Who are the three starting monsters?
Werewolf, WART, Doll Master
Bonus: What are the names of all the starting teens?
What is the name for the part of the mongo database that actually contains the documents?
Collection
Who is the lead environment artist?
Brandon "Wood" Woodsford
Our cloud infrastructure is hosted by which company?
AWS aka Amazon
In a typical TTRPG dice set, the 2nd largest die has how many sides?
12
Without mods, which weapon builds the fastest?
Fire Bomb (aka Molotov)
To ensure writing to the database happens all at once, or not at all, what type of operation should be used to write the data?
an atomic operation
Des works remotely, and does what?
Animation
Bonus: Which country does he live in?
What is the system that automatically manages our EC2 instances by monitoring metrics and scaling our machines up and down?
Kubernetes aka K8s
Which iconic D&D monster is known for its many magical, and deadly, eyestalks?
Beholder
Without mods, while using which two weapons can a teen not hear the monster?
Shock Sphere & Enchanted Eye
What does sorting by the following do?
{ _id: -1 }
Sorts by newest documents first.
What the hell does Scott McTavish even do?
Tech Art!
Before a global account is fully deleted, it first enters which state?
Deactivated
Bonus: In which state does a global account remain until its email is verified?
Which D&D playable race is a pointless combination of goblins and halflings and should be removed from all past and future editions of D&D?
Gnomes
If you lied and said dwarves, you lose 600.
How many vault points are on the Facility map?
Three.
2 in Overlook, 1 in Warehouse
What mongo feature is used to increase query speeds and remove documents automatically after a set period of time?
Index
Bonus: What is the type of index that removes documents after a certain amount of time?
Chris Mair is the CEO, but Chris Rezanson does what?
Composer & General Audio
Name the 4 PHP servers, each handles its own subsystem.
Global, Metagame, Logging and Analytics
In D&D, a creature under which condition can’t move or speak, is unaware of its surroundings, but is also Resistant to all damage and immune to poison and disease?
Petrified
What is theoretically the fewest number of hits a monster needs to win, WITHOUT rage? How?
(assuming no disconnects)
4 Hits
(teens all self-injure with the Holy Staff and don't heal)
What does the ‘upsert’ option do when enabled and writing to the database?
It will create a new document if one doesn’t exist.
How many dedicated programmers are there at Hellbent currently?
12
Roger, Tyler, Pete, Jeff, Spanner, Justin B, Beren, Ross, Justin K, Daniel, Shawn, Braden.
Starting with a login request sent from a game client, list all the PHP server instances that will be used, in the order in which they are started.
Metagame, Global, Logging, Logging
What is the state flower of Alaska?
(the category name promised it's not just random D&D stuff)
Forget-me-not