h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

like in Monty Python and The quest for The Holy Grail.
...Sort of (kind of...not really?)

[Sharp]: (Curiously): "Hello, what's this?"

:you've probably heard of the slogan "Find a need and fill it"
[Sharp]: "I wanna 'find an evil & fight it'." *Goes and leaves a note about that behind him, out where anybody may read it if they like, for the h*ll of it, because he is being arrogant & reckless again perhaps. Or perhaps to let people he has met from the marketplace know.*

People in the square seem to look increasingly worried, instead of (as would be normal) decreasingly, as if the more time that passes after the horrific events that occured here, the more frightening they seem.

As if the town is waiting in silence for something terrible to happen ...
Nerd42

[Sharp]: *casts rock w/control and gusto,(and @ a smaller scale)several times, in different ways to repair some gaps from missing stones in a well in the town-square.*
*'window shops', looking at various wares from a distance, w/out buying anything.*

: completely oblivious......Or is he...

[Sharp] (out in a field): *Casts 'bats'*
", one of these days I'll get it right and get s instead

: 'bats' is the base form of the speel, there are other variations as well, such as here: :
[Sharp]: (practicing black magic,-for practice!) makes a bit of a yell, *casts 'Elec. bats'*
}Fzzt!{
"maybe if I combine 'bats' and 'rock,' It'll be 'dingbats'?..."
several medium-light weight small bat statues are produced.

[Sharp]: *smokes a conjured bubble-pipe, & writes down his findings into the 'minicodex,' using ink & a quill pen.*
"interesting..."

[Sharp]:"In theory, that'd mean that there are also @ least 'icebats' and 'flamebats'...I bet 'lightbat' and 'shadowbat' are harder to do."

[Sharp]: *Scritches and scribbles down notes on his new hypothesis.*
"I wonder what old Herbert would have to say about that..."
:? s. One of sorts...

[Sharp]: "I may find something of a spell like 'flame' useful someday." *dries quill, stoppers the ink bottle, lets letters dry and then closes .* "Well, that's that I suppose."
*leaves field to go back to the market.*

[Sharp]: "A spell like 'flamebat' may come in useful to me someday." *dries quill, stoppers inkbottle, lets letters dry, then closes * "I do wonder what the h*ll a spell like 'icebat' would be used for though. It's creative and might have potential applications, but..., always good to have a few spells to have in reserve... just in case." *w/a }Zoop!{ sound effect pen, inkbottle, &(now extinguished)pipe go all neatly back into the pockets of his longcoat @ once.*

: , I meant *closes clasps to his * in that last post up there.

: Yes!

[Sharp]: (thinking): Then again...
"My,my-my, I wonder what that is over there."
*Looks out over the horizon, as a formerly (more or less) uniform spot of background suddenly morphoses from into a distinctly different piece of landscape from the featureless spot it took up before.*
"Was that really there all along?" he asked puzzledly.
"If there was a forest before, It must have been not as accessable?!" Sharp *does a 'What the____' type of a doubletake as he examines it.*
It looks as though it could surely have been there (for some centuries even), albeit he could almost swear a moment ago it wasn't.
:

the Dark Forest will hopefully not be visible for long from the Marketplace because we will build a wall around the city

Nerd42

well, actually technically we'll rebuild the old wall

: Oh, hope there are other people who can cast 'rock' ...then again, that would be kind of dangerous.
A mage's first rule of discipline (or lack thereof ) I s'ppose. .-yeah,right...
'Augh!' }Splat!{ }Thud.{