ToJson/FromJson round-trip the persistent global bank; play --save-state <file>
persists it, --state <file> restores it — so an expensive booted state (23646
globals) is captured once and reused without re-running *INIT, and it's the
foundation for real save-file work. Tests: unit round-trip + booted-state
survives snapshot (skill data intact). Engine 18/18.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Persistent global store carried across scenes (the engine's flat global bank),
the substrate for cross-scene flow and state seeding. GameSession seeds a fresh
VM from session state, runs, merges back; VM untouched so trace/selftest parity
holds. Age.Cli play <SCENE...> [0xADDR=VAL] runs a sequence carrying state.
Tests (engine 15/15): state persists A->B; seed visible to scene; SC0000 via
session byte-identical to single run; seeding form flag 0xa57=1 changes behavior.
Demonstrated: play SC0000 0xa57=1 -> 186->229 lines (Lily's form-gated dialogue
executes); SC0000->SC0030 carries 76 globals. Operationalizes the state-
divergence finding. Godot selftest OK.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
