Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Game Over

[popsofctown]

compliment
critique

[Charles510]

>compliment
I don't know the word "compliment".

>critique
I don't know the word "critique".

>

[Cheery Dog]

I can't understand the poetry when it's in English either.

[Cheery Dog]

Also wait.

[Charles510]

>wait
Time passes...

The Vogon Captain says, "Otoys gfimi lx jeftp wosheftfim oolloshhuvtoyhuvirbirbd tulpp w." A guard grabs you and Ford, and drags you toward the hold. Ford whispers, "Don't worry, I'll think of something!"

Vogon Hold
This is a squalid room filled with grubby mattresses, unwashed cups, and unidentifiable bits of smelly alien underwear. A door lies to port, and an airlock lies to starboard.
There is a satchel here.
Along one wall is a tall dispensing machine.
In the corner is a glass case with a switch and a keyboard.
It looks like the glass case contains:
an atomic vector plotter

The guard releases you and Ford and begins cycling the air in the airlock. "Hey, guard!" shouts Ford, "do you really enjoy this sort of thing? Shouting, stomping around, shooting people, is it really a fulfilling career?"

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[Gamma Emerald]

(aside, Ford really should have used the stinking Babelfish by now)

[Cheery Dog]

If it didn't spend all the time just waiting for the guards to find them, we could have got the babelfish. Oh well time to kill Arthur so that we can do this again.

>Type "blowup"

[Charles510]

>type "blowup"
The hold of the Vogon ship is virtually undamaged by the explosion of the glass case. You, however, are blasted into tiny bits and smeared all over the room. Several cleaning robots fly in and wipe you neatly off the walls.

**** You have died ****


We are about to give you your score. Put on your peril-sensitive sunglasses now. (Hit RETURN or ENTER when ready.) >

Your score is 33 of a possible 400, in 92 turns.

Would you like to start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of the game?
(Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): >

[Cheery Dog]

>restore iconeum2
>wait x15
>smell
>look at shadow
>eat peanuts
>press dispenser button

[Charles510]

Please supply a filename for restore: iconeum2
Ok.

>wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait
You can't hear anything, see anything, smell anything, feel anything, or taste anything, and do not even know where you are or who you are or how you got there.

>wait
You can't hear anything, see anything, smell anything, feel anything, or taste anything, and do not even know where you are or who you are or how you got there.

>wait
There's nothing you can taste, nothing you can see, nothing you can hear, nothing you can feel, nothing you can smell, you do not even know who you are.

>wait
You can't hear anything, see anything, feel anything, or taste anything, and do not even know where you are or who you are or how you got there.

>smell
(darkness)
It does smell a bit. There's something pungent being waved under your nose. Your head begins to clear. You can make out a shadow moving in the dark.

>look at shadow
The shadow is vaguely Ford Prefect-shaped.

Vogon Hold
This is a squalid room filled with grubby mattresses, unwashed cups, and unidentifiable bits of smelly alien underwear. A door lies to port, and an airlock lies to starboard.
Along one wall is a tall dispensing machine.
In the corner is a glass case with a switch and a keyboard.
It looks like the glass case contains:
an atomic vector plotter

Ford removes the bottle of Santraginean Mineral Water which he's been waving under your nose. He tells you that you are aboard a Vogon spaceship, and gives you some peanuts.

>eat peanuts
You feel stronger as the peanuts replace some of the protein you lost in the matter transference beam.

>press dispenser button.
A single babel fish shoots out of the slot. It sails across the room and through a small hole in the wall, just under a metal hook.

>

[Iconeum]

get babel fish

[Charles510]

>get babel fish
You can't see any babel fish here!

>

[Cheery Dog]

Save.

(As this is the most fun bit with where I've got too so far in the game, I'm going to hold off doing any submitting more actions)

[Iconeum]

press dispenser button

[Charles510]

>save

Please supply a filename for save: CheeryDog
Ok.

>press dispenser button
A single babel fish shoots out of the slot. It sails across the room and through a small hole in the wall, just under a metal hook.

>

[Iconeum]

press dispenser button

[Charles510]

>press dispenser button
A single babel fish shoots out of the slot. It sails across the room and through a small hole in the wall, just under a metal hook.

>

[Iconeum]

get metal hook

[Charles510]

>get metal hook
You can't be serious.

Ford yawns. "Matter transference always tires me out. I'm going to take a nap." He places something on top of his satchel. "If you have any questions, here's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Footnote 14). Ford lowers his voice to a whisper. "I'm not supposed to tell you this, but you'll never be able to finish the game without consulting the Guide about lots of stuff." As he curls up in a corner and begins snoring, you pick up The Hitchhiker's Guide.

>

[Iconeum]

wake up ford

[Iconeum]

use keyboard, open door

[Charles510]

>wake up Ford
Rather like trying to wake the dead.

>use keyboard, open door
I don't know the word "use".

>

[Gamma Emerald]

>reach into hole in the wall

[Charles510]

>reach into hole in the wall
I don't know the word "reach".

>

[Iconeum]

type, open door