Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login angersock 10 hours ago | link | parent Testing the waters, I'd played with the idea of a story with basically this setup: Two new developers start at a company/startup, and are brought in to do a six-month sprint to fix a stalled/broken product after the development team becomes unavailable because reasons . So, they're dropped into a codebase and are trying to pull everything together. However, as they work through into deeper and deeper parts of the system, the commit messages and comments get more and more cryptic and unsettling, hinting at the reasons for the prior team's dissolution, the business forces that caused that to happen, and maybe something worse/better going on outside. I'm really lazy though. :( phaemon 4 hours ago | link >after the development team becomes unavailable because reasons. Every member of t...