Manors no longer stall the world

5.3.65 · August 11, 2026

 - Manors no longer stall the world: putting a single item into
   a chest in a well-stocked manor used to lock the game up for most
   of a second, while the whole room was written out.  The heaviest
   manor we have -- some thirty-eight thousand items -- cost 714
   milliseconds for one barrel.  That writing now happens in the
   background: the same action costs 135 milliseconds, and the
   pause is gone.
 - Unenhance no longer welds an item shut: taking the last point
   of power off an item left it at zero, and an item at zero could
   not be worked on again -- along with a gap in the qpoints you got
   back.  Unenhance now stops at one.  If you have an item stuck
   this way, tell a staff member and we will repair it.
 - Yell and ask need you sitting up: both could be used while
   unconscious or dying, which no other spoken command allows.  They
   now want you at least resting, like say and the rest.
 - Under the hood: your belongings are now recorded item by item
   as you play, manors included -- they were the last thing carried
   only in their own files.  Nothing about how you use them changes.