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

*Frowns in concentration and presses the red, the bacl the blue the red the red and the black button. Sits back and confidently waits.

And waits.

And waits.

Then coppies exactly what Affy did.*

Oh dear, I know this is going to be bad.

*puts on the VR gear and presses the button*

*Presses the buttons*

I've got a baaaad feelin' aboot this.

*obediently presses buttons*

*feels all squiffy, then puts the VR gear back on*

*puts VR gear on Ripley and Tracer, in case they want to come along*

I hope you two can remember the sequence of buttons!

*presses the buttons*

*Is colour blind, but tries a sequence of buttons anyway, and hope it works.*

*Seeing that Tracer has managed the VR gear, Witty waits to see if Ripley needs a hand... literally.*

[Yar, with the Force guiding him, inputs the right sequence of buttons.]

Ah, but don't need to remember the button order for that puzzle. You're a telepath at the time.

Dang, missed the new LED. Sorry.

*chews gum inside VR gear*

*fiddles with buttons impatiently*

*improbably selects the correct sequence*

[Robo-Ky watches this. He then amuses himself by doing a Silly Walk.]

*Penny sits in a VR chair, dons the equipment, and uses her temporal manipulation to better remember the proper button sequence for activating her headset*

*tries to decided on what to do next*

*suddenly starts giggling at the thought of a virtual unau leaving his own familiar world to enter a virtual world*

*sees that everyone's bodies are still here*

*never did find virtual food as tasty at the one at the Atelier*

*decides to nap instead*

[Robo-Ky lets off steam. Then a second Robo-Ky arrives, dressed in red, and doing a silly walk.]

[Robo-Ky Mk. II] GOOD_MORNING. I'M_SORRY_TO_HAVE_KEPT_YOU_WAITING, BUT_MY_WALK_HAS_BECOME_RATHER_SILLIER_RECENTLY, AND_SO_IT_TAKES_ME_RATHER_LONGER_TO_GET_TO_WORK. [lets off steam and sits back, a chair forming underneath him] NOW_THEN, WHAT_WAS_IT_AGAIN?

[First Robo-Ky] WELL_SIR, I_HAVE_A_SILLY_WALK, AND_I'D_LIKE_TO_OBTAIN_A GOVERNMENT_GRANT_TO_HELP_ME_DEVELOP_IT.

*GL enters the Dome, still wearing his apron and still carrying his feather duster and mop. He notes the seated crowd, snoozing unau and silly-walking robot. He quickly dons some VR gear, standing with his back to one of the walls. He peeks out from beneath his helmet to make sure no one is watching, then kicks a small plaque on the wall near the floor with his heel. The plaque reads "xyzzy". His VR gear hums into action.*

A hollow voice replies, "Fool."

*While dithering over how to fit out Ripley with the VR gear, Witty fails to notice the unau has fallen asleep. GL's entrance triggers her attention and she finally notices the .

She sighs, sits down, gets the gear on and punches in the code.*

[Robo-Ky Mk. II] IT'S_NOT_PARTICULARLY_SILLY, IS_IT? I_MEAN, THE_RIGHT_LEG_ISN'T_SILLY_AT_ALL, AND_THE_LEFT_LEG_MERELY_DOES_A_FORWARD AERIAL_HALF_TURN_EVERY_ALTERNATE_STEP. WITH_STEAM_COMING_OUT_OF_YOUR_EARS.

[First Robo-Ky] YES, BUT_I_THINK_THAT_WITH_GOVERNMENT_BACKING, I_COULD_MAKE_IT_VERY_SILLY.

*From inside his helmet, Affy can be seen frowning as the floating box begins shaking violently. The box explodes outwards, enveloping everything and everyone within the Temporal Quantification Dome, engulfing all the VR questers in an eternal night for a few moments....then everything resets. Everyone is standing in the TQD without sitting in the VR equipment. Just as this begins, a concerned looking Affy emerges from the entrance, sits at his VR console without noticing anyone, and goes to work again*