh (and costs nothing — it doesn't count).
-            let Some(mesh) = chunk_to_mesh(&adt.chunks[i], &adt.shading[i]) else {
+            // The cell's chunks: MCIN order is row-major, index = row·16 + column.
+            let (cy, cx) = (cell / (16 / CELL_SPAN), cell % (16 / CELL_SPAN));
+            let parts: Vec<_> = (0..CELL_SPAN)
+                .flat_map(|dy| {
+                    (0..CELL_SPAN).map(move |dx| (cy * CELL_SPAN + dy) * 16 + cx * CELL_SPAN + dx)
+                })
+                .filter_map(|i| Some((adt.chunks.get(i)?, adt.shading.get(i)?)))
+                .collect();
+            // A hole-emptied cell yields no mesh (and costs nothing — it doesn't count).
+            let Some(mesh) = chunks_to_mesh(&parts) else {
                 continue;
             };
             // The cell's Aabb, computed HERE and inserted explicitly: the mesh is
diff --git a/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/spawn/fx.rs b/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/spawn/fx.rs
index f2648dab..75614a42 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/spawn/fx.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-world/src/terrain_stream/spawn/fx.rs
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ use benilla_assets::{ModelEmitter, ModelLight};
 use benilla_formats::WmoLight;
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
+use crate::lighting::WorldPointLight;
 use crate::particles;
 
-/// Bevy `PointLight` intensity (lumens) for an M2 light of unit `diffuse_intensity`. Bevy stores the GPU
-/// colour as `linear_color × intensity/(4π)` (bevy_pbr light.rs), so `4π` makes the shader read exactly
+/// Light intensity for an M2 light of unit `diffuse_intensity`, in the units Bevy's `PointLight`
+/// used when it carried this (`linear_color × intensity/(4π)`), so `4π` makes the packer read exactly
 /// `diffuse_color × diffuse_intensity` — a clean, predictable base. `wow_model.wgsl` then applies the
 /// faithful WoW falloff `1/(0.7d+0.03d²)` (decision 0016). There is no gain dial any
 /// more: the 0273 `sh_c16.w` gain is retired and the commit is the reference's raw product
@@ -21,11 +22,10 @@ const POINT_LIGHT_INTENSITY: f32 = 4.0 * std::f32::consts::PI;
 /// radius around the receiving unit's anchor, not an evaluation cutoff (a committed GL light has
 /// none; the shader evaluates the selected lights at any distance, and att(48 yd) ≈ 0.01 is already
 /// invisible). Generous so a hall-scale WMO group whose center sits ~20 yd from its wall fixtures
-/// still gathers them — erring wide only ever admits negligible candidates. Also Bevy's clustering
-/// range for the `PointLight` itself, which our shaders don't consume.
+/// still gathers them — erring wide only ever admits negligible candidates.
 const POINT_LIGHT_RANGE: f32 = 48.0;
 
-/// The one `PointLight` recipe for an authored WoW light source (M2 or WMO MOLT). The PointLight only
+/// The one [`WorldPointLight`] recipe for an authored WoW light source (M2 or WMO MOLT). The light only
 /// carries position + colour into the shared packed table; every lit surface — terrain, M2
 /// doodads/NPCs, and WMO walls/floors (decision 0273: the reference lights them all) — then selects
 /// its unit's ≤3 NEAREST from that table and applies the faithful falloff in-shader (decision 0285;
@@ -35,17 +35,15 @@ const POINT_LIGHT_RANGE: f32 = 48.0;
 /// `pub(crate)`: the terrain path spawns it at a world-baked point below; a transport prop's light
 /// ([`crate::entities`]'s `wmo_props`) spawns it as a CHILD of the moving gameobject instead, so
 /// propagation carries the source with the hull.
-pub fn point_light(color: [f32; 3], intensity_scale: f32) -> PointLight {
-    PointLight {
-        color: Color::linear_rgb(color[0], color[1], color[2]),
+pub fn point_light(color: [f32; 3], intensity_scale: f32) -> WorldPointLight {
+    WorldPointLight {
+        color,
         intensity: POINT_LIGHT_INTENSITY * intensity_scale.max(0.0),
         range: POINT_LIGHT_RANGE,
-        shadows_enabled: false,
-        ..default()
     }
 }
 
-/// Spawn one Bevy `PointLight` at `world` (Bevy space), appended to `out` so it rides the placement's
+/// Spawn one [`WorldPointLight`] at `world` (Bevy space), appended to `out` so it rides the placement's
 /// lifecycle. The light recipe is [`point_light`].
 fn spawn_point_light(
     commands: &mut Commands,
@@ -68,7 +66,7 @@ fn spawn_point_light(
     out.push(e.id());
 }
 
-/// Spawn a `PointLight` for each casting `type==1` (point) **M2** light of a prop at `transform` (the
+/// Spawn a [`WorldPointLight`] for each casting `type==1` (point) **M2** light of a prop at `transform` (the
 /// campfire/torch/brazier/lantern sources). Position is M2 model space at rest (bone matrix identity at
 /// rest), placed via the prop's transform like the emitters — a placed prop never animates its light
 /// bone, so the rest pose is exact here (the entity path, whose bones DO move, rides joints instead).
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ pub(super) fn spawn_lights_for(
     }
 }
 
-/// Spawn a `PointLight` for each omni (`type==0`) **WMO MOLT** light at the building's `transform` (the
+/// Spawn a [`WorldPointLight`] for each omni (`type==0`) **WMO MOLT** light at the building's `transform` (the
 /// interior fixture sources — forge fire, inn fireplaces, chapel candles/chandeliers). These radiate onto
 /// the NPCs/doodads near each fixture and onto the building's own walls/floor (decision 0273). Position
 /// is WMO model space. The MOLT curve is the same fixed WoW falloff as the M2 path — byte-verified