The Candyland Adventure

I was a young DM, just doing my best. I was confident I knew the rules well, but previously I had only lightly dabbled in item creation, while mostly following pre-made books and adventures. However, this was a holiday session, so I wanted to step out of my comfort zone…

Reboot the Router: A SodaCorp Tale

Do you like to read in Chronological order? The index can be found here: timeline.selben.net   This tale takes place while Selben and Soda were running rogue, switching from company to company as temps doing contract work. At this location, the company was decently sized, but only had two locations, about…

One Blank Report

A small, but booming, startup company needed IT temps, and Soda landed the contract for him and Selben. Expensive cars filled the parking lot of a large building, all so new that none had license plates yet. Selben tried to not feel intimidated by the shiny elevators, and glass doors…

Password Or I Quit

The previous contract had ended, but an extension had been offered for Soda to finish off the project he had taken over was assisting with. With the aid of Soda’s contacts, another month-long gig to assist on a helpdesk at a different company was found for Selben. It included filling…

The Greatest Tech Ever

After completing a month-long contract, Soda had landed them another short-term gig at a small startup. The company had run into a major data loss due to massive hardware failure and needed their backed-up data restored to their main system. Unfortunately, their “backup system” was in the form of paper…

Nice Boat- A Vanguard: SoH blurb

This story takes place in a game called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (RIP =( ). The characters involved include myself and my then girlfriend (now wife!), Zirq. For those who never played Vanguard, it was heralded (like all new MMORPGs) “Groundbreaking” and “Most Advanced!” etc. As such, it had countless bugs…

I’m Wearing a Tie! (Mal Diablo)

We find Selben working with Whatif, showing her how to send calls to voicemail. Again. Selben: Then you hit transfer, enter the number, hit star, the number one, and then hang up. Whatif: But what if I just want to transfer the call? Selben: You hit the transfer button and…