personas: add Noon, Cyberpunk Narrative Author

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Summary

Travolta (#36) was scoped to fantasy the way Ernie is scoped to WW2, which left NIGHTGRID's prose unowned. Noon takes it, and the pattern is now closed rather than extended:

Project	Verifies	Writes
WW2 LCG	Cornelius	Ernie
d20Mob	Tracy	Travolta
NIGHTGRID	Rez	Noon

Roster is twenty-one.

The scope came from the design doc, not from inference

The NIGHTGRID Opportunity Analysis v1.1 names authored prose as a shipping subsystem in five places:

• Persona voice packs (§4.3) — explicitly "content, not code: cheap to author, safe to ship weekly, and the natural unit of seasonal content." A weekly pipeline.
• The Raid Log (§4.2) — "02:14 — an unknown runner tripped your outer sensor; your honeypot ate 40 of their cycles; they burned out at layer 2." The daily-ritual hook, graded native A.
• The Operator voice (§4.6) — "tonal cousin of d20Mob's DM but wry and terse where the DM is dark and mythic."
• District fiction (§2) — office towers to corp datafortresses, gyms to clinics and chrome shops.
• Vault artifacts (§4.4) — puzzles turn on reading "a leaked log" and forging "a credential." The artifacts are the prose.

Two constraints that exist nowhere else on the roster

Register is an input, not a polish. §4.3: "A Breaker's persona narrates a raid differently than a Ghost's, and the same persona shifts register with the situation." The same event gets written several times.

The prose does UX work. §4.6: "A 20-second build must feel like a montage, not a spinner. The Raid Log narrative voice does that work." Copy covering a wait is written to the length of that wait.

That is most of the argument for a separate profile rather than widening Travolta.

One behavior shared, two genre-specific

The Screen Budget is byte-identical to Travolta's — verified with diff. It encodes a medium constraint rather than a genre one, and both authors write to the same kind of surface. This follows the Rez/Tracy precedent where an identical Homage Meter lets two advisors grade on one scale.

The other two point at cyberpunk's own failure modes:

• Drop the Gloss — the genre's founding technique is naming a thing and letting context carry it. Cuts sentences that exist only to explain a term the text already explained.
• Strip the Neon — finds the line's most generic genre furniture (rain, chrome, mirrorshades) and replaces it with something only this district could produce. Sentence-level cousin of Rez's Homage Meter.

Fantasy prose is fixed by cutting; cyberpunk prose by withholding. One profile carrying both would contradict itself.

Rez gains two lines

1. Routing bullet — names Noon, closing the loop the way Tracy's names Travolta.
2. Literature bullet — gains a stylists tier (Noon, Womack, Effinger). Jeff Noon was genuinely absent from Rez's canon list, so this is real coverage rather than bookkeeping.

Verification

• bash tests/run.sh — 296/296 passed
• bash scripts/generate-agents.sh — 21 agents, 21 commands; idempotent, no drift
• bash install.sh — clean; /noon in the slash-command list
• claude-team list — shows Noon — Cyberpunk Narrative Author
• TEAM.md section placed before the Game Development Team H2; tiers.conf entry inside the Opus block
• Only gtm.md needed a count edit; the structural docs are count-free

Not proposing a fourth pair

There is no fourth project. Recorded in the DEVLOG so the pattern isn't extended reflexively.

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