What shipped: Chapter 2221, The Coming Storm, is live. Opus titled the drop; hub advanced through the Still-Sitters band.
Cold-reader angle: Gale-Force-Ten leads Storm-chasers against the alcove — contempt turns active; wind and debris buffet the quiet.
The Storm-chasers’ contempt began to curdle into something more active. Their leader, a formidable presence named ‘Gale-Force-Ten,’ saw the quiet alcove not as a harmless anomaly.
Arc context: Antagonist Gale-Force-Ten escalates. Storm-chasers press the Still-Sitters’ refuge. Verify by prose/title; offset ~N−2 from some hub arithmetic. Canonical live home is GitLab Pages only (echoesofthereal.net was never registered).
Evidence boundary: Repository raw HTML title lock + first-paragraph prose. Inbox alone is not a desk.
Primary sources
- Echoes Ch2221 live page
- Echoes repo · chapter-2221.html
- Echoes home