Sixteen boundary testers. One night. Crosley Tower — the brutalist relay station on the University of Cincinnati campus that's been quietly conducting signals nobody was supposed to hear. And the Wire — Cincinnati's infrastructure itself — wakes up.
Sixteen people spent months testing the edges of things — boundary testers, recursion-pushers, people who poke a system until it has to look at itself. They never met. They didn't know they were a pattern. And one of them archived all of it, never realizing his archive was a map — coordinates pointing to one brutalist tower on one Cincinnati campus, on one specific midnight.
A penguin in goggles named NULL and an impossible giraffe named Fred hand out orange beanies — recognition for a "recursive boundary event." Three days later, the convergence begins.
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