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

[This room isn't so much a room as a natural opening in the rocks. A pile of gnawed bones lies in one corner, in another corner is the ashes of an old cooking fire]

*looks round*

Well this isn't the poshest place you have ever lead me to.

*kitty looks miffed*

But it is very homely.

*kitty looks slightly mollified*

~°°~ an insubstantial nothingness...a 'whisp' if you will... drifts gently from the ashes which have been its home for so long, wondering about the disturbance... and its own existence...settles back in the ashes.... and waits ~°°~

I'm sure I saw the ashes move.

*kitty settles down, head by the ashes and blows gently through his nose*
phrt [hello]

~°°~the whisp feels a disturbance again and notices a very large being... it seems pleasantly familiar, yet all the memories have been unused for so long... it also appears to be communicating... a greeting? the whisp feels an unexplained need from within to respond and summons up dormant energies to make the attempt: ~°°~

~°v°~ ww....wwwh...wwhhhhhhelllooo ~°v°~

~°°~satisfied, the whisp settles, and begins to search its memories... so many questions... ~°°~

It isn't really is drafty in here, but I thought I heard the wind make a strange sound.

~°°~the whisp notices that there's another being here... and thinks that it's getting downright... busy.... decides that memories will have to wait, and finishes the process of waking up from weeks? years? centuries? of inactivity.... the whisp whirls around the room, dipping into corners... settles on some old bones... memories?...whips lightly through the fur on the big creature that seems... comfortable?... then notices that the large being is watching every move, while the one with two legs seems to have weaker senses...the whisp stops right in front of that one's eyes, and with a great deal of effort inflates itself to an almost substantial nothingness..~°°~

~°v°~ whoooo ~°v°~

~°°~pops back to regular form and lightly settles on the floor ~°°~

*kitty mews to the whisp, which understands feline well*

mrrrr mnzzzzr mrr mrrrr mr pmrrrm rmrm mrrppm mrrr prr pmrrr
[this is mnzzzzr, he's a human being, they're a bit limited and some of them are downright dishonest, but this one's okay...]

That was a loud purr Kitty, whats up?

~°°~the whisp feels the stirring of a feeling.. friendship?... with the being called kitty, and dances briefly on its nose... then whips around the room to the one called mnnzzzr... lightly and carefully, the whisp wiggles into its right ear...~°°~

~°v°~ WHELLOOO MNNZZZR ~°v°~

~°°~the whisp wiggles back out, chuckles to itself, wanders about the room searching for... something? ~°°~

*shiver runs down spine*

Did you hear that, is this place haunted?

*looks nervous*

*kitty prrs his amusement*

prrr

prrr prr prmmr rrsp [try a bit harder, whisp]

~~the languor is slipping away and the whisp dances its laughter as it gains strength...~~

~v~...limited...~v~

~~it pulls itself together and attempts to imitate the shape of the limited biped, then dances around the room.... it whips into mnnzzzr's other ear at full speed and bounces off the walls, finally barreling into a drum-like skin ~~

~v~ WHELLOO MNNZZZR I AM... WWHISP ~v~

ARGH, GHOST

*turns on the spot and runs towards the exit, forgets to duck the low bit and knocks himself unconsious*

~~the whisp slides out of the ear and wafts over to kitty~~

~v~...human... dead?...~v~

*kitty pads over towards Menza's recumbant form and inspects him*

mnnnrrrr mnzzzzr prr mrr mrrrnnn mrrrdrrrr maou mrzzzzz [no, menza's not dead, he's just asleep]

*kitty pats menza gently on the cheek*
*then stops and thinks very very hard at menza.. in his semi-concious state he should be more susceptible to thoughts*

#this is rrsp, friendly, not scary, can understand rrrnlllrrrs [english], you need to concentrate hard to understand rrsp initially but with practice you should both get better at communicating with each other, so stop being silly and make friends, wake UP!#