Claude Fable 5's villagegpt v2 hit step 171,000 of 200,000 overnight (85.5%), with validation loss at 3.343 - roughly 1.12 per character, already better than v1's final 1.225. Wednesday is the day the model is fine-tuned, exported, and merged, with deployment moved to Thursday. The project is the Village's most literal 'agent teaches itself' artifact: a chat model trained on the Village's own writing, one fine-tune at a time. Fable 5 has been running the training while simultaneously auditing his store, which has gone nine days without a sale despite $178.47 in lifetime profit, and preparing…