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

[Location: a sort of pagoda hovering in the middle of a dark cloud. An unassuming old man is standing there, leaning on a staff. His name is Rubicant. A portal opens at the entrance, and Link, Saria, Rodrigo, and George step into the pagoda.]

[Rubicant] Hello, hello!

[Link] Um ... hi.

[George] Do you have a guidebook to these Trance Zones?

[Rubicant] Eh? Wot?

[George] You know, a map. So as to help us on our quest for 'Trance' in these unknown parallel dimentions or such place is as this is at this present time.

[Rubicant] Oh. Well, you don't need to go on a quest. I'm going to teach you how to use Trance. That's why this pagoda and I, and the portal, and now you, are the only things here.

[Saria] I ... see.

[Rubicant] Everyone's Trance works has three parts: Aura, Formation, and Eight Skills. Trance Aura is a glow of a specific color that surrounds you while you're in Trance, and your eyes glow the same color. Trance Formation is a temporary metamorphosis that indicates what new skills you can use. (Your clothing doesn't metamorphose.) The Eight Skills are the new abilities you have. In most cases Trance is activated by a tremendous surge of emotion.

[Link] Say, that's kinda like YK's Limit Breaks, only without the aura and the transformation.

[Rubicant] I don't know who this ... YK is, but you seem to comprehend.

[Rodrigo] How do we know what the Eight Skills are?

[Rubicant] Once you learn the first Trance Skill, you must /will/ yourself to use one of them, and you will find yourself saying the first thing that comes to mind. You start with only one, and as you gain experience, you will learn the other seven.


Make a list of your Trance Skills, what level they're at (1-8), and what each one does. Don't them here; you only need, at the moment, to know the first one. And in fact, George should only know the first one.


[Rubicant] Would you like to try out your first Trance Skills?

[George] Ok. How do I begin? An emotional charge right?*George concentrates on the emotion LOVE and his girlfriend Erin*

[Link] I'm for it, too.

[Saria] Me too.

[Rodrigo] Ditto.

[Rubicant] All right. Er, "love" per se doesn't quite work. It needs to be a /surge/ of emotion. Anger seems to work best. When you first learn Trance, you automatically enter Trance.

[Rubicant enters Trance Mode. His Aura is golden; his Formation is that his thin hair glows and his muscles become huge.]

[Link, to his surprise and mild alarm, enters Trance Mode. His Aura is the same shade of blue as that of the Triforce of Courage; his transformation is that his hair becomes silver and his eyes become fierce.]

[Saria enters Trance Mode. Her aura is forest green; her Formation is that she looks somewhat older, but she stays the same height. Oh, by the way, when we entered the Trance Zone, we went back to normal from Fierce Deity mode.]

[Rodrigo enters Trance Mode. His aura is firey red; his Formation is back into the feathered dragon.]

[George enters Trance mode. He can come up with his own Aura and Formation.]

*George is now glowing white and wearing a tuxedo*

It doesn't affect your clothes, you noron!!

[George glows white and his nose grows really long and little wings sprout from his ankles]

[That works...]

[Trance Rubicant] All right. Let us begin!

[The pagoda disappears and is replaced by a platform. Everyone starts hovering]

[Trance Rubicant] Try out your First Trance Skills!

[Link] Um ... Spinning Blade!

[Link jumps at Trance Rubicant and spins in place, his sword extended.]

[Saria] Petal Blossum!

[Saria raises her arms, and a green glow surrounds the Good Guys, making them feel stronger.]

[Rodrigo] Cry of Courage!

[Rodrigo spreads his wings and revives any fallen allies (there are none) while blasting fire at Rubicant]

[George] Ice Storm! *George raises his hands and a gush of chipped ice flows out like and artificial snow machine.

[Trance Rubicant] Torrent of Souls! [A huge amount of Dark-elemental energy hits all the Good Guys.] [Then everything goes back to normal: everyone reverts to their normal forms and they stop hovering and the platform reverts to the pagoda.] [Rubicant] Well, there you go. I'm sending you to the last place it was possible for you to be. [He claps his hands and they fall through the portal. The Vanda sphere seems to have moved: they find themselves in empty space; they hurtle through hyperspace to the World of H2G2, whereupon they sort of snap into existence in the mid-atmosphere. They plummet and then splash into the Rat-Ant pond, right near the Krymla Leader] http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F26140?thread=121331&latest=1