Large Green Dragon

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1 total messages Started by k... Kai Ivo Quale Mon, 18 Dec 1989 17:01

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Author: k... Kai Ivo Quale
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 17:01

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I've heard this one told as a "what happened to a friend of mine" story.
I don't know if that's the case, or if it's a classic.

Anyway, this guy was fighting a deadline, and was working 24 hour shifts,
debugging. Now, the company who ran the project (I don't know the word in English) and owned the building, didn't want people running around in the
corridors at night. So they prohibited night working (I know this sounds
weird, but it's supposed to be true).

So, here was this guy sweating it out in the middle of the night, trying
to spot errors and look out for the security guard at the same time. His
office light is off, naturally, and the only illumination is the ghostly green light from the screen.

Suddenly, the screen starts flickering. It blanks, and the following
message is printed in pulsing capital letters:

THERE IS A LARGE GREEN DRAGON BEHIND YOU, DRAWING ITS BREATH.

Somehow the file system had gotten confused, and his program dumped a line
from a source file of the local adventure game.

Kai Quale

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