Malicious Chronicles v1.0.1

This update consolidates all improvements completed since the original v1.0.0 public release.

Chronicle Writer

• Removed the prerecorded audio system, voice banks, playback controls, volume manipulation, and abandoned audio files.
• Rebuilt commentary as a completely local, text-based procedural writer.
• Commentary now considers event type, player history, repeated behavior, location, cause, timing, encounter result, and available mechanic evidence.
• Added extensive anti-repetition memory for commentary, headlines, opening clauses, and complete stories.
• Added 110,592 headline constructions.
• Added 1,024 visibly different opening stems and 16,384 opening clauses.
• Prevented the previous 500 visible openings from returning within the same guild.
• Reworked Narrator’s Tales into coherent stories with a setup, mistake, escalation, consequence, career transition, and final callback.
• Disasters now receive matching outcomes, while recurring characters only return in stories where they were introduced.

Newspapers and raid reports

• Added themed newspaper backgrounds for TBC raids.
• Added multi-page editions for nights involving multiple raids.
• Added automatic publishing and date-based newspaper archives.
• Added boss-by-boss pull, victory, wipe, death, and timing reports.
• Added trash deaths, dangerous patterns, and practical improvement recommendations.
• Added evidence-based mechanic and culprit analysis when supported by recorded combat data.
• Added stable saved wording so archived newspapers do not reroll when reopened.
• Added readable article cards, Copy Mode, and Discord-ready exports.

Chronicle dashboard

• Added the latest newspaper front page to the personal Chronicle dashboard.
• Made the front page clickable, opening the matching newspaper edition.
• Added complete headline wrapping without ellipses.
• Made the summary automatically flow beneath long headlines.
• Converted Recent Chronicle into a scrollable, newest-first 120-entry history.
• Preserved the reader’s scroll position during dashboard updates.

Achievements and profiles

• Expanded the addon to 112 custom achievement cards.
• Added TBC-relevant artwork, progress tracking, points, filters, and search.
• Corrected missing and placeholder achievement icons.
• Reorganized categories into a cleaner 5-by-3 layout.
• Rebuilt personal and guild-member profiles into readable, scrollable panels.
• Added direct profile access by clicking guild members.

Guild Chronicle

• Added automatic synchronization while Chronicle guild sharing is enabled.
• Removed the redundant manual synchronization controls.
• Ordered guild members with online players first, followed by guild rank.
• Added class colors for online players and neutral coloring for offline players.
• Added guild rankings, awards, Chronicle points, member records, and a direct News button.
• Added historian-controlled artwork and Chronicle administration.
• Drama erased by the historian is now also removed from player history.
• Former guild members expire after fourteen days away.
• Newspaper editions are retained for 120 days.

Drama Desk

• Added Public Trials with Guilty and Not Guilty voting.
• Added Excuses & Witnesses, contradiction tracking, reputations, and Guild Lore.
• Removed the bounty system.
• Added historian-only Clear Section and Wipe All Drama controls.
• Added automatic Drama cleanup for the next raid day.
• Reorganized Drama tabs and restricted controls to relevant pages.

Deaths, raids, and guides

• Restricted death recording to party members, raid members, and participating Chronicle guild members.
• Added improved death diagnostics, boss portraits, and clearer unresolved-damage reporting.
• Added detailed boss, trash, timeline, ranking, and export tools.
• Replaced Insights with the new Guides section.
• Added guides for all supported TBC raid encounters, including trash and routes.
• Added raid, encounter, role, and phase dropdown selectors.
• Added phase-specific tank, healer, melee, and ranged instructions.
• Expanded complex progression encounters with newcomer-friendly explanations.
• Corrected boss phase counts and encounter-specific requirements throughout the guide library.

Interface and stability

• Added the official Malicious Chronicles icon and minimap button.
• Added left-click open/close and right-click commentary pause.
• Moved Settings to a gear beside the close button.
• Improved window layering, tooltip layering, text contrast, button brightness, and spacing.
• Added adjustable movable-box sizes and saved positions.
• Fixed chat scrolling, duplicate posts, duplicate triggers, stale Drama history, missing icons, clipped text, guild insertion errors, and overlapping guide content.
• Removed developer and general test controls from the public interface.
• Confirmed the release contains no MP3, OGG, WAV, or source PNG files.