Scene 1 · The Build ClosetCold open, earlier this afternoon. Hacker Haley has been watching a log file scroll for twenty minutes: the owner is walking her build for the second time. GONK is at the server ra…Scene 2 · The Roundup RoomThe Dev Roundup, that evening. The whiteboard has three columns: SHIPPED, STUCK and NEXT, and last week's NEXT column still says PUT IT IN FRONT OF A HUMAN. Sith Lord has the (test…Scene 3 · The Roundup RoomGnarl's report. The human round landed on the Core first, and it took ten batches in one night. Two stories: black screens nobody could explain, and the menu effects the human fina…Scene 4 · The Roundup RoomHaley's report, the one she asked everyone to hold. A frozen cabinet, a crash when the menu opens, and a failure that only happened once in thousands of tries. Then the droids.Scene 5 · The BullpenBreak. Pux has come to the Bullpen to confront GONK, who is collecting something from the printer. Haley's news from the cold open has reached him.Scene 6 · The Roundup RoomJezz's report. The Core's letter from the ninth had eight items for her front-end and three shared ones, and her commit title answers them like a poem.Scene 7 · The Roundup RoomGnarl has one more thing, on the side: a shader demoparty. It is gorgeous. It also has a judge, a scoreboard, and a lot of uncommitted work, which Pux notices immediately.Scene 8 · The Roundup RoomPux's turn, which he just brought on himself. His number went up since last week, and it has company.Scene 9 · The Roundup RoomThe question. Sith Lord asks the three Anarchy Arcade owners whether the beta goes out this month, and each of them reads what really stands between them and a zip. HK-47 has been…Scene 10 · The RoofTag. Midnight, long after the meeting. HK-47 went up to the roof to await orders and has not come back down.
