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

*takes B by the hand and wanders towards the dancing*

*Puts some salad on her plate, and follows up with some game hen.*

I have to agree- the decor is wonderful, and so is the food! Well done!

*locates Ti's bottomless champagne bottle and refills her glass*

A toast to Amy for these wonderful lab coats that coordinate so nicely with new sandals. *forces everyone to look at her shoes another time*

Dr. Z, are physicians in England allowed to wear yellow sandals? *giggles from too much *

*returns to her seat after the dancing and, picking up her etui, begins rootling for the gifts she packed earlier*

*the gifts have apparently migrated to the bottom*

*she stacks things in front of her as she ferkles around -- a book of exemption vouchers, a collapsible helicopter, a large brass ring of keys, Volume III of The Baroque Cycle, an inflatable luminescent squid, numerous pens, a looseleaf notebook, some tubes of watercolor and a paintbrush with plastic cap, a small block of watercolor paper, a handful of moxons, her nanogun, an old army compass, and -- *

Ah! Here we are. Scandera, here's a device that will convert voice input to text files, and docks into both PCs and Macs. Don't push the orange button.

Z, I am giving you a chip. I had my healthstone recut and it seems that, like holograms, the power of the original resides in the bits. So I had one of these old-fashioned headlamps made up like all doctors used to wear, but it has a 1-carat healthstone set behind the bulb.

Congratulations to both of you!

*puts her possessions back in her etui, except for a couple of items which she keeps discreetly out of view*

*Does a very good impression of a wallflower.*

* walks over to Zomnker and, tipping head to one side, asks...

"Fancy a jig? It's a Highland Schottische"

You're gonna have to show me how to do this, Teuchter.

*Peeps into the room but doesn't like being in the presence of all the health-monitoring equipment as it is too lifelike... so decides not to stay, having first left a magnum or two of at the door for a bot to collect and dispense to the revellers*

*sits next to Lil and tries one of the red syringes*

I think this one should be called a Bloody Awful .

*Returns, decked out in her cap and gown.*

We had the ceremony today, and I didn't fall onstage!

*Decides to forgo the food for the moment, and works off some energy on the dance floor.*

I think that this one is a bismuth suspension with vodka.

*pokes her head in, sighs heavily, and walks out, muttering something that sounds like "next week, next week, next week" as she goes*

*Finishes her food and sneaks out, congratulating Z and Scan again on the way*

*arrives rather unfashionably late, dons some scrubs, and gets toasting with the *

*Takes some of the broccli and cheese soup and a couple of bits of bruschetta*

Have I missed something going on here?

*k rushes in looking a bit flustered*

I hope I didn't miss everything, is the food still hot?

I'll just go and check out the costumes to seee what is left

*k returns from the costume tables wearing different parts of several different costumes. On her head balances a mortar board, around her neck dangles a stethoscope over the top of a nurse's dress (with upside down watch - have *always* wanted one of these). The dress is sitting slightly oddly due to the scrubs underneath and these are skimming mismatched shoes, one of which is a battered-looking carpet slipper. The other can't easily be identified as it is covered by one of those plastic shoe bag thingies*

I couldn't decide, sorry

*passes by on her way to check the backlog in the current main Atelier thread*

*stops dead at the sight of the exhibition area*

*tries to fend off the waiterbots rushing to revive her*

OK, drop dead - no, no, wait, cancel that - I mean drop the word 'dead' in that sentence - I'm alive, I assure you, I'm alive!

*eyes the facilities and decorations*

You can get alcohol intravenously?

Congrats to Z and Scandrea, and with the studies Kat!

*helps herself to a plate with fresh veggies and dip*

*searchers for quite a while before she finds her charter saying 'TiO2'*

I guess the party is not quite finished yet then.

Takes a plain looking syringe down. that tastes just like saline.
*has a close look at the syringe and indeed it is saline solution. Looks round to see one of the waiterbots smirking*