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

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*arrives, a bit out of breath*
Kiddo. Wake up. Come on.
Take the pills.
What's that about Alice? Sorry, don't understand. Wake up.
WAKE UP!
Good. Take the pills - the ones they gave us at the start.
Get the others to take the pills too.
Sorry. Gotta go.
*exit*

* The new day brings 2 more coconuts nestling on the shore line, with plenty of driftwood after the previous days fierce winds... *

*spots the bounty on the shore, and takes both nuts plus some wood*
Hmm. The early worm gets the nuts?
I see the others have taken their pills, and gone back to sleep. Oh well, back to base.

*Kiddo trots down the beach with some cargo netting. He stops and looks around the shore. Where's a good place to fish if you don't have a boat?*

*Kiddo walks out into the water with the netting. He spreads the netting out in the water in front of him. No, that's not right. Why hadn't he ever taken fishing lessons?*

*He tries to find a place where many fish swim by.*

Kiddo: I'll stay out here all day if I have to! Come on you stupid fish! I wish they were stupid fish, so they'd come straight into the net.

*Two hours later Kiddo grows tired of fishing. His feet are all pruned up and his leg hurts from a jelly fish sting*

Kiddo: This stinks! Maybe I should move to plan B.

*Kiddo trots back to the Cragi base*

*flutter of wings
Galaxy Babe drops a tube of jelly-fish-sting-ointment at Kiddo's feet.

Kiddo: Ah, thank Galaxy Babe.

Are you still traumatised following the stinging experience?

Kiddo: Uh... no. I think I've been stung by a felly fish before. It hurts a bit but it wouldn't traumatise me.

Lucky Galaxy Babe's around- there's only one other cure I know for jeelyfish stings
*pauses*
Does anyone else think that this place is timezone-biased? Everyone else seems to find things before me...
Then again, that could be co-incidence. If I believed in that...

So, yet another lucky escape? (I demand drama, or, at the least, gross exageration)

Kiddo: I don't know what to think of this place. I've found that a few of us are in two places at once. How do you explain that?

I'm actually 3 different people

Kiddo: Oh. Well I try best I can to not be in more than one place at a time. So now I am going to the waterfall. Bye now.

*grins*
Heads off after him.
*realises she is already there, and decides not to bother*

Yes Tweetie, I know I could have peed on Kiddo to ease the stings, but I thought that was over & above the call of Marshall duties... and I don't want to get into any more trouble with M.K*......That's why I gave Kiddo the ointment.

Kiddo: And I'm surtainly glad you didn't pee on me

* The Plan A fishing idea was a worthy one in concept, unfortunately the large gaps in between the netting proclude catching anything less than 3 meter long fish... *

* However when you draw the netting a large spanner crab has been tangled in the line with enough meat to feed 4 famished souls... *