Terminal Incompetence

Name: Terminal Incompetence
Author: c.a. meredith

by c.a. meredith

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Marcus Dunne spent twenty years in software QA — breaking things for a living, finding the exact place where the rules said one thing and the code did another, and getting thanked for none of it. Then he died in a parking garage and woke up forty-seven hours later on the Salt Maggot: a failing pirate sloop held together with jury-rigging, spite, and a navigation console that's convinced north is forty-five degrees to starboard. He's also been bonded, permanently, to a System. BONDED SYSTEM v0.8.3 [OUTDATED — UPDATE AVAILABLE] STATUS: Alive. Probably temporary. SURVIVAL PROBABILITY (72 hrs): 23% The System is hostile, aggressively incompetent, and always technically correct in the least useful way available to it. Out here, fame is experience points — the galaxy scores your worth by how notorious you are, and notoriety is calculated from incident reports the System is contractually obligated to believe. Which is a problem, if you're honest. Which is an opportunity, if you've spent two decades auditing systems that were never built to survive someone actually reading the fine print. The crew is broke. The crew is doomed. The crew has no idea the dead man they just hauled out of a bunk is about to start breaking the one System nobody else thought to check for bugs. Marcus has spent his whole life finding faults no one cared about, in software no one respected, for a paycheck that barely cleared. This is the first one worth breaking. For readers who like their LitRPG dry, adult, and genuinely going wrong — in the register of Dungeon Crawler Carl and KonoSuba.