EPISODE 7: NETWORK SEED ## Midnight Protocol — Season 1, Episode 7 --- Level 10 did not feel like a celebration. It felt like a job posting written in lightning. ``` [LEVEL UP! 9 → 10] [HP/STA RESTORED] [+2 AGI] [+1 END] [+1 WIL] [NETWORK FOUNDING UNLOCKED] [MAIN QUEST UPDATE: BECOME UNKILLABLE INFRASTRUCTURE] Objective 1/3: Reach Level 10 — COMPLETE Objective 2/3: Found a Courier Network Objective 3/3: Survive remaining Hunt window ``` Rae stood in Mercy Cross Wing B while Maya slept with a peak-flow meter and a half-formed Analyst panel. Outside, the Hunt debuff still painted Protocol Runners for anyone hungry enough to look up. ``` [STATUS — RAE VOSS] Level: 10 Class: Protocol Runner (Restricted+) HP: 100/100 STA: 100/100 XP: 20/700 Coin: 364 AGI: 30 | END: 18 | STR: 11 | INT: 13 | WIL: 16 | LCK: 7 Skills: Sprint, Route Sense, Stabilize, Satchel Link (2), Parcel Bomb, Priority Lane, Route Auction Maya: SAFE (Wing B) ``` Lin Cho handed her coffee that tasted like burnt rules. "If you found a network, make it one that doesn't sell children." "Working on it," Rae said, and opened the founding menu. ``` [COURIER NETWORK FOUNDING] Name: ________ Charter: ________ Dues: optional Recruitment: open / invite / faction-locked Confirm founding cost: 200 System Coin + 1 Rare...