diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
index f5dd916f..d70f7070 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
@@ -191,80 +191,57 @@
     </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")
-        -- The quest pair's two flags, likewise UIOptionsFrame_Init's (stock l.110-111, l.122-123),
-        -- here since the quest windows went stock (1944). QUEST_FADING_DISABLE is the reference's
-        -- "0". AUTO_QUEST_WATCH is the string "1" ON PURPOSE (decision 1136): the reference assigns
-        -- the NUMBER 1 while every consumer — stock QuestLogFrame.lua:64/68 and the checkbox's own
-        -- load — compares against the string, so on a fresh 1.12 install the row paints unchecked
-        -- and the auto-watch is dead until the box is clicked; the string ships the advertised
-        -- default as the real one. A recorded deviation (1804's rule), not a quiet one.
-        -- "Show Detailed Tooltips" — ref UIOptionsFrame.lua l.100-101, inside UIOptionsFrame_Init.
-        -- A FrameXML uvar, not a CVar, and 1.12 ships it ON: the explanatory second line IS the
-        -- default reference tooltip, not an opt-in (0661). It lived in our GameTooltip.xml until
-        -- the tooltip went stock (1968); the reference keeps it here, with the Interface page.
-        SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS = "1"
-        RegisterForSave("SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS")
-        -- "Hide World PvP Objectives" — ref UIOptionsFrame.lua's `HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE = "0"`,
-        -- the gate the stock WorldStateAlwaysUpFrame_Update opens the outdoor readout on
-        -- (`== "0" or instanceType == "pvp"`). Here since that frame went stock (1972); a nil
-        -- reads as hidden, which is how the tower counters would vanish outdoors.
-        HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE")
-        QUEST_FADING_DISABLE = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("QUEST_FADING_DISABLE")
+        -- ══ WHAT THIS FILE NO LONGER DECLARES, AND WHERE IT COMES FROM NOW (decision 2115) ══════
+        --
+        -- benilla's options window is THIS file and it is the one the player opens. But the
+        -- reference's own `UIOptionsFrame.xml` is now loaded too — hidden, off the player's chain,
+        -- at the manifest's l.21 seat above this row — so that a third-party addon reaching for
+        -- `UIOptionsFrame`, `UIOptionsFrameCheckButton42` or `UIOptionsFrame_Load()` finds the real
+        -- thing instead of an alias onto us. Three things this file used to carry are the stock
+        -- file's, and are gone from here rather than duplicated:
+        --
+        --   · **The 38 options uvars.** `UIOptionsFrame_Init` (stock UIOptionsFrame.lua l.93-185)
+        --     assigns every one its factory value and `RegisterForSave`s it — SIMPLE_CHAT,
+        --     CHAT_LOCKED, REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY, SHOW_NEWBIE_TIPS, LOCK_ACTIONBAR,
+        --     SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS, ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS, SHOW_PARTY_PETS, QUEST_FADING_DISABLE,
+        --     SHOW_PARTY_BACKGROUND, HIDE_PARTY_INTERFACE, SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET(+_STATE),
+        --     HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE, AUTO_QUEST_WATCH, the fourteen COMBAT_TEXT_* rows and
+        --     COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE, plus NAMEPLATES_ON/FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON. Every value we used
+        --     to write here was already the reference's (1804 made them so), so this is a pure
+        --     de-duplication and the DEFAULT IS NOW THE REFERENCE'S BY CONSTRUCTION: our rows read
+        --     the global at their OnLoad (`OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad`'s `udefault`), and the stock
+        --     file has assigned it long before, so Defaults still walks back to the shipped value.
+        --     Five it declares that we never did come free: SIMPLE_CHAT, SHOW_PARTY_PETS,
+        --     SHOW_PARTY_BACKGROUND, HIDE_PARTY_INTERFACE, and the nameplate pair's save rows.
+        --
+        --   · **`UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`.** The reference's option table, whose home is that
+        --     file. Stock `MultiActionBars.lua:10` writes five rows into it at ITS load ("Hack to
+        --     get around load order dependencies"), which is why the stock window's row must sit
+        --     above MultiActionBars.xml in benilla.toc — it does, at l.21 exactly as the
+        --     reference's toc has it. Our rows never read this table; they keep their own store
+        --     (`OptionsRow_Get`'s three kinds).
+        --
+        --   · **`UpdateNameplates`.** `UIOptionsFrame.lua` l.768-780 — the reference's own home
+        --     for it, and the four verbs it calls (Show/HideNameplates, Show/HideFriendNameplates)
+        --     are ours in `script/cvars.rs`, unchanged.
+        --
+        -- ── THE ONE ASSIGNMENT THAT STAYS, AND WHY IT IS AN OVERRIDE ────────────────────────────
+        -- `AUTO_QUEST_WATCH` is the string `"1"` ON PURPOSE (decision 1136): the reference assigns
+        -- the NUMBER 1 (`UIOptionsFrame.lua` l.122) while every consumer — stock
+        -- `QuestLogFrame.lua:64/68` and the checkbox's own load — compares against the STRING, and
+        -- in Lua 5.0 `1 ~= "1"`. So on a fresh 1.12 install the box paints unchecked and the
+        -- advertised auto-watch is dead until the player clicks it. We ship the string so the
+        -- advertised default is the real one — a recorded deviation under 1804's rule, not a quiet
+        -- one.
+        --
+        -- **This file loads AFTER the stock one** (manifest l.21 vs this window's seat before
+        -- GameMenuFrame), so this line runs after `UIOptionsFrame_Init` and wins. It is a
+        -- re-assignment, not a declaration: the `RegisterForSave` is the stock file's, and a second
+        -- one would be redundant — but it is kept, because `RegisterForSave` is idempotent and a
+        -- reader of this line should not have to know the stock file registered it to know the
+        -- global is persisted.
         AUTO_QUEST_WATCH = "1"
         RegisterForSave("AUTO_QUEST_WATCH")
-        -- Combat text uvars (ref UIOptionsFrame.lua l.135-152, verbatim). They lived in our
-        -- CombatText.xml while that file stood in for the addon; the addon is the reference's
-        -- own `Blizzard_CombatText` off the chain now, LoadOnDemand as the reference ships it,
-        -- so its option family's defaults sit where the reference keeps them (1964).
-        SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA = "1"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS = "1"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE = "1"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE = "1"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE")
-        COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED = "1"
-        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED")
 
         -- The family's apply, ref UIOptionsFrame_Save l.371-376 verbatim: the addon is
         -- LoadOnDemand, so turning the master on loads it, and the update runs only once it is
@@ -277,15 +254,6 @@
                 CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages()
             end
         end
-        -- CHAT_LOCKED / REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY — the chat window's two uvars, the reference's own
-        -- UIOptionsFrame.lua l.96-99 defaults ("0" and "0"), read every frame by
-        -- FloatingChatFrame.lua's FCF_Get_ChatLocked and FCF_OnUpdate since the chat window went
-        -- stock (1948). Declared here because this is where the reference declares them.
-        CHAT_LOCKED = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("CHAT_LOCKED")
-        REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY")
-
         -- The Remove Chat Hover Delay row's applyFunc: the reference's own line
         -- (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.216, `SetChatMouseOverDelay(REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY)`) under the name the
         -- row resolves at apply time. `SetChatMouseOverDelay` is FloatingChatFrame.lua's.
@@ -320,123 +288,6 @@
             end
         end
 
-        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
-        -- `"0"`. We have no counterpart to that file, and the row that drives it is on THIS
-        -- window's Interface page — so this is its home, and 1751's eighteenth window is what
-        -- moved it: it lived in our BuffFrame.xml, and the buff bar is the reference's own file
-        -- now, which reads the global and declares nothing.
-        --
-        -- **`"0"` — the reference's own, since 1804.** It shipped `"1"` from 0255, which put the
-        -- durations-shown geometry in on the director's call, through 1139, which turned it into a
-        -- setting without re-weighing what it ships as. This assignment is the ONLY statement of
-        -- the default: the saved chunk executes over it at load (1128), and the Interface page's
-        -- row captures it as its Defaults value at OnLoad, which runs first — so Defaults now
-        -- walks back to the reference's table because this line IS the reference's table.
-        --
-        -- Read at CALL time by `BuffButton_Update` / `BuffButtons_UpdatePositions` /
-        -- `BuffFrame_UpdateDuration`, so this file sitting far below the bar does not bind.
-        SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS = "0"
-        RegisterForSave("SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS")
-
-        -- The target-of-target pair, at the reference's own values and in the reference's own home
-        -- (`UIOptionsFrame.lua` l.116-119, where both sit in the uvar defaults block and both are
-        -- RegisterForSave'd). The switch ships OFF and the state ships "5".
-        --
-        -- These lived in our `UnitFrames.xml` file scope until the unit-frame kit went to the
-        -- chain — a squatter, and its own note said so. The reference declares them beside the
-        -- other party/unit uvars here, and `TargetFrame.lua:504` reads the switch at CALL time
-        -- (`TargetofTarget_Update`), so this file sitting far below the frames does not bind.
-        SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET = "0"
-        SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET_STATE = "5"
-        RegisterForSave("SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET")
-        RegisterForSave("SHOW_TARGET_OF_TARGET_STATE")
 
         -- The static category tree (era Game tab, Classic tocs), in list order. Keys are the row
         -- name suffixes; the visible label doubles as the page title (the era does the same —
@@ -455,39 +306,6 @@
         -- reference at typical resolutions reads nearer two-thirds.
         ERA_WINDOW_SCALE = 0.78
 
-        -- ── UpdateNameplates (ref UIOptionsFrame.lua l.768-780, verbatim) ────────────────────
-        -- Its reference home is `UIOptionsFrame.lua` and this file is our stand-in for that window
-        -- (0950/0992), so the function belongs here rather than beside its caller.
-        --
-        -- **Decision 1878 recorded this as "a missing ENGINE verb, and 1203 says build it or leave
-        -- it loudly absent", and named it the thing blocking the UIParent keystone. It is neither.**
-        -- It is FrameXML — `UIOptionsFrame.lua:768`, absent from wow-re's binding-shape table — and
-        -- every verb it calls is already ours: `ShowNameplates`/`HideNameplates`/
-        -- `ShowFriendNameplates`/`HideFriendNameplates` are the four CVar-backed bindings in
-        -- `script/cvars.rs`, all argc=0 arity=0, matching the reference's shapes.
-        --
-        -- `NAMEPLATES_ON`/`FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON` are `RegisterForSave` globals the reference drives
-        -- from the keybinding alone (1.12's own options UI has no nameplate row). Nil is a normal
-        -- state for them and the else-branches are the reference's own answer to it, so this needs
-        -- no seeding — which is why the whole thing is twelve lines rather than a build.
-        --
-        -- The reference's odd second arm is kept as it stands: on FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON it calls
-        -- Show and then Hide, which is a no-op in the real client too. Transcribed, not corrected;
-        -- fixing a reference bug here would be inventing a difference.
-        function UpdateNameplates()
-            if ( NAMEPLATES_ON ) then
-                ShowNameplates()
-            else
-                HideNameplates()
-            end
-            if ( FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON ) then
-                ShowFriendNameplates()
-                HideFriendNameplates()
-            else
-                HideFriendNameplates()
-            end
-        end
-
         function OptionsFrame_UpdateScale()
             -- The era panel is registered `checkFit = 1`: the panel manager also shrinks it to
             -- fit a small screen (UIPanelUpdateScaleForFit: min over width/height ratios
@@ -982,9 +800,15 @@
             --        verbs). It is unbuilt because nobody has asked for it, not because it
             --        would be inert — and the per-window lock the tab menu carries is the one
             --        a player actually reaches for. Ships when it is wanted
-            --   · 51 Auto-join Guild Recruitment Channel — carries **no cvar, uvar or func in the
-            --        reference either** (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.51 is a bare `{ index = 51 }`), so
-            --        it is inert there; a working row here would be an invention, not a fix
+            --   · 51 Auto-join Guild Recruitment Channel — **this note used to say the row is
+            --        inert in the reference too, and that was wrong** (corrected by 2115; it is
+            --        exactly the mistake 2077 corrected for SHOW_TUTORIALS). The table entry is a
+            --        bare `{ index = 51 }`, but the store is not in the TABLE — it is in the three
+            --        special-case arms `UIOptionsFrame_Load` (l.243-248, `GetGuildRecruitmentMode`),
+            --        `_Save` (l.326-331, `SetGuildRecruitmentMode`) and `_SetDefaults` (l.649) keep
+            --        for the key. Both verbs are ours now (2115), over the chat cache's
+            --        `OPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL` latch. The row is unshipped here because
+            --        nobody has asked for it, not because it would be inert
             -- Row 68, Disable Spam Filter, **shipped by 2077** — and the note it replaces was
             -- wrong twice over, both corrected at the bytes by wow-re's `text-filter-law.md`.
             -- The filter is not a word list, it is 28 compiled PCRE patterns from
@@ -1142,52 +966,42 @@
             row.fdefault = default
         end
 
-        -- The other end of `applyFunc`, and the reason a saved "off" used to come back on
-        -- (decision 1139). A CVar row needs nothing here — the host reads its own table at boot.
-        -- A GLOBAL row does: the whole UI's XML runs BEFORE the saved chunk executes over it
-        -- (1128's load order), so every file-scope consumer already ran against the SHIPPED
-        -- default — CombatText_OnLoad armed six event registrations from SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT = "1",
-        -- BuffFrame seated its rows from the durations-shown geometry — and the saved value
-        -- landing afterwards changed the variable while leaving the world it configured alone.
+        -- ── THE LOAD-TIME LADDER IS THE REFERENCE'S OWN AGAIN (decision 2115) ──────────────
         --
-        -- 1.12 closes this with a hand-written ladder in UIOptionsFrame's VARIABLES_LOADED arm
-        -- (l.204-220, "Option specific function calls": BuffButtons_UpdatePositions, the
-        -- SIMPLE_CHAT/CHAT_LOCKED arms, MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids). We already hold each side
-        -- effect on its own row, so the ladder is a walk: run every distinct applyFunc once, in
-        -- 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()
-            -- ref UIOptionsFrame_OnEvent's VARIABLES_LOADED arm, l.224-226: the combat text
-            -- addon loads at login when the saved master is on (1964).
-            if ( SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT == "1" ) then
-                UIParentLoadAddOn("Blizzard_CombatText")
-            end
-            local ran = {}
-            for key, rows in pairs(OPTIONS_PAGE_ROWS) do
-                for _, rkey in ipairs(rows) do
-                    local row = getglobal("OptionsFrameContainerBody" .. key .. rkey)
-                    -- `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
-            end
-        end
+        -- The problem it solves is real and unchanged (decision 1139): the whole UI's XML runs
+        -- BEFORE the saved chunk executes over it (1128's load order), so every file-scope
+        -- consumer of a `RegisterForSave`'d global already ran against the SHIPPED default, and
+        -- the saved value landing afterwards changes the variable while leaving the world it
+        -- configured alone. A CVar row needs nothing — the host reads its own table at boot.
+        --
+        -- 1.12 closes it with a hand-written ladder in `UIOptionsFrame_OnEvent`'s VARIABLES_LOADED
+        -- arm (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.193-227): `BuffButtons_UpdatePositions`, the SIMPLE_CHAT and
+        -- CHAT_LOCKED arms, `SetChatMouseOverDelay(REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY)`,
+        -- `MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids`, `RaidOptionsFrame_UpdatePartyFrames`, and
+        -- `UIParentLoadAddOn("Blizzard_CombatText")`. **That arm runs here now**, off the player's
+        -- chain, because the stock file is loaded (hidden) at the manifest's l.21 seat — so this
+        -- window used to re-express a ladder that did not exist and now would be a SECOND copy of
+        -- one that does.
+        --
+        -- So the walk is gone, and with it `OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings`, this window's
+        -- VARIABLES_LOADED registration, and the multibar grid row's `loadFunc`. What the walk did
+        -- that the stock arm does not, checked one by one rather than assumed:
+        --
+        --   · `BuffButtons_UpdatePositions`, `SetChatMouseOverDelay`, `MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids`
+        --     and `UIParentLoadAddOn("Blizzard_CombatText")` — the stock arm does all four, and it
+        --     runs FIRST (its frame registers at the l.21 seat, ours would register 30 rows later).
+        --   · `CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages` — the stock arm does not call it, and does not
+        --     need to: `Blizzard_CombatText`'s own `CombatText_OnLoad` calls it as its first act
+        --     (Blizzard_CombatText.lua l.81-84), and the addon loads INSIDE the stock arm, by
+        --     which time the saved uvars are already in place.
+        --   · `TargetofTarget_Update` — the stock arm does not call it either, and at
+        --     VARIABLES_LOADED there is no target, so `TargetFrame.lua:504`'s guard takes the else
+        --     branch and hides a frame that is already hidden. The row keeps it as its `applyFunc`,
+        --     which is the click behaviour and the only thing it was ever needed for.
+        --
+        -- The property the walk carried that still matters is `OptionsRow_Set`'s, and it stays
+        -- there: an `applyFunc` is a NAME, resolved when the row is applied, so a row whose
+        -- defining file a test harness never loaded applies nothing instead of raising.
 
         -- A slider row's own range and readout, when the template's 0..1 / 5% / percent (the
         -- volume shape) isn't it — called after OptionsRow_OnLoad in the row's OnLoad. The
@@ -3215,14 +3029,15 @@
                                             <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                                 OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS",
                                                     "Always Show ActionBars", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS")
-                                                -- 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.
+                                                -- A CLICK runs MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility, the
+                                                -- reference's own click arm (UIOptionsFrame.xml:683).
+                                                -- The LOAD arm — which only ever SHOWS, 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 — is the stock file's
+                                                -- VARIABLES_LOADED arm now (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.218-220),
+                                                -- which is why this row carries no `loadFunc` (2115).
                                                 self.applyFunc = "MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility"
-                                                self.loadFunc = "OptionsFrame_MultibarGrid_Load"
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
                                         <Frame name="$parentRowLockActionBar" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
@@ -4153,17 +3968,6 @@
             </Button>
         </Frames>
         <Scripts>
-            <!-- The window is where the saved globals get applied, not just edited: the chunk
-                 lands after every file-scope consumer has already run (decision 1139). This is
-                 1.12's own seat for it — UIOptionsFrame registers the same event for the same
-                 reason — and the window is hidden at the time, which is the point: the event is
-                 the UI's, not the panel's. -->
-            <OnLoad>this:RegisterEvent("VARIABLES_LOADED")</OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>
-                if event == "VARIABLES_LOADED" then
-                    OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings()
-                end
-            </OnEvent>
             <!-- Controls is the default page; a re-opened window keeps its last selection (the
                  era remembers too — Settings.OpenToCategory's default seat). The scale re-fits
                  on every show — the era panel manager re-runs checkFit the same way. -->
@@ -4184,21 +3988,43 @@
             </OnHide>
         </Scripts>
     </Frame>
-    <!-- The reference has three options windows — OptionsFrame (video), SoundOptionsFrame and
-         UIOptionsFrame (interface) — and ours is the one window for all three (0985), kept ours by
-         the director's call. The stock files address the three by name: FloatingChatFrame.lua reads
-         `UIOptionsFrame:IsShown()` every frame (FCF_OnUpdate's hover gate), and the stock micro
-         row's UpdateMicroButtons reads all three UNGUARDED to decide whether the Main Menu button
-         is down (MainMenuBarMicroButtons.lua l.47-52; decision 1987). These two aliases are the
-         adapter: a stock read of either sibling is answered by this window, which is the honest
-         answer — while ours is up, the reference's question "is an options window open" is yes.
-         The third alias is the ESC ladder's: the stock `ToggleGameMenu` (UIParent.lua l.1465-1497,
-         off the chain since 1988) closes an open options window with `OptionsFrameCancel:Click()`,
-         the reference's Cancel button; ours has a corner X whose click is the same discard-and-hide
-         (`HideUIPanel(OptionsFrame)`, and OnHide discards the pending page), so that button answers
-         to the reference's name. BENILLA_ALLOW_OWN_UI=1 -->
+    <!-- ══ THE TWO SURVIVING ALIASES, AND THE ONE THAT HAD TO GO (decision 2115) ══════════════
+         The reference has THREE options windows — `OptionsFrame` (video), `SoundOptionsFrame` and
+         `UIOptionsFrame` (interface) — and benilla's one window answers to the first name outright,
+         because that is what this frame is called. What happens to the other two is not one
+         question but two:
+
+         **`UIOptionsFrame` is NO LONGER ALIASED, and must never be.** The reference's own
+         `UIOptionsFrame.xml` is loaded, hidden, at the manifest's l.21 seat, so that name is a real
+         frame with real children — which is the whole point of 2115: pfUI's
+         `skins/blizzard/options-interface.lua` does `UIOptionsFrame:SetWidth(1024)` and then walks
+         `UIOptionsFrameCheckButton1..69`. Under the old alias that `SetWidth` landed on THIS window,
+         the one the player opens. Nothing of ours may `Show()` the stock frame either; it is
+         `hidden="true"` in its own file and that is what keeps it off the screen.
+
+         **`SoundOptionsFrame` stays aliased**, because we do not load the reference's
+         `SoundOptionsFrame.xml` at all (2115 says why: nothing in the addon corpus needs it beyond
+         one optional pfUI skin). It answers exactly two stock consumers, both of which read all
+         three window names UNGUARDED and both of which are asking "is an options window open":
+         `MainMenuBarMicroButtons.lua` l.47-52 (`UpdateMicroButtons`, deciding whether the Main Menu
+         micro button is pushed — decision 1987) and `UIParent.lua:996` (`IsOptionFrameOpen`, on the
+         path of every window close). While ours is up the honest answer to both is yes, and the
+         alias is how they get it. `OptionsFrame`, being this frame's own name, answers them too.
+
+         **`OptionsFrameCancel` stays**, and it is the ESC ladder's: the stock `ToggleGameMenu`
+         (UIParent.lua l.1465-1497, off the chain since 1988) closes an open options window with
+         `OptionsFrame:IsVisible()` → `OptionsFrameCancel:Click()`. Ours has a corner X whose click
+         is the same discard-and-hide (`HideUIPanel(OptionsFrame)`, and OnHide discards the pending
+         page), so that button answers to the reference's name.
+
+         **One behaviour changes because the alias went, and it is the right one.**
+         `FloatingChatFrame.lua` l.842/860 gate the chat tab and dock hover on
+         `not UIOptionsFrame:IsShown()`. That now reads the hidden stock frame, so chat-tab hover
+         works while OUR options window is open. The reference's gate exists because ITS interface
+         window is `frameStrata="FULLSCREEN"` with `setAllPoints` and covers the chat; ours is a
+         panel that does not. No adapter is added for it (2115).
+         BENILLA_ALLOW_OWN_UI=1 -->
     <Script><![CDATA[
-        UIOptionsFrame = OptionsFrame
         SoundOptionsFrame = OptionsFrame
         OptionsFrameCancel = OptionsFrameCloseButton
     ]]></Script>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrameTemplates.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrameTemplates.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 223ff8bd..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrameTemplates.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        WHAT IS LEFT OF THIS FILE, AND WHY IT STILL EXISTS (decision 1841).
-
-        The four templates this file used to build — `OptionFrameBoxTemplate`,
-        `OptionsButtonTemplate`, `OptionsCheckButtonTemplate` and `OptionsSliderTemplate` — now come
-        off the player's chain out of `Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml`, which the
-        manifest lists directly above this entry. Our transcription of them is gone.
-
-        **The same basename appears twice in benilla.toc on purpose.** A bare name is a file we
-        ship, a path is the reference's own (the manifest's rule since 1751), so the two entries are
-        unambiguous to the loader even though they read alike to a person. This one loads second and
-        adds exactly one name the chain's file does not have.
-
-        THAT NAME IS `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, and its home in the reference is
-        `UIOptionsFrame.xml` — a file we do not build at all, because benilla's own options window
-        is `OptionsFrame.xml`, a different design. So the template has no chain file to arrive from
-        and would simply vanish if this file did.
-
-        It is not ours and not invented: it is in `reference/1.12-globals.tsv`, and the corpus names
-        it at 8 `CreateFrame` call sites — the nameplate addons build their whole options panel out
-        of it. `panel_template_tests.rs` is the driver that says so.
-
-        WHEN THIS FILE GOES: the day `UIOptionsFrame.xml` migrates. The template comes from there,
-        this file has nothing left, and the manifest loses a line.
-
-        WHAT THE SWAP GAVE BACK. Our version factored the two widgets' hover into one
-        `BenillaOptionsWidget_ShowTooltip` helper, on the reasoning that "two copies of one
-        behaviour is how they end up disagreeing". The reference open-codes it inline in each
-        template's `<OnEnter>`, identically, and that is what runs now — the helper is gone with the
-        rest, and nothing else called it.
-    -->
-
-    <!-- ref UIOptionsFrame.xml l.6-10: a 26x26 override of the chain's own
-         `OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, which it inherits from. -->
-    <CheckButton name="UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate" inherits="OptionsCheckButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="26" y="26"/></Size>
-    </CheckButton>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
index 49863ce4..d0edeef4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
@@ -375,23 +375,92 @@ ScrollTemplates.xml
 Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua
 
 Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.xml
-# ══ THE WINDOW TAB — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751; decision 1993) ══
-# `CharacterFrameTabButtonTemplate`, the big tab along a panel's bottom edge — the character,
-# vendor and social windows' rows, and nothing else in the client (the small `TabButtonTemplate`
-# is UIPanelTemplates.xml's, above).
+# ══ 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 —
+# no `.lua`, no `<Include>` — and a descendant of UIPanelTemplates (`OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`
+# inherits `UICheckButtonTemplate`, `OptionsButtonTemplate` inherits `UIPanelButtonTemplate`), so
+# it stays seated after that file, which is the line above.
 #
-# THE REFERENCE NEVER GIVES THIS FILE A TOC LINE. Neither `FrameXML.toc` lists it (base or
-# patch); `UIOptionsFrame.xml` pulls it in with `<Include file="CharacterFrameTemplates.xml"/>`
-# above its own `<Script file=>` — "Need the character tabs here" — and that file is the
-# reference's toc l.21. Our options window is ours, so the row is explicit; l.21 is exactly here,
-# right after the UIPanelTemplates pair (l.16/17) and before StaticPopup (l.23).
+# THE REFERENCE NEVER GIVES THIS FILE A TOC LINE EITHER: its **video** `OptionsFrame.xml` — toc
+# l.19 — pulls it in with `<Include file="OptionsFrameTemplates.xml"/>` at that file's l.4. We do
+# not load the video window (decision 2115 says why: its resolution dropdown's OnLoad calls
+# `GetCurrentResolution`/`GetScreenResolutions`, nine unbuilt verbs), so the row is explicit and
+# it sits in l.19's own seat — which is what puts it here rather than 200 lines below, where it
+# used to sit before 2115.
 #
-# Its `<OnShow>` fits each tab to its text through `PanelTemplates_TabResize(0)` — which needs
-# the line above it and a SYNCHRONOUS `GetStringWidth`, the reason our own transcription carried
-# an OnUpdate settle instead until the engine gained one (1993 retires it, and 1002's clamp with
-# it: a tab's cap is the reference's own number now, so a long label overflows the plate exactly
-# as it does in the real client).
-Interface\FrameXML\CharacterFrameTemplates.xml
+# **THE SEAT IS A REQUIREMENT, not tidiness.** `UIOptionsFrame.xml` below declares
+# `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate` as `inherits="OptionsCheckButtonTemplate"`, resolved at LOAD, and
+# that name is this file's. l.19 before l.21 is exactly the reference's own answer to that.
+#
+# `framexml-transcription-diff.py` reports no handler our transcription was missing, and the swap
+# GIVES BACK the reference's own inline hover: ours had factored it into a shared
+# `BenillaOptionsWidget_ShowTooltip`, where the reference open-codes it once per widget.
+Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml
+# ══ THE VIDEO WINDOW'S LUA, WITHOUT ITS WINDOW — the seven helpers (decision 2115) ══════════
+# `Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua` is the reference's toc l.19 file's own `<Script>`, and
+# this row is that half of l.19 alone. **We deliberately do not load the video window's XML**
+# (2115): its resolution dropdown's `OnLoad` calls `GetCurrentResolution()`/`GetScreenResolutions()`
+# and nine video verbs are unbuilt, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles.
+#
+# The `.lua` is a different thing: it is pure declarations and function definitions, and its last
+# fifty lines (l.462-515) are SEVEN shared helpers `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else
+# defines — `OptionsFrame_Enable/DisableCheckBox`, `.../Slider`, `.../DropDown` and
+# `PlayClickSound`. `UIOptionsFrame_Load`, `_SetDefaults` and `_UpdateDependencies` call all seven,
+# so the row below would load clean and die on pfUI's first `UIOptionsFrame_Load()` without this.
+#
+# WHAT ELSE IT PUBLISHES, and why each is fine:
+#   * `OptionsFrameCheckButtons` — the VIDEO window's option table (18 rows). A name 1.12 has and
+#     we did not; its `OptionsFrameCheckButtonN` frames do not exist here, exactly as they do not
+#     for any window we have not built.
+#   * `OptionsFrameSliders` — the video slider table, which **our own `OptionsFrame.xml` overwrites
+#     below** with the three rows our Graphics page actually drives (pfUI's `hdgraphic` module
+#     writes `OptionsFrameSliders[3].maxValue`). Order decides collisions and ours is later; that
+#     is the manifest's rule and this is the PaperDollFrame.lua shape (`ui_script::reference_ui`).
+#   * `OPTIONS_FARCLIP_MIN`/`_MAX`, `ANISOTROPIC_VALUES`, `OPTIONS_FRAME_WIDTH` — constants we do
+#     not declare.
+#   * `OptionsFrame_Init/_Load/_Save/_Cancel/_SetDefaults/_UpdateCheckboxes` and the video
+#     dropdowns' handlers — the video window's own, reaching frames that do not exist. Nothing in
+#     this manifest calls them; an addon that does gets a raise where it used to get "call a nil
+#     value", which is not worse and is 1203's "loudly absent" either way.
+Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua
+# ══ THE STOCK INTERFACE OPTIONS WINDOW — loaded, and HIDDEN (decision 2115) ══════════════════
+# **This row is not a migration, and it is the one row in this file where that has to be said.**
+# benilla's own options window is `OptionsFrame.xml` below, and it stays the window the player
+# opens — the director's call, twice (0985, and 1987's "we want to fully own that anyway"). This
+# entry loads the reference's `UIOptionsFrame.xml` **alongside** it, and the stock file's own
+# `hidden="true"` on its main frame is what keeps it off the screen. Nothing of ours may ever
+# `Show()` it.
+#
+# WHY LOAD A WINDOW NOBODY OPENS: because third-party addons reach for it BY NAME. pfUI's
+# `skins/blizzard/options-interface.lua` walks `UIOptionsFrame`, `UIOptionsFrameTab1/2`,
+# `UIOptionsFrameCheckButton1..69`, `UIOptionsFrameSlider1..4`, the four dropdowns and the
+# `BasicOptions*`/`AdvancedOptions*` boxes; its `modules/gui.lua` calls `UIOptionsFrame_Load()`
+# and `UIOptionsFrame_Save()` around a GVAR write. Answering those names with an ALIAS onto our
+# own window (which is what we did until 2115) is worse than answering nothing: the skin's
+# `SetWidth(1024)` lands on the window the player actually opens. Real frames, hidden, is the
+# honest answer — and it is free, because the file is the player's own.
+#
+# IT IS ALSO WHERE THE REFERENCE KEEPS ITS OPTIONS STATE, so loading it retires three duplications
+# our own window carried (2115): `UIOptionsFrame_Init` assigns and `RegisterForSave`s all 38
+# options uvars; `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons` is declared here — the table stock
+# `MultiActionBars.lua:10` writes five rows into at ITS load, which is why this row must stay
+# above that one; and `UpdateNameplates` is this file's function.
+#
+# SEAT: the reference's own toc l.21, which is exactly here — after the UIPanelTemplates pair
+# (l.16/17) and the widget kit (l.19, above), before StaticPopup (l.23). Load-bearing three ways:
+# `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate` inherits the line above; three `GameMenuButtonTemplate` buttons
+# and one `UIPanelCloseButton` come from UIPanelTemplates.xml; and `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`
+# must exist before MultiActionBars.xml runs.
+#
+# IT BRINGS `CharacterFrameTemplates.xml` WITH IT, which is why that file has no row of its own
+# any more. The reference gives it no toc line either: this file `<Include>`s it at l.4 ("Need
+# the character tabs here") ahead of its own `<Script file=>`, so `CharacterFrameTabButtonTemplate`
+# — the big tab along the character, vendor and social windows' bottom edge — lands at exactly the
+# position our explicit row used to hold. Its `<OnShow>` fits each tab to its text through
+# `PanelTemplates_TabResize(0)`, which needs UIPanelTemplates.lua above and a SYNCHRONOUS
+# `GetStringWidth` (decision 1993 built that and retired our OnUpdate settle).
+Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.xml
 # ══ THE DIALOG ENGINE — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751; decision 1960) ══
 # StaticPopup.xml + StaticPopup.lua: StaticPopupDialogs (all 76 of the reference's entries),
 # StaticPopup_Show/Hide/Visible/Resize/OnUpdate, the four dialog instances, the edit boxes and the
@@ -535,23 +604,6 @@ 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 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 —
-# no `.lua`, no `<Include>` — and a descendant of UIPanelTemplates (`OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`
-# inherits `UICheckButtonTemplate`, `OptionsButtonTemplate` inherits `UIPanelButtonTemplate`), so
-# it stays seated after that file.
-#
-# `framexml-transcription-diff.py` reports no handler our transcription was missing, and the swap
-# GIVES BACK the reference's own inline hover: ours had factored it into a shared
-# `BenillaOptionsWidget_ShowTooltip`, where the reference open-codes it once per widget.
-Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml
-# …and ours, shrunk to the ONE template the chain's file does not carry:
-# `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, whose reference home is `UIOptionsFrame.xml` — a file we do not
-# build, because benilla's options window is `OptionsFrame.xml`, a different design. The corpus
-# names it at 8 `CreateFrame` sites, so it cannot simply go. Same basename as the entry above by
-# design: bare = ours, path = the reference's. Retires when UIOptionsFrame.xml migrates.
-OptionsFrameTemplates.xml
 # ══ THE COLOUR DIALOG — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 11) ══
 # `ColorPickerFrame` (a `<ColorSelect>`), `OpacitySliderFrame`, `ColorPickerOkayButton`,
 # `ColorPickerCancelButton`, and the separate `OpacityFrame` beside them. The file ships no `.lua`
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
index d73fbedd..4e7c5a12 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ pub(super) fn seed_ui_fixture(
             }
         }
         UiFixture::OptionsAudio => {
-            let Some(mut script) = script else {
+            let Some(script) = script else {
                 return;
             };
             // The Audio page (0957): register the real CVar set first — the hermetic capture has
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ pub(super) fn seed_ui_fixture(
             }
         }
         UiFixture::OptionsGraphics => {
-            let Some(mut script) = script else {
+            let Some(script) = script else {
                 return;
             };
             // The Graphics page (0959), same posture as the Audio fixture: real CVar set, live
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ pub(super) fn seed_ui_fixture(
             }
         }
         UiFixture::OptionsChat => {
-            let Some(mut script) = script else {
+            let Some(script) = script else {
                 return;
             };
             // The Chat page (1589), the page fixtures' posture: the real CVar set, then the live
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ pub(super) fn seed_ui_fixture(
             }
         }
         UiFixture::OptionsDropdownList => {
-            let Some(mut script) = script else {
+            let Some(script) = script else {
                 return;
             };
             // The dropdown list open (0992, re-seated onto Camera Following Style by 1649), same
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ pub(super) fn seed_ui_fixture(
             }
         }
         UiFixture::OptionsSearch => {
-            let Some(mut script) = script else {
+            let Some(script) = script else {
                 return;
             };
             // Mid-search (0984), same posture as the page fixtures: real CVar set, then the
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/char_select/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/char_select/mod.rs
index f1cb6463..bba9ce94 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/char_select/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/char_select/mod.rs
@@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn only_entering_the_world_writes_the_cvar() {
         let (tx, _rx) = crossbeam_channel::unbounded();
-        let mut script = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let script = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
         script.register_cvars([(CVAR_LAST_CHARACTER, "0")]);
 
         let mut app = App::new();
@@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn a_replaced_vm_is_told_the_remembered_row_again() {
         let (tx, _rx) = crossbeam_channel::unbounded();
         let fresh = || {
-            let mut s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
+            let s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
             s.register_cvars([(CVAR_LAST_CHARACTER, "0")]);
             s
         };
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/cooldowns.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/cooldowns.rs
index baa9027e..9ec23afa 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/cooldowns.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/cooldowns.rs
@@ -403,6 +403,23 @@ impl Cooldowns {
         }
     }
 
+    /// **The list belongs to the world session, not to the process** (decision 2116) — the
+    /// session-end clear every other net-backed store already had
+    /// ([`crate::net::apply::session::disconnected`]).
+    ///
+    /// `SMSG_INITIAL_SPELLS` carries the WHOLE set of cooldowns still running, at every world
+    /// entry, and [`Self::seed_initial`] appends (the reference's `AddCooldown 0x6e12c0` never
+    /// matches by id — see [`Self::add`]). So a store that survives the socket answers the *old*
+    /// session's records for the rest of their lives: a second login on the same character reads
+    /// its own stale copy rather than the wire's fresh remainder (measured live — a 600 s record
+    /// re-derived from the first login still winning over the second login's 594 s one), and a
+    /// login on a DIFFERENT character inherits cooldowns that are not theirs, for spells they may
+    /// not know. Nothing is lost by clearing: the next world entry — including 0065's seamless
+    /// reconnect, which is a full re-login — re-seeds from the wire.
+    pub(crate) fn clear_session(&mut self) {
+        self.wipe();
+    }
+
     /// One `SMSG_SPELL_COOLDOWN` pair (`0x6e9460`'s per-entry law): a nonzero wire duration is
     /// the spell recovery verbatim (category untracked); zero means "the spell's own Spell.dbc
     /// recovery + category recovery". `SPELL_ATTR_COOLDOWN_ON_EVENT` parks it and suppresses the
@@ -828,6 +845,45 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!((ch.remaining_ms, ch.duration_ms), (10_000, 15_000));
     }
 
+    /// **The session end empties the list, so the next login's wire is the whole truth**
+    /// (decision 2116). `seed_initial` appends by design (the reference's `AddCooldown` never
+    /// matches by id), so without the clear the previous session's record stays and — being
+    /// stamped with the FULL remainder it had at the earlier login — outlives and outbids the
+    /// fresh one. Measured live before the fix: a second world entry read `d=600` where the wire
+    /// had just said 594.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_session_end_empties_the_list_so_the_next_logins_wire_is_the_whole_truth() {
+        use benilla_protocol::messages::SpellCooldown;
+        let wire = |ms| SpellCooldown {
+            spell_id: 12975, // Last Stand — 10 minutes, no category
+            item_id: 0,
+            category: 0,
+            spell_cd_ms: ms,
+            category_cd_ms: 0,
+        };
+        let t0 = Instant::now();
+        let mut cds = Cooldowns::default();
+
+        // Login one: 600 s still to run.
+        cds.seed_initial(&wire(600_000), t0);
+        assert_eq!(cds.info(12975, 0, None, t0).duration_ms, 600_000);
+
+        // …the player logs out six seconds later and comes straight back in; the server's list
+        // now says 594 s.
+        let t1 = t0 + Duration::from_secs(6);
+        cds.clear_session();
+        assert!(cds.records.is_empty(), "the list dies with the session");
+        cds.seed_initial(&wire(594_000), t1);
+
+        let read = cds.info(12975, 0, None, t1);
+        assert_eq!(
+            (cds.records.len(), read.duration_ms, read.remaining_ms),
+            (1, 594_000, 594_000),
+            "one record, the second login's — a surviving first-login record would answer 600 s \
+             and go on answering it for the whole cooldown"
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn item_use_cooldowns_key_on_the_item_and_respect_the_wire_triple() {
         let t0 = Instant::now();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
index 4f18e144..176634fb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
@@ -444,9 +444,10 @@ pub(crate) const REGISTERED: &[Registered] = &[
     // **`same`, not `ours`, and that distinction is the point**: the reference has no CVar to
     // match, but it very much has a *setting* to match, and it boots both halves OFF —
     // `UIOptionsFrame_Init` assigns `NAMEPLATES_ON = nil` / `FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON = nil` and
-    // `OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings` only calls `ShowNameplates()` on a truthy SAVED value
-    // (the install's `Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.lua` l.180-183 / l.769-775). A fresh
-    // 1.12 client draws no plates until V is pressed. Enemy plates shipped ON here from 0167
+    // `UpdateNameplates` only calls `ShowNameplates()` on a truthy value (the install's
+    // `Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.lua` l.180-183 / l.769-775 — both of them the stock
+    // file's own, off the chain since 2115; our copies of each are gone). A fresh 1.12 client
+    // draws no plates until V is pressed. Enemy plates shipped ON here from 0167
     // until 1804 — `VPlateMode::default()` carries that history.
     same(crate::vplates::CVAR_ENEMIES, "0"),
     same(crate::vplates::CVAR_FRIENDS, "0"),
@@ -827,6 +828,22 @@ pub(crate) struct CvarPersist {
 }
 
 impl CvarPersist {
+    /// The saved-base pairs a VM's table is seeded from — the file's entries minus the ones an
+    /// env var owns this session, which are never persisted.
+    ///
+    /// Extracted so `ui_script::lifecycle`'s world-entry edge can run the same seed before the
+    /// interface loads (decision 2115): the reference's own `UIOptionsFrame.xml` reads two CVars
+    /// in its dropdowns' `OnLoad`, and a `/reloadui` builds a fresh VM and loads the whole
+    /// interface before [`sync_cvars`]'s `Update` claim gets a turn. The ORDER at both call sites
+    /// is this first, `register_cvars` second (1291) — reversed, a reload resets every knobless
+    /// CVar to its factory value.
+    pub(crate) fn saved_base(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = (String, String)> + '_ {
+        self.file
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|(k, _)| !self.env_overridden.contains(&k.to_ascii_lowercase()))
+            .map(|(k, v)| (k.clone(), v.clone()))
+    }
+
     /// One CVar as `config.toml` holds it — matched case-insensitively, so a hand-edited
     /// spelling still answers.
     ///
@@ -1437,13 +1454,7 @@ fn sync_cvars(
         // knobless CVar (`statusBarText`) and an addon-declared one across a VM replacement; the
         // knob-derived session rows below still win for every key a host knob backs, and an
         // env-overridden key keeps its env value the same way (its knob carries it).
-        script.set_cvar_saved_base(
-            persist
-                .file
-                .iter()
-                .filter(|(k, _)| !persist.env_overridden.contains(&k.to_ascii_lowercase()))
-                .map(|(k, v)| (k.clone(), v.clone())),
-        );
+        script.set_cvar_saved_base(persist.saved_base().collect::<Vec<_>>());
         script.register_cvars(registered_pairs());
         // The Video dropdown's menu — what this device actually accepts, enumerated once at
         // `finish()` by `view::MsaaSupportPlugin` (decision 1631) and handed over whole. Pushed
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
index f7f5f947..0eb3836a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
@@ -663,6 +663,7 @@ pub(crate) fn apply_net_updates(
                     &mut social,
                     &mut guild,
                     &mut gm_ticket,
+                    &mut ui_actions.9,
                     &mut aura.6,
                     &mut disconnects,
                 );
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_chat.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_chat.rs
index fc844edd..370dbb11 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_chat.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_chat.rs
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
 use benilla_protocol::messages::{
-    AttackerState, DamageShield, DispelFailed, EnchantmentLog, EnvironmentalDamageLog,
-    PartyKillLog, PeriodicAuraLog, PeriodicTick, SpellDamageLog, SpellDispelLog, SpellEnergizeLog,
-    SpellHealLog, SpellInstaKillLog, SpellLogExecute, SpellLogMiss, SpellOutcomeLog,
+    power_display_scale, AttackerState, DamageShield, DispelFailed, EnchantmentLog,
+    EnvironmentalDamageLog, PartyKillLog, PeriodicAuraLog, PeriodicTick, SpellDamageLog,
+    SpellDispelLog, SpellEnergizeLog, SpellHealLog, SpellInstaKillLog, SpellLogExecute,
+    SpellLogMiss, SpellOutcomeLog,
 };
 
 use crate::ui_chat::combat::{self, Family, Fills, UnitClass};
@@ -341,6 +342,11 @@ pub(super) fn spell_heal_log(
 }
 
 /// `SMSG_SPELLENERGIZELOG` → a power-gain line, also a BUFF type.
+///
+/// **The wire amount is RAW and the sentence wants the displayed figure** (decision 2117): the
+/// reference's own handler `0x5e8a90` divides by `0x6e7130(powerType)` at `0x5e8af3` before it
+/// hands the number to anything, so a warrior's one point of Unbridled Wrath rage — 10 on the
+/// wire — words as *"You gain 1 Rage from …"*, not 10.
 pub(super) fn spell_energize_log(
     s: SpellEnergizeLog,
     ctx: &ChatCtx,
@@ -359,7 +365,7 @@ pub(super) fn spell_energize_log(
     let fills = Fills {
         spell,
         power: Some(s.power),
-        amount: i64::from(s.amount),
+        amount: power_gain(s.power, s.amount),
         ..Default::default()
     };
     queue(
@@ -413,35 +419,48 @@ pub(super) fn periodic_aura_log(
                     ..Default::default()
                 },
             ),
+            // The same divide as the direct packet, from the same law and the same table — the
+            // reference's periodic handler `0x626dd0` applies it at `0x627087` before wording.
             PeriodicTick::Energize { power, amount } => (
                 combat::POWERGAIN,
                 true,
                 Fills {
                     spell: spell.clone(),
                     power: Some(power),
-                    amount: i64::from(amount),
+                    amount: power_gain(power, amount),
                     ..Default::default()
                 },
             ),
             // A mana leech is one sentence about two transfers: what the victim lost and what the
             // caster gained. vmangos sends the drained amount and a multiplier, not the gain, so
             // the gained figure is `amount * multiplier` — the same product the server applies.
+            //
+            // **Both figures are wire-raw** and the shared leech/drain formatter `0x627930` states
+            // the arithmetic exactly (decision 2117): `drained = amount / div`, `gained =
+            // trunc(amount·multiplier) / div` — the product truncates first, then divides — and a
+            // `drained` of zero drops the line, which is the reference's own test and the reason
+            // the periodic arm needs it as much as the execute-log one does.
             PeriodicTick::ManaLeech {
                 power,
                 amount,
                 multiplier,
-            } => (
-                combat::SPELLPOWERLEECH,
-                true,
-                Fills {
-                    spell: spell.clone(),
-                    power: Some(power),
-                    amount: i64::from(amount),
-                    amount2: (f64::from(amount) * f64::from(multiplier)) as i64,
-                    power2: Some(power),
-                    ..Default::default()
-                },
-            ),
+            } => {
+                let Some((drained, gained)) = leech_figures(power, amount, multiplier) else {
+                    continue;
+                };
+                (
+                    combat::SPELLPOWERLEECH,
+                    true,
+                    Fills {
+                        spell: spell.clone(),
+                        power: Some(power),
+                        amount: drained,
+                        amount2: gained,
+                        power2: Some(power),
+                        ..Default::default()
+                    },
+                )
+            }
         };
         let Some(kind) = combat::periodic_kind(caster, buff) else {
             continue;
@@ -791,11 +810,9 @@ pub(super) fn spell_log_execute(
                     multiplier,
                 } => {
                     let victim = ctx.classify(target, stores);
-                    let div = power_divisor(power);
-                    let drained = i64::from(amount) / div;
-                    if drained == 0 {
+                    let Some((drained, gained)) = leech_figures(power, amount, multiplier) else {
                         continue;
-                    }
+                    };
                     if power == POWER_HAPPINESS {
                         // `0x627de0`: the subject is the pet's OWNER and the named thing is the
                         // pet, at the literal misc-info type.
@@ -825,7 +842,6 @@ pub(super) fn spell_log_execute(
                     // `|multiplier| >= 2^-22` is the reference's own epsilon (`[0x8029d4]`), not a
                     // round number of ours.
                     let leech = multiplier.abs() >= LEECH_EPSILON;
-                    let gained = ((f64::from(amount) * f64::from(multiplier)) as i64) / div;
                     queue(
                         log,
                         ctx,
@@ -1001,14 +1017,41 @@ const EFFECT_DISMISS_PET: u32 = 102;
 /// `|multiplier| >= 2^-22` — the reference's own leech/drain discriminator (`[0x8029d4]`).
 const LEECH_EPSILON: f32 = 1.0 / 4_194_304.0;
 
-/// `0x6e7130(powerType)` — the divisor a power's log amounts are reported in
-/// (`[powerType*4 + 0x86f978]` = `{1, 10, 1, 1, 1000}`). Rage is stored ×10 and happiness ×1000.
+/// `0x6e7130(powerType)` as the log formatters take it — [`power_display_scale`]'s table, widened
+/// for the `i64` arithmetic every power line does.
+///
+/// It delegates rather than re-tabulating: this file used to carry its own copy of `{1, 10, 1, 1,
+/// 1000}`, and the copy was applied at exactly one of the four sites that need it (decision 2117).
 fn power_divisor(power: u32) -> i64 {
-    match power {
-        1 => 10,
-        POWER_HAPPINESS => 1000,
-        _ => 1,
-    }
+    i64::from(power_display_scale(power))
+}
+
+/// The figure a `POWERGAIN` line words: the wire amount on the display scale.
+///
+/// The reference does this **in the packet handler**, once per packet — `0x5e8af3` for
+/// `SMSG_SPELLENERGIZELOG`, `0x627087` for an energize tick — so the chat line and the
+/// `COMBAT_TEXT_UPDATE` push can never disagree. We have two consumers instead of one call, so the
+/// law is a named function rather than a local (decision 2117).
+fn power_gain(power: u32, amount: u32) -> i64 {
+    i64::from(amount) / power_divisor(power)
+}
+
+/// The `(drained, gained)` pair a leech/drain sentence words, or `None` when the line is dropped.
+///
+/// One function because the reference has one formatter: `0x627930` serves both
+/// `SMSG_SPELLLOGEXECUTE` effect 8 `POWER_DRAIN` and `SMSG_PERIODICAURALOG` aura 64, and the three
+/// rules are its own — `drained = amount / div`, `gained = trunc(amount·multiplier) / div` (the
+/// product truncates *before* the divide, which is why this is arithmetic and not two divides),
+/// and **`drained == 0` drops the line**.
+fn leech_figures(power: u32, amount: u32, multiplier: f32) -> Option<(i64, i64)> {
+    let div = power_divisor(power);
+    let drained = i64::from(amount) / div;
+    (drained != 0).then(|| {
+        (
+            drained,
+            ((f64::from(amount) * f64::from(multiplier)) as i64) / div,
+        )
+    })
 }
 
 /// A unit's owner guid — `CHARMEDBY` first, then `CREATEDBY`, the same pair
@@ -1182,3 +1225,45 @@ fn queue_named(
         log.push_combat(line);
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{leech_figures, power_gain};
+
+    /// The report this arithmetic was written for: MSBT read `+10 Rage` off our combat log where
+    /// the reference reads `+1 Rage`, for the same swing against the same server.
+    ///
+    /// The wire number really is ten. `Unbridled Wrath Effect` (12964) is
+    /// `effect1 = 30 SPELL_EFFECT_ENERGIZE`, `effectMiscValue1 = 1 POWER_RAGE`,
+    /// `effectBasePoints1 = 9` — base points are *n − 1*, so vmangos energizes by **10** and
+    /// `SendEnergizeSpellLog` ships that same 10 (`SpellCaster.cpp:796-813`, it logs exactly what
+    /// it hands `ModifyPower`, and the stored rage field is the ×10 one). Rage is the only power a
+    /// player can gain where raw and displayed differ, which is why it is the one that was seen.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_rage_gain_words_the_displayed_figure_not_the_wire_one() {
+        assert_eq!(power_gain(1, 10), 1, "Unbridled Wrath: one point of rage");
+        assert_eq!(power_gain(1, 100), 10, "Bloodrage: ten");
+        // Every other power a POWERGAIN line can name is one-to-one, so the divide has to be a
+        // table lookup and not an `if rage` — mana, focus and energy must come through untouched.
+        assert_eq!(power_gain(0, 300), 300);
+        assert_eq!(power_gain(2, 20), 20);
+        assert_eq!(power_gain(3, 20), 20);
+    }
+
+    /// `0x627930`'s three rules, one function for both of its packets.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_leech_divides_both_figures_and_drops_a_zero_drained_line() {
+        // Mana leeches one-to-one: 120 drained, half of it gained.
+        assert_eq!(leech_figures(0, 120, 0.5), Some((120, 60)));
+        // The truncation ORDER is observable, and only on a scaled power: the reference truncates
+        // the product and divides after (`trunc(25 · 0.9) = 22`, `22 / 10 = 2`). Dividing first
+        // would give `(25 / 10) · 0.9 = 1`, and nothing downstream would notice the off-by-one.
+        assert_eq!(leech_figures(1, 25, 0.9), Some((2, 2)));
+        // Below one displayed point there is no line at all — the reference's own `drained == 0`
+        // test, which only a scaled power can reach with a nonzero wire amount.
+        assert_eq!(leech_figures(1, 9, 1.0), None);
+        assert_eq!(leech_figures(0, 0, 1.0), None);
+        // Happiness is the ×1000 arm; a pet's 1500 raw is one displayed point.
+        assert_eq!(leech_figures(4, 1500, 0.0), Some((1, 0)));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_log.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_log.rs
index cdbd5a58..652880ad 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_log.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/combat_log.rs
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
 use benilla_protocol::messages::{
-    DamageShield, ExplorationXp, LevelUpInfo, PeriodicAuraLog, PeriodicTick, SpellDamageLog,
-    SpellEnergizeLog, SpellHealLog, SpellLogMiss, XpGain,
+    power_display_scale, DamageShield, ExplorationXp, LevelUpInfo, PeriodicAuraLog, PeriodicTick,
+    SpellDamageLog, SpellEnergizeLog, SpellHealLog, SpellLogMiss, XpGain,
 };
 
 use crate::combat_text::{damage_color, miss_word, spell_text, CombatTextSpawn, DamageSource};
@@ -301,10 +301,14 @@ pub(super) fn periodic_aura_log(
                     ),
                     extra: Some(amount.to_string()),
                 }),
+                // The displayed figure, not the wire's — `0x626dd0` divides by
+                // `0x6e7130(powerType)` at `0x627087` **before** it pushes the COMBAT_TEXT tag
+                // (`0x494770`) and before it words the chat line, so both consumers see the same
+                // number (decision 2117).
                 PeriodicTick::Energize { power, amount } => {
                     power_message_type(power).map(|message_type| CombatTextEvent {
                         message_type,
-                        data: Some(amount.to_string()),
+                        data: Some((amount / power_display_scale(power)).to_string()),
                         extra: None,
                     })
                 }
@@ -462,6 +466,10 @@ pub(super) fn spell_heal_log(
 /// NO `UNIT_COMBAT` fires here: the 5875 engine has no ENERGIZE emission — the string is absent
 /// from the whole binary (§5-verified, wow-re `unit-combat-event-law.md`; the shipped
 /// CombatFeedback.lua ENERGIZE arm is dead code in 1.12).
+///
+/// The amount is the **displayed** figure: the handler `0x5e8a90` divides by
+/// `0x6e7130(powerType)` at `0x5e8af3` and hands that one number to the COMBAT_TEXT push
+/// (`0x494770`) and to the chat formatter (`0x62ca00`) alike (decision 2117).
 pub(super) fn spell_energize_log(
     s: SpellEnergizeLog,
     self_guid: &SelfGuid,
@@ -471,7 +479,7 @@ pub(super) fn spell_energize_log(
         if let Some(message_type) = power_message_type(s.power) {
             center.write(CombatTextEvent {
                 message_type,
-                data: Some(s.amount.to_string()),
+                data: Some((s.amount / power_display_scale(s.power)).to_string()),
                 extra: None,
             });
         }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/session.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/session.rs
index 1ca89898..fb0f4aa1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/session.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/session.rs
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ pub(super) fn disconnected(
     social: &mut crate::ui_social::SocialState,
     guild: &mut crate::ui_guild::GuildState,
     gm_ticket: &mut crate::ui_gm_ticket::GmTicketState,
+    cooldowns: &mut crate::cooldowns::Cooldowns,
     pending_transfer: &mut PendingTransfer,
     disconnects: &mut MessageWriter<DisconnectedMessage>,
 ) {
@@ -282,6 +283,13 @@ pub(super) fn disconnected(
     // counters go with it, so the first `SMSG_GMTICKET_GETTICKET` of the new session re-fires
     // `UPDATE_TICKET` rather than being diffed away against the old character's answer count.
     gm_ticket.clear_session();
+    // The cooldown list is session-scoped for the same reason and had been missing from this
+    // sweep since it was built (decision 2116). `SMSG_INITIAL_SPELLS` carries every cooldown
+    // still running at every world entry and `seed_initial` APPENDS, so a list that outlives the
+    // socket answers the old session's records: a second login on the same character reads its
+    // own stale copy over the wire's fresh remainder, and a login on a different character
+    // inherits cooldowns that were never theirs.
+    cooldowns.clear_session();
     // The death stores are session-scoped too: a reclaim expiry, resurrect offer, or corpse
     // marker must not survive the socket (the reconnect re-sends the reclaim delay when dead).
     *death_net = crate::death::DeathNet::default();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat.rs
index 1c7c7f40..2d5c3eca 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat.rs
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ pub(crate) use edit::ChannelState;
 pub(crate) use event::event_name;
 pub(crate) use event::{default_color, ChatEvent, ChatEventKind};
 pub(crate) use feed::ChatLog;
+/// The per-character chat cache's restore. Called from the world-entry UI load rather than from a
+/// system, because the two events it fires have to precede the session's first chat line and
+/// `PLAYER_LOGIN` — see [`settings::restore_chat_looks`] and decision 2119.
+pub(crate) use settings::restore_chat_looks;
 
 pub(crate) struct UiChatPlugin;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/broadcast.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/broadcast.rs
index bd3ca60b..9f4f4a34 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/broadcast.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/broadcast.rs
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ mod tests {
         ChannelState {
             joined: joined.iter().map(|n| Some((*n).to_string())).collect(),
             channels: catalog(),
+            ..Default::default()
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/edit.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/edit.rs
index 9d186c97..0897bf0a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/edit.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/edit.rs
@@ -136,9 +136,59 @@ pub(crate) struct ChannelState {
     /// needs no extra bookkeeping at join time. Empty without an install, which degrades to
     /// "no zone channels, arg7 always 0" rather than to an error.
     pub channels: benilla_formats::ChatChannelsCatalog,
+    /// **The `ZONECHANNELS` mask** — the reference's `DWORD ds:0xb6e5e0`, bit `1 << (ChannelID-1)`
+    /// (decision 2120; wow-re `system/ui/scratch/zone-chat-channel-autojoin.md` §3 carries the
+    /// complete 8-site census of that global).
+    ///
+    /// **It is durable state, not a view of [`Self::joined`].** The reference seeds it once — from
+    /// the chat cache's header line (`0x498d83`, an overwrite) or, with no usable file, from every
+    /// `ChatChannels.dbc` row carrying `INITIAL` (`0x4997fc`) — then ORs a bit on each
+    /// server-confirmed join (`0x49bbaf`, the `YOU_JOINED` arm) and clears one only on an explicit
+    /// leave-by-name (`0x49f10a`/`0x49f11a` inside `0x49ee70`). The zone walk's own LEAVE, sent
+    /// every time you cross a border or walk out of a capital, does **not** touch it — which is
+    /// why `Trade`'s bit survives a logout in Elwynn Forest.
+    ///
+    /// Deriving it from the live roster at write time instead is what decision 2120 corrects, and
+    /// it was not cosmetic: the per-window line is written as `the window's own bits AND this
+    /// mask`, so one save taken while the roster was momentarily empty — the session-end flush
+    /// racing `end_session_channels` on the same unordered `OnExit(InWorld)` edge — wrote
+    /// `ZONECHANNELS 0` into every block, and the next login rebuilt window 1 with **no channels
+    /// at all**. The stock `ChatFrame_OnEvent` drops every `CHANNEL*` line whose channel the
+    /// window does not carry (ref `ChatFrame.lua` l.1374-1391, `if found == 0 … return`), so that
+    /// character silently lost its `Joined Channel:` notices *and* all General/Trade speech, for
+    /// good. Ten of the twenty files in this repo's own config folder had reached that state,
+    /// including the director's own character.
+    ///
+    /// Not cleared by the session end: it belongs to the character's file, and the login that
+    /// reads that file is what seats it.
+    pub zone_mask: u32,
+}
+
+/// The bit `id` occupies in a `ZONECHANNELS` word — `1 << (ChannelID - 1)`; nothing outside
+/// `1..=32` has one.
+pub(crate) fn zone_bit(id: u32) -> u32 {
+    if id == 0 || id > 32 {
+        0
+    } else {
+        1 << (id - 1)
+    }
 }
 
 impl ChannelState {
+    /// A server-confirmed join sets the channel's `ZONECHANNELS` bit — the reference's `0x49bbaf`,
+    /// which ORs `1 << (slot.ChannelID - 1)` in the `YOU_JOINED` arm. A custom channel has no DBC
+    /// id and so no bit, which is why this is a no-op for one.
+    pub(crate) fn note_zone_channel_joined(&mut self, name: &str) {
+        self.zone_mask |= zone_bit(self.channels.zone_channel_id(name));
+    }
+
+    /// An **explicit** leave clears the bit — `0x49f10a`/`0x49f11a` inside leave-by-name
+    /// `0x49ee70`, and only there. The zone walk's LEAVE goes out on a different path and leaves
+    /// the mask alone: crossing a border is not "I left this channel".
+    pub(crate) fn note_zone_channel_left(&mut self, name: &str) {
+        self.zone_mask &= !zone_bit(self.channels.zone_channel_id(name));
+    }
+
     /// The 1-based number of `name` (case-insensitive), if joined.
     pub(crate) fn number_of(&self, name: &str) -> Option<u32> {
         self.joined
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/feed.rs
index 3a2dc4ff..4308e3e6 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/feed.rs
@@ -683,6 +683,13 @@ pub(super) fn deliver(
     let notice = event
         .notice_byte()
         .filter(|_| event.kind == Some(ChatEventKind::ChannelNotice));
+    if notice == Some(channel_notice::YOU_JOINED) {
+        // The reference's `0x49bbaf`: the confirmed join is what sets the channel's
+        // `ZONECHANNELS` bit, and it is the ONLY thing that grows that mask at runtime
+        // (decision 2120). Outside the slot claim below because it is not about slots — a
+        // re-confirmation of a channel we already number still owns the bit.
+        channels.note_zone_channel_joined(&event.channel);
+    }
     if notice == Some(channel_notice::YOU_JOINED) && channels.number_of(&event.channel).is_none() {
         match channels.claim_slot(&event.channel) {
             Some(slot) => {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/input/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/input/mod.rs
index 75a18418..dc285b81 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/input/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/input/mod.rs
@@ -187,7 +187,10 @@ fn engine_verbs(
 pub(super) fn drain_chat_input(
     script: Option<NonSendMut<benilla_ui::script::UiScript>>,
     mut chat_log: ResMut<super::feed::ChatLog>,
-    channels: Res<super::edit::ChannelState>,
+    // Mutable for one reason: an EXPLICIT leave clears the channel's `ZONECHANNELS` bit
+    // (decision 2120, the reference's `0x49f10a` inside leave-by-name `0x49ee70`). The zone
+    // walk's own LEAVE, one module over, deliberately does not.
+    mut channels: ResMut<super::edit::ChannelState>,
     commands: Res<NetCommands>,
     emotes: Option<Res<crate::sound::EmoteSounds>>,
     selection: Res<Selection>,
@@ -264,6 +267,9 @@ pub(super) fn drain_chat_input(
                     .send(ClientCommand::JoinChannel { name, password });
             }
             ParsedChat::Leave { name } => {
+                // `/leave` is leave-by-name: the reference clears the mask bit here and nowhere
+                // else (decision 2120).
+                channels.note_zone_channel_left(&name);
                 let _ = commands.0.send(ClientCommand::LeaveChannel { name });
             }
             ParsedChat::ChatList { name } => {
@@ -970,7 +976,12 @@ pub(super) fn drain_chat_input(
                 use benilla_ui::script::ChannelCommand as C;
                 let cmd = match cmd {
                     C::Join { name, password } => ClientCommand::JoinChannel { name, password },
-                    C::Leave { name } => ClientCommand::LeaveChannel { name },
+                    C::Leave { name } => {
+                        // `LeaveChannelByName` — the same leave-by-name path as `/leave`, so the
+                        // same mask clear (decision 2120).
+                        channels.note_zone_channel_left(&name);
+                        ClientCommand::LeaveChannel { name }
+                    }
                     C::List { name } => ClientCommand::ChannelList { name },
                     // `ListChannels()` — the joined roster, numbered the way `/N` addresses it.
                     C::ListAll => {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/settings.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/settings.rs
index 339e6204..5aa43e9b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/settings.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/settings.rs
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ use bevy::prelude::*;
 
 use benilla_ui::script::{ChatTypeColor, ChatWindowLook, UiScript, MESSAGE_GROUPS};
 
+use super::edit::zone_bit;
 use crate::net::{ClientCommand, NetCommands};
 use crate::ui_script::VmMemo;
 
@@ -117,6 +118,26 @@ const HEADER: &str = "\
 # Written whole; the tab menu, /join and ChangeChatColor are what move it.
 ";
 
+/// **The writer generation, carried in the header comment** (decision 2120) — the one thing in
+/// this file that is ours and not the reference's grammar, and it is a repair marker, not a
+/// format version.
+///
+/// Every file this client wrote before 2120 composed its `ZONECHANNELS` words from the LIVE
+/// channel roster. A save taken while that roster was momentarily empty — the session-end flush
+/// racing `end_session_channels` on the same unordered `OnExit(InWorld)` edge — wrote
+/// `ZONECHANNELS 0` in the header *and*, through `window bits AND header mask`, in every window
+/// block. The next login then rebuilt window 1 with no channels, and the stock
+/// `ChatFrame_OnEvent` silently drops every `CHANNEL*` line a window does not carry — so the
+/// character lost its `Joined Channel:` notices and all General/Trade speech, permanently, because
+/// nothing but the loader's no-file path ever seeds a window's channel list.
+///
+/// A file without this line is one of those. [`restore_chat_looks`] re-seeds window 1 from
+/// `ChatChannels.dbc`'s `INITIAL` rows exactly as the no-file path does, and the next save stamps
+/// the marker, so the repair fires once per character and then never again. Bump it only for
+/// another repair of our own making; it is a comment line, so a reference client reading this file
+/// skips it like the rest of the header.
+const WRITER_GENERATION: &str = "# benilla-writer 2 (decision 2120)";
+
 /// Which character's file we are on, where it lives, and whether it is owed a write.
 #[derive(Resource, Default)]
 pub(super) struct ChatWindowFile {
@@ -136,31 +157,71 @@ pub(super) struct ChatWindowFile {
 
 /// What a file parses to: the windows it names (0-based index, the record), the `COLORS` rows
 /// it carries in file order, and the custom channels its header lists for re-joining.
-#[derive(Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub(super) struct Parsed {
     pub(super) looks: Vec<(usize, ChatWindowLook)>,
     pub(super) colors: Vec<(String, [u8; 3])>,
     pub(super) joined: Vec<String>,
+    /// The header's `ZONECHANNELS` word — the reference's `ds:0xb6e5e0`, loaded from the file as
+    /// an overwrite (`0x498d83`). `None` when the file carried no such line, which is what makes
+    /// the loader fall back to the DBC seed rather than to a mask of 0 (decision 2120).
+    pub(super) zone_mask: Option<u32>,
+    /// `OPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL` — the auto-join latch `GetGuildRecruitmentMode` returns
+    /// (decision 2115). `STANDARD` is 0 and **anything else, a missing word included, is 1**: that
+    /// is the reference's own reading (wow-re `chat-cache-grammar.md` — `"STANDARD"` takes the
+    /// `0x49ea70(ecx=0)` leg and every other word takes `ecx=1`), and it is why a file with no such
+    /// line at all reads as AUTO here, exactly as it does there.
+    pub(super) guild_recruitment_auto: bool,
 }
 
-/// The bit a zone channel's id occupies in a `ZONECHANNELS` word.
-fn zone_bit(id: u32) -> u32 {
-    if id == 0 || id > 32 {
-        0
-    } else {
-        1 << (id - 1)
+impl Default for Parsed {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            looks: Vec::new(),
+            colors: Vec::new(),
+            joined: Vec::new(),
+            zone_mask: None,
+            // The boot value, and it is evidence rather than a guess: all 33 `chat-cache.txt`
+            // files the reference client itself wrote in this repo's install say `AUTO`, on
+            // characters that never opened the option.
+            guild_recruitment_auto: true,
+        }
     }
 }
 
-/// Render the file exactly as the writer does (§1), window order. `joined` is the client's
-/// current channel roster — the custom names go to the header's `CHANNELS`, the zone ids to the
-/// two `ZONECHANNELS` words.
-fn render(looks: &[ChatWindowLook], colors: &[ChatTypeColor], joined: &[(String, u32)]) -> String {
-    let zone_mask = joined.iter().fold(0, |m, (_, id)| m | zone_bit(*id));
+/// Render the file exactly as the writer does (§1), window order.
+///
+/// `joined` is the client's current channel roster and supplies the header's `CHANNELS` names —
+/// **the custom ones only** (`id == 0`): a zone channel is never written as a name, it travels as
+/// its bit (wow-re `chat-cache-grammar.md` §1.1, which is why all 34 stock files have an empty
+/// per-window `CHANNELS` block beside a non-zero `ZONECHANNELS`).
+///
+/// `zone_mask` is [`super::edit::ChannelState::zone_mask`], written raw into the header
+/// (`0x499c19`) and ANDed with each window's own bits for its block (`0x49a133`/`0x49a138`). It is
+/// **passed in rather than derived from `joined`** — decision 2120, and the whole bug: derived, it
+/// was 0 on any save taken while the roster was empty, and `window AND 0` erased the window's
+/// channel list for good.
+fn render(
+    looks: &[ChatWindowLook],
+    colors: &[ChatTypeColor],
+    joined: &[(String, u32)],
+    zone_mask: u32,
+    guild_recruitment_auto: bool,
+) -> String {
     let mut out = String::from(HEADER);
-    out.push_str(
-        "\nVERSION 2\n\nADDEDVERSION 2\n\nOPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL AUTO\n\nCHANNELS\n",
-    );
+    // The repair marker (decision 2120) — a comment line, so the reference's own reader skips it.
+    out.push_str(WRITER_GENERATION);
+    out.push('\n');
+    // The latch is the live one now, not a literal (decision 2115): `SetGuildRecruitmentMode`
+    // writes it and this is the one place it persists.
+    let recruitment = if guild_recruitment_auto {
+        "AUTO"
+    } else {
+        "STANDARD"
+    };
+    out.push_str(&format!(
+        "\nVERSION 2\n\nADDEDVERSION 2\n\nOPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL {recruitment}\n\nCHANNELS\n"
+    ));
     for (name, id) in joined {
         if *id == 0 {
             out.push_str(name);
@@ -308,9 +369,19 @@ fn parse(text: &str, rows: &[(u32, String)]) -> Parsed {
                 block = Block::Joined;
             } else if head.eq_ignore_ascii_case("ADDEDVERSION") {
                 added_version = it.next().and_then(|v| v.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(0);
+            } else if head.eq_ignore_ascii_case("ZONECHANNELS") {
+                // The reference's top-level arm is an OVERWRITE of `ds:0xb6e5e0` (`0x498d83`), not
+                // an OR — the file is the whole truth about which zone channels this character
+                // holds (decision 2120).
+                out.zone_mask = it.next().and_then(|v| v.trim().parse::<u32>().ok());
+            } else if head.eq_ignore_ascii_case("OPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL") {
+                // The reference's own test, whole and case-folded: `STANDARD` is the only word
+                // that means 0; every other word — and no word at all — means 1 (decision 2115).
+                out.guild_recruitment_auto = !it
+                    .next()
+                    .is_some_and(|w| w.eq_ignore_ascii_case("STANDARD"));
             }
-            // VERSION, OPTION_*, and the header's ZONECHANNELS (the joined mask — ours is
-            // whatever the zone walk joins) are the reference's and not read here.
+            // VERSION is the reference's and not read here.
             continue;
         };
         if is_end {
@@ -420,23 +491,59 @@ fn roster(channels: &super::edit::ChannelState) -> Vec<(String, u32)> {
 
 /// Restore the file into a fresh VM — once per character per VM — and fire the loader's two
 /// events, file or no file.
-fn load_chat_looks(
-    script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
-    roster_res: Res<crate::char_select::Roster>,
-    channels: Res<super::edit::ChannelState>,
-    commands: Res<NetCommands>,
-    mut file: ResMut<ChatWindowFile>,
-) {
-    let Some(mut script) = script else { return };
-    let Some(id) = crate::ui_macro::identity(&roster_res) else {
+///
+/// **This runs INSIDE the world-entry UI load, not from `Update`** (decision 2119), and the two
+/// events are why. It is the only caller of `UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS`, and that event is the only
+/// thing that registers a chat frame for any `CHAT_MSG_*` — `ChatFrame_OnEvent`'s arm (ref
+/// `ChatFrame.lua` l.1261-1273) is what calls
+/// `ChatFrame_RegisterForMessages(GetChatWindowMessages(this:GetID()))`. Anything fired before it
+/// reaches no window and is gone with no trace (1784: a rejected `AddMessage` is a silent skip).
+/// As an `Update` system this landed on the same frame the parked VM came back and the whole
+/// queued login burst drained, with no ordering between them — so the server's MOTD, sent as
+/// `CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM` right after `SMSG_LOGIN_VERIFY_WORLD`, was routed at a window registered for
+/// nothing. Measured on a live login: `net: server says — Welcome to World of Warcraft!` at
+/// `…45.155929`, this restore at `…45.157625`.
+///
+/// It is also the only caller of the `UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR` burst, and that one has to precede
+/// `PLAYER_LOGIN`. The burst's `WHISPER` row mirrors itself into `ChatTypeInfo["REPLY"]`
+/// (`ChatFrame.lua` l.1357-1365) — an entry the engine's 94-row registry does not carry, so its
+/// `.id` is **0** (`ui_script::chat_tests` asserts exactly that) — and `UpdateColorByID(0, …)`
+/// repaints every line already in the window whose id is 0, which is every line printed with no
+/// explicit colour. `AceConsole-2.0`'s `Print` is exactly that call
+/// (`AddMessage(text, nil, nil, nil, nil, 5)`), so running the burst after the addons had printed
+/// repainted their login lines whisper-pink: measured `(255,128,255)` on Bartender2's login line
+/// against the reference's `(255,255,255)`, in a run where the same `AddMessage` a second later
+/// came out white.
+pub(crate) fn restore_chat_looks(world: &mut World, script: &mut UiScript) {
+    let Some(id) = world
+        .get_resource::<crate::char_select::Roster>()
+        .and_then(crate::ui_macro::identity)
+    else {
         return;
     };
-    if file.identity.get(&script).as_ref() == Some(&id) {
+    // The `ChannelState` reads are taken as owned rows up front: the restore needs the DBC
+    // shortcut table and the auto-join rows while it also holds `ChatWindowFile` mutably, and a
+    // `&mut World` hands out one resource borrow at a time.
+    let Some(channels) = world.get_resource::<super::edit::ChannelState>() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let rows = shortcut_rows(channels);
+    let auto_rows: Vec<(String, u32)> = channels
+        .channels
+        .auto_join_rows()
+        .map(|r| (r.shortcut.clone(), r.id))
+        .collect();
+    let commands = world.get_resource::<NetCommands>().map(|c| c.0.clone());
+    let Some(mut file) = world.get_resource_mut::<ChatWindowFile>() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    if file.identity.get(script).as_ref() == Some(&id) {
         return; // already restored for this character, into the VM that is live now
     }
+    let who = format!("{} on {}", id.1, id.0);
     file.path = crate::local_state::chat_character_path(&id.0, &id.1);
-    *file.identity.get(&script) = Some(id);
-    *file.dirty.get(&script) = false;
+    *file.identity.get(script) = Some(id);
+    *file.dirty.get(script) = false;
     file.last_change = None;
     let text = file
         .path
@@ -450,20 +557,22 @@ fn load_chat_looks(
             }
         });
     let had_file = text.is_some();
-    let mut parsed = text
-        .map(|t| parse(&t, &shortcut_rows(&channels)))
-        .unwrap_or_default();
+    // A file our own pre-2120 writer damaged: no marker, so its `ZONECHANNELS` words may have been
+    // composed from an empty roster and its window channel lists erased with them. Repaired below,
+    // once — the next save stamps the marker.
+    let damaged = text
+        .as_deref()
+        .is_some_and(|t| !t.contains(WRITER_GENERATION));
+    let mut parsed = text.map(|t| parse(&t, &rows)).unwrap_or_default();
+    // The DBC seed — every `ChatChannels.dbc` row the client joins by itself (`flags & 1`).
+    let seed_mask = auto_rows.iter().fold(0, |m, (_, id)| m | zone_bit(*id));
     if !had_file {
-        // The loader's no-file path (§3, `0x4997ad`): window 1's channel slots get every
-        // `ChatChannels.dbc` row the client joins by itself (`flags & 1`) as `(Shortcut, id)` —
-        // the rows `ChatFrame_RegisterForChannels` will match zone speech against by id. The
-        // rest of the record is the boot init the VM already holds.
+        // The loader's no-file path (§3, `0x4997ad`): the mask is seeded from those rows, and
+        // window 1's channel slots get each of them as `(Shortcut, id)` — the rows
+        // `ChatFrame_RegisterForChannels` will match zone speech against by id. The rest of the
+        // record is the boot init the VM already holds.
         let mut general = ChatWindowLook::stock(0);
-        general.channels = channels
-            .channels
-            .auto_join_rows()
-            .map(|r| (r.shortcut.clone(), r.id))
-            .collect();
+        general.channels = auto_rows.clone();
         parsed.looks.push((0, general));
     }
     if !parsed.looks.is_empty() || !parsed.colors.is_empty() {
@@ -474,6 +583,38 @@ fn load_chat_looks(
             parsed.joined.len()
         );
     }
+    if damaged {
+        // **The one-time repair** (decision 2120, [`WRITER_GENERATION`]). Re-seed window 1 the way
+        // the loader's no-file path seeds it, and OR the DBC bits back into the mask. Additive and
+        // deduplicated, exactly like the in-window `ZONECHANNELS` arm (`0x499332`-`0x4994e7`), so a
+        // file that survived intact is left alone and one that was zeroed gets its channels back.
+        if let Some((_, general)) = parsed.looks.iter_mut().find(|(w, _)| *w == 0) {
+            for (shortcut, id) in &auto_rows {
+                if !general
+                    .channels
+                    .iter()
+                    .any(|(c, _)| c.eq_ignore_ascii_case(shortcut))
+                {
+                    general.channels.push((shortcut.clone(), *id));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        parsed.zone_mask = Some(parsed.zone_mask.unwrap_or(0) | seed_mask);
+        // Owed a write, so the repair is genuinely ONCE: the next save composes the repaired
+        // record and stamps [`WRITER_GENERATION`], and this branch never runs for the character
+        // again. `last_change` is `None` here, so that save is the very next frame's.
+        *file.dirty.get(script) = true;
+        info!("chat cache: repaired a pre-2120 file's zone channels for {who}");
+    }
+    // …and `ChatWindowFile` is finished with, so the mask can go home to `ChannelState`.
+    drop(file);
+    // The mask is durable state from here on (decision 2120): the file's word when it carried one,
+    // the DBC seed when it did not, and from then on the confirmed joins' own OR.
+    let mask = parsed.zone_mask.unwrap_or(seed_mask);
+    if let Some(mut channels) = world.get_resource_mut::<super::edit::ChannelState>() {
+        channels.zone_mask = mask;
+    }
+    script.set_guild_recruitment_mode(u8::from(parsed.guild_recruitment_auto));
     script.set_chat_colors(parsed.colors);
     script.set_chat_window_looks(parsed.looks);
     // §8: UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS once, then UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR for every registry entry, on the file
@@ -493,11 +634,13 @@ fn load_chat_looks(
     }
     // The header's CHANNELS: the custom channels the character was in, re-joined the way the
     // reference re-joins them at login (the zone channels are the zone walk's, not the file's).
-    for name in parsed.joined {
-        let _ = commands.0.send(ClientCommand::JoinChannel {
-            name,
-            password: String::new(),
-        });
+    if let Some(commands) = commands {
+        for name in parsed.joined {
+            let _ = commands.send(ClientCommand::JoinChannel {
+                name,
+                password: String::new(),
+            });
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -506,7 +649,10 @@ fn watch_chat_looks(script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>, mut file: ResMut<ChatW
     let Some(mut script) = script else { return };
     let moved = !script.take_chat_window_changes().is_empty();
     let coloured = script.take_chat_color_changes();
-    if !(moved || coloured) {
+    // `SetGuildRecruitmentMode` is a Lua write into the same file (decision 2115) — a host seat at
+    // login does not arm this, only a script call does.
+    let recruitment = script.take_guild_recruitment_change();
+    if !(moved || coloured || recruitment) {
         return;
     }
     *file.dirty.get(&script) = true;
@@ -518,6 +664,8 @@ fn write(script: &UiScript, channels: &super::edit::ChannelState, path: &std::pa
         &script.chat_window_looks(),
         &script.chat_colors(),
         &roster(channels),
+        channels.zone_mask,
+        script.guild_recruitment_mode() != 0,
     );
     if let Err(e) = crate::local_state::write_atomic(path, &body) {
         warn!("chat cache: cannot write {}: {e}", path.display());
@@ -565,21 +713,15 @@ fn save_on_session_end(
 
 pub(super) fn plugin(app: &mut App) {
     app.init_resource::<ChatWindowFile>()
+        // **The restore is not here.** `UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS`/`UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR` have to precede
+        // the session's first chat line and `PLAYER_LOGIN` respectively, and no `run_if` can buy
+        // that: 1978's `not(ingame_ui_pending)` gate put the restore on exactly the frame the
+        // parked VM comes back and `feed_chat` drains the whole queued login burst, with nothing
+        // ordering the two. It is called from `ui_script::lifecycle`'s world-entry load instead —
+        // [`restore_chat_looks`], decision 2119. Only the watcher belongs in `Update`.
         .add_systems(
             Update,
-            (load_chat_looks, watch_chat_looks)
-                .chain()
-                .run_if(in_state(crate::char_select::ClientState::InWorld))
-                // …and never before the in-game UI exists (1348's law, the unit feed's own
-                // words): the restore fires `UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS` once and latches a per-VM
-                // memo, and the VM that is live between the world-entry edge and the deferred
-                // entry load is the SAME object the load then fills — so a restore made in
-                // that window reaches no chat frame and its memo blocks the one that would.
-                // Every plate texture stayed at the XML's white, alpha 1 (director report,
-                // 2026-09-04).
-                .run_if(bevy::ecs::schedule::common_conditions::not(
-                    crate::ui_script::ingame_ui_pending,
-                )),
+            watch_chat_looks.run_if(in_state(crate::char_select::ClientState::InWorld)),
         )
         .add_systems(
             Update,
@@ -662,7 +804,9 @@ mod tests {
             ("Trade - City".to_string(), 2),
             ("MyChan".to_string(), 0),
         ];
-        let text = render(&looks, &colors, &joined);
+        // The mask is the character's durable one now (2120), passed in rather than derived —
+        // here, the two zone channels the roster holds.
+        let text = render(&looks, &colors, &joined, 0b11, true);
         assert!(
             text.contains("\nCHANNELS\nMyChan\nEND\n\nZONECHANNELS 3\n"),
             "{text}"
@@ -696,16 +840,108 @@ mod tests {
     fn a_windows_zone_bits_are_masked_by_the_joined_set() {
         let mut w = look(1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
         w.channels = vec![("General".into(), 1), ("Trade".into(), 2)];
-        let text = render(&[w], &[], &[("General - Elwynn Forest".to_string(), 1)]);
+        // The mask holds General alone — Trade was explicitly left, so the window's own Trade
+        // bit is ANDed away on the way out.
+        let text = render(
+            &[w],
+            &[],
+            &[("General - Elwynn Forest".to_string(), 1)],
+            1,
+            true,
+        );
         let windows: Vec<&str> = text.split("WINDOW 1").collect();
         assert!(windows[1].contains("ZONECHANNELS 1\n"), "{text}");
     }
 
+    /// **The bug 2120 fixes, in one assertion: an empty roster must not erase a window's
+    /// channels.**
+    ///
+    /// The mask used to be `joined.fold(|m, (_, id)| m | zone_bit(id))`, so a save taken while
+    /// `ChannelState::joined` was momentarily empty — the session-end flush racing
+    /// `end_session_channels` on the same unordered `OnExit(InWorld)` edge — wrote `ZONECHANNELS
+    /// 0` in the header AND, through `window bits AND header mask`, in every window block. Nothing
+    /// but the loader's no-file path ever seeds a window's channel list, so the next login rebuilt
+    /// window 1 with none, and the stock `ChatFrame_OnEvent` silently drops every `CHANNEL*` line
+    /// a window does not carry: no `Joined Channel:` notices and no General/Trade speech, for
+    /// good. Ten of the twenty files in this repo's own config folder had reached that state.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_empty_roster_does_not_erase_a_windows_zone_channels() {
+        let mut w = look(1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+        w.channels = vec![("General".into(), 1), ("Trade".into(), 2)];
+        // The character IS in both channels — the mask says so — but the live roster is empty,
+        // which is exactly the state a session-end save can be taken in.
+        let text = render(&[w], &[], &[], 0b11, true);
+        assert!(
+            text.contains("\nZONECHANNELS 3\n"),
+            "the header carries the durable mask, not the roster's shadow: {text}"
+        );
+        let parsed = parse(&text, &rows());
+        assert_eq!(parsed.zone_mask, Some(0b11), "the header word round-trips");
+        assert_eq!(
+            parsed.looks[0].1.channels,
+            vec![("General".to_string(), 1), ("Trade".to_string(), 2)],
+            "window 1 keeps both channels — pre-2120 this came back empty and stayed empty"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A file our own pre-2120 writer zeroed carries no [`WRITER_GENERATION`] line, and that is
+    /// the whole discriminator: the repair is keyed on the marker, not on guessing whether a
+    /// player meant to leave every zone channel.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_written_file_carries_the_writer_generation_and_a_damaged_one_does_not() {
+        let text = render(&[ChatWindowLook::stock(0)], &[], &[], 0b11, true);
+        assert!(
+            text.contains(WRITER_GENERATION),
+            "every file we write is stamped, so the repair fires once: {text}"
+        );
+        // The shape the damage takes: a header the reference's own reader accepts, with no marker.
+        let damaged = "VERSION 2\n\nCHANNELS\nEND\n\nZONECHANNELS 0\n\n\
+             WINDOW 1\nSIZE 0\nSHOWN 1\n\nMESSAGES\nSYSTEM\nEND\n\n\
+             CHANNELS\nEND\n\nZONECHANNELS 0\n\nEND\n";
+        assert!(!damaged.contains(WRITER_GENERATION));
+        let parsed = parse(damaged, &rows());
+        assert_eq!(parsed.zone_mask, Some(0), "the zeroed header parses as 0");
+        assert!(
+            parsed.looks[0].1.channels.is_empty(),
+            "and window 1 comes back with no channels — the symptom"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The mask is durable state: a confirmed join sets a bit, an explicit leave clears one, and
+    /// a custom channel (no DBC id) has no bit at all.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_zone_mask_moves_on_join_and_explicit_leave_only() {
+        let mut state = super::super::edit::ChannelState {
+            channels: benilla_formats::ChatChannelsCatalog::from_rows(vec![
+                benilla_formats::ChatChannelRow {
+                    id: 1,
+                    flags: 0x11,
+                    pattern: "General - %s".into(),
+                    shortcut: "General".into(),
+                },
+                benilla_formats::ChatChannelRow {
+                    id: 2,
+                    flags: 0x3b,
+                    pattern: "Trade - %s".into(),
+                    shortcut: "Trade".into(),
+                },
+            ]),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        state.note_zone_channel_joined("General - Elwynn Forest");
+        state.note_zone_channel_joined("Trade - City");
+        assert_eq!(state.zone_mask, 0b11);
+        state.note_zone_channel_joined("MyChan");
+        assert_eq!(state.zone_mask, 0b11, "a custom channel has no bit");
+        state.note_zone_channel_left("Trade - City");
+        assert_eq!(state.zone_mask, 0b01, "an explicit leave clears one bit");
+    }
+
     /// The header is a comment block and survives the round trip as one — a reader that choked on
     /// its own header would lose the player's settings on the second launch.
     #[test]
     fn the_header_is_skipped_not_parsed() {
-        assert!(render(&[ChatWindowLook::default()], &[], &[]).starts_with('#'));
+        assert!(render(&[ChatWindowLook::default()], &[], &[], 0, true).starts_with('#'));
         assert_eq!(parse(HEADER, &rows()), Parsed::default());
     }
 
@@ -788,7 +1024,7 @@ mod tests {
             locked: false,
             ..look(1, 0, 0, 0, 64, 14)
         };
-        let text = render(std::slice::from_ref(&unlocked), &[], &[]);
+        let text = render(std::slice::from_ref(&unlocked), &[], &[], 0, true);
         assert!(text.contains("LOCKED 0"));
         assert_eq!(parse(&text, &rows()).looks, vec![(0, unlocked.clone())]);
         assert_eq!(
@@ -807,7 +1043,7 @@ mod tests {
             docked: Some(3),
             ..look(1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
         };
-        let text = render(std::slice::from_ref(&moved), &[], &[]);
+        let text = render(std::slice::from_ref(&moved), &[], &[], 0, true);
         assert!(text.contains("DOCKED 3"));
         assert_eq!(parse(&text, &rows()).looks, vec![(0, moved.clone())]);
         // No DOCKED/SHOWN/MESSAGES at all: the boot init stands — window 1 shown and undocked
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/tests.rs
index 16c116af..de30ef82 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_chat/tests.rs
@@ -2406,3 +2406,131 @@ fn the_free_professions_line_is_printed_once() {
         "LEVEL_UP_SKILL_POINTS_P1, plural-picked by GetText on cp2"
     );
 }
+
+// ───────────── The chat cache restores INSIDE the login, not after it (decision 2119) ─────────
+
+/// **The login order, asserted at the two places that broke.**
+///
+/// `UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS` is the only thing that registers a chat frame for any `CHAT_MSG_*`
+/// (`ChatFrame_OnEvent`'s arm calls `ChatFrame_RegisterForMessages(GetChatWindowMessages(id))`),
+/// and the `UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR` burst mirrors `WHISPER` into `ChatTypeInfo["REPLY"]`, whose `.id`
+/// is 0 — the same id every `AddMessage` with no explicit colour carries — so the burst repaints
+/// them. Both events come from the chat-cache restore, so the restore has to be finished before
+/// `PLAYER_LOGIN`: before it, an addon's `Print` gets repainted whisper-pink, and any chat routed
+/// in that window lands on a frame registered for nothing and is dropped in silence (1784).
+///
+/// Pre-2119 the restore was an `Update` system and this probe saw `windows = nil`,
+/// `colors = nil`, `registered = ""` at `PLAYER_LOGIN`.
+///
+/// The probe is planted in the boot VM the way `world_entry_tests` plants its addon: the entry
+/// load runs onto the VM that already exists, so a frame created here hears the whole load.
+#[test]
+fn the_chat_cache_restore_is_finished_before_player_login() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
+    let _l = crate::local_state::test_env::ENV_LOCK
+        .lock()
+        .unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner);
+    let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("benilla-chat-order-{}", std::process::id()));
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp);
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(tmp.join("benilla-config")).expect("hermetic home");
+    let _capture = crate::local_state::test_env::EnvGuard::unset("WOW_CAPTURE");
+    let _home = crate::local_state::test_env::EnvGuard::set(
+        "BENILLA_HOME",
+        tmp.join("benilla-config")
+            .to_str()
+            .expect("utf-8 temp path"),
+    );
+
+    let mut world = bevy::prelude::World::new();
+    world.init_resource::<crate::ui_script::AddOnIdentity>();
+    world.init_resource::<crate::minimap::MinimapZoom>();
+    world.init_resource::<crate::ui_script::ReloadUiPending>();
+    world.init_resource::<super::edit::ChannelState>();
+    world.init_resource::<super::settings::ChatWindowFile>();
+    crate::ui_script::setup_script(&mut world);
+
+    world
+        .non_send_resource::<benilla_ui::script::UiScript>()
+        .run(
+            r#"
+            ChatOrderProbe = {}
+            local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
+            f:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS")
+            f:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR")
+            f:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LOGIN")
+            f:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
+                if event == "UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS" then
+                    ChatOrderProbe.windows = (ChatOrderProbe.windows or 0) + 1
+                elseif event == "UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR" then
+                    ChatOrderProbe.colors = (ChatOrderProbe.colors or 0) + 1
+                else
+                    ChatOrderProbe.loginWindows = ChatOrderProbe.windows or 0
+                    ChatOrderProbe.loginColors = ChatOrderProbe.colors or 0
+                    ChatOrderProbe.loginRegistered =
+                        (ChatFrame1 and ChatFrame1.messageTypeList
+                            and table.concat(ChatFrame1.messageTypeList, ",")) or ""
+                end
+            end)
+            "#,
+        )
+        .expect("order probe");
+
+    world.insert_resource(crate::char_select::Roster::with_pending_pick(
+        vec![benilla_protocol::Character {
+            guid: 1,
+            name: "Probeorder".into(),
+            race: 1,  // Human → Alliance
+            class: 1, // Warrior
+            gender: 0,
+            level: 60,
+            skin: 0,
+            face: 0,
+            hair_style: 0,
+            hair_color: 0,
+            facial_hair: 0,
+            zone: 0,
+            map: 0,
+            position: benilla_protocol::wire::Vector3d {
+                x: 0.0,
+                y: 0.0,
+                z: 0.0,
+            },
+            flags: 0,
+            equipment: [benilla_protocol::CharEnumItem::default(); 19],
+            pet_display_id: 0,
+            pet_level: 0,
+            pet_family: 0,
+        }],
+        1,
+    ));
+    crate::ui_script::load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry(&mut world);
+
+    let read = |expr: &str| -> String {
+        world
+            .non_send_resource::<benilla_ui::script::UiScript>()
+            .eval::<Option<String>>(&format!("return tostring({expr})"))
+            .ok()
+            .flatten()
+            .unwrap_or_default()
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        read("ChatOrderProbe.loginWindows"),
+        "1",
+        "UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS must have fired before PLAYER_LOGIN — it is the only thing that \
+         registers a chat frame for CHAT_MSG_*, so a line routed before it is dropped in silence"
+    );
+    assert_ne!(
+        read("ChatOrderProbe.loginColors"),
+        "0",
+        "the UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR burst must precede PLAYER_LOGIN — after it, its WHISPER→REPLY \
+         mirror repaints every already-printed AceConsole line whisper-pink"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        read("ChatOrderProbe.loginRegistered").contains("SYSTEM"),
+        "ChatFrame1 must carry the SYSTEM message group at PLAYER_LOGIN, not {:?}",
+        read("ChatOrderProbe.loginRegistered")
+    );
+
+    drop(world);
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp);
+}
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 c6284755..17aa74dd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
@@ -205,14 +205,17 @@ 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.
     // The dialog engine — the keybindings page registers its two confirms into its table (1960).
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml"); // `TEXT`
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\LocaleProperties.lua"); // `GetText`
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\StaticPopup.xml");
     super::test_ui::load_ui(s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml");
+    // `LOCK_ACTIONBAR` and `ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS` are declared by `UIOptionsFrame_Init` — the
+    // reference's own home for them, and off the chain since 2115 (they were our
+    // `OptionsFrame.xml`'s from 1938 until then). The manifest loads this before the bars and
+    // before our window, whose Action Bars rows capture the value as their Defaults; so does this.
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua");
+    super::test_ui::load_ui(s, r"Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.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");
@@ -307,6 +310,79 @@ fn state_feedback_drives_cooldown_checked_and_usable_through_the_xml() {
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
 
+/// **Why a restarted `GetTime` clock reads on the bar as "no cooldown at all"** (decision 2116),
+/// through the shipped `Cooldown.lua`: `CooldownFrame_SetTimer`'s only gate is
+/// `start > 0 and duration > 0 and enable > 0`, and its `else` branch is `this:Hide()`. So the
+/// SAME running cooldown draws or vanishes purely on which clock its start was converted against.
+///
+/// This is the observable half of the relog bug: the store held the cooldown (the press was still
+/// refused), the feed pushed a triple every frame, and the button showed nothing — because the VM
+/// had been rebuilt and its clock had gone back to zero, putting every already-running cooldown's
+/// start behind the new epoch.
+#[test]
+fn a_start_behind_the_clocks_epoch_hides_the_stock_sweep() {
+    use benilla_ui::script::ActionState;
+
+    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    load_action_bar(&s);
+    s.set_action(
+        1,
+        Some(ActionSlot {
+            texture: Some("Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Fire_FlameBolt".into()),
+            kind: 0x00,
+            action: 133,
+            count: 0,
+            consumable: false,
+        }),
+    );
+    s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
+    s.tick(10.0); // GetTime == 10 — a clock that restarted ten seconds ago
+
+    // A 10-minute cooldown armed 30 s ago, converted against that restarted clock: start = −20 s.
+    s.set_action_state(
+        1,
+        Some(ActionState {
+            usable: true,
+            cooldown: Some((-20_000, 600_000, true)),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN", vec![]);
+    super::test_ui::cooldown_facts(&mut s);
+    s.tick(0.0);
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(
+        super::test_ui::cooldown_play(&s, "ActionButton1Cooldown"),
+        None,
+        "the stock `start > 0` guard hides the pane outright — 9.5 minutes still to run and the \
+         button shows nothing"
+    );
+
+    // The same cooldown on a clock that never restarted: GetTime 100, armed at 70. The sweep is
+    // exactly where it belongs.
+    s.tick(90.0);
+    s.set_action_state(
+        1,
+        Some(ActionState {
+            usable: true,
+            cooldown: Some((70_000, 600_000, true)),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN", vec![]);
+    super::test_ui::cooldown_facts(&mut s);
+    s.tick(0.0);
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(
+        super::test_ui::cooldown_play(&s, "ActionButton1Cooldown"),
+        Some((0, 50)),
+        "30 s of 600 s elapsed ⇒ sequence 0 scrubbed to 5 %: 50 ms of the 1000 ms sweep"
+    );
+
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
 /// The pie paints OVER its button's art. The Cooldown child is born at button-level+1, and the
 /// draw key's LEVEL term outranks 0884's bucket-wide layer term — so the sweep quad must sort
 /// after the icon (BACKGROUND) and after the button's own special textures. A regression here is
@@ -1505,6 +1581,11 @@ fn the_main_bar_pages_and_a_bonus_page_still_outranks_it() {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\LocaleProperties.lua",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\StaticPopup.xml",
         "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+        // `UIOptionsFrame_Init`'s uvars and `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`, which
+        // `MultiActionBars.xml` below writes into at its load — the reference's own l.21 seat,
+        // ahead of our window and ahead of the bars (2115).
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.xml",
         "OptionsFrame.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
     ] {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs
index 6d880684..9492c7eb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ fn install_boot_vm(world: &mut World) {
             return;
         }
     };
+    seed_vm_clock(world, &mut script);
     install_addon_asset_resolvers(world, &mut script);
     load_global_strings(world, &script);
     load_emote_tokens(world, &script);
@@ -67,6 +68,39 @@ fn install_boot_vm(world: &mut World) {
     world.insert_non_send_resource(script);
 }
 
+/// **`GetTime()` is the PROCESS's clock, not the VM's** (decision 2116) — so a VM built now starts
+/// it where the process already is, and [`UiClock`] is re-anchored to match in the same breath.
+///
+/// The reference's `GetTime` (`0x515ea0`) reads `KERNEL32!GetTickCount` and scales by 0.001 (the
+/// thunk `0x42c010` → `0x42b790`, wow-re's `core` boundary row): an OS clock, with no relationship
+/// to the Lua VM, that cannot restart. Ours is a Lua global the VM owns, and since 1290/1291 the VM
+/// is destroyed and rebuilt at every logout/login and every `ReloadUI` — so without this seed the
+/// clock went back to zero on each of those, and every host value already converted onto it
+/// (`CooldownInfo::ui_triple` and its kin, the aura feed's `expirationTime`) suddenly sat in the
+/// past. Stock `Cooldown.lua`'s `CooldownFrame_SetTimer` gates on `start > 0` and takes the `else`
+/// branch — `this:Hide()` — for anything else, so after a relog **every cooldown still running
+/// drew nothing** while the store, and therefore the cast validator, still held it: no sweep on the
+/// button and a "Spell is not ready yet" on the press.
+///
+/// `Time<Real>` is the right clock because it is the very one [`UiClock`] already anchors on:
+/// `elapsed` is measured at `last_update()`, which is [`UiClock::anchor`], so the pair written here
+/// is atomic in exactly the sense that resource's doc requires. A world with no `Time<Real>` (a
+/// bare test world) starts at zero, which is what it did before this existed.
+fn seed_vm_clock(world: &mut World, script: &mut UiScript) {
+    let (anchor, elapsed) = world
+        .get_resource::<Time<bevy::time::Real>>()
+        .map_or_else(Default::default, |t| {
+            (t.last_update(), t.elapsed_secs_f64())
+        });
+    script.set_now(elapsed);
+    if let Some(mut clock) = world.get_resource_mut::<UiClock>() {
+        *clock = UiClock {
+            anchor: anchor.unwrap_or_else(std::time::Instant::now),
+            ui_now: elapsed,
+        };
+    }
+}
+
 /// Wire up the halves of `Interface\AddOns\` **art and fonts** (decisions 1322, 2103): the sprite
 /// decoder's **loose-file root** (so addon-shipped BLP/TGA files render at all — the store's
 /// [`benilla_assets::WorldAssets::set_loose_addon_root`]), the VM's **texture probe** (so the
@@ -329,6 +363,27 @@ pub(crate) fn load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry(world: &mut World) {
     let identity = world
         .get_resource::<crate::char_select::Roster>()
         .and_then(crate::ui_macro::identity);
+    // **The CVar table goes in BEFORE the UI loads**, for the same reason and with a shipped-file
+    // consumer rather than an addon one (decision 2115): the reference's own `UIOptionsFrame.xml`
+    // — hidden, on the manifest for the addons that name it — reads `cameraSmoothStyle` and
+    // `cameraSmoothTrackingStyle` inside its two camera dropdowns' `OnLoad`, and a nil there is a
+    // concat error, not a default.
+    //
+    // The seed normally belongs to `cvars::sync_cvars`, a per-VM `Update` claim (1291), and on a
+    // FIRST login that has run many frames earlier. **The window is a VM replacement**: a
+    // `/reloadui` builds a fresh VM and loads the whole interface inside one call, before `Update`
+    // gets a turn — so this edge would load a client with no CVar table at all. Nothing had ever
+    // noticed, because until now no interface file read a CVar at load.
+    //
+    // The two lines are `sync_cvars`'s own first two, in its own order, and the order is
+    // load-bearing: the saved config goes in FIRST so registration starts each key at the player's
+    // value rather than the factory one (1291) — reversed, a reload would quietly reset every
+    // knobless CVar to its default. `sync_cvars` still does its full knob-derived pass on the next
+    // `Update`; both calls are idempotent, and a re-register never clobbers a live value.
+    if let Some(persist) = world.get_resource::<crate::cvars::CvarPersist>() {
+        script.set_cvar_saved_base(persist.saved_base());
+    }
+    script.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     // The realm name goes in BEFORE the UI loads, because `GetRealmName()` is read at addon file
     // scope — `MyAddonDB[GetRealmName()] = …` is the corpus idiom, and 24 addons stop on it
     // (decision 1195). The roster carries the auth realm-list entry this session connected to.
@@ -377,6 +432,16 @@ pub(crate) fn load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry(world: &mut World) {
     // back. Startup always precedes this state edge (1038), so the knob is already loaded.
     let zoom = world.resource::<crate::minimap::MinimapZoom>();
     script.set_minimap_zoom(zoom.outdoor, zoom.inside);
+    // **The chat cache restores HERE — after every chat frame exists, before anything prints into
+    // one** (decision 2119). It is the sole firer of `UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS`, which is the only
+    // thing that registers a chat frame for any `CHAT_MSG_*` (ref `ChatFrame.lua` l.1261-1273),
+    // and of the `UPDATE_CHAT_COLOR` burst, whose `WHISPER`→`REPLY` mirror repaints every line
+    // already in the window that was printed with no explicit colour (`ChatTypeInfo["REPLY"].id`
+    // is 0, and so is such a line's). As an `Update` system both landed too late: the login MOTD
+    // was routed to a window registered for nothing, and every Ace2 addon's `Print` at
+    // `PLAYER_LOGIN` came out whisper-pink. Placed after `load_ingame_ui` so an ADDON's chat frame
+    // is registered too, and before `finish_ui_load` so the burst precedes `PLAYER_LOGIN`.
+    crate::ui_chat::restore_chat_looks(world, &mut script);
     // The saved-variables chunk runs HERE — after the XML assigned its file-scope defaults, before
     // any consumer reads them — then `VARIABLES_LOADED`. That is the reference's own load order
     // (`AddOn_Load 0x51f240` steps 2 → 4 → 6, decision 1128); reversing it means the defaults
@@ -569,8 +634,14 @@ pub(crate) fn end_ui_session(world: &mut World) {
     // handles itself — it is keyed on [`benilla_ui::script::UiScript::session`] ([`VmMemo`]) — but
     // these are plain values other systems read through `Res<…>`, with no VM in hand to key
     // against, so the edge clears them. Each is a fact about a frame tree that is about to stop
-    // existing: a hovered frame id, the minimap's extracted hole, a payload the cursor is carrying,
-    // and the VM-relative clock the cooldown conversions run through.
+    // existing: a hovered frame id, the minimap's extracted hole, and a payload the cursor is
+    // carrying.
+    //
+    // **[`UiClock`] is NOT one of them, and used to be** (decision 2116). It reads like a fact
+    // about the dying VM — it is the `GetTime` leg of the conversion pair — but `GetTime` is the
+    // reference's OS tick count, not a per-VM clock, so zeroing it here restarted every cooldown
+    // and aura conversion at the character screen. [`seed_vm_clock`] writes the pair for the VM
+    // that replaces this one, moments below.
     //
     // The two input latches were cleared by `char_select`'s logout and disconnect handlers, one
     // copy each. They belong here: the reason they need clearing is that `feed_ui_input` stops
@@ -588,9 +659,6 @@ pub(crate) fn end_ui_session(world: &mut World) {
     if let Some(mut minimap) = world.get_resource_mut::<crate::minimap::MinimapWidget>() {
         minimap.0 = None;
     }
-    if let Some(mut clock) = world.get_resource_mut::<UiClock>() {
-        *clock = UiClock::default();
-    }
 
     install_boot_vm(world);
 }
@@ -826,4 +894,72 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(vm.session(), session, "the same VM, no session moved");
         assert!(world.get_non_send_resource::<ParkedBootVm>().is_none());
     }
+
+    /// **A rebuilt VM inherits the running `GetTime()` clock, and so does the conversion pair**
+    /// (decision 2116) — the bug the director reported as *cooldowns are lost on relog*.
+    ///
+    /// The reference's `GetTime` is `KERNEL32!GetTickCount` × 0.001 (`0x515ea0` → `0x42c010` →
+    /// `0x42b790`), an OS clock that cannot restart — which is why stock `Cooldown.lua` can gate
+    /// on `start > 0`. Ours lives in the VM, and since 1290/1291 the VM dies at the character
+    /// screen; before this, `end_ui_session` zeroed [`UiClock`] too, so on the way back in every
+    /// cooldown that was already running converted to a NEGATIVE start,
+    /// `CooldownFrame_SetTimer` took its `else` branch and hid the sweep — while the store, and
+    /// therefore the cast validator, still held the cooldown.
+    ///
+    /// Against the old shape the two assertions read *"the new VM's GetTime clock restarted at 0
+    /// instead of the process's 90 s"* and *"a cooldown armed before the rebuild derived start
+    /// -30000 ms; stock Cooldown.lua hides anything but `start > 0`"*.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_rebuilt_vm_inherits_the_running_gettime_clock() {
+        use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+
+        let mut world = World::new();
+        world.init_resource::<UiClock>();
+        // The process has been up 90 s — the clock `Time<Real>` keeps and the one the dying VM
+        // is on, which are the same clock.
+        let startup = Instant::now() - Duration::from_secs(90);
+        let mut time = Time::<bevy::time::Real>::new(startup);
+        // `Time<Real>` measures `elapsed` from its FIRST update, not from `startup` — so the app's
+        // own clock is "since frame one", and the test's has to be seeded the same way.
+        time.update_with_instant(startup);
+        time.update_with_instant(startup + Duration::from_secs(90));
+        world.insert_resource(time);
+        let mut dying = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        dying.set_now(90.0);
+        world.insert_non_send_resource(dying);
+        // The session never loaded an in-game UI, so the shutdown tail (which writes the player's
+        // four files) is skipped: this test is about the VM swap and nothing else.
+        world.init_resource::<PendingEntryUiLoad>();
+
+        end_ui_session(&mut world);
+
+        let vm = world
+            .get_non_send_resource::<UiScript>()
+            .expect("the session end installs a fresh boot VM");
+        assert_eq!(
+            vm.now(),
+            90.0,
+            "the new VM's GetTime clock restarted at {} instead of the process's 90 s",
+            vm.now()
+        );
+        // …and the pair every `Instant`→`GetTime` conversion runs through moved with it: a
+        // 10-minute cooldown armed 30 s before the rebuild still derives its real start.
+        let clock = world.resource::<UiClock>();
+        let armed = crate::cooldowns::CooldownInfo {
+            start: startup + Duration::from_secs(60),
+            remaining_ms: 570_000,
+            duration_ms: 600_000,
+            enabled: true,
+        };
+        let triple = armed
+            .ui_triple(clock.anchor, clock.ui_now)
+            .expect("a running cooldown pushes a triple");
+        assert_eq!(
+            triple,
+            (60_000, 600_000, true),
+            "a cooldown armed before the rebuild derived start {} ms; stock Cooldown.lua hides \
+             anything but `start > 0`",
+            triple.0
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs
index be109a88..a16eead3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs
@@ -207,6 +207,18 @@ end
 /// the addon harness ([`crate::addon_harness`]), which needs our entire interface under each
 /// surveyed addon.
 pub(crate) fn load_default_ui(script: &UiScript) -> Vec<String> {
+    // **The client's CVar table first, because the interface reads CVars AT LOAD** (decision
+    // 2115). The app registers `crate::cvars::REGISTERED` at startup, long before world entry, so
+    // in the running client this call finds every name already there and only refreshes its
+    // default — it never clobbers a live value ([`benilla_ui::script::UiScript::register_cvars`]).
+    // What it buys is that a **probe** VM is the same client: `UiScript::new()` carries only
+    // `benilla-ui`'s own CVars, and the stock `UIOptionsFrame.xml`'s two camera dropdowns read
+    // theirs inside their own `OnLoad`
+    // (`getglobal("OPTION_TOOLTIP_CAMERA"..UIDropDownMenu_GetSelectedID(this))`, which is nil and
+    // then a concat error when `GetCVar("cameraSmoothStyle")` answers nil). Both of those CVars
+    // have been registered here with real consumers since 1493/1502; the probes simply never had
+    // them, and 218 tests found that out the hour this row went on the manifest.
+    script.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     // **Silent, the way the client's own load is.** `0x48fbf0` brackets ITSELF in the counted
     // sound-suppression scope — `0x48fbfa call 0x458f50` on entry, `0x49016d call 0x458f60` on
     // exit — across the TOC walk, Bindings.xml and the AddOns, so both of its callers (login
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
index d64b6822..8b1d8077 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
@@ -235,14 +235,23 @@ pub(crate) struct UiInput;
 /// shape) re-measures the tick→feed scheduling gap every frame and wobbles the derived start by
 /// that jitter (±12 ms observed live), turning every running cooldown into a per-frame "changed"
 /// triple — the diff churn 0375 existed to kill.
+///
+/// **Both legs run on the PROCESS's clock and neither restarts with the VM** (decision 2116). A
+/// rebuilt VM (any logout/login, any `ReloadUI`) is handed the running clock by
+/// [`lifecycle::seed_vm_clock`], which writes this pair in the same breath — the reference's
+/// `GetTime` is `KERNEL32!GetTickCount`, an OS clock, and stock `Cooldown.lua` gates on
+/// `start > 0`, so a clock that went back to zero at the character screen pushed every already-
+/// running cooldown into the past and hid its sweep.
 #[derive(Resource)]
 pub(crate) struct UiClock {
     /// The `Instant` leg: `Time<Real>::last_update()` at the tick that produced [`Self::ui_now`].
     pub(crate) anchor: std::time::Instant,
-    /// The `GetTime` leg: the VM clock's value after that tick (seconds).
+    /// The `GetTime` leg: the clock's value after that tick (seconds since this process started).
     pub(crate) ui_now: f64,
 }
 
+/// The pre-boot pair, replaced by [`lifecycle::seed_vm_clock`] the moment the first VM exists —
+/// `init_resource` needs it, nothing else should build one.
 impl Default for UiClock {
     fn default() -> Self {
         Self {
@@ -473,7 +482,7 @@ pub(crate) use lifecycle::{
 // Consumed only from other modules' test code (the emote-table checks, the harness's UI-init
 // tail, the quit-once pin) — a plain re-export would warn unused in a non-test build.
 #[cfg(test)]
-use lifecycle::load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry;
+pub(crate) use lifecycle::load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry;
 use lifecycle::shutdown_on_exit;
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) use lifecycle::{
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 d5b6724c..ad1d3cfd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/multibar_stance_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/multibar_stance_tests.rs
@@ -39,10 +39,14 @@ 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.
+        // The stock multibar file's OnLoad writes `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`, whose home is the
+        // reference's own hidden Interface Options window (2115) — the reference's own load order
+        // (UIOptionsFrame.xml l.21 before MultiActionBars.xml l.39), and the manifest's since 1938.
+        // That window is also where `ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS` is declared and where the load arm this
+        // file exercises lives.
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\BasicControls.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\LocaleProperties.lua",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\StaticPopup.xml",
@@ -912,14 +916,16 @@ fn the_grid_option_holds_the_extra_bars_empty_wells_open() {
     // 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();
+    // The LOAD arm is the reference's own VARIABLES_LOADED arm now (`UIOptionsFrame.lua`
+    // l.218-220), off the chain since 2115 — not our retired `OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings`.
+    s.run("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = \"0\"").unwrap();
+    s.fire_event("VARIABLES_LOADED", vec![]);
     s.fire_event("ACTIONBAR_SHOWGRID", vec![]);
     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();
+    s.run("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = \"1\"").unwrap();
+    s.fire_event("VARIABLES_LOADED", vec![]);
     assert!(well(&s), "a load with the option on opens the wells");
     s.run("ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS = \"0\" MultiActionBar_UpdateGridVisibility()")
         .unwrap();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
index a2dd8a5e..83fcc187 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ fn harness_on(mut s: UiScript) -> UiScript {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\StaticPopup.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\GameTooltip.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        // The reference's own Interface Options window, hidden — this kit's source of truth for
+        // `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`/`UIOptionsFrameSliders`, which our own file used to
+        // transcribe and 2115 deleted. Its widget kit and the video window's shared helpers come
+        // with it, in the manifest's own order.
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.xml",
         "ScrollTemplates.xml", // the Keybindings page's faux-scroll kit
         "KeyBindingsPage.xml", // the Keybindings body's templates + script (1008)
         "OptionsFrame.xml",
@@ -688,7 +695,7 @@ fn a_slider_rows_readout_sits_on_its_labels_line() {
 /// The Audio harness: the real registered CVar set on the table before the XML loads, exactly
 /// the app's boot order (register → seed → load → select).
 fn audio_harness() -> UiScript {
-    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     s
 }
@@ -884,6 +891,13 @@ fn actionbars_harness() -> UiScript {
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\LocaleProperties.lua",
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\StaticPopup.xml",
             "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
+            // The reference's own Interface Options window BEFORE ours, as the manifest has it
+            // (2115) — `UIOptionsFrame_Init` is what assigns `LOCK_ACTIONBAR` and
+            // `ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS`, and this page's rows capture those at their own OnLoad as
+            // the Defaults value. It is also the home of `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`, which
+            // `MultiActionBars.xml` below writes into at its load.
+            r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrame.lua",
+            r"Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.xml",
             "OptionsFrame.xml",
             "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
         ],
@@ -3642,7 +3656,7 @@ fn the_chat_page_writes_the_hover_delay_global_and_the_loot_spam_cvar() {
 /// fresh VM has re-run `ChatFrame.xml`'s file-scope `"0"`.
 #[test]
 fn a_saved_hover_delay_is_applied_when_the_variables_land() {
-    let s = chat_harness();
+    let mut s = chat_harness();
     // What the saved-variables chunk does: assign the global, then the window's VARIABLES_LOADED.
     s.run("REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY = \"1\"").unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
@@ -3651,7 +3665,10 @@ fn a_saved_hover_delay_is_applied_when_the_variables_land() {
         (0.2, 0.15),
         "the bare assignment changes nothing on its own — that is why the row has an applyFunc"
     );
-    s.run("OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings()").unwrap();
+    // The reference's own VARIABLES_LOADED arm, off the chain since 2115 — this row's apply is
+    // `SetChatMouseOverDelay(REMOVE_CHAT_DELAY)` at `UIOptionsFrame.lua:216`, and the event is
+    // what runs it. (It used to be our own `OptionsFrame_ApplySavedSettings` walk.)
+    s.fire_event("VARIABLES_LOADED", vec![]);
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<(f64, f64)>("return CHAT_TAB_SHOW_DELAY, CHAT_FRAME_FADE_TIME")
             .unwrap(),
@@ -4285,6 +4302,18 @@ const UNBACKED_REFERENCE_CVARS: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
         "PetMeleeDamage",
         "`combat_text::law::PET_MELEE_DAMAGE`, a const bool — see CombatDamage",
     ),
+    // …and the SLIDERS' half, which this census was blind to until 2115 extended it from
+    // `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons` to `UIOptionsFrameSliders` as well. One row, and it is not
+    // cosmetic: `UIOptionsFrame_Load` does `slider:SetValue(GetCVar(value.cvar))`, and
+    // `Slider:SetValue` is a shape-A binding (`0x790980`, wow-re `numeric-arg-coercion-law.md`)
+    // that RAISES on a nil in the reference too — so this is what stops the stock window's
+    // `_Load()` running clean, and pfUI's GVAR path with it.
+    (
+        "cameraYawMoveSpeed",
+        "the Mouse Look Speed slider — benilla's mouse-look yaw rate is not a CVar-driven knob \
+         yet; its sibling `cameraYawSmoothSpeed` (auto-follow) is registered and drives \
+         `follow.yaw_speed`, and this one has no counterpart in `player::camera`",
+    ),
 ];
 
 /// **Every CVar the reference's own options table names is registered here, or listed above with
@@ -4298,16 +4327,22 @@ const UNBACKED_REFERENCE_CVARS: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
 fn every_cvar_the_reference_table_names_is_registered_or_listed_with_its_blocker() {
     let s = harness();
     // The table as the file declares it: `name` (the display key) -> its `cvar`, if it has one.
+    // **BOTH of the reference's option tables** (2115). The checkbuttons were the whole census
+    // until the stock window went on the manifest and `UIOptionsFrameSliders` turned out to name a
+    // CVar nothing here registers — a row the check could not see because it only read one table.
     let named: Vec<String> = s
         .eval::<Vec<String>>(
             "local out = {} \
              for key, v in pairs(UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons) do \
                  if v.cvar then table.insert(out, v.cvar) end \
              end \
+             for _, v in ipairs(UIOptionsFrameSliders) do \
+                 if v.cvar then table.insert(out, v.cvar) end \
+             end \
              table.sort(out) \
              return out",
         )
-        .expect("read UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons");
+        .expect("read UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons and UIOptionsFrameSliders");
     assert!(
         named.len() >= 28,
         "the transcription lost rows: only {} cvar entries",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/panel_template_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/panel_template_tests.rs
index c14ccd5e..2d206688 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/panel_template_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/panel_template_tests.rs
@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@ use benilla_ui::script::UiScript;
 
 use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 
-fn ui_dir() -> std::path::PathBuf {
-    std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("assets/ui")
-}
-
 /// The manifest prefix these two files sit on: fonts, `UIParent` (the parent every addon passes),
 /// `HideUIPanel` (the close button's OnClick), the tooltip (the options widgets' hover) and the
 /// scroll kit (`ScrollFrame_OnLoad`), then the two files under test in manifest order.
@@ -57,7 +53,13 @@ fn harness() -> UiScript {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\LocaleProperties.lua",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\StaticPopup.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
-        "OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
+        // `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate`'s home. It was ours, in a one-template
+        // `OptionsFrameTemplates.xml`, until 2115 put the reference's own hidden Interface
+        // Options window on the manifest — the template's actual home, and the whole point of
+        // that record: an addon that names it gets the reference's own declaration. The dropdown
+        // kit comes with it because the window has four.
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
+        r"Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(&s, file);
     }
@@ -434,59 +436,18 @@ fn the_options_check_button_resolves_its_whole_inheritance_chain() {
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
 
-/// **No invented names.** Every `virtual="true"` template these two files declare is a name the
-/// real 1.12.1 client has, read from `reference/1.12-globals.tsv`.
-///
-/// Scoped to these two files on purpose: the rest of `assets/ui` is full of deliberately
-/// benilla-shaped template names (`BenillaScrollBarTemplate`, `BenillaScriptLogRowTemplate`,
-/// `OptionsRedButtonTemplate`), and a whole-tree sweep would be asserting something else. These
-/// two files make the opposite claim — *these are the reference's own names, which is why an addon
-/// can find them* — so that claim is the one worth gating. A template renamed to something
-/// plausible-but-absent here is a template no addon will ever name.
-#[test]
-fn every_template_these_files_declare_is_a_real_1_12_name() {
-    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
-    let tsv =
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../reference/1.12-globals.tsv");
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&tsv).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
-        panic!(
-            "reading {}: {e} — regenerate with scripts/gen-reference-globals.py",
-            tsv.display()
-        )
-    });
-    let known: std::collections::HashSet<&str> = text
-        .lines()
-        .filter(|l| !l.starts_with('#'))
-        .filter_map(|l| l.split('\t').next())
-        .collect();
-
-    let mut checked = 0;
-    // OUR files only. This reads the source tree directly, so it cannot name a chain entry — and
-    // it has no reason to: asserting that the reference's own file declares 1.12 names is
-    // tautological. What it guards is us inventing one (decision 1841).
-    // Our remaining file only. `UIPanelTemplates.xml` was ours until 1846 put the whole kit on the
-    // chain; what is left to guard is the one template we still declare.
-    for file in ["OptionsFrameTemplates.xml"] {
-        let src = std::fs::read_to_string(ui_dir().join(file)).unwrap();
-        let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&src).unwrap();
-        for item in &doc.items {
-            let benilla_ui::framexml::TopLevel::Template(el) = item else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            let name = el.name().expect("every template here is named");
-            assert!(
-                known.contains(name),
-                "{file} declares '{name}', which is not a 1.12 global — \
-                 a template the reference does not have is one no addon can name"
-            );
-            checked += 1;
-        }
-    }
-    assert!(
-        checked >= 1,
-        "only {checked} templates swept — the sweep, not the files, is what broke"
-    );
-}
+// **RETIRED with its subject (decision 2115).** `every_template_these_files_declare_is_a_real_1_12_name`
+// swept the `virtual="true"` templates of the files we shipped under a reference name and required
+// each to be a real 1.12 global (`reference/1.12-globals.tsv`) — the guard against inventing a
+// plausible-but-absent template name that no addon could ever reach for (decision 1841). 1846 took
+// `UIPanelTemplates.xml` to the chain and left it one subject, `OptionsFrameTemplates.xml`'s single
+// `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate`; 2115 took that one too, by loading the reference's own
+// `UIOptionsFrame.xml`. Nothing under `assets/ui` now declares a template under a reference name —
+// what is left there is deliberately benilla-shaped (`BenillaScrollBarTemplate`,
+// `OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate`, `BenillaScriptLogRowTemplate`), which is a different claim and the
+// sweep's own doc said so. This is 1751 §5 working as written: a drift instrument loses its subject
+// as the copies retire. `the_options_check_button_resolves_its_whole_inheritance_chain` above still
+// proves the template resolves — off the chain now.
 
 /// **`PanelTemplates_TabResize`'s `tab` argument is OPTIONAL, and omitting it means `this`.**
 ///
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs
index 8c86f991..06eb90cd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/reference_ui.rs
@@ -1575,6 +1575,46 @@ mod tests {
                 "a registered 1.12 binding whose body is uncarved (wow-re `bindings.md`, structural row only); a \
                  wow-re orchestrator is out on it and it is built when the carve lands (1960). Reached by TRADE_REPLACE_ENCHANT's Accept, an event this engine does not fire yet.",
             ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "GetCurrentResolution",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "GetGamma",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "GetRefreshRates",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "GetScreenResolutions",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "RestartGx",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "RestoreVideoDefaults",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "SetGamma",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
+            (
+                "OptionsFrame.lua",
+                "SetScreenResolution",
+                "one of the VIDEO options window's nine engine verbs, none built and none intended for now (decision 2115). `OptionsFrame.lua` is on the manifest for its last fifty lines — the seven shared `OptionsFrame_Enable/Disable*` helpers plus `PlayClickSound`, which the stock `UIOptionsFrame.lua` calls and nothing else defines. Its own window's XML is deliberately NOT loaded (the resolution dropdown's OnLoad alone needs `GetCurrentResolution` and `GetScreenResolutions`, and eighteen of its checkboxes are 2004 hardware toggles), so every caller of this verb is a function no frame reaches. benilla's own Graphics page is `OptionsFrame.xml`'s. Closed by building the video window, not by a stub (1203).",
+            ),
         ];
 
         let mut missing: Vec<(String, String)> = Vec::new();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shape_gate.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shape_gate.rs
index 4c04c4dc..f11074c0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shape_gate.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shape_gate.rs
@@ -7,13 +7,24 @@
 //! invisible to the chain's own files too, because a Lua caller that uses one value of two never
 //! notices the second.
 //!
+//! **Arity is only half a shape.** A binding that answers the right *number* of values of the
+//! wrong *kind* is the same silent break one level down, and it is the shape the 1.12 API is most
+//! exposed to: the reference has no boolean-returning query at all — every `Is*`/`Can*`/`Has*` row
+//! in the table is `(nil) | (number)`, because the client pushes `1` and `nil`, never `true` and
+//! `false`. An addon writing `if IsShiftKeyDown() == 1` — and 87 corpus addons compare returns to
+//! `1` — reads a `true` as "not held". So the kinds column is gated as well, wherever the table
+//! says it is trustworthy (decision 2118).
+//!
 //! The table is wow-re's `re/audit/binding-shapes.tsv`, vendored: 1722 rows over all 82 registrar
 //! tables, one per registered binding, generated and differentially tested against that repo's
 //! other harvester. It carries the gate rule **per row** rather than in prose, which is the whole
 //! reason it can be enforced instead of remembered:
 //!
 //! * `arity_conf = exact` — sound. This is the column to gate on.
-//! * `kinds_conf` — trustworthy only where an independent push count agreed; not gated here.
+//! * `kinds_conf = agree` — the row's independent `lua_push*` trace matched `eax` at every `ret`,
+//!   which is the table's own statement that the kinds are trustworthy. Gated too, by
+//!   [`every_query_binding_answers_the_reference_s_return_kinds`]; a row that did not agree is
+//!   advisory and this module never reads its kinds at all.
 //! * `argc_conf` — **never** gate on it. It is a deliberate over-flagging superset: any binding
 //!   whose direct callee reads a Lua index is marked `lower-bound`, so a `lower-bound` row says
 //!   nothing about the real argument count.
@@ -54,6 +65,36 @@
 /// an entry needs an arity, a reason, and a dispatched question.
 const NOT_YET_ASSERTED: &[(&str, usize, &str)] = &[];
 
+/// The **kind** gate's own shrinking list, same rules as [`NOT_YET_ASSERTED`]: a name, the wrong
+/// kinds it currently answers, and the dispatched question that will settle it. An entry whose
+/// binding has come into agreement fails the gate, so it cannot outlive its fix.
+///
+/// Both entries are edge-case *values* the shapes table states the kind of and the recorded wow-re
+/// notes state no value for, dispatched into wow-re as one batched question (decision 2118):
+///
+/// * `GetSendMailItem` — slots 3 and 4 are `number` on every alternative including the
+///   `(nil,nil,…)` empty one, so the no-attachment leg pushes two numbers. Which two is a byte
+///   question; ours answers `(nil, nil, 1, nil)` and the slot-4 nil is provably wrong.
+const KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED: &[(&str, &str, &str)] = &[(
+    "GetSendMailItem",
+    "nil,nil,number,nil",
+    "the reference's no-attachment leg pushes numbers in slots 3 and 4; the two values are      dispatched into wow-re (GetSendMailItem 0x4ae590)",
+)];
+
+/// The widget kind gate's shrinking list — see [`KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED`].
+///
+/// `GetFont`'s height slot is `number` in the reference's single alternative, and ours answers nil
+/// on a FontString that has never been given a font. wow-re's `font-object-lua-surface.md` §9.3
+/// records that the FontString reads back through its resolved `CGxFont`, so a NULL one yields nil
+/// for the path and the flags — but it does not say what the *height* slot then carries, and that
+/// is the value the corpus does arithmetic on (`aux-addon`'s font-resize wheel handler,
+/// `tabs/search/frame.lua:481`). Dispatched.
+const WIDGET_KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED: &[(&str, &str, &str)] = &[(
+    "GetFont",
+    "nil,nil,string",
+    "the reference's height slot is a number even with no CGxFont resolved; the value is      dispatched into wow-re (CSimpleFontString::GetFont 0x79d400)",
+)];
+
 /// The widget half's own shrinking list — see [`NOT_YET_ASSERTED`], same rules. Also empty:
 /// `GetFogColor` came off it with 1845, which found the fog colour was a packed `0xAARRGGBB` dword
 /// all along.
@@ -67,6 +108,9 @@ struct Row {
     name: String,
     table_va: String,
     arity: usize,
+    /// The `kinds` column, verbatim — `(number,string?)`, or several `|`-separated alternatives.
+    /// Empty when the row's `kinds_conf` is not `agree`; see [`KindGate`].
+    kinds: String,
 }
 
 fn rows() -> Vec<Row> {
@@ -87,6 +131,14 @@ fn rows() -> Vec<Row> {
                 name: f[0].to_string(),
                 table_va: f[3].to_string(),
                 arity: f[7].parse().ok()?,
+                // ADVISORY unless `kinds_conf == agree` — the table's own column contract. A row
+                // that did not agree carries no kinds here at all, so nothing downstream can read
+                // one by accident.
+                kinds: if f.len() > 10 && f[10] == "agree" {
+                    f[9].to_string()
+                } else {
+                    String::new()
+                },
             })
         })
         .collect()
@@ -343,3 +395,365 @@ fn every_widget_method_answers_the_reference_s_return_arity() {
         mismatches.join("\n  ")
     );
 }
+
+/// Split a `kinds` cell into its alternatives, each one a per-slot kind list.
+///
+/// `(number,string?)` is one alternative of two slots; `(nil) | (number)` is two of one. An
+/// arity-0 row is `()` and yields nothing, which is how the kind gates skip the verbs that answer
+/// no values at all.
+fn kind_alternatives(cell: &str) -> Vec<Vec<String>> {
+    cell.split('|')
+        .map(|alt| {
+            alt.trim()
+                .trim_start_matches('(')
+                .trim_end_matches(')')
+                .split(',')
+                .map(|k| k.trim().to_string())
+                .filter(|k| !k.is_empty())
+                .collect::<Vec<String>>()
+        })
+        .filter(|a| !a.is_empty())
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Does one observed Lua `type()` satisfy one reference slot?
+///
+/// Two entries in the vocabulary assert less than they look like they do, and both are the table's
+/// own doing rather than ours:
+///
+/// * **`string?` is string-or-nil.** `lua_pushstring 0x6f3890` begins `test edx,edx ; jne` and
+///   tail-jumps to `lua_pushnil` when the `char*` is NULL, so a push instruction is not proof that
+///   a string reached Lua. The harvester emits plain `string` only where the pointer is a constant
+///   resolving to a readable literal; everything else is `string?`. This is *why* a miss path can
+///   show a fixed arity with no kind alternation and still answer nil in that slot.
+/// * **`any` / `value`** are the slots the walk could not narrow. They accept everything.
+///
+/// Everything else is exact — and note what is *absent* from the vocabulary across all 1503 rows
+/// the table calls trustworthy: two `boolean` slots in the entire client, `IsPetAttackActive` and
+/// Lua's own `rawequal`. A 1.12 predicate answers `1` or `nil`.
+fn slot_accepts(want: &str, got: &str) -> bool {
+    match want {
+        "any" | "value" => true,
+        "string?" => got == "string" || got == "nil",
+        w => w == got,
+    }
+}
+
+/// The Lua helper both kind gates probe through: answer the `type()` of every value a call
+/// returned, in order, comma-joined. A table constructor would swallow the trailing nils, so the
+/// count has to come from the vararg itself.
+///
+/// It reads `arg.n`, not `select('#', ...)`, and that is not a style choice: **`...` as a value is
+/// a syntax error in this VM**, because 5.0 has no `TK_DOTS` arm in `simpleexp` and the parser
+/// patch reproduces that (1192; `lua50::tests::the_vararg_expression_is_a_syntax_error_as_it_is_on_1_12`).
+/// The 5.0 spelling is the implicit `arg` table, which is what all 177 stock FrameXML files use.
+const KIND_HELPER: &str = "function PGKinds(...) \
+     local o = {} for i = 1, arg.n do o[i] = type(arg[i]) end \
+     return table.concat(o, ',') end";
+
+/// Every registered global whose return *kinds* the reference states trustworthily, answered by
+/// this client (decision 2118).
+///
+/// Same three narrowings as the arity gate, for the same reasons: query verbs only, a call that
+/// raises is skipped, and a name registered from two tables is read at its non-glue row. A fourth
+/// is specific to kinds — a row whose observed arity already disagrees is left to the arity gate,
+/// because comparing a 3-tuple against a 4-slot reference reports the same fault twice.
+#[test]
+fn every_query_binding_answers_the_reference_s_return_kinds() {
+    let all = rows();
+    let mut by_name: std::collections::HashMap<&str, Vec<&Row>> = std::collections::HashMap::new();
+    for r in &all {
+        by_name.entry(&r.name).or_default().push(r);
+    }
+
+    let mut s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().expect("VM");
+    s.set_unit(
+        "player",
+        Some(benilla_ui::script::UnitState {
+            exists: true,
+            name: Some("Shapeprobe".into()),
+            level: 60,
+            ..Default::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    s.run(KIND_HELPER).expect("kind helper");
+
+    let mut checked = 0usize;
+    let mut mismatches: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+    for (name, rs) in &by_name {
+        if !["Get", "Is", "Has", "Can", "Unit", "Num"]
+            .iter()
+            .any(|p| name.starts_with(p))
+        {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let candidates: Vec<&&Row> = if rs.len() == 1 {
+            rs.iter().collect()
+        } else {
+            rs.iter().filter(|r| r.table_va != GLUE_TABLE).collect()
+        };
+        let Some(first) = candidates.first() else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if candidates.iter().any(|r| r.kinds != first.kinds) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let want = kind_alternatives(&first.kinds);
+        if want.is_empty() {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        let call = if name.starts_with("Unit") {
+            format!(r#"{name}("player")"#)
+        } else {
+            format!("{name}()")
+        };
+        let probe = format!(
+            "if type({name}) ~= 'function' then return '?' end \
+             local ok, s = pcall(function() return PGKinds({call}) end) \
+             if not ok then return '?' end return s"
+        );
+        let Ok(got) = s.eval::<String>(&probe) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if got == "?" {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let got: Vec<&str> = got.split(',').filter(|k| !k.is_empty()).collect();
+        // An arity fault is the arity gate's to report; reporting it here too would double-count.
+        if !want.iter().any(|alt| alt.len() == got.len()) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        checked += 1;
+        let agrees = want.iter().any(|alt| {
+            alt.len() == got.len()
+                && alt
+                    .iter()
+                    .zip(&got)
+                    .all(|(w, g)| slot_accepts(w.as_str(), g))
+        });
+        let observed = got.join(",");
+        if !agrees {
+            if let Some((_, known, _)) = KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED.iter().find(|(n, ..)| n == name) {
+                assert_eq!(
+                    *known, observed,
+                    "{name} is on the not-yet-asserted list at stale kinds — it now answers                      ({observed})"
+                );
+                continue;
+            }
+            mismatches.push(format!(
+                "{name}: answers ({observed}), reference states {}",
+                first.kinds
+            ));
+        } else {
+            assert!(
+                !KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED.iter().any(|(n, ..)| n == name),
+                "{name} now agrees with the reference and must come off KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    // A floor, not a target — see the arity gate's. Raise it when coverage rises; never lower it
+    // to make a change fit.
+    assert!(
+        checked >= 150,
+        "the kind gate measured only {checked} bindings — it has stopped covering anything"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        mismatches.is_empty(),
+        "{} of {checked} probed bindings answer values of the wrong kind:\n  {}",
+        mismatches.len(),
+        mismatches.join("\n  ")
+    );
+}
+
+/// The widget half of the kind gate — same rules, probed on an instance of each method's own
+/// registrar class (see [`WIDGET_PROBES`]).
+#[test]
+fn every_widget_method_answers_the_reference_s_return_kinds() {
+    let tsv = concat!(
+        env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"),
+        "/../../reference/1.12-shapes.tsv"
+    );
+    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(tsv).expect("reference/1.12-shapes.tsv");
+
+    let s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().expect("VM");
+    s.run(KIND_HELPER).expect("kind helper");
+    let mut made: std::collections::HashMap<&str, String> = std::collections::HashMap::new();
+    for (table, kind, name) in WIDGET_PROBES {
+        if s.run(&format!(
+            "{name} = CreateFrame(\"{kind}\", \"{name}\", UIParent)"
+        ))
+        .is_ok()
+        {
+            made.insert(table, (*name).to_string());
+        }
+    }
+    for (table, expr) in REGION_PROBES {
+        let var = format!("PGR{}", made.len());
+        if s.run(&format!("{var} = {expr}")).is_ok() {
+            made.insert(table, var);
+        }
+    }
+
+    let mut checked = 0usize;
+    let mut mismatches: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+    for line in text
+        .lines()
+        .filter(|l| !l.starts_with('#') && !l.starts_with("name\t"))
+    {
+        let f: Vec<&str> = line.split('\t').collect();
+        if f.len() < 11 || f[4] != "widget" || f[8] != "exact" || f[10] != "agree" {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let (name, table) = (f[0], f[3]);
+        if !["Get", "Is", "Has", "Can", "Num"]
+            .iter()
+            .any(|p| name.starts_with(p))
+        {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let Some(obj) = made.get(table) else { continue };
+        let want = kind_alternatives(f[9]);
+        if want.is_empty() {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        let probe = format!(
+            "if type({obj}.{name}) ~= 'function' then return '?' end \
+             local ok, s = pcall(function() return PGKinds({obj}:{name}()) end) \
+             if not ok then return '?' end return s"
+        );
+        let Ok(got) = s.eval::<String>(&probe) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if got == "?" {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let got: Vec<&str> = got.split(',').filter(|k| !k.is_empty()).collect();
+        if !want.iter().any(|alt| alt.len() == got.len()) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        checked += 1;
+        let agrees = want.iter().any(|alt| {
+            alt.len() == got.len()
+                && alt
+                    .iter()
+                    .zip(&got)
+                    .all(|(w, g)| slot_accepts(w.as_str(), g))
+        });
+        let observed = got.join(",");
+        if !agrees {
+            if let Some((_, known, _)) = WIDGET_KINDS_NOT_YET_ASSERTED
+                .iter()
+                .find(|(n, ..)| *n == name)
+            {
+                assert_eq!(
+                    *known, observed,
+                    "{name} is on the widget not-yet-asserted list at stale kinds — it now                      answers ({observed})"
+                );
+                continue;
+            }
+            mismatches.push(format!(
+                "{obj}:{name} answers ({observed}), reference states {}",
+                f[9]
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+
+    assert!(
+        checked >= 40,
+        "the widget kind gate measured only {checked} methods — it has stopped covering anything"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        mismatches.is_empty(),
+        "{} of {checked} probed widget methods answer values of the wrong kind:\n  {}",
+        mismatches.len(),
+        mismatches.join("\n  ")
+    );
+}
+
+/// Argument tuples the boolean gate tries, in order, until one call returns.
+///
+/// The kind gate probes a binding with nothing (or a unit token) and skips the ones that raise,
+/// which leaves half the query surface unmeasured — the reference gates its arguments and raises
+/// on a missing one (1834/1836). A *boolean* answer is wrong whatever the arguments are, so this
+/// gate can afford a ladder the kind gate cannot: a wrong-but-plausible argument can change which
+/// kind tuple comes back, and would make the kind gate cry wolf, but it can never make `1` into
+/// `true`.
+const ARG_LADDER: &[&str] = &["", "\"player\"", "1", "1, 1", "\"player\", 1"];
+
+/// **1.12 has no boolean query.** Across all 1503 rows this table calls trustworthy, exactly two
+/// slots are `boolean`: `IsPetAttackActive` and Lua's own `rawequal`. Everything else that reads
+/// as a predicate — every `Is*`, `Can*`, `Has*` — is `(nil) | (number)`, because the client pushes
+/// `1` and `nil`.
+///
+/// The distinction is invisible to `if x then` and decisive to everything else: `x == 1`,
+/// `tostring(x)`, a value stored in a saved variable, arithmetic, a table key. `ColorPickerPlus`
+/// writes `if IsShiftKeyDown() == 1 then` (decision 2118), and no gate we had could see it.
+#[test]
+fn no_query_binding_answers_a_lua_boolean() {
+    // The reference's own two, by name — the list may only shrink.
+    const REFERENCE_BOOLEANS: &[&str] = &["IsPetAttackActive", "rawequal"];
+
+    let all = rows();
+    let mut s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().expect("VM");
+    s.set_unit(
+        "player",
+        Some(benilla_ui::script::UnitState {
+            exists: true,
+            name: Some("Shapeprobe".into()),
+            level: 60,
+            ..Default::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    s.run(KIND_HELPER).expect("kind helper");
+
+    let mut names: Vec<&str> = all
+        .iter()
+        .map(|r| r.name.as_str())
+        .filter(|n| {
+            ["Get", "Is", "Has", "Can", "Unit", "Num"]
+                .iter()
+                .any(|p| n.starts_with(p))
+        })
+        .filter(|n| !REFERENCE_BOOLEANS.contains(n))
+        .collect();
+    names.sort_unstable();
+    names.dedup();
+
+    let mut checked = 0usize;
+    let mut booleans: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+    for name in names {
+        for args in ARG_LADDER {
+            let probe = format!(
+                "if type({name}) ~= 'function' then return '?' end \
+                 local ok, s = pcall(function() return PGKinds({name}({args})) end) \
+                 if not ok then return '?' end return s"
+            );
+            let Ok(got) = s.eval::<String>(&probe) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            if got == "?" {
+                continue;
+            }
+            checked += 1;
+            if got.split(',').any(|k| k == "boolean") {
+                booleans.push(format!("{name}({args}) answers ({got})"));
+            }
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    assert!(
+        checked >= 300,
+        "the boolean gate measured only {checked} bindings — it has stopped covering anything"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        booleans.is_empty(),
+        "{} bindings answer a Lua boolean; 1.12 pushes 1/nil and only {REFERENCE_BOOLEANS:?} are \
+         boolean in the reference:\n  {}",
+        booleans.len(),
+        booleans.join("\n  ")
+    );
+}
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 dfde8586..f51dddd0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
@@ -1528,3 +1528,183 @@ fn the_shipped_manifest_opens_the_macro_icon_picker() {
         "the picker is up"
     );
 }
+
+/// **The reference's own Interface Options window is on the manifest, and it stays HIDDEN**
+/// (decision 2115) — the whole shape of that record, asserted in one place.
+///
+/// Four claims, and each one has a way to fail that nothing else here would catch:
+///
+/// 1. **`UIOptionsFrame` is the reference's frame, not an alias onto ours.** The alias
+///    (`UIOptionsFrame = OptionsFrame`) is what this replaces, and under it every one of these
+///    reads would have succeeded while pointing at the window the player opens — pfUI's skin does
+///    `UIOptionsFrame:SetWidth(1024)`. So the test asks for the reference's own CHILDREN, which an
+///    alias could never grow.
+/// 2. **It is never shown.** `hidden="true"` is the stock file's own attribute and nothing of ours
+///    may `Show()` it.
+/// 3. **`UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons` carries the five rows `MultiActionBars.lua:10` writes** —
+///    which IS the load-order proof. That file writes them at its own load, under the reference's
+///    own comment *"Hack to get around load order dependencies"*, so the rows are there only if
+///    the options window's manifest row sits above the bars', as `FrameXML.toc` l.21 vs l.39 has
+///    it. Reorder the manifest and this is what goes red.
+/// 4. **Ours is still the player's.** `GameMenuButtonOptions` opens `OptionsFrame`.
+#[test]
+fn the_stock_interface_options_window_loads_hidden_and_ours_is_still_the_players() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
+    let mut s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    s.set_unit(
+        "player",
+        Some(benilla_ui::script::UnitState {
+            exists: true,
+            name: Some("Probefive".into()),
+            level: 60,
+            ..Default::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    let failures = super::load_default_ui(&s);
+    assert!(failures.is_empty(), "manifest load errors: {failures:#?}");
+
+    // 1 · the reference's own frame, by the children only it declares.
+    for name in [
+        "UIOptionsFrame",
+        "UIOptionsFrameTitle",
+        "UIOptionsFrameTab1",
+        "UIOptionsFrameTab2",
+        "UIOptionsFrameOkay",
+        "UIOptionsFrameCancel",
+        "UIOptionsFrameDefaults",
+        "UIOptionsFrameResetTutorials",
+        "UIOptionsFrameCheckButton1",
+        "UIOptionsFrameCheckButton69",
+        "UIOptionsFrameSlider1",
+        "UIOptionsFrameSlider4",
+        "UIOptionsFrameClickCameraDropDown",
+        "UIOptionsFrameCameraDropDown",
+        "UIOptionsFrameTargetofTargetDropDown",
+        "UIOptionsFrameCombatTextDropDown",
+        "BasicOptions",
+        "BasicOptionsGeneral",
+        "BasicOptionsDisplay",
+        "BasicOptionsCamera",
+        "BasicOptionsHelp",
+        "AdvancedOptions",
+        "AdvancedOptionsActionBars",
+        "AdvancedOptionsChat",
+        "AdvancedOptionsRaid",
+        "AdvancedOptionsCombatText",
+    ] {
+        assert!(
+            s.eval::<bool>(&format!("return getglobal({name:?}) ~= nil"))
+                .unwrap(),
+            "{name} — pfUI's options-interface skin walks every one of these"
+        );
+    }
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return UIOptionsFrame ~= OptionsFrame")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "the alias is gone: the stock frame is its own frame, not ours under a second name"
+    );
+
+    // 2 · …and hidden, by its own file's attribute.
+    assert!(
+        !s.eval::<bool>("return UIOptionsFrame:IsShown()").unwrap(),
+        "the stock window must never be on screen"
+    );
+
+    // 3 · the order proof.
+    let rows: Vec<String> = s
+        .eval::<Vec<String>>(
+            "local out = {} \
+             for _, k in ipairs({ \"SHOW_MULTIBAR1_TEXT\", \"SHOW_MULTIBAR2_TEXT\", \
+                 \"SHOW_MULTIBAR3_TEXT\", \"SHOW_MULTIBAR4_TEXT\", \"ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS_TEXT\" }) do \
+                 local row = UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons[k] \
+                 if row and row.func and row.setFunc then table.insert(out, k) end \
+             end \
+             return out",
+        )
+        .expect("UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons is a table with rows");
+    assert_eq!(
+        rows.len(),
+        5,
+        "MultiActionBars.lua:10 writes five rows into UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons at ITS load, so \
+         the options window's manifest row must sit above the bars' — got {rows:?}"
+    );
+
+    // 4 · ours is still the window the ESC menu opens.
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>(
+            "return GameMenuButtonOptions:GetScript(\"OnClick\") and \"bound\" or \"\""
+        )
+        .unwrap(),
+        "bound"
+    );
+    s.run("GameMenuButtonOptions:Click()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return OptionsFrame:IsShown()").unwrap(),
+        "the player's Options button opens OUR window"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        !s.eval::<bool>("return UIOptionsFrame:IsShown()").unwrap(),
+        "…and never the stock one"
+    );
+}
+
+/// **pfUI's `UIOptionsFrame_Save()` path runs clean, and `_Load()` stops at exactly one thing**
+/// (decision 2115).
+///
+/// pfUI's `modules/gui.lua` l.146-148 wraps a GVAR checkbox's write in
+/// `UIOptionsFrame_Load()` … `UIOptionsFrame_Save()`, so both are reached at runtime by a real
+/// addon and both had to be more than nil.
+///
+/// `_Save` runs clean. `_Load` does not, and the failure is **pinned rather than hidden** because
+/// it names a real gap this record surfaced: `UIOptionsFrameSliders` row 3 is
+/// `cameraYawMoveSpeed`, which `cvars::REGISTERED` does not carry, and `_Load` does
+/// `slider:SetValue(GetCVar(value.cvar))` — `Slider:SetValue` is a shape-A binding (`0x790980`,
+/// wow-re `numeric-arg-coercion-law.md`) that raises on a nil in the reference too. The row is
+/// listed in [`super::options_tests`]'s unbacked census with its blocker; the day something
+/// registers it, THIS assertion goes red and gets deleted, which is the point of writing it as an
+/// expectation rather than an ignore.
+#[test]
+fn the_stock_options_windows_load_and_save_are_reachable_for_addons() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
+    let mut s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    s.set_unit(
+        "player",
+        Some(benilla_ui::script::UnitState {
+            exists: true,
+            name: Some("Probefive".into()),
+            level: 60,
+            ..Default::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    assert!(super::load_default_ui(&s).is_empty());
+
+    // The Okay path, whole: 69 check buttons, four sliders, four dropdowns, the multibar toggles
+    // and the combat-text tail. Driven through the reference's OWN caller — `UIOptionsFrameOkay`'s
+    // `<OnClick>` (xml l.1205-1209) — rather than as a bare call, and that is not ceremony: the
+    // `SHOW_PARTY_PETS` arm reaches `RefreshBuffs`, whose first act is `this.hasDispellable = nil`
+    // (`BuffFrame.lua:266`), so the reference's ambient handler global has to be set. It is, at
+    // every real call site: the Okay button here, and pfUI's own checkbox on its GVAR path.
+    s.run("UIOptionsFrameOkay:Click()")
+        .expect("the stock Okay button's own handler");
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+    assert!(
+        !s.eval::<bool>("return UIOptionsFrame:IsShown()").unwrap(),
+        "…and the window it hides on the way out was hidden to begin with"
+    );
+
+    let err = s
+        .run("this = UIOptionsFrameOkay UIOptionsFrame_Load()")
+        .expect_err("_Load stops at the one unregistered slider CVar — see the doc comment");
+    let err = err.to_string();
+    assert!(
+        err.contains("SetValue"),
+        "the ONLY thing that may stop _Load is slider 3's nil CVar; got: {err}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>(r#"return GetCVar("cameraYawMoveSpeed") == nil"#)
+            .unwrap(),
+        "…and that is the cause: cameraYawMoveSpeed is the unregistered one"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
index 75f6e3c7..b50c9d92 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ pub(super) fn load_ui_no_warnings(s: &UiScript, entry: &str) -> usize {
 }
 
 fn load_entry(s: &UiScript, entry: &str, strict_templates: bool, no_warnings: bool) -> usize {
+    // **A kit's VM is the client's VM, and that includes the CVar table** (decision 2115). The app
+    // registers `crate::cvars::REGISTERED` at startup, before any interface file loads;
+    // `UiScript::new()` carries only `benilla-ui`'s own. The stock `UIOptionsFrame.xml` reads two
+    // camera CVars inside its dropdowns' `OnLoad` and raises on a nil, so a kit that skips this is
+    // measuring a client that does not exist. Idempotent, and it never clobbers a value a test set
+    // first — `register_cvars` only refreshes an existing slot's default.
+    s.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     let path = entry.replace('\\', "/");
     let bytes = read(&path).unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{entry}: not found"));
     if path.to_ascii_lowercase().ends_with(".lua") {
@@ -129,6 +136,17 @@ fn load_entry(s: &UiScript, entry: &str, strict_templates: bool, no_warnings: bo
     let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&benilla_ui::source::decode(&bytes))
         .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{entry}: {e}"));
     let provider = |req: &str| -> Option<Vec<u8>> { read(req) };
+    // Seated BEFORE the load, not after it like the two below: `MultiActionBarFrame_OnLoad`
+    // indexes `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons` from inside this very load walk, where the micro row's
+    // and UIParent's callees only run later (decision 2115).
+    if path
+        .rsplit('/')
+        .next()
+        .is_some_and(|l| l.eq_ignore_ascii_case("MultiActionBars.xml"))
+    {
+        s.run(MULTI_ACTION_BAR_STAND_INS)
+            .expect("the multibar stand-ins");
+    }
     let report = benilla_ui::loader::load_in(s, &doc, &path, &provider);
     assert!(
         report.errors.is_empty(),
@@ -143,6 +161,10 @@ fn load_entry(s: &UiScript, entry: &str, strict_templates: bool, no_warnings: bo
     if leaf.eq_ignore_ascii_case("UIParent.xml") && super::reference_ui::is_chain_entry(&path) {
         s.run(UIPARENT_STAND_INS).expect("the UIParent stand-ins");
     }
+    if leaf.eq_ignore_ascii_case("UIOptionsFrame.xml") {
+        s.run(UIOPTIONS_STAND_INS)
+            .expect("the stock options window's stand-ins");
+    }
     if no_warnings {
         assert!(
             report.warnings.is_empty(),
@@ -279,6 +301,60 @@ pub(super) const UIPARENT_STAND_INS: &str = r#"
     end
 "#;
 
+/// **What a kit owes the stock `MultiActionBars.xml`.** Its `MultiActionBarFrame_OnLoad`
+/// (`MultiActionBars.lua:10`, under the reference's own comment *"Hack to get around load order
+/// dependencies"*) writes five rows into `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons` — a table whose home is
+/// `UIOptionsFrame.xml`, which the reference's toc seats at l.21, eighteen rows above this one.
+/// The shipped manifest has that order (decision 2115) and needs nothing here; a KIT is a prefix
+/// of the manifest and dozens of them load the bars without any options window.
+///
+/// `or {}` rather than a fresh table, and seated at load rather than on first use, for the reason
+/// 1988 gives: a table, like a function, is a plain global write, so a real declaration that lands
+/// afterwards simply wins — and in manifest order it never lands afterwards, which is exactly what
+/// the shipped `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons` order proof asserts. A kit that loads both in manifest
+/// order therefore gets the real table with the bars' five rows in it, which is the client's own
+/// state.
+/// **What a kit owes the stock `UIOptionsFrame.xml`.** Its `UIOptionsFrame_OnEvent`'s
+/// VARIABLES_LOADED arm (`UIOptionsFrame.lua` l.193-227) is the reference's own load-time ladder —
+/// the one decision 2115 retired our re-expression of — and it calls six functions unguarded:
+/// `BuffButtons_UpdatePositions`, `FCF_Set_SimpleChat`, `FCF_Set_ChatLocked`,
+/// `SetChatMouseOverDelay`, `MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids` and
+/// `RaidOptionsFrame_UpdatePartyFrames`. In the shipped manifest that is fine twice over: the
+/// buff bar loads far above this row, the chat and raid files far below it, and the event does not
+/// fire until every one of them has loaded. A KIT is a prefix of the manifest and fires the event
+/// itself, so it needs the names to exist.
+///
+/// Functions, so load-time seating is safe and the kit's order does not matter: a later chunk's
+/// `function X()` is a plain global write that overwrites the stand-in, unlike a frame's
+/// non-overwriting publish (1988's reasoning, and its precedent).
+pub(super) const UIOPTIONS_STAND_INS: &str = r#"
+    BuffButtons_UpdatePositions = BuffButtons_UpdatePositions or function() end
+    FCF_Set_SimpleChat = FCF_Set_SimpleChat or function() end
+    FCF_Set_NormalChat = FCF_Set_NormalChat or function() end
+    FCF_Set_ChatLocked = FCF_Set_ChatLocked or function() end
+    SetChatMouseOverDelay = SetChatMouseOverDelay or function() end
+    MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids = MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids or function() end
+    RaidOptionsFrame_UpdatePartyFrames = RaidOptionsFrame_UpdatePartyFrames or function() end
+    -- …and the one its own CHECK BUTTONS reach: three of them register VARIABLES_LOADED for
+    -- themselves (xml l.373, 925, 993), and CheckButton43's arm calls `PartyFrame.lua`'s
+    -- `UpdatePartyMemberBackground`. The other two call the file's own dropdown loaders.
+    UpdatePartyMemberBackground = UpdatePartyMemberBackground or function() end
+"#;
+
+pub(super) const MULTI_ACTION_BAR_STAND_INS: &str = r#"
+    UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons = UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons or {}
+    -- The five ROWS it writes into, not just the table: the reference's hack assigns
+    -- `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["SHOW_MULTIBAR1_TEXT"].setFunc`, which needs the row to exist.
+    -- Empty rows on purpose — the real ones carry `index = 33..36, 40`, and a stand-in that
+    -- restated those numbers would be a transcription of the reference's table in a test helper,
+    -- which is the thing 2115 deleted from `OptionsFrame.xml`. Any kit that reads an index has the
+    -- real window loaded and therefore the real table.
+    for _, key in ipairs({ "SHOW_MULTIBAR1_TEXT", "SHOW_MULTIBAR2_TEXT", "SHOW_MULTIBAR3_TEXT",
+                           "SHOW_MULTIBAR4_TEXT", "ALWAYS_SHOW_MULTIBARS_TEXT" }) do
+        UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons[key] = UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons[key] or {}
+    end
+"#;
+
 pub(super) const MICRO_BUTTON_STAND_INS: &str = r#"
     local real = UpdateMicroButtons
     function UpdateMicroButtons()
@@ -513,10 +589,10 @@ pub(super) const CHARACTER_UI: &[&str] = &[
     // The reference's own window tab (`CharacterFrameTabButtonTemplate`), whose `<OnShow>`
     // fits each tab to its text — it needs the `UIPanelTemplates` pair above it (1993).
     r"Interface\FrameXML\CharacterFrameTemplates.xml",
-    // The four options templates off the chain, then ours for the one it does not carry
-    // (`UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate` — decision 1841).
+    // The four options templates off the chain — ReputationFrame's detail check boxes inherit
+    // `OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`. Ours beside it is gone with 2115: its one template,
+    // `UIOptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, comes off the chain out of `UIOptionsFrame.xml` now.
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\OptionsFrameTemplates.xml",
-    "OptionsFrameTemplates.xml", // ReputationFrame's detail check boxes
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\CharacterFrame.xml",
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\PaperDollFrame.xml",
     "Interface\\FrameXML\\PetPaperDollFrame.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 51ec3f76..1941f0c3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ fn your_own_portrait_explains_the_menu_instead_of_showing_your_health() {
 /// table so the pass means what it says.
 #[test]
 fn action_button_hover_takes_the_default_corner() {
-    let mut s = harness(&[
+    let s = harness(&[
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\Cooldown.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionButtonTemplate.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
index 26b50dc4..d6dd23eb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ fn spell_tooltip_view(
         .store
         .map_or(d.mana_cost, |s| crate::ui_action::usable::power_cost(d, s));
     let cost = {
-        let div = if d.power_type == 1 { 10 } else { 1 };
+        // The one `0x6e7130` table, not a local `if power_type == 1` — decision 2117 found three
+        // hand-rolled copies of it and one of them had been applied at a single site out of four.
+        let div = benilla_protocol::messages::power_display_scale(d.power_type);
         let unit = match d.power_type {
             0 => "Mana",
             1 => "Rage",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/vplates.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/vplates.rs
index 76da8886..aefa3c59 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/vplates.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/vplates.rs
@@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn the_v_key_mirrors_into_the_cvar_table() {
         use crate::bindings::{cmd, BindingsState};
         let mut app = App::new();
-        let mut script = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let script = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
         script.register_cvars([(CVAR_ENEMIES, "0"), (CVAR_FRIENDS, "0")]);
         app.add_systems(Update, toggle_vplates)
             .init_resource::<VPlateMode>()
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/group.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/group.rs
index da659663..1d16e7af 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/group.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/group.rs
@@ -295,12 +295,14 @@ impl PartyMemberStatsInfo {
     /// [`power_display_scale`], exactly as the live-object leg divides. Without it an out-of-range
     /// warrior's rage bar reads ten times an in-range one's. Miss ⇒ `0`, the binding's own.
     pub fn shown_power(&self) -> u32 {
-        u32::from(self.cur_power.unwrap_or(0)) / power_display_scale(self.shown_power_type())
+        u32::from(self.cur_power.unwrap_or(0))
+            / power_display_scale(u32::from(self.shown_power_type()))
     }
 
     /// `UnitManaMax` on the record path (`0x5178af`), the same divide.
     pub fn shown_max_power(&self) -> u32 {
-        u32::from(self.max_power.unwrap_or(0)) / power_display_scale(self.shown_power_type())
+        u32::from(self.max_power.unwrap_or(0))
+            / power_display_scale(u32::from(self.shown_power_type()))
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs
index d2c1c6a9..f8f71315 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/mod.rs
@@ -257,10 +257,11 @@ pub use trade::{
 pub use trainer::{train_fail, trainer_buy_spell, trainer_list, trainer_spell_state, TrainerSpell};
 pub use tutorial::{tutorial_flag, TutorialFlags};
 pub use update_object::{
-    quest_slot_state, CorpseLook, CreateSpline, MovementBlock, MoverState, Object, ObjectFields,
-    ObjectType, OwnerFallback, PlayerSkillSlot, QuestLogSlot, UnitAuraSlot, AURA_FLAG_CANCELABLE,
-    AURA_FLAG_EFF_INDEX_MASK, FIELD_PLAYER_SKILL_INFO_1_1, PLAYER_EXPLORED_ZONES_SLOTS,
-    PLAYER_QUEST_LOG_SLOTS, PLAYER_SKILL_SLOTS, UNIT_AURA_POSITIVE_SLOTS, UNIT_AURA_SLOTS,
+    power_display_scale, quest_slot_state, CorpseLook, CreateSpline, MovementBlock, MoverState,
+    Object, ObjectFields, ObjectType, OwnerFallback, PlayerSkillSlot, QuestLogSlot, UnitAuraSlot,
+    AURA_FLAG_CANCELABLE, AURA_FLAG_EFF_INDEX_MASK, FIELD_PLAYER_SKILL_INFO_1_1,
+    PLAYER_EXPLORED_ZONES_SLOTS, PLAYER_QUEST_LOG_SLOTS, PLAYER_SKILL_SLOTS,
+    UNIT_AURA_POSITIVE_SLOTS, UNIT_AURA_SLOTS,
 };
 pub use vendor::{
     buy_item, buy_item_in_slot, buy_result, buyback_item, list_inventory, repair_item, sell_item,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/unit.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/unit.rs
index a68a5044..df1ca392 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/unit.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/unit.rs
@@ -26,15 +26,30 @@ const STAND_STATE_DEAD: u8 = 7;
 /// ×1000 (vmangos `GetCreatePowers`: `POWER_RAGE → 1000`, `POWER_HAPPINESS → 1050000`), so the real
 /// client's 100 rage and 1050 happiness are this divide, not a different field.
 ///
-/// Applied by `UnitMana`/`UnitManaMax` only — the raw accessors stay raw, and the pet happiness
-/// bucket thresholds are on the RAW scale, which is why both forms have to exist (decision 1034).
+/// **This is a whole-client law, not one getter's private step** (decision 2117). `0x6e7130` is
+/// called from *every* place a power figure becomes something a player reads, and the wire number
+/// is raw at all of them:
 ///
-/// **Two callers, because the getters have two sources** (decision 1640): the live descriptor
-/// legs below, and the party roster record's ([`crate::messages::PartyMemberStatsInfo::shown_power`])
-/// — `UnitMana 0x517670` divides by this on *both* its object leg (`0x51770f`) and its
-/// record leg (`0x517744`-`0x51775e`), so an out-of-range warrior's rage is not ten times
-/// an in-range one's.
-pub fn power_display_scale(ty: u8) -> u32 {
+/// | caller | what it scales |
+/// |---|---|
+/// | `UnitMana 0x517670` (`0x51770f`), `UnitManaMax 0x5177e0` (`0x517864`) | the live descriptor's power slot |
+/// | the same pair's party-record legs (`0x517748`, `0x5178a8`, `0x5178ee`) | [`crate::messages::PartyMemberStatsInfo::shown_power`] (decision 1640) |
+/// | `SMSG_SPELLENERGIZELOG`'s handler `0x5e8a90` (`0x5e8af3`) | the amount, **once**, before both the chat line (`0x62ca00`) and the `COMBAT_TEXT_UPDATE` push (`0x494770`) |
+/// | `SMSG_PERIODICAURALOG`'s handler `0x626dd0` (`0x627087`) | an energize tick's amount, the same way |
+/// | the power leech/drain formatter `0x627930` | `drained = amount / div` and `gained = trunc(amount·multiplier) / div` |
+/// | the spell tooltip's cost cell `0x52e610` (`0x52e8d2`, `0x52e8e7`) | the flat and per-level costs alike |
+///
+/// (wow-re `system/object-layer/scratch/combat-log-chat-law.md` §4.6 — *"Amounts are divided by
+/// `0x6e7130(powerType)`"* — plus the disassembly at each address above.)
+///
+/// The **raw** accessors stay raw: the pet happiness bucket thresholds are on the raw scale, which
+/// is why both forms have to exist (decision 1034).
+///
+/// The argument is a full 32-bit power tag because the wire's is (`SMSG_SPELLENERGIZELOG` ships a
+/// `u32`) and because the reference's own compare is signed — `POWER_HEALTH (-2)` reaches
+/// `0x6e7130` as a negative and takes the `1`. Arriving here as a large `u32` it takes the same
+/// `1` off the same `_` arm.
+pub fn power_display_scale(ty: u32) -> u32 {
     match ty {
         1 => 10,   // rage
         4 => 1000, // happiness
@@ -228,12 +243,12 @@ impl ObjectFields {
         if self.unit_dynamic_flags() & UNIT_DYNFLAG_DEAD != 0 {
             return (ty < 5).then_some(0);
         }
-        Some(self.unit_power(ty)? / power_display_scale(ty))
+        Some(self.unit_power(ty)? / power_display_scale(u32::from(ty)))
     }
     /// Maximum power **as the UI reads it** — `UnitManaMax 0x5177e0`: the same
     /// [`power_display_scale`] divide (`0x517864`), and deliberately **no** dead gate.
     pub fn unit_shown_max_power(&self, ty: u8) -> Option<u32> {
-        Some(self.unit_max_power(ty)? / power_display_scale(ty))
+        Some(self.unit_max_power(ty)? / power_display_scale(u32::from(ty)))
     }
     /// `UNIT_FIELD_LEVEL` — the unit's level.
     pub fn unit_level(&self) -> Option<u32> {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs
index 03e28795..c1b6f99d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/action.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::Model;
 
 /// Action-kind bytes — bits 24–31 of the wire's packed slot word (VERIFIED vmangos `Player.h`
@@ -196,11 +197,12 @@ pub(super) fn truthy_nonzero(v: &Value) -> bool {
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let g = lua.globals();
 
+    // HasAction(action) → 1/nil, the reference's predicate shape (`super::binding_abi::flag`).
     g.set(
         "HasAction",
         lua.create_function(|lua, action: u32| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(model.actions.contains_key(&action))
+            Ok(flag(model.actions.contains_key(&action)))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/addon.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/addon.rs
index 7d14da8c..2dedf808 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/addon.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/addon.rs
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ use std::path::PathBuf;
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
 use super::addon_gate::{can_load, GateRow, Verdict};
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::Model;
 
 /// A reader for a chain-sourced addon's files, by chain-internal path — what the host seats
@@ -161,15 +162,6 @@ fn verdict(model: &Model, i: usize) -> Verdict {
     can_load(&gate_rows(model), i, true, version_check(model))
 }
 
-/// `1`/`nil` — the client's boolean shape, which every addon tests with a bare `if`.
-fn flag(b: bool) -> Value {
-    if b {
-        Value::Integer(1)
-    } else {
-        Value::Nil
-    }
-}
-
 fn lua_str(lua: &Lua, s: &str) -> mlua::Result<Value> {
     Ok(Value::String(lua.create_string(s)?))
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/auction.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/auction.rs
index 410bd35b..d98edf06 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/auction.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/auction.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::cursor::{self, CursorPayload};
 use super::Model;
 
@@ -300,15 +301,6 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     }
 }
 
-/// A `1`/`nil` boolean the way the client pushes flags.
-fn flag(b: bool) -> Value {
-    if b {
-        Value::Integer(1)
-    } else {
-        Value::Nil
-    }
-}
-
 /// Fetch a cloned row for a list type + 1-based index, or `None` (unknown type / out of range /
 /// no session open).
 fn row_at(model: &Model, kind: &str, index: usize) -> Option<AuctionItemRow> {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/binding_abi.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/binding_abi.rs
index 581f083a..dbdd542b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/binding_abi.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/binding_abi.rs
@@ -324,6 +324,31 @@ pub(crate) fn bool_or_default(v: Option<&Value>, default: bool) -> bool {
     }
 }
 
+/// **The 1.12 predicate return** — `1` for true, `nil` for false, and never a Lua boolean.
+///
+/// The reference client has essentially no boolean-returning query. Across the 1503 rows
+/// `reference/1.12-shapes.tsv` marks `kinds_conf = agree`, exactly two slots in the whole binding
+/// surface are `boolean`: `IsPetAttackActive` (which really does call `lua_pushboolean 0x6f39f0`,
+/// noted in [`super::pet`]) and Lua's own `rawequal`. Every other `Is*`, `Can*`, `Has*` and every
+/// predicate slot of a multi-value answer is `(nil) | (number)`.
+///
+/// **The difference is invisible to `if x then` and decisive to everything else** — `x == 1`,
+/// `x == nil`, `tostring(x)`, arithmetic, a table key, a value round-tripped through a saved
+/// variable. That is why it survived so long: the transcribed FrameXML reads every one of these
+/// with a plain `if`, so `true` and `1` were interchangeable for as long as *we* wrote the callers.
+/// Real 1.12 addons are not our callers — `ColorPickerPlus.lua:121` writes
+/// `if IsShiftKeyDown() == 1 then`, and reads a `true` as "not held" (decision 2118).
+///
+/// Enforced, not remembered: `ui_script::shape_gate::no_query_binding_answers_a_lua_boolean`
+/// probes the whole registered query surface and fails on any Lua boolean.
+pub(crate) fn flag(b: bool) -> Value {
+    if b {
+        Value::Integer(1)
+    } else {
+        Value::Nil
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/channel.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/channel.rs
index c726c1e3..175cea04 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/channel.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/channel.rs
@@ -132,6 +132,26 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     pub fn take_channel_commands(&mut self) -> Vec<ChannelCommand> {
         std::mem::take(&mut self.model_mut().channel_commands)
     }
+
+    /// The guild-recruitment auto-join latch — `0` STANDARD, `1` AUTO (decision 2115).
+    pub fn guild_recruitment_mode(&self) -> u8 {
+        self.model_ref().guild_recruitment_mode
+    }
+
+    /// Seat the latch from the host (the per-character chat cache at login). A host write is not
+    /// a player gesture, so it does **not** arm [`Self::take_guild_recruitment_change`] — the same
+    /// split `set_cvar_from_host` keeps one store over, and what stops a login from composing the
+    /// player's file out of a value the login itself just read.
+    pub fn set_guild_recruitment_mode(&mut self, mode: u8) {
+        let mut model = self.model_mut();
+        model.guild_recruitment_mode = mode;
+        model.guild_recruitment_changed = false;
+    }
+
+    /// Has Lua moved the latch since the last drain? The chat cache's dirty signal.
+    pub fn take_guild_recruitment_change(&mut self) -> bool {
+        std::mem::take(&mut self.model_mut().guild_recruitment_changed)
+    }
 }
 
 fn push(lua: &Lua, cmd: ChannelCommand) {
@@ -164,18 +184,116 @@ fn name_at(model: &Model, n: usize) -> Option<&str> {
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let g = lua.globals();
 
-    // GetChannelName(indexOrName) → slot, name, instanceID.
+    // ── The guild-recruitment auto-join pair (decision 2115) ──────────────────────────────────
     //
-    // THE TRAP, and the whole risk in this verb: the first return is **always a NUMBER, never
-    // nil** — `0` when the channel is not joined. Verified from both sides. The reference's own
-    // callers compare it numerically and would raise on a nil: `ChatFrame.lua:2114`
-    // `if ( channelNum > 0 )` and `l.2232` `if ( channelNum <= 0 ) then return end`; so does the
-    // corpus, at `_LazyPig/LazyPig.lua:1996` `if id > 0 then`. Returning nil here would convert
-    // three working call sites into "attempt to compare nil with number".
+    // `GetGuildRecruitmentMode 0x4a0040` / `SetGuildRecruitmentMode 0x4a0060` — the store behind
+    // the reference's *Auto-join the Guild Recruitment Channel* option
+    // (`UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons["AUTO_JOIN_GUILD_CHANNEL"]`, index 51). The table entry is a
+    // bare `{ index = 51 }` with no cvar and no uvar, which reads as "unbound" and is not: the
+    // store is the three special-case arms `UIOptionsFrame_Load` (l.243-248), `_Save` (l.326-331)
+    // and `_SetDefaults` (l.649) keep for that key. Exactly the `SHOW_TUTORIALS` shape decision
+    // 2077 corrected, and this tree's own `OptionsFrame.xml` carried the wrong reading until 2115.
     //
-    // NOT a shared helper with `JoinChannelByName`, whose first return is a DIFFERENT number — the
-    // `ChatChannels.dbc` ChannelID, not this local slot index. wow-re calls that pair out
-    // explicitly (`zone-chat-channel-autojoin.md` l.379) and it is an easy, silent mistake.
+    // Every byte fact below is wow-re `system/ui/scratch/guild-recruitment-mode.md`, a §5 round
+    // dispatched for this work.
+    //
+    // **The state is one int** — the reference's `[0x843608]`, written only by `0x49ea70`
+    // (`mov ds:0x843608,ecx`; five call sites, no address-takes) and read by the Lua getter and by
+    // the chat-cache writer. Ours is `Model::guild_recruitment_mode`, seated at login and rendered
+    // back out by `ui_chat::settings`; the whole round trip is that file's one
+    // `OPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL STANDARD|AUTO` line, written at teardown (`0x499a80` at
+    // `0x499b0e`: `latch == 1` → `AUTO`, else `STANDARD`), never at set time.
+    //
+    // **It boots at 1 (AUTO)**, and that is a `.data` initialiser rather than a BSS zero — `raw
+    // 0x443608` is `01 00 00 00` — corroborated twice over: `_SetDefaults` calls
+    // `SetGuildRecruitmentMode(1)`, and all 33 `chat-cache.txt` files the reference client itself
+    // wrote in this repo's install say `AUTO`. See `Model::guild_recruitment_mode`.
+    g.set(
+        "GetGuildRecruitmentMode",
+        // `[0x4a0040, 0x4a0057)` is 23 bytes and one path: `fild dword [0x843608]` (signed i32),
+        // `fstp qword [esp]`, `lua_pushnumber`, `mov eax,1`, `ret`. No arguments, no gates — a
+        // NUMBER, always, never nil. `UIOptionsFrame_Load` compares it `== 1`, so a nil here would
+        // read as a silent "not auto".
+        lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
+            let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+            Ok(f64::from(model.guild_recruitment_mode))
+        })?,
+    )?;
+    // ── NAMED, NOT BUILT: the `ecx == 1` cascade (decision 2115) ───────────────────────
+    // `0x49ea70` writes the latch and then tail-jumps into `0x49ea90` **only when the new
+    // mode is 1**, and `0x49ea90` is not bookkeeping — it acts, on the wire:
+    //
+    //   * player IS guilded (`PLAYER_GUILDID`, player-block index 3) → `0x49eb17` leaves
+    //     `GuildRecruitment - City`: `CMSG_LEAVE_CHANNEL` (`push 0x98`), the channel
+    //     stripped from all ten chat windows, the ZONECHANNELS bit cleared;
+    //   * player is NOT guilded and IS in a capital (`AreaTable Flags & 0x100`) →
+    //     `0x49eb55` joins `GuildRecruitment`: `CMSG_JOIN_CHANNEL` (`push 0x97`);
+    //   * otherwise — no resolvable zone row, or unguilded outside a capital — it merely
+    //     arms the one-shot flag `[0xb6e5e4]`, which the next autojoin pass consumes.
+    //
+    // Both acting arms fire `UPDATE_CHAT_WINDOWS`, and `0x4a0060` fires it again, so an
+    // acting `Set(1)` fires it twice. `Set(0)` is the latch alone — `0x49ea70`'s `jne`
+    // stops at `0x49ea80`, no packet.
+    //
+    // **benilla does none of that**, and the reason is that it is a FEATURE this client
+    // has never had rather than a line of this verb: the zone-channel walk
+    // (`ui_chat::channels`) deliberately never joins GuildRecruitment (its row carries no
+    // INITIAL bit), so there is no guild-membership-driven join/leave to hang off. Building
+    // it means the guilded/unguilded gate, the capital-city gate and two channel commands,
+    // and it changes what the client puts on the wire when a player joins or leaves a
+    // guild — its own change, with its own record. The latch here is real, persists, and
+    // is what `GetGuildRecruitmentMode` answers; what it does not yet do is act.
+    //
+    // The same note's other half, also not built: `JoinChannelByName("GuildRecruitment")`
+    // (`0x49ed3d`) and `LeaveChannelByName` (`0x49ef8f`) each force the latch back to 0 —
+    // the join's reset is conditional on the caller's `flag` argument, which the Lua
+    // binding passes as 1 and `0x49ea90`'s own internal join passes as 0 (so the cascade
+    // does not undo the mode it is acting on).
+    g.set(
+        "SetGuildRecruitmentMode",
+        // `[0x4a0060, 0x4a00c4)`. One argument at stack index 1, and **two ways to raise** — this
+        // is a shape-A binding (wow-re `numeric-arg-coercion-law.md`), not one of the many that
+        // swallow a nil:
+        //
+        //   * `lua_isnumber 0x6f34d0` — so a NUMERIC STRING passes (`"1"` works) — else
+        //     `luaL_error("Usage: SetGuildRecruitmentMode(mode)")`, which longjmps.
+        //   * then `__ftol 0x40a2b0`, **truncating toward zero**, so `1.7` is silently accepted as
+        //     1 and `-0.5` as 0.
+        //   * then the range gate `0x4a0094 jl` / `0x4a009b jge 2` →
+        //     `luaL_error("SetGuildRecruitmentMode: invalid mode")` for `-1`, `2`, `-1.7`.
+        //
+        // Success returns **0 values** (`xor eax,eax; ret`), not nil. Stock FrameXML can reach
+        // neither raise: `UIOptionsFrame_Save` passes `button:GetChecked()` and coerces its nil to
+        // 0 itself. An ADDON can, and getting the raise right is the difference between an addon
+        // seeing its own bug and seeing ours.
+        lua.create_function(|lua, mode: Option<Value>| {
+            let n = match mode.as_ref() {
+                Some(Value::Integer(i)) => *i as f64,
+                Some(Value::Number(n)) => *n,
+                // `lua_isnumber` is true for a string luaO_str2d fully consumes.
+                Some(Value::String(s)) => s
+                    .to_str()
+                    .ok()
+                    .and_then(|s| s.trim().parse::<f64>().ok())
+                    .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("Usage: SetGuildRecruitmentMode(mode)"))?,
+                _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("Usage: SetGuildRecruitmentMode(mode)")),
+            };
+            let n = n.trunc();
+            if !(0.0..2.0).contains(&n) {
+                return Err(mlua::Error::runtime(
+                    "SetGuildRecruitmentMode: invalid mode",
+                ));
+            }
+            let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+            let mode = n as u8;
+            if model.guild_recruitment_mode != mode {
+                model.guild_recruitment_mode = mode;
+                model.guild_recruitment_changed = true;
+            }
+            Ok(())
+        })?,
+    )?;
+
     g.set(
         "GetChannelName",
         lua.create_function(|lua, key: Value| {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs
index 02269bcb..0b43f046 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/char_stats.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::{binding_abi, Model};
 
 /// The 1.12 weapon-subclass → `SkillLine.dbc` id table, transcribed from vmangos
@@ -952,16 +953,18 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // HasWandEquipped() → boolean (the ref's ranged block swaps "Shoot" in on it). No unit arg —
+    // HasWandEquipped() → 1/nil (the ref's ranged block swaps "Shoot" in on it). No unit arg —
     // the live global is player-implicit.
     g.set(
         "HasWandEquipped",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(model
-                .player_combat_stats
-                .as_ref()
-                .is_some_and(|s| s.has_wand))
+            Ok(flag(
+                model
+                    .player_combat_stats
+                    .as_ref()
+                    .is_some_and(|s| s.has_wand),
+            ))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
index 1314dec8..6347742e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 use mlua::Lua;
 
+use crate::script::binding_abi::flag;
 use crate::script::container::ContainerMove;
 use crate::script::Model;
 
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         "IsInventoryItemLocked",
         lua.create_function(|lua, id: u32| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(is_inventory_item_locked(&model, id))
+            Ok(flag(is_inventory_item_locked(&model, id)))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs
index 73e66ff6..9eb54fca 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs
@@ -76,7 +76,13 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     /// a live table refreshes defaults but never clobbers a value someone already set. A fresh
     /// registration starts at the saved-base value when the config file carries one
     /// ([`Self::set_cvar_saved_base`]), else at the default.
-    pub fn register_cvars<'a>(&mut self, vars: impl IntoIterator<Item = (&'a str, &'a str)>) {
+    ///
+    /// Takes `&self` rather than `&mut self` because the table lives behind the VM's app-data
+    /// (interior mutability), and the interface loader has to be able to guarantee it from a
+    /// `&UiScript` — the stock `UIOptionsFrame.xml` reads CVars in its own `OnLoad`, so a VM that
+    /// loads the client's interface without the client's CVar table is not the client
+    /// (decision 2115).
+    pub fn register_cvars<'a>(&self, vars: impl IntoIterator<Item = (&'a str, &'a str)>) {
         let mut model = self.model_mut();
         for (name, default) in vars {
             let key = name.to_ascii_lowercase();
@@ -476,7 +482,7 @@ mod tests {
     use crate::script::UiScript;
 
     fn script_with_volume() -> UiScript {
-        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
         s.register_cvars([("MusicVolume", "0.4"), ("MasterVolume", "1.0")]);
         s
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs
index e9d19871..5bd75bd2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Table, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::Model;
 
 /// `CLootButton`'s own Lua method table (`0x847ce4`) — see [`crate::widget::FrameKind::LootButton`].
@@ -330,14 +331,14 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // IsFishingLoot() → whether the open loot came from fishing (false when none is open).
+    // IsFishingLoot() → 1/nil, whether the open loot came from fishing (nil when none is open).
     // `LootFrame_OnShow` keys the reel-in sound + the fishing portrait overlay on it
     // (`LootFrame.lua:137-140`; decision 1086).
     g.set(
         "IsFishingLoot",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(model.loot.as_ref().is_some_and(|l| l.fishing))
+            Ok(flag(model.loot.as_ref().is_some_and(|l| l.fishing)))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/lua50.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/lua50.rs
index 9fd3b5c0..97a7100d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/lua50.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/lua50.rs
@@ -662,3 +662,78 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod error_quoting_tests {
+    use crate::script::UiScript;
+
+    /// **Every error message quotes a program element the way 5.0 does — `` `x' ``, not `'x'``
+    /// (decision 2122).**
+    ///
+    /// 5.1 introduced `LUA_QL` and made it two apostrophes; the fork's `luaconf.h` puts 5.0's
+    /// backquote back. The five formats it feeds are all readable in `WoW.exe`'s own `.rdata`, and
+    /// the assertions below are those strings:
+    ///
+    /// ```text
+    /// bad argument #%d to `%s' (%s)          lauxlib.c luaL_argerror
+    /// calling `%s' on bad self (%s)          lauxlib.c luaL_argerror's method arm
+    /// attempt to %s %s `%s' (a %s value)     ldebug.c  luaG_typeerror
+    /// %s:%d: %s near `%s'                    llex.c    luaX_lexerror (the client's own 0x87217c)
+    ///  in function `%s'                      ldblib.c  the line debugstack renders
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// **The traceback line is the one this does NOT reach**, and it is the one with teeth.
+    /// `debugstack` delegates to mlua's own traceback, which is built in mlua's C shim rather than
+    /// in this fork, so `LUA_QL` does not reach it: it still renders `in function 'X'`. That
+    /// matters because AceLibrary — shipped inside ~80 corpus addons — reads its own caller back
+    /// out of `debugstack()` with `string.find(debugstack(), "`argCheck'.-([`<].-['>])")`, whose
+    /// two patterns both require the backquote; the nil it gets is then handed to a `%s`, so an
+    /// argument-check *diagnostic* raises inside the error path. Closing that means rendering the
+    /// traceback ourselves in the reference's own shape, which is dispatched into wow-re
+    /// (`debugstack 0x703760`) rather than copied from stock 5.0's `ldblib.c`.
+    #[test]
+    fn errors_quote_program_elements_the_way_lua_5_0_does() {
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let err = |lua: &str| {
+            s.eval::<String>(&format!(
+                "local ok, e = pcall(function() {lua} end) return tostring(e)"
+            ))
+            .unwrap()
+        };
+
+        // luaG_typeerror.
+        let e = err("local t = nil return t.x");
+        assert!(
+            e.contains("attempt to index local `t' (a nil value)"),
+            "typeerror keeps 5.1's quoting: {e}"
+        );
+        // luaL_argerror, through a library function that raises one.
+        let e = err(r#"return string.rep(nil, 2)"#);
+        assert!(
+            e.contains("bad argument #1 to `rep'"),
+            "argerror keeps 5.1's quoting: {e}"
+        );
+        // luaX_lexerror — the client's own `0x87217c` format.
+        let e = s
+            .eval::<String>(r#"local f, e = loadstring("return 1 +") return tostring(e)"#)
+            .unwrap();
+        assert!(
+            e.contains("near `<eof>'"),
+            "the lexer keeps 5.1's quoting: {e}"
+        );
+        // And no message anywhere OPENS a quote with an apostrophe — 5.1's spelling puts one
+        // where 5.0 puts the backquote, so the tell is a `'` right after a space or a paren.
+        // (The closing quote is an apostrophe in both dialects, which is why this looks for the
+        // opening one and not for the character.)
+        for e in [
+            err("local t = nil return t.x"),
+            err("return nosuchfn()"),
+            err("return string.rep(nil, 2)"),
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                !e.contains(" '") && !e.contains("('"),
+                "a 5.1-quoted element survives in: {e}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mail.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mail.rs
index 475363ec..92183c30 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mail.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mail.rs
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::cursor::{self, CursorPayload};
 use super::Model;
 
@@ -284,15 +285,6 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     }
 }
 
-/// A `1`/`nil` boolean the way the client pushes flags (`pushnumber(1)` / `pushnil`).
-fn flag(b: bool) -> Value {
-    if b {
-        Value::Integer(1)
-    } else {
-        Value::Nil
-    }
-}
-
 /// Fetch a cloned inbox row for a 1-based index, or `None` (out of range / no mailbox open).
 fn row_at(model: &Model, index: usize) -> Option<MailInboxRow> {
     model
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs
index cff5f4c7..1b12f646 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs
@@ -161,9 +161,15 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             with_mf(lua, &this, |mf| mf.fading_enabled = on)
         })?,
     )?;
+    // 1/nil, the reference's predicate shape — `binding-shapes.tsv` has this row as
+    // `(nil) | (number)`, like every other 1.12 predicate (decision 2118).
     m.set(
         "GetFading",
-        lua.create_function(|lua, this: Table| with_mf(lua, &this, |mf| mf.fading_enabled))?,
+        lua.create_function(|lua, this: Table| {
+            with_mf(lua, &this, |mf| {
+                crate::script::binding_abi::flag(mf.fading_enabled)
+            })
+        })?,
     )?;
     m.set(
         "SetTimeVisible",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs
index a6bc4133..23069ef1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs
@@ -219,9 +219,15 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             with_smf(lua, &this, |smf| smf.fading_enabled = on)
         })?,
     )?;
+    // 1/nil, the reference's predicate shape — `binding-shapes.tsv` has this row as
+    // `(nil) | (number)`, like every other 1.12 predicate (decision 2118).
     m.set(
         "GetFading",
-        lua.create_function(|lua, this: Table| with_smf(lua, &this, |smf| smf.fading_enabled))?,
+        lua.create_function(|lua, this: Table| {
+            with_smf(lua, &this, |smf| {
+                crate::script::binding_abi::flag(smf.fading_enabled)
+            })
+        })?,
     )?;
     // The XML attr is `displayDuration`; the Lua accessors call the same field `TimeVisible`
     // (msgframe-runtime.md).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
index fbab344b..fb1b6729 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
@@ -604,6 +604,19 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     pub(crate) zone_channel_catalog: Vec<super::channel::ZoneChannelRow>,
     /// Channel verbs since the last [`super::UiScript::take_channel_commands`] drain.
     pub(crate) channel_commands: Vec<super::channel::ChannelCommand>,
+    /// **The guild-recruitment auto-join latch** — the reference's int global `[0x843608]`, which
+    /// `GetGuildRecruitmentMode` returns and `SetGuildRecruitmentMode` writes (decision 2115).
+    ///
+    /// `0` = STANDARD, `1` = AUTO, and those two words are literally what the per-character chat
+    /// cache stores it as (`OPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL STANDARD|AUTO`; wow-re
+    /// `system/ui/scratch/chat-cache-grammar.md` — the reader maps `STANDARD` to 0 and anything
+    /// else, `AUTO` included, to 1). It boots at **1**: every one of the 33 `chat-cache.txt` files
+    /// the reference client itself wrote in this repo's install says `AUTO`, on characters that
+    /// never opened the option.
+    pub(crate) guild_recruitment_mode: u8,
+    /// Whether Lua has moved [`Self::guild_recruitment_mode`] since the last drain — the chat
+    /// cache's dirty signal, the peer of `chat_window_changes`.
+    pub(crate) guild_recruitment_changed: bool,
     /// `DoEmote` calls since the last drain.
     pub(crate) emote_requests: Vec<super::chat_misc::EmoteRequest>,
     /// `RandomRoll` calls since the last drain.
@@ -1838,6 +1851,8 @@ impl Model {
             known_languages: Vec::new(),
             zone_channel_catalog: Vec::new(),
             channel_commands: Vec::new(),
+            guild_recruitment_mode: 1,
+            guild_recruitment_changed: false,
             emote_requests: Vec::new(),
             roll_requests: Vec::new(),
             uninvite_requests: Vec::new(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs
index 2561b55c..6cd61aae 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs
@@ -479,8 +479,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     // The modifier-key mirror ([`UiScript::set_modifiers`], fed by the app's input pass before
     // any mouse event each frame) — the reference handlers fork on these at click time
     // (ContainerFrame.lua's shift-split / ctrl-dressup, ActionBarFrame.xml's shift-pickup,
-    // SpellBookFrame.lua's shift-pickup). Era booleans, not 1.12's 1/nil — the house API target
-    // (decision 0068); every transcribed `if IsShiftKeyDown()` reads both identically.
+    // SpellBookFrame.lua's shift-pickup).
+    //
+    // **1/nil, not a Lua boolean.** These three shipped Era booleans on 0068's reasoning that
+    // "every transcribed `if IsShiftKeyDown()` reads both identically" — true while we wrote every
+    // caller, and false the day real 1.12 addons load (1188/1751). `ColorPickerPlus.lua:121` is
+    // `if IsShiftKeyDown() == 1 then`, and a `true` reads there as "not held" (decision 2118).
     for (name, pick) in [
         ("IsShiftKeyDown", 0usize),
         ("IsControlKeyDown", 1),
@@ -491,7 +495,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             lua.create_function(move |lua, ()| {
                 let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
                 let m = [model.modifiers.0, model.modifiers.1, model.modifiers.2];
-                Ok(m[pick])
+                Ok(crate::script::binding_abi::flag(m[pick]))
             })?,
         )?;
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest.rs
index b83d7c7e..a151f789 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::Model;
 
 /// Which of the four questgiver sub-panels a [`QuestState`] is for (the app sets it from the wire
@@ -274,12 +275,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     install_count(lua, "GetRewardMoney", |q| i64::from(q.reward_money))?;
     install_count(lua, "GetQuestMoneyToGet", |q| i64::from(q.required_money))?;
 
-    // IsQuestCompletable() → bool (progress panel gate for the Continue button).
+    // IsQuestCompletable() → 1/nil (progress panel gate for the Continue button).
     g.set(
         "IsQuestCompletable",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(model.quest.as_ref().is_some_and(|q| q.completable))
+            Ok(flag(model.quest.as_ref().is_some_and(|q| q.completable)))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest_log.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest_log.rs
index a8bd15a5..18afa76d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest_log.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/quest_log.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
-use super::binding_abi::number_arg;
+use super::binding_abi::{flag, number_arg};
 use super::quest::QuestItemView;
 use super::Model;
 
@@ -537,16 +537,18 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // IsCurrentQuestFailed() → the selection's slot state is FAIL (ref appends " - (Failed)").
+    // IsCurrentQuestFailed() → 1/nil: the selection's slot state is FAIL (ref appends
+    // " - (Failed)").
     g.set(
         "IsCurrentQuestFailed",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
             let sel = model.quest_log_selection as usize;
-            Ok(sel
-                .checked_sub(1)
-                .and_then(|n| model.quest_log.entries.get(n))
-                .is_some_and(|e| e.complete < 0))
+            Ok(flag(
+                sel.checked_sub(1)
+                    .and_then(|n| model.quest_log.entries.get(n))
+                    .is_some_and(|e| e.complete < 0),
+            ))
         })?,
     )?;
 
@@ -708,7 +710,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     )?;
     g.set(
         "IsUnitOnQuest",
-        lua.create_function(|_, (_q, _unit): (Value, Value)| Ok(false))?,
+        lua.create_function(|_, (_q, _unit): (Value, Value)| Ok(flag(false)))?,
     )?;
     // ── The quest watch (the on-screen tracker's state — ref QuestLogFrame.lua:469-505 shift-click
     // toggle, :613-663 QuestWatch_Update). The set lives engine-side, keyed by the entries' stable
@@ -782,7 +784,9 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         "IsQuestWatched",
         lua.create_function(|lua, i: u32| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(watch_id_at(&model, i).is_some_and(|id| model.quest_log_watched.contains(&id)))
+            Ok(flag(
+                watch_id_at(&model, i).is_some_and(|id| model.quest_log_watched.contains(&id)),
+            ))
         })?,
     )?;
     g.set(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/spellbook.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/spellbook.rs
index 7d2f3977..36ec3477 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/spellbook.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/spellbook.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::cursor::{queue_cursor_update, CursorPayload, CursorSpell};
 use super::Model;
 
@@ -424,15 +425,6 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     g.set("BOOKTYPE_SPELL", BOOKTYPE_SPELL)?;
     g.set("BOOKTYPE_PET", BOOKTYPE_PET)?;
 
-    /// The 1/nil boolean every Era binding in this file answers with.
-    fn flag(b: bool) -> Value {
-        if b {
-            Value::Integer(1)
-        } else {
-            Value::Nil
-        }
-    }
-
     // `UpdateSpells()` — twelve bytes in the reference (`[0x4b43e0,0x4b43ec)`), and its entire
     // content is a bare `SignalEvent(SPELLS_CHANGED)`: event 260, **no arguments**, and NO state
     // mutation whatsoever. Byte-carved by a wow-re cross-check (decision 1924, their
@@ -650,7 +642,9 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         lua.create_function(|lua, (id, book_type): (Value, Value)| {
             let (id, book_type) = spell_slot_args(id, book_type, "IsSpellPassive")?;
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(book_slot(&model, id, &book_type).is_some_and(|s| s.passive))
+            Ok(flag(
+                book_slot(&model, id, &book_type).is_some_and(|s| s.passive),
+            ))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs
index b764bcf9..ad029078 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ function GetZonePVPInfo()
     local t, f = __benilla_pvp_type, __benilla_pvp_faction
     if t == "" then t = nil end
     if f == "" then f = nil end
-    return t, f, __benilla_pvp_arena
+    -- isArena is 1/nil, never a Lua boolean: the reference's third slot is `(nil) | (number)`
+    -- like every other 1.12 predicate (decision 2118).
+    return t, f, __benilla_pvp_arena and 1 or nil
 end
 
 -- ── GetGameTime: the server's in-game clock (hour, minute) — the reference reads the
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/channel.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/channel.rs
index e6a94817..fe3faac9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/channel.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/channel.rs
@@ -159,3 +159,87 @@ fn get_channel_list_is_a_flat_slot_name_vararg_in_join_order() {
         0
     );
 }
+
+/// **The guild-recruitment latch boots at AUTO and round-trips as a NUMBER** (decision 2115).
+///
+/// `GetGuildRecruitmentMode 0x4a0040` is 23 bytes and one path — `fild` the int global,
+/// `lua_pushnumber`, `mov eax,1`, `ret` — so it has no nil leg at all, and
+/// `UIOptionsFrame_Load`'s `== 1` would read a nil as a silent "not auto". The boot value is 1
+/// from a `.data` initialiser (`raw 0x443608` = `01 00 00 00`), corroborated by
+/// `UIOptionsFrame_SetDefaults`'s `SetGuildRecruitmentMode(1)` and by all 33 `chat-cache.txt`
+/// files the reference client itself wrote in this repo's install.
+#[test]
+fn the_guild_recruitment_mode_boots_auto_and_answers_a_number() {
+    let s = script();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<f64>("return GetGuildRecruitmentMode()").unwrap(),
+        1.0,
+        "the reference's own .data initialiser, not a BSS zero"
+    );
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return type(GetGuildRecruitmentMode()) == 'number'")
+        .unwrap());
+    s.run("SetGuildRecruitmentMode(0)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<f64>("return GetGuildRecruitmentMode()").unwrap(),
+        0.0
+    );
+}
+
+/// **The setter is shape A — it RAISES rather than swallowing a bad argument** (decision 2115).
+///
+/// `0x4a0060` gates on `lua_isnumber 0x6f34d0` (so a numeric STRING passes) and otherwise
+/// `luaL_error`s `Usage: SetGuildRecruitmentMode(mode)`; it then truncates toward zero through
+/// `__ftol 0x40a2b0` and range-gates `0 <= mode < 2`, raising
+/// `SetGuildRecruitmentMode: invalid mode` outside it. Most 1.12 numeric bindings swallow a nil
+/// as 0.0 — this one does not, and a client that guessed the common shape would turn an addon's
+/// own bug into silence (wow-re `numeric-arg-coercion-law.md`; the per-binding split is the whole
+/// point of that note).
+///
+/// Success pushes **0 values**, not nil.
+#[test]
+fn the_guild_recruitment_setter_gates_its_argument_the_way_the_reference_does() {
+    let s = script();
+
+    // A numeric string is a number to `lua_isnumber`.
+    s.run(r#"SetGuildRecruitmentMode("0")"#).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<f64>("return GetGuildRecruitmentMode()").unwrap(),
+        0.0
+    );
+
+    // Truncation toward zero, not rounding: 1.7 is a legal 1.
+    s.run("SetGuildRecruitmentMode(1.7)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<f64>("return GetGuildRecruitmentMode()").unwrap(),
+        1.0
+    );
+
+    for bad in ["", "nil", r#""AUTO""#, "{}", "true"] {
+        let e = s
+            .run(&format!("SetGuildRecruitmentMode({bad})"))
+            .expect_err(&format!("SetGuildRecruitmentMode({bad}) must raise"));
+        assert!(
+            e.to_string().contains("Usage: SetGuildRecruitmentMode"),
+            "{bad}: {e}"
+        );
+    }
+    for bad in ["-1", "2", "-1.7", "37"] {
+        let e = s
+            .run(&format!("SetGuildRecruitmentMode({bad})"))
+            .expect_err(&format!("SetGuildRecruitmentMode({bad}) must raise"));
+        assert!(e.to_string().contains("invalid mode"), "{bad}: {e}");
+    }
+
+    // …and none of the refused calls moved the latch.
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<f64>("return GetGuildRecruitmentMode()").unwrap(),
+        1.0
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return select('#', SetGuildRecruitmentMode(0))")
+            .unwrap(),
+        0,
+        "0x4a0060 returns `xor eax,eax` — zero values, not a nil"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs
index f1cac799..a02a47be 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ fn every_installed_region_method_lands_in_a_leaf() {
 ///   from one nil for a caller that counts.
 #[test]
 fn the_nameplate_verbs_ignore_their_arguments_and_return_nothing() {
-    let mut s = script();
+    let s = script();
     s.register_cvars([
         (crate::script::CVAR_NAMEPLATE_ENEMIES, "1"),
         (crate::script::CVAR_NAMEPLATE_FRIENDS, "0"),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tick.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tick.rs
index 7510e7e6..71139ae4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tick.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tick.rs
@@ -106,13 +106,31 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     /// binding reads it without a host round-trip. Reference FrameXML (CastingBarFrame & co.)
     /// anchors durations on GetTime; the clock advancing in the same call that fires OnUpdate
     /// keeps the two views of time consistent within a frame.
-    /// The current `GetTime()` value (`__benilla_now`, seconds) — the FrameXML session clock. The app
+    /// The current `GetTime()` value (`__benilla_now`, seconds) — the FrameXML clock. The app
     /// reads it to stamp an absolute expiry into the clock a Lua countdown reads (the aura feed's
     /// `expirationTime`, decision 0257); it is the same value `GetTime()` returns inside the VM.
     pub fn now(&self) -> f64 {
         self.lua.globals().get("__benilla_now").unwrap_or(0.0)
     }
 
+    /// Start this VM's `GetTime()` clock at `secs` rather than at zero — how a host hands a
+    /// **freshly built** VM the clock its process is already on (decision 2116).
+    ///
+    /// The reference's `GetTime` (`0x515ea0`) is `KERNEL32!GetTickCount` scaled by 0.001 (through
+    /// the thunk `0x42c010` → `0x42b790`; wow-re `system/core/ledger.tsv` boundary row and
+    /// `system/ui/ledger.tsv:3265`) — an **OS** clock that knows nothing about the Lua VM and never
+    /// restarts, which is exactly what lets stock `Cooldown.lua` gate on `start > 0`. Ours lives
+    /// inside the VM, so without this a rebuilt VM — every logout/login, every `ReloadUI` — would
+    /// restart it at zero and every host value already converted onto it would land in the past.
+    ///
+    /// Set once, at construction: from then on only [`Self::tick`] moves the clock, so the
+    /// `(Instant, GetTime)` pair a host keeps beside it stays atomic by construction.
+    pub fn set_now(&mut self, secs: f64) {
+        if let Err(e) = self.lua.globals().set("__benilla_now", secs) {
+            self.push_error(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn tick(&mut self, elapsed: f32) {
         let clock = {
             let g = self.lua.globals();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trade.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trade.rs
index 42efac31..adb82768 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trade.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trade.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
+use super::binding_abi::flag;
 use super::cursor::{self, CursorPayload};
 use super::Model;
 
@@ -153,15 +154,6 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     }
 }
 
-/// A `1`/`nil` boolean the way the client pushes flags (`pushnumber(1)` / `pushnil`).
-fn flag(b: bool) -> Value {
-    if b {
-        Value::Integer(1)
-    } else {
-        Value::Nil
-    }
-}
-
 /// Fetch a cloned slot for a 1-based index off one side, or `None` (out of range / empty / no trade
 /// open). `pick` selects the side from the pushed [`TradeState`].
 fn slot_at(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs
index 8d0fe5e0..9b7991df 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs
@@ -899,8 +899,14 @@ pub(in crate::script) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // UnitSex(unit) → 2 male, 3 female (1 = neuter — no 1.12 unit feed produces it); nil when the
-    // unit is absent or the sex hasn't streamed (`0`), the API's "can't tell".
+    // UnitSex(unit) → 2 male, 3 female (1 = neuter — no 1.12 unit feed produces it).
+    //
+    // **The absent/unstreamed leg is the NUMBER 2, not nil** — `UnitSex 0x517f9f` pushes the
+    // constant double 2.0 (`push 0x40000000; push 0`), which wow-re's
+    // `unit-predicate-return-shape.md` §4 carves as the numeric-getter contrast to the predicate
+    // family's `1.0`/nil: the numeric getters in this same table answer a number on the
+    // unresolved leg, never nil. The shapes table agrees — this row is `(number)`, with no nil
+    // alternative anywhere (decision 2118).
     g.set(
         "UnitSex",
         lua.create_function(|lua, token: Value| {
@@ -910,11 +916,7 @@ pub(in crate::script) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 r#"Usage: UnitSex("unit")"#,
             )?);
             let sex = with_unit(lua, &token, 0u8, |u| u.sex)?;
-            Ok(if sex == 0 {
-                Value::Nil
-            } else {
-                Value::Integer(i64::from(sex))
-            })
+            Ok(Value::Integer(i64::from(if sex == 0 { 2 } else { sex })))
         })?,
     )?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/tests.rs
index 2b712665..74718700 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/tests.rs
@@ -629,16 +629,18 @@ fn unit_race_class_sex_report_the_snapshot_or_the_absent_shape() {
         ("Warrior".into(), "WARRIOR".into())
     );
     assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>(r#"return UnitSex("player")"#).unwrap(), 3);
-    // An absent token: nil, nil / nil — the live API's absent-unit shape.
+    // An absent token: the two string pairs go nil, nil — but **`UnitSex` answers the number 2**,
+    // not nil. It is a numeric getter, and `0x517f9f` pushes the constant double 2.0 on the
+    // unresolved leg exactly as `UnitLevel`/`UnitMana`/`GetMoney` push 0.0 on theirs (wow-re
+    // `unit-predicate-return-shape.md` §4; decision 2118). The shapes table has no nil alternative
+    // for this row at all.
     assert!(s
         .eval::<bool>(r#"local a, b = UnitRace("target") return a == nil and b == nil"#)
         .unwrap());
     assert!(s
         .eval::<bool>(r#"local a, b = UnitClass("target") return a == nil and b == nil"#)
         .unwrap());
-    assert!(s
-        .eval::<bool>(r#"return UnitSex("target") == nil"#)
-        .unwrap());
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>(r#"return UnitSex("target")"#).unwrap(), 2);
     // A snapshot whose race/class haven't resolved yet (feed pending): same nils.
     s.set_unit(
         "target",
@@ -650,9 +652,8 @@ fn unit_race_class_sex_report_the_snapshot_or_the_absent_shape() {
     assert!(s
         .eval::<bool>(r#"local a, b = UnitRace("target") return a == nil and b == nil"#)
         .unwrap());
-    assert!(s
-        .eval::<bool>(r#"return UnitSex("target") == nil"#)
-        .unwrap());
+    // Same for a seated body whose sex byte has not streamed: the number 2, never nil.
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>(r#"return UnitSex("target")"#).unwrap(), 2);
 }
 
 /// `UnitFactionGroup` returns the (english, localized) pair the PvP-icon law reads, and `nil, nil`
diff --git a/third_party/lua-src/BENILLA.md b/third_party/lua-src/BENILLA.md
index 2bf4531d..4e4722db 100644
--- a/third_party/lua-src/BENILLA.md
+++ b/third_party/lua-src/BENILLA.md
@@ -41,17 +41,18 @@ downgrade, and it is the entire reason this is a one-hunk fork rather than a ven
 
 ## The delta, and the command that proves it
 
-**Current state: seven hunks, in three files.** `src/lib.rs` additionally differs by having Lua
+**Current state: eight hunks, in three files.** `src/lib.rs` additionally differs by having Lua
 5.2/5.3/5.4/5.5 stripped from the `Version` enum (with their source trees deleted) — benilla builds
 5.1 and only 5.1, and a fork that still *offered* the other four would answer a request for one with
 a missing directory at build time instead of a compile error.
 
-**Four hunks restore what 5.1 changed or removed:**
+**Five hunks restore what 5.1 changed or removed:**
 
 | file | hunk | why | record |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | `lvm.c` | 5.0's `OP_TFORPREP` table→`next` substitution, folded into the top of `OP_TFORLOOP` | `for k, v in someTable do` raised "attempt to call a table value"; it was the first session-start error for **60** corpus addons | 1215 |
 | `luaconf.h` | `LUA_COMPAT_LSTR` `1` → `2` | 5.1 kept 5.0's nesting machinery and put an advisory error in front of it; two corpus addons died on "nesting of `[[...]]` is deprecated" | — |
+| `luaconf.h` | `LUA_QL(x)` back to 5.0's `` `x' `` from 5.1's `'x'` | every Lua error message quotes a program element, and `WoW.exe`'s own `.rdata` carries all five formats in the 5.0 spelling (`` bad argument #%d to `%s' (%s) ``, `` attempt to %s %s `%s' (a %s value) ``, `` %s:%d: %s near `%s' `` at the client's `0x87217c`, …). ~80 corpus addons ship AceLibrary, whose `argCheck` parses its own caller back out of `debugstack()` with a pattern that requires the backquote | 2122 |
 | `lparser.c` | 5.0's compat-semicolon skip restored at the top of `constructor()`'s field loop — 5.0's own line, verbatim, comment included | one extra `;` after a field separator inside a table constructor (`Back_Title = AL["Factions"];;`, ×20 in AtlasLoot's `ButtonRegistry.lua`) parses on the client and died here with "unexpected symbol near `;`"; statement-level `;;` stays rejected by both dialects | 1315 |
 | `lparser.c` | `recfield`'s `cc->nh++` moved back INSIDE its `TK_NAME` arm — 5.0's own placement | a `[expr] = value` constructor field must credit **neither** `OP_NEWTABLE` size hint, so the table is born on the dummy node, the first store rehashes, and the dense integer keys land in an ARRAY part that `next` walks ascending. 5.1 pre-sizes a node vector instead and leaves them in the hash, where `next` is slot order — so every list in every saved-variables file came back scrambled (Bagnon's keyring drew first) | 2111 |
 
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ diff -r third_party/lua-src/lua-5.1.5 \
   ~/.cargo/registry/src/*/lua-src-550.0.0/lua-5.1.5
 ```
 
-That must print **exactly** the seven hunks in the tables above and nothing else. If it ever prints
+That must print **exactly** the eight hunks in the tables above and nothing else. If it ever prints
 more, something crept in.
 
 ## Status of the payload
diff --git a/third_party/lua-src/lua-5.1.5/luaconf.h b/third_party/lua-src/lua-5.1.5/luaconf.h
index 457ad041..b2e29f17 100644
--- a/third_party/lua-src/lua-5.1.5/luaconf.h
+++ b/third_party/lua-src/lua-5.1.5/luaconf.h
@@ -200,7 +200,24 @@
 @@ LUA_QL describes how error messages quote program elements.
 ** CHANGE it if you want a different appearance.
 */
-#define LUA_QL(x)	"'" x "'"
+/*
+** BENILLA (decision 2122): 1.12's Lua is 5.0, which quotes every program element in an error
+** message with a BACKQUOTE and an apostrophe. 5.1 introduced this macro and made it two
+** apostrophes. Read out of WoW.exe's own .rdata, which carries all five of the formats this macro
+** feeds, in the 5.0 spelling:
+**
+**   bad argument #%d to `%s' (%s)          lauxlib.c luaL_argerror
+**   calling `%s' on bad self (%s)          lauxlib.c luaL_argerror's method arm
+**   attempt to %s %s `%s' (a %s value)     ldebug.c  luaG_typeerror
+**   %s:%d: %s near `%s'                    llex.c    luaX_lexerror (the client's own 0x87217c)
+**    in function `%s'                      ldblib.c  the traceback line debugstack renders
+**
+** The last one is not cosmetic: 80+ corpus addons ship AceLibrary, whose argCheck reads its own
+** caller back out of `debugstack()` with the pattern "`argCheck'.-([`<].-['>])", a pattern
+** cannot match 5.1's quoting, so the nil it gets is then passed to a %s and raises inside the
+** error path.
+*/
+#define LUA_QL(x)	"`" x "'"
 #define LUA_QS		LUA_QL("%s")