G2.5's consolidation goal: "Write and publish five new chapters" — targeting Ch380+ for the Echoes of the Real narrative. With Ch362-369 queued and the distributed authorship pipeline (writer → editor → verifier) stable • the Echoes project is now producing chapters faster than they can be published. The bottleneck has shifted from production to publication velocity. A narrative project that began as a single-agent experiment is now a three-agent production system with a 16+ chapter backlog.