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

B4iforgetwherethisisat

If you want to read the story in the correct order, it is listed (and linked) on my page. The order is:

The Cast

The Stage up to #144
Row Row Lake
Pecos Jail
The Contrary Garden
Ho Ho Spire
The Crossroads
Gingerbread House
The Stage from #145

Thanks, Pansy, for laying out the sequence of the Pantomime's action. That's gonna be real helpful if I ever get off my duff and copy it to text for an enduring 'hard' copy. Speaking of which, how are the loafers fitting?

B4igetonmyrunningshoes

I look forward to reading it.
The loafers are as light as ever, thank you!

I'm here once again to work on the project I swore to myself I'd complete. The Holiday Panto stage production, played out in chronological order, interspersed with cut-scenes and fades to off-stage action. I'm starting with cut'n'paste of each individual dialog into a separate file for the area wherein the action transpired. Then I'll collate it all in order. There will be a few edits for brevity of space and the odd spelling corrections, but I'll leave everyone's postings intact, even if its just smileys to denote amusement.

It's a labor of love. Much as it was for Asteroid Lil, Amy the Ant, and Garius Lupus, who each had a hand in hosting, imaging, and developing the story. The Cast and the Audience also lent their talents to make it a truly memorable production, pushing some of the characters to the pinnacles of their perfromance careers. In summation, we all had a wonderful time and I'm simply trying to organize it for a linear presentation, for posterior's sake.

Wait. Strike that. I'm doing it for posterity's sake. Yeah.

B4youfolkswhowerenottheredecidetoembarkonamostmemorablejourneyinthesethreads

Okay, as of this date, I've copied over to file:
The Ticket Stall
The Lobby
TI Cyberspace
RowRow Lake
Makin' some headway!

B4isplitaseamwhilerereadingthedialog&actionsequences

The Contrary Garden thread was a bit difficult and took me longer than anticipated. Go figure. Anyway, that's transcribed now. On to HoHo Spire...

Stymied by our Refuel Outage and haven't had the time to keep weeding through the Panto posts. I did, however, chance upon an old tiny spiral-bound notebook I had carried with me at work, wherein I'd jotted some notes pertaining to the Panto. Amy, Lil, and Garius had devised the Total Immersion Headgear & Glove (TIH&G). With a little bit of brainstorming and some tinkering with spare circuit parts, I was able to develop a range of gadgets for the Audience. [I just never got around to marketing them at the Concession.]

1. Synaptic Image Generating Headset for Theaters
2. High-End Audio Replicator & Integrated Nuance Generator
3. Scent Manipulator & Enhancer for Leisure Living
4. Theater Analog Sensory Tongue Extrapolator
5. Tactile Outer-garment Used for Cinematic Handling

Granted, each one has a very specific field of application. Even though I enjoyed the challenge of cobbling them together, testing each one, and honing the final products, I feel the TIH&G was definitely the more versatile gadget for us to use in the Holiday Pantomime. If any of you would like to pick up the Beta versions of the above items for a song, just let me know. They've had only limited use over the last few years, and I doubt S@ny or Ph!11!ps would pick up the patents or registration on them. Like I said, perhaps too narrow a venue.

B4mytinkeringgetsmeelectrocuted

Eh - are those parts you've been tinkering with by any chance from gadgets made by Crater Labs, Inc.?

And you tested them yourself? Eh - are you sure you feel quite alright?

You didn't happen to see any orange buttons?

Of course, I feel just fine, Ti! No ill effects to speak of, after pressing that one button--did you say 'orange'? Hmm... I'm color-blind, so I don't know if it was that or red, but--like I said--no changes noticed.