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

Mountain? What mountain........

..... Oh! .... THAT mountain.....

Well... we could just ingnore them like always...

*continues to punt up the river...*

Takes, fish out of the river, licks it, and puts it back in.

How can you ignore a mountain?
Especially when it's about to kill us all?

I'm going to call the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

*Wonders how he got from being on the punt, to in the river...*

Hmmm....

*Goes off to check the balancer in the back...*

The same way you can ignore "buy one get one free" offers when your broke... There isn't anything to be done about it... so carry on as if nothing's happening! Besides that's what we British always do.

An ugly yellow ship arrives.
The ship releases its energy beams.
The mountain is gone.

Well, then.
So....

[Poxlu] {Oh, it does, does it?}


You ought to use [brackets] or *stars* or to indicate an action instead of something you're saying. {Odd brackets} like those, }or the other way round{, indicate telepathy.

What you have just said tells me that you don't pay attention to people's styles too much.
All you have to do is notice that all my speeches are grouped together and all the actions grouped together.
So then you just have to figure out if the first paragraph is the action or the speech.

Lazily swims backstroke down the river.

[Ketsar] }Well, I know someone ...{

[Poxlu] {...called YK ...}

[Ketsar] }... who, when he isn't dealing with his half-dozen or so characters, uses breaks to indicate new paragraphs.{

[Poxlu] {He's a Jedi Master and a Pokémon Knight. Or have I got it reversed?}

[Ketsar] }Maybe.{

Well then if you're so obstinate, I'll just have to...
...do nothing.
I think the tags, the parentheses, stars curly brackets to be too confusing to keep track of.
In fact, I think I'll start the Researchers Against Curly Brackets Assosication (RACBA?)

Gets out of the river and stretches.

Ahh the sun feels good.
Is it always like that here?
Is there ever any bad weather?

[Ketsar] }Dunno.{

[Poxlu] {It's nice now.}

[Narrator] A thunderstorm is headed toward them, twenty-three miles away, and moving at a rate of thirty miles per hour. So in about an hour, "forum" time, Poxlu's statement will cease to be true and Intermutt's questions will be answered with a firm "No and yes respectively."

But that's ages away considering how slowly this forum moves, so we'll be safe.

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[Narrator] Good point.