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

*Looks around what can only be the atrium of the atelier.*

Oh, man. No wonder I had an odd feeling about this place.

But a Lich isn't necessarily evil, is it? *seems to remember something from... from... Icewind Dale, probably*

*follows the others*

We had a Lich encounter in the Crypt too. Was there a friendly Lich in Icewind Dale? I don't remember, that was one of the few games I actually stuck at long enough to complete.

*looks around*

I don't think this can be ~our~ Atelier, Matina would be here to meet us with and mbootie thingies, with warm towels and lots of hot water and stuff.

I think the head Elf in the Severed Hand (my brains don't have a names memory cabinet, I might be wrong) had turned into a Lich - not hostile, not violent, but rather sad once you revealed to him that his daughter had actually joined forces with those wretched dwarves


The Atelier?!!! *wondering where/if Ripley might be*

*trips over an object under a mound of detrius and falls flat on her face sending up a cloud of dust*

Ooofff !

*cough cough cough*

The trees are dead. *jogs across the open gallery area so that she can see up the hall*

Agh! The linen closet is gone! There's nothing but a blank wall! Let's head for the kitchen.

We're back at the Atelier? In with what, just about 40,000 years of backlog to get through? I won't do it. I'm skipping the backlog.

Now let me get my bearings, if that's the entrance, then that must be the library, and the card table must be that pile of sticks over there, and that void on the left is just about where the kitchen, the refrigerator, and the crisper drawer used to be.

<-- sniffing around uncertainly

simulpost. Lil, you'll have to decide if there is a kitchen or a void

I think I will skip the backlog as well.

We've come in from the opposite end of the atelier. In http://www.asterlil.com/h2g2/aplanbig.htm , notice room X and the comment in the legend. We've just come through there.

So that void is where the planet workshop used to be. Kindly avoid the void; there might still be a planet in there. That pile of sticks is what's left of the atrium. The conservatory is over there.

So we need to go past the atrium and through the library. There's an old stairway next to the service lift that used to go to the mosh pit. I wonder if we could get down to the mines that way?

What happened to the Ape?

Not sure where the Ape is.

*trips over something, and falls crashing to her knees*

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow... *rubs knees*

hey, what the heck was that? I didn't even see it coming...

I don't like this place, if it was really our Atelier, I'm sure there would still be Salonistas to keep it alive.

Unless something happened to them .... this is your far future isn't it ?

Sadly you're in a very different era from the Golden Age you lived in

If it is, then I've gone right off the idea of reincarnation.

Do you think it's safe to stop here for a and comfort break?

You mean unless something happened to *us*. Does this mean we won't make it back? Could this be the last adventure of the salonistas?

/* Points at the dehydrated corpse */

Could that be Marv?

*Moves into the next room. Sees shelves full of books lining the walls. Scans the titles and notices one of interest. Reaches up to take the book, but it crumbles to dust when he touches it, setting off a chain reaction among the other books on that shelf. When the, er, dust settles, the shelf contains only a couple of inches of dust. As Gord turns away, something metallic among the dust catches his eye. He turns back and pulls a small silver key from the dust.*

Humph. Someone must have hidden this in one of the books.

The fFordean Rift! I bet that was Hypatia's key! *looks around* but there's no sign of the portal. That's two rifts gone. That leaves the crisper drawer.

*strikes out across the salon, puffs of dust rising from the remains of the Casapupa rug*

*Witty is amazed to see the books crumble to dust.*

Just how far into the future are we? I've never seen anything like that.