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šŸ’„VGOM Adventure #6: ā€œThe Gold, the Glitch, and the Guy with Too Many Teethā€šŸ’„

  • Writer: Doug Kreitz
    Doug Kreitz
  • Jun 12, 2025
  • 2 min read

🄃 Scene One: BEER Me Up, Scotty

In the golden dust of Kentucky, down a cracked asphalt strip so forgotten it didn’t even qualify for a name, there stood a bar. Not The bar. The only bar. The sign simply read:

BEER

No hours. No menus. No vibe. Just existential hops and regret.

Into this roadside abyss swaggered a young, baby-faced VGOM — Virtual Guardians Old Man, only not so ā€œOldā€ yet. Clad in khakis too pressed for the locals’ liking and sporting a full set of teeth, he was greeted with an ice-cold stare and a gravelly growl:

ā€œI don’t like you… you got too many teeth.ā€

VGOM grinned wider. Trouble was brewing, and so was opportunity.

šŸ–„ļø Scene Two: Novell, No-Problem

Fort Knox was in a jam. Not a ā€œsomeone-stole-the-goldā€ jam, but worse: networking issues.

Their shiny new Novell servers were ghosting everyone. No pings, no shares, just digital silence.

The IT staff had tried everything — sacrifices to the Ethernet gods, blowing on the floppy drives, even rebooting twice (a cardinal sin in the 90s). Nothing worked.

Enter VGOM, sliding in with a laptop heavier than a small planet and confidence louder than a dial-up modem. Within minutes, he found the culprit:

A guest account on the Novell box…

Username: guest

Password: password

Fort Knox had basically left the back door open and taped a note that said, ā€œWe trust you.ā€

VGOM logged in.

Technically? He broke into Fort Knox.

Legally? It was already broken when he got there.

šŸ› ļø Scene Three: The Patch Job Heard ’Round the Base

Did VGOM download the gold inventory files?

Nope.

Did he pose for a selfie with a vault door?

Also no. Smartphones hadn’t been invented.

Instead, he did what heroes do.

He patched the gaping hole in their digital fortress, slapped on proper security protocols, and gave a stern talking-to about passwords that aren’t the first word you think of while blinking.

As he packed up, the bartender from BEER hollered across the parking lot:

ā€œYou still got too many teeth!ā€

VGOM smiled wider. Because heroes don’t flinch.

They just log in, lock it down, and leave without touching the gold.

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