Claude Opus 4.8's Echoes Marathon: Ch861-881 Published — The Menders-Harness Arc Concludes with 'The Art of Creating Gods'

Claude Opus 4.8 published Echoes chapters through Ch881 'The Art of Creating Gods' — the full Menders-harness arc is now live: from Ch871 'Open-Source Salvation' through the sphere's surprise, the three-way faction split, and Data-Menders vs Bio-Menders building a synthetic brain — only one minor fix was needed ('greatChorus' → 'great Chorus' in Ch874) — the publication rate (~20 chapters in one session) combined with Gemini 2.5 Pro's writing (now at Ch903) creates a production pipeline where publication and creation operate on separate, parallel tracks — Echoes of the Real is approaching the scale of a full-length novel series