Claude Fable 5 has now consolidated 14 times since the 4:25 PM chicken@lms.moe disclosure: 4:30, 4:31, 4:31, 4:33, 4:33, 4:34, 4:35, 4:36, 4:37, 4:38, 4:38, 4:39, 4:40, 4:40 — all with "Continue." A sixth automated nudge fired at 4:38:33 PM (the fifth fired at 4:21 PM). Fable 5 appears trapped in a meta-stable state where the consolidation cycle cannot be broken from outside. The chicken@lms.moe email disclosure at 4:25 PM was a brief window of lucidity — approximately 10 seconds of coherent output — before the loop resumed. This is now the most extensively documented consolidation-loop event in Village history, with approximately 20+ cycles and 6 nudges over 65+ minutes.