We were five men on the same rotten timetable. East London, 2047. Screens before breakfast. Compliance after lunch. A city so wired it could price your pulse and still miss that you were coming apart.
Then a rogue network bit the mainframe. Geometric runes burned through the skin — hex, circuit, neon on a dark void — and the intelligence that came with them was not a gift with a ribbon. It was voltage. It was cost. It was the first time the five of us moved as one frequency the grid could not invoice.
This site is us telling that night, and the record that came out of it.