← THE DATA DOG STORIES EPISODE 03 OF 10 WOLFY TALES ↗
MegaCorp conference room Friday afternoon, Wolfy in business casual with laptop and phone, tense expression between serious migration charts on meeting screen and colorful furry convention badge hidden by keyboard

EPISODE 03 · 8–12 MIN · FREE BROWSER VISUAL NOVEL

The Cloud Convention Collision

One wolf. Two commitments. No spare bandwidth.

FurryCon and a $2.3 million AWS migration land on the same weekend. Keep the migration alive while discovering the limits of doing everything alone.

▶ Play this episodeRead the original tale ↗

How the story begins

NarratorWolfy had spent three months preparing a convention panel about animatronic tails. Then MegaCorp accelerated its AWS migration into the same March 15–17 weekend. His calendar displayed both commitments with the serene confidence of software that would not have to attend either.

WolfyThe convention ticket cost $350 and cannot be refunded. The migration has $2.3 million riding on it. One requires business casual; the other includes programmable LEDs. Surely a professional who handles distributed systems can distribute himself across two buildings.

NarratorFriday, 2 PM. Conference Room B. Wolfy kept the migration plan on his laptop and the convention schedule on his phone. His panel began at three. The meeting ended at four. His custom Raspberry Pi tail could respond to Slack, but could not solve arithmetic.

WolfyThey have asked for the database timeline, and I nearly answered with the panel schedule. I need a way through this afternoon. Do I acknowledge the competing commitment, or build a painfully precise plan and hope my calendar never tells on me?

What happens next is your call. Play now ▸

How you play

  • Three decisions shape how Wolfy handles the incident, with composure, candor or curiosity.
  • Two endings, with different consequence scenes along each route.
  • Fourteen original anime-style paintings and an adaptive synthesized soundtrack.
  • Plays in 8–12 min, free in your browser with no download or account. Progress saves on your device.

All ten episodes

  1. 01The Midnight DeploymentThe moon has no maintenance window.
  2. 02The Docker DisasterTen thousand users. One extremely fluffy avatar.
  3. 03The Cloud Convention CollisionOne wolf. Two commitments. No spare bandwidth.
  4. 04The On-Call HowlingIt is always DNS. Sometimes it also barks.
  5. 05The Terraform Tail DisasterForty-seven controllers. One very unhappy tail.
  6. 06The Demo Day DisasterOne presentation. Two audiences. The wrong red light.
  7. 07The AI Assistant AwakeningIt learned your patterns. All of them.
  8. 08The Slack Bot BetrayalHelpful answers. Unexpectedly personal training data.
  9. 09The Password Manager PanicExcellent security. Inconvenient search results.
  10. 10The Observability MoonshotThe first warning was a very quiet tail.