ist's computer on the fifth floor and played them at night, hiding from the
security guards. He popped down to visit Vampire a lot, and avoided Pringles
and his office entirely.
"I'm on level 5," he said, "and I just can't get past the Roach."
"And you've still got the magic sword?" said Vampire, not looking
up.
"No, I lost that to the Troll."
"You don't even have to go to the Troll," said Vampire, who never
played video games but read the video game newsgroups religiously. "You
can cross the Dread Bridge instead."
"I always die on the Dread Bridge when it breaks in two."
"You're not running fast enough," said Vampire. You've got to run
as fast as you can, and jump at the last moment."
"It's tough," said Stan.
Vampire shrugged.
"How are things with you?" Stan asked.
"The patch for mod-ssl 1.2.4.2 is totally incompatible with the recommended
build sequence for Apache on Solaris. Solaris is such crap."
"Oh," said Stan. "OK."
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