diff --git a/gui.cpp b/gui.cpp
index 3b1b2de..db39afb 100644
--- a/gui.cpp
+++ b/gui.cpp
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ void GUI::shake() {
     int y = Random::uniform<int>(-20,20);
     // add x/y back to draw screen
     $renderer.draw_screen($map_view, x, y);
+    $renderer.display();
     std::this_thread::sleep_for(1ms);
   }
 }
diff --git a/render.cpp b/render.cpp
index c4f8058..a9c2796 100644
--- a/render.cpp
+++ b/render.cpp
@@ -110,13 +110,14 @@ void SFMLRender::render_text(std::wstring &text, float x, float y) {
   float width_delta = 0;
   float height_delta = 0;
   sf::Sprite &sprite = get_text_sprite(last_tile);
+  const float start_x = x;
 
   // make a copy so we don't modify the cached one
   $ansi.parse(text, [&](sf::Color bg, sf::Color fg, wchar_t tile) {
     if(tile == '\n') {
       // don't bother processing newlines, just skip
       y += $line_spacing;
-      x = GAME_MAP_POS;
+      x = start_x;
     } else if(tile == L'\r') {
         return; // skip these, just windows junk
     } else {
diff --git a/status.txt b/status.txt
index 00b1fd2..94a1d9f 100644
--- a/status.txt
+++ b/status.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ NOTES:
 
 
 TODO:
+* panels and everything except renderer should use character coodinates
 * camera shake broken
 * draw_screen doesn't do x axis offset render
 * Can std::any be defaulted to a noop in the events?