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

* In this little hideaway at the center of the Island of small delicate waterfall gives the only source of freshwater on the Island. A small statue of an ornate women sits by the stone rocks at the base of the waterfall. It gazes intently out of another place & time, apparently guarding such a coveted life-giving substance... *

*flutter of wings
*10 golden buckets appear by the waters' edge
"Just my little gift, for the Survivors"
*flutter of wings

* The big bad marshall comes along. Taking a shine to the precious metal nature of the buckets, he takes them... *

M.K*

* You notice an abandoned stone cutting implement here. Perhaps even a relic from a bygone age... *

*having reached the waterfall, ox pockets the stone cutting implement*

*flutter of wings
*scratches her head
*frowns
*flutters off to find M.K.

*Is happy to see blue water falling*

I'm not thristy - I just use Alabaster and don't see very much blue !

*strolls into the little clearing and stands gazing at the waterfall for a few moments*
Hey guys- I finally found base camp, so I decided to take a little stroll.
Man it's hot- who's up for a swim?
*doesn't wait for a reply and dives straight in, disappearing under the perfect water*
*surfaces after a few seconds*
C'mon- the water's wonderful

*d'Elaphant, gazing out of another place and time, looks at the statue, also gazing out of another place and time.*

Tsk, tsk. All these temporal windows left open. Must do terrible things to the continuity.

*Closes his own temporal window and suddenly winks out of this existence.*

*stops by, fills up his new water canteen, and leaves.*

*watches the newcomers arrive and leave again*
*shrugs and gazes at the waterfall, wondering if it would make a decent water slide...*

*arrives looking hot and sweaty from carting stones and chopping foliage*
Hey Tweetie!
*strips and leaps in to the pool*
Flippn' eck ....that's fresh

* As eatsmice hits the water a sudden sharp pain dulls the senses... *

* Their appears to be something that looks like a tailwing of a WWII fighter plane lodged deep in the rocks... *

* Luckily eatmice is merely dazed and not hurt... *

.

Hi Eatsmice. Hello? Hello?
Well, he's breathing.
*pulls E clear of water, applies a soggy stamp hinge or two to E's cut forehead. Drinks water. Wishes had a pen. Pulls stamp hinge off cut - a fresh supply of writing fluid! Tears page from stamp album, inscribes in fingery scarlet "Go to camp - food". Removes boots, fills boots with water, returns to camp with sore feet, thinking:*
I wonder what he cut his head on?

* something shimmers below the waterline... *

* A couple of yabbies scuttle along the edge of the pool... *

*Kiddo comes through the woods to the waterfall*

Hey! Water! Ew. I don't want to drink water people are stripping in and cutting themselve on things.

* something in the back of kiddo's mind says '...but, there's plenty of water encircling the Island anyway... *