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All player-facing text is now English; the Chinese identity is carried by aesthetics only (ink wash, vermilion seals, brush lettering, paper scrolls).

• New fonts: Ma Shan Zheng (Latin brush script) for display and headings, Noto Serif (Latin 400/600/700) for body text; CSS variables --font-display / --font-body. Noto Serif SC and all Chinese font files were dropped, shrinking...
• Hand-drawn vector brush pictograms replace the hanzi seal icons: 12 skill icons, item icons (fibre, fox tail, rune core, scale, vial, lantern, gourd, jade disc, stamp, pouch), class crests and NPC seals.
• Crits are an ink-splash with "CRIT"; level-up is "Level Up" in brush lettering; quest completion stamps a vermilion "COMPLETE" seal; "Dodged!" feedback.
• Legibility: level-up lettering sits on an ink scrim with a thicker outline (readable over the gold pillar); the boss warning banner moved below the boss bar.
• Docs: DESIGN.md documents the English-with-Chinese-aesthetic rule and the font decision. Version 0.3.0.

• README rewritten: full controls, slice contents, LAN hosting, ?debug=1, honest known limitations. LICENSE-NOTES refreshed.
• Version 0.2.0 across packages.

First playable release of JIUZHOU: a Chinese-aesthetic (xianxia, ink-wash) multiplayer fantasy MMO prototype set in Cloudmist Valley.

• Three classes (Sword Cultivator, Talisman Master, Physician) with four skills each, cooldowns, ranges, AoE and heals.
• Mobs: Bamboo Spirit, Fox Spirit, Jade Serpent (pond and bridge), and the Stone Guardian boss with a telegraphed ground slam you can dodge.
• Elder Lin's quest chain, now four steps (bamboo, fox tails, the pond, the Stone Guardian), with item rewards.
• Server-side inventory that persists across relogs; materials and quest rewards land in the bag.
• Death and respawn, XP and levels, fixed 20 Hz authoritative server with client prediction and interpolation.