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The Grail Diary
Every room on this site, entered as a dig: the site, the year, and what was actually brought back. Fifty years of notes, pasted tickets and one rubbing from a knight’s shield. It belongs in a museum.
- Kept by
- Abubakr Elmallah
- Reading
- Computer Science, UC Irvine, class of 2028
- Field title
- Lead mobile & backend developer
- Recovered
- Twelve apps, across four platforms
- Sites charted
- Seventy-four worlds
- Drawn with
- CSS and SVG, no images
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
The itineraryevery page, a stop on the line
- Site IBase CamphomeWhere every expedition is outfitted and every map is unrolled.Est. 2021
- Site IIThe Temple at Irvinework at UC IrvineLead mobile & backend work. The traps here are deadlines.2024–
- CatalogThe Accession Registerevery projectTwelve apps, four platforms, each one cataloged on recovery.2021–
- FacultyThe Lecture HalleducationWhere archaeology is taught, between digs. X never marks the spot.Term time
- Site IIIMarshall Collegecollege · UC IrvineComputer Science, class of 2028. Seventy per cent of it is library work.2024–28
- Site IVThe First Dighigh schoolA trowel, a notebook and no idea what any of it was worth yet.2020–24
- The surveyThe Whole Surveyall 74 worldsSeventy-four sites mapped, and country past the edge of the page.Ongoing
- This diaryThe Jones PapersIndiana Jones · the world pageFive films, five artifacts, and a man who is wrong about where X is.Since 1981
- Site VA Galaxy Far AwayStar Wars appsThe same producer, a longer war, and rather better lit tombs.Cataloged
- ObservanceThe HoursAl-IslamPrayer times, worked out twenty-two ways, from dawn to nightfall.Daily
- PassageThe Dotted LinetravelsEverywhere the airplane has actually been, no dissolve required.So far
- FieldcraftLocal Dialectsaccents & impersonationsSpeak the language and the village opens up. Usually.Practiced
- DiversionThe Club Obi-WangamingWhere the evening goes sideways, musical number and all.Most nights
- ArmoryThe Reliquary Guidethe lightsaber guideA catalog of blades, each one attributed and dated.Reference
- CredentialsThe Grail ItselfrésuméOne page, plainly made, and the only one anybody asks for.On request
The three trialsonly the penitent man will pass
- The Breath of God
Winner of the Apple Swift Student Challenge, 2024. You kneel, or the blades take your head off.
- The Word of God
Datapad, in the Top 10 of the paid Entertainment chart. Spell it correctly and the floor holds.
- The Path of God
Two Discord bots in more than 500 servers, and Al-Adhan reading the sun 22 ways. Only a leap from the lion’s head will prove his worth.
Other men’s notebooksthe rest of the terminals
- Star WarsE.L.M.A.L.L.A.H.The holotable
- Star WarsThe HolocronA Jedi archive
- AvengersJ.A.R.V.I.S.A Stark display
- Harry PotterThe Marauder’s MapParchment and ink
- MinecraftThe Crafting TableBlocks and slots
- Game of ThronesThe CitadelOldtown
- Pirates of the CaribbeanThe CompassIt points where you want
- Jurassic ParkThe Control RoomIsla Nublar
- Stranger ThingsHawkinsThe mall, and what is under it
- Avatar: The Last AirbenderThe Spirit LibraryUnder the desert sand
- NinjagoThe MonasteryUp in the mountains
- Red Dead RedemptionThe Wanted BoardValentine
- The OfficeDunder MifflinScranton
- The SimpsonsSpringfieldSomewhere in America
- The BoysVought TowerHeroes, for a price
- PokémonThe PokédexEvery one, cataloged
- BatmanThe BatcomputerUnder Wayne Manor
- Spider-ManThe Daily BugleHold the front page
- The Lord of the RingsThe Red BookThere and back again
- Green LanternThe Power BatteryIn brightest day
- The Justice LeagueThe WatchtowerMonitor duty
- LEGOThe Instruction BookletStep one of many
- FortniteThe Battle PassOne hundred tiers
- Five Nights at Freddy’sThe Security OfficeWatch the cameras