Phillip hates Jimmy with a passion and refuses to call him Merlin. Instead of living a quiet life in the countryside, Jimmy went to London and convinced the king to rename his city to Camelot and his son to Arthur, himself adopting the name Merlin. Martin learns of another wizard named Jimmy who has arrived to Medieval England shortly after Phillip. A local female tailor named Gwen (a good friend of Phillip's) makes Martin a robe and a conical hat (necessary for the shell to recognize him). He explains the rules adopted by all "wizards" and trains Martin in the use of the open-source shell used by the wizards to write code and macros that manifest as spells through the use of gestures and words in a bastardized version of Esperanto (the locals know Latin). He learns that he's not the first to find the file and flee to Medieval England and becomes the apprentice of a man from 1984 named Phillip who works as a local wizard. He chooses 12th century England and arrives to a town called Leadchurch, trying to pass himself off as a wizard. A few days later, two US Treasury agents named Miller and Murphy arrest him for suspected bank fraud, forcing Martin to flee 2012 to the past. He writes an Android app to be able to access certain functions without access to his computer and teleport at will. Very quickly he learns to teleport (by editing his geospatial coordinates), Time Travel (by editing his time coordinates), and become rich (by editing his bank account balance). One day, he finds an extremely-large file on a server and quickly discovers that, by editing it, he can change certain things about the world (he accidentally increases his height by 3 inches, although he later learns that could have killed him). In Off to Be the Wizard (2013), Martin Banks is a 23-year-old hacker (who dislikes the term) who works a dead-end data entry job and looks through corporate file servers in his spare time.
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