The figure adopts the stance of a hitchhiker.
Everyone survived, but they made an agreement to avoid picking up any more hitchhikers before investigating the message they were given further.
Other variants include hitchhikers who utter prophecies (typically of pending catastrophe or other evils) before vanishing.
In the recent years, hitchhikers themselves have started seeing effort to strengthen the hitchhiking community.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Even in states where hitchhiking is illegal, hitchhikers are rarely ticketed.
Hitchhikers are harmless and may release endorphins into the blood, creating a sensation of euphoria in their hosts.
He passes a young female hitchhiker who later approaches his campfire and says that she could not get a ride.
