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

*Lerc (Little Evil Red Cloud) zips through the lightsabre type device in a way that only a gas could*

Lerc: Beee Brwap Beee!

Trilly: *sigh* Lerc... you're a cloud

Lerc: *sullen brwee of realisation, followed by humming of though* hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Okay, Trilly. Post number 385 gives a precis of the story so far, starting from the landing on zork. The main purpose of the mission was to bring a treaty to zork for signing by the Queen and the Dungeon Master. Post 385 gives you most of the recent story. A quick recap from there is found in post 441. That brings you almost up to date. Since then, we have gotten the DM's signature, the bad guys have sabotaged the transmogrifier on the Mangar (our ship) and left the killerbot, Montressor, hidden near it. The good guys have walked here from the DM's office only to encounter various obstacles that prevent us from exiting this room.


Okay, how's this for a plan. Lintilla? Do you still have that box of Yak treats? If so, we could get Lerc to carry a few to the other side of the doorway and unwrap them there. Once the Yaks smell them, they should stampede through the door way. The first one through might get, um, butchered a little (*thinks of bar-be-que*), but his momentum should carry him into the handles of the light sabres, knocking them out of the way.

Whadda ya think?

[Thanks, GL! I spent a few minutes trying to come up with an obstacle I could see no immediate answer to... As established in Star Wars IV, the power source for a lightsabre lasts at least a lifetime... ]

Don't forget to come up with a logical answer for the continuity question of how they got here in the first place

This is Zork - there are always obstacles. Actually, they are set up by the Dungeon Master, for his own amusement. He DID say that there would be obstacles on this shortcut.

Hmmm. I don't think even the Yaks would be dumb enough to walk into that voluntarily...

What else do we have?


Inventory

You are carrying:
No tea
A "Frankie Says XYZZY" Tee shirt (Extra Large)(Worn)
A pair of lemon-yellow Dr. Martin's boots (Worn)
Knitted Yak-hair battle shorts (Yellowing)(Worn)(Very Worn)
The battle shorts contain:
* You
* A small remote control (For an MP3 player, not present)
* Some used chewing-gum wrappers
* A minimal tool kit
* A blaster (Almost fully discharged)
* A yak clippers
* A spinning bobbin
* Three knitting needles
* A bad smell

[Mew transforms into a wisp of smoke, which floats through the propellers. He then transforms into a Mew again and uses Thunder to electrocute the living daylights out of the lightsabers, which don't seem to notice]

Hmmmm. Yes, they probably would balk at running through the light sabres.

*thinks*

How about if we string up one of the invisibility cloaks to hide the light sabres, but leaving a space underneath. Then we throw some yak treats under the cloak and beyond the sabres. The yaks then wouldn't see the sabres, but they would see the treats. We don't have any string, but perhaps Peet could knit us some, using yak hair clipped from a yak.

A thought... YK, is there anything but... light... coming out of a light sabre?

]Returning from the daze she has been in for the lastr few days]
Oh what? huh?
Yak treats?
no i cant find them, seem to remember dropping them on those stupid stairs that came to life and scared you to death for no obvious reason(still havent figured out the usefulness of them- still w waste of an otherwise perfectly good staircase i think). as for string- the corner of my towel is unraveling and the stingy stuff its made of is everywhere so we could use that.
[sits idly pulling at a strng on the corner of her towel and hovering on the verge of tears as she watches her wonderful posession unraveling.] Cheap towel- oh well got quitea few good years from 'er.

[YK] Hmm ... lightsabers and cortosis rocks.

[YK uses the Force to get a rock of cortosis ore in the way of the lightsabers, which promptly go out]

[YK] Am I good, or what??

[The lightsabers promptly go on]

[YC] You're what.

Again, I ask... Is there anything but light coming from a Light Sabre?

I meant, how did Trilly and Lerc get here. Or are they part of the DM's obsticle course, too?

[They Apparated.]

[YK] [to Peet] Yes. A lightsaber blade is a veritable lightning bolt: plasma, pure energy, that humming noise, etc.

}Trilly teleported!{

Bummer. If it had just been light (however specialised) I would have reminded everybody that light passes through us unobstructed when we're wearing the invisibility cloaks...

*Just for kicks, Irving throws a bit of the green goo which he still thinks must be good for something at the light-sabers. One blade flickers, and goes out*

It will probably come right back on...

*It doesn't*

Hey!

[YK] Try the other one!

[The other blade stops, and another clone of YK -- this one with white hair -- enters, holding the lightsaber]

[YQ] Hi. Y2K has three more clones on his side. Just thought you'd like to know before I joined you.

*Irving is confused with all these clones, but he is quite pleased that he's gotten his goo to come in handy*