Your first shift ends. You click through to the second one.The board does not load.General Error / Could not connect to the database. Debug mode is on, because of course it is. Line 118, db/mysql4.php.Then NSM Messenger blinks.It's the Head Admin. The database server fell over and he's rebooting it. He is not happy about it either. The box is from 2003 and he has asked for a new one nine times. Last time this happened he drove to the datacenter at 2 in the morning, in the rain. The host is calling it unscheduled maintenance. It's not scheduled, it broke.While you wait, he sends you a link.
A free Flash games portal, the kind there were hundreds of. Tiled background, hit counter, ten games that don't exist, three toolbars you didn't install. One game that does exist: a helicopter, one button, a cave that keeps getting narrower.His high score is 843. He mentions it twice.The board comes back when you beat it. He never says that part. He just says his score.
Refresh the dead board enough times and he notices. "stop refreshing, ur hammering the db lol"
Close the conversation and the next message opens it right back up, the way it used to
arcadekingz.com saves itself to your bookmarks once you've played a round, the way you would have saved it
He talks the whole time the server is down. It's the first time the Head Admin is a person instead of a signature at the bottom of a memo