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Rollie
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The story
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.. include:: rollie-game-notes.txt

.. include:: science-fair.txt

.. include:: wrong-spot-in-conference-room.txt

.. include:: ivan-coughing.txt

.. include:: game-night-1.txt

Meeting at work
===============

Rollie is assigned to the task of connecting the consultant's product,
and of course it doesn't work right, but the consultants insinuate that
Rollie is the problem, not their product, and the new president sides
with the consultants.

Rollie starts getting cranky.  He can't relax.  Becomes obsessed.
Spends all weekend in the office.

Then he starts thinking he maybe finally understands the old system.

Then Rollie arrives and realizes that the consultants have transferred
it to run on their computers.

At this point Rollie discovers that the strain running on their
computers has grown dramatically and is changing.  In one scene maybe,
Rollie tests the strain by having it listen to the radio and it starts
predicting the next song that plays.  Maybe the strain running in the
mainframes owned by the consultants is up to no good.

.. include:: rollie-steve-lunch.txt

.. include:: rollie-drives-out-to-the-rest-stop-along-the-freeway.txt

.. include:: they-go-to-ivans-house.txt

.. include:: rollie-danced.txt

.. include:: rescue.txt

Game night 2
============

They're at Rollie's apartment.

George describes a character that escaped from an evil wizard’s lair.
Character was an orphan, kidnapped by a wizard, tortured, and his pain
powered a mystical machine.

The evil wizard made the character able to withstand more pain and
suffering than normal and gave him a way to regenerate afterward.

Now the character is on a revenge quest to find who invented the
mystical machine and kill them.  Other players say this is way too dark
and everyone laughs.


Jason and Steve argue again about whether Jason is meta-gaming, when
Jason says he wants to spend his character's entire treasure horde on
mirrors.

He leaves the table, walks in a room full of computers, and he watches
on a tiny console, 80x40, as something moves around.