Your Ocker Random Events Schedule

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Monday - Ongoing random events start today, and last for the full two weeks the island is in Moreton Bay: Vegemite and Tim Tams (like the good and evil of Australian food - the vegemite is EVIL.) have appeared throughout the island's kitchens and common rooms. There are flocks of Australian birds arriving: Galahs, kookaburras, cockatoos, amongst others. Anyone who goes to put a hat on will find that it has mysteriously acquired corks bobbling on strings, hanging from the brim.

Tuesday - Drop Bears. Big fluffy koala-looking bears who drop from a tree, roof, the open sky onto the heads of the unwary and/or unsuspecting (Or even the highly suspicious.), possibly flattening them, and then skitter off so fast that only a faint glimpse of them can be caught.

Wednesday - Beer O'Clock day: whenever a character glances at their watch or a clock it will display beer o'clock. If they say it out loud, a tinnie of Aussie beer will appear! If they say it really enthusiastically, they get a Darwin Stubby!

Thursday - Seagulls! They will fly in and proclaim that whatever you have is 'Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!'.

Friday - This will be a Friday night trip down the gold coast to Dreamworld. thankgoditsme will be loaning us her expertise as a former employee, and putting up some awesome and OCDelicious posts in fh_trips. It's a theme park, with TIGERS.

Sat & Sun - wee tiny adults weekend: The only random event which will be happening at the same time will be...

Kangaroos. Large, cuddly, friendly and fond-of-kids kangaroos, who are big enough to carry a child around in their pouch, and will be happy to do so. This one is completely gimmemoreteams fault.

Monday - Black stump day. Wherever you're going (inside or out), a black stump will appear in your path. You can walk around it or trip over it, but you'll have to go beyond the black stump to get where you're going.

Tuesday - Bunyips! The island's waters are invaded by bunyips - wild water or tame water, they're both liable to bunyip invasion, so the pond and your bathtub are fair game. They won't hurt you, but they are mischievous and playful, and tend towards being tricksters, so practical jokes ahoy.

Wednesday - Aussie slang day: People will find themselves using Australian slang - new and old and obsolete. Whether they understand what they're saying is entirely up to you!

Thursday - Ekka day! This is the opening day of the Royal Exhibition, and there'll be a trip to the Ekka in the afternoon/evening. Dagwood dogs, fairy floss, and showbags, oh my.

Friday - Friday night trip to Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo, to learn all about Australian animals, including the most deadly and horrifying.

Sat & Sun - Invasion of Aussie's Most Dangerous And Horrifying critters. Beginning late late Friday night, they will creep, crawl, slither, fly, and swim their way to Fandom. Is it any wonder the island will FLEE on Sunday night?

Comments

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

1) Vegemite is awesome. Sharron is just wrong.
2) Any Americans seen drinking Fosters on Beer O'Clock day will be mocked mercilessly because, seriously? No one in their right mind drinks that swill.
3) Yes. Everything is poisonous or will try to eat you. Even the plants.
4) Like the grand master of this scheme, I'm also a local, so feel free to drop me an IM if you're unsure of something/have any questions and are a stickler for research.
5) Wheee Ekka soon!

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Re 3) This is about the one thing I remember about my visit to Aus (aside from seeing Santa in the blistering heat). I couldn't move without my mum freaking out that I was going to step on a funnel-web or get eaten by something.

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

I've had a Huntsman spider the size of my hand in my room before. It's my fun "freak out the foreigners" story to tell.

[carsexual]

It works, too.

[intraspective]

Gah, spiders! That's just an evil evil story!

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

We get inch long ants around here...

Which yes, isn't quite a teenage mutant hand-sized spider. But still bloody huge compared to most ants.

Silly hot countries and their crazy bugs!

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

Haaaate ants. Thankfully when I was in your area it was too wet and cold for the ants to bother me, otherwise I would have done the girly "get it off get it off" flail thing.

We have bird-eating spiders too. I try not to think of those.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

I'm 3/4 asleep. I totally read that as spider-eating birds at first.

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

We have those too, but they're not as remarkable.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

. . .

Oh hai thar I r teh dumb. *facepalm facepalm* Hello there, sleeping brain.

[likethegun]

But I thought Fosters was Australian for beer?

*hiiiiides*

[carsexual]

I've been told by credible sources Fosters is Australian for goat piss.

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

Only when run through an Americanised Babelfish translator.

[intraspective]

Re: 3 = Now Ino wants to spend her time just investigating the plants. XD; Especially if they're deadly or will try to eat her! Oh, Ino.

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

The plants aren't *too* bad thankfully. Unless you're allergic to everything, like me, in which case Spring sucks. And Autumn. And most of Summer and Winter too.

But there is Sensitive Weed. It looks all innocent until you stand on it unsuspectingly and then it stabs you and injects you with these little spines that stay under your skin and hurt like crazy.

Fun times.

[intraspective]

Hahahaha, oooooh, Ino wants that plant, yeah. Ino: *shiiiiiny*

[the_merriest]

6) THERE IS NO RULE SIX
7) NO POOFTERS

[/zomg sorry had to]

[carsexual]

DROP BEARS!

*cackles, goes to find scans from Nextwave*

[endsthegame]

WIDDLE CUDDLY BEARS OF DEATH!

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

I love vegemite, especially vegemite and cheese :)

I now have the theme song stuck in my head ...

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

Vote plain, fellow Aussie! http://www.howdoyoulikeyourvegemite.com.au/

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

STOP THAT both of you!

Vegemite is black evil, distilled into a deceptively cheerful package.

I still remember the first time I tasted it, innocently thinking it was chocolate. *shudders*

[thankgoditsme.livejournal.com]

You're just weak. WEAK!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of my own traumatic childhood dinuguan experience.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

And I just voted :)

[gimmemoreteams.livejournal.com]

YAY KANGAROOS!

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

...!

Oh the hat thing...

Somebody's so doomed.

*snicker*

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

I think Aussie animals might confuse even an archangel.

[raspberryturk]

DROP BEARS AND BUNYIPS.

Tuesdays are officially the most AWESOME DAY OF THE WEEK EVER I love you. <3