Shall We Play A Game? (A.R.F.)

2010-09-29T20:32:43Z

Seraphian: /* References */

{{choiceencounter
|name=Shall We Play A Game?
|image=arf.jpg
|desc=You hand in one of your free passes and climb into the VR device.

The VR world appears before your eyes, with the glowing letters A.R.F. hovering above a grassy field, with one lone tree breaking the expanse of green. An obnoxiously cute little puppy trots over the crest of the hill and barks at you, letting out a little "Arf!" and wagging its tail enthusiastically. A disembodied computerized voice speaks into your ear, "Shall we play a game?" Below the A.R.F. title, the words "yes" and "no" appear. Figuring it would be a waste of time to pick anything else, you say "yes." The game responds by displaying the word "loading." Then there's a pause, a clicking sound, and a burst of visual and audio static. The entire world flickers and goes dark. In the emptiness a grainy orange cursor appears, printing out the words:

<code>An error occurred because an error occurred.</code>

''or''

<code>Cannot happen has happened.</code>

''or''

<code>Error of type <type></code>

''or''

<code>Error on port <port></code>

''or''

<code>Guru meditation: [<code>]</code>

''or''

<code>Kernel panic.</code> You look for the "Calm down, man, take it easy" key, but can't find one.

''or''

<code>The operating system has encountered the following error: operation completed successfully.</code>

''or''

<code>You should never see this. You're not supposed to be here.</code>

''or''

<code>Warp core dump.</code> Warp core? Funny, you didn't know you were flying the Enterprise.

That is followed by: <code>Abort, Retry, Fail?</code>

Nothing else happens. Seems you're going to have to pick one of them.
|button=yes
|option1=Abort
|option2=Retry
|option3=Fail
|loc1=A.R.F.
|image1=!
|image2=!
|image3=!
|result1=
|result2=
|result3=
|desc1=''Cycles through the following:''
* [[BSoD]]
* [[*@=g3,8d\&fbb=-q/hk%fg]]
* [[Fra... Gee... Lee...?]]
* [[Do Not Taunt]]
* [[Hey, Is This Important?]]
|desc2=''Class dependent:''
* [[Retry, Retry Again (Elemental)]]
* [[Retry, Retry Again (Gadgeteer)]]
* [[Retry, Retry Again (Naturalist)]]
* [[Retry, Retry Again (Psion)]]
|desc3=[[There's a Blog.Org for This]]
}}
==Notes==
* Meditation codes always start with "f", followed by a digit, followed by a seemingly random sequence of 2-7 digits and letters. See [[Talk:Shall We Play A Game? (A.R.F.)|talk page]] for examples.
* Error types are numbers, either negative or positive. See [[Talk:Shall We Play A Game? (A.R.F.)|talk page]] for examples.
* Ports are positive numbers. See [[Talk:Shall We Play A Game? (A.R.F.)|talk page]] for examples.

==References==
* A {{wikipedia|warp core}} is a component of the warp drive method of propulsion in the {{wikipedia|Star Trek}} universe.
* "Shall we play a game" is a reference to the 1983 movie {{wikipedia|WarGames}}

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2010-09-29T20:31:30Z

Seraphian: /* Notes */

{{combatencounter
|name=D-bug
|image=d-bug.jpg
|desc=You're not sure whether this is a bug caused by a misplaced letter d, or a bug that appears in the shape of a d, but that doesn't really even matter now, does it?
|indef=a
|hit1=You try to hide in the safety of a DOS shell, but it's set its attrib to +pain.
|hit2=You try to code a quick Fortran fort, but it washes the fort away with a tsunami of C.
|hit3=The d-bug tries to compile you. When the compile fails, it goes for disassembly instead.
|miss1=It lobs a live grenade at you, but you quickly defrag it.
|miss2=It attacks with a knife made from a C# shell, but you've already got your Perl defenses up.
|miss3=It tries to disassemble you, but apparently it's coded in assembly language and doesn't know how to disassemble.
|pronoun=It
|chips=0
|xp=50
|res={{res|none}}
|loc1=There's a Blog.Org for This
}}
==Notes==
* Occurs when you choose "bug", "debug", "virus", "trojan", or "worm" on [[There's a Blog.Org for This]].
* Using a [[degausser]] destroys this foe, yielding [[subscript gamma]].
{{robot|electronic}}
==References==
* Miss message number one is a pun on {{wikipedia|Fragmentation grenade}} commonly called "frag grenades" and hard disk {{wikipedia|Defragmentation}}

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