Bob Oscar Frank Howard is the star of Charles Stross 'The Laundry Files'. He's basically an IT geek, a senior techie for the British secret service agency that handles Occult Weirdness. in a universe where Sufficiently Advanced Math literally -is- Magic, advanced computer software can summon Cthulhu. Or accidentally landscape Wolverhampton. A large part of Bob's job is maintaining the office's computer infrastructure, but he's also a qualified field agent and gets sent on several vital missions.
For his other duties... at one point his supervisor calls him on the carpet for spending ten hours a week in his office playing computer games. Her complaint? He should be spending /more/ time on it. His current project at the time was testing the new MMORPG systems for potential occult misuse, and scouting for attempts at same.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
For his other duties... at one point his supervisor calls him on the carpet for spending ten hours a week in his office playing computer games. Her complaint? He should be spending /more/ time on it. His current project at the time was testing the new MMORPG systems for potential occult misuse, and scouting for attempts at same.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.