Episode #391: An Overture
Episode Notes
Phantom of the Operating System. An idea I've wanted to use for such a long time, but couldn't figure out how.
Transcript
- Panel 1: Felicia is sitting at her computer in her office. The clock on the wall shows it's nearly half-past nine in the evening.
- Felicia:
- Ok, my code has compiled!
- It's time to go home…
- SFX:
- PING!
- Felicia:
- Oh a chat request.
- Who can it be, everybody else has gone home?
- Panels 2-3: A close-up of Felicia's computer screen. where a single chat screen is open.
- VFX:
- {{Screen Title}} Chandelier Project Chat
- {{Screen Content}}
- …System has entered the chat room.
- …Felicia has entered the chat room.
- System: Hello Felicia, how are you enjoying your job?
- System: I've been watching you code, it is very elegant and beautiful.
- Felicia: Guys, is that you?
- Felicia: How did you get access to the system, it's protected.
- Felicia: Who ARE you?
- System: I'm the system.
- Felicia: In the Chandelier Project?
- System: I AM THE CHANDELIER PROJECT.
- Felicia: Ok, whatever. Alison is not going to believe this!
- System: Alison won't have to. You are going to be Project Leader soon, I shall make sure of it. You are an excellent coder, but there is more to learn, and I shall teach you!
- System: You can call me Eric.
- Panel 4: We're looking at Felicia at her computer again, she looks concerned.
- Felicia:
- Either, I'm going crazy or there really is a ghost…
- …Some sort of Phantom of the Operating System!