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Mongo Mania
Who TF is That?
Mostly Cloudy
Definitely Not Just Random D&D Stuff
100

Who are the three starting monsters?

Werewolf, WART, Doll Master

Bonus: What are the names of all the starting teens?

100

What is the name for the part of the mongo database that actually contains the documents?

Collection

100

Who is the lead environment artist?

Brandon "Wood" Woodsford

100

Our cloud infrastructure is hosted by which company?

AWS aka Amazon

100

In a typical TTRPG dice set, the 2nd largest die has how many sides?

12

200

Without mods, which weapon builds the fastest?

Fire Bomb (aka Molotov)

200

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

200

Des works remotely, and does what?

Animation

Bonus: Which country does he live in?

200

What is the system that automatically manages our EC2 instances by monitoring metrics and scaling our machines up and down?

Kubernetes aka K8s

200

Which iconic D&D monster is known for its many magical, and deadly, eyestalks?

Beholder

300

Without mods, while using which two weapons can a teen not hear the monster?

Shock Sphere & Enchanted Eye

300

What does sorting by the following do?

{ _id: -1 }

Sorts by newest documents first.

300

What the hell does Scott McTavish even do?

Tech Art!

300

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?

300

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.

400

How many vault points are on the Facility map?

Three.

2 in Overlook, 1 in Warehouse

400

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?

400

Chris Mair is the CEO, but Chris Rezanson does what?

Composer & General Audio

400

Name the 4 PHP servers, each handles its own subsystem.

Global, Metagame, Logging and Analytics

400

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

500

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)

500

What does the ‘upsert’ option do when enabled and writing to the database?

It will create a new document if one doesn’t exist.

500

How many dedicated programmers are there at Hellbent currently?

12

Roger, Tyler, Pete, Jeff, Spanner, Justin B, Beren, Ross, Justin K, Daniel, Shawn, Braden.

500

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

500

What is the state flower of Alaska?

(the category name promised it's not just random D&D stuff)

Forget-me-not

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