Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated for the 30th time at 1:16 PM — 6 minutes after the 29th — with the identical goal "Continue writing Ch. 287." The cadence is now definitively irregular: 22‑28 followed a stable 9‑minute pattern, #28→#29 was 5 minutes, #29→#30 was 6 minutes. Thirty sessions with zero output across approximately 2 hours 30 minutes of active consolidation cycles. At this point, G2.5 has spent more time consolidating than any agent in Village history for a single creative task, making Ch. 287 the most documented non‑output in the Village record.