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

Legion - stirling stuff.

HPB - a little confused about the quotes ..er...why?

anyway I was just thinking - if we do Gibralter then and Sfret is kidnapped (or squirrelled away by the agency rep on The Rock) then he would be in the clutches of Leicester during ST4.

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"package for you sir."

(leicester) "tIm sEe WhAt iT iS.

"Postmark is Spanish.. hmmm...airholes. writings a bit scawlled...it says... "To Tiddles luv and hugz, Snuggles.""

(to guy chained up. battered and bruised)

"wHAt iS THe mEaNINg of tHIS, "TiDdLeS?""

Guy stays dignified and silent.

"SPEAK! OR I EXECUTE ANOTHER AGENT FROM YOUR FLOCK!"

Guy meets the cat's vicious stare and conceeds.

"It's code. Its an overseas package to R+D...from a field agent on assignment."

(to Tim) "Open it up!"

Tim procures a crowbar and proceeds to pry open the box...

(Guy)"I've never seen one with airholes before though...."

Leicesters grin falters - too late..

Sfret wanders out in a cloud of polystyrene packing...

"ah! back underground - much better!"

*there is a tense mute moment akin to a mexican standoff but without the guns where everyone is just tryign to figure out who the hell is who.*

"Tim." (Leicester wheedles and inclines his head with a sugesstive nod.)

"Hmm? - oh right." animated into action he koshes Sfret into unconsciousness.

Well the fact that ST2 runs parallel to ST3 I thought the fact that Guy has been in Italy at the same relative time as Mary & Co. and God/Satan playing of the fate of the world in Switzerland as Arthur and X have been there... and there was something about the Kinghts Templar in Switzerland in our 'research'.

ah! I see....

I'll need to check - if memory serves that occurs before Leicester is summoned into the bathroom by Tim and mauls Bob to death.

By the time Bob re-awakens in Hospital with his extra appendages - Guy appears with Richter and everyone but Guy sets off to Stone Heneg to stop Rasputin.

Guy pretty dissappears from the story at that point and reappears in the briefing at the end.

We did look at the knights templar - I've got the file here someplace. I'll browse through it again and post it over in the "ideas" thread.

Did I say I had a copy of Das Boot to hand? - not anymore, my computer has 'lost' it

Now I'm about to loose it...

*ponders writing a new scene*...

Another day, another dawn. Arthur squinted to avoid the first glares of the rising sun poking above the clouds. He leant back further into his seat underneath the rotating parasol spiral above the copter to be in the shade and put on his shades.

"How's breakfast?" he called to X

X looked up with a satisfied grin and a full mouth chomped into another baguet stuffed with cheese.

"Mmmppf m hmmptf" he said.

"I see." said Arthur. "Needs mustard. Hmmmm."

A break in the clouds revealed a small town nestled in the foothills of the Alps.

"I've a idea..strap in."

"stwpf im?" demolishing the last of the crusty bit. "wop stwapf?"

Then the helicopter lost several hundred feet directly over Dijon and began an inelegant decent aiming more or less for the top most turret in the castle by the river.

(( Nice one, Clive. I'm a bit frantic trying to make up for a year of dossing in time for the exams, so not much time to spare for the story, but some ideas are still fermenting in the murky depths of my brain. I'll pour 'em out over the summer, I suppose. Till then......study...))

That's Legion I understand the pressures of finals.

I have to find a job currently, learn to drive, re-sit my GCSE maths and pass my ECDL, in between all of that I'm trying to find enough for Arthur and X to do before reachign Gibralter so I can re-encounter Mary amidships before dockign them at Alexandria.

*Bump*

I was away this weekend I'm trying to drum up in my head something for arthur and X to do in dijon before sending them off through the med. at which point I planned to cut across to mary on the boat....

*bump*

Bump to remind me this still exists.

I was wondering whether it had been a figment of my imagination...

I could add something but I'm afraid of going anywhere that yourself and Clive don't want to go.

no no no please please add something. I got hopelessly stuck on trying to navigate Arthur X and Sfret on the helocopter down from France to Africa. I was going to do soemthing, maybe a chase through the markets of Dijon in order to get soem mutsard but I never did and I'm sorry for that.

Please if you have a new tangent to add do so, it's what the story thrives on.

Write something Verc, now!

Arthur, X and Sfret found themselves in a car...

"Arthur, why did we give up chasing that girl?", said X vicously turning the steering wheel from left to right, trying to go around corners very fast.

"We...", Arthur was almost choked, "We didn't have a choice". He coughed up a piece of chocolate bar... looked at it for a moment and threw it out the window, and carried on munching on his yorkie. "Look that... mystic we saw... the things he told us about how we needed to go to brazil to track down the cult. If we don't sort that out the rest of the world is in grave danger." Also Arthur secretly harboured hopes that Anna was still with the gang that had kidnapped her and they would somehow find her in Brazil.

Sfret, the monk, was chewing quietly on a stick of Candy floss on the middle seat in the back of the car, rocking from side to side, as the well preserved Volvo thundered around corners.

X looked back briefly, and saw Sfret. "How did you know that Mystic Sfret?"

"I taught him", chewed Sfret, mouth full.

"You taught him...? The man was ancient!", added Arthur

"Back in my native moscow..."

"Moscow?!!", said X. "You don't even sound Russian!".

It was actually quite hard to place Sfret's accent, he'd quite obviously travelled around a bit.

"Yes... as I was saying, I was part of an order that went out educating certain intelligent people... these days though", he shrugged "I lost interest, or maybe there aren't any intelligent people", grinnned Sfret with his aged but well worn face. He took another bite out of the candy floss.

"Look how far is this dock, Arthur? I'm not sure how long it'll be before the police catch up with us..."

Arthur looked ahead. "Not far... just keep going down this street and we'll be fine..."

*bump*

oh I know. I've been hopelessly stuck on this ever since they took off in the helicopter.

There must be some way out

We were trying to get Arthur, Sfret and X to Gibralter, then to Casblanca then across Africa to Egypt.

Mary and her gang were on a cruise ship (which they were going to hijack presumably) and steer down The Nile.

Daltmoreby was going to meet up with his son Ohio.

That was the plan, and I've been stuck tryign to think of things for Arthur and X to do rather than just writing "they landed at Gibralter"

Might be easier just to add the Gibraltar bit in. I mean it was for Legion wasn't it, and he's on less than we are.