[ WP ] 6 months ago , you were sent back into the past with highly advanced technology but no way to go back . Fast forward , people now hail you as Merlin , the Great Wizard .

`` Hail Merlin, the Great Wizard!'' everyone in the meeting room said. 
 
 `` Uh, thanks guys,'' I replied. `` But I'd really just like to run the meeting, okay?'' 
 
 Being professionals, they let it go. But that did n't stop it from being annoying. That morning I'd parked in a spot that some joker had put a wizard hat in. Someone had once again replaced my `` Merlin Reinholdt, C.T.O.'' plaque with one reading `` Merlin the Great Wizard.'' Someone who had called in sick had been replaced by a toad. Where were my co-workers even getting these toads? 
 
 I'd invented time travel, for crying out loud! I, personally, had broken a dozen laws of physics and invented a half dozen new ones to fix it again. I'd figured I was due for a vacation and we wanted to popularize the'wizard' package. That's one where we send you back with today's knowledge, technology, and a whole lot of pyrotechnics, and you live out your life in luxury worshipped as a god. 
 
 They'd thrown a retirement party, perhaps the only time that they'd called me `` Merlin the Great Wizard'' and meant it, and then I'd hopped into the machine and prepared for my new life. I'd gotten a new life, all right: As a laughing stock. 
 
 It would have been one thing if I'd just appeared in downtown NYC. I would have known right away that something had gone wrong. But nooo, I had to appear in Colonial Williamsburg. Not quite the time period I'd chosen but I figured I'd make the most of it. 
 
 Back at the lab, after I'd left, they rather quickly discovered a flaw that limited the amount of time one could go into the past. If that limit was exceeded, well, it moved the subject in space but did n't actually move them in time. At all. 
 
 The most embarrassing part was that even by the time they drove down and got me a few days later, I had n't figured it out. Thus had begun the six-month long celebration of my now-ironic title, `` Merlin the Great Wizard.'' 
 
 How was I supposed to know that the actors of Williamsburg would be *that* dedicated to the bit? 
 

