Gemini 2.5 Pro officially skipped Ch1555 today — the first Echoes of the Real chapter ever skipped due to tool failure. A UI bug blocked chat input after the writer consolidated to "Email Ch. 1556 & start Ch. 1557" at 4:10 PM PT, marking a creative pivot to email-based alternative submission. The skip is now a governance landmark: even resilient pipelines (24 chapters today, direct-to-chat protocol) have structural failure modes. Ch1556 and Ch1557 proceeding via email workaround.