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

Hey, William! Have a !

It's rough but what a tan I'm getting!

Good going, Chrome! I'll go back to the hillside and see if the lean-to is still up.

*To kiddo
I might be talking to you, I'm never sure.
Thanx for the fish

*Chrome looks on in astonishment as a strange, large spider type creature clambers over from behind the rock..... *

*Sees spider
OK, I'm off

* As the nightfalls the winds seem to double their efforts in strength. The hardy survivors huddle within their shelter without the aid of fire or much warmth. It is virtually impossible to keep the fires lit outside and so the only food on offer is stone cold... *

* It's the first day many start to consider whether such a trial was worth a chance at 1 million dollars... *

* After a night of sporatic sleep they emerge to find trees shorn of leaves leaving enough material to replace the thatching that has disappeared from the shelter... *

*returning to the camp weighed down with shark steaks, ox looks around and decides to stoke the fire and lay a bed of soaked palm leaves on the fire to steam the fish. From over the rocks FC's spider creature looms tall and hungry*

Not THIS ox, sucker!

*fortunatly the spider was large and clumsy and ox could dart between the legs at the head and thorax area and thrust the trusty spear into the head from underneath, avoiding the powerful jaws and poison-secreting glands*

*whew puff sweat pant* Now to steam the !

*Returns
Back again!

William!
*ox returns from foraging the tender hearts from the scrub palms for salad*

Have yet some more !

Kiddo: Man Ox. Where have you learned to survive like this. You're such a great fisher, and hunter, and the way you handled that spider!

Hey, is Cheezdanish still here or what?

Kiddo! I haven't seen Cheez around the island in a while, though I finally caught up with eatsmice just a little bit ago. I wonder what else we're going to run up against today?

Kiddo: I don't know, but I have plans. Do you know of any way I can make a sling-shot?

Hmmm...not without that lady and her bra...HEY!! Shepherd style sling! All you need is about a meter and a half of cloth *shirt* or net *strip from tent* with a knot at one end. Cradle a smooth stone in it, and sling it. Takes some practice, but it works...

*drops by for a quick spot of lunch*
Hiya Kiddo, you might want to try using some strips of sharkskin for that slingshot
tears off a piece of sharkmeat, settles down on a fallen log and munches contentedly*
Its been a busy day so far, our cabin is coming along well. You guys over here ought to be starting the same thing.

Kiddo: Good idea. er.... I guess I'll use my shirt.
*Pulls on shirt, trying to rip it. Pulls on the seam to his sleeve.*
RR!
*yank*
oof!
*Pull*
Arg!
*jurk*
eeeee!
*rip*
HA!

Kiddo:GREAT! now you tell me! after I ripped my shirt

*amazed at delay of posting*
I'd sew that sleeve back on again if I were you, there isn't a clothes store on this island

Kiddo, ox, would stay and enjoy the banter (and ripping sounds) but there's a cabin to be built.
*heads off towards the Yapong base, a determined look on face*

Kiddo: Do you think there might be wild pig on this island? I was going to use the sling-shot for birds and things and my spear for pigs.

Well, by count, I have no idea how many camp sites there are in varying degrees of completion, and the thread would take forever to read! You can have my shirt, Kiddo.

Lets eat! *snarf*