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| GPF Archive: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Sharon: I _can_ understand your reluctance in finding them. You don't _have_ to search with me. But I _need_ to know. Just point me in the right direction and --
/ Trudy: No ... / Trudy: I need to know too. I have ... unfinished business that needs resolving. This is my only chance to find closure on certain things. Might as well kill two birds with one stone. / Sharon: You know, _technically_, they aren't _your_ parents. Your business with your parents in another universe doesn't affect you here, and you should not be forced to carry "our" Trudy's burdens. / Trudy: Oh, my burdens are my own, I promise. It's ... complicated. Besides, once you've met our mother, you'll want to see her taken down a peg or two yourself. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090225.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Fooker puts on his coat as Sharon and Trudy walk into the room]]
/ Fooker: My, you two look smug. Did you find two canaries or did you just split one? / [[Fooker helps Sharon on with his coat]]
/ Sharon: We'll just say our earlier argument has been resolved. Not that it affects you, mister. You're still in the doghouse.
/ Fooker: What'd I do? / [[Sharon touches Fooker on the nose with her finger]]
/ Sharon: "Two hot chicks", remember? You've committed a cardinal sin: you admitted to your girlfriend that you find her sister attractive. Therefore no nookie for you until you've been sufficiently punished.
/ Fooker: ZAWHA?! / [[Trudy leans toward Fooker as he gets angry and Sharon smiles]]
/ Trudy: Aw, Fooker still finds me attractive? I'm touched. Maybe he needs feminine consoling...
/ Fooker: No fair! Mixed signals! Mental images! Stop it! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090227.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Fooker puts on his coat as Sharon and Trudy walk into the room]]
/ Fooker: My, you two look smug. Did you find two canaries or did you just split one? / [[Fooker helps Sharon on with his coat]]
/ Sharon: We'll just say our earlier argument has been resolved. Not that it affects you, mister. You're still in the doghouse.
/ Fooker: What'd I do? / [[Sharon touches Fooker on the nose with her finger]]
/ Sharon: "Two hot chicks", remember? You've committed a cardinal sin: you admitted to your girlfriend that you find her sister attractive. Therefore no nookie for you until you've been sufficiently punished.
/ Fooker: ZAWHA?! / [[Trudy leans toward Fooker as he gets angry and Sharon smiles]]
/ Trudy: Aw, Fooker still finds me attractive? I'm touched. Maybe he needs feminine consoling...
/ Fooker: No fair! Mixed signals! Mental images! Stop it! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090227.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, March 2, 2009 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals and who says what]]
/ If we split this table into two and put a look-up table between them, we can reuse this datasets and-- Something wrong, Dwayne? / Have any of you seen Dexter, Tim, or Patty?
/ Not since before the holidays. Did they take some time off? / If they did, they didn't bother to inform me. If they don't show up in the next 24 hours, I'll inform them they're all fired. / Meanwhile, somewhere in the Mutex...
/ I thought you said it was asleep. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090302.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, March 2, 2009 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals and who says what]]
/ If we split this table into two and put a look-up table between them, we can reuse this datasets and-- Something wrong, Dwayne? / Have any of you seen Dexter, Tim, or Patty?
/ Not since before the holidays. Did they take some time off? / If they did, they didn't bother to inform me. If they don't show up in the next 24 hours, I'll inform them they're all fired. / Meanwhile, somewhere in the Mutex...
/ I thought you said it was asleep. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090302.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | [[Dexter wields a bloody axe in the foreground while Tim and Patty rest a bit farther away]]
/ Tim: I thought... there were no dragons... south of Kilthmoor...
/ Patty: Nobody told this one... / [[A torn-up Dexter stands over them with his axe]]
/ Dexter: That's the sixth one we've encountered since we left Grimwald's Keep. This isn't right. The latest expansion pack made some changes, yes, but not to the core world. It only introduced a new continent. / [[Tim turns to Patty; they are also both cut up]]
/ Patty: You're just figuring that out that now? We've been stuck in this blasted game for how long? Hours? Days? Weeks? All because you forgot that stupid remote...
/ Tim: Easy, Patty. It was an accident. / [[All three of them stand around]]
/ Patty: You said I'm a cleric, right? Maybe I'll "accidentally" turn my healing spell on Dex into a curse...
/ Tim: No PvP, remember? Although this time, I agree with the sentiment... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090304.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, March 6, 2009 | [[Dexter turns away from Tim and Patty]]
/ Dexter: Look, I'm sorry, OK? It was an accident! I didn't know this would happen! / [[Close-up of Dexter]]
/ Dexter: Look, we've got two problems. Someone is messing with "Bog of Bloodbath". We haven't seen another real player since we got here, monsters keep appearing where they shouldn't... someone's hacking the game, and we're stuck dealing with it. / [[Tim and Patty look at each other in concern]]
/ Dexter: (off-panel) We might as well try to solve that mystery because we're not getting out until someone outside notices we're gone. That shouldn't take long; Nick and Ki are bound to be home by now... / [[Ki puts down her purse and Nick takes off his jacket as they both just walk into their apartment]]
/ Nick: Honey, was I running an experiment on the MUTEX?
/ Ki: You usually are... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090306.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Nick is puzzled as he looks at the MUTEX]]
/ Nick: It's funny... I think the MUTEX has been running since we got back after Christmas, but I don't recall kicking off a job before we left. I just assumed I had...
/ Ki: (off-panel) Nick... / [[Ki holds up some chips]]
/ Ki: You went to the grocery story yesterday, right? Why did you pick up a bag of Cheddar Chunks? Neither of us like them all that much.
/ Nick: I didn't. / [[Nick looks in the fridge as Ki notices something off-panel]]
/ Nick: That's funny. Neither of us drink Blue Steer either, but there's a whole pack in the fridge. How'd that get in there?
/ Ki: I think I know... / [[Ki holds up an over-sized jacket]]
/ Ki & Nick: (together) Dexter. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090309.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Nick and Ki's apartment]]
/ Ki: Found two more coats, a man's and a woman's.
/ Nick: That would be Tim and Patty, alright. / Ki: That explains the extra food, the coats, why some lights were on when we got back... But what were they doing here? / Nick: I think the three of them came over and Dex used your key to get in. Then they tried to use the MUTEX to play "Bog of Bloodbath" as a virtual world but got stuck inside because Dex forgot to bring the master remote. / Ki: How did you come up with that theory?
/ [[Nick holds some optical disks and a remote]]
/ Nick: Dexter. Game discs. Remote. Elementary, dear Watson. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090311.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Nick and Ki's apartment.]]
/ Ki: So now what? Can you get them back out?
/ Nick: On that I'm not so sure. / Nick: The MMORPG interface for the MUTEX was very alpha code. I hadn't tested it before we left, so in one sense I'm surprised it worked at all.
/ Ki: You mean the MUTEX actually has beta code? / Nick: The point is that no one has ever gone into the MUTEX without a controller on the outside. No one could pull me back from the alternate universe because they had no frame of reference to find me. / Nick: With no idea where in the "BoB" they are, our friends may be trapped in there forever... or at least until the company shuts down the servers... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090313.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, March 16, 2009 | [[Ki and Nick sit in front of the MUTEX]]
/ Ki: Then what's the plan?
/ Nick: First we try to track them down. For that, Wireshark is our friend. / Nick: If I sniff the packets coming and going over the cable modem, I can isolate the IP of the remote machine and figure out which game server they're on. That, at least, should narrow down the search to a single game world. / [[Nick looks back at Ki]]
/ Nick: From there, one of us will have to go in after them while the other monitors everything from here. It will be a manual search unless I can find some way in game to locate them. / [[Nick turns back to the computer as Ki cracks her knuckles]]
/ Nick: And since you don't have any experience running the MUTEX...
/ Ki: Just call me Kithinera the Elven Ranger... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090316.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | [[Ki zaps into the world of Bog of Bloodbath]]
/ < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090318.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, March 20, 2009 | [[Ki's character walks along in the world of Bog of Bloodbath]]
/ Ki: If you can bump up my level, how about rustling up a horse or something?
/ Nick: (off-panel) Sorry, rangers can't use mounts in this game.
/ Ki: Figures. / [[Ki continues to walk]]
/ Ki: Nick, I'm only guessing this is the right path. There were dozens of tracks out of that Girmwald place. This looks like the same set of footprints but I can't be sure.
/ Nick: (off-panel) Oh, you've got them alright. / [[Nick is sitting at the computer terminal of the MUTEX]]
/ Nick: I've been watching the packets and managed to crack some of the game logic. I think I can pinpoint you and every other player on the map. You're making great speed and you'll catch up to them soon. / [[Ki tilts her head in the game]]
/ Ki: How can you be sure?
/ Nick: (off-panel) Because there's only five players on the server, and I've got a hunch #5 isn't playing fair... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090320.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, March 23, 2009 | [[Ki's character continues to walk in the world of Bog of Bloodbath]]
/ Ki: Only five players? And you think the odd man is a hacker?
/ Nick: (off-panel) Looks like it. It could explain a few things. / [[Nick works at his computer]]
/ Nick: I'm now analyzing the game server's traffic. It looks like hundreds of login requests are getting bounced. None of the other servers seem to have this problem. And only two IPs are making valid connections. / [[Ki's character has mountains in the background]]
/ Ki: One of those is us, including our friends. What makes you think the other IP is a hacker?
/ Nick: (off-panel) The traffic pattern doesn't match any of ours, and we've got four legit players. / [[Nick is intense in his concentration]]
/ Nick: There's a whole stream of encrypted sub-packets embedded in his connection. I'm going to capture a few and see what I can decipher.
/ Ki: (off-panel) Glad I can be a big help... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090323.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Nick is in silhouette in front of his computer and 3 monitors]]
/ Nick: Actually, you're giving me tons of valuable data. Using your traffic as an example, I'm certain I know who's who. Now I just need to ID #5. / [[Ki's character in Bog of Bloodbath looks back at a dragon corpse]]
/ Ki: Why don't you just ping flood him and knock him offline?
/ Nick: (off-panel) It's too risky. / [[Nick in profile at his computer]]
/ Nick: All the old MUTEX dangers still apply. If the connection gets severed, you and the others are toast. And something tells me that severing his connection might bring down the server. I can't risk that. / [[Ki looks forward at another slain dragon]]
/ Ki: I'd appreciate that.
/ Nick: (off-panel) You should be getting close.
/ Ki: Another dragon corpse. At least that's better than Dex's orc droppings. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090325.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, March 27, 2009 | Tim: We're almost to Helmforge. We can hopefully get some rest there.
/ Patty: I wonder if there's an equipment shop we can pillage. / Dexter: I _said_ I was sorry about the bra strap.
/ Patty: And _I_ said we would never speak of that again.
/ Tim: *Shh!* / Tim: I'm detecting a strong magical field ahead, in the town.
/ Patty: Not _another_ dragon ...
/ Tim: {{interrupts}} No, it's not an NPC. / Tim: It's another player. A really _strong_ one. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090327.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | Narrator: THE U.S. NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA. HOUSES ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL "SECRET" PRISONS IN THE WORLD... / Narrator: BUT LITTLE FUSS IS MADE OVER ANOTHER, MORE COVERT FACILITY NESTLED DEEP WITHIN THE ANCIENT MOUNTAINS SURROUNDING BIG STICK, WEST VIRGINIA... / Narrator: HERE LIES ANOTHER PRISON, RUN BY ONE "UNDISCLOSED GOVERNMENT AGENCY", WHICH HOUSES A HIGHER CLASS OF INTERNATIONAL THREAT... / Narrator: BY "HIGHER CLASS", WE MEAN "THREAT TO GLOBAL STABILITY", OF COURSE... / Doctor Nefarious: YOU CALL THIS SLOP MAC & CHEESE? I COULD CLONE http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090330.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 | Doctor Nefarious: Bah! I can't take being cooped up in this underground gulag! It's driving me bonkers!
/ Doctor Not: It's not really driving if you never take it out of park. / Nefarious: Oh, Hardy har har.
/ Not: Besides, Nathaniel, this is hardly a "gulag". The U.G.A. treats us extremely well. / Nefarious: _You_ seem to have adjusted well to domestication, Alexis, but not _me_. No prison can hold Dr. Nefarious for long! Already I am planning my next great escape plan!
/ Not: Jenkins? / Jenkins: In your past 2085 days of incarceration, you have made 1563 separate escape attempts, all of them unsuccessful ...
/ Nefarious: {{interrupts}} Quit your sniggering, And! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090401.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | Doctor Nefarious: I'm ashamed of you, Alexis. You were once the hottest, most ruthless woman in all of C.R.U.D.E. _Now_ look at you! Tamed by the U.G.A. petting zoo! I am appalled! / Doctor Not: Please, Nathaniel. We made our bid for world domination and were beaten fair and square. We ran and were caught. It's time we paid the piper, as it were. Devil's due and all. / Nefarious: Easy for you to say, Little Miss Traitor. I've _seen_ you getting all buddy with agent #12. All that "girl talk" ... You _know_ she's plumbing you for information. You've been incriminating all of us for what? Your designer pink "prison uniform"? / Not: For the record, it's "sorbet", not pink. And #12 has the best gossip on your favorite agent, James Baud.
/ Nefarious: Such as?
/ Not" He's not James Baud. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090403.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | Doctor Nefarious: Whaddaya mean, "He's _not_ James Baud"?
/ Doctor Not: The Agent #6 currently employed by the U.G.A. isn't the one who caught us. He's his brother. / Not: It seems our old nemesis has retired and passed on the "mantle" of Baud to his sibling. The resemblance is uncanny, but _surely_ you've noticed he's changed more than his hair. / Nefarious: Well, I _assumed_ he had some work done.
/ Not: Speaking of retirement, Maddie tells me Moldfinger has hung up his toupee as well, quietly disappearing to a private island somewhere. / Nefarious: Ol' Penicillin Pinkie has _quit_? That gristled old son of a ... Wait a sec. "Maddie"?
/ Not: Gain their confidence and they'll tell you anything. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090406.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | Well, then... What's the scuttlebutt on the rest of C.R.U.D.E.? Surely we aren't the only ones in custody.
/ Interesting you should ask... / Capt. Calamity and Lady Ruin were both killed by agents in 2004. The Damnation Trio botched a teleportation experiment while trying to escape Agent #18 in 2005. Only to end up in six separate locations.
/ Ew. I don't like that math. / Lord Kamatayan and Duchess Lebeti ran off together on a whirlwind tryst of lust and larceny only to end up killing each other over their spoils in 2007.
/ Dang. Lebeti wasn't much to look at, but she could sure incite panic. / The most bizarre is Stratego. Maddie says she's now fighting alien invaders in a parallel universe.
/ That's it! My escape plan! Now if only I can make an interdimensional transport using plastic forks and rubber rain coats! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090408.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Dr. Nefarious and Dr. Not sitting in prison]]
/ Dr. Not: Before you plan your cosmic trip, you might want to hear about Inertia. Maddie says he's locked up in here, with us.
/ Dr. Nefarious: Here? I haven't seen him. / [[Close-up of Not's face with a sly look on her face]]
/ Dr. Not: That's because they keep him in the deepest, most secure cell in the place. He's in isolation and under constant guard. They know once he breaks loose, there's no stopping him. / [[Pan out to Nefarious and Not pondering why Inertia hasn't tried to escape]]
/ Dr. Nefarious: That brings up a good point. Inertia could break out any time he wanted.
/ Dr. Not: If he wanted to. Which brings the question: what is he waiting for? / [[Pan out again to Nefarious and Not in prison overalls, amid other prisoners]]
/ Dr. Nefarious: Somehow I doubt it's a chance to take us with him.
/ Dr. Not: After how you cheated him at go in 1999, it wouldn't surprise me... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090410.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | Agent #18: I'm not comfortable with this. We gave them too much information. / Agent #12: Easy, #18. It's a give and take. They know we're recording them. Give them something to talk about and they'll keep talking.
/ Agent #18: Then tell them about the weather. / Agent #6: Maddie's right. Spilling those secrets was worth the risk. They may know more than we'd like on a few things, but _we've_ learned just as much from them. / Agent #18: And just what _have_ we learned?
/ Agent #6: All told, they know just as little about Inertia as we do. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090413.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Agent #18: Are you still hung up on Inertia? He's big, ugly, Asian, and mute. That's all _anyone's_ been able to learn.
/ Agent #12: Precisely his point. / Agent #12: He's been in our custody how many years now? And has he said a single word to _anyone_? We've stepped up security around him dozens of times, but no one thinks we can really strop him if he tried to escape. There are too many unanswered questions surrounding him. / Justin: He eats hardly anything and produces even less waste. All our medical tests have to be passive because no needles break his skin and he won't respond to queries. If he didn't breathe or have a pulse, we'd declare him dead. / Agent #18: Then load up a dump truck and bury him. I doubt anyone would know the difference. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090415.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | Justin: Sigh... Am I REALLY putting too much time into this?
/ Maddie: Well, you HAVE been a little obsessed. / Justin: I'm sorry, Maddie. I never meant to ignore other cases... or YOU. It's just... There's something about Inertia that's really bothering me. There are too many questions and not enough answers. / Maddie: You're not the first Barker I've known to get caught up in his work. That dedication is a trait I've admired in both of you. Just don't let it rule your life.[[kisses him]] / Justin: [[to himself, as she walks away]] I'll try, but somehow I fear this will become bigger than any of us could possibly imagine... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090417.html |
| General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip | [[Agent #6 sits at his desk at night and hears]]
/ < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090420.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | [[Justin investigates noises]] / [[Sees computer article on Fred]] / < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090422.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, April 24, 2009 | < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090424.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, April 27, 2009 | [[Nick's desk]]
/ Ki {{from in the MUTEX}}: Nick, there's a castle up ahead. Do you think Dex, Tim, and Patty might be in there?
/ Nick: I can guarantee it. That's Helmforge Castle. / [[scene BoB Server]]
/ Ki: It looks deserted ...
/ Nick {{from outside the MUTEX}}: (interrupts) _All_ of "Bog of Bloodbath" is deserted, remember? It's just you guys and our mysterious hacker. / [[scene Nick's desk]]
/ Nick: But they're there all right, all four of them. They're all clearly on my map, and the hacker has complete control over this server, meaning he can do whatever he wants. / [[scene BoB Server]]
/ Nick {{probably, it's a voice-over}}: "That means our friends are almost certainly walking into a trap ..." http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090427.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | This really powerful player... Can you locate him, Tim?
/ My Magic sense isn't really directional. But it's getting stronger, so we're getting closer. / Something's not right.
/ Blast it, Dexter! Your power of understatement is overwhelming my power of sarcasm. / No, no... I mean above and beyond what we've already seen. Whoever is hacking "Bob" is doing more than just fiddling with monster placement. He's injecting new code. Things that shouldn't be here. / And what, pray tell, gave you this incredible insight?
/ Well, that astromech droid for one thing... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090429.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, May 1, 2009 | Patty: A-a Star Wars droid? In a fantasy game?
/ Dexter: Exactly my point. The hacker is inserting new models into the game.
/ Droid: Bee Boo Bee? / Scott: Not just new models. He's rewriting the game from within. He's changing the game logic too. Our abilities, statistics, magic... none of that matters anymore. And you can bet the no-PVP flag isn't going to stop anything now...
/ Droid: Whistle! / Scott: This level of sophistication requires serious skill. This guy's GOOD. He's above and beyond any average script kiddie.
/ Patty: Could this be the Brotherhood? Well, a different faction?
/ Droid: Boop Beep? / Scott: I can't say for certain, but it's not Greg's style. This guy's probably independent. But you can bet he'll likely get their attention. Especially considering how many brothers play "Bloodbath". http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090501.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, May 4, 2009 | Ki: I'll be at the castle in a minute or two. Can you tell me what's going on yet?
/ Nick: Hold on, Ki. I'm a little busy. / Nick: The stream of packets just intensified. I'm still working on decrypting them, but I can't devote too much processor time without affecting the VR code. Something's about to happen, and it's not going to be pretty. / Catastro: Pitiful fools! You DARE defile my sanctuary? That will be your final mistake. / Catastro: Cower before me, mere mortals, for I am the Dread Lord Catastro, and I shall be your final undoing...
/ [[Final boss appears]] http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20090504.html |
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