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

[Protoman] I'll pass.

[Roll] I won't!

[Protoman] You're a robot. It'll mess with your system.

[Roll] Oh you're no fun anymore.

Cinnamon, you say?

*walks across on plank, climbs down into sub*

Okay, here we go.

*Follows Titania. Again*

*Calls back.*

LAST ONE IN, CLOSE THE HATCH!

[Protoman closes the hatch]

*Affy suddenly finds himself inside, thus still causing Protoman to be the last one in. Affy takes a sailor's hat off of a peg in the wall and wears it*

This thing won't go unless someone wears one of these. That's what we get for borrowing FrobozzCo's technology.

[Protoman] Then it might as well be you.

Right. That's why I'm wearing it.

/* Bangs on one of the windows and shouts something which no one can hear, since he's still outside of the sub. It looks like he is shouting something like "A pound of thatch." */

*Hears a banging noise and looks out of the porthole. Sees d'E.*

Hey, d'E says he needs of pound of thatch.

Why would he need that?

And why isn't he in the sub?

[Protoman] Let's open the hatch and let him in. [does so]

*Affy whistles, and puts some PAG into his mouth*

[Roll] Are we ready?

*Removes the PAG from his mouth, and puts it into the CLI Chewed-PAG-Container. "For those moments when you want to save Prolonged Absence Gum for a later time, CLI is where you should turn."*

It seems so. I'm not even sure why PAG was invented, though.

Well, it gives you something to do while you're gone.

*Flips switches, turns dials, pulls levers. The sub starts to come alive as motors begin to hum and pumps begin to clank.*

Say, Affy. Think it's time for the Kraken song?

*Ignores the blank look on Affy's face and breaks into song. (To the tune of Yo Ho Blow the man down).

We talk in a whisper and walk in our socks
No, No, Don't waken the Kraken

We're watchful of currents and careful of rocks
No, No, Don't waken the Kraken

We'll keep up the speed and follow our hunch
No, No, Don't waken the Kraken

For the Kraken is large and likes subs for his lunch
No, No, Don't waken the Kraken

* hums along *

Hmmm, subs for lunch. Sounds like a good idea.

[Protoman starts whistling "With Cat-Like Tread" from "The Pirates of Penzanse" or however you spell it. It is the loudest song in the whole play.]

*Continues looking ahead blankly*

Oh, yes. That Kraken song.


GL, we've got to use that in the show. Not sure how, but it needs to be there.

...Show?

Yup, show. CLI intends to get its own website at some point and present "shows". Basically, some host segments (with Affy and me), separating story segments (short stories written by various authors). Affy and I have the pilot episode done, another episode almost done and a few others in various stages of completion (including a musical - lol). Affy may be able to give the url for the pilot episode.


*Begins backing the sub out of its parking spot, going very slowly and frequently checking his rearview monitor.*

Gotta be careful. Put a big scratch down the port side last year and Affy nearly killed me.