It's Always DNS
2 GOODIES · +1 LVL
+4 vs SRE. TTL 3600. Eight-minute incident. The maths, however, are perfect. +4 vs SRE.
SIDE EFFECT NXDOMAIN on your ego. -1 level. The cache, though, is warm.
You checked everything. Except DNS. It was DNS. It's always DNS. Write it down. You'll forget.
Bug · play it on your turn
You checked everything. Except DNS. It was DNS. It's always DNS. Write it down. You'll forget.
TTL 3600. Eight-minute incident. The maths, however, are perfect. +4 vs SRE.
Drawn face up → the debug starts at once. From your hand: you can play it on your turn.
6 SP. Your velocity must be strictly higher. A tie means the bug wins.
2 goodies and +1 level. A pair takes 1 goodie, you take the rest and the levels.
Roll 1–6, you need 5 or more (shifted by your gear / role / profile, minimum 2). Refused = the ticket comes back to you and you take the hit.
+4 vs SRE — added to ITS story points.
SIDE EFFECTNXDOMAIN on your ego. -1 level. The cache, though, is warm.
Eight minutes of incident, three hours of post-mortem. The cause is three letters long, and everybody said them in the first minute, laughing, not believing it. The TTL was 3600.
Six story points, two goodies, and +4 against the SRE role: the card punishes precisely the people who should have seen it coming. The side effect costs a level, roughly the going rate for a public incident.
An average bug for everyone, a wall for an SRE. It is the one card in the deck where switching roles before drawing would be rational.
What you pull from the Tickets pile. Your velocity has to land strictly above their story points — and your friends will inflate them.
The Unpaid Intern
1 GOODIE · +1 LVL
"I'll put it on my GitHub — that's basically pay."
The HR Dragon
2 GOODIES · +1 LVL
"It's not a layoff, it's an opportunity."
The Crypto Bro
3 GOODIES · +1 LVL
His sword is a candlestick chart. Red, obviously.
Customer Support Karen
2 GOODIES · +1 LVL
The bob cut is a +2 magic weapon, already counted.
The Meeting That Should Have Been an Email
1 GOODIE · +1 LVL
"Just five minutes" — 47 minutes later.
The Influencer Lich
4 GOODIES · +2 LVL
Her collab with Death did 12 million views.