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

*The henchmen keep looking at the mural...*

[Yar rolls his eyes, and also looks at the mural.]

*The apparition looks over Happy Dude's shoulder.*

*HappyDude looks animated and starts to direct a ninja hench-thing to the location of "Applications of Higher Temporal Dynamics for Beings Embedded in Fewer than Seven Dimensions" - being careful not to turn his back on the ninja hench-thing*

*Half the henchmen give up on the mural and resume looking for books. The ninja-hench thing goes in search of the book and finds it*

*The apparition sticks his head inside the book and tries to read it that way.*

*HappyDude goes back to the card index (while still appearing to be totally unaware of any apparition type thing)*

*The apparition takes his head out of the book and hovers in midair, looking thoughtful. Ten or so books suddenly form a ring around him, open, pages turning steadily, his eyes closed, lost in thought.*

*Those books finished, they begin to stack up on the floor beneath him as more books join the ring.*

(cheerfully)
*continues to browse the index*

[Yar walks over towards the hench-ninja] So ... planning on checking that out?

*The book vanishes from the hench-ninja's hands with a POP.*

*Apparently the apparition needed another look at it. It's now mixed in the growing pile on the floor.*

*eyes hench-ninja suspiciously*

Hmm. Guess not.

We will be once Mr butter fingers hench-ninja locates it again

*The Hench-Ninja Thing, using clever ninja skills, removes the book from the expanding pile without causing a collapse and hands it to Happy*

Ninja-No, I was not planning on checking it out. I planned on giving it to that Happy Fellow over there.

*The ring of books suddenly collapses as the apparition becomes very intent on one single title. This title happens to be (if anyone were to look) the Guide to the TTC.*

*puts the book on the counter*

erm... there are a couple of other items we are still locating as well.

[Yar] [turning to HappyDude] Really? What are they?

well... I was hoping they had a copy of the 1979 Dr Who Annual

*The main thuggish hench-people are looking on the shelves, so naturally don't see that the flying entity dude has the title they're looking for, and the ninja doesn't care enough to do anything unless he gets an actual instruction. So the book tally score stands Happy: 2, Entity: 1*