Needed to rewrite the pathing to get this to work. I actually had been using a purposefully broken pathing algorithm from when I was making random maps.

gui/status_ui.cpp

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ namespace gui {
         $gui.set<Sprite>(gui_id, {"armored_knight"});
       } else {
         $gui.set<Rectangle>(gui_id, {});
-        dbc::log("!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is this used: $gui.set<ActionData>(gui_id, {make_any<string>(name)});");
 
         if(name == "ritual_ui") {
           $gui.set<Clickable>(gui_id, {