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| Triangle and Robert #751: Character Profile | Name: Justice Pants
/ Dimensions: 73 x 91 pixels
/ Font: OCR A Extended 14-point
/ Occupation: Justice pants
/ Favorite Book (Fiction): The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
/ Favorite Book (Nonfiction): Don't Panic, by Neil Gaiman
/ Favorite Movie: The Adventures of Baren Munchausen
/ Personal Quote: "I am the pants."
/ If... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?751 |
| Triangle and Robert #752 | You do the mailing tube thing. I'll stake out the Locust Garden overnight.
/ That sounds dull. / Okay, how about this, I'll stake out the Locust Garden and you do the mailing tube thing.
/ That's the same thing. / Oh, You noticed.
/ How about you stake out the Locust Garden and I do the mailing tube ... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?752 |
| Triangle and Robert #753 | Here.
/ What's that? / A shadow for you to hide in.
/ The presence of a shadow would make me more conspicuous rather than less. / Could you hide in a lens flare?
/ Say, don't you have protestors to not draw? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?753 |
| Triangle and Robert #754 | Stop! Identify yourself! / Uh... uh, I'm just a deliveryman. You startled me.
/ With what company? / Translation/Rotation Services of Greater Degree. Here's my ID. What is this? Am I in some sort of trouble?
/ No. Not exactly. Who's this package from? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?754 |
| Triangle and Robert #755 | Odd... the return address label is missing.
/ How can I find out who sent the package? / Uh... you'd have to call the office during business hours. I don't know.
/ Don't leave it here. I'm not signing for it. / You don't need to. It's a stealth-class delivery.
/ Hence the middle of the night.
/ Yes. You... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?755 |
| Triangle and Robert #756 | Package!
/ ...another? / Sign.
/ So this isn't a stealth delivery?
/ No. We don't do those. / Oh... it's a tube. Of course. I'll sign. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?756 |
| Triangle and Robert #757 | Robert? Are you in there?
/ Triangle? Is that you? Get me out! / That cannot be comfortable.
/ You're telling me! Open this thing! / Scrunch down, I'll cut off the top.
/ Go for it. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?757 |
| Triangle and Robert #758 | Robert? Are you okay now?
/ There's a cramp in my first quadrant, but I'm fine. / I have a lead. Translation/Rotation Services of Greater Degree.
/ Can it wait until morning? / Yeah.
/ Good. I need a nice long rest. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?758 |
| Triangle and Robert #759 | And so, the rhombus rested for the night. His rest, however, was not easy. / Who's there? Cube? No, Cube's alive. If he had something to say he'd just tell me, no need to appear in a dream. Hello? / There's someone there! I know I'm not alone in this dream! Speak up. I can't hear anything! http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?759 |
| Triangle and Robert #760 | You don't look good. How's the cramp? / The cramp's fine. I had trouble sleeping.
/ Oh, the dream from yesterday's strip? / You had it too?
/ No, I just read it. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?760 |
| Triangle and Robert #761 | Robert was not the only one to experience such a dream.
/ Please be quiet. I need to sleep. / Sorry. / (I'll keep narrating when he gets up.) http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?761 |
| Triangle and Robert #762 | I'm awake now. You may narrate.
/ Mr. Disease too was afflicted by the strange messageless dream. / Unfortunately, while there is a very good reason for this and it ties in very nicely with the plot, I can't come up with decent phrasing for this bit at the moment. Maybe tomorrow. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?762 |
| Triangle and Robert #763 | Nope, still got nothing.
/ Allow me. / There's a powder on my pillow, and it tastes vaguely beef-like. Have I been visited in my sleep by some manner of glutamatic deity? Perhaps it connects to these shipments, or perhaps it is coincidence. / Not how I'd have phrased it, especially the "glutamatic deity"... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?763 |
| Triangle and Robert #764 | I think this is the place.
/ It is, I see a sign just off-panel. / What's the plan?
/ I though you were going to go in and ask to see their records.
/ If necessary, but a wacky scheme might be more effective. / If I'd known I'd have brought the... um... hm. I can't really think of anything.
/ Scorpions... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?764 |
| Triangle and Robert #765 | Excuse me, I have some questions about a stealth delivery last night.
/ You're from the Locust Garden? / Sort of, I'm here on behalf of the owner.
/ Oh good. Maybe you can shed some light on what's been happening. / I was hoping the same. Where are all these MSG shipments coming from?
/ We don't know.
/ (I... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?765 |
| Triangle and Robert #766 | What's the story?
/ The packages show up on the delivery schedule, but not the accounting or any other records. / Ah, the old unpaid-packages-in-the-delivery-schedule routine.
/ Don't steal jokes from Get Smart. / Sorry about that, chief.
/ ... ... You're grounded. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?766 |
| Triangle and Robert #767 | In the sorting room of Translation/Rotation Services of Greater Degree... / Triangle! Look!
/ A package materializing. / This explains everything... no. This explains some... no... this really doesn't explain anything, does it?
/ It feels like it's moving. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?767 |
| Triangle and Robert #768 | The package already has a tracking number on it.
/ I noticed that too. / It's already in the schedule database... Hold on.
/ You found something? / Maybe. This workstation tastes very peculiar.
/ Robert, people aren't supposed to taste... oh, whatever. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?768 |
| Triangle and Robert #769 | Mind if I open up this workstation and look inside?
/ Go ahead. / Triangle! Look!
/ But... that's impossible!
/ Impossible yet true. / What's this stuff on the motherboard? Quartz?
/ MSG. It's a bus-mastering device made entirely of crystallized MSG. That's what's been putting the deliveries on the schedule.
/ Okay,... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?769 |
| Triangle and Robert #770 | So MSG is magically materializing in packages and programming itself onto the delivery schedule?
/ Yes. Not magically, though. Are you aware of the Brownian motion properties of airborne MSG?
/ Of course. / Does anyone have any brownies? I want to try something.
/ Here. / Watch.
/ It's moving!
/ Yes, and... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?770 |
| Triangle and Robert #771 | Monosodium glutamate particles aren't nanites. They can't be programmed and they can't assemble themselves into circuits. MSG is not a Turing-complete additive. / You know, this thing you do where you challege the validity of the strip's current premise is really getting old.
/ Maybe it is, but most... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?771 |
| Triangle and Robert #772 | I'm clearly alone on this one, so I guess I might as well go along with you and assume that the world's MSG is actively seeking out the Locust Garden. / Right. The question then becomes why. Why is MSG suddenly being directed, and who is directing it? / Terry Gilliam!
/ Probably not. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?772 |
| Triangle and Robert #773 | Meanwhile, deep in his underground lair, Terry Gilliam
/ No! Nooo. / I was kidding! I was kidding!
/ Don't. / Don't worry. I'm not about to attempt drawing celebrity caricatures.
/ That much is true. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?773 |
| Triangle and Robert #774 | This might be the work of the Cornersheep after all. He could have programmed the MSG in advance when he still had a base. / Hmm... ties everything together neatly. No obviously plot holes. It would make perfect sense. / You're right. It's much too plausible for this strip.
/ I'm still not ruling out... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?774 |
| Triangle and Robert #775 | Air filters?
/ Yes. That'll stop the airborne MSG from entering and assembling itself. / And let other delivery services know to install them too if they get any package trouble. / Why aren't the packages just assembling themselves at the Locust Garden directly instead of going through all this trouble?
/ Good... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?775 |
| Triangle and Robert #776 | ...so that's the story up to now.
/ Neural-flavored network substitutes... you expect me to believe all this? / We should show him the brownie again.
/ He already saw the brownie.
/ I already saw the brownie. / It moved, you know.
/ So you said. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?776 |
| Triangle and Robert #777 | I am well aware og the nature of wacky scheme transactions. Lacking a solution to my problem, you concoct an elaborate explanation.
/ No! That's not it at all! / I will hold no grudge, but neither will I pay you. I will seek a solution to my own problems.
/ We solved your problem! Most of it, anyway... / Triangle!... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?777 |
| Triangle and Robert #778 | I guess we're off the case.
/ I won't rest until we track down Terry Gilliam. / ...Right. You go do that. I'll check the Cornersheep's base out, on the off-chance that your Gilliam theory is somehow flawed. / Did you mean for that to sound sarcastic? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?778 |
| Triangle and Robert #779 | Baa!
/ Ahh, my equilateral nemesis approaches. / Baa. Baa?
/ Everything important is in this bunker. He can take all the time he wants sifting through the rubble of the upper levels. He won't find anything of value. / Baa! Baa baa baa!
/ Are you suggesting that my leadership has become... questionabl... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?779 |
| Triangle and Robert #780 | Baa. / The power I hold over my minions has weakened. The failure of my security measures has led them to question me. / Baa? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?780 |
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