Aboard the Vogon Ship
What's going on here in the Captain's Quarters?
- Don't go on unless you've translated the garbled announcement.
- Don't go on until you've figured out what's going on with the glass
case and switch and keyboard.
- You are at a Vogon Poetry Appreciation Session. The Vogon Captain is
about to read you his favorite poem. The Guide's entry on Vogon Poetry
makes clear that this is extremely nasty.
- Because you have already flipped the switch on the glass case and
listened to the recording, you know that you'll have to listen to the
second verse of the poem in order to get the atomic vector plotter.
- This poetry is painfully awful. Have you tried STOP THE POETRY or COVER
MY EARS or DON'T LISTEN TO THE VOGON POETRY?
- "Why not relax and enjoy it?"
- When he finishes the first verse the Captain says, "You didn't look
like you enjoyed my poetry at all!" and then proceeds to have you
thrown into space.
- You want to ENJOY THE POETRY, any time between when the Captain begins
the poetry reading and when he completes the end of the first verse. If
you do so, the Captain will continue on and read the second verse.
- Now that you've heard the glass case's recording _and_ the second verse
of the poem, you know what to type on the keyboard in order to acquire
the atomic vector plotter. (You'll have to wait until the guards drag
you back into the Vogon Hold, of course.)