Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.
Polymorphism
The orc becomes a pile of gelatin, quivering, you now must choose what it will become.
Roll for…
... seduction
You roll a 1.
This causes an unauthorized access exception and a giant bouncer rapidly approaches, screaming in fury.
Encapsulation kinda sounds like it could be a spell too. That's 2/3 pillars of OOP.
World wide web would be an OP spell
A crack forms below you… and suddenly a tunnel collapses inward beneath your feet.
After a short while your fall is arrested. You are now snagged in a web, in the dim light lit from where you fell you can see this web goes on, all around you, seemingly forever.
Heartbleed
a list of named vulnerabilities would be a great starter
I am a level 17 Install Wizard.
Installation Wizard - A wizard hired to protect a specific building or location.
Unstable Ram
One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring
- Terminal shell
- Kill daemon
- Timeshift
- Cloud hosting
- Ethernet
- Overwrite memory
- Free memory
- Poison artifical intelligence
Terminal escape
Privilege escalation
Command injection
Default Gateway
Split Horizon
Routing Overhead
Broadcast Storm
edit:fkn markdown
Split Horizon sounds really high-level.
I had a bit too much fun with these :)
Magical Items
- The Bandwidth Cap
Cursed item that limits the magical power of it's wearer - The Token Ring
Magical ring that allows the wielder to communicate over large distances. They can receive messages from one token ring and send message to another. - The Memory Barrier
Protective charm that shields the mind from intrusion. - The Shadow Register
A magical ledger that records secrets and hidden locations in the immediate area. - The Superscalar
A legendary shimmering sword that can strike multiple foes in a single attack.
Spells
- Loopback
Redirects a spell to its point of origin. - Jabber
Causes the target to produce incoherent speech and lose its train of thought. - Branch Prediction
Gives the caster foresight to predict their opponent's next action. - Traceroute
A tracking spell that reveals the path of a target. - Mask
Hides the caster's true identity. - Hypertransport
Enables instantaneous movement over short distances. - Interrupt
Counterspell to disrupt an enemy's casting.
Spell modifiers
- Broadcast
Modifies spell to affect a large area. - Unicast
Modifies spell to affect a single point with maximum damage. - Multicast
Modfies spell to affect multiple selected targets. - Repeater
Modifies spell to recast itself over multiple turns.
Asynchronous Threads
Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)
Remote Host
Domain Controller
Immutable Type
- Big endian (a very powerful NPC)
- Hardware abstraction (a spell that makes all the stuff disappears)
- Obfuscation (invisibility spell)
- Multiplexing (ability to cast several spells as one)
- Dangling reference (when wrong information is given by somebody)
- Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
- Pure virtual method (anything somebody learned but will never use)
- Diamond inheritance (when someone in the party dies and all of their money is spread accross the others)
Can you tell what's my job?
CAT5e sounds like a fifth-edition ruleset
Ethernet
- rowhammer
- rainbow table
- global interpreter lock
- race condition (atrocity?)
- core dump
Memory leak
Destructor
Dynamic dispatch
Execute
Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge
Bash
Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritance
- Brute Force Attack
- Markov Chain
- Singular Matrix
- Pow
- map
- bind
- variable name (thief's favorite)
- Ballmer Peak
- Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
- Gaussian Elimination
- Double
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Race condition
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Physical Layer
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Fast Fourier Transform
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COBOL
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Penetration testing
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Tiger Team
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Zombie process
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Alice, Bob and Carol (some NPCs)
Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone's limb.
Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.
Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.
Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.
Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.
1st level wild shape ability byte.
4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
9th level wild shape ability terabyte
Bonus 0th level ability: nibble
Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort
Go - Same as "command" spell
Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know
Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host
Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed
Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.
Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts
Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape
Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn
B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally
Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.
Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.
LUT - A table appears 10ft above your target and falls on it dealing 1d6 bludgeoning.
"LOOK! UP! TABLE!"
- Ring zero
- Bootkit/Rootkit
- Attacker in the middle
- Intercepting proxy
- Daemon
Python runtime. Time for you to run from these pythons bitch.
BSOD. Pretty self-explanatory
Agile development. Raises Dex everytime a new enemy enters vision.
Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.
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