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

Sorry I'm late. Drink. Lots

*raises fist in agreement with Witty with one hand and reaches for more punch with the other hand*

Passes some punch to ox nad wonders how they managed to fit onto the twister board like that...

*returns from life's necessities and wanders down on to the beach to see what's happening -- and stares in astonishment*

That's wonderful! I had no idea you all were as limber as that! Er, how many entities are playing? *sips punch*

Looney, you are but fashionable. When Odra shows up again we can have our first fireworks display...

Was that right foot red or left hand blue? Medicare covers hearing aids for concert damaged hearing doesn't it?

Mindspring! I didn't know Springie understood how to play twister. WM, Medicare will certainly pay for any muscle damage incurred while playing this game. And it was right foot red.

*Odra wanders along to the beach from staring numbly into what has become a very, very large fire*

Flames...pretty...

The phlog cocktail? Hmm. The name l'm having trouble with (which is an indication of just how good a drink it is!) but l remember the proportions...
Securibot whatsis? Several bottles of vodka please. No, no, not Stolachnya. Get me some Grey Goose if you have it, Sky9 if not.

*mixes liberal portions of both in a large glass*
There we go...now it's a party...

l'd add some blue dust but l'm scared l'd melt my medulla oblongata


lt's Twister as the order of the day, then? Or are we ready for some explosions? l'm saving the really big stuff for after the cake-cutting...but that bonfire has put me just in the mood...

*executes a graceful flip from into a back bend, tickles Springie with her right foot before placing it on a red circle*

*giggles as Springie squirms and nearly collapses*

*glances over at the twister board.*

Springie...hey! No fair eating the spinner!

*notices extreme difficulty in executing a sentence, decides to go take a nap*

See you all, later. Mindspring, I concede this game to you.

I'm watching the twister to make sure Springie doesn't accidentally nick anybody with those claws. She is incredibly elastic, but she keeps giggling.

I was thinking about having some phlog, but I have never mixed it with Powder Punch before. Oh look, Chesworth brought the salsa and chips down here.

You're right, we need to have the guest of honour here for the big display. I saw some of that stuff you were putting on the raft. You have evidently decided they didn't fire enough stuff off at the New Years' bashes. Combined. Well, the tide is almost up to where we can let you loose.

*giggles*
And they claimed that business at Sydney was the "world's largest fireworks display."...we'll just see about that...

l was thinking l'd keep off the powder and phlog combo till the fireworks were done -- but then again...

*mixes phlog, powder, vodka...and we'll call it...hmm. ln honour of upcoming explosive events -- it's a "Flashpoint".*

Meantime, l'm challenging you on the board, Springie. My spiky bracelets and your claws are a match, dear...

*Mindspring chitters and makes an odd clickity noise like knitting needles with her claws*

Chesworth, since you're still here, please buttle. I'll have a flashpoint without the vodka. We'll run an experiment and see how much our perceptions of the same event vary.

I can't remember exactly what the twister board looks like. If we could agree on a diagram, it would be neat to run the game like chess, by naming coordinates.

Lil: picture a floppy, picnic-blanket like board, with...is it eight dots? of each color. There's a row of red, row of blue, row of green, row of yellow. ln that order.
l think.

This doesn't explain why our board appears to be paisely, however...
Chesworth? Just pour the vodka that would've gone into Lil's drink into mine, please...

How many dots in a row? We need to be able to specify Red1, Green3 and so forth. So if the spinners say left hand, blue, the player responds "Blue3". And then the other player can't put a hand there. And the rest of us can visualise the contortions. This could work, you know.

If the dots will only stay still.

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lt's somewhere between eight and ten dots per row. l think. With four rows.

G o o o o o o
Y o o o o o o
B o o o o o o
R o o o o o o
. 1 2 3 4 5 6

*applauds vigorously*
lt's like full-on body-contact chess!

*seizes spinner*
Shall l spin the first colour, then?