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

*turns from glaring out at the gathering storm and sees the deck deserted*

This is unnatural, a storm should not come on so fast...

*shivers in his saturated clothes and makes for the cabin*

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*The rain lashed deck is flooding with waves washing over the sides and clearing everything in their wake*


*Lilandra holds tightly to the guide ropes that the crew are using to move about the ship. She cannot see for the rain pouring into her eyes*

*appears on deck*

*pulling herself along the ropes, she is distracted when she sees someone come out of the hold*


What does he want now! </>


*misses her next handhold*


OOOh!!


*She slips on the wet decking as another heavy wave pounds the deck and drags her back towards the edge... and overboard*

*looks up at the shout and see's the elf fallin oever board*


Damn that Woman!!!!


*runs across the deck and dives in after her*

*She sinks deeper and deeper.. the water is so cold that she can't feel her limbs. Up? Down?... she cannot make out where she is!... Sleep is claiming her, warming her...sleep....*

*sees her in the water, swims across to her, lifts her mouth out of the water and starts swimming towards the shore*

*Lilandra feels strong hands grabbing at her as sleep was making its claim of her*

*he reaches the shore and drags her clear of the water*




*he slaps her face*


Hey!!!! Hey!!!!!

*He is calling her... T'lbarath is calling her!*


cough cough cough

*turns her on to her side and slaps her back*

cough .. cough... cough.. eerrghh. ..leave me alone... let me die!

*Shairi runs to the deck, too late. She is nearly swept overboard herself, but manages to hold on. She screams, but it's barely audible through the gale.*

CAL!

*Stops Jack before he reaches the cabin.*

They're overboard! We have to go for them! They swam for the island, we can make it now!

*Wandars up onto the deck, ignoring the weather as the weather ignores him and walks over to Shairi looking kind of smug*

So, what are we going to do now? shall we head after them in an heroic, but foolhardy, attempt to rescue them, or shall we just stay here and see what happens, /or/ would you like to look behind door number 3?

*Looks at him, her face streaked with rain and tears.*

You can do something?

well, not directly. As I said, there's a little old lady with some very sharp knitting needles who wouldn't like it... However, while I'm not allowed to interfere with the weather there's nothing to stop me interfereing with the ship

**

*touches the gunwhale and a sickly purple-ey black aura covers the ship and those on the deck, at which point the ship and weather start to ignore one another*

*Shivers, between the wet and the cold of the black aura.*

G-g-get us to sh-shore!

and how would you like me to do that when the wind won't fill the sails?

*Hangs her head, at a loss. She glances at the water, wondering if she should take a swim...*