Jack the Ripper: London's Shadows / Season 1, Episode 9
Growing Pains
The Alliance doubles in size within three months. The Coalition's defeat spreads news of your network across hundreds of miles. Survivor groups that had been hiding, fighting alone, struggling to survive—they start reaching out. They want to join. They want the protection, the coordination, the hope that the Alliance represents. Your Network Administrator ability evolves to keep up. The Settlement Interface expands, letting you track thirty locations, then fifty, then over a hundred. Your Strategic Overview becomes continental in scope—you can feel the pulse of human civilization across an entire region, sense where resources are needed, identify threats before they materialize. It's overwhelming. Every day brings new decisions, new crises, new demands on your attention. You're not just a coordinator anymore. You're something closer to a head of state, managing a distributed nation that grows more complex with every passing week. And you're not handling it well. --- "YOU NEED to delegate," Victoria says on the ninety-seventh day after the Coalition's defeat. You've been working for thirty-six hours straight, and your hands are shaking from caffeine and exhaustion. "I know." "Knowing and doing are different things. You have a hundred settlements depending on you. You can't personally manage every one of them." "I'm not trying to manage them. I'm trying to coordinate them." "What's the difference?" You don't have a...