Some good ideas here, but if I did this with my group, I'd have to deal with them volunteering for the process.
That looks like an IBM PC. I recognize it from my childhood years when the father of a friend (who worked for IBM) had one in the early 80's. That dude is probably as nerdy as he looks. So not a dumb terminal, it's one of the first home computers.
Doing the same, except I'm doing it with a bunch of friends and we're making a gaming convention out of it at a ski resort. EclipseCon 2024 running from Apr 6 to Apr 9. I've been planning this since 2020, when I first heard the eclipse was going to pass close by.
I hate that this was the first thing I thought of. :)
Came here to say this. Nothing else even comes close. And if you want to stay away from reddit, Ralts has self-published it as Behold: Humanity! You can get in for Kindle or in dead tree form on Amazon.
Edit: Apologies Bob, I didn't see your link was for Royal Road instead of reddit.
The city was named after the Buffalo River. The origin of the river's name is uncertain, but it is most likely named after the animal.
It's obviously a Honey Heist that almost went wrong.
Does an attacker need to be logged in to take advantage of the exploit? Will a whitelist keep my server safe?
I'm pretty sure I still have that on a 3.5" floppy somewhere. I also have a 3.5" drive that could read it, but I have nothing I could plug it into.
Stories like these are often about protecting the status quo, or at least protecting it from change involving harm and destruction. Refugees generally want to see the status quo changed because things suck for them. The more radical among the refugees will not be above using a bit of harm and destruction to get what they want. The ends justify the means and all that. I find it better to use the term "antagonist". They are people that the protagonists have conflict with, but they aren't necessarily bad people.
