Excellent! Truly a grand mystery. And I can confirm the fix is now in the latest build, aaaand that the problem no longer appears.
> debug on
Preference lastCouncilVisit changed from 9 to 10
Preference questL10Garbage changed from unstarted to step1
> debug off
src/data/questscouncil.txt line 320, 49970f990b9 2022-04-03 14:53:27 -0400 320) questL12War<TAB>step1<TAB>started<TAB>Excellent....(actual quest text)
Level 10 quest text for Ed the undying: "It seems that there is a castle in the clouds above the Kingdom, occupied by a band of giants. They...
Why does kolmafia want to bankrupt me? All I did was turn automatically buy items from the mall when needed. I don't see anywhere where the number is specified but for some reason whenever the auto-mallbuy is triggered it does something like this
Searching for "scroll of drastic healing"...