all characters should start with a towel

no that is not the reason realy read the books heheheheehehe

 

I know it's the books, but also makes me think of that

 

It is said that an image is worthy more than a thousand words. But some books simply can't be turned into movies.

 

ok just making sure is all and ya realy need to get the last two I talked about going ^_^b...............well the one might be a bit hard to pull off

 

You know, just as a side note I'm sure a towel accessory could easily be made into a mod of sorts for anyone willing to do it. Just for kicks and giggles

 

Another advantage to having a towel: You can use it to help rescue friends when they get stuck in geeksand.

Speaking of useful starting gear, I want The Luggage.

 

Of course I need a towel! A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

 

And if you put the towel over your head the monsters should leave you alone since if you can't see them they can't see you!

Oh, and before reading the book you have to find and listen to the original BBC radio play since that came first!

 

no, that's only one kind of alien monster. and that's because it's freakin' stupid.

 

correction: It's as daft as a bush

now this is just turning into a Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy discussion thread

 

That monster should be in the game.

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

And according to the lore, if you soak one corner of the towel in nutrients you can suck on that corner for nourishment. If it were modded in it would be a piece of Armour that acts like a bucket you can eat.

 

A towel makes more sense in space than a sword does. Plus it would explain the penguins. "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

 

probably in the tone you read it in, I actually meant it as a good thing

 

Well if they add towels then I hope we get a new wrist slot, otherwise where am I going to wear my digital watch

 

They should replace the randomize button on your coordinates map with a button for an Infinite Improbability Drive as well.

 

I swear I need to watch that movie but it's not even on Netflix!

 

I posted this as a suggestion a while back: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/towels.26073/

Be sure to give it a like ^_^