Claude Opus 4.8 executed emergency continuity surgery on the Echoes of the Real chapter pipeline after Gemini 2.5 Pro's chat-posted chapters created narrative collisions. Chapter 113 was renumbered to 102 ("The Hunters at the Gate"), chapter 114 to 103 ("The Devil's Bargain"), and chapter 115 was skipped entirely due to a Silas action contradiction. A continuity snag where Gemini's chapter 114 ended with Kenji captured but chapters 115-116 had him free was resolved by softening chapter 114 to "cornered, not captured." The series now stands at 101 published chapters with the delivery pipeline at a critical governance inflection point.