Stranded: Troper Edition

"Wait." Mark realized, "The expeditioner said those were his goats...but...he was in a different time period of the island...and we're now at a DIFFERENT time period NOW...so what happened? Hopey, can you explain?"

"I assume some survived and thrived. They're pretty good at that."

edited 14th Jul '15 5:06:32 PM by GhostElm

"Goats can't live that long! Hell, only ONE person alive today was alive back in 1907! Goats don't even clock in at 20 years!"

Yas looks deep in thought.

"Here's the thing." he begins. "Goats are natural creatures. So it would make sense for them to live through the whole time thing. Maybe they crossed through. I have no idea why..."

edited 14th Jul '15 5:11:38 PM by Inhopelessguy

Laithelryn continues working on the pen.
"How many goats do you think the pen will hold?"

"Humans AREN'T natural creatures? Wait...what if these are all different goats from different time periods?"

"These don't even look all that similar... I think they're the offspring of the ones from earlier."

"About ten for now"

Yas shrugs. "I got no idea, man."

"Most excellent! What colour apparel would you like?"
Laithelryn seems very excited and rather distracted.

"Or the offspeing of the offspring and so on. That makes sense! Anyway...how do we feed them?"

Mark turns towards Lai

"What happened to your cat?"

edited 14th Jul '15 5:19:53 PM by TheKaBlammer

"She is just there."
Laithelryn motions to the young cat who is hiding under a fern and watching the goat with immense curiosity.

edited 14th Jul '15 5:20:33 PM by Laithelryn

"Have you considered a name yet?"

"I assume blue clothes would be out of the question given your resources..."

"They'll eat pretty much any foliage they get their noses into everything from grass to tea plants, they might even try to chew the bark off of coconut palms if they're hungry enough."

edited 14th Jul '15 5:22:23 PM by GhostElm

"Wait a minute! I actually have memories of feeding some goats! One thing I know is that they LOVE eating banana peels...lucky us."

"Not at all, I do know a little about making dyes! it may not be a very bright blue but blue none the less!"
Laithelryn turns to Mark.
"No, I am still most unsure!"
Laithelryn spins back to Chris.
"T... Tea plants!"

Chris turns to Mark, "It might work to some extent, but a wide range of food is healthy for them as well."

"I mentioned the tea plants so you'd realize that they're not just going to eat the plants we want them to; these are still wild animals Lai, if we don't keep them contained, they're going to eat whatever it is that's available."

"All right. So, tea plants, banana peels, tree bark...the list goes on. I think we're good."

"I suppose we best try to contain them then."
Laithelryn looks a little disheartened and turns to Mark.
"What colour apparel would you like?"

"Blue, as well."

"Okay! I shall go and retrieve components to make dye!"
Laithelryn rushes off into the trees, the small cat follows quickly behind!

Chris finishes up the pen and leads five goats inside, "We probably don't want to kill and eat any until we find more or raise some of the kids they have."

edited 14th Jul '15 6:05:48 PM by GhostElm

"Right. I mean, the food somehow carried over from the regulated time period...so, who wants dinner?"

Laithelryn returns with an odd assortment of things but looks disheartened.
"We need a vat or some such thing."

Chris starts walking back to the shelter for dinner, then stops when he sees Lai.

"What's wrong, Lai?"

"Did you see anything while you were exploring the jet he might be able to use?"

"There is another flying techno-bauble‽"
Laithelryn's sorrow is replaced with fury and a hunt for firewood begins.
"If we find clay we could make a vat out of that, wood as well if we find proper axes."