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

Can we allow the cement truck still to have been in midair when Yar posted? I was in the middle of composing my own contribution and didn't see his*

Actually, KL mentioned getting hit by the cement truck at the end of his own post.

Oh dear, are we going to have to get out the Continuity Bleach?

Post 2118 (affi): "*The Whirling Dervish of Cresh, deciding that it's damaged the pool system enough even though the cement didn't get into it, throws the cement truck aside (towards the stands),...." And then he dodges a Very Large Fireball. So when I wrote my post, the cement truck was on its way toward the stands.

Yes, but the end was:

"KL-This will...take some time to repair. At least I got out of that without*Cement Truck!*"

I took that to mean that this was, in fact, the cement truck hitting him.

I guess we should let Affi decide. And then apply Continuity Bleach as required.

Works for me!

*inter's mecha, which had collided with Ray's mecha the moment it exploded, flies through the air and lands in a corner in several peices. on a cracked screen in the cockpit the words "EMERGENCY REPAIR PROTOCOLS INITIATED, ALL OTHER FUNCTIONS DISABLED" appear. Inter climbs out of the wreckage to see that it is glowing and crakling*

this could take some time... could i ask everyone not to kill me until my mecha repairs?

*Sol is wet and cross and unable to get out of her mecha as it has landed on its door and seems disinclined to get up. She kicks some levers petulantly, before wrenching one out and using it so smash open a window. Which she crawls through, swearing, and followed by a swarm of skulls all spitting green fire. They come in handy when the first thing she sees as soon as she pops her head out is a fireball careering towards her. The skulls fly haphazardly towards it and eat it. They are now belching great gobs of green fire and zoom off randomly around the arena.*

*Get's knocked to the ground by a swarm of locusts*

*testing testing*

oh great, apparently people might now find my smiley offensive I HATE THIS NEW SITE!!! (and all other smileys it would seem)

This is why I'm sticking with Classic until it dies (except when I want to test things). Accurséd wordfilters. Heck and unhappiness to the Scunthorpe Problem!

*while waiting for Affi, the vendor gently jets about 100 feet clockwise of where the cement truck will land and occupies herself with using whistle commands to drill the locust swarm*

*As they hear various commands, the locusts form the basic platonic shapes in succession, then form the sentence SAVE THE APOSTROPHES!*

yeah, i know i'll be avoiding the new site at all costs! it doesn't even tell you if there are any new posts on your conversations! or how many!

The Cement Truck did, in fact, hit the Krylma Leader. Or, rather, it hit the section of the stalls that he was at.


*A drumming from inside the barrel of the cement truck, wedged as it is between two rows of seats, can be heard. Then the Krylma Leader speaks from within the truck, muffled obviously*

KL-R thk eev pst th vree de bchmk. Gt m Ow!

*stands next to his smashed mecha, bits of it have started rattling along towards eachother and fusing together*

what's going on over there?

*belatedly realizes that the cement truck is no longer in the air and that she is in danger of losing a potential customer*

*whistles again and the swarm of locusts augers into the hatch at the back of the truck, causing it to spring open*

*the vendor whistles again and the locusts home in on the porthole in the box, looking somewhat ragged from the exertion, and settle back into their compartment*

*floating down to the back of the truck* I expect you'll be needing some refreshment, eh?

*the last peice of inter's mecha fixes into place with a hiss of melting metal, inter stands back and gazes at the repaired mecha, the peices were NOT put back in their original order, the mecha now more closely resembling a turtle with a laser on its back than a rook*

meh! as long as it kicks ass, there'll be no complaints from me

*climbs into the cockpit, the "mechatama" starts galloping around, firing laser beams everywhere*

[Ray groans, weakly sitting up.]

[Ray] Ugh ... it *keeps happening* ... why the do I even HAVE that super-mode ...

[He gives up and flops back down again.]

[FZZZZT]

[Cut to an H2G2 news report. John de Lancie (you know it's him and not Q because it is captioned "JOHN DE LANCIE (portrays fictional version of Q)") is being interviewed. A gigantic pie-tin is in the background, along with brownish-orange goop splattered around it.]

[John de Lancie] -- was out jogging, and I heard a strange sound in an alleyway, and the next thing I knew, boom, I was buried under pumpkin pie.

[Interviewer] Could you describe the sound for --

[FZZZZT]

[We now return to your regularly scheduled shenanigans.]