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

*keeps to the left*

Am I getting-in-in warmer-er-er Munchers-ers-ers ? Hullo-o-o-o

Hang about, did I just hear something? Luuceersssss? Is thaaaat youuuu?
Hmmm, seems to be coming from this passage here, away from the large cavern. Certainly strikes me as a better idea than walking of a ledge in the open.
*Heads down a passageway in the general direction of AMCJ's voice*

*walks down a long dank dark passageway towards Munchers*

Hello old boy. What a frightful place-ace-ace.

Ah there you are. Any idea where here is? There is a big old cavern back that-a way but I've read Lord of the Rings far too recently to want to go that way.

[Zero has given up completely figuring out what /that's/ all about]

In theory, if we always turn right we should get back to the entrance, as I played the old Hampton Court Maze trick and only turned left. Do you have anywhere else you'd like to go instead?

[Zero sighs and decides to go and locate Lil.]

*Affy, meanwhile, has been standing frozen in place since post fifteen. He suddenly jerks to attention*

Oh man, not more ghosts! One even knew my name! They must've followed me from the burial grounds....


LOOK, I'M SORRY I TOOK THE RUBY! I GAVE IT BACK, DIDN'T I? BESIDES, I'M AN ADVENTURER! DESECRATING SACRED GROUNDS IS PART OF WHAT I DO? I DON'T THINK RATIONALLY! I MOVE ANIMALS OUT OF THERE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS TO SOLVE PUZZLES ELSEWHERE! I DIVERT LAVA FLOWS INTO UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TO CLEAR PATHWAYS WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THE REPURCUSSIONS IT MIGHT HAVE ELSEWHERE! I PULL DANGEROUS LOOKING LEVERS ON WALLS *BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE!* YOU MAY FIND THIS OFFENSIVE, BUT I'M SORRY, THAT'S HOW I AM! NOW PLEASE, STOP HAUNTING ME!


*The resulting echos from this sounds a great deal like a chorus of ghosts, wraiths and lichens all just about to run into Affy's present location, ready to rend him limb from limb. After checking his supply of holy water and finding it to be short, Affy jumps towards the above passage, it being the only one that the mysterious echos don't seem unbearably loud from*

*Munchkin stops abruptly, fairly sure he just heard a loud sigh, followed by some rant about lever pulling ghosts and percussion rubies, or something*

faint sounds of conversation, somewhat distorted by echoes, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F91200?thread=198231&latest=1

*having climbed down the ladder, follows footsteps*

CooooooooooeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


-Well that should have wakened the dead, I hope there are no bad things down here-


*keeping maglite on footseps with as occasional sweep of beam over the walls, gingerly walks along hte passage*

Ah, ummm, Lucers me old chum, can you tell where that noise is coming from. I'm sure there is conversation in that direction, but someone doing a Nanny impresion in the other.

Sounds very much like a Girly to me old boy. I did hear old Jello Wolf remarking over some rather tasty Bison steaks one night that there was some sort of church around here. Perhaps this leads to the Crypt ?

I'd certainly stay away from any Filly that shouts Cooooooo-eeeeee, what ?

I suggest we either head in the opposite direction or wait in the darkness and go BOO ! when she gets here. The old school pranks are absolutely the best eh !

*having had no response to her very good imitation of an aboriginal call (perhaps no one else read Lucy Walker books at the age of 13 under the bed cloths by torchlight after lights out in the dorm)
grits her teeth and firmly clutches the torch and follows the *

Don't be scared, just pretend its quite normal to walk through underground tunnels

Oh, I wouldn't go jumping out at people, not very sociable what. Although I am intrigued by this crypt business. Do you reckon it might be that way then?

Well old chap you've certainly changed your tune since the 3rd Form at the Harrumphian Prep School for wayward sons of the aristocracy. I remember when you made old Strangely-Brown hunt for the ....... well maybe that's a story for another day what !

Yes, the Jolly old crypt. I do rather believe that it might be very well be at the end of this passage at F91200?thread=198231&latest=1

Follow me.

*drudging on doggedly, torch in hand following the *

this is like some dark and eery cross country thing, I was always last in that too

*finally comes to the end of the passage, which appears to open out into a crypt*

*Turns round and heads back out of the crypt, towards the ladder*

I'm pretty sure its this way to the ladder

WooooOOOOOooooooo [Boo!]

WooooOOooOOOo! [Hey Zello, check out this etherial reverb]

WOOOOoooooOOOooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO! [WooooOOOOOoooOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo]