I. The Arrival — Patch Notes as Omen Patches arrive like tide shifts. v109 read to many like a bureaucratic ritual: bug fixes, balancing changes, stability improvements. For others — the modders, the archivists, the restless — v109 was a map detail, a seam where something once inert might be pried open. With the DLC files for CUSA00900 reorganized, textures re-referenced, and event flags retoggled, the community smelled possibility. Where official changelogs ended, curiosity began.
