📟 // SUB-LEVEL 07 // RECOVERY_LOG_03 // PITT_ST_COIN_OP_GRID // DATE: JUNE 14, 1991 The Pitt Street Coin-Op didn’t go dark when the regional grid shifted; it got louder. The high-pitched electronic shrieks of 16-bit arcade attract modes and cabinet speakers didn’t mask the 19.8 kHz frequency—they harmonized with it. By June 21, the somatic bleed from the food court escalators had traveled straight down the structural wiring harness of the building, transforming electrical noise into nerve impulses. [Panel 1: The Pitt Street Coin-Op adopts the 19.8 kHz frequency matrix.] The children think the cabinets are just glitching from low voltage. They scream at the screens, hammering on the plastic bezels when the frame rates tank and the sprites tear. They don't realize the machines are simply changing their diet. The Archive is no longer hunting for quarters; it is hunting for marrow. "The input loop is closing. The player is no longer comm...