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

Thanks mari-rae - for taking that load off my back

Right, cover my back while I step inside and try to find the galleys. I'm famished!

*stomps into the building and vanishes from sight*

*She takes the offered arm gratefully and tries to straighten her bent weapon!*

Is that singing I can hear?

shazz

*Dean Martin's stunt double saunters in*
doo bee doobee dooooooo sha doobeewah (ad nauseum)

Hi guys.
Great to see the BFGs are still alive and kickin'.
I need a or 7.
How are you all anyway? And what's the current scheme? I mean, there's always a scheme.

Scheme, schmeme! Wots one of them then?

*Hands Wowbagger a tray laden with seven pints of *

Don't drink them all at once young man!

Right! Are we honouring the proprietors of this establishment with out custom or what?

*Spies a large bouncer on the door who is eying them suspiciously*

He looks like a cleaner Mari-Rae!

~suddenly a familiar voice sounds through the already loudish conversation~

Right...Kheldar reporting for duty. Who's in charge of this lot at the moment? And why was I left behind a while ago? I was only sleeping...and I didn't even drink *that* much...

*Tries to remember whether it was Kheldar's drink that she accidentally spiked a while ago and attempts to look nonchalant*

Hi there Kheldar! Err...Have a beer!

*Swipes one of Linus' before he drinks them all and passes it to Kheldar*

Charge? No. There's no charge!

*Kheldar glares at Gwennie suspiciously*

Oh you mean WHO'S in charge!

I think it was Kuma but he got kidnapped and then he disappeared and then we disappeared down a drain and then...

*Gwennie carries on talking rapidly and Kheldar's eyes glaze over with boredom*

Dee doodle doodle dee dah...BURP!!

The great BFG reunion!
Now... if we could only find Kuma!

*Takes huge gulp of and gingerly enters the club*

shazz

Beer? Club? I see nothing has changed in our behaviour then

*Kes has found the bar, and is engaged in friendly conversation with the barperson*

No, no ... stop worrying about whether I have enough money to pay. It works like this ... You set up the drinks for all my friends, plus some for me ...and then I don't shoot you ...

*He produces a compact machine pistol and fiddles with it. The barperson mutters something to the effect of "That'll do nicely" ..... *

I see you brought your credit card then Kes

Hey Kheldar! I missed you!! You too Wowbagger!

As did we all!

*shazz approaches the band, which has stopped playing poor impressions of Dean Martin and started on a lively Latin American number*

Erm... anywhere to freshen up in here guys?
We seem to have picked up a few revolting smells in those rotten sewers and the ladies are all having a 'bad hair day'!

shazz

I'd like a new outfit as well as a nice wash and brush up.

Me too! I wonder if they have a shopping centre nearby...

I think I'll go and find out...

*Grabs her credit card (gun) and eagerly wanders off with the smell of a spending spree in her nostrils*



I'm off for a few days to look after my mum-in-law who is recovering from a hip replacement operation and am leaving my reluctant hubby in charge of the kids, house and animals.

*Shudders as she thinks of the chaos she'll be returning to and hopes her hubby doesn't break her (oops I mean "our") computer*

I'll see you all in a few days time hopefully.

Happy shopping, G ....

See you back at the bar when you're done!

3 s down, 4 to go.
mari-rae, kheldar, gwennie, pirate dude. I've missed you guys too.
*wipes teary face with his bowie knife*

... and Baldrick is back also!
This really IS a good reunion!

Gwen... have a good trip and bring us girls back something decent to wear... if you spot anything!

*Disappears into a small, inobstrusive door behind the stage*

Yeah! Showers!!!
You coming Mari-rae?
Being the good h2g2er's/BFG's we are, we ALL have our towels with us

shazz

Well..since this is a club...I might as well have a friendly talk with the DJ in the next room. Maybe I can persuade him to play with his records for a while. If not...well...I suppose I have to ask him friendly then
This music he's playing right now really isn't suitable for the happy occasion.

*the pirate returns from the galley with a in both hands - and the remains of a barbecued horse leg in the other - talking to a beautiful lady of the opposite sex, obviously someone from some chorus line*

Well, they shoot horses, don't they? So why not eat them as well? No BSE, no foot & mouth...

Oh, hi there, Kheldar! Good to see you! And Baldrick! And even Wowbagger! Hmmm, any chance for some and a cigar, Wowbagger?