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Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« on: August 25, 2019, 09:23:49 PM »
You are goblins of the Licktoad Tribe. Or at least you will be someday. For now, though, you’re whelps—ravenous, amoral, grumpy goblin children who learned to stop eating rocks only a few months ago. But with every day that passes, your whelping cage seems smaller and smaller. The outside world increasingly beckons to your goblin curiosity (and appetite), but the hateful cage bars holds you at bay.

A few other whelps flourish in the cage, even as the smaller and weaker ones are thinned out. Kettlehead stands literally head and shoulders above the competition, being a goblin of impeccable flatulence and having already fashioned himself an impressive hat from a teapot left lying too close to the cages. Even adult goblins—legendary Chief Rendwattle Gutwad among them—have taken note of Kettlehead and his advanced skills of poking the rest of you with sticks and delivering bruise-inducing noogies.

But today is special. Today, instead of a bucket of fish heads, whelp-wrangler Loptop brought a key and unlocked the door to your cage, spilling you sorry lot into the world for the first time. Other Licktoads gather around, eyeballing you and chewing on the fish heads that should have been yours. “You all are too big for cages,” Loptop snorts. “But you’re not Licktoads yet. Licktoads gotta be useful. Licktoads gotta be tough! Licktoads gotta earn their places in the tribe. And that’s what you’re gonna do now! Show us where you belong, even if that ends being the boneyard!”

Loptop lines all of you up with the other whelps, but excuses Kettlehead for his obvious superiority.  After a few awkward moments, she continues.  "You will do challenges!  First challenge, Animal Fiendship!"  The gathered adult goblins form a circle around you and one brings out a cage full of head-sized scarlet spiders.  Loptop then challenges each whelp to tie a leash to a spider.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2019, 12:59:07 AM »
"Does the spider have to live through this?"   :plotting

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2019, 06:41:43 AM »
Mogmurch pokes at the spiders a little. "They not edible?"

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2019, 06:53:02 AM »
Reta grins a toothy grin. "Friendship means hit hard, become boss?"
Hmm.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2019, 09:24:09 AM »
Loptop grumbles. "I said fiendship not friendship! No eating the spiders, leashing a dead spider fails challenge!"

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2019, 09:29:03 AM »
Mogmurch looks at the other goblins. Then concentrates really hard. "Someone else tie spider for Mogmurch?"

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2019, 09:35:37 AM »
"I said you gotta earn your place. Nobody do that for you!"

One of the adult goblins throws a clump of mud at Mogmurch for his question.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2019, 10:07:10 AM »
"And leader don't order goblin do things for him? Is that not highest form of goblin?"

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2019, 10:33:11 AM »
"Only one leader, the chief. We have chief! You not even Licktoad yet!  You refusing challenge?”

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2019, 12:02:19 PM »
Grumbling under his breath, he poked at the spider with a very long stick.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2019, 03:35:58 PM »
Can't kill. Hit softly? Sounds hard. Reta think to herself while picking her nose. "I teach spider power of Fiend Ship."
Hmm.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2019, 05:26:52 PM »
Loptop grumbles. "I said fiendship not friendship! No eating the spiders, leashing a dead spider fails challenge!"

"Well fuck, where's the fun in a non squishing challenge?"

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2019, 08:25:44 PM »
Loptop is now completely ignoring Mogmurch and Poog.  He gives all you whelps a leash and then signals the goblin with the cage to open it up.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2019, 09:03:19 PM »
Reta tries to grab a spider but misses, getting bitten for her trouble.

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« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2019, 09:13:01 PM »
Reta tries and fails again, but this time dodges away from the spider's attempted retribution.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2019, 09:20:38 PM »
With one final heroic effort, Reta once again fails to catch the spider.  It bites her again and then skitters away.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2019, 10:03:02 PM »
Poog is also bitten after a failed attempt at grabbing a spider.

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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2019, 08:00:53 PM »
Chuffy, can put pider in pocket? for later?

sshh, here lit er pider, here lit er pider

attempt to coax spider into leash, i have my cicada shell to lure it with
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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2019, 09:21:07 PM »
Poog is bitten a second time as he fails to grab the spider.

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Mogmurch successfully grabs their spider but is bitten as he tries to put a leash on it.
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Re: Behaving Like Goblins - IC
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2019, 09:14:32 AM »
Mogmurch tries twice more to leash the spider but fails both times. It then skitters away in fear.

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