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GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 [[Harry looks back while walking away from Harmony and Donald]] / Harry: I'll meet you back in the common room. After that marathon, I need a good hot shower. / [[Harry looks down a deserted hallway]] / Harry: (thinking) Uh, oh... I think I took a wrong turn. None of this looks familiar... / [[Harry...
GPF Archive: Friday, September 12, 2008 [[Harry is surprised at Prof Dumpingcore's (Tim's) voice]] / Prof Dumpingcore: It is the Mirror of Awkandsed. / Harry: P-Professor Dumpingcore! / [[Prof Dumpingcore looks down at Harry as he talks to him]] / Prof Dumpingcore: It is a very special file server. It shows you exactly what you more desire...
GPF Archive: Monday, September 15, 2008 [[Harry continues to search for the showers]] / Harry: The LEAST Professor Dumpingcore could have done would have been to point me back to the dorms... I think I hear voices up ahead... / [[Harry peers around the corner to see Prof Sysape (Scott) and Prof Quux arguing]] / Prof Sysape: I'll ask you again,...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 [[Harry runs into the common room where Donald is on a PDA and Harmony is on her laptop]] / Harry: He's alive! Gnawthrylilees is still alive! / Donald: Don't say that name! Besides, what makes you think he's alive? / [[Harry comes up to the table where Donald and Harmony are sitting]] / Harry: I overheard...
GPF Archive: Friday, September 19, 2008 [[Harmony types away at her computer]] / Harmony: According to Wikipedia, the Napier's Bones was an abacus created by John Napier in 1617 for the calculation of product and quotients. But the hacker-only version has a bit more. / Harmony: According to legend, Napier also postulated the universal algorithm,...
 
GPF Archive: Monday, September 22, 2008 [[Harry, Harmony, and Donald focus on Harmony's laptop]] / Harmony: But how does Sysape fit into all this? / Donald: Duh. He's in league with you know who. He tries to off Harry, he's beating up Quux... / Harry: All this is speculation. We don't have any evidence to support that theory. Besides, if...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 [[Harry stands in front of Prof McDongle (Patty)]] / Harry: We have reason to believe that... someone is going to steal the Napier's Bones, professor. / Prof McDongle: How did you-- / [[Harmony speaks up]] / Harmony: We know all about the robot dog and the universal algorithm. We think someone...
GPF Archive: Friday, September 26, 2008 One problem: how do we get past that robot dog? / Sounds like three problems to me... / I've got an idea. / Well, hello there! What brings you three here so late? / Dexter I've heard around campus that you're a big "Star Trek" fan, right? / Oh, that's no secret. Why? / Oh, I just found this unproduced...
GPF Archive: Monday, September 29, 2008 [[Harmony, Donald, and Harry run toward the school from Dexter's house]] / Harmony: I can't believe Dexter gave us the password like that! / Harry: I can't believe he fell for it. That was my database homework. / [[The three reach the main entrance and keep running]] / Harry: The point is, if we...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 [[Donald, Harmony, and Harry run past the sleeping Kerberos]] / Donald: That was easy. / Harry: Don't get too comfortable. McDongle said there were multiple traps and puzzles. We have to assume Kerberos was just the guard dog. / [[The three are stunned by what they see off-panel]] / Donald: Zounds... / Harry:...
 
GPF Archive: Friday, October 3, 2008 [[Donald and Harry continue to stare at the wall as Harmony looks as the book on the pedestal]] / Harry: So what does this anti-kitten-hair thing do? / Harmony: The Antikythera Mechanism was a mechanical computer for computing astronomical positions. / [[Overhead shot of the three]] / Harmony: It was built...
GPF Archive: Monday, October 6, 2008 [[Harmony turns to Harry and Donald]] / Harmony: No, don't you get it? It's a puzzle! It's telling us how to position the planets on the Antikythera Mechanism! / [[Harmony starts diagramming the various planets]] / Harmony: First, we have to translate the names. We use Roman names for...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 [[Harry, Harmony, and Donald enter a round stone room with a stone column in the center and a rifle leaning on the wall]] / Harmony: What do you think the next puzzle will be? / Harry: Don't know. This room is small on the ground, but it seems to go up forever. / [[Harmony tries the door handle while...
GPF Archive: Friday, October 10, 2008 [[Harry blasts away as Harmony and Donald cover their heads]] / Harmony: What are those things? / Donald: Some kind of robot spider! / Harmony: There's too many of them! We have to turn back! / Harry: Heads up! / [[A key clatters to the floor near Harmony and Donald]] / Harry: (off-panel)...
GPF Archive: Monday, October 13, 2008 [[Donald, Harmony, and Harry walk into an area of tall walls with a bow and a quiver of arrows on the ground]] / Harmony: Now what? / Harry: It looks like some sort of maze... / [[They look around]] / Donald: Wait... do you feel that breeze? And that smell... / Harmony: It's awful! / Donald: I knew...
 
GPF Archive: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 [[Harmony, Donald, and Harry look around a large circular room with only one door in front of them]] / Harmony: There's a draft here... and I smell the wumpus! / Harry: There's nothing back the way we came. / [[Donald thinks aloud and Harmony turns to him]] / Donald: We were in the room opposite that one,...
GPF Archive: Friday, October 17, 2008 [[Harmony and Harry run into the circular room]] / Harmony: Don! I see him, at the bottom! He's alive, but unconscious. / [[Harmony peers over the edge of the pit while Harry looks / at the fur of the wumpus]] / Harry: He shot the wumpus. He sacrificed himself so we could go on to the Bones. / [[Harmony...
GPF Archive: Monday, October 20, 2008 [[Harry walks down a corridor with computer geek graffiti on its walls toward a lit room]] / {{Graffiti #1: XYZZY (transportation code in Colossal Cave Adventure}} / {{Graffiti #2: POKE 47196,201 (gives immunity in Knight Lore)}} / {{Graffiti #3: IDSPISPOPD (no clipping in Doom)}} / {{Graffiti #4: Dopefish...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 [[Harry is a bit annoyed as Prof Quux monologues]] / Harry: But I just said-- / Prof Quux: No one suspected poor old, s-stuttering Quux, did they, hm? No one could penetrate my masterful ruse! / [[Harry and Prof Quux face each other]] / Harry: Actually, I don't think I've seen you more than twice before...
GPF Archive: Friday, October 24, 2008 [[Prof Quux releases Harry's arm and pushes him at the table]] / Prof Quux: Bah! I knew you would be useless, despite what Lord Gnawthrylilees said. / Harry: Gnawthrylilees is still alive? / [[Prof Quux looks up at his turban]] / Prof Quux: Of course. Isn't that right, my lord? / Disembodied voice: Oh,...
 
GPF Archive: Monday, October 27, 2008 [[Prof Quux whips a mouse at Harry, cracks the monitor of the Mirror of Awkandsed, and sends Harry diving for cover]] / [[Harry hides behind the table, holding the Napier's Bones]] / Harry: (in thought) I've got the Bones! But now what? Where's the on switch? / Prof Quux: (off-panel) Hand over the Bones,...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 [[Prof Quux looks down at the broken Napier's Bones]] / Lord Gnawthrylilees: (from the electronics on Prof Quux's head) Quux, you fool! He's destroyed the Bones. Kill him! / [[Prof Quux directs a laser at Harry as Harry lifts the screen of the Mirror of Awkandsed]] / <> / [[Prof Quux fires the...
GPF Archive: Friday, October 31, 2008 [[Sharon and Fooker are sitting on their couch]] / Sharon: And that's when I woke up. That dream was so vivid... it was like I was there, watching it unfold before me... / Sharon: I know you're right, I shouldn't let Scott's obsession with "The One" get to me. But this has all the creepiness of a stalker...
GPF Archive: Monday, November 3, 2008 [[Ki and Nick are coming in to work]] / Ki: We'll need to hit the grocery store on the way home tonight. / Nick: Gotcha. The list should be in my phone. / [[Nick finds a present on the desk]] / Nick: (in thought) Hello... What's this? / [[Nick reads the attached letter]] / Dwayne: (written) Nick: Sorry...
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Dexter, Sharon, Fooker, and Ki gather around Nick and his present from Dwayne]] / Fooker: Ten years? Congrats on the decennial, dude. / Nick: Thanks. / [[Ki leans in to Nick]] / Ki: I'm sorry, sweetie. I completely forgot it was your service anniversary. / Nick: Apparently, so did I. / Nick: I just......
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Dexter, Sharon, Fooker, and Ki gather around Nick and his present from Dwayne]] / Fooker: Ten years? Congrats on the decennial, dude. / Nick: Thanks. / [[Ki leans in to Nick]] / Ki: I'm sorry, sweetie. I completely forgot it was your service anniversary. / Nick: Apparently, so did I. / Nick: I just......
 
GPF Archive: Friday, November 7, 2008 [[Fooker, Nick, and Ki are sitting a a table at work]] / Fooker: Man... if you've been here ten years, that means I've been here ... Wow, I'm old. / Ki: I'm not far behind you. / [[Dexter joins the conversation at the table]] / Dexter: But think of what's happened in that time! All the adventures and...
GPF Archive: Monday, November 10, 2008 [[Dexter, Fooker, Sharon, and Ki gather around Nick as he unwraps his present from Dwayne]] / Dexter: The suspense is killing me! / Ki: SHH! / Sharon: What did Dwayne get you for your tenth anniversary, Ki? / Ki: It was... nice yet personal. Dwayne's rather unconventional for a manager on these things. / [[Everyone...
GPF Archive: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 [[Nick runs down the hallway, dropping papers as he goes]] / Nick: (thinking) I'm late, I'm late, I'm late... / [[Nick finally arrives at the meeting room and Fooker, Dwayne, and Ki look up at him]] / Dwayne: Ah, Nick, I see you finally decided to join us... / Nick: S-Sorry, Mr. Duncan. I lost track of...
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Fooker, Dwayne, Ki, and Nick are seated at a conference room table]] / Dwayne: Ok, I'll put this bluntly. Goodman Rubber was one of our first customers, back when GPF first started. Mr. Jones was a good friend of my father's. / Dwayne: That said, we're in danger of losing their account. A bigger...
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip [[Fooker, Dwayne, Ki, and Nick are seated at a conference room table]] / Dwayne: Ok, I'll put this bluntly. Goodman Rubber was one of our first customers, back when GPF first started. Mr. Jones was a good friend of my father's. / Dwayne: That said, we're in danger of losing their account. A bigger...
GPF Archive: Monday, November 17, 2008 Nick: M-me? You want me to overhaul the system? / Dwayne: That's why I brought you on, Nick. / Dwayne: Fooker will do some coding for you, but he's too busy doing sys admin work to do the design. Ki will be available for database work, but I need her concentrating on their shipping interface. / Dwayne:...
 

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