diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs
index 2adbcaf2..9bc7ad9e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/state.rs
@@ -538,7 +538,8 @@ impl Player {
     }
 
     /// The states on this resource that stop WASD, comma-joined, or `"none"`: an instrument for the
-    /// log after a session boundary, not a gate. A stun lives on the descriptor and does not show.
+    /// log after a session boundary, not a gate. A stun lives on the descriptor and does not
+    /// show. `settling` is in the list because the settle hold is a mover hold, not a camera one.
     pub(crate) fn movement_suppressors(&self) -> String {
         let named = [
             (!self.active, "inactive"),
@@ -548,6 +549,7 @@ impl Player {
             (self.server_riding, "server-ride"),
             (self.foreign_mover.is_some(), "possession"),
             (self.reseat, "reseat-pending"),
+            (self.settling, "settling"),
         ];
         let list: Vec<&str> = named
             .into_iter()
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs
index c96fd620..4a2c62db 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ pub(super) fn release_post_snap_hold(
     // the deadline is pushed while the resident world is still the map we left and while the
     // stream advances, so only a stream with no progress for the whole budget times out.
     let now = time.elapsed_secs();
+    let was_settling = player.settling;
     if p.presentable() && !player.world_stale && focus_matches {
         player.end_settle(true, now);
     } else if player.world_stale || progressed {
@@ -144,6 +145,15 @@ pub(super) fn release_post_snap_hold(
     } else if now >= player.settle_deadline {
         player.end_settle(false, now);
     }
+    // Once per settle, and only on the frame it ends: what still holds WASD, or `none`. Without
+    // this a character that comes out of a worldport unable to walk is a story, because nothing
+    // else in the log says whether the hold is the settle, a lost mover, or a pending reseat.
+    if was_settling && !player.settling {
+        info!(
+            "worldport: settle released — WASD held by: {}",
+            player.movement_suppressors()
+        );
+    }
     // The worldport ack, the reference's post-load `0xDC`, goes at either end of the hold: the
     // server keeps an unacked transfer out of world until logout.
     if !player.settling && player.owes_worldport_ack {