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

[YQ] Er, not as such, no.

*tapping foot impatiently*


Lil will be out of town till Friday.

And Affy's AWOL.

Sorry, I was on a trip from Friday to late Sunday night, and Monday afternoons I don't get home until late at night, then add in the homework factor, and the fact that finals were put off until a few hours from now, this is the first time that I've literally had time to make a post in days.

Oh, and Lil, sorry about that continuity breaking on my part, I forgot about your hand. So that never happened, but KL is still in the elevator with the goldfish.

And YK's right. KL isn't a lizard.

Right, now, this forum's plot is at a standstill w/o you, and so is the Magick Forest one. Could you post something to further the plot, please? Even in only one of them?

THIS plot is certainly not at a standstill due to just Affy. We are also waiting for YQ to solve the puzzle. How do you put 9 doughnut-things in 4 bag-things so that each bag contains an odd number of doughnut-things. If YQ can't solve it, perhaps he could radio to some of the other people here for help.

[YQ considers this, blinks, and bursts out laughing]

[YQ] Of course! Don't put ANY of them in! Zero is an even number!

You're supposed to put in an *odd* number. And I'd love to do something, but I need the device that Lil's got. BTW, since when is Q all powerful? I don't htink you *really* mean that one.


*Affy has been diligently attempting to understand the innards of the machine, and has come to this conclusion: it is pretty much a radio without a dial, and the only way to tune it to a channel is with a preset data-port. Apparently, the makers of this type of radio existed in a time when you not only needed to by the radio, but the stations as well*

D'OH! That post didn't happen.


[YQ] I know! Put one in each!

Right then. I suppose I'd better see about getting to this city place then. With my unerring sence of direction, it should be no problem.
*climbs out of ship and sets off in a seemingly arbitral direction*

[Q appears next to UH]

[Q] Yo! Mortal. [points at a group of spires clearly visible from the ship] That way.

[goes back to wherever the hell he was before]

And, just for the record, the ships are already within the spires. Remember, we used Elvis' ship to get to the city, and the Mini-UFO, Millenium Bug, and Althian UFO are all in the cargo area of Grace. So, UH, just enter the big building that our foot prints lead into.


*Minos Krylma casually waits for someone to enter the elevator so that he can ascend to whatever floor Affy's on. Preferably with Lil's device aboard, somehow.

Affy, meanwhile, was attempting to use his watch to instantly set the big radio, but the manufacturers obviously expected this kind of behavior, so after a few painful shocks, along with Affy's teeth chattering static a bit, nothing happens*

[YK] Here. Let me try. [in Standard Galactic subtitled] Could you please work for us?

[Radio] [in Standard Galactic subtitled] No.

[YK] D'OH!

YQ, you have to put ALL 9 doughnut-things in the 4 bag-things, with each bag containing an odd number. You're pretty smart, YQ. I'm sure you can figure it out. If you give up, radio to the others for help.

*GL considers answering it himself, but perversely decides that someone else has to answer it.*


I had planned for the wall to present a few more puzzles, but not if nobody enjoys them. Hey Affy - you like puzzles, don't you?

[YQ takes one of the bags. He puts it in another. He puts the second one in the third bag, leaving the first bag in the second one. He puts the third bag in the fourth bag, leaving the second in -- you get the idea. He puts the donut-things in the first bag, leaving it in all the others]

[YQ] Ta-daaa! Or alternately, D'OH!

*shrugs as Q disappears*
OK. I was going the other way, but this is cool.

That's it, YQ, you did it! Congratulations!

*GL takes the results from YQ and puts it in the slot. The slot closes and a few minutes later a message fades onto the wall. Translated from Standard Galactic, it reads: "Correct. Stand by for next question." The message fades from the wall and another message comes up. GL translates:

A neeble weights a fung and half a neeble. How many fungs does two neebles weigh?*

Go for it, YQ.

[YQ] [looking very confused] Er, a neeble and a half? No, wait --

I think I know the answer, but won't say anything unless everyone else wants to give up.



*Affy attempts to find a radio station on his own watch, but the watch apparently can't handle frequencies that high, which is impressive for the radio setting on his watch. All he picks up is a distant kind of staticky message about something called the OmegaMatic detonating in a far away Galaxy, several bad alien sitcoms, and an extremely bad station that does nothing but play the notes C, E, D, B, and G over and over. None of this is important in this specific conversation, but it's worth mentioning to any superheroes/villains, people from the Mangar's mission, and anybody who wants to tag along in an upcoming space adventure. Okay, I'll admit that this plot is nothing more than a shameless promo for an upcoming space adventure on h2g2 called "Goodbye Galaxy", which will definitely feature the crew of the Mangar, plus some super heroes, and maybe even some of the original Esirpretne cast (if we're lucky), but isn't it worth preparing everyone for the saga of the Omegamatic, Minos Krylma's plot to hold the Galaxy hostage, and a strange new computer (possibly called HAM 9000, or some other name) who may or may not be sending the new and improved Mangar on missions to totally random user pages while we wait for Lil to come back and for people to solve puzzles? Okay, maybe not, but I did it anyway, it's in the past, we'll forget about it, and we'll just return to our regularly scheduled program*

Great. What page do we go to?


[YQ] I'm totally stumped. But I /do/ support CHOPPERS. I've even got a Machamp named Choppers ...