God what an awful single player experience daikatana was back in the day. The multiplayer was excellent though really fond memories of death matching in it.

Ansible and terraform can bath do with you want though for a single server I’d consider them both to be a somewhat overkill. But then again homelabbing often is about overkill.

If their admin is blocking the use of external email clients I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re blocking forwarding to external email addresses to as that’s a very common action taken by attackers on compromised accounts.