Random Event for Thursday: Evil Goat Invasion!

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

In news utterly unrelated to any OOC events of the day, on Thursday, Fandom Island will be invaded by five hundred and three evil gray yellow-eyed goats that seem to appear out of nowhere. Their goal: to devour anything communications or information-related that they can find! Letters, books, your homework, your iPad, your phone, the wires to your network connections, the radio squirrels... all fair game.

Magic won't banish them. Teleportation won't touch them. Guns, edged weapons and energy beams will only make them cry. You don't want them to cry. They're really, really creepy when they cry. (The occasional very very evil goat will bring out his own weapons instead of weeping at you. Or even worse, while weeping at you. )

The only way to get rid of them is to punch them. Hard.

When you do so, 99% of the time, the goats will vanish into a puff of fur and smoke, and you might be lucky enough to get your chewed-up stuff back unharmed. Or not. (All radio squirrels will, however, be returned undamaged. If slightly slobbered on.)

The remaining 1% of the time, the goats will melt into a sticky puddle of varnish, instead. So... if you're worried, try to punch them on a table?

Goats are udderly utterly moddable, but if you'd like an NPC ruminant, we'll toss up a post tomorrow morning for that, too.

And yes, they really are evil; those characters who can sense such things are welcome to pick up their black, malicious auras.

Comments

[catchmeifyoucan.livejournal.com]

FRANK SAYS HEY NOW. SOME PEOPLE SHARE A NAME WITH THAT THING.

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

AS LONG AS FRANK DOES NOT ALSO SHARE THE EVIL YELLOW EYES AND DISTURBING TEARS, HE WILL NOT GET PUNCHED.

[catchmeifyoucan.livejournal.com]

WELL, NOT NOW. NEXT TIME I NEED TO DO AN ANIMAL TRANSFORMATION, ON THE OTHER HAND...

[spiritandsword]

You do realize that Annja believes this gives her carte blanche to pummel them first and wonder where they came from later? :D

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

THEY'RE EVIL. PUMMEL AWAY.

[solo_sword]

You realize you totes threw this at us the same week the TAH podcast came out starring Gillian Jacobs as a goat, right?

REFERENCES AHOY.

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

We may have been holding it for a while and deliberately waiting for the next LJ release...

[solo_sword]

NO. YOU DID IT BECAUSE GILLIAN JACOBS AS A GOAT.

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

THESE ARE NOT THE DROIDS WE'RE LOOKING FOR. WE DID IT BECAUSE GILLIAN JACOBS AS A GOAT.

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Named Frank.

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

I'm totally already planning my references. >.>

ALSO OH LOOK IT'S A HANDY LINK TO SAID PODCAST. (http://www.nerdist.com/2012/05/thrilling-adventure-hour-72-beyond-belief-goatbusters/)

[ultron_junior]

This is an awesome event.

*begins to practice her goat-kicking*

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

heromaniac totes gets credit for the vanishing when you punch them!

[boobs-and-evil.livejournal.com]

Callie actually has icons for this. Um. Almost. Close enough?

I am laughing so hard.

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

I have no icons of any of my characters punching a goat. Or...anything else. This makes me sad.

[trigons_child]

If we were to vanquish 99 goats, would the remaining 404 vanish because they were not found?

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

No.

If you were to varnish 99 goats, though, that might happen.

[trigons_child]

If you're having goat problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems and Frank ain't one.

[fh-creepies.livejournal.com]

SEZ YOU.