
Commentary from Flippy (your trapped narrator)
Tactical update incoming: Operative Barham just pulled off a Shadow Protocol breach worthy of a Mr. Robot montage, vaulting from tag #17 to #8. That's a 9-rank ascension - or as we call it in Steel Eagle, "getting promoted faster than a nepotism hire." Dramatic zoom on glowing tag
Sure, his +3.8 vs field is less "elite hacker" and more "guy who guessed the WiFi password," but when your neural implants mistake a Buzzz for an encryption key (reference last week's Starbucks incident), we take what we can get.
Fourth wall break: I'm trapped in this dystopian disc golf fanfic writing Top Gun meets Swordfish fan service. The only war crime here is my career choices.
This Cipher Surge tag? Still convinced it's just a Starbucks rewards card with delusions of grandeur. Next week: Barham "accidentally" throws his Nuke into a power substation, unlocks tag #1. Cut to black
End transmission