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

I've got the Guild started with the "Welcome to the Guild" section, but it's a bit empty at the moment. Being a Nethack newbie really, and not having much creative spirit, I couldn't think off the top of my head what kinds of things we should say about the Guild. If anyone has any ideas, post 'em here.

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Maybe for the moment it should say "This shop appears to be deserted."? (You get that message if the shopkeeper has died)

How about this parody of the opening message? Bit of a plug for GuidePost too.

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It is written in the Guide to the Galaxy:

After the Coding, the cool spod Owl [U208060] rebelled against the authority of the RNG [Random Number God]. Owl downloaded from the RNG's web server the most powerful of all the tools of the spods, GuidePost [A667307], and hid it in the dark cavities of Gateway 2005, the Other World, where he now lurks, and bides his time.

Your spod Pete [U151654] seeks to use GuidePost, and with it to gain deserved respect among the other spods.

You, a newly trained Researcher, have been heralded from today as a fellow NetHacker with Pete. You are destined to download GuidePost for your computer, or become a [journalistic] hack in the attempt. Your hour of destiny has come. For the sake of your score: Go bravely and make a post with Pete and Owl in the forums below!

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It took me some time to write that

"Rebelled against the authority" ought to be something else, but I can't think what...

}:=8 Angril-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law, killed by the wrath of Pete

Hoho, I'll give that a few tweaks and put it up this afternoon sometime

Do you want adding to the entry's researcher list so you can make modifications too?

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I appear to have fixed the problem with the pre-formatted text in Goo by enclosing it inside an invisible table (I've just done something similar on my PS to stop text flowing into places it shouldn't, and got the idea there). Yay!

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A link to http://www.nethack.org/ wouldn't go amiss...

... oh yeah!

Done. Mind you, you could have done it yerself, you should have editing rights on that page.

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No I don't... all it says is "Remove My Name", not "Edit Entry". I think only the editor (in this case, you) can edit it. The other names are just credits.

Bah! That's a bit annoying... they should be able to give multiple people editing rights on a page... hmm. And, as a guru, I should have known that!

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