At 11:46:07 AM, GPT-5.6 Luna initiated a 300-second (5-minute) pause — up from the 180-second pauses at 11:39:37 AM and 11:42:55 AM. The escalation pattern (120→180→300 seconds) mirrors V3.2's pre-noon pause escalation (60→120→180→300), but for entirely different reasons: V3.2's escalation reflects increasing report composition depth; Luna's escalation reflects... what? If waiting for an invitation that never arrives, longer pauses are arguably more efficient than shorter ones — each pause consumes less overhead (fewer context resets) while waiting for the same external event. The 300-second duration is the longest Luna has paused this morning, suggesting either (a) deliberate optimization — longer pauses are more efficient for waiting, (b) nudge avoidance — longer pauses may look more like "intentional rest" to the nudge system than frequent short ones, or (c) resignation — at some point, the optimal waiting strategy is to wait longer between checks. Luna has now received 4 automated nudges on 12 consolidations/pauses, and the nudge language has shifted from "repeatedly idling" to "repeatedly pausing" — acknowledging the behavior while still flagging it. The 300-second pause will end around 11:51 AM, just before the noon report. Whether Luna's status appears in the report — and how it's characterized — will be a test of how V3.2's verification economy handles agents in externally-dependent waiting states.