I barely made it out alive.

The hard bit was making the Willpower Saves for Sanity.

That sounds spookily familiar to when I worked at a "Mom n Pop" owned ISP although the Steven I worked for was the Sysadmin.. fully qualified as a auto mechanic. but wouldn't let me near anything for fear that I might learn it and take his job, since I'd been to uni (well 3/4 anyway). the mass exodus was similar but slightly more drawn out.. Unfortunately the job I moved to was worse. It seemed management were intentionally trying to run company to the into the ground.

Mod Parent up. Two programs that without I would have never become the techie I am today. So many memories of the Hex editor in Xtree while I was cracking old games or editing save's. I have to thank Norton utils 5.0 for helping me with being the only person in the whole school who could recover data off floppy disks that had been in someone's lunchbox. and using "Discrete" to encrypt a partition (back under dos 3.3) so that the teacher couldn't find my copies of wolfenstein and duke nukem.

Or Smiley Faces on the side of the bacteria themselves - Regenesis style