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

Anyone mind if I say for the timeline's sake that the events in ST1 starts in August 2004?

For some reason ST1 thinks Imelda Marcos died of cancer. July 2004 being the last place I can find her mentioned on google.

Then again pick 2001 and she can obliviously die like Boutros-Ghali who is also walking this plain.

Well yes I discovered Imelda marcos was alive and well when I did a google search for shoes

However I think we are in danger of confusing real events with our fictional ones.

The more important thing to get right really is the sequence of events from ST1 - 3, because all the jumping back and forth makes that difficult to follow.

By all means help with it.

I'll give it a whirl when I find a moment.

Any opinion on post 459 before I attempt to scribe more?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript might be a plot point...

Found it thanks to one of the newblood I welcomed.

Sounds like it could be a book from which the Cult will enforce after their new order is in place.

sorry - was asleep.

post459: To be honest I don't see them using the helio-copter to fly *all* the way to North Africa. Personally I'd rather have to have them flee for their lives when zombies start invading the building en masse and the *only* option is the monorail gondola - it can't take them to Egypt but it can take them to Casablanca. We've already got Mary by sea and Daltmooreby in the air, Arthur and X used the monorail before, I think it'd make sense to use it again as a conveniant way of moving the agents aroudn the world and we can indeed stick them on camels when they arrive.

(plus we could a few scenes of X, Arthur and Sfret squabbling in the monorail pod.)

Course the other option is the monorail pods are all gone and the tunnel is closed off - or maybe thats how they escape? Down the tunnel on foot, into the dark (Sfret feels completly at home and leads them to safety) where they outflank the zombies crowding the cheese warehouse and make their escape. ::thinks::

Anyway, do what you will.

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The Voynich Manuscript - sounds excellent!

Just seems irrelevent having them in the 'copter if they're only going to go a few metres/miles especially the way Legion's written it.

You know.. err... cut to next scene of the Mary crew, 'getting to Egypt' is resolved. Then flash forward with the Agents 'landing' in Casablanca then Ohio can be established as a character needing a spin off.

*Okay I'm not 100% certain what exactly is going on with the plot, but I need to start back somewhere, so please correct me if I go wrong*

Andrei Sreka snarled at the situation he was in. His uniform didn't fit, he looked like a gorrila in a sailors outfit.

"Vhy iz eet me that gets the smallest outfit", moaned Sreka "I have killed for less."

"Lets be honest here Sreka", said Mary in an Admirals uniform, "thats the only uniform that anywhere near fit you Sreka."

"But I look like Damned fool."

"Quite your whining Sreka", replied Vanderveer in his Captains uniform, "we got past security didn't we?"

Sreka quietly simmered.

["Quite your whining"] should be ["Quit your whining"]

Meanwhile Captain Seguace - with arms rested behind his back - made his way upramp and deeply breathed in the air in that satisified way captains usually did.

"L'ammiraglio è a bordo, il capitano," mentioned Ticket Collector Persona as he passed. "E ha portato a bordo una scimmia."*** Seguace furrowed his brow at why the admiral felt need to be aboard for a cruise vessel.

He wasn't even in the navy anymore. At least he thought he wasn't. Mentally he made a note to book an appointment with a doctor when he got to Cairo. He paused. Then added a footnote to get Persona checked aswell.


At the rear of the La Luna Turchese cruise ship, Von Trapp casually placed towels across every beach chair around the pool, then plopped down neatly on one and waited for the off.



( ***"The admiral is on board, captain," "and she brought aboard an ape" Very loosely... )

Terran, no correcting needed.

We'd reached a bit of an impass as well.

Only because it wasn't known if the monorail scene was staying or going.

HPB

Before the ship set sail, several groups of people arrived on board who shouldn't have been there. A gypsy wearing a chefs outfit, who was secretly convinced that the ship was about to pass over the lost city of Atlantis, walked on board. A man with a bald head and strange accent stroking a cat walked on board, twelve members of the magic circle (there were 13 but they wouldn't let Paul Daniels on) walked on with dinner jackets as well an Australian crocodile wrestler who claimed to know the Captains wife.

As the ship set sail Von Trapp sat smugly on his deck chair. An Englishman walked past and under his breath whispered "Bloody Germans", while Von Trapp just kept smiling away.

true. nocriticisms meant by that HPB
Only that much debate ensued and got us nowhere.
I'm not holding out anymore so when inspiration strikes I'll be ready.

*scrolls back to read last post*

Suddenly Mary broke the fourth wall and berated Clive and Legion for their procrastination.

ack! Sorry! It's been a busy week.



I'll go get some and think of something..

Anyone seen the trailer (or film) for Sahara? Just feels ST the Movie 'sall

nope.

Just got back from having a pub lunch. I'm very sorry not to have been about much this week. I'll see what I can think of for ST3 this afternoon.