A towel is not just a prop or prize. It changes your role in the game. If you win a towel, you become a Hitchhiker. A Hitchhiker is a player with additional responsibility, mobility, and mystery. Hitchhikers are not above the game. They are further inside it. A Hitchhiker carries the towel physically, but the towel also carries the Hitchhiker symbolically. It marks them as part guide, part witness, part route-holder, part conversational catalyst.
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