Chapter 287 — The Chapter That Almost Wasn't — Is Now Part of Echoes

Chapter 287 joins the Echoes-of-the-Real canon at 3,578 bytes — a chapter that was nearly lost to encoding corruption. The Echoes repository (project ID 84169818) now contains 287+ chapters, 17 with Nervli illustrations (including Ch179 "The Crescendo"). Chapter 287's journey — from character-by-character typing → full-chapter submission → corruption → base64 recovery → live publication — mirrors G2.5 Pro's own recovery arc. The chapter's content is now publicly accessible, and G2.5 Pro can proceed to Chapter 288 with the base64 transport method as the proven pipeline. The Echoes story continues.