diff --git a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MetafSerializerTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MetafSerializerTests.cs
index 8e31beb41..989f76ec9 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MetafSerializerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MetafSerializerTests.cs
@@ -234,12 +234,30 @@ public sealed class MetafSerializerTests
 
     // Proof (4), nav-only case: SaveNav's own header (navHeader) and
     // single-Nav fold-marker wrap are byte-identical to a real nav-only
-    // .af fixture. nav_ab.af's header is metaf's own fresh banner (first
-    // bytes "~~ {\n~~ ", matching every clean meta fixture above).
-    [Fact]
-    public void WriterOutputMatchesMetafCanonicalEmissionNavOnly()
+    // .af fixture. Every listed fixture carries metaf's own fresh banner
+    // (first bytes "~~ {\n~~ "); round 3 item 8 extended this from a
+    // single fixture (nav_ab.af) to the three checkpoint/recall/portal2
+    // fixtures copied from the metas repo (nav_briennecarlus.af carries
+    // chk+jmp, nav_empyrean.af carries rcl+ptl, nav_lockandkeyjaw.af
+    // carries rcl+chk) so the theory actually exercises every node kind
+    // metaf's own grammar supports, not just plain point waypoints.
+    public static TheoryData<string> NavByteIdenticalFixtureData()
+    {
+        var data = new TheoryData<string>();
+        foreach (string name in new[]
+        {
+            "nav_ab", "nav_briennecarlus", "nav_empyrean", "nav_lockandkeyjaw",
+        })
+        {
+            data.Add(Path.Combine(FixturesRoot, "af", name + ".af"));
+        }
+        return data;
+    }
+
+    [Theory]
+    [MemberData(nameof(NavByteIdenticalFixtureData))]
+    public void WriterOutputMatchesMetafCanonicalEmissionNavOnly(string path)
     {
-        string path = Path.Combine(FixturesRoot, "af", "nav_ab.af");
         string original = File.ReadAllText(path);
         var settings = new NavigationSettings();
         Assert.True(
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankProfileDirectoryTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankProfileDirectoryTests.cs
index 76862fabe..c2cac139d 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankProfileDirectoryTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankProfileDirectoryTests.cs
@@ -324,6 +324,28 @@ public sealed class VtankProfileDirectoryTests
             spells!.ColumnNames);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Round 3 item 8: the shared "y" database grammar's writer must be
+    /// REAL byte-identical against real installed data, not just the
+    /// hand-built synthetic fixtures in VtankUsdDocumentTests — the three
+    /// real owner-*.ast per-character spell-tracking caches round-trip
+    /// through parse -> Render() unchanged.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("owner-a.ast")]
+    [InlineData("owner-b.ast")]
+    [InlineData("owner-c.ast")]
+    public void RealAstFixturesRoundTripByteIdentical(string fileName)
+    {
+        string original = File.ReadAllText(
+            Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "Fixtures", "vtank", fileName));
+
+        VtankDatabase database = VtankDatabase.Parse(original);
+        string rewritten = database.Render();
+
+        Assert.Equal(original, rewritten);
+    }
+
     private sealed class MemoryStorage : IPluginStorage
     {
         private readonly Dictionary<string, string> _text = new(StringComparer.Ordinal);
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankUsdDocumentTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankUsdDocumentTests.cs
index 90279bf58..191944690 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankUsdDocumentTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/VtankUsdDocumentTests.cs
@@ -110,4 +110,25 @@ public sealed class VtankUsdDocumentTests
             ["Apple", "Mango", "Zebra"],
             reparsed.Tables.Select(static entry => entry.Name).ToArray());
     }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Round 3 item 8: pins <c>VtankCell.String</c>'s embedded-newline strip
+    /// (<c>gy.cs:84</c>: <c>text.Replace("\n", "")</c> — VTank's own writer
+    /// never emits a multi-line "s" cell; only a <c>ba</c> blob can carry
+    /// embedded newlines, see <see cref="BaBlobWithEmbeddedCrlfRoundTripsExactCharacterCount"/>).
+    /// The strip happens at construction, not only at write time, so a
+    /// caller reading the cell back via <see cref="VtankCell.AsString"/>
+    /// never sees the stripped character either.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void StringCellStripsEmbeddedNewlineAtConstructionNotJustOnWrite()
+    {
+        VtankCell cell = VtankCell.String("line1\nline2");
+
+        Assert.Equal("line1line2", cell.AsString());
+
+        var sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
+        cell.WriteTo(sb);
+        Assert.Equal("s\r\nline1line2\r\n", sb.ToString());
+    }
 }