THE NET’s altitude-testing arm — every thread here runs uphill and lands on seven. At the Mile High & Higher Casino, Table 7 is secretly the largest probability lab in Denver and Marco Gutierrez’s teeth hum before the ball drops. Half Zero turns worthless surface into priceless subsurface. Dr. Vasquez’s PhysioAI runs Window Therapy on the wrong ankle. And 150 feet under DIA, the granite and the limestone won’t stop talking. El Manningway’s #7, made operational.
Still coming up the mountain — The Tuesday-Thursday Protocol (the NET’s first romance, six months of conference calls) is written and on its way in. Sofia “Cosmo” Chen’s story starts here and continues in Birmingham, where Ground Control moves the whole operation south. Denver is the altitude-testing arm — it connects underground to Pittsburgh limestone, Northwest tree networks, and the Chen dynasty in Omaha. New rooms slot in as cards; the front door never has to change.