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

*applaudes*

Rasputin The Mad Monk - Genius!

oh and just to apologise for not responding to you postings for over a week. I thought they were really good. i was just utterly stuck where to take the story next. - and i didn't want to ruin you new character by posting something innapropriate. But it's all sorted now.

Clive

thanks for being so thoughtful. hope i havent messed up any closely held plans you had for annabel...

Not at all
The image of her sat at a terminal in some sort of crypt beneath Stone Henge freed up the scary lack of ideas I was having.

Clive

I just want to be free to play with Rasputin. He's a fun character. I have a feeling he'll win the election due to some confusion over the new butterfly ballots - but keep it under your hat.

If you haven't seen the Alan Rickman film, you really should. This guy was even more crazed in real life. He thought that the best way to reach God was through a state of 'holy passionlessness', which he achieved by having massive three-day orgies.

well that was the thing. I didn't dare take Rasputin and do something that was at odds with some higher plan you might have in mind.

Just as a brief aside - do I have your permission, when if at some later date I deside to update the current guide entry with the more recent contributions in the forum, to edit the time-line a bit? Because, and I pay attention to these things, (it's a lonely life but someones gotta do it! )

Prior to Rasputin's resurrection we were in London just after the rock concert which was being monitored by Richter. When Rasputin goes to the flat of his killer's decendent it starts "three days later.." and just now Rasputin was waiting to board the plane to England..suddenly he's now already there, giving the press briefing. Those kind of leap in the narrative make cohesion a bit hard (not that this thing any makes much in the way of sense!) - could I perhaps, at the approriate time, request some *extra scenes* to insert in these places so that the sections match up a bit better?

It's just an idea and I'm not in any hurry to be doing this any time soon, just something to bear in mind, really.

Oh an I sympathise entirely with your desire to preserve some control over your character - I've got things in Mind for Arthur and X. I don't want to introduce them yet..I'm sort of waiting for an apropriate moment....but at the same time I don't want to do it without someone leaping on board and taking it away from what i had intended. It sounds almost selfish, I know, but one does sort of guard *your own* characters quite jealously.

Clive

P.S I'll give you a hint:





The dying pilchard bleeds under the turquiose moon...

I have a feeling I shouldn't mess around with that phrase, should I? Where exactly would you like the extra scenes to fit in? After the break-out from prison? I fully sympathise with your striving towards narrative continuity - sorry if I left things a bit messy. I remember reading one part of the last Storytime where you had several posters all pulling at cross purposes. It must get tricky sorting it all out.
I hadn't originally intended Rasputin to be heading for England, or the airport. I was leaving it open so that I could decide later what to do with him. The problem with the whole Richter connection could probably be solved by shoving the first scene with him back somewhere towards the start.
By the way, are the exploding clowns still around? Only I have this idea for a scene in La Scala...

The Narrative Continuity Generator sequence was the invention of a guy called Hoversnail...he wrote that especially after some frenetic simul-posting that made absolutly no sense whatsoever...that actually worked out rather well.
when I was writing it up for the Guide entry I took the opportunity to prune some bits and shunt them around a little - not drasticaly but the odd nip and tuck where the one or two posts had gone astray. Similarly if and when I do the next update I had wanted to sort out the timing of Colin chanelling the ghost of the dog above the stage and The whole Smittington-Robot meeting Bob/Annabel-Robot sequence.

I think extra scenes between the break out and the murder (possibly not all of them concerning Rasputin maybe what was happening meanwhile back at the concert... I had also sort of envisoned maybe enlarging events on the plane and at some point including a sequence of "meanwhile 30,000 feet below Rasputin" were...and some sort of sequnce there.

This isn't some master plan I've got written down but just an idea I was mulling over - I was interested to hear your response

I agree that the three or four different threads of story. (bob @ the concert, Annabel & Gonzaroolio, Tim & Rasputin, Richter and Robin) I will try to sort them out..the Ricther sequence does hurry things along a little to fast, I think you may be right.)

but that's all to come.

The Exploding cryo-clownz?..oh yes they are still wandering around on thier mission of doom. I was wondering when someone was going to re-introduce those. I figured they might have made a comeback urther down the Rasputin storyline (I mean *what* have they been preparing all this time???) Would they be allies or foes of the mad monk?


Go ahead, the forums are a litle too quiet to generate the same sort of activity they had in their hey-day..in some ways that may work out for the good.

Clive

I've just had an idea...in the climatic scissors paper stones match betwene God and Satan for the fate of the universe..can someone - some character - suddenly turn up play the ultimate top trump - Clotheswringer!

"What? said God"
"No, no tha -" cursed Satan

But ????? cranked the handle and Time unwound....


what do you reckon?

Good idea! I had another idea about how that scene could fan out, maybe we could intertwine the two.

The idea is that God and the Devil are both too good, too evenly matched. Neither of them can WIN, or the Eternal Battle would be over, and the world with it. So they keep on drawing. God pulls a stone, so does the Devil. The Devil pulls paper - likewise the Lord. And so on, ad nauseum.

Meanwhile, one of the characters creates a bubble of recurring time around them with the wringer - the game can never be over and so the existence of the world is assured.

Oh, and I've also taken care of the Cryo-Clownz. UPS Guy has taken out the last of them at La Scala.

Yes I noticed!

Didn't follow the bit with the dog though... - I'll re-read it. (s'been a long day *urrgh* revision - 'orrible. )

Okay and although the story is about spontainious writing is there anything either of us should steer away from so as not to spoil any well laid plans. (For instance, I noticed you set the papaer, scissors, stones match in neutral Swizterland - which is where I had oooh way back - sent Arthur and X on a "Secret Mission (To locate the origin of the Cult of The Dying Pilchard. ) I was hoping maybe to bring them back into it once this current story-arc was concluded...

Are we going to get all of the characters (Leicester, Bob (Divine Champion - ), Gonzaroolio, Annabell, Jill & Heddingly to Stone Henge at some point?

What about Richter and Robin - do they still have a part to play?

What do you think?

Clive.

I hadn't realised Switzerland had any significance- just picked it because it was neutral.
'The bit with the dog': there really is nothing to get. Everybody loves dogs. I wanted a dog. And a bit with Pavarotti. Look at the cute little dog. Bless.
I think we should get everyone to Stonehenge for the final dustup. And Richter and Robin are definitely too good to waste.
If Switzerland has some special significance, maybe you could send Arthur and X there to investigate the Paper Scissors Stone match, end on a cliffhanger of some sort with the cult. Just a thought- I don't want to mess with your creative process or long-term plans or whatever. I'll avoid using them, just in case I spoil anything.

I was just chatting about this very prospect with Kniffee (the guy who started all this in the first place!!!) http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F34527?thread=161893&skip=0&show=20