Thanks for this. Testing aside, am pretty much finished with v15, so will get stuck into this now. Yeah, I think the solution of disabling the character screen makes the most sense. There's no notable gain in seeing the stats, and this will remove the need to fix the wrong stats being shown and drawing illustrations for 1 shot characters.
I fixed the second issue, but will double check to make sure it's working ok! Yeah, that's how it's done, iterate through player team, searching for true on temp character boolean. I don't think I've added the post mission dialogue for that yet - some of the encounters will have dialogue and a reward.