difficult day thought i had the new item ability system working before the weekend five hours of work later today, i think it is working. at first i thought the static variables i was using were the problem, but i ended up keeping them. come to think if it, the bomb attack was able to use aura and deplete its gauge, which was static. maybe the energy meter should be static too. maybe they aren’t so evil… in moderation i still don’t really know what the issue was, i just kinda restored a backup and combined various iterations and got something that seems to work in the last fifteen minutes bad day, turned good