BREAKING NEWS
Biggest food poisoning incident of all time: most Olympic teams stricken by eggnot induced illness. Only two teams will compete in the final competition.
“Huh, that’s interesting,” dAnkan says absentmindedly as they look through their drawer. “The Norwegians weren’t there, almost as if they knew to avoid it… Hey! Where’s my second sock-rocket? My so-rocket? My… I’ll think of a better name later.”
“We don’t have time to speculate, boss,” you say while putting away the latest Waryon News issue that someone had thrown through your window early that morning. “It’s the moment of truth, time to see if we are better than the Norwegians. The final competition, the endpoint of the games: skiE-sports!”
Evidently, the budget for extravagant arenas ran out before this was constructed. Each team gets one big object, which includes a computer and who knows what else. While you and dAnkan arrive well in advance via a weird path, the Norwegian team is nowhere to be seen. After the delay has gotten sufficiently concerning, the arena manager approaches.
“Okay okay okay. This isn’t good. We have to put on a game, otherwise the broadcaster will get REALLY angry, and we can’t afford their check to bounce. So, it’s up to you two to make a game happen. You didn’t hear it from me, but this game has bots that you can play against. Figure out how to make such a game happen, and we’ll award you points based on how difficult of a bot you beat, sounds good?”
“Great!” dAnkan responds before doing some quick feather-math. “We need a lot of points though. It’s the extreme level or nothing for us.”
“EXTREME?” you ask worriedly. “That sounds pretty spooky, boss. You sure we can handle that?”
“I’m sure we can fake it at least,” says dAnkan with a smirk after the arena manager has left earshot. “Just make the system believe we are playing against the extreme bot and then we’ll get all the points we need. Let something else take its place.”
“Okay, fine. But how do we begin?”
“Do we see a way to play against a bot here on the website?” asks dAnkan, and you shake your head in response. “No, so we want it to do something it is not explicitly meant to do. Since we’re doing that anyway, let’s break it and see what tasty errors it can give us!”