<WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR SAGA OF THE GOBLIN HORDE PLOT POINT 3!>
New Character Bios
Player Name: Bobbie
Character Name: Eve Parricide
Archetype: Goblin Queen
Hindrances: Tasty (M), Gullible (m), Quirk (m), Goblinoid (R) -4 Charisma vs. Humans, Diminutive (R) -1 Size
Edges: Luck, Relic Attunement x 2
Background: A queen of a borderland goblins tribe who protected her tasty body by encasing it in living metal.
Player Name: Bobbie
Character Name: Morik Foulfoot
Archetype: Amphiblin
Hindrances: Swamp Skin (M), Turncoat (m): Nightsworn, Slime Bait (m), Goblinoid (R) -4 Charisma vs. Humans, Diminutive (R) -1 Size
Edges: Amphiblin
Background: A former Nightsworn tribe member that left the swamp trying to escape the dark slimes that plagued him in the Darkmire Swamp and joined the Redfang Tribe.
Player Name: Bobbie
Character Name: Windel Icker
Archetype: Goblin Survivalist
Hindrances: Hallucinations (M), Yellow (m), Habit (m): licking, Goblinoid (R) -4 Charisma vs. Humans, Diminutive (R) -1 Size
Edges: Extraction, Quick Draw
Background: A goblin who hallucinated he was a goblin gang member in Morik Foulfoot's gang that was broken when Morik died.
[Bobbie never finished that Canitaur character she started at the end of last session.]
Day 49
Redfang Tribe Camp
Chief Bignose summoned all the goblin bosses. He first drank red wine from a human skull goblet. The wine poured down from the eye sockets like red waterfalls as he tried to drink the wine before it all drained out but it still partially stained his shirt. He announced that Chief Stonefist would be visiting the Redfang tribe soon. He wanted a recruitment drive to beef up the gang membership. He also wanted unique heads and skulls to increase his collection and impress Chief Stonefist. Chief Bignose told the goblin bosses to team up if they could find someone who they could trust not to stab them in the back.
Kronan Halfblood stormed out saying he didn't need any help.
Taffy Sharpnail and Morik Foulfoot smirked and nodded at each other before following him at a safe distance planning something together.
Glub remembered a borderland goblins cave that was near a southern pass on Hightree Ridge.
A canitaur approached the goblin bosses and told them about a strange grove of ancient trees in the Great Forest which had creatures with eyeless heads as guardians.
The goblin bosses decided to follow Kronan Halfblood and found out he was headed in the same direction as the goblin bosses, possibly even towards the same cave...
Day 50-51
Redfang Tribe Territory
The goblin bosses followed the other goblins to the borderland goblins cave.
[Chessie played Love Interest before they got to the borderland goblins cave.]
Day 52
Borderland Goblins Cavern
The canitaur and her goblin gang members were lured into an ambush by Taffy Sharpnail and then killed by a swarm of wasps after Morik Foulfoot threw a nest at them. Morik Foulfoot then became immediately infatuated with Twankle and tried hitting on her despite his awful stench. The smell was as if as an amphiblin he was carrying the fetid odor of the swamp with him due to his Swamp Skin hindrance.
Meanwhile Kronan Halfblood challenged the leader of the borderland goblins, Eve Parricide to a duel.
[This action killed the abandoned character concept of Bobbie's canitaur and introduced her new character.]
Eve sent her goblin gang members to fight him instead. They managed to wound Kronan and he screamed, "You have no honor!" Then he went completely berserk and slew all three of the goblin gang members with three wild swings of his axe.
[Rapid attack -4, Berserk and Wild Attack +4, and then I rolled a 10+, 8, 8 and a 1 on the wild die. Then it was 3 dice + 4 damage against 4 Toughness...]
Eve's jaw dropped and before she could even react, Kronan ran up to her throne. She kicked at him as he approached but she broke her ankle due to the glancing blow off his chiseled leg. Kronan's charge ended with his axe slammed into Eve's gut and she tumbled off the throne dead. Kronan ripped the liquid metal armor off her body and consumed her due to the Tasty hindrance and his rage fueled bloodlust.
[Bobbie used Get Savage to get Improved First Strike then critically failed her Fighting roll. I figured with the two liquid metal relics, her new character could have a cool duel with Kronan, but my dice were fire with plenty of aces and Bobbie was rolling 1s and 2s. Such is Savage Worlds where death is often sudden and brutal.]
"I am now leader of this tribe!"--Kronan Halfblood
"The Queen is dead, long live the King!"--Borderland Goblins
Glub offered 5 knick-knacks for the liquid metal armor to Kronan. The offer of money seemed to calm him down and he accepted. Kronan kept the liquid metal sword.
[I rolled Smarts -2 to end the rage and got 4 and 6 up. It was going to be that kind of day for my dice...]
[Kevin played Get a Clue.]
Glub remembered where the grove with the eyeless heads was located from the canitaur's description. He intimidated one of the borderland goblins into following him. Twankle taunted another one. Kronan didn't seem to care due to his Loner hindrance. More room in the cave for me.
Morik left with the goblin bosses to go to the grove as he eyed Twankle who was not interested in his affections in the least.
[I had Bobbie play Morik Foulfoot while she made a new character during the session.]
Taffy stayed behind with a twinkle in her eye and a jagged smile with half her teeth lost to cavities. She was plotting something...
Day 53
The Great Forest
Wild goblins appeared and listened to Twankle's attempt to persuade them. Then they peppered one of her gang members with blowgun darts and fled.
Day 54
The Great Forest
A druid set beasts upon Little Talks but he managed to hide his tracks from them and escape.
Day 55
The Great Forest
Fair folk tricked Glub into tripping on a root as he chased after them. Laughing at his foolishness, they flew away.
Day 56
The Great Forest
An ogre brute dropped from the trees and punched Morik Foulfoot leaving him stunned as the ogre ran off to find easier prey.
Day 57
The Great Forest: The Grove
Recklessly, Glub moved towards the tree in the grove first. As if sensing the approaching barghest, the tree emitted a piercing scream and dropped four pods that each grew three podlings complete with razor-sharp silver grass scythes.
Glub charged forward and slashed through two of the podlings with his claws and ordered the borderland goblin to pick up the heads. Before he could do so, the podlings moved forward and missed Glub.
The podlings killed Dirty Paws and a swamp rat. Little Talks landed safely on his feet after falling off Dirty Paw's back.
Little Talks and his swamp rats counterattacked and killed two of the podlings.
Morik Foulfoot was protecting Twankle and wouldn't let her through. Twankle did a smarts trick and said, "Look behind you!"
When Morik looked back he saw his dreaded enemy, the mature dark slime that had been following him all the way from the Darkmire Swamp and was left shaking in fear.
Twankle and her goblin gang members seized the opportunity and surged forward to stun one and stab another podling.
Morik decided to run from the dark slime and protect Twankle. Morik and his goblin gang members pierced two more podlings with their spears.
The podlings missed Glub but killed two of Morik's gang members.
The mature dark slime crept towards Morik.
Glub slashed through two more podlings as the borderland goblin with him grabbed two heads.
Little Talks had his swamp rats grab heads and then surround him as he took control of the mature dark slime.
Twankle shanked a podling.
Morik and his men defeated one more podling.
The remaining podlings badly wounded Morik.
Glub drew his war-axes and slashed at the center tree trunk twice making it gush bloody sap. The tree let out another piercing scream which was followed by a dozens of screams further into the forest and the sounds of hundreds of podlings dropping to the ground.
Twankle and her goblin gang members finished off the remaining podlings and grabbed heads.
Little Talks moved the dark slime towards the center tree while moving his swamp rats out of the way and warned the rest of the goblin bosses to grab heads and get out of its way.
Panicked, Morik moved slowly away from the dark slime as one of his goblin gang members grabbed a head that Glub had claimed.
Glub slashed the center tree for good measure and then turned into a wolf and bit Morik's gang member who had taken his spoils.
After gathering heads, Twankle and Morik fled.
Little Talks sent the mature dark slime to the center tree trunk and then he then leaped onto Glub's back after grabbing the last head. The borderland goblin also leapt on Glub's back.
Hundreds of podlings descended upon the mature dark slime giving the goblin bosses a little time to run.
The goblins plunged through undergrowth where Morik was entangled and then caught by the podlings and killed. Suddenly, his last gang member remembered he was a goblin boss finally breaking his hallucination that he was a mere goblin gang member. Windel Icker ran from the podlings that had killed Morik Foulfoot. Twankle's gang members were entangled and killed in a volley of scythes.
The goblin bosses ran through a narrow trail as the podlings threw their grass scythes at them, picking them back up as they ran past where they had fallen on the ground or simply growing new ones. Twankle was wounded from the rain of scythes.
The goblin bosses swam across a river or leapt from tree branch to tree branch to cross it. Windel Icker became fatigued after imbibing some of the river water during the crossing and coughed it up on the beach. The podlings seemed to be unperturbed by the river throwing a scythe and then extending vines to reach the tree branches and move branch to branch. Twankle got smacked by a tree branch as she clambered through the canopy.
Twankle lagged behind and fought through her exhaustion to get away from the podlings.
[Chessie failed her Vigor roll for Twankle and took 3d6 damage for 14, 2 Wounds but incredibly soaked them at -2 for 1 Wound and 1 Fatigue.]
Day 58
The Great Forest
An orc ranger crossed paths with Windel Icker. After a meek intimidation, the orc ranger laughed and said, "You aren't worth the arrow, The Great Forest shall claim you weakling!" Then the orc ranger left by clambering up a tree trunk and seemingly disappearing into the forest canopy.
Day 59
The Great Forest
A rampaging ogrekin attacked Little Talks's swamp rats. Little Talks tripped the ogre and his swamp rats swarmed him.
Day 60
The Great Forest
The goblin bosses managed to escape The Great Forest without further incident.
[I looked at the next forest card, River Crossing, which seemed a bit redundant in this session after they had swum across a river to escape the podlings, so I gave the group a reprieve day.]
Day 61
Borderland Goblins Cavern
The goblin bosses returned to the borderland goblins cavern to find Taffy on the throne with Kronan tied up behind the throne! Taffy had taken over using her charisma to turn the borderland goblins against Kronan. Due to his Loner hindrance, the borderland goblins had abandoned him for Taffy. Glub negotiated a head for Kronan's freedom. Taffy was going to take credit for all the borderland goblins.
The goblin bosses decided that they had had enough of Taffy and moved to ambush her while she was sleeping. Her goblin gang member on watch saw Kronan moving towards her and warned Taffy. But it didn't stop Kronan from slashing her on the ground with his axe and severely wounding her. Twankle moved to get at Taffy but her wound slowed her down. Glub took out the goblin guard. Little Talks smacked her unconscious. Then the goblin gang members couldn't help themselves from eating Taffy due to her Tasty hindrance. Her own goblin gang members rejoiced her death as she was a Snobgoblin.
Day 62-63
Redfang Tribe Territory
The goblin bosses and Kronan Halfblood traveled to the Redfang Tribe camp with Taffy's remaining goblin gang members and the borderland goblins they had recruited.
Day 64
Redfang Tribe Camp
The goblin bosses returned to camp and gained a knick-knack per head that they gave to Chief Bignose and a knick-knack each for the recruits.
Day 65-69
Redfang Tribe Camp
The goblin bosses recruited new gang members from Taffy's remaining goblin gang members and the borderland goblins. Although Twankle rested, she remained wounded.
Day 70
Redfang Tribe Camp
Chief Rockhead of the Stonefist tribe and his goblins arrived to play a friendly game of Kickball...
[End of Session]
XP: 3. Missed XP: 2. Minimum XP = 9.
Loot: +1 Knick-Knack per head and +1 for recruits.
Pictures:
Maps
Middle Kingdoms Adventure and Trading Co. Battle-Map: The Cavern used for Scene 1 and Battle Map: Strange Fruit used for Scene 2.
Battle-Map: The Cavern
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/209592/Battle-Map-The-Cavern?affiliate_id=12615
Battle-Map: Strange Fruit
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/251699/Battle-Map---Strange-Fruit?affiliate_id=12615
Miniatures
DramaScape's Fantasy Creatures Paper Miniatures used for the top down wolf token for Dirty Paws, a goblin warrior figure flat, and black goblin top downs. DramaScape's Top Down Armies Dwarfs V Goblins used for some green goblin top downs. The throne used is from DramaScape's Floorplan Tiles which has a ton of useful printable objects for the tabletop for fantasy games.
DramaScape's Fantasy Creatures Paper Miniatures
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/112671/Fantasy-Creatures-Paper-Miniatures?affiliate_id=12615
DramaScape's Top Down Armies: Dwarfs V Goblins
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114609/Top-Down-Armies-Dwarfs-V-Goblins?affiliate_id=12615
DramaScape's Floorplan Tiles
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/102902/Floorplan-Tiles?affiliate_id=12615
