Goiky

Goiky is an island in the Northern Hemisphere of Planet Odd. Goiky is where the Odd Balls series takes place and where most of the characters in the series live

## History

### Early History

In June 1492, an explorer and navigator from The Boiling Isles by the name of Hewward Crobungus went to the King and Queen of The Face Isles and ask to borrow some money so that he and his mates could sail to a supposed continent in the north. Hewward Crobungus and his bro's landed on central Goiky in October 1492 and he had the time of his life, and by that I mean he went on a huge theft and murder spree, he stole Gold, Jewellery, People and a Hammock and then he returned to show off all his riches including a few previously undiscovered items including: Tobacco, Turkeys and a Hammock. He had also discovered the ancient language the Natives used called "Goikish" and so Hewward dubbed the central and surrounding islands as "The Goikish Isles" with the central island being called "Goiky".

### The Scramble for Goiky

Suddenly the race was on to explore and conquer the new world. After a couple of centuries of warring with the natives and each other, the Planet Odd powers had claimed quite a lot of land including one area which the United States of Weird and Tin Tan claimed as theirs. One day in 1774, the Tin Tanians said "I'm gonna build some forts along here." and the Weirdish were like "Could you not?" and the Tanians said "Sorry, but no, I could not not." and they went ahead and built there forts which made the Weirdish pretty furious, so they sent an upcoming Weirdan-Goikian lieutenant-colonel by the name of Vincent Mcbumbersnazzle, with a combined force of Weirdan troops and Native Goikians and after a short battle, the Tin Tanian commander said "Alright, Alright, we surrender." and just as Mcbumbersnazzle was telling his men to pack up, one of the Natives split the commanders head open with a Tomahawk. That action helped kick start the 3 year war between the USW and Tin Tan, known as the Monster Human War which lasted from 25th October 1774 - 10th January 1776, which USW won. At the peace negotiations, the Face Isles gave up Parkershire (known at that time as Goikace) while Tin Tan gave up all its territories in the Goikish Isles.

### The Goiky Revolution

#### Pre-War

USW's victory came at a cost, a 60 million dollar cost, and so they began taxing the Goikish colonies, but the colonials began to grow furious. They began protesting, orators gave mass public speeches, the colonials were especiall unhappy because they didn't have any representatives in the congress that was levying taxes on them. Eventually, local businesses began to boycott USW imports. Meanwhile at the time all of this was going on, Vincent Mcbumbersnazzle and his friends were exploring the new land aquirred from Tin Tan, when he descovered a lush plain with a single mountain at the helm, here, Vincent decided to establish a settlement he dubbed, **Odd Town**, however the ball people in his group, known as " The Sons of Silly", led by Parker J Brown, disliked his town name but Vincent compromised and suggested the set up their own settlement somewhere and so Vincent and his pals, parted ways with The Sons of Silly. Meanwhile, back at the chaos, The United States of Weird's president at the time, Jimmothy Von Colbarlton, sent 1,000 troops to take control of Poiky upon Sea, meaning that Poiky and South Goiklood were now under the direct control of USW.

#### Revolution Preperations

Oh you better believe the people were peeved, the other colonies saw what was happening and worried they might be next, so they called a brain trust to decide what to do. Thirty-four delegates from Eight colonies gathered and met in Dingle at the First Continental Parliament. And the roll call read like a who's who of Goiky's finest thinkers, I'm talkin Lawyers extraordinaire: Hugh Porgan and Darren Barlo, Experienced military commander; Vincent Mcbumbersnazzle, Businessman and future alchoholic beverage; Frankall Mnoog, Fiery Orator; Arnold Sage, Guy who married a rich lady; (BIG) Howard Dingleberry. And while they weren't present at the first Parliamnet, Soon names like Parker J Brown, Robert Bungleberry, Graham Philip Johnson Stewart Storr III and much later Gregory Falkland Delot would all serve time in the Continental Parliament. The question now though, was what to do about the Weirdish. After much bitter debate and disagreement, they eventually agreed on an amazing solution. They would simply ask the Weirdish to stop. "Can you stop?" said Hugh Porgan "No." replied President Colbarlton. "It didn't work." said Porgan and Vincent Mcbumbersnazzle replied "Ok, then tell the local militias to start arming and be ready at a minutes notice." And across the colonies, these Minutemen stood ready for the beginning of the Goiky Revolutionary War. Now having your over seas colonies in open rebellion is one thing but when they start arming themselves, that's when stuff gets real. So Weirdish General Arnold Bogroll ordered 800 troops from Poiky upon sea out into the rebel controlled South Goiklood country side, to destroy and or capture stores of guns and ammunition held by the revolutionaries in Zorncastle. The Weirdish set out in the middle of the night. Patriots include John Blokery road ahead to warn that the Weirdish were coming, giving the revolutionaries time to prepare. [Page under construction]

## List of City's, Town's and Village's

* Odd Town
* Silly City
* New Haven
* Las Legas
* Dingle
* Sheldingsburg
* Market Grape
* Alpord
* North End
* Benzance
* Trimsby
* York Town
* Forest Hall Spa
* Totford
* Ghost Town
* Old Haven
* Zorncastle
* Poiky upon Sea
* Sandburg
* El Rapids
* South Silly
* St Foddle
* South End
* Freezeton

## List of significant locations

* Land Land (stereotypical theme park)
* Zone 5.1
* Tulgey Wood
* The Goiky Desert
* The Goiky Snow Plains
* Snow Masters Castle