2) The game has a habit of "soft crashing" where the display will freeze, but the game will still work. I can't tell if there's spaghetti code somewhere, if this is just the RPGmaker MV engine, or if I'm just incompetent.
Reloading a save is a work-around, but I need to get to the root of why it's doing that soon, because that's like putting a bandaid on a surgery.
I'm going on break for a while. Will come back to this as soon as I can! Thank you for understanding!