Blondie: Heart of Glass

The year is 1985. You are members of Her Majesty’s Extra-Secret Service ( a.k.a. ‘The Laundry’) , Workgroup Codename ‘Blondie’, whose job remit is to investigate any discoveries of the Turing Theorem, and suppress them ( in accordance with BS 5750 )

It’s raining cats and dogs this Monday evening, and you were just chilling out with a can of Quatro and a Marathon bar. This evenings shift was to have consisted of you all completing the group requisition form for the use of the section Dymo labelling machine, to correctly label your filing cabinet drawers. Yet, an emergency call has disrupted your ‘fun’ , as a set of highly classified ZX Spectrum C15 tapes* have been stolen from this very building! The perpetrator had made a hasty getaway through the back alleyways and footpaths of Middleriver, before abandoning his hi-tech escape vehicle ( a C5 ) halfway up a shallow incline. The police are already on the scene, and have also contained Laundry archivist zombie, ‘Mr. Pickwick’ who had set a shambling chase on foot**. Time to arm up, and wheel spin your twin XR3i’s out into the midnight rain.

*Allegedly containing POKE commands that allow Jet Set Willy to be completed***

**Literally on one foot, as he has a peg-leg after the Leg-Warmer Incident of ‘83.

***This is of course completely contrary to the Sinclair-Sagan Continuity Theorem, and therefore impossible.****

**** BS5750 are working on a Part 2, to account for this eventuality, should it indeed become possible.

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