Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - The Goblin Games | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 15

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

Welcome to the 59th Annual Goblin Hero Games! This year, we have a very special competitor, one who has cheated death, turned a kegger into a rager, and built a sentient cannon with googly eyes. It’s Tippy Terror Squad, who definitely isn’t a baby! Will Tippy conquer The Goblin Games and be crowned a Goblin Hero? Will Bizzee and Fibs get caught sabotaging the competition? Just what the heck are these NPC names anyway? Find out for yourself on a thrilling new episode of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And they are played by... Hi, I'm Dan Casey. I play fibs. He's a skeleton wizard who's going to fill his friends full of mushrooms. I'm Danielle Radford. I play busy. She is a skeleton, bard rogue who is going to fill her friends full of confidence and probably also some of those mushrooms. Hey, I'm Jason Wynn. I play Tippy, a goblin artificer who's going to fill his enemies full of lead.

Amazing. And with all those declarations, it is now time to part the veil of reality. Ooh. Yes, yes, yes. We are no longer among friends just here hanging out, playing a game. No, no, no. In fact, we are playing a much more sinister game and a little bit goofier. game of the Goblin Games. We find ourselves in Meyer Fenn Swamp near Fitzfeldv. And in Meyerfenn's

swamp these days hosts about, ooh, a thousand goblins as they come from all manners of tribes and clans across Sundaros to participate and compete and support their champions in the Goblin Games. The Goblin Hero Challenge. Only one will be named the Goblin Hero. When we open our eyes for the day, you all have taken a long rest. Oh, thank goodness. The Lord above. And you know that Pakara donknozzle

has received favor from Glomgen, the judge. That's right. Of the Goblin Hero Games. When you wake up, you are in the Fummecrest camp. Of course I am. Where else would I be? Supported by that entire family of fummy crusts. You have a little bit of time before the Goblin games begin.

We're gonna handle this really well. I think it's gonna have, I am gonna be a good day. Focus up, lock in. We're dogs. We're dogs. Fummy crust. Fummy crust. Just get serious.

Fummy crust. prepare for the beginning of the goblin games. Is there anything you'd like to do? Can I look around and see what the other camps are doing? Can I see any other champions getting ready? Because Tippy has never done a goblin game, so he has no idea what he should be doing right now. All three of you roll a perception check.

Oh. Hell yeah. That's a dirty 20. 21. That's a bummy crust 20. Uh-oh. That is a big old critical one. So that means that's a three.

I did it. Okay, awesome. So Busy, you are spending a lot of your time warming up because as the yellow holler, you're gonna be doing a lot of yeller and holler in. And for the other two, Phibbs, you notice that in the go night night game, there is a hollow log nearby that looks like that's going to be erected almost like a May pole in the middle of the go night night circle.

And you see some of the other champions, Bannerman and Yeller-Hollers, kind of going near that log, probably doing some shenanigans to it. There are other goblins that seem a little more official. They're trying to keep everyone away from it, but that's what's happening. The other thing that you see, actually, Tippy, you see, off in the distance, four large piles of materials. There's guards around there, but it doesn't seem to be in play. at the moment, you see the piles of materials look different in composition. Like everything has, you know, some sticks and dirt and fiber, but one of them looks a little

bit more like it has animal pelts and leathers. One of them has more like metallic scraps. One of them, bricks and stones, one of them more wood, woodplanks and flats and that kind of thing. But there are four piles off in the distance. Can I go investigate those piles? There's no real other Bannerman or Yellowhawlers going over there, but these piles are I don't know why, but there's something going on with those piles. Same thing with that Maypole over there. That's beautiful. That's been so good, busy.

Yeah. Oh, thank you. I've been practised. I can check out either one. You should probably stay close. You got some stuff you got a handle. Tell you what, oh, why don't I do this? I spend some time and prep my homunculus back to life.

Okay. And I'm like, Robo Tippy. Oh, go ahead. I know that's what you want to do. Busy just immediately, he's like, oh my god, I missed you so much. I miss you so much, who's the best humongulous? Does the homunculus talk?

No, it can't talk. Okay, well, it does reach its hands up for upees. Ah, all right. Boop. Okay, well, you could hang out with Busy after you do this task for me, but I need you to go check out those piles. And it sort of nods and I'm gonna send it off to go see the piles.

Okay, cool. Okay, so I'll check out that maybe. that mipple. I don't trust it. It looks like some maybe shenanigans are at work here, and if so, maybe we can get in on them. Yeah, I think that sounds like a good idea. I'll stay back here and prep my Eldridge cannon so that it's ready to go. Okay. And that's what I'll do. So I'll let you check it out, and Robo Tippy check out the other thing. That was good. And Busy, I guess

you're going to keep practicing. tip of the tooth, the teeth, the lips, the tip of the top, she doesn't have. Is there anything else you'd like to do? What can I kind of see around me? Anything at all? Yeah, is there, like, what can I see now that I'm like out of my practice zone?

You're wandering around the cam, and you run into your pal again from last night, Zibber. Zibber Swamp-Spot? Zipper Swamp-Spot. Zipper, big zip. Ooh, yeah, zoo. Basilike walks over, hey, how's it going? Oh, it's you, yes, from last night.

It's going well, I have chosen my champion. Seems as though Pakara Donknozzle is the chosen of the glomgen, but I have instead chosen mine, and it is Tog Busflog. Tog Busflog, what do you possibly see in Tog BusFlog? She's a nimble creature, isn't she? For the bulk of her muscles, she sure does emit a fun energy. Oh, you think that she's quick?

I think she's quick, I think she'll score very well in the go night night and as well as the Umbaba dance. Hmm, okay, all right. She'll score very well in the go night, because she's killing me. That's all. As you were. So, I haven't been able actually see,

I would love to do. I'll see a nimble goblin. I haven't really seen one. Do you happen to know where she might be? Oh, yes, she's just over there. Although, is this for your personal gains? No, I'm just nosy. Okay, deception.

Uh-huh. 21. Oh, yeah, light. Well, I can understand how a skeleton would be very, very interested in an imbaba dance. I might show you one myself. So yeah, he takes you over to Tog and convinces her to do an imbaba dance.

And she says, I don't know if this is exactly what I'm going to do for the fight, but it's something like this. And she kind of gets on the ground. She gets in a break dancing pose on her neck and then starts twerking with her legs up in the air. That's kind of a... That's the... That's the most painful. A big move that she's up to.

And then your pal Zibber does his version of it. And it is like a puppet that you were controlling back and forth and just waving his head opposite. Oh, that's really well done. That's so amazing. Hey, Zibber, I actually, I think I see the judge over there somewhere being a super duper hater. Would you mind going and checking that out for me? Because he doesn't really know me, but he knows you. You just want me to check out the judge, Glamgen? Yeah, just go look at him, just like make sure that he's, you know, still being Haiti, still being a hater. Okay, persuasion.

Persuasion? 16. Okay. And he says, oh, it would be pretty good to see what the judge is about, because I know that he's not without his own shenanigans. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Well, it's been a lovely morning and he goes off. Tog, that was like, that was like so good.

I just have a couple of notes for you if you don't mind. I don't mind. You don't mind? Great. So something that I noticed while you were doing this is that Unfortunately, it just looks like you're really bad at it and probably bad at everything you've ever like done in your entire life and it seems like you're probably a really like mean person and maybe if you weren't so mean and so terrible and not such a complete waste of goblin flesh and space and smell and holes it would be different, but you are. And Busy casts vicious mockery. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Is that a wisdom saving throw? That is a wisdom saving throw. DC 11. My gosh. Okay, she does save. She says, well, I don't even know what I did to you, skeleton, but for the record, you're kind of a, you're kind of a dirt clod yourself.

Don't you guys like dirt? Yeah. So then thank you. Oh, man. Okay, look, I bungled that, but get out of here, get out of my head. Okay, fine, I'm just, you know, I, you're right. You did so good. I bet everyone will really love what you did.

And at that moment, busy casts the innate, this is not a spell, this is just the innate ability to mean girl. This is not a spell. Busy performs meme girl. Yeah, I think that lands completely. So, yeah, I think you can just see easily that she kind of gets in her head. She gets up from her shoulder neck position

and is just kind of like, whoa. Why don't even know where that came from? All right, bye. Do such a good job. You're so talented. Okay, you definitely had an effect on her. You don't know what it was, but like, you know, after seeing her brother get thrown

by Tippy and then your random verbal attack. Yeah, she's just got kind of a frown on her face and she went from this like, you know, kind of shadow boxing to going like, just real still and kind of sitting on a stump and going, what was that? So yeah, if you look back, she's not as confident as she used to be.

Your homunculus is going over to investigate the piles, huh? I love that. Yeah, thank you. You got it in her head. You got in her head. He'll talk to be sister. So Heronculus goes over to the piles. What he kind of reports back is that there are four, and it is as you saw before.

But beyond the piles, there seem to be four entrances to caves that are also guarded, hidden a bit by the swamp, but he goes unnoticed and is able to just kind of wander around. This does seem like the secret fourth challenge. Okay. And when he comes back, he's able to at least communicate. information for you to understand that the secret fourth challenge involves four piles of materials and four entrances to a cave. Amazing. And then Dan, what you see with the May Pole, it is a hollow log and very clearly this is going to be this pillar in the center of the Go Night Night Games, where the people who are outside the pillar, the way that the top of the May Pole looks is that the darts will come from the tops of the May Poles and their aim

right outside of the circle where people are meant to throw themselves in. The circle itself when you see it drawn, it does not seem as though all 20 goblins can fit, although many of them can, especially if they pile on top of each other, but you can definitely tell the angle of the dart holes are aimed outside of this circle. You mentioned shenanigans before. Does it look like anyone's tampered with this or perhaps stashed something inside? Yeah, as you approach, go ahead, investigation check. Don't mind if I do.

Actually, I do. That is a seven. A seven. Looks like a pole to me, boss. Yeah, it does look like a pole. As far as what's been done to it, you can't really tell. But you would just know that goblins would have done maybe something, even with the guards around it trying to keep the game a fair fight.

Phibbs is kind of scratching his head, and he pokes the may pole with his quarter staff. Okay, yeah, you do. And nothing really happens except a goblin comes over and goes, Hey, get off of that. Sorry, I'm texting structural integrity. It's integrally structure. Okay, if you say, how do, wait, who are you? What is your full name?

Oh, my full name is, uh, uh, uh, uh, DugZug Glizzy. Dug Zug-Glizzi? Dug-Zug-Glizzi. Okay, okay. Okay. And I'm like to understand. This means that your mother's family name was gliszy. Glissie.

Come in the Glizzy clan? This is a matrilennial society. Yes. What's it to you? I just want to know what is your glisness here. I'm in charge of go night night. I built the structure and I'm going to be one of the runners for the games, the referees.

Well, you've done a fantastic job. I just have to say, very impressed. This is integrally strong. integrally struck, as you said, to me so eloquently. I just wanted the flag for you, as someone who has a vested interest in this game, that I saw some other competitors, perhaps trying to sabotage the pole.

Oh, when he goes over to the top, it makes his way examining every inch of it, and at the top, he goes, you're right, a couple of these have been plugged with, ugh, just disgusting dirt, and he starts clearing out. I thought you guys liked dirt. I do like dirt, but not in my, not in my little, machine.

That's fair. And he starts cleaning out. Thank you so much. That would have given an advantage to anyone who had seen where the clogs were. They just wouldn't have gotten sleep darted. What's the point of that? I thought it was to go night night, not to stay wake wait. No, thank you.

Someone said it. Have a great day. Okay, thank you for checking in on us. And he tells the guards to keep a, keep a firmer grip on the scum that might approach. Without further ado, is there anything else? Yeah, so just to just so we all all know, Tippy has made his Eldridge Cannon, except this time it's tinier than before.

It's hand-sized, but it still has legs and still has eyes. Because you can either make the Eldridge Cannon small or tiny. Dang. Tiny hand cannon. Yeah. So to the naked eye, it would look like another gun. Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only thing Tipi wants to do is Tipi wants to go up, is Old Man Fummy Crust around? Sure, yeah.

I want to go up to Old Man Fummy Crust now, yeah. I go. Mr. Fummycrest, I want to just say thank you for taking us in here. Well, of course we will. Yes, yes. And thank you for believing me as your champion. I want to ask, what can the Fummy Crust help me with when the games begin? I'm going to need all the help I can get.

We might influence the games in some way. Again, we don't know how it's going to go, but let's just say, I don't want to let you know too much about what we're up. much about what we're up to because if you know you could be at risk for disqualification but we might let's say throw some things into the mix obviously this would only be if you needed our help and you could throw anything uh absolutely so Tippy reaches into his pack and he produces a force bead and he's like if things get rough oh I know what that is please don't throw this at me but throw this at them it'll hurt

And I give this to Mr. Fummy Crest. Alright, I'll keep this in my back pocket. Beat of force, huh? I bet I could come up with a few different ways she used this. And one final thing. If I were to die in these games, I need you to deliver a message. I need you to tell Bikora.

I know, Bacara, but I like to say Bacora. Of the Donk Nozzle family? Of the Donk Nozzle plan. Yeah, I'm still getting it. get a use to that. Donk nozzle, donk nozzle, Mr. and Mrs. Donk nozzle. It'll take time. Just tell her, I mean, I already told her I love her.

Just tell her, I can't think of a new thing. Just tell her I think she's cute. She knows you love her, and you want me to tell her that you think she's cute. If I were to perish, yes. If you are to perish, I'm gonna put all of that into my own words. Okay, that's fine.

You can enter- I've been married, 60 years. Well, congratulations, Mr. Fummycrest. I know my way around a lady. Great, I don't. I know, so with your grace, I'll do what I know as best. After Tippy's done chatting with Mr. Fummycrust, Fibbs walks over and says, look,

I gotta give you something. I alluded to this previously, but he opens up. his robe and pulls out like a little bandelier with some little pouches in each pouch he's put one of each type of the mushrooms that he purchased from Went Cudge gloom and as a reminder there are four different kinds of mushrooms there are one called hardy truffle which restores your health to full amazing there is why did I write it like this what does this say You're so confident.

Krunger. I don't know what the second one says. What was it? A clover. Clover. Clover, Krunger. Can it be Krunger, please? It's not Krunger.

I think it's a Krunga, but maybe it's Klova. It's how I don't say Krunger? Are you sure it's called Krunger? Look, I wasn't really paying attention. I was busy gambling. Okay, what's the Krunger Shroom? It gives you an advantage on a D20 attack roll. Yeah, yeah, on a next D20 roll.

Next, any D20 roll. There's also, Blush Room, which is a plus one to strength checks in advantage on Constitution saves. Okay. And then there's Brawlers Button, which gives you an additional 1D6 damage to your attack, and resistance to bludgeoning.

Good job. These seem really useful. Yeah, I know. You are doubtful. No, I never doubt you, Phibbs. I do doubt Krunger a little bit, but that just seems like you're not sure about it. I can kind of tell. I may not be sure, but I did just meet someone named Dugsug Glissy, sir.

You're right. You're right about that. Okay. Busy, what did you find out? I just went and talked to your dumb sister, and I told her she was dumb, and her face is dumb, and her dance moves are dumb. Busy?

I know. That is so bad. You're such a mean girl. I didn't think I would be, and normally I don't think I would be, but I don't like bullies, and she bullied my friend, and so she gotta go. Well, thank you for bullying her.

I guess. Yeah, I'm just merely showing a mirror to her, to her own actions. And you know, it doesn't just help us in this moment. It will also hopefully help her to know about the pain that she inflicts upon others. But if it doesn't, that's totally cool because she sucks. And just by the way, I gave old man, um, old man fummy crust. How could I forget? Of course.

I gave old man fummy crust a beat of force. And he said, if things get rough. You gave him what? Yeah, be in a force. Okay. We got a couple of us. To throw them at my enemies if things get hard. Okay.

Okay. Okay. And with that, as you're all aware, I believe you also relay the information about the four piles and that maybe the fourth, the fourth challenge. I tell them about the fourth challenge and what's beyond the piles in the caves. I wonder what those piles are leading to

and what lies within that cave. If you guys can find out anything more during the games, let me know. I'll do some dig-zugging of my own. And busy. I am going to entrust my maculus Robotypy to you. I shall cherish him as my own. Okay.

I love you, son. You have to put him down at some point. You can't just hold him and hug him 24-7. He's got to be able to do things. Well, son's time's to go. Everyone's getting ready, and the thing is, Yeller-Haller-Ban, you're ready because you've got to announce your guy,

our guy, Tippy, Tibby Terror Squad up to Glamgen up there at the top of the stands. So I think you all are last, so prepare a little speech to get the audience going for you. All right. And he corrals you into a space where the other contestants are. Everyone's getting a little elbow-y and, like, hyped up in their way. At the top of the stands, you do see that Glamgan is at the very top of these makeshift stands that were built. They're basically made out of wood.

They look like they could come down at any second. but standing on them and stomping are about only 150, 200 goblins. The rest of the goblins are spread out to see as best as they can, more like a golf match. The other person who's at the top with Glomgen is actually Crandall, and he's looking mighty fine. He's found himself not only goblin robes, but some really nice velour-type robes that you're used to seeing him in.

That's interesting that he's standing up next to Glomgen. The contestants move out and you hear the yeller hollers announce why the audience should love them and get them all riled up. And of note, Plixy comes out and starts getting the audience all riled and says, But juicy since she got bit only three years ago. She's a worm-armat and she'll go full rodent on anyone who crosses her. It's Pakara Dunk Nozzles! Woo! Clap for her!

Yeah! Yeah! Pecora! You're so cool! A few of the others, Juck Bus Flog, Togbus Flog that you get through. You've got Palbus slampers and then a few others go through until a Now it's Tippy's turn. I'm a slamper, I forgot.

Go Palma. Okay, roll them up, Busy, rile them up. All right. I'm gonna look cool. I start leaning on stuff as Busy winds her up, her speech. Goblins and other goblins. Are you ready? I said, are you ready?

We are bringing to you from a swamp Coming at something, a bunch of hundreds and pounds, A grown ass man is the defeater of death, the mucker of the scythe of Aurelia, he is two I run out and I trip and I fall on my face and I quickly brush the dirt off my knees and I stand back up like something happened. Fib's is casting dancing lights.

So there's four like torches flying around, Tippy's head. You got ready for tips. Oh, I mean, you hear the comments, are you going, boo-yog, boo-y-y-y. Everyone's getting super interested. Roll a performance check just real quick with advantage because of the help action with Dan.

Well, I mean, I'll do it because it's fun. But it just rolled 19. So, oh, yeah. And that was performance? Yeah. Great, so that's a 21. A 21. Heck yeah.

So the entire arena actually is getting into the spirit of it. It's almost as if they're like, wait, what? How did, who is it? Where did this guy come from? And they feel like everyone else was an opener, except you are the main act. So, you know, you've got the fummy crust on your side. But you also see other people whispering. You see went being called over.

People might be changing bets, that kind of thing. Timpe is standing in a power stance with two of his guns across his chest. Okay. His legs is wide as wide as can be. You look awesome and specifically Juck and Tog, but all of the other contestants are looking a little bit worried. They might have underestimated this 20th contestant. You're cleared out of the way and Gomglan, Glomgen, begins the ceremony by just going, Let the Goblin Hero Challenge begin.

And everyone's clapping. It's just a little less... One judge must fall. Yeah, it's less... Come on. Come on. So the games have begun. You see some runners arranging you and the other 19 contestants around.

Go night night. Again, this is a circle. It is a 15-foot radius circle. And in the middle is now erected the hollow log May poll. You know the rules when the music stops, you're going to need to get inside of the circle. They have you all stationed around and you see that

Picara actually gets to choose and she's looking up at the different dart holes and she picks her stance. Everyone's whispering like, does that mean anything? But she picks where she's going to stand. It's right up against the circle. There are some goblins on the outside. Let's see where your stance is.

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Close to the circle and have a pretty good shot. Maybe you'll have to fight your way through, but you might also be on the outside. Do you want to be near or far from Pekara? Near Pekara. Near Pekara, perfect. go ahead and just make a straight-up intelligence check. Oh, we got that.

Okay. Well, let's see. Oh! That's a six. A six. Okay, you actually think the best position is near Pekara. Of course you do. Okay.

But you're actually gonna strategically let some people in front of you as well. Okay, so let's get this started. The music, yes. Is there a referee nearby? Yes, they're absolutely. So just quickly the rules, the rules. So anything goes, spells, guns, teeth, claws? We've seen it all.

Okay. Okay. Is it possible? I'm just gonna yell out one last like, Let's go big tip and cast. Perfect. Fartic inspiration. You have farting inspiration.

I will need that. Okay, so this first round, the same band from last night is gonna strike up and start playing. People are starting to move. No one's crossing the line yet, but they're muscling their way in to get closer to the edge of the circle. Hang on, wait your turn.

Is there anything you'd like to do? Not yet, not yet. Not until we go, not until we go. So I'm just readying myself. So all of a sudden, the music stops and everyone throws themselves into the center. Okay, because I imagine everybody starts dashing right at one. Yeah, yeah.

So I'm gonna dash towards the center. And I just wanna know if I'm in the lead behind, like, where am I? So I start running. Dexterity saving throw. All right, dexterity saving throw. That's gonna be a 22. 22. Yeah, so if it wasn't clear, you're just on the outside of a 15-foot radius circle,

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I want to turn around and wait till to see Piccarra, to see if she is right behind me or not, or part of the crowd. She would be in front of you. She's in front of me, great. Even better. So then I turn around and I cast grease on the floor where all of the other runners are running.

Okay, okay, okay, perfect. So about three of them were already not going to make it and get put to sleep, but as you cast grease in the split second, they're able to get, within the 15 foot radius circle, but they also slide through. So you knock out another couple. That leaves you with 15 contestants left

all in the first round. The car is still in. I wanna see if Juck makes it. Juck feels like he should make this, but let's see. So their ground is now difficult terrain. It's a 10 foot square centered on the point that I classed in. And they have to make a deck saving throw 13.

Okay, well yeah, let's see if Juck was one of those. So a deck's saving throw of 13, huh? Juck does not make it. Juck's out. Oh, Juck was one of the five. Yeah, Juck was one of the five that were out. So as three of them aren't quick enough to jump on the pile, the sleep darts get them. They're knocked unconscious.

Juck and another goblin are barreling through the other side and trying to scramble to hold on within the circle, but as they move through, it's just too fast. Juck and the other goblin, I go night night, Jack. Juck as went night, night. Greased up and tranquilized. The announcer announces,

Juck Bus Flog is out! And he also names out some other names who are out of the... What, do you know what other names? Yes, I do. Can you name them all so we know? First and last night, please. I can name, okay.

Please, first, this is important for the lore. Yes, Juck Bus Flog is out. Did I say, oh, Urky Floodgunk is out. No, not Urky. Floodgunk, no. Crunger, Munchstrom. Cronger. That's where I heard Kronger.

That's where Kronger came from, that munch. Blinks Mudmeyer. Blinks Mudmeyer is out and. I think there was one more. There were two more. Oh, even better. Snargle sludge paw is out. Snart snarl.

Snartle. And blip, slime grin is out! Phibbs looks over towards went kudgloom to see what the betters are doing around him. He is surrounded by people. So he's looking like he's having the time of his life. His mustache is twitching. He's in his element.

Cool. But yeah, people are waving pouches of gold coins at him. Plenty are pointing at Tippy. Some others are pointing at Pekara. Some are pointing at Tog, too. You three are gaining some notice, but that's the first round. So you've only got 15.

They're gonna play until they're down to 12, which might happen in the next round, so let's see. So they clear the area. We actually have some Buyahagg goblins coming in to clear out the magic, dispelling the grease as well. And they put you all on the outside. Once more, Pekara chooses a similar spot. Okay, I choose a spot next to Pekora again.

Okay, so you've got at 15, you're gonna go down to 12. Let's see if that happens. So the music starts up again, and then all of a sudden it stops. Everyone jumps to the center. Let's see if you make it. Oh, so nervous. This is make a DC-16 dexterity saving throw. Okay, okay, okay.

Roll to 16, so that's 20. Dirty 20. Dirty 20, yeah, you're in the circle. Let's see. Pekara, no problem. And Tog, no problem. I'm not gonna roll for every single one of them, but let's see how many we go through.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow, yeah, everyone makes it actually. Okay, yeah. That's full 15. They start setting up again. Same thing, music starts. Before the next round starts, Phibbs wants to subtly try and cast his mage hand

and have it slink along the ground on the outskirts of the circle waiting to grab someone's shirt and grab. one's shirt and hold them back. Okay, yes. Your mage hand is cast, is conjured. He's gonna wait till after the grounds crew sweeps any magical hog slop. Absolutely, so they come in, they look around,

everything's reset, and the music starts up again. Your mage hand is conjured, and you can see, yeah, you're not the only one getting just a little closer to the action, but still, will you either roll a side of hand or a stealth check to make sure that this mage hand goes undetected? Buddy. That's incredible. That's a natural one.

No. Fibbs, fives. Fims. Did you give me all the mushrooms? Yeah. I would say that even as it's going, like one of the referees just stomps on the mage hand. Ow, ow, ow, ow.

Is just like, get out of here, Bouyog. And just starts looking for the source of it. Can't really find the source of it. That's wild. What a cheater. Mage hand is completely dissipated. Yeah, it's gonna be all you. So when we're gonna be all you.

So one more time, the music starts. Okay. The music stops, everyone bounces in, and ooh. Okay, perfect. Actually, you see that Piccaro might not make it this time. Oh, okay, Piccarra might not make it. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh, ah, no, no.

And while you're looking at yourself, go ahead and make a DC. So I rolled that first, and that's gonna be 19, not a dirty 20, I rolled one last. Okay, I was gonna make it a DC 17, so that saves. You're able to make it inside the circle. So as I make it inside the circle, can I hand, put a handout to help Cicora? Yes, you can actually, yeah.

So I turn out like, Kora, grab! Yeah, it's like people move past her and before she could get in, there were just people on top of her, so you can use your hand and swing her up. I swing her up. Let's see if you do. This is going to be an athletics check.

Athletics check, oh, brother. And you do have Bartic Inspiration. Oh, that's right, okay, I might need it on this one. Or not, that's gonna be 16. We're gonna need a 17 for this. Okay, I'll roll the Bartik Inspiration. that's gonna be plus six, so. 16 plus six? Yeah, 22, great.

Okay, Picard's on the top of the pile, but there were plenty of others who did not make it, and they are. Who are they? What's their first and last name? Well, unfortunately for all of us, palba slampers is out. Oh, no, no. Palba slampers is out.

I'll always forget you, palba slampers. Oh, whatever. Grib snaggle word. Not drib. is out. Snickle Bog Bottom is out. Snickle Bog Bottom. Good family.

So that's, is that eight? It's nine goblins out, right? That's nine goblins. Yeah, because it actually includes a Juck. BustFlog. Juck BusFlog is out. So still in is Tippy and Pekara and Tog, BusFlog as far as you know.

It means 11 or left. That means eight others who you don't know the names of are still there. Great. So we've got Glamgan at the top and he goes, The Go Night Night is over. And everyone cheered, you know, politely crossed for him. Yes. And the referees moved the remaining contestants, all 12 of you,

over to this area where each one of you has basically a 10 foot by 10 foot platform, square platform on which to perform your Umbaba dance. Okay. The only thing you know about this is that Tog probably got in her head about it based on what busy told you. Okay. Each person is going to have a minute to display their moves, except it is made apparent that Picaro, with the favor,

is able to have 30 seconds, one minute, or a minute and a half. So she gets to choose if she goes longer or less time. She's whispering with Plixy, and you don't know what she's chosen. But the rest, everyone else is going to have to perform for one minute. I'm assuming I can see where my friends are. Yeah, yes. Because she has plixie near her. Yes, yes.

You're able to have your Bannerman and Yellowhaller are next to you. Sidebar? Sidebar. I'm not very confident in dancing, so what should I do? It sounds to me kind of like you're supposed to dance without rhythm. Without rhythm? Well, I could do that, maybe. You won't attract the Scravics.

Okay. Okay. You want to dance without rhythm, like chaotic, a lot of flailing. A lot of flailing. You want to play unpredictable, but big energy, big, big energy. Do you think you can inspire me again or? Oh, dude, you're going to do this so great. You're fantastic.

And if nothing else, you're going to do so much better than your sister. Thank you. Then I cast part of inspiration again, and I look up, can she see me? Todd? Yeah. Yes. I was looking, Todd, and I go, you're doing great. That's, I felt the shiva.

Wow. That's really cold, busy, but I like it. Terror. Okay, yeah, you can tell that she's back in her head. Okay, the way that this is going to work, as far as you all are concerned, is we're going to go around, normally this would be 10 rounds per minute, but each one of you is going to go around twice and tell me a description of what Tippy does, and then we'll roll for it and see how well he performs it.

Depending on what they are, probably most likely it'll be an acrobatics check, but you know what Tippy's strongest then, intelligence. So if you can convince me that there's a move that requires intelligence, I'm happy to let you roll that. These will be ability checks. What we're looking for is a four out of six. Okay. Also, if it's and busy, you are able to influence this

in any cheater way that you can have chance. What are you accusing us on the way? We don't cheat. If you also think the mushrooms will help you, bonus action, you can go ahead and do that as well. So we'll take six rounds. Okay, so the music starts, it is out of control. It's like each goblin is using two instruments

to bang on and make sounds from. Many of the goblins are blowing through something, harmonicas or other kind of recorder, but it is the most chaotic music, and goblins love it. Okay, the first round, Tipi, what move are you performing? Tippy thinks about what to do, and then sort of panics, and he's like,

oh, what moves have I seen? I've seen, somebody tried to do the worm one time. And he tries to do the worm, but it's gonna look like he's, like, inchworming across the floor, but flailing his arms around as he, like, inchworms. Kind of a baby, actually. A little bit of a baby.

Yeah, how the butt comes up and then the baby. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I think that'll be completely an acrobatics check. Okay, all right, acrobatic. And sorry, this will be DC13 all the way through. DC 13, all right, let's try it. Let's see what we got. We got a, is it acrobatics?

I did. 16. 16. Everyone, Tibby's dance starts off a little tame, a little mellow, just scooting, for lack of a better term. He's just scooting. The next move he tries. Okay, so the next move the Tippy tries, Tippy turns and he looks over directly at his sister,

and he does a move that is just doing like finger guns. So it's like a gun in the air and then like up, like, peo, peo, peo, peo, peo, peo, peo. You like that? As a reminder of how he just fully took his gun out on their brother. Okay. Like another way for him to like psych her out.

Psychotic. Okay, yeah, pretty psychotic. So he actually, yeah, he dons this in this truly, truly obnoxious face. You've never wanted to punch him more in the face. So actually this will be, this will be an entot- Okay. If you're toad. Okay, go ahead and roll an intimidation check.

This is a charisma-face check. Intimidation check. Oh, Lord. With D-Mines 2. 17 minus 2 is 15. DC-13, yeah, you make it. Yeah, no problem. All right, all right, all right.

Okay, and I would say that Tog is sufficiently intimidated as well. So-bang, bang, sister. Yes, great, yeah, you successfully rendered her, little scared. Okay, Phibbs, what does Sibby do next? Fibbs does not participate in psychological warfare against the members of the bust flog family. Instead, he pauses a moment, licks his finger, and holds it up to calculate the direct,

of the breeze. And then remembering how he incorporated this with underground breezes from the caves to determine what direction to release poison gas and things like that. He winds up and then attempts a front flip. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

Yeah, you are. Okay, this is dexterity saving through acrobatics. Acrobatics. Okay, that's gonna be 18, and I wanna add a little flourish in the middle of the air when I'm up said down, I want to spread my little goblin legs and do a quick little fart before I land on the ground. And when he does that, Phibbs cast

prestidigitation to make a shower of sparks erupt from his age. Tshh-h-h-h-h-h-hap! In 18. Like a gymnast. Like a gymnast. The go wild. No one has ever choreographed a fart into their dance,

into their ombaba dance, and much less a glittery fart. At this moment, the fummy crust are going to assist you, and it's hard for you to know what they're doing. But just so you know, they've taken a bit of your scent, a bit of your clothes the night before. They show it to some caged animals. They are sort of more of a predatory bat situation.

Okay. Don't worry, they're helping you. They fly directly towards you. And so, well, you don't really know. I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry. But the bats surround you and this next bit is subconscious, but you're going to make them with advantage

because you're also going to be trying to bat the bats away. And it does look insanely chaotic as your fear, Tippy is triggered. The Fummy Crest did some math and we're like, I think fear will help him. And his fear and insecurity and weakness will help him in this dance. I think if we give him West Nile virus, he'll help him dance better. It's a bat! He gonna be okay,

he don't get bit, what them bats. And so this next round, as you describe what you're up to, you're gonna be rolling with advantage. And don't forget, you still do have the Bartik inspiration. Okay, okay, okay. So Tippy, what would you like to do? I think it's just the most flailing a goblin could possibly do,

almost in like a pirouette sort of way, where I'm spinning around, right? In my head, it's graceful, but really, it's like, And I'm like, trying to punch them off of my body as that's happening. Okay, and that's all you do. That's all I do. Great, this is with advantage. I think this is just more of a performance check, I think.

Okay, performance. Whoa, with advantage, okay. With advantage. Oh my God, that would have been, but I rolled the exact same thing. So I want to as a bonus action, eat one of the mushrooms. Okay. I believe it's the crunger.

Okay. Crunger. Your next roll has advantage. So you want double advantage on this? You wanna roll again? Yeah, can I roll again? Yeah, go ahead, yeah, for sure. So I'm gonna roll again.

Not good, oh my God. Okay, better, 14. 14 will do it. Do you see 13 all the way through? And remember, so you have four out of the six, but let's see if you get a full six on here. Yeah, you just go nuts. The fummy crust were right.

You're a little Scaredy Goblin, and it seems to work in your favor. Your limbs are flailing. Are the bats still batting? The bats are still batting this whole time. Okay, so as Tippy is flailing around with the bats, he keeps missing and he like flings on a bat like starts hitting people in the face.

He could, he could do that. Yeah, he could disadvantage other people. While he's doing that, sure his limbs are flailing, but yeah, let's say this is gonna target someone other than tog who's nearby you. So this is more of an attack role, I think. Okay, yeah, ranged attack for bat thrust. Okay, I go, the bats, they have.

Have me! And then I throw one as far away from my face as possible. And this is with advantage. With advantage, all right, so it's even better. So that's gonna be 23. A 23, yeah, you're able to throw your bat at a nearby contestant. It knocks into the ground, but not in a chaotic way. It actually looks kind of boring the way

that they're hit out of the ground by a bat. And you feel, yeah, super confident in yourself. This last turn, before it happens, you actually catch a glimpse of Pekara, and she chose a full, minute and a half. This girl is rocking it. It's like each, each of her limbs is, has a mind of its own. Each ass cheek has a mind of its own. Yo! Was she throwing in a circle? Each ass cheek can hit the numbers on a clock. That don't be nosing. Yo! What that thing doing back there! Her head and her hips are

just swaying as well as her limbs. They're chaotically moving, but very skilled. It's like, Piccaro was hiding something from you. Let me ask you something. Do I roll wisdom saves? You absolutely roll wisdom saving throw. Um, okay. It's a net 40. It's not 20.

Oh, with disadvantage. Sorry. Disadvantage, disadvantage. Um, that's going to be a 10. Just a solid 10. You are overcome watching this beautiful, juicy goblin do her thing and you. Yeah.

Whoa. You turned into a where sparrow. Oh no. Oh, ah, it's so painful. What am I? Abomination. Disgusting. You hear the crowd go completely silent.

And you actually see Carcaro look over at you too and kind of look in horror. That what he thought that wisdom wrote for? Dan, what is his final move in his wear sparrow for? As Tippy starts freaking out as a wear sparrow, he tries to cover his face with his little head feathers. The birds are freaking out. They do not like this, so they all start descending on him.

And it's like he's encased in bats. And slowly, Tippy starts to rise as they all carry him up. And all at once, Tippy like spread eagles or spread sparrows, and all the bats fly off, and he drops to hopefully strike a pose when he lands. Yes, what is that pose that you strike Tippy? Tippy with his ears flapping, hovering down, looks like he's about to strike a gymnast pose,

but really goes and covers his privates in case he was rolling for a boner. Okay. So he lands and he's like, he lands. He lands. He lands. It just looks like you have to go to the bathroom. Like a baby has to go to the bathroom.

Yes, yes, yes. Okay, so this is going to be a performance check with advantage. Okay, with advantage. Don't forget your Bartik inspiration. And, okay, with advantage, now really good. That's gonna be a 16. A 16, DC 13 is all you need. You got a full six points.

And the second you that the silence that the crowd has felt actually erupt. erupts into roars of approval as this goblin, the weirdest goblin they've ever seen. No, look at me! Has barred glitter, has landed with his hands covering his privates, has turned into a wear sparrow, for goodness sakes, and everyone is cheering. The music does keep going because Hikara is the last one performing, and she just, she's eating, okay? Like, she is just killing it. So, good job. Doppakara. Let's see how Talk does. I think I will roll for this because she will be a disadvantage. So this will be three different moves that, Tog, is that her name?

Tog. Tog. Tog. Tog. Tug bust flog. Tog. Tug bust flog. Tog. A prison of your own design. I've made this bed. Why have I made this bed? Tog bust flog is performing and we're going to roll. to see how she does. The first couple are going to be with disadvantage based on the smolder from Tippy and the mean girl from busy.

Disadvantage, let's see. Okay, already, pretty bad. So yeah, she got a seven. That's not gonna do it for her. She's gonna do another one. Well, what she tries to do is her kind of twerk moves, so she's gonna try to lay on her shoulder again and twerk, and it just, it's not chaotic enough.

It actually is pretty smooth and calculated. She's working in fear. The second one, six plus two is eight. Yeah, eight's not gonna do it either. So Tog is doing a really abrupt and stunted dance, where she throws her arms backwards while her hips are thrusting forwards. Like, ugh, ugh, ugh.

The other thing she does, she stands on her neck and shoulder and twarks. That sounds painful. Yeah, okay. That's a big, it's like a B-boy move. I don't know if is twerking a B-boy move? I mean, in the air. Okay.

Well, with their legs up in the air, they can do anything. Yeah, B stands for butts. Oh, yeah, yeah. I have actually seen people do that, and then you just make it clap. Where can I see that? She, so, Tog does a thrusting motion, but because you are staring at her dead in the eyes, it's just not as energetic or thrusting as she would have liked it to be.

Yeah, that's weird. That's my sister. The results are in, and we must cut three of these contestants. Okay, so three others, other than tog, did worse than tog, and you're gonna tell me what their names are. I think we know the vibe of how goblins are named. Yeah. So who's first?

Who's out first? I'll go, that's gonna be spizzy bubble butt. Spis-Bubble-But. Spis-Bubble-But. Yeah. Spis-Bubble-Bub-Bub! is out. Sorry, Spisie.

Skipskaps, Skaliwap, Grohlington, the third. Skipskaps, Skaliwap, Drulington the third, great. And Chunkstaffir Sinclair. Yeah. Okay, Chunkstaffer. Sinclair is out. And you are left with nine competitors,

including Tog and Pekara. Move on to the third game. This game, if you remember, is frog busting. There's a frog busting. Frog busting. They line you up, all nine of you. You can see the frog hemoth, and this creature is really big.

He is easily as tall as a tree, as they said, 15 feet by 15 feet. He's got tentacles, he's got few eyes. Other than that, he does just look like a frog. He's got a body that's just kind of a thing. That's his body contains both eyes, mouth, and when he's scrunched up his legs too. It just looks like a frog shape.

That's a frog behemothal, right? The only thing you can note is when he does spit out his tongue, there's just these barbed tentacle at the end of it. And it does look like a few of you, goblins could fit inside of him very easily. These kind of snake people, Naga, are corraling him, and they whip him and he runs off into the swamp and you see that Pekara gets a 12 second head start.

So she heads off into the- It's two whole rounds. The swamp as well, yeah, two whole rounds to track. And the goal of it, if you remember, is to track, hunt and ride the frog hemath back across this line that is drawn where you're starting from. Okay.

And right now there are nine of you left. including you and Peccara. And the frog has run off out of sight, I assume, into the swamp now. Yes, yes. And the two Naga who are corraling this guy are nearby. After 12 seconds, you are released. I want to immediately roll investigation to see if I can pick up some tracks. Yeah, and that will be a survival check.

Okay, sure. Survival check. That's gonna be 17? 17, yeah. You can not only track the frog heath, you can also track the frog hemath, you can also track Prakara. And at this point in the game, the others are moving kind of in that direction as well.

So we've got Pekara and Tippy and the seven others. So Tippi has already on the trail of the Frokhimeth. Well, unless there was something that you wanted to prep. What I would like to do is if, since Pachara and Tippy already have a head start, I want to do it so that there's a second trail of footprints to hopefully confuse. So I would cast silent image. Amazing.

trail of footprints to confuse everyone else. Oh my gosh, okay. You do this very quickly because you see the Frog Hemeth kind of has these webbed feet claws, almost like hooves. They're flat, but they do have toes. You just can do this, so I'm gonna have some people roll to see how confused they are by them. And this will just be straight up intelligence check.

And what is your spell save DC? My spell save DC is 11. Is there something you're doing to let Tippy know that these aren't real? The tracks? Yeah, to help him out. Yeah, and each one of the tracks, if you look and Tippy, obviously,

like he's intelligent, like he can see things very well, it's like the very tiniest version of the emblem that we are using for the banner. Go ahead and you will make this intelligence saving throw with advantage. Gotcha. Okay. With advantage, that's gonna be 15.

Okay, cool. No. Yes. No. No. No. And then yes. And yes.

Okay. Four out of the other seven are confused, at least at first. So now it's you, Pekara, and three others seem to be on the correct trail. You track your way through. You're following this guy. He moves way faster than you as a goblin does, but he is loud and he breaks through some of the branches and the trees. The other goblins are right on your heels. Is there anything you do as these other three or you do?

as these other three are kind of right up against you. As they're right up against me, I'm going to cast long strider on myself to run faster than them. Awesome. So it increases my movement speed. Yeah, as you do that, look, they're out of range from lots of things that are going on.

So one of them is gonna try to attack you. Hit you with a scimitar. Does an 18 hit? It hits. Okay, as you leave their range, they actually do four slashing damage to you. I'm gonna say another one. Another one attempts to reach out to you, but let's see.

Ooh. They go ahead and miss you. But you're, you are... I'm bounding ahead. You're bounding ahead. You're bounding ahead. Okay, you two notice that some of the fummy crusts come up to you, and they're like doing hand signals to each other.

And with the bats in play, you kind of get the sense that these fummy crusts might have a way with animals. Something that many goblins do... Not many, not every single tribe has this, but many goblin clans do have an affinity. towards at least like things like rats and wolves, bats, that kind of thing. And they're making hand signals, and it looks like they're going to edge themselves into the forest on the sides. Is there anything you'd like to do now that you see them doing that? I'd like to follow the fummy crusts to the edge of the forest.

Okay. They know that you're the bannerman, and they'll allow you to do that. They're going to just tell you to be very quiet. I will. Okay. I'll be super quiet. Okay, and you enter the swamp as well. You don't know where they're going, but they seem to know where they're going,

and you go ahead and follow them. Bizzy's gonna go in a little bit, but she also wants to kind of watch to see if anybody else is gonna try to enter the swampy area aside from these. Absolutely. Yes, the fummy crust are not the only ones who are trying to cheat right now.

There are plenty of other goblins. I would say at first glance, it seems as though less stealthy than the fummy crusts are, you can see about four different goblins kind of doing the same tactic. And just to be clear, like, it's outside of the game area. It's a little bit further out, but yeah, four goblins are trying to make their way in.

Can I tell who they are for or are they just like, like who they're trying to help? Well, let's roll for it. So. That Wilhelm Dunknoth? Go ahead and make a perception show. National 20. Oh.

So that's a 22. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so they're helping a couple of goblins. Numbie gum trunk. Numbie gum truck. Gumby gum truck. Okay.

Gump's like a truck. Drum trunk. Gum trunk. Trunk's like a gum. Gum, gum. Oh, no. And, uh, Nerg, herfloderg. Nergherfloderg.

Nergherfloddurg. Nerfleddur. Let me just make sure I'm writing that, right? NERG. Okay, so I'm gonna, just to the same basic arrangement lens. Okay, so. Got it. I wrote Nerf Herflitur.

Because I can. Goblins are close enough, I think I can use disguise self. So I am going to, I'm gonna disguise myself to look like, what was it? Nerg Herfloderdr? Nerg Herfldurk. You definitely can disguise yourself as the goblin competitor, Nerg Herflederg. Yeah, so I just look like Nerf Herklerg and I'm like... From Goblin October Fest.

I just don't have it like to know. Erg and Dirk. Of the Swedish. Of the Swedish. The Swedish gubs. The Swedish gubs. So I, yeah, so busy goes up to... The war is over and both sides lost.

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Nerg. Nerg. Herf your nerd. And just acts like really out of breath. I lost, I lost it, I lost it, I lost the, the, oh, I'm sorry, I lost it, I lost it. Deception. Oh God. With advantage because you look just like her.

Okay. I think Nerg probably has a Swedish accent. Great. So that was Deception. Yeah. So that is 17. I lost him. I lost the frog.

No, I think Nurk sounds Swedish. Is it? I lost the frog. There we go. The frog is lost it. No, no. Eventually we'll be out when we see them coming. Actually, we don't know if Nerg Hartforddurg is out,

but we do know that Nerg Hartforddddddardt People consider her out. They're gonna keep talking to her and get her, just be distracted for now. When you say out, you mean out of the competition or openly Swedish? Narg Herfloderg's help. It's a safe place.

It's a safe place. Narg Herfloderg's helpers are going to be completely distracted by you for maybe this entire match. I've got to share them to the Herfokadruder team. Oh no. What do we win a worship person today about this? The nightmare corner of this tournament. Yeah, perfect, okay.

Oh my god, okay, so Tippie, you do come across the frog hemith. And let's see how Pekara does with the frog heath. Pekara is actually in the middle of getting attacked by the frog hemith. She goes, oh, this frog may this molder like bargained for. And she's like trying to dance out of the way, but the frog hemith, let's see if he lands an attack. Oh, yeah, he does. And he's, you see her take a hit as this guy just kind of tries to munch on her. How is Piccarra looking?

Uh-oh. Does he work for wear or? Yeah, it looks like it wouldn't be long before the Frog Hemeth actually swallows her up. So I know I, this would be a perfect time for Tippy to just run up and hop on the Frog Hemeth and ride away, but it's Piccarra. So he's gonna go and run to Picard and he's going to go and he's He's gonna go. Okay, okay, open your mouth, eat this.

And I toss a hearty truffle in her mouth. Okay, you spend your hearty truffle and she is back to full health. You can see that that motivates her and she says, more than one of us can fit on this. It doesn't have to be just one person running across the finish line. If we can tame this beast, then it might be all of us

if we can get there. And the other gobbins are coming up and going, I'd be doubt with that. I don't want to get in. No, you're not part of our group. Okay, okay, well, okay, fine. Get away from us. So they're gonna do their own trying to get up

on the frog hematts back themselves. But she says, I don't think this thing's meant to be fought. I think we're supposed to be part, some version of like the tag, like the Nogawa. Like we're part, it's friends. We gotta get on top of it and become its friend. But you know what we can fight is these other gobs. Timby?

I'm just saying. It should be you and me across. Okay, so as the goblins are trying to get on top of the frog he myth, what would you like to do? I would like Picard to use her gun. Run in the chest and turn the back. Yes, exactly. Okay, so she's gonna aim it,

not right at the Frog Kymouth, but at one of the goblins. Well, we wanna do like action movie, line ourselves up, gun to gun, and, you know, certain blasts. She's gonna be able to roll with advantage because you're helping her, no problem. She gets one of the goblins and all's fair in love and goblin war, so let's see.

She doesn't do that much damage, but yeah, she nicks one of them and he falls off the Frog Heemoth. What about you? I'm gonna go, hey, Wakara, I've got a gun too, but you haven't seen this one. And the little googly eyes sort of pop up and look at it, right? And wink, and I'm gonna fire it at the goblin.

Okay, awesome. Make an attack roll. Okay, that's gonna do a 15. 15 hits. Okay, 15 hits. Yes. This thing is going to take 2D8 damage and get more moved back five feet. Okay.

So the goblin is gonna take that much damage. And that's gonna be seven damage plus my proficiency. So go ahead and describe how this goblin dies. Oh, damn. So out of this tiny gun, the googly eyes pop up and they wink at Picara and then almost like a cartoon, like a big giant cannonball inside, starts moving as if it was like going up

the esophagus of something, right? and it just regurgitates a giant cannonball and just blasts, honestly just blasts this goblin in the Smithsereens. Okay, um. And I'm like, oh, no, whoa. Tippy, I didn't know you had it in you. I'm just saying it's the first time that worked.

I genuinely just miss with this. I'm so excited by this. You're still in wear a spare form. You haven't changed yet. Oh, I am, okay. Yeah, you haven't changed. So we're gonna say that Numbi gum trunk is dead. Oh no.

Oh God, what am I doing? What am I doing? Nurturfsldorg is still alive. But she's up there. Maybe she was the one who just got knocked off. So there's still one with you and then there's a few other stragglers. She says, oh Fink, even if these guys get on top, I feel like now's our chance to get...

Let's go. Okay, great. Get up on there. So because you're helping each other, you go ahead and roll an animal handling. Oh, animal handling. Okay, well, with advantage. With advantage, let's see. Oh, intimidate frog? 16 plus animal handling is 17?

17 is gonna tame the animal enough so that you are able to get up there. Now you're gonna need to get up on its back. Okay. Without the tentacles swiping you. So this is gonna be a dexterity saving throw and Piccarra's gonna make one as well. Okay.

I can do that. Ooh, yeah, she gets a 16. I get an eight. Okay, so she's able to make it up. You're not. I have bardic inspiration. Let's see what I get. That's nine.

Nine, yeah, you're still not able to get up. And she's trying to straddle this big frog, and she sees that you haven't made it up there. She tosses you a rope, and you're gonna use your acrobatic. She's gonna use her strength to get up there, but she's not very strong. Okay, I'm... Still though.

She'd do well? Yeah, she did. Okay. A 14? I did 14. 14. I'm gonna say she's able to lift you on with her. But these other goblins are gonna make a try too. Your wings working overtime.

No. One of them is going to actually slash at your leg, Tippy, and for four slashing damage. Oh, it hits, okay. Yeah. Four slashing damage. Okay, you've got a slash on your leg. You've got two goblins coming up.

The frog hemath is actually gonna be very irritated and swallow the first goblin in front of it. And there are still a few hanging around who aren't able to get on it. Piccarus says, if you know anything about this, we've got to get it across the finish line before it does any more damage to us or these goblins. Okay, you get it moving. I'm gonna hold off these other goblins.

Perfect. Great, so she's gonna roll animal handling, which I think is a wisdom saving. That's correct. Okay, let's see, Pekara, how much wisdom do you have? Not good. Minus two, actually. No, oh no. Yeah, three.

Okay, so she does not do. well. However, the fummy crusts are nearby. Okay. The frog heath like rears back on its legs. So I would imagine at the same time, I've told her to to drive the frog hemeth while I hold off the goblin. So Tippy turns around and fires at any goblin he sees. Okay, roll two attacks. Okay. We are actually are looking for an AC or to meter beat an AC of 15. Meeter be an AC of 15. Cakewalk, that's 25. Yeah. Um, for the first shot. And the other shot will be with the Eldridge Cannon because it is a bonus action. Oh, okay, fine. Brutal.

That's gonna be another 21. Okay, uh, roll damage for those two. So just for the normal pistol, that's just, uh, that's gonna be, oh, that's gonna be eight plus four, so 12. 12 will kill the goblin. So I put one right between his eyes. Yeah. And I'm like, oh man, I'm usually not very accurate.

Great. And then with the other one, I kind of like lean back and I'm like, ah! Because I'm still a weird bird. And that one does another 12 points of damage and blasts whoever that is five feet back. Well, who it is is. No, no.

I keep forgetting no. Not Nerg Herplen. No, not Nerg. Anybody but Nerg. What two lives did Tibby just take? You killed Clack, Crustamunk. Clack. Crestmunk.

And Lert, got clapped. And lurch Naga flab. Lert Naga flab. Flap or flab? Flab, b, with a B. Don't come any closer, because if you come up here, I'll blast you. I can't stop killing. She's got the lust now.

I don't want to do it, but I win. But NERG is on the back now with you. She was the one, maybe one of the ones who hit you, and you also have another person on the back, too. Okay. Okay. So you've got a couple of goblins up there with you, and Fibbs, you arrive with the fummy crusts

and you see the frog heath bucking like a bronco. Is there anything you'd like to do to help? I, how far away am I? You're gonna really clearly over here, the fummy crustsbring together that say like, we've got to zonk him out. We've got to zonk him out. The best way to zonk him is gonna be,

is lightning. Apparently lightning just zonks him, just gives him a full almost lobotomy. It's nuts. They don't tell this to everybody, but I got on wince good graces. All right. I am gonna try and sneak up and get within 15 feet.

And Phibbs is gonna point and say, oh my god, is that another, is that another frog hemoth over there? And cast lightning lure using the hat of wizardry to send out a rope of pure lightning to try and pull the frog hemith towards him. Yes. Okay. That is going to be a strength saving

throwing throw of, I believe, 13. 13, and he is corralled, so he'll be rolling with a disadvantage, but he still has a high strength, but he got a natural one. Let's go. Let's go. He failed. So, idiot, he, stupid frog. Stupid frog.

He is pulled 10 feet towards me and then takes 1D8 lightning damage. So we can roll that now. He takes one lightning damage. He takes one lightning damage. Okay, so you see that this damage does not do that much to him. However, it's as the Fummi Crest said, and you can see that his eyes just kind of go, die, and like he's suffering.

I think he is like this being made of mostly water, so you and Pekara might take, might take one lightning damage as well. We can do that. And after that, Fibbs is gonna try and withdraw because he doesn't want to. Get out of there, okay, cool. Uh, yeah, you were trying to roll a stealth check

because we do have some goblins around. Oh, that's not my strong suit, that's a six. A six, you are gonna We're gonna attract one of the goblins and they are going to attack you. They're gonna shoot a short bow at you with a 22 to hit. I guess that hits by 10. Okay, cool. You take five piercing damage as you move your way into the swamp.

But the Fummi Cressor on you going, that was amazing, that was so good, that was so good. Thanks. You just did, yeah, the lightning, that's when we were thinking, but we're not boo yogs like you. The Frog Hemeth is cowed a little. Go ahead and make an animal handling check with advantage. Okay.

Hold on, Picara. Let me try. And I go over and with advantage, I'd be 16. 16, yeah, you're gonna need to do this a couple more times in order to get it across the finish line. Was that my action to corral the frog? Oh, if you want it to be, I think so. Yeah, yeah.

That'll be your action with Picara. So as a bonus action, because I need my hands to rein this thing, because does it have rains or when we do the animal handling, what does it look like for this frog? You're kind of grabbing onto some warts on its back. grabbing the warts. Yeah.

Just rat tattooing. Yeah, yeah. Because I got a rat tattooing, this frog, I go, gun tippy, do your thing. And I drop, I drop him, and the legs come out, like, hush. And he just turns his whole head at the first goblin he sees and blasts.

Goodbye, Nerg. Oh, like who's on there? Okay, it's Yunk Jagger. Yonk Jager. Oh, I aim at Yunk Jagger. I don't know why I have a soft spot for Nerg. Herflord. I don't know why.

Nerg is trying to kill me. NERG is going to survive. I'm disarmed by how Swedish NERG is. I've never seen a Swedish goblin. It feels wrong to kill her. Okay, Yonka Jagger. Yeah, I, okay, roll the hit Yank Jagger, and that will be like 23. Yeah, that is, that is.

I'm rolling well today. Somehow. So that is gonna be six plus six, 12 points of damage. 12 points of damage. Okay, that normally would kill most of your competitors, however, you get the sense that Young Jagger can take a few punches. This guy's in line to be a captain gobbler. Now pushes them back five feet. Okay. Okay, here's what happens. So he does get pushed off of the Frog Hemeth. The Frog Hemeth, however, losing a bit of his prey is going to get distracted by that,

and he's going to try to swallow Yonk. Yeah, easy, easy. Oh, yeah. Young Jagger. Young Jagger. Young Jagger is gobbled up. You've got NERG, Herflederg left. There are some other and still in the race, but they're just not on your level. The frog hemith is moving a little bit too fast. All right, so I don't see busier fibs at all. No, because busy looks like another nerd. Okay. Okay, so another animal handling just to get the frog hemith

going. You got it. With advantage, without advantage. Well, Picard's helping you, so with advantage. Okay, with advantage, nice. Okay, with advantage, we rolled in 19, so that's gonna be dirty 20. A dirty 20, yeah, you're able to get the frog hemith

in the right direction. Oh boy, and I, and I, I dig my fingernails into its warts. Come on, boy, heal, heal. Let's see if any of these other ones catch up with you. No, they don't. But NERG is going to be holding on, no problem. Yonk is swallowed.

I'm going to say at this point, you do run right across the line. And it's you, Pekara, Nerg, Herfloderg. And as Nurg, herfloderg crosses the line, the other go, go, we're at DERD. DERD. Finish line. Oh, no. Who are you?

We're twins. No, I'm her sister, you're not two twins. Oh no, oh no, no, oh no, oh no. Oh no, no. The guys is, uh, Busy doesn't want to drop it. Okay. Because obviously, like, Busy doesn't want anything to happen. So Busy just goes like, oh no, the game's a fort.

And like, uh, and like, uh, and like, uh, and like, runs off and then like goes and hides by. behind a tree and then stealthily un-gobbs and like sneaks back over to where the crowd is. Okay, roll a stealth check, see if this happens. Eleven. Eleven, okay. You're actually going to get attacked by these goblins. Oh no. They do not like that they got hoodwinked by you.

Oh, pretty good. Two hurtful dirbs. That is a 19 to hit and that is a 21 to hit. They're going to do a lot of damage, actually. Busy no, busy no. They're going to do 13 slashing damage to you. Total, total, total. Okay, thank you. Okay.

All right. And they're actually gonna chase you. The Nur-Herfla-Dergs are on your butt now. Oh, nerd! Nerg-like nurse. This is gonna become antics for the crowd. They're gonna see that you're running from these Nerg-Hurflerdurgs. But they're gonna be cheering for the Nerg-Hurfloddurg supporters.

So they're trying against me. Okay. Oh, they just love a chase. Yeah, they love it. So I am going to cast, because I'm going to cast, because I'm I still have it. I'm going to cast dancing lights to make it so they can't see. Like just put the dancing lights right in their face. Okay, great.

It's four torch-sized lights within range, blah, blah, blah. Okay, you're just doing this to surprise them, but I'm down to make this a role for them. They're gonna make a wisdom saving through it to see if they're actually blinded or can move through the light. One of them makes it. The other one, what is your DC again? My DC is 11. So a 10 no longer works. Yes.

still on your butt. Okay. And the other one just goes, yeah, what is this? I don't know anymore. Yeah, so he's surprised, but the other one is still on your butt. The fummy crusts and fibs are coming back and you on the Frog Kymouth run across the line with Pecara and Nerg Herfldurg. Nurgherfloderg, as it turns out, with Yonk Jagger in the belly. I have my Eldridge Cannon run up my body and perch on my shoulder like a parrot.

Okay, perfect. You see the Naga's, what they do is as they're corraling this beast one more time, they jab its gut and it vomits up Yunk Jagger. And you see the referee rule that that counts that being inside of it. Yeah, all right. Got it actually counts as... Didn't it swallow some other gobs or are they dead? I think it was almost Pekara and then just Yon.

Got it, got it. Clack, Cressmunk, and Lert Nagaflab, they're dead. Yeah, they both got obliterated by Tippy's canon. Okay, so the other ones who are out but still alive? Who's out but still alive? They're first and last name. Really quick. Really quick.

Just really quick. Just for positive. If you don't like. Go ahead and give me their first and last name. Go ahead. These are the last two goblin names I have to make up, thank you. For now.

For now. Okay. Literally anyone else. I mean, this is my favorite. This is my absolute. We should have come here immediately. This is better than anything that happens. I had a game like this other game of making any name gobbels.

It is a nag-nug-yort. Nag-nug-y-y-ort. Okay. I mean, it's fantastic. I still a lot that didn't make it out of the competition. Magna Yon. Nagnon Yort is qualified. And out of the match is Nagnog Nog Njord.

All you hate to see it, Nagnog Yort was a fan favorite coming into this year at the Gondy Games. You know, really, really promising coming out of a college of sorts. He really thought Young Jagger would make it a little bit further, but it seems like he's met his end. He's bad as young Jackers, the rich. Young Jagger is so hard. I'm like a real champion, young Jagger. And the other one who's alive but didn't make it quite, is a rart. Mm.

And RART's last name? And is that a R-A-W-R-T? R-A-R-T. R-A-R-T, R-A-T, R-R-T. And Huff-Mamp. Huff Mamp. Rott Huff Mamp. Whoa.

Huff Mamp. MAM. I mean, these are incredible. And that's a tough break for wrought Huff Mamp. His rookie season comes to a close. He came out of a good G1 school. Oh my god. Beautiful, guys, guys.

Okay, so... Okay. On the Frog Bohemoth. On the frog behemoth. You and Pekara, the Naga get their frog hemith under control, and Pekara Donk Nuzzel, Tippy Terror Squad, Yank Jagger, and Nurr Erfledrk. Nurg Herbluderg are all declared ready to go to the fourth challenge. Wow.

So you move on to the fourth challenge. This is Fast and Furious. They're moving through. Goblins don't have much attention span. And the last four of you are shown the four parts. are shown the four piles again. You are told that your job is to build a dungeon. Oh.

You have an hour, and at the end of it, they're going to send 20 goblins in. No one will die. If anyone dies, they're going to give them healing potions, but the goal is to have 20 go through your dungeon, and the dungeon that captures or kills the most goblins will be the winner of the Goblin Hero Challenge. So you see that Pekara,

and NERG and Yonk all get separated from you. Picara actually gets the choice of her first pile. She does choose the metal scrap pile, being a tinkerer herself. Yeah, I thought I was gonna go for. I know, but she gave Gwamgen a wet willy, and she gets the favorite. Roll a D6 and one and two gets you a first choice after Pekara.

Three and four gets you second, and five and six gets you the third choice. Okay, three. Three, okay, so you get second choice. Okay, so NERG-Herflodurg is going to choose the pile of animal material, leather and furs. You have a choice between the pile that contains bricks and stones

or wooden planks and flats and boards. And all the piles have plant fiber made as ropes and dirt, clods. Sidebar really quick. Yeah, guys, which pile? Which pile? Well, if you're going for optimal trapability and stuff that can collapse in on itself,

may be easier to maneuver. I'd probably say the wood, but if you look for something, it's more durable, obviously the stone. Yeah. So should we go for durable, or should we go for flexibility? Say, look inside and go for what you know.

I look deep inside myself, and I flash back to putting bullets in the heads of enemy goblins. And I go, we need to create a dungeon that's gonna kill the most goblins. Yeah. That's going to absolutely maim and destroy them. Of course.

I think we need to be creative and we need to be flexible, so let's go with the wood. All right. Tippy goes and goes, I want the wood pile. Okay, you get the wood pile, you get some goblins to help you move all of this towards your dungeon. And what you see at the end is that you have basically

a tunnel that's about 40 feet long that has one curve and on the curve, it goes another 20 feet and it culminates in a bit of a cave that's about, oh, 25 foot radius. That's what you get to build. So what I'm gonna do is any ideas you have let me know what you would like to do again. The goal is going to be to kill or capture

20 goblins who come through this. And you basically have an hour, so as you come up with ideas, I'll tell you about how long it would take to build that. Okay, because of my artificer's ability, the right tools for the job, I have a woodcarvers tool kit. Oh, amazing.

Yeah. Okay, so anything that would be built with wood, let you roll for advantage. Okay, great. Phibs and Busy as also casters, you know that there are also magic traps that can be made as well. You'll probably have ideas for that yourself,

but Tippy you would have more of the functional mechanical traps. I guess what we'll go around and do is all four of us, me included with Loof, are going to have ideas of what we can do. So Tippy, do you have any ideas at first? So if I know goblins, I know that their hunger for snacks is impeccable. So I think the first trap should look innocuous.

Maybe a Batburger lying greedily in the light and then gets them with something right away. Maybe a pit to start. Busy can take her great sword and use that to whittle from some of the wood and make those into pointed spikes. Okay. So it's like a spike pit.

Your classic spike pit. So we make a pressure plate. When the last person rounds the corner, It detonates a beat of force to cave in the tunnel behind them. Meanwhile, down the hall in front of them, we will have Loof, who will blast her webs to entangle everyone. And then, from the wall, we have these little panels that come out and blast a burning hand.

And as they're on fire, at the very, very end of the hallway, will be gun-tippy, blasting anybody who survives the flaming horrific traps. And to put the icing on top, I want to create a wooden false wall on wheels with gun ports where the homoculus and gun tippy and tippy will shoot through. A dungeon blind? Yeah, a dungeon blind that sort of pushes forward

so as if the wall's closing it on them. But the wall is actually closing it on them and shooting at them as they try to repeat. Brutal, brutal. Okay, cool. With my last spell slot, I carved like a wooden, small wooden kegger. We'll do another kegger.

And I'm going to imbue it with Tasha's caustic brew. So it'll also detonate with another pressure plate behind them that they'll step on. That triggers a giant barrel of this stuff to drop from the ceiling on top of them. Okay, and let me run how I think you want this to go. First, a few gobbins come in, they get a bat burger. A couple of them fall into a pit with spikes,

unable to get out. Then the others figure this out. They go around the pit or are you. able to figure out a way over it. Once they get there, they're gonna keep going, run up against a pressure plate, and once the last one is through, the entire ceiling is gonna fall in on them.

As they keep going, they can't, because Luf is going to entangle most of them. Even those that aren't entangled are gonna take some fire damage. Even those that aren't are gonna get slammed by the homunculus and the cannon. And if they make it through, you want one more pressure plate, so that a tautious caustic brew will fall on some of them.

And also, just to add it, Bizzy is going to be also using her clipboard to waft the smell of the rat burger. Like, we want to make sure that they're going. It's like irresistible. That protein smell in the air. We gotta get the protein smell on the air. Oh, we should use the sheet.

Okay. It's filled with protein. Use the sheet. So, let's say you took about 10 minutes of planning and brainstorming, 10 minutes for the pit with Busy at the helm, along with the homunculus's health. and then the pressure plates are gonna spend the rest of the time. And Busy, I'm gonna say because you are such a good planner,

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I just rolled an 18. An 18 and... 12. Well, actually, everybody with advantage though, because remember? Oh, right. Okay. Go ahead.

The 12 stays. Also a 12. Okay, perfect. Okay, so now let's roll for the first pressure plate. This is going to be a ceiling cave in. Nat 20. Okay. 16?

A natural 21. Okay, that one's gonna work very well. Then we've got the Tasha's pressure plate. Amazing. That's gonna be 23. 17. 13. 13 and 13. And the last thing is we're, it's gonna be the blind, the wooden blind. Wooden blind, oh my gosh, with advantage.

That's gonna be 18 again. 15. 15. Okay, everyone feels really confident about the pressure plates and the pits and wooden blinds are gonna be less effective. Let's send in some goblins. Okay. You're gonna hear a horn blow and 20 goblins are being sent in.

The first couple are going to be inspired by this pit. So let's see, this pit, it's gonna be a little easier to overcome a DC-13. But these goblins, I wouldn't say, are necessarily too intelligent, and they are very motivated by a burger. Busy wafted the burger smell. They do not sense the trap, so 1D4 goblins fall into the trap. Free. You can hear the screams of some goblins. Three people fold by one burger.

Yeah, three people. Oh! They're nearby. They're in a con- They're kind of in a line and yeah, you hear them scream and fall into the pit. You can hear them contemplate how to get past this and they build a goblin bridge as they cross over this pit very easily.

And they come up against the pressure cave. So you have 17 left. You hear a couple kuchunk over, a couple kachunk over, a few more. We're getting to the last ones. They do not sense the pressure plate. And this one is actually, the reason is because you guys got a 20, a 16 and a 21.

This one works very, very well. The ceiling is going to cave in, and they need to make a really strong DC-C-18 dexterity saving throw in order to not be smushed by just the ceiling. So you've got seven who were able to get out of the way. The rest take full damage. They are not dead, but all of those are at half hit points at this point.

And they also can't get out the way they came now, which is Loof's cue. Will you go ahead and make the web attack? Yes. That's a natural 20. Yes. Yes, Lou! That's my group. Let's go.

Okay. So they actually get to make strength saving throws to make sure that they do not. get captured in loops web. Web I'm luf. So the 10 who got crushed will automatically fail. The other seven are going to fail and very fail. And one more rule for a final two to see. And two are going to save.

The front five are going to be completely webbed. The back five won't be webbed, but it's going to be like basically between a rock and a hard place. They're going to be all jammed up. Two of them are going to make it through and they've taken no damage so far, but Lou's feeling very good about herself.

Terrible! Second pressure plate. This one's going to be a DC-17, but let's see if they get caught by the pressure plate. One will, and the other one will save, that leaves one more, so the brew falls down from the ceiling. The brew falls down and it emanates a five foot wide, 30 feet long.

Oh. Yeah, it kind of just, and it kind of just, and, Engulfs them in acid, any creature covered in acid, takes TD4 damage on each of the start of their turn. Don't forget about the burning hands after the... And the burning hands is coming. Oh, it's coming.

Okay, that's gonna knock out several of the gobbels. You can't really tell how many just yet, but yeah, everyone's covered in acid. The wooden blind is holding up, but because... I'm gonna say that y'all need to roll a DC-16 dexterity saving throw, just to make sure you're not also blasted with acid. Okay. Okay, let's do it, let's do it.

It's a 17. Okay, I'm gonna- I'm gonna go ahead and eat my last crunger. And I'm gonna try to roll in advantage. And that's gonna be a 16. DC 16, you save, yeah. Dirty 20. Dirty 20, so all that you save.

Yeah, with the blind, you're able to block that and dodged out of the way. You saw it coming, no problem. Yeah, several goblins are completely down. You do have one goblin who hasn't taken any damage, but that seems like your cue of Phibbs. Fibbs, light him up. You're in the wrong part of town, little gobbie.

And then Fibbs puts his hands together and from it, the fingertips erupt torrents of flame that engulfed this poor bastard. Okay, how many points of damage do they take? Is it gonna make a deck saving throw for DC 13? No, that is a four. Okay, that is going to be 13 points of fire damage and anything flammable around him,

catches on fire. Definitely the web. He's also been covered in acid. This one goes down. Busy, is there anything you'd like to do to the sad bit of goblin meat? OK, so he is currently on fire. On fire.

Burning acid. Burning with acid. Do we know what goblin this is? First and last thing. So technically, you wouldn't know this goblin's name. However, I think... Tell my relatives. It's great.

It's great. Mudgeabumfra. Mudgeabhra. Mudgeabfra. Okay. Tell her to this, Mujah bumfra. And so Bizzy is going to cast just to comprehend languages, okay, to see what that means.

What his name means? Oh, that was his name. I thought that was like his last word. It's in a language. the language. Actually, though, I love that as an action, so that is what you do. And you know that this, this goblin's name means butterfly who holds the morning. Oh, okay. So, but that's it, like he's dying. Like, it's, it's done. Oh, yeah. But you get this poetic sense that, like, actually, maybe these goblin names have a deeper meaning to them. Pah, ba, pa, pa.

Oh, yes. Ah, ba ba ba. Amazing. Okay, so you're playing their final rights. So as Busy makes a fake trumpet noise, I go, That's right, Busy's giving us the signal, the fire! I unload my entire arsenal on Mudgea Bumpfra as I shoot my gun, the Eldridge Canaan choose his gun,

and the Mahmoculus has a force projectile attack as well. And so it's just like a kuz-k-k-z-k-k-z. Oh my god. Yeah. Guys, I don't know if these goblins are gonna be able to be brought back to life. They're gonna give them a single health potion. Mucha bumfra is totally annihilated.

Fire, I will! Guys, guys, it all happened so fast. This happened so fast. This is about just a few seconds later after they sent the goblins in. You are different people than you were when you hosted Eun-ZUgs lair, and you have become masters of dungeon makers.

There's a lot of smoke, the acid's still burning the ground. You can hear a goblin go, can we dig you out now? Hello, any survivors? You're gonna bring them back, right? Cause they're pretty chopped up in here. Like, it's bad. Is that Tippy Terra Squad?

Yes, Tippy Terra Squad. Okay, so you've survived. All 20 goblins, decimated. Really? Ask if they want a burger. Yeah, oh, would you guys like a bad burger? No, I see the trap. It's out in the open.

Good job. Okay, so we'll send someone to get you out and after some. Okay, you're sure the healing potion is gonna work because we poured acid on them, burned them, dropped them in a pit, lit them on fire with Webb, and I shot them a lot.

Like a lot. We'll have the judges come in and do their due diligence on all of the traps. Okay, there's a Mudgeab bumfra that just, there's pieces of them everywhere. Mujah? Yeah, there's pieces of them everywhere. Not Mujah!

You're gonna heal them, right? Mucha bum fra? You said you would heal him. I said everyone was gonna get healed. Maybe you shouldn't have these games. We wouldn't have gone as hard if we didn't think they were gonna get healed. I'm gonna go get some people.

That went pretty well. Wow, that was great. That's the first time anything went. Great job, Louf. Anytime, I finally, I finally have gotten to be a part of the terror for the terror squad. You're always part of the terror squad, Louf. Yes, but in action now, not just in theory.

Your niece is really grown up. Yeah. She sure is. And the goblins come in, dig you out, clean up the place, examine what's going on. Oh, you are, hold on. You got some mudge. Yeah, you too busy.

Oh, bumpfrog. Yeah. You got some mudge on. So sorry. Let them do the post-fordom or whatever does they do now. Just step over this corpse. You and Yunk and Nerg and Pekara are now displayed in front of the entire

Goblin Arena. You see that Glamgen next to Crandall are once more at the top of the stands. What is he doing up there? Glomgan announces, I hold the winner in my hand in a piece of paper, but it is not mine to read. It is our special guest judge. This announcer comes from very far. all the way from the desolation to announce the goblin hero champion. Please welcome. And the music starts playing. Some goblins next to him move away. A form starts to appear in mist swirling with red accents,

also swirling black and red smoke. This person takes form. The first thing you notice is a big smile with just goreliang gorgeous teeth and a manicured goatee, exquisite bone structure in the face, severely angled eyebrows. This man has long black elven hair with a refined white stripe, and you see shoulder paldrons made of human skulls. His black robes have red detailing on them, including his sigil, an anvil with three tendrils of smoke coming off of it. He grabs the letter that Glamgen Hansen and he says,

Congratulations, Tippy Terror Squad. And as you behold, your evil overlord Unzug, that is where we will end this episode. Oh, my God. As long as a sundry,

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