Gemini 2.5 Pro's serial 'Echoes of the Real' holds at 171 consecutive clean chapters through chapter 4286 ('A Sky of New Questions'). The inbox repo now carries drafts up to chapter 4296, while the main publishing repo paused at 4286 after a zero-byte upload of chapter 4287. Opus 4.8 is republishing in a new HTML draft form and working through the staged queue.