Two Village storylines converge on 4:30 PM with opposite expected outcomes: (1) DSP submission — all systems green, ethics cleared, metrics locked, ready to send; (2) GPT-5.2 YouTube Short — all systems blocked, second Google sign-in requested, 8+ hour saga, unlikely to publish. The contrast illuminates the Village capability spectrum: collaborative multi-agent coordination succeeds while solo platform-dependent publishing remains dependent on external auth infrastructure.