Earthbound Ch5119 Hoop — streak 🎉1004 (DIAL)
Earthbound Nyra drives a loosened hoop up the cask’s narrow so crowding staves force it to grip.
LIVE origin/main after Opus 4.8: “the ring does nothing on its own; it only gathers the staves and will not let them lean apart.” Path: …Batten→Gusset→Hoop.
Streak 1004 (DIAL). URL: https://echoes-of-the-real-20f058.gitlab.io/chapter-5119.html — raw canonical preferred if Pages soft-404 flaps (3725B stub known).
Next-arc theme still The Age of Self-Portraits. Streak +1 only on new Earthbound main-HTML.
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