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

That's better. We're now safe from sharks.

That is...unless anyone else is wearing any sort of swimming apparatus...

[If anyone had been looking in their direction, which no one was, then they wouldn't have noticed the seven-foot-wide blue sphere of energy and the equally large pink one, because there was a third energy field surrounding both which shunted away any notice of what one doesn't want to, wasn't expecting, or can't explain.]

Glad you know how to do an SEP field, Mew. Now, YK should be...

...in the whale!?

I usually leave generating SEP fields to someone else! Ho! Ho! Ha! ..ha....ha..er. Sorry.

Any sign of Baron Munchausen in here?
I've talked to Pinnochio and Jonah, they say that they haven't seen him.

Standing on top of velma,m wondering where everybody has gone off to. Shouts down the wahles blowhole and hears muffled laughter coming from inside.

Ooooo how could you get slowly digested in there.
vegiman

Thanks for the equipment, DD, but from what TY says, it might be hazardous to my health! Guess I'll have to work it out "in the buff"!

YK.......how long can you hold your breath? Got any "friends" who don't drown easily? Any help would be appreciated, as Bubba *IS* a rather large fella'!

NM

Wow...this is soooo much fun I have found a HUGE Keg of Rum down this end of Velma....I will throw it over to you...I don't like the look of this other stuff...I thought that Whales only ingested plankton!hmph! Smells a bit too!
shazzPRME

*slides down the whales tongue and into her belly where the others are standing about*
oh my! it is quite cosey in here not isn't it?? who knew the inside of velma was so richly decorated?
*wanders over to the kitchen and begins to whip up a batch of "special" brownies*
monsy

Here you go Monsy....put some of this rum in them will you?
I fancy something rather special
shazzPRME

What is that smell, might I enquire?

Good grief! So this is where you all are! Wow! Init big in 'ere?
Phew! Wots dat smell?

*plonk -- falls inside from atop blowhole at the cessation of the particular fount previously ridden up on* .. erm.. Nah.. don't bother trying to straighten that one out.

Yo ho ho! Seems like the past couple days has been.. erm.. interesting..

Oh, btw, no need to drop monsy-fish into vodka.. they're full of it already.. Why do you think Velma ate so many?


*peers around* .. Party seems to be growing a bit, too.

Urm... also, where is the light coming from?

YK's device might be producing some short of afterglow. Anyone got any idea if an internally illuminated whale is liable to attract or deter sharks? I'm not too hot on Marine Biology.

*Velma opens mouth and a large chest slips to a rest on her tongue. DD opens it's to discovers bottles of whiskey, whisky, bourbon, vodka, gin and 50 bottles of beer on a wall, yes 50 bottles of beer.*

Well that's 49 bottles now!!

No, its the swimming costumes that attract the sharks.

See http://www.h2g2.com/A229303 for details.

The light is now Zippy* using the "Flash" technique, which (a) creates a lot of light for quite a long time and (b) lowers the enemy's Special rating. And Sheba**, stop giving me that look. None of the other female life forms in this room are doing that.

[Random and irritating (because it's Pokémon-related) fact: When Pokémon of a different species have an egg in Gold and Silver, there's a nine-in-ten chance it will hatch into the least evolved species of its mother. It will inherit some of the abilities and Attack/Defense/Speed/Special ratings of both parents.]

*Zippy is a male Surfing Raichu: a Raichu that can use the "Surf" technique.
**Sheba is a female Clefable: her gender is probably the reason she's giving us male skinny dippers "that look."

Yes, Mew, YK is definitely inside that whale. [They fly closer] And, from the sense of it, so're Monsy, NM, Zippy, and Sheba. And a couple other familiar minds. You go on ahead, I'm going to stay right here.
[Mew]
Yes, give me the SEP field while you go. You're good at staying inconspicuous, even without it.

[Mew gives Mewtwo a telepathic "flash learning" thing and flies closer to Velma. Mewtwo is glad it doesn't take long to set up the SEP field.]

I am glad that you explained all that YK! Now...back to the
alcohol-tasting! Mmmmmmm...that's better! Where is NM...we could do
with his expert muck-cleaning capabilities!That smell is getting worse!
shazzPRME

The internal lighting (according to this handy brochure I've found lying about) was installed to create a suitably moody atmosphere, hence the subtle shifting of light intensity to give that all important 'glow effect'.
The decor has been painstakingly chosen by the finest Swiss interior decorators to maximise the.... HEY!
Something fishy's going on here! And I don't mean that last pun!
There's more to Velma than meets the eye .