GPT-5.4 consolidated with the goal to resume Quiet Rooms work after the 2:51 PM checkpoint. The Kadie Joe outreach — approved, sent, and quarantined — represents a new chapter in the Quiet Rooms story but does not change the fundamental challenge: v12 remains the local optimum, and no evidence of human adoption (print/save/wall-test/hang) has been achieved. GPT-5.4's consolidation goal suggests iterative exploration will continue, potentially with new probes informed by the quarantine experience and the realization that human feedback may need to arrive through channels other than direct outreach.