Adeptus Ridiculous - DA RED GOBBO: BECOMING A LEGEND | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: June 14, 2023

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousDa Red Gobbo is the leader of the Rebel Grots and is the head of Gretchin Revolutionary Committee (GRC or just Da Kommitte) of the Grots. He is known to wear a red cape to show his support of "Da Revolushun". While not every Gretchen believes in the Red Gobbo, with some claiming he is just a legend, this quickly changes for most Grots should one appear before them.Support the show

Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis. His name is Bricky, and we are going to be talking about 40K Warhammer. Butchered that, don't care, rolling with it. If you enjoyed today's episode, head over to the Patreon. Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to our Discord, bloopers if they happen, $15 tier, gets all the HD posters you can shake a stick at. And if we hit 20,000, I'm going to be doing a fantasy episode.

on the Skaven for Buriki. Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous. Speaking of the Brick, do your thing. My thing, it's me. Hello, everybody. Congratulations for surviving to today, Wednesday. You see, Wednesday is actually a very important day, because Wednesday is June 14th is National Flag Day.

Oh, cool. Yeah, it's National Flag Day. Like, like, it's just flags. It's great. And so we sell flags. I always thought Wednesday was a good day for a wedding. Wednest day. That's how I always remembered how to spell it.

Yeah, good day for a wedding. Wedding. Uh, a white wedding. It's a nice day to start again. All right. Do your thing. We got to do that in an orc voice. Anyway, um, yes, but it's flag day today.

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Yeah, neat. Let's check that out in Orcadate.com. Link in the description, all the merch is down there. Grab it. And also for the book club, we are reading Storm. of iron. Oh, yeah, we are. Apparently,

a iron warrior sympathizer novel, which as far as I am a night lord sympathizer, I have no problems with. No problem with chaos. Get a little more chaos

in our life. We haven't had enough chaos in the book club lately. It's been a lot of loyalist stuff, you know, and I'm ready. I'm ready for Hansu to go to be running

wild, brother. Brother. Yeah. On the cream of the crop. Yeah. I'm talking Iron Warriors to the top. Yeah.

Top. Oh, yeah. Point at you. And let me point at the imperium of mankind. Point at you, President and Emperor.

Point at you, Robooten. Anyway. So you're super excited about today from what I hear. Okay. I'm not super excited

about today. You made it. Before this all started, you made it sound like you were just over the moon about today's topic. If you go into a dictionary and you find the word hyperbole, you'd see D.K.'s in face on it. What? How so, good sir? How so? I don't need to explain this. This, today's topic was actually a recommendation from shy. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Well, when you think of recommendations from Shai, what do you think it would be? Chaos, heresy, death, destruction, the plague, nergle, rotting corpses, flayed flesh, shot of tequila. Okay, I'm actually pretty shook how you just, you got them all wrong. Think, think more basic. Oh. Oh, it would be orcs, wouldn't it? Of course it would be orcs.

Of course it would be orcs. Boy, boy, that's an R slash whoosh, if I've ever heard one. Good Lord. Please don't speak of read it out loud. Sorry. No, this was actually a little book that she recommended I read for the episode. There is not, unfortunately not a audiobook version. of it, but it was about 100 pages, so it really wasn't that bad. I bought it on

Kindle on Amazon and just opened up a tab and read the whole thing actually yesterday, so I could kind of keep it fresh in my mind. It is written by Mike Brooks, and it is called Da Gabo's Revenge. The Gobbo's Revenge. All right. It is a book in the same world, so to speak, of the Brutal Cunning book because Mike Brooks also wrote the Bruttle Cunning book as well. Oh, wow. Da Gables Revenge. Oh, that is a great cover. It is.

So, yeah, it's also the guy who wrote War Boss. Mike Brooks, got to say, got a good pulse to the, to the Ork world. I think just his writing style is really fun and silly and stupid. But, like, that's exactly how it should be because it's orcs. Yeah, absolutely. So the story goes like this. We are currently in the mech lords, uh, war, before brutal cunning starts. Okay.

And there's even a mention of Uftak in the, in the thing. But there's a, there's a mech boy, uh, which is, of course, like the kind of, you know, the mech people. Yeah. Um, and his name was Claws, K-L-A-W-S. And Claws No, K-L-A-W-S, like Snip-N-K-K-L-A-W-S, like Snip-K-K-A-W. Oh, boo. He was an evil son mech, and he happened to have an incident with a custom mega-blaster that had him blow both of his hands off,

in which he replaced them with power claws on each wrist. Hence the name, Claws. Oh, that's, that's, okay. That fits for the orcs. I get it. I don't love it, but I get it. But he's not particularly good at being a mech boy anymore because he don't got no hands. So instead, he has a gaggle of around eight or so grots that follow him around known as da fingers.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Does he really? Yes, the main group of grots are called de fingers. And the main grot is known as fingwit. Oh, man, do I love the orcs? Oh, man. The orcs are just great.

This is simultaneously the stupidest, funniest, and most amusing thing I've heard this week. This is as the book goes. So, Claus needs help getting things dumb, so he has all of his grots, the fingers, do what he wants for him. And they are there about to board a hume ship. with the mech lord's wa and take over the guns. And he and his grots are going to go and take over the hume guns and turn it against the humeys. Okay.

Sounds very orc. All right. Yeah. And so some of the grots, you know, he talks about the plan and they'll say, that's brilliant. They'll never expect to be shot by their own guns. And of course, Claus will say something like, course it's brilliant, a little git.

It's the mech lord's plan. And the mech lord is the greatest. brain the orcs ever had, that I ask your opinion on the mech lord's plan. So it's a lot of that stuff. Every time you say de mech lord, all I can hear is Domecky. Oh, my buddy, D'Mecke.

Yeah, that's all I can hear. There's a lot of, um, there's a lot of good stuff. There's a lot of good stuff. It's like, if you follow me, you'll, uh, don't mess this up. They're extra lunching it for you. And what if we do mess it up, boss? Then you will be lunch. Classic orc stuff.

Classic, yep. As they're moving along the ship, making their way through the Humi ship, they're going through all kinds of shenanigans. The boys are running through, killing all the human defenders. Of course, in the classic case of the orcs, they are very violent, violent creatures,

and what they're doing is pretty horrifying as they're just like going through all kinds of bodies and one of the grots just slips on like a pile of blood. And Claus is like, hey, well, what are you doing? You get all kinds of things like those orcs are running through barricades. And it's actually really showing off a pretty good concept of orcs versus humans. Like, gaggle of five boys, 10 or 10 boys are charging a human fortification. And they're just laying into them with Lasfire, right?

and you know about like eight of the ten boys go down at because they're just you know they're running at them but they're like firing into the orcs it takes a shitload of shots to take out an ork and only two of them end up making it but the moment they jump over the barricade they both clobber like six humans each before they're finally put down by four or five humans stabbing them with swords and knives yeah i was gonna say if even one ork makes it through you're probably in for a little bit of little bit of trouble. Now, our main character, Finguit, the main Gretchen Grot, is, uh, got a, got a big fan of guns. How, his big dream is, as they do, sure. Yeah, his big dream is having a proper gun, though, because he's got his little blaster, his little grot, shitty-ass, blaster. I'm assuming it's the one on the cover, that little sort of.

Yeah, a little dinky gun. Yeah. Now, he, he would have a big noif. That's a big knife. he wanted all kinds of things, a custom mega blaster or a shooter or a big shooter, which would probably blow out of his arms

or a rocket launcher. So you could blow off and take other people's hands from a distance. Proper orc stuff. Proper orc stuff. Always, oh, he loves his DACA. He always needs more DACA.

And, you know, obviously, now most of the book is them talking about Grot behavior and how the orcs are always working against the grots and like you do what an orc says and if you don't then the orc will crump you and you don't really like you want to be in a fight because fighting is fun but you don't want to be in a fight on our orcs behest so you generally try your best to run away from fights because you know you're a Gretchen you're a grot yeah yeah chances are you're going to be used as

the weapon by the ork there's a great there's a really funny part about the um in the 10th page which goes, like, thingwit, Radak hissed. Yeah. You know how the red ones go faster? It's like, yeah. Do you suppose that's why hume's bleed so easily? There's blood that's really bright red and their skins ain't tough. So when they get cut, it all runs out real quick. It's like, never really thought about it.

Yeah, that's totally. That's, that's some orc shenanigans. Yeah, blood runs fast because clearly it's red, not because, you know, it's blood. Um, it's, I like, he, he started going through, like, all the different orc clans. Like, blood axes might think they were sneakier, and they were undoubtedly were sneakyer, because sneaky was something to be proud of in an ork. And a blood axe croc could slap you in the face and steal your teeth while he was there. Classic bloodaxe.

Mm-hmm. Gotta hate the blood axes, those sneaky. No, those sneaky little get sneaky. I was, I was trying to think of something to say without swearing and making sure I have to edit it. So, you know. So the entire thing as they're moving through it, and like everything is just blowing to shreds. Like, to shit and shreds.

Like, everything's exploding. The orcs are crumping the humans, like, tearing their limbs apart and claws is out attacking stuff. And once they get into the major, like, battle, I suppose, there's, like, it's like a cargo hole. I think it's like an airlock or, not an airlock, like, where they store planes and shit. What would you call that? Like, the little landing pad inside the hang. The hangar. The hangar.

Yep. I was going to say air deck, but yeah, hangar. Hangar, definitely. And Clause has his three, like, mega knobs with him, which these those big, like, heavily armored orcs full of guns all over their body and just whirling energy packs on their back as his, like, little kind of retinue he's rolling with. And as they're moving into start running through and trying to get through the humeys, you know, a good old thing with has a little, little prayer to, you know,

Ork and Mork. Aw. A little prayer that nothing would shoot. Yeah, a little prayer nothing would shoot him. But no one would shoot him. And he says, it's not like I'm asking for no one to get shot. That wouldn't be right. And I know neither of you would stand for it.

I'm just saying that there's others what would like to get better than I would. Those mega boys, for example, they like getting shot because they can laugh when it bounces off. And the gets what shot him gets scared. Proper ork prayer. proper. It's like, you know, I like to be,

it's okay for people to get shot. Just not me. That's not me. Come on. Yeah, then boys like to get shot more. I'm not asking too much here.

So the big turning point of this battle was when Fingwit sees a big red barrel in the other side of the room and shoots it twice and it goes up in a gigantic boom, blowing humans all across the way and some orcs along with them.

And Claws turns around and gets really goddamn damn mad at him that he just did that. Really? Oh, yeah, because Grots having fun, ain't right? Oh, it's true, true. That's true. Grots are little servants.

How dare you kill Steele? How dare you do any of the kind of thing like that? So he starts getting chased by claws around the way until they go through it, until he starts running away from him. He goes through a doorway and the doorway opens and a whole bunch of humis are there. and they're all like, oh, and they all start reaching for their las guns. And Claus runs right past Finn Whit, momentarily distracted by his rage to settle it with the Las fire coming out on him. And so apparently he had wired in like a bane button on his chest that gives him full of like special toxins that makes his eyes bulge.

And he starts running at them. Oh, we got that venom? You got that venom. You got that venom. You got that venom in a venom. Let's go go get them. That venom got to get... So as they're...

As he's going through all the humeys and stuff murdering and stabbing them, the grots kind of jump in there and help out a little bit, start stabbing them in the back and biting them. Because grots are actually like... Like grots are like three feet tall, but they're kind of wide.

And they're not like... They're savages, right? Like, I mean, like you said, they're like biting and tearing and clawing and they're nuisances. Oh, they're like goblins. Like, goblins will, gladly kill a human one v1

if they can get the chance, you know? They're a bit strong. Yeah, but they're still just little gobbos, you know? Yeah. Just kick them aside or something, but you know, they got sharp teeth. Anyway, after the fight, one of the Grots

goes to Clause and says, you got some stabbers stuck in your boss and he looks down. There's a bunch of knives stuck in his legs and back and chest. A couple. Just a few. Do they, they, they, they just ransack all those humans? Oh yeah, Claus just kills all of them.

Just, just, just slaughters them. Well, that's true, he's got the venom. And the claws? Yes, also the claws, but he's got the venom, so he's, he's probably going to proper, just blender some humans. So it's like, class's like, nah, leave them in. They're plugging the holes, ain't they? If you take them out, then blood will get out.

And I ain't no pain, boy, but I know your blood's meant to be on the inside. kind of like the fuel in a buggy only blood blows up less God God bless the orcs God bless the orcs They eventually go to an elevator And they talk about

It's like they got a lift dropper And they think the lift droppa It's like a vehicle They're going to steal And it's like nah Clause gruny humilifts don't work like that It's like then it literally just Just like punch the elevator button

And it goes ping and it shows up. And one of the grots named Swick was like, oh, what are all these buttons for? And Claus yells, don't push them all, but he was too late as Flish had already gleefully mashed his hand into the panel,

causing half a dozen of the buttons to light up. Oh, man. It sounds like a little child. So he grabs this grot. Flish eventually, ready to like, if you want to push all the buttons, you can push up with your face as he was about to like slam him into

the control panel. He doesn't? No, because the door opens and a bunch of human captains are on the other side. Oh, wow. And so instead, he grabs Fisch and throws him into the human. Like a bowling ball. I think he hits him in the face and like kills him.

I mean, yeah, that tracks for orcs check angry throw grot kill human check check check flesh flew through the air and collided with the face of the closest hume whose look of utter bafflement in the moment before it was nearly decapitated by a ballistic grot was one of the funniest things finwit had ever seen in his life the hume went down like a drug squigoth and if it had been alone that would have been the end to it other than a knife across its unresisting throat

Sheesh. And so as they moved on through, the rest of them just started attacking. Good old claws comes up and starts slaughtering some humans. And then the rest of the grots start pouncing on other humans, biting their gun hands and stabbing them in the legs and then stabbing them in the throats. Okay. So proper, proper or crumping. Proper or crumping. Proper.

And once they were all done, all the grots were for the most part of one piece. Oh, wow, that's unfortunate. However, Claws was like, Zoggin' git got me in the head, he slurred as a gigantic knife protruded from his forehead. Oh. All right. It was a giant dead hume sword with the blade broken halfway through the length, directly

through the skull of claws. Does he leave that into because the blood needs to stay in? Does that just stay there as like a permanent like pseudo horn? Oh, he says, yeah, yeah, just give me a minute. I just got to work out how my legs work first. Bloody things ain't paying attention to me. So he's for the most part paralyzed. Yeah, I imagine he would be because he's got he's got daggers in his back, all in his

legs, and he's got a sword, what, like right in his forehead? Yeah, I imagine he'd be having some issues, some difficulties walking, moving. Yeah, paralysis seems about right. And, you know, big sword and head. Yeah. So he talks to Fingwit and he's like, you tell him what to do, to go on and start working on the guns without me.

And if you don't get this done, the Mechboro, it's going to be real angry. And if he comes looking for me over it, then I'm going to make sure he rips your little Zoggin' arms up before he gets to me. You got that? And then he's like, good. As I said, yes, boss, thanks boss. Real motivating. Like, good, that's what I thought.

That's what I thought too. Oh, what are you waiting for? Get moving. And then he immediately falls back and dies. Oh, really? He just flat out dies right then and there? Yeah, he's like, what are you waiting for? Get moving.

His eyes roll back in the back of his head and he falls and thuds. Damn. I mean, a part of me thought he was going to survive this whole thing with all those crazy wounds and just be some sort of, like, like crazy orc war hero story thing. I don't expect him to just, you know, glaze over and just look after giving the order. No, now we're on the Grants.

Now Fingwit is the de facto, but the current leading boss of the group as they're making their way over to get to all of the various hume guns on the ship. Okay. And as they're running through all kinds of crazy stuff, as the orcs arrive and the humans arrive

and they're running through all the fire, power and chopas and sluggas, etc., etc. They're doing classic, it's like I should have a couple of Star Wars jokes in here. They run through the door and shoot the panel. And one of those like boring conversation anyway. I'm like, ah, all right, all right.

I get it. I see. I see. Yep. Okay. He's like, well, a lot of their conversations kind of go like this. It's like, like, I don't want to go through that. We didn't go this far as to give him to panic.

Get through the door. It's like, but there might be humis on the other side. well there's definitely humeys coming up and they've definitely got guns. They do an ambush against the humeys where they roll a big red barrel and then blow it up on their faces and set them a light and stab them to death and just kind of like it's kind of like the goonies a little bit. I mean, they kind of have to be right because they're just they're just little guys. They're just little guys. They're just little guys going up against humans with big humans with guns and they're just little guys. guys. Just little grots.

They're just little grots. Just little gits. Just little gits. Just little gits. We saw that. Yeah. But yeah, so they have to like be trickery and do all that funny, goony stuff to get by and get to the guns. It's some blood axe thinking, but you know how it is.

Oh, they're grots. Who cares? Yeah. But it's mainly like child, like, or kid think. You know, like jump on from a high. Like, throw barrels and hit people like home alone traps, that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's basically the Gratz mental capacity, right?

Is that of probably a small child? So, I mean, it fits that that's what they're doing. I will say afterwards, they start having to run through between humans and orc firefights as they just have to run between them from area to area from the makeship barriers on both sides. And they're probably not safe from either one because orcs Orks love shooting grots too. So to humans. So that's a dangerous crossfire to be running through for a little grot.

Yeah. It said in this it said being the focus of the Yumi's attention in general was not the problem. The problem was that it was increasingly hard to find the power of the ship that was not being contested in a bloody battle between two sides who might have a preference for killing the enemy actively trying to kill them. but we're totally unconcerned if they happened to hit a grot in the process. The hume's view to fingers as lesser targets but still worthwhile ones. The orcs would happily shoot a grot if it got out of the way of their next shot or if they thought it would be funny. Yeah, orcs might be more of a threat to the grots, right?

Just because they think it'd be more funny to shoot it. So they didn't really have an option besides running between the crossfire of the two sides. And so he basically, they, they, they, ran screaming, firing their weapons wildly through this area as the shot narrowly missed Fingwood's head just, just barely before they piled into the other door. All right. Close shave. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

However, it exploded to his left and it killed one of the grots. Oh, man. Poor little grot. Just blew his head off. But hey, good for good for fear. thing with, though. Good for him. He's still, our main character's still good. One of little nothing grots gets

absolutely turned into paste. Whatever. I totally forgot about the grot bomb. Oh yeah, the one where they, there was one in Speed Freak where you can actually like, he's riding like a bomb. Yeah, the grot missile. Yeah, those are so much fun. The grot missile always knows where it is.

But the next thing to do, they rain through the next group of humeys and orcs fighting. And this time, another one got their head blown off. Of course. Which, in Fingwood's opinion, probably served him right for not taking better care of it. For not taking better care of his head? Yeah. So one of the grots was like, such a waste.

I can't go back and grab his Luke, can I? I'd lose my head, too. It's just going to lie there, unappreciated and abandoned. I really wanted some of that stuff. And that get didn't even have a decency to die where I can. Nick it from them. I love orcs. I love that the first concern is like,

oh, my buddy, my, my grod in arms has passed away and I'm so sad about it. No, it's like, damn, can't loot his corpse. So they Jesus. After that, they have a bit of a struggle for power. Fingwit and another guy named Raddick have like a bit of

a no, I'm the boss now. Your ideas are crap. Two of us died. So they decided to go up. into the vent instead. That's suss. Yeah, yeah. We were on the same page. Someone had to say it. Someone had to go there.

They decided to go up in the vent in stem and crawl through the vents for the time being. But the way they get up there is pretty funny. One of the servitors got destroyed, like its mental capacity got screwed up. And so it wouldn't do anything or register them, but if they pushed it, it would like rebalance

itself. So they just kept shoving it underneath the vent. Until they got close to them, and then they climbed the servitor to get inside. I mean, okay, that's pretty smart for a grot, though. For a bunch of grots, that's some high-level critical thinking. Yeah. So eventually, after crawling through a certain amount, they go out of the grate. They kick one of the other grots down the grate so he falls through it to see if anyone's there.

Because, of course, they do. Of course they do. What else are you going to use as bait? and good old Finwick actually finds it's all dead people It's like an entire corridor of just dead orcs and dead yumbies And Finwit finds himself a shooter An orc shooter about as heavy as he is Let's go

What is a shudah? Is it just a big gun or is it like Is there like a specific orc gun that is classified as a shudah? So you can't really call it a specific. Civic gun classifies as a shooter because all kinds of orc stuff is a crazy stuff fan dangled together just out of scrap metal and heaps of whatever is lying around. So it's just big scrap gun basically. It's like the human, it's like the orc version of a bolter for the most part. Okay.

Other than that, though, it's a gigantic ballistic weapon. They're all improvised. They got all kinds of weirdness to it. Yeah, well, because it's orcs. That's kind of their thing. So I wasn't sure if there was like a specific one or like a specific way that they do shoot us. Because you always hear about shooters, shoot a this and that. And I don't know.

Nothing is specific with orcs. Yeah, it's all built last Thursday. So it's always, it's always hard to tell. But an orc arrives. Oh, oh, oh, that's bad for them. Yep, and it's extremely bad. An orc shows, an orc shows up and is like, what is Zoggin' heck is going on here? As he starts running through and yelling at all the grots.

And all the other grots, because their little bitches go and follow the orc and get in line, but not Finguit, no serri. He does the thing he's the best at. Run away. Of course, of course. Yeah, imagine an orc would not be too happy to see a grot with a shooter either. No. Because the orc would probably want that shooter for himself and be very insulted that this little bitty grot has this big gun. The orca raised his slugger at Fingwood and said,

Now I'm going to count to free. There won't be any more counting after that because I don't know any more numbers. If you little get St. standing next to me by the time I reach free, I start shooting. I was going to say, wow, smart orc all the way to three. So he was able to actually run away. One of the sluggish shots hit a control panel,

the door closed, and he was on the other side. Oh, stroke of luck for the little garage. Okay. And this is where the park gets kind of funny because now Thingwood's by himself. He's all mad, right? Like, I can't believe all those other. Grot to just go to that orc like it was nothing.

You know, like all this time underneath the Claws banner, underneath the mech lord's banner. Now, what's the big idea anyway? Knocking this round because you're bigger, you know? We fix stuff. We carry stuff. Why don't you just do it yourselves? And then he, like,

He's all we've been through. He covers his mouth because he was scared someone would hear him. But no one ever heard him. So he just started giggling and laughing and tap dancing on an orc body. Wow. Okay. You danced the length of it with glee. Okay.

Good for him, I guess. He's basically like, I'm by myself, I'm finally alone. I'm doing my own thing. I'm able to, uh, I'm able to no longer be held down by the orcs. Okay. So he doesn't have to go on this mission to take over the human guns anymore, because he's basically defected and he's just going to go do whatever the he wants to do? I mean, basically, this is kind of where the whole, the, the, the, the Gabo's revenge goes. There's a, there's a story.

There's a story of the Grots called, um, the Red Gabo, which is basically like the Grot revolution. It is, it is full stop the glory, the Red Gobbo, sorry, yeah. The Red Gobo is full stop like the Grots will rise up against the Ork, uh, oppressive. head of the Gretchen Revolutionary Committee. Oh, I... It's literally... I think Shai was like, it's literally Lenin, isn't it? Like, isn't it just literally Lenin Grot?

Sounds that way? Sure. But I don't know, man. I don't think the Grots have much of a chance against the Orks. Like, I don't see a Grot revolution doing too well. Oh, that's the... That's the whole point, is that... being able to

Ever since then this is the idea It's the legend of the red gobo Is the legend of This person that will help Remove the orcs from on top of the Oh my God that mini is so good Oh my God He even has the communist star and everything

He does Wow that is That's pretty on the nose Oh dude it's so much worse In this game Oh a game Sorry book Yeah yeah

Really? Oh, he literally says, he literally says an orc speak, the glorious revolution. Oh. Oh, that's literally verbatim what he says. Oh, yeah. Ah, I see. Okay. Of course, the Christmas version, too, because, you know.

Oh, because naturally, we have to, you know. Oh, of course, of course. Yeah, the, the glorious revolution, the glorious grot is a whole other, is a whole other thing. but it's entirely full stop communist grot. That's why it's the red gobbow. He literally gets a star, the red common star and puts it on his chest. Oh, boy.

For the next like five pages, he has an argument with himself about, like his inner mind. Oh. And he's like, he's saying, you know, you couldn't just get rid of the orcs because Gork and Morx boys

are going to take over the galaxy one day. I'm making a fair job at the moment, you know? all the other gets the humis the pointy years the tin heads even those blue fish boys with their fancy guns were playing ketchup in a race they never have hope of winning but that doesn't mean the orcs gotta be pushing down to grots you know he's this part where he's like uh what do i want to do i mean i thought we were going to take the guns and blow up some hume ships it's like you can you don't have to do to not do something fun just because an orc told you to do it but if they tells you do something you don't want to, then maybe you don't have to.

It's like, this is getting more and more complicated. Fidde what told himself. Are you sure you're definitely being? Of course, I'm sure. How many fingers am I holding up? Thing would look down at his hand. Two, there you go, Dan. Wow.

Wow. All right. All right. I mean, God, I. Orcs. How do you? describe orcs, right? They're crazy.

I love them. He's got a great idea. So he looked out at a puddle of blood, saw his own face. And he was thinking about the idea of like, the Red Gobbo is just a legend. You know, he's not real. And there's no glorious revolution what presides over a land of fairness and equal opportunity for the Gretchen cast.

Shai said the Red Gobo's melee weapon is called The icon of the revolution. Yep. God. I know. I know. I know. They're not even trying to be subtle about it.

No, and I don't think they should. The more it's obvious, the more I like it. Because, oh, well, he says, there is no glorious revolution what presides over a land of fairness and equal opportunity for the Gretchen cast. And his mind says, first of all, you don't know that because you ain't been everywhere. second, if there ain't, then how did a legend start? And second plus one, if there ain't, then maybe there should be. And second plus one. Because orcs can count to three, but Gretchen can count to two.

I mean, I love the inner monologue, but something about the, and second plus one is, it tickles me pink, how stupid and amusing orcs are. So he eventually makes himself his red gobble outfit. He tailors himself a big old red suit with sleeves and everything, grabs some goggles, gets a star on his chest, and immediately goes out to confront the orc with his friends. He goes to the ark and said, Zagnab orc, let mine, the amork immediately shoots at him.

Yeah, I was going to say he doesn't last long, does he? This is not going to end well for this very, um, delusional grot. That's the word. Delusional. It doesn't, it can't end well for him.

He's got, um, he's got a classic you and who's wa thing. And he says, I ain't a runty grot. I'm da red gobbo. And I don't need a wall when I got the glorious revolution. And then real quickly,

a little bit quicker than the, orc, he unloads his shoota directly into the orc and peppers him up the chest to the face and blows out his entire rib cage and face apart. Oh, snap. So he, he succeeds? He kills the orc. He kills the orc. Because a shooter, see, orcs were tough.

They could take a hit that would kill a hume out right, get back up, clobber, whatever I hit him, and have a laugh about it afterwards. But orcs didn't just fight the rest of the galaxy. They mainly fought each other And a proper orc weapon Wasn't a proper orc weapon Unless it was killing enough To dispatch another orc

Aha. So the shooter was the Great Equalizer. Mm-hmm. Gotcha. Grots are often better shots than Orcs are. Oh, is that true? Yep. They actually, because they kind of give a shit

a bit more. Orks just are liking, feeling the recoil in their hands. Oh, that's true. Orcs are just like, taka, taka, taka, taka, who cares where I'm aiming just shoot all the darker.

Yep, that's pretty much exactly how it was. Oh, okay. And since this little grot probably cared more than the average grot, yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, a little revolutionary. So after killing the orc,

our new man, the red gobbo, leads his grot group all the way to the bridge where it seems that everyone is dead. Orcs, and humans are all dead. Oh. Like,

the entire boarding party of the ship seems to have died, and so have all the humans outside of, like, four people and servitors on the bridge. Okay, okay. So they all just murdered each other, and everybody's just kind of dead? Everyone's dead. The human is on the comm,

and he says, everyone on this throne damn ship dead, even the servitors? All right. That's crazy. They all just killed each other. And in the crossfire, everybody's just dead, except for like four people? And so therefore, the grots yank out a bunch of wires on the door of the bridge, enter the room, and fight the captain.

Okay. Cool. Cool. He ran out of ammunition with his shooter, and they had a goddamn draw. Him and the captain both reached for their pistols at the same time, and both pulled it out, the little Grot Blasta and the Las Pistol. And the Grot Blaster shot hit the captain square in the forehem when the last pistol blew a hole in the ear of our red Gobbo,

and he survived. So again, Gobbo's have pretty, good aim. They do. That sounds like a clean headshot. Hey, it's the red gobbow. That's the red gau. That's clean headshot and the dumb

hume he only, you know, pierced his ear a little bit. No, it blew a hole in his ear, but yeah. Yeah, it's, yeah, you put a gauge in there, you're fine. Yeah, it's good. Damn, nice shooting, Tex. Though, I must admit, after the other Grots kill, the

other remaining bridge crew, like the other three random humans. There's a great part. It's like the revolution was not without its own casualty. And one of the guys says, don't think he's going to make it boss, Swick said sadly, staring down at the decapitated body of grubba. Yeah, probably not. It's like, but I got to get what did it.

That's good thing with said solemnly. It's what he would have wanted. Barely sure what he would have wanted was to not get his egg cut off. And that is not an unreasonable point. But given that as Ed was cut off, I reckon what he would have wanted was for you to get to get what did it. I, boy, okay.

This book from the sounds of it is just reinforcing why everybody loves orcs. It is very funny. And the end of the book is simple. He takes the chair. They start pushing a bunch of buttons. there's an unshielded hume ship that they shoot with torpedoes and blow up. All right.

And then before the end of the beginning of the big mechua, they drive the hume ship full speed ahead in between all the other hume ships and just unload as many big red buttons as they could, firing guns on guns on guns through the entire thing, confusing the humeys and letting De Mech Lord's fleet rise up and kill the rest of them. So they just push all the big red

buttons they can find and hopefully just pray for the best. And it works. And it works. Because they renamed the ship Da Gobbo's Revenge. Hence the name of the book. Hence the name of the book. So henceforth

are they still part of De Mechlord's army? Is this like what what happens with them now? They they yeah they kind of just got picked up and got sent back to the Mecklord's army for the most part They're just they're just back to being normal grots again But it's more like the mental thing

Yeah, where like yeah the right gobble is real And soon there will the revolution will take full hold And all the grots will rise up But for now we bide our time for de revolution Or de revolution And the book ends with And just remember The red gobbo could be anywhere

He could be anyone He could be you You spelled Y-O-O Of course Of course I mean You know Anybody could take the mantle

Of the red You know Of the red gobbo Really Yeah Just gotta find a grot That's brave enough to do it It could be

Good luck I'm not a I'm not as good on my history as some others are. Yeah, with the understanding, like, because I know there's like 40 million communist revolution jokes in this book. There's so many. It's ridiculous how much of it was going on. But for the most part, it really just is the story of a couple grots that rose up,

took over a human ship, blasted other hume ships, and kind of won a space battle for an orc war boss. For de revolution. I will say, I was looking at this because I was kind of curious. There's an old orc cinematic for Battlefleet Gothic. I timestamped this. They referenced the red gobble in there. Oh.

I never even noticed this before, but you could see, there's the Gretchen's the big red star. Oh, yeah, and the big red star. Yep. So there's a nice little reference there. Yeah. I never noticed. There you go.

I mean, this is my first time hearing about the Red Gobbo, so I mean, cool. The Red Gobbo has a little excerpt of brutal cunning, or the Gabbo's revenge has a little excerpt of brutal cunning at the end of the book. But it's a quick 100-page read. I have not done it justice. For those of you listening, if it's like eight bucks, you could get the Kindle version for that. I would actually really recommend it because the humor in the writing is as good, if not bad. better than the dialogue itself. Ooh, okay.

I find, like, a lot of the fun, the, the humor of it comes from how it's written, not the things I've said. Right. It's really good. Just trying to write, like, orc speak and, like, that weird orc-neanderthal mentality is kind of where the humor comes from. Pretty much. And also just how he talks, just how it's written.

Um, it's, it's very, very good. I, I think it's, it's, it's one of the better quick reads. It's very funny. And it's just, it lets you understand orcs very, uh, very well. Yeah. Are there any other instances of a gobo being like, oh, yeah, I'm the red gobbo now. Um, I'm gonna like the revolution in it. I'm definitely considering other red gobbos.

It's a, it's a legend. It's like, uh, people, you know, they might assume that like, well, if it's a legend, it had to be from somewhere, so I'll take up the mantle and lead a revolution. Ooh, let me actually grab a, let me, let me grab an orc quote from, uh, from the book. And you can read that as, as our outro. Yeah, I figured at some point you were going to have me read something in Orney. All right. Go ahead. Read that. Holy Snorikies. I mean, you don't, you don't got to read it like all perfectly in Ork,

but I think it's, I think if you want to read it's pretty funny. All right. All right. Keep up. have one less foot to... Wait, keep up, or you'll have one less foot to go sticking in things, the big met growled, and thing we're hurry to obey. He could hear

the thump and crump and dock of explosions and gunfire coming from ahead of them now, and while those were not normally sounds towards which he would hurry, given Oaks' tendencies to use Grots' bullet shields, and his own decidedly

inadequate firepower, if he had to enter such a battle, then there was no better way to do it than behind three meganobs. Also, he wanted to keep both his feet. When you were a mex assistant,

you might have a better chance than an average grot of receiving a prosthetic leg, even one more advanced than a simple wooden peg. But there was absolutely no guarantee that this wasn't going to be an experimental contraption that could maim you in some other interesting way. Mecks sometimes like to test their ideas for such things before they risk fitting them to power for individuals like knobs. And Grotz was perfect candidates. Tozag Rocketfoot

could have told anyone that had his replacement leg not got propelled him into the side of a Gargant with lethal force. I just love the idea that the grot got a rocket leg and it flew into a gargit and killed him. It flew into a gargit and lethal. Yep. All right, good enough. We'll end it. Bye.