From: boelter3945@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.int-fiction
Subject: [Spoiler] Re: Help on Hitchhiker's!
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:13:15 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <Bw49Cy.MnL@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, bkeener@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian E.
   Keener) writes:
> 
> 	Okay... I am currently making the rounds of the Improbability
> Scenarios, and have gotten all but two.
> 	(1) how the hell can you do anything in the War Chamber scenario?
> I've listened to the conversation, but I can't stop the ship from getting
> swallowed by the small dog.  I don't get it at "awl".

   Where is the space fleet attacking?  Earth.. do you remember a dog from
anywhere else in the game?

   Back at the very beginning, when you run out of the bar, you pass a dog. 
This is the same dog that will eat the space fleet.  In order to stop the dog
from doing this, you must give it something else to eat.

   In the bar, while drinking pints of beer, buy two other things:  the
peanuts (which you should know), and a cheese sandwich.  Then, when you race
after Ford out of the bar, give the cheese sandwich to the dog.

> 	(2) I can make it to the Heart of Gold in the Zaphod scenario, but
> I can't seem to take anything like the magnifying glass back with me.  Is
> there a way I can take all of the stuff back to the ship?

   Well, assuming you got all the things you needed (not just the magnifying
glass), where does that scenario end for you (ie: where do you pass out back
to blackness again?).

   Right, down at the entrance hatch to the Heart of Gold.  Once you return
to the Heart of Gold as yourself (Arthur), go down to where the hatch is, and
you should find all the things that Zaphod had dropped when he passed out
there.

> 	Does the Vogon Guard scenario accomplish anything, or is it there
> just to annoy you?

   The Vogon Guard scenario is really only useful when Earth first gets
destroyed and you are with Ford in the holding area (beginning of the game).

>  Also, what purpose does the whale thing do?  I read the
> hint posted earlier, but there's no way to get ANYTHING before hitting the
> planet.

   You have six moves to do something before the whale goes splut.  You need
to get the pot out of there.  There are two ways to do this.

   One is to take the pot, and put the pot into the thing your Aunt gave you.

   The other is to take the pot, the use the electronic thumb to hitch a ride
back to the Heart of Gold.  Since the thumb is broken, you'll have to call
the service 'bot to fix it.

> 							-MetalMaster (Ed)

                                        John "Nightwind" Boelter

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