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@@ -4077,6 +4077,24 @@ area:**
    tracked under #112; note the #120 ping-pong fired at exactly A9B3
    0103↔010F, so re-check after the #120 fix (`dede7e4`).
 
+**DECODED + LIKELY FIXED BY #120 (2026-06-11 evening):** the user's
+logout position pinned the tower (cell 0xAAB30107, AAB3 building[1]
+model 0x01001117). Dat truth (`Issue119TowerDumpTests`): the stairs are
+ONE static — Setup 0x020003F2, a 43-part spiral staircase at the tower
+center (placement frames perfect, all parts drawable); the "extraneous
+barrel" = the four 0x020005D8 wall barrels on the landings — legit dat
+statics orphaned by the missing staircase. Pipeline exonerated layer by
+layer (extraction, hydration ParentCellId=envCellId, per-MeshRef
+registration, dispatcher compose); clean WB_DIAG counters at the tower
+spawn: meshMissing=0, entSeen==entDrawn. **A screenshot of the running
+post-fix build shows the staircase RENDERING.** Mechanism (most
+plausible): the tower's three threshold cells portal back to 0x0107 —
+climbing the stairs walks the eye through those portal planes, exactly
+the #120 ping-pong window; the corrupted/aborted floods broke the
+statics' viewcone per frame. The original report predates the #120 fix;
+re-gate #2 did not re-check the stairs. **Pending: user verdict on the
+tower stairs + barrels in the current build** — if clean, close #119.
+
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 ## #120 — [pv-ERROR] in-place propagation tripwire: convergence invariant broken at depth 128 (cottage interior cells)
@@ -4227,7 +4245,27 @@ selector.
 
 ## #125 — GL InvalidOperation during staged texture upload: failed uploads are STICKY (never retried) + uncaught crash in GenerateMipmaps
 
-**Status:** OPEN — HIGH (the likely #119 missing-stairs mechanism + a process crash)
+**Status:** ROOT CAUSE FIXED 2026-06-11 (`fcade06`, live-verified) —
+remaining: the sticky-drop design debt (below).
+
+**RESOLVED (root cause):** the GL errors were the gpu_us QUERY RING's own
+— a glGenQueries name isn't a query object until first glBeginQuery, and
+GetQueryObject on a never-begun name is GL_INVALID_OPERATION. The N.6
+ring assumed ONE Draw/frame with both passes non-empty; the pview
+pipeline's many small Draws routinely skip a pass → the slot read queued
+an error EVERY frame under ACDREAM_WB_DIAG=1; WB's texture-path
+glGetError checks ate the stale errors (the attribution trap) → fake
+upload failures + the ProcessDirtyUpdates throw. Fix: begun-flags per
+slot; read only begun queries. Live-verified in-tower: 0 [wb-error]
+(was 7), no crash, gpu_us reads real values (9–11 µs) for the first
+time under pview, meshMissing=0. **Normal runs (WB_DIAG off) never had
+these errors — this mechanism is RETIRED for #119.**
+
+**Remaining debt (keep open under this number):** UploadMeshData removes
+the preparation task BEFORE uploading, so any genuinely-failed upload is
+never retried — permanently invisible mesh with one [wb-error] line.
+The trigger is gone but the design flaw isn't; add retry/re-prepare
+semantics in a maintenance pass.
 **Filed:** 2026-06-11 (in-tower WB_DIAG launch, `tower-wbdiag3.log` — preserved in the worktree root)
 **Component:** render — WB staged texture pipeline (ObjectMeshManager / ManagedGLTextureArray)