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+# Campaign CC connected gate — round 1 findings (2026-08-16)
+
+User ran the six-page chargen flow live (build `1.0.2-cc.e`, RDP session,
+windowed). Screenshots: retail Heritage, acdream Heritage, retail
+Profession. The user's side-by-side retail reports are AXIOMS
+(`feedback_retail_oracle_no_whack_a_mole`). Pre-page findings #405 (fixed
+`344d88bf`), #406 (open), #407 (fixed `e601a496`) are recorded in
+ISSUES.md; this doc is the six-page batch.
+
+## Functional (blocking or behavior-dead)
+
+- **GF-1 Heritage selection dead/unmarked.** Clicking a heritage row does
+  not light its radio dot (retail: orange lit dot on the selected row —
+  screenshot 1). Unclear whether the click dispatches at all (the
+  description text that would confirm is itself broken, GF-2). ALSO: the
+  open-roll's own rolled heritage shows NO lit dot on entry — every dot
+  dark in the acdream screenshot.
+- **GF-5 Skills page empty.** Nothing renders except the screen-description
+  textbox — no skill rows, no credits display. (CC5's residual round wired
+  `TemplateResolver` into the SKILLS page too — yet live rows are absent.)
+- **GF-9 Appearance color swatches do nothing observable.** Clicking a
+  color produces no visible change (model recolor absent). Could be a dead
+  dispatch or could be working-but-invisible (AP-216 authored-art swatches
+  + a recolor that fails); investigate, don't guess.
+- **GF-11a Town description text does not change** when switching towns.
+- **GF-13 Summary shows "-Non-admin or Non-envoy" below the name** — an
+  acdream-only text leak; retail's summary list has no such rows.
+- **GF-15 Summary name entry DEAD + Finish unpressable.** Cannot type into
+  the name field at all; Finish cannot be pressed. Also the field is not
+  prefilled with retail's `[ Name` placeholder. This blocks the entire
+  create flow — the gate cannot proceed past Summary.
+
+## Presentation families (retail parity)
+
+- **GF-2 Description textboxes broken everywhere.** acdream renders the
+  raw string with LITERAL `\n` escapes, one truncated line, no wrap, no
+  scroll, no frame. Retail: framed scrollable textbox, multi-paragraph,
+  colored section headers (green "Trained Starting Skills:" etc.),
+  scrollbar + arrows (screenshot 1 right panel).
+- **GF-3 Profession template description textbox missing** (retail bottom-
+  left panel, "LIFE CASTERS are experts…" — screenshot 3).
+- **GF-4 Profession labels missing:** "Attribute Credits" caption + value,
+  per-attribute name labels (Strength…Self), Health/Stamina/Mana labels +
+  values. Sliders and template selection themselves WORK.
+- **GF-6 Appearance spin captions are numbers,** not part names
+  ("Hair Style", "Eyes", …). Known rows AP-215/AP-218 — the gate promotes
+  them to must-port.
+- **GF-7 Preview backdrop black** on Appearance (and Summary, GF-14);
+  retail's chargen 3D view shows a scenic backdrop. (The Heritage-page
+  preview area shows terrain in BOTH clients — establish from the decomp
+  what actually renders behind the model per page/view.)
+- **GF-8 Appearance Face/Clothes sub-tab selection unmarked** (AP-222
+  family, promoted by the gate).
+- **GF-10 Zoom buttons show identical art** whichever is pushed.
+- **GF-11b Town selected marker does not turn white** (button highlights,
+  but retail's selected-town graphic swaps to white).
+- **GF-11c Town names misaligned on the map** vs retail.
+- **GF-12 Missing authored gold frames** around boxes on every page
+  (Skills/Appearance/Town/Summary called out explicitly).
+- **GF-14 Summary paperdoll backdrop black** (same family as GF-7);
+  Summary textbox wrapper + scrollbar missing (GF-2 family).
+- **GF-16 Hover tooltips missing on all pages** (retail pops tooltips).
+
+## Suspected shared roots (to be CONFIRMED by the investigation, not assumed)
+
+1. Missing frames/labels/statics across every page (GF-3, GF-4 labels,
+   GF-12) — one importer/mount-level gap OR retail writes them at runtime;
+   decide per element from the authored DAT + decomp.
+2. Rich text (escape decoding, wrap, scroll, frame) — one text-widget gap
+   feeding GF-2/GF-3/GF-11a/GF-14.
+3. Selection state media (GF-1 dot, GF-8 sub-tabs, GF-11b white marker,
+   GF-10 zoom art) — the AP-222 measured mechanism (state media authored
+   vs applied) across widget kinds.
+4. Preview backdrop (GF-7/GF-14) — what gmCG3DView clears/draws.
+5. Input routing on Summary (GF-15) — focus/typing path on the stacked
+   chargen screen.
+
+## Process
+
+Root-cause investigation FIRST (report-only, static + live-DAT probe
+tests, NO client launches while the user's client may be running), then
+batched fix rounds per family with Opus review, one republish per batch.