diff --git a/link/v6.md b/link/v6.md
index 24b6739..de0fdf4 100644
--- a/link/v6.md
+++ b/link/v6.md
@@ -80,10 +80,31 @@ A repeat of a key still in flight is answered **`bridge.busy`**: nothing runs, a
 told to come back. It is deliberately not spelled `bridge.busy.error` — nothing is wrong, the work
 is happening.
 
-**2. A key that has begun is never released.** Not even when the handler throws. Releasing it would
-let a retry re-run a command that may have applied half of itself, which is the exact failure this
-file exists to prevent. A handler that throws stores a `bridge.error` reply instead, so the retry
-gets a definite answer and the step fails once rather than looping.
+**2. A key that has begun is never released — except on a refusal.** Not when the handler throws.
+Releasing it would let a retry re-run a command that may have applied half of itself, which is the
+exact failure this file exists to prevent. A handler that throws stores a `bridge.error` reply
+instead, so the retry gets a definite answer and the step fails once rather than looping.
+
+**A REFUSAL is the third case**, added by the Phase 16 acceptance walk and amending protocol 7 in
+place. A handler that ran to completion and answered `*.error` did not do anything — every refusal
+on this plane is a guard: a missing `runId`, an unknown item, a cap, a rate limit, a write that
+failed and left the value alone. Remembering it froze the answer for ever, so a refusal that
+*waiting fixes* could never be retried past. `uo.world.save` is the case that found it: the shard
+saves at most every 300 seconds, the module documents that as "the one refusal on this plane that
+waiting fixes", and six attempts over four minutes all replayed one frozen sentence — "the last save
+was 227 seconds ago" — because the number was the first reply's, not the clock's. A step's key is
+one value for the life of the step, so the operator's retry control could not escape it either.
+
+So a refusal releases the key: nothing happened, and the caller may ask again. The refusal is still
+**emitted** to the caller, which is what ends that attempt; it is simply not remembered as the key's
+answer. A refusal is recognised by its `kind` ending in `.error`, matched on the suffix so a handler
+family added later is covered without extending a list. `bridge.error` is excluded deliberately —
+that is the reply the shard writes when a handler THREW, which is the case whose key must be kept.
+
+**This puts a rule on handlers, and it is the rule the release rests on: do not answer `*.error`
+after changing the world.** Report a partial change in an `ok` reply, as `item.grant` does with
+`granted`/`missed` and `world.despawn` with `removed`/`gone`/`refused`. The shard cannot verify
+"nothing happened"; it takes the `.error` kind as the claim.
 
 **3. A replay is stamped with the REPEAT's correlation id.** The sidecar's `reqId` is a fresh
 per-process counter, so a retry is waiting on an id the first attempt never used. Replaying the
@@ -102,7 +123,7 @@ evicted key's repeat *would* be applied a second time — so an eviction that dr
 its TTL prints a console warning naming the count. If the promise is ever actually breached, an
 operator reads it here rather than discovering a doubled spawn in the world.
 
-`[bridge status` reports `idem(keys= seen= replayed= busy= evicted= uncorrelated=)`.
+`[bridge status` reports `idem(keys= seen= replayed= busy= evicted= uncorrelated= refused=)`.
 
 #### 2.1.1 How the reply is captured
 
diff --git a/website/EVENTS.md b/website/EVENTS.md
index 42d291e..6a44a9f 100644
--- a/website/EVENTS.md
+++ b/website/EVENTS.md
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ no URL moved.
 | `DELETE /admin/events/series/:seriesId` | admin, editor | delete it, detaching its definitions; answers with how many |
 | `GET /admin/events/calendar` | staff | the calendar for a window: materialised runs and projected occurrences (Phase 4) |
 | `GET/PUT /admin/events/actions` | admin | which actions are enabled on this deployment, and their per-run caps (Phase 6). `admin` on the read as well as the write; the PUT takes one action at a time |
-| `GET /public/events` | — | **the calendar** (Phase 14a): upcoming, live and recent, by series. Runs and projections interleaved and each saying which it is, ascending by instant. Instants are UTC and every entry carries the EVENT's own zone; the reader's zone places them. Rehearsals and unlisted events are absent. Defaults to now through 31 days out and the window may span at most 92 — the anonymous surface is the one with no login in front of it |
+| `GET /public/events` | — | **the calendar** (Phase 14a): upcoming, live and recent, by series. Runs and projections interleaved and each saying which it is, ascending by instant. Instants are UTC and every entry carries the EVENT's own zone; the reader's zone places them. Rehearsals and unlisted events are absent. A run is an INTERVAL, not an instant: an entry is in the window when the run OVERLAPS it, so one that began before the window and has not ended is still "what is on" (Phase 16a — reading the start instant alone made this route serve only the first of its three words, while the event's own page said `live`). Defaults to seven days back through 31 days out — the tail is where "recent" lives — and the window may span at most 92; the anonymous surface is the one with no login in front of it. Projections are forecast from NOW, never into the tail, since a slot the runner has already passed did not happen |
 | `GET /public/events/:slug` | — | **one event** (Phase 14a): storyline, arc, what is live, what is next, what happened recently, and a results table once one is published. Takes an optional `?run=`, which is what an announcement's link carries, so a mail about last Friday's occurrence does not open next Friday's; a run belonging to some other event is **ignored rather than refused**, because a stale link in a months-old mail should land on the event it was about. A draft, an archived definition and an unlisted one all answer 404 |
 | `GET /public/events/series/:slug` | — | **the arc** (Phase 14a). A series with no listed events is a 404, not an empty page: the arc is a label on its definitions, so a page for an empty one would publish the fact that an operator has named something they have not announced |
 | `GET /player/events/history` | auth | **this account's participation** (Phase 14a) — the run, when it was, the score a module reported, and the rank once results were published (null until then, which is a real state rather than an error). Self-scoped on the session with **no id parameter**, deliberately: a route that took one would be a middleware mistake away from publishing who attended what. Keyset-paged on the participation row's id. It obeys the calendar's two exclusions, so attending an unannounced event does not disclose that it exists |
diff --git a/website/EVENTS_PLAN.md b/website/EVENTS_PLAN.md
index a411377..fc9e7e8 100644
--- a/website/EVENTS_PLAN.md
+++ b/website/EVENTS_PLAN.md
@@ -1820,6 +1820,65 @@ website, emulator — running a real multi-phase event, including three delibera
 Then `edge` → `main`, in the order every previous cutover used: the protocol side first, the module,
 core, docs, then the kit's re-pin and `runicgateway.com`.
 
+> **Split into 16a (the walk) and 16b (the cutover)** (org lead, 2026-09-09), on the same argument
+> 12a/12b and 14a/14b were split on. The two sentences above cannot both hold: `link`,
+> `servuo-plugins` and `Module-uo` all release on push to **`main`**, so no released artefact
+> carrying events can exist until after the cutover. Engagement Phase 13 met the same wall and
+> resolved it the other way, cutting over first and walking from `main`. Here the walk goes first
+> against artefacts built from `edge` exactly the way a release builds them, because every walk in
+> this workstream has found defects and a defect found on `edge` is a reviewed PR rather than a
+> hotfix to `main`. **16b re-verifies against the real released bundle** — install, boot, run one
+> event — so the delivery path is still proved, just second. A third leg, **16c**, carries
+> `runicgateway.com` and `.profile`.
+>
+> **16a WALKED, and it is four repos** — `Module-uo`, `website`, `servuo-plugins`, `docs`. The whole
+> rig: real ServUO 57.4 (208k items, 42k mobiles) → a `cargo --release` sidecar on protocol 7 → core
+> with the module installed from a release-shaped bundle → the Android app on an emulator. The
+> overlay was deployed from a tarball built the way CI builds one, into a tree with `Scripts/Custom/
+> Bridge` and `Saves/Bridge` deleted first, so it was a first install rather than an upgrade.
+>
+> **All three deliberate failures pass.** (1) A mid-run process kill landed mid-TEARDOWN — sharper
+> than mid-step, since a phase executes in about a second — with the run `completed`, cleanup
+> `pending`, a lease half-returned and 21 world objects up: teardown resumed on restart and all 15
+> steps still read `attempts = 1`, so nothing re-executed. (2) The sidecar killed during a phase gate
+> left the run `degraded` rather than failed, `core.lease` retrying with a reason, and the four world
+> writes behind it **parked at `attempts = 0`**; the shard reconnected on its own. (3) A cap of 5
+> against a step asking for 12 answered `refused` — its own status — with `code: "cap"` and *"asks
+> for 12 of `uo.creatures`; 0 of 5 is already spent this run"*, and the dry run had already refused
+> it in the author's own words.
+>
+> **Six defects, all in code already merged to `edge`, and the suites were green on either side of
+> every one.** Two were blocking or worse. **The spawn atlas could not import on a stock ServUO
+> tree** — a case-sensitive JS dedupe against an `..._ai_ci` PRIMARY KEY, four colliding decoration
+> spellings in ServUO's own files, and the whole transaction lost; with no atlas every option source
+> answers empty and no world verb can be authored at all. **Teardown of all five world verbs was a
+> no-op that reported success** — `revertOwned` sent the despawn under the step's key, which is the
+> key the SPAWN used, so the shard replayed the spawn's reply and `OnDespawn` never ran; the ledger
+> read `reverted` while the shard held all 21 objects, and the same despawn under a fresh key removed
+> every one. Then: **the public calendar served neither live nor recent runs** though §I promises all
+> three, so the site said `live` on one page and showed nothing on the other; **a resource left
+> `reverting` by a crash was never reclaimed**, and the manual cleanup route answered 200 while doing
+> nothing, which stranded a lease and blocked the NEXT run of the same event; **a transient refusal
+> under an idempotency key was permanent**, because the shard's store had no case for a handler that
+> ran and deliberately did nothing; and **three facts every announcement computes were declared by no
+> trigger** and silently dropped.
+>
+> One reported defect was **withdrawn**: `skip` refusing a `failed` step is not a dead end, because
+> `resume` carries a run past any settled step — the route's own docs say so and the rig confirmed
+> it. The runner claims only `pending` steps, so `failed` and `refused` are both settled.
+>
+> Every fix is verified against the rig, not only against tests: the atlas imports 309 decor types
+> and 6,455 points; a full four-phase run's teardown leaves the shard owning **0**; a lease stranded
+> by a real crash is reclaimed in one sweep and `cleanup_status` reaches `complete`; the same save
+> key 25 seconds apart answers "15 seconds ago" then "40 seconds ago"; and `/site/events` shows a
+> live run as **Happening now** beside recent ones, in the browser and in the app. Each new test was
+> confirmed to FAIL without its fix.
+>
+> **`Module-uo`'s `revert` no longer forwards core's key at all** — `MODULE_API.md` now says why that
+> key identifies a lost dispatch rather than addressing the undo. **Protocol 7 is amended in place**:
+> a refusal releases its key, with the rule that pays for it written down — *do not answer `*.error`
+> after changing the world*.
+
 **Two documents that are cutover-window work by construction.**
 - **`runicgateway.com`** — `checkFacts` reads `main`, so any claim about events is unverifiable until
   the cutover lands. Same 12a/12b split the engagement workstream needed.
diff --git a/website/MODULE_API.md b/website/MODULE_API.md
index 9ef276e..9a9be64 100644
--- a/website/MODULE_API.md
+++ b/website/MODULE_API.md
@@ -1193,6 +1193,16 @@ rather than implementation and belong here:
   with the key and an EMPTY list, meaning *"a command went out under this key and core never learned
   what it did"*. Answering that honestly is what makes an unattended world write recoverable; a
   module that cannot answer it says so, and the row stays visible to an operator.
+- **That key IDENTIFIES a dispatch; it is not a key to send on the undo.** It names the command core
+  lost the answer to, so the module can ask the game about it. Forwarding it as the outgoing key of
+  the reverting command is a different thing entirely, and on a game whose at-most-once store keys on
+  the key alone — as the uo-link shard's does — the undo is then recognised as a repeat of the DO and
+  answered with the original reply. `module-uo` made exactly this mistake: teardown of all five world
+  verbs was a no-op that reported success, because every despawn carried the key its spawn had gone
+  out under. Found by the Phase 16 acceptance walk, with the ledger reading `reverted` and the shard
+  still holding every object. A command that undoes needs a key of its own or none at all; a repeated
+  undo is usually harmless by construction ("already gone" is a success), which is what makes *none*
+  the right answer more often than not.
 - **Core owns cleanup, and it is derived rather than authored.** There is no `on_teardown` on an
   action and no cleanup phase in a spec: an operator cannot be relied on to write the undo, and an
   aborted run never reaches the phase they wrote it in. Cleanup is one sweep over the ledger and it