The character-session reset manifest had no audio step: retail's logoff
destroys the world's sound sources with the world, but our OpenAL world
pool and ambient scheduler are process-lifetime — the continuous ambient
beds played on at character select and the scheduler kept RE-FIRING
deadlines against the stale listener (Suspend/StopAll had zero callers;
WorldGenerationQuiescence only cycles around teleport-style generation
replaces).
New WorldAudioSessionGate: the reset manifest's 'world audio' step stops
all sixteen world-pool voices (SuspendWorldAudio) and drops every ambient
deadline (StopAll); the pool reopens at the entered-world edge through the
new default-null LiveSessionEnteredWorldBindings.ResumeWorldAudio binding,
invoked first in ApplyEnteredWorld. The ambient soundscape needs no
explicit resume — the next objcell observation rebuilds it exactly as a
cell change always did. Covers logout, reconnect, and full stop uniformly.
UI-pool sounds (interface bank, portal cues) untouched by design.
App tests 5568/3 skips, Runtime 1756/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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