Steven James Black's RPG Recaps and Musings: Saga of the Goblin Horde Recap #7: The Lost Goblin

January 25, 2020 @ 1:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.

<WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR SAGA OF THE GOBLIN HORDE!>

NEW CHARACTER BIOS
Player Name: David
Character Name: Werm Earripper
Race: Psioblin
Archetype: Psionicist
Hindrances: Habit (M): Mushroom Juice, Compulsive Cannibal (m), Hallucinations (m), Goblinioid (R), Diminutive (R)
Notable Edges: Danger Sense, Psychonaut
Background: David made Werm Earripper shortly before the first session but this is his first session! Since then he has been lost in the caves near the Twilight Woods harvesting mushroom juice from crushed mushrooms.

Day 76
Redfang Tribe Camp

A messenger from the Stonefist Tribe arrived and informed Chief Bignose of their journey home being hindered by town humans throughout Redfang Tribe territory. Chief Bignose told the goblin bosses that big town humans were invading Redfang Tribe territory and that they needed to be stopped...

The goblin bosses were sent on a patrol route in between the Redfang Tribe Camp and the Twilight Woods to guard the Redfang Territory.

Day 77
Redfang Tribe Territory

Twankle found heavy boot prints in the muddy ground. Twankle had her goblin gang members dig and build a mud hole. Windel had her goblin gang members make a big racket with their drums and other instruments while she hid in the mud. Glub turned into his wolf form and waited for the town humans to show up.
The leaders of the town humans fell for the two ambushes. One of them fell into a mud hole and the other got stabbed in the back taking two wounds each. The female town human leader flailed as she fell and hit a glancing blow off of Twankle. The male town human leader hit Windel with his shield making her back off.

     The female leader of the town humans crawled out of the mud hole after shaking off her fall.
The male leader of the town humans shook off the pain and launched a coordinated strike against Windel which killed one of her goblin gang members.
Then Twankle activated her trapmaking ability to have a secondary mud hole swallow up three of the female town human soldiers. They failed to climb out of the hole. The remaining soldier hit a goblin gang member with a glancing blow.

       Twankle's attack against the female town human leader was blocked by her shield. She had her unoccupied goblin gang members shovel more dirt and mud on top of the town humans in the mud hole. Her other gang member shook off the attack and missed a counterattack with his spear.
        Glub ripped out the female town human's throat with a vicious go for the throat maneuver.
        Windel and her goblin gang members killed all but one of the male town human leader's soldiers. She used extraction to run away after seeing all the blood on her hands from her sneak attack on the town human's back.

[Windel has the Yellow hindrance and this earned Bobbie a Bennie as she took extra attacks from human soldiers when she ran off without Improved Extraction.]

       Windel stabbed a female town human soldier in the back as her goblin gang members killed the last remaining male town human soldier.
        Twankle and her goblin gang members piled more and more dirt and mud on the remaining female town human soldiers and buried them alive.
        Glub ran at the male town human leader but missed his jugular.

The male town human leader counterattacked and wounded Glub.

Angered, Glub ripped out his jugular. Attempts to heal Glub failed until he licked his own wounds and healed himself.

[In spite of the -6 from no Healing skill and double wound penalties Kevin rolled a 16-6=10!]

Day 78
Redfang Tribe Territory, Twilight Woods

     Windel experienced a hallucination as she entered the Twilight Woods. In the hallucination, the coniferous forest was changed into a mushroom kingdom of mushroom "trees" made of progressively smaller mushrooms in tiers like a snowman and all the goblins were transmogrified into mushroom men and women. Windel Icker licked one of the mushroom "trees" and wounded herself due to getting pine needles stuck on her tongue. She then climbed a mushroom "tree" and scratched her hands on the pine needles. Yelping in pain, she let go of the mushroom "tree" and fell to the ground but landed softly in the mud.
     The goblin bosses found a strange blue goblin in the Twilight Woods. The blue goblin drank some strange green and gray juice and started to hallucinate. Windel and the new goblin, Werm, seemed to bond over experiencing a shared hallucination. At least until Windel freaked out and ran off with her goblin gang members running after her. The rest of the goblin bosses decided to make camp and wait for her to return. Glub and Twankle talked a bit with Werm. Werm gave Glub some of the green and gray juice aka "mushroom juice" in a flask when Glub asked him for some.
   After a few hours, Windel returned after following her own tracks back to the group. Werm took some more mushroom juice. He hallucinated that a goblin-sized rock was Windel and tried to heal her tongue with his mushroom juice and strange salves made from fungi leaving a rock covered in mushroom paste. Meanwhile, Glub gave Windel the mushroom juice and it seemed to numb her tongue long enough for him to remove the needles from her tongue.

Twankle's watch went fine and then she woke up Werm to take a watch. Werm didn't wake up Glub for third watch. Instead he was half-asleep in a hallucination that he was perfectly alert. His goblin gang members heard someone approaching and tried to wake him up but could not. Suddenly two town human leaders and their soldiers slaughtered two of Werm's goblin gang members.

     The town humans set off a trap Twankle had set up during her watch. She had placed the mushroom paste covered rock up in a tree with a tripwire on the ground. When a foot hit the tripwire it pulled the branch and dislodged the rock. It hit a town human leader and two of his men. It killed the human soldiers instantly and left the town human leader wounded. Twankle and her goblin gang members got up and moved towards Werm.
   Glub ran at a town human leader but missed.
     Werm hallucinated a scenario in which he did not awaken and his goblin gang members missed. Fortunately, it was just a dream, as his danger sense and psychonaut activated. He awoke and sent out three mind bolts which exploded the brains of one of the human soldiers and one of his goblin gang members. His two remaining goblin gang members killed two human soldiers.
Windel and her men moved towards the bulk of the remaining human soldiers. They killed off two of the human soldiers.

   A town human leader cast smite to make their weapons glow with holy fire. The other town human leader tried to hit Glub but missed as his last remaining human soldier was skewered instead.
   Human soldiers killed off two of Windel's goblin gang members.
       Twankle and her goblin gang members surrounded a town human leader but he kept using his shield to block their attacks.
       Werm tried to control the mind of a paladin but couldn't overcome his will.
       Glub managed to wound the town human leader with a vicious bite through his armor.
       Windel and her goblin gang members surrounded the paladin but he blocked their attacks with his shield.

       The town human leader wounded Glub but he counterattacked by ripping out his carotid artery. The paladin killed one of Windel's goblin gang members.
       As the last man standing, the paladin was quickly surrounded by all the remaining goblin bosses and gang members. Severely wounded, Werm used his mind blast to explode the Paladin's brain and make Windel run away screaming.

Day 79-80
Twilight Woods to Redfang Tribe Camp

      Werm failed to find food and ate his last goblin gang member to survive on the way back.

Day 81-85
Redfang Tribe Camp

   The goblin bosses rested and recruited new goblin gang members.

Day 86
Redfang Tribe Camp

       An angered Chief Bignose wanted to strike back at the town humans for interrupting kickball and their trespassing in Redfang Tribe territory. He ordered the goblin bosses to attack a town human village during a Winter Solstice festival and interrupt their holiday like they had interrupted their game...

[End of Session]

XP: 2. Missed XP: 1. Minimum XP = 12.

Loot: None

Pictures:

Maps

    DramaScape's Wagons Roll was used for the forest and plains paths in the Redfang Tribe Territory.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106531/Wagons-Roll?affiliate_id=12615

Miniatures

Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers by Wizards of the Coast and Small World by Days of Wonder used for some figures.
DramaScape's Top Down Armies Dwarfs V Goblins used for some green goblin top downs, DramaScape's Western Keep used for some black human top downs, and DramaScape's Top Down Armies Humans V Orcs used for some blue human top downs. DramaScape's Fantasy Creatures Paper Miniatures used for the Goblin Mage Figure Flat used for Werm.

DramaScape's Top Down Armies: Dwarfs V Goblins

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114609/Top-Down-Armies-Dwarfs-V-Goblins?affiliate_id=12615