Can you think of any others?

Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.

Polymorphism

World wide web would be an OP spell

Heartbleed

I am a level 17 Install Wizard.

Memory Leak

Unstable Ram

• Terminal shell
• Kill daemon
• Timeshift
• Cloud hosting
• Ethernet
• Overwrite memory
• Free memory
• Poison artifical intelligence

Terminal escape

Privilege escalation

Command injection

I had a bit too much fun with these :)

Magical Items

• The Bandwidth Cap
  Cursed item that limits the magical power of it's wearer
• The Token Ring
  Magical ring that allows the wielder to communicate over large distances. They can receive messages from one token ring and send message to another.
• The Memory Barrier
  Protective charm that shields the mind from intrusion.
• The Shadow Register
  A magical ledger that records secrets and hidden locations in the immediate area.
• The Superscalar
  A legendary shimmering sword that can strike multiple foes in a single attack.

Spells

• Loopback
  Redirects a spell to its point of origin.
• Jabber
  Causes the target to produce incoherent speech and lose its train of thought.
• Branch Prediction
  Gives the caster foresight to predict their opponent's next action.
• Traceroute
  A tracking spell that reveals the path of a target.
• Mask
  Hides the caster's true identity.
• Hypertransport
  Enables instantaneous movement over short distances.
• Interrupt
  Counterspell to disrupt an enemy's casting.

Spell modifiers

• Broadcast
  Modifies spell to affect a large area.
• Unicast
  Modifies spell to affect a single point with maximum damage.
• Multicast
  Modfies spell to affect multiple selected targets.
• Repeater
  Modifies spell to recast itself over multiple turns.

Dependency injection

Halt and Catch Fire

Default Gateway

Split Horizon

Routing Overhead

Broadcast Storm

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• Hypervisor
• time daemon
• privilege escalation

Asynchronous Threads

Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)

Remote Host

Domain Controller

Immutable Type

Ethernet

• Big endian (a very powerful NPC)
• Hardware abstraction (a spell that makes all the stuff disappears)
• Obfuscation (invisibility spell)
• Multiplexing (ability to cast several spells as one)
• Dangling reference (when wrong information is given by somebody)
• Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
• Pure virtual method (anything somebody learned but will never use)
• Diamond inheritance (when someone in the party dies and all of their money is spread accross the others)

Can you tell what's my job?

• rowhammer
• rainbow table
• global interpreter lock
• race condition (atrocity?)
• core dump

CAT5e sounds like a fifth-edition ruleset

kill all children

• Defragmentation

Memory leak

Destructor

Dynamic dispatch

Execute

• Race condition

• Physical Layer

• Fast Fourier Transform

• COBOL

• Penetration testing

• Tiger Team

• Zombie process

• Alice, Bob and Carol (some NPCs)

Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge Bash Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritance

Agile Method

Kill

Clone

Daemon Process

Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.

Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort

Go - Same as "command" spell

Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know

Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host

Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed

Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.

Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts

Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape

Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.

1st level wild shape ability byte.
4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
9th level wild shape ability terabyte

Bonus 0th level ability: nibble

LUT - A table appears 10ft above your target and falls on it dealing 1d6 bludgeoning.

"LOOK! UP! TABLE!"

Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone's limb.

Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.

Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.

Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn

B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally

Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.

Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.

Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.

Python runtime. Time for you to run from these pythons bitch.

BSOD. Pretty self-explanatory

Agile development. Raises Dex everytime a new enemy enters vision.

• Ring zero
• Bootkit/Rootkit
• Attacker in the middle
• Intercepting proxy
• Daemon

Deadlock

Priority inversion

Debugging

Source compilation

Reroot tree: Tree digs itself out of the ground, walks to another location and takes root, as if it's always been there.

Heap sort: More advanced technique for which Reroot tree is a prerequisite for some reason. Arranges assortments of things into neat piles with only one kind of object per pile. Very useful when looking for things in treasure chambers.

Ping of death

Bash

Vim (clearly a buff)

• Cache miss
• Bubble Sort
• Vectorization

Boot Loop - ties someone's shoelaces together

Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.

spawn daemon

Force Merge

git clone

Power word: Infinite Recursion

Not necessarily PC related, but:

Uninterrupted Power Supply

This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.

Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.

Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.

Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.

• Master / Slave
• Gatekeeper
• Anti virus
• Force push
• Bug
• Forever loop
• Break condition
• Real time operating system
• Blockchain
• Agility measurement index (not really an ability, but sounds like it could be art of an RPG mechanic)

Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.

PowerShell

Get-Date

Read-Host

Remove-Alias

Remove-Event

Sort-Object

Spoofing

Cryptojacking

Private Void NULL

Authentication tokens - Some heirloom jewelry or letter of permission from the local royal family used to prove you are on their mission.

Gap analysis - when your party finds a crevasse or pit and determines if they can jump across.

Buffer - party member who casts buffs, usually a bard.

Microservices - when you barter with gnomes to repair your gear.

Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.

Mail storm

Perhaps not that deep "cs" but still :D

BSOD - BLUE SCREEN OF DEAD ☠️

Inversion of control
Bsod
Cycle detection
Port knocking

• scroll snapping
• unit tests
• vulnerability
• fastboot
• root access
• abstraction level
• unity framework

Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.

Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.

Lossless Compression isn't actually powerful, its just an improved Lossy Compression which is admittedly terrifying to use in many cases.

• Semaphore
• Spanning tree
• Spinlock
• Recursive function

Bounds execption: Allows larger objects to fit in smaller containers, ritual spell effective for 1 day, can be upcast to increase amount of "overfill", some check when retrieving the item for a chance of "corruption" (small chance to retrieve a different item, or have the "overfill" become something different like have the outer edge of a bar of gold be meat)

Paralellization: High level time magic, Allows the target multiple turns to be taken simultaneously, but an equivalent cooldown afterwards (waiting for all threads or jobs to return before being able to continue), so 3 turns at once means 2 turns the target can't do anything after.

Split brain configuration: Allows focusing on multiple concentration checks/spells at once. This could also be called paralellization, or multithreaded.

Pass By Reference enchantment: requires two identical items. Once enchanted, changes to one happen to both. Room for all sorts of shenanigans.

Private field: cast on an area to prevent entry/visibility into it by unauthorized entities. Sounds inside are not audible to unauthorized entities outside of it.

Factory Reset

Hotspot

System Corruption

Binary search

Check bit

Control character

Sentinal value

Escape sequence

EDIT:

Git bisect (not sure if this one counts as computer sciency enough though)

Gateway Interplanetary filesystem Netmask Daemon Shadow copy Avatar

• kernelspace
• make all
• upstream and downstream

I always found "The Perceptron" to have such a badass name…. 😅 (Math part was annoying though…)

• 28k modem connection sounds *

Oomkiller

Piracy wizards may teach you a homing missile spell of linking a magnet to someone and then sending a torrent of bits and pieces their way.

Lightning wizards can teach you how systematically shocking your minions should to some extent boost their efficiency in the same amount of time. They call it 'over clocking'.

And 'distributed denial of service' or 'dedossery', is a mastery of wizards who are just pissed, means sending a ton of said minions to one particular shitty tavern, ordering something and walking away en masse.

Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control

• Pseudocode

• Daemon Thread

• Ruby on Rails

• Onion Router

• Python Commands

All leap to mind.

wine control launches Wine's sparse control panel (most options are under winecfg). You can use it at fancy parties for fun tricks or to make someone puke.

Memoization

Feels like I should DM some Shadowrun or Cryptomancer sessions again. Just to use those.

Boot

Superuser

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.

This just reinforces that one short of piratesoftware saying all programmers are wizards.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G7L6mQxlfVU

Truncate

Force

Purge

Decimate

Warp transform

Innumerate

Checksum

Out of memory crash

Stuck process

Orphaned process

Killed child process

Force killed child process

Child workers

Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to Send

Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy

I'll just throw out there the old school halt and catch fire (also the name of a really good show I need to rewatch and actually finish sometime) but also who can't love lp0 on fire?

• TWAIN
• daemon
• Gopher
• Kerberos
• Oracle
• Patch
• ping
• Perl
• Python
• Samba
• Swing
• troff
• Vim
• zip
• tar
• compress
• deflate
• Opus
• Flac
• Frostwire
• Prodigy
• USENET
• nano
• pico
• Ethernet
• Firewire
• Wayland

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

i would go with the OSPF Ritual

Some fun ones here you guys can help me think of their purpose

Print spool MAC address System Time IPV4 and IPV6 Air gap Random Access Memory OS Kernal Memory Contoller South bridge North Bridge Corruption Device Manager Encryption SALT API Key System Services Device Drivers

• Bootloader
• Filesystem
• Reboot
• Printer (that's the end boss)
• sudo
• Container
• Virtual Machine
• Fail over
• Backup
• Restore

DRY