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[Robot Parade Leader]

GOBLIN

You are smart ... you think. Other goblins are your own worst enemies, except when you are, or other things are. Either way, tasty bugs, shiny things and not getting killed sounded great. You had that until some elves came by and destroyed your home in a rotted out cave, which those crazy elves said smelled bad. Nothing compares to the fragrance of rotting mushrooms. You managed to escape their grasp with part of a finger from it stuck in your teeth for a minute there. They haven't found you and seem to have stopped looking. You're finally alone in the forest but can't go back home, because they collapsed it. You never had reason to leave before....

What on earth will you do now?

Stats and Description:
Goblin, orange, scaly, 4 ft 2 in.

Skills:
Club (5)
Hide (4)
Climb (3)
Bug cooking (8 )
Bug Finding (8 )
Animal Handling (2)
Ride (1)

Known Areas: (generally)
North - Elven Forest. Pointy arrows are bad.
West - Grimshaw Mountains. Other goblins. Distant relations, maybe friendly, maybe not.
-Plovin's: Plovin is an Ogre Lord ruling Ogres, owning orc, goblin, and other slaves. Oppressing Zuffens (and more?).
South - Humans. Farms, lumber camps, forests, villages.
East - Sabrin Coast. Water. Humans. 3 big mountains full of dwarves. Ships. Bad tasting poison bugs.

Persons known:
Throlu, a Zuffen
You have met a very large boar, however and you fed it 4 tasty looking grubs and 3 bugcakes. It seems friendly, and you're sorta riding him for now.


Items:
Club
Goblin Clothes
9 tasty beetles
20 bugcakes
9 tasty grubs
Lucky Bug Finder Charm
Cooking stone
6 elven arrows
1 magnifying glass (an "ant roaster")
1 end table
1 stick with a bugcake stuck on it.

Boar makeshift saddlebags: (2 large sacs held together around boar with ropes)
6 Prepacked rations: dried fish, nuts, and grain.
1 goblin-make ax (single bladed)
2 waterskins (full)
1 pair goblin-make gauntlets (leather with metal plates)
1 Piece of paper reading as follows:

"Work Order:
Time: Dawn
Place: Plovin's Quartermaster Office.
Quota: 8 holes dug as directed, stake filled. "

[Robot Parade Leader]

First Decision:

What is your Name (No more than 5 letters, maybe 6)?

Setting:
You are in a bunch of forest undergrowth, still hiding from those elves, who are probably long gone now that you think about it. What used to be your home is now collapsed and about 20 ft away. Nothing left.

There are plenty of pine trees all around. You are under no apparent restrictions.



What do you do?

[Cheesecake]

We are Gob.

We will search our home if anything can be salvaged.

[MonkeyMarkMario]

We are Gob.

We will search our home if anything can be salvaged.

+1

[Robot Parade Leader]

You trot out from the forest undergrowth and manage to grab a pointy stick while you're at it. You arrive at what was your home, and is now a collapsed small cave. A part of you can't help but think the place has improved despite it being impossible to go inside. Well, maybe the yard has? Details. You poke about with the pointy stick and find that pointy sticks can indeed poke about in your yard and what used to be your roof. You find yourself wondering if it is still a roof if the place it was roofing has collapsed. Who knows?

All is not lost however, as it appears you find 4 tasty looking grubs. They are wonderfully round and full of energy and what you can only imagine is flavor. The suspense is killing you and one of them ends up chewed in your mouth before you know it. O they ARE tasty grubs and this one is wonderful. It has a wonderful texture and consistency with a pallet pleasing taste to rave about. After sufficiently raving about the taste to no one but yourself for several more minutes, you continue poking about your goblin yard. In other news and for no particular reason, it appears one of your end tables is somehow fine and cleaner than it was before this whole mess. Go figure.

After about 4 minutes a particularly beautiful forest boar trots into your yard. His warts are lovely and wonderful, as are his scars, and chipped hoofs. His aroma is a wonderful thing, wafting of rotting things and all the finer things in life. Yes, in the eye of the beholder (you) he is wonderful and slowly moving towards what had been your trash ... pile? Area? It was never clear. The point is, there's a large pig moving towards it and it has tusks.

Meanwhile, you notice those terrible elven monsters have left numerous arrows just laying around stuck in things your property. The Nerve of some people! Home invasion, cave collapse and littering!

Your yard is pretty forested, except for the parts that aren't. Those are clearings.

Items You just gained:
Pointy Stick
3 Tasty looking grubs
3 Elven arrows
Small wooden sign: "Cave Sweet Cave."

What do you do?

[Shadestyle]

Find stringy stuff, tie a loop in one end and tie the other to your pointy stick.

[ATHATH]

Realize that we are blue, and spontaneously develop Psionic powers (that we may or may not be too dumb to know how to use).

Tame the boar.

[birdy51]

Offer a Grub to the handsome boar as tribute.

[Amperzand]

I approve.

[Robot Parade Leader]

The large boar seems to give sniffs and grunts in your general direction, perhaps also sensing the sheer wonderfulness that is encapsulated in those tasty grubs. He looks longingly in your direction, staring perhaps at the wriggling mass in your hand. The large boar gives an oink grunt, or maybe that was a sneeze, it's unclear. You hold out your tasty looking grub, as it slightly gleams in the light. The boar immediately takes notice and sniffs the air again, eyes locked on the grub. This continues for a few minutes, until you finally realize that while the boar wants the grub, it is not yet comfortable enough to approach you directly, being a wild animal.

At some point, you reluctantly place the grub on the ground and back away. After a second, the large boar, snout sniffing the ground intensely, walks over and slurps up the grub. He seems calmer now, you think. He is less shy about being around you, but still shy. Another grub fixes this problem as he is now content to be around you or at least you can get close to him without him backing away or seeming to care. You are unsure what the large boar thinks of you beyond grub dispenser, but whatever huge pigs think of isn't exactly something you can tell. Maybe he likes you, or maybe he likes grubs, or maybe it's both? Who knows.

You appear to be an orange and scaly goblin (as per Original post). You attempt to convince yourself that you are, in fact blue. You think blue thoughts, of water, of the sky, of other blue things, and you tell yourself you are blue. Even you don't seem to believe this despite your sincere efforts. However, it seems the boar likes you regardless of your color.

You look around for stringy stuff but can't seem to find string itself. You wonder what stringy things are around and think of string things. There are trees, mostly pine, that's not stringy. Lots of dirt.... You decide to look for some string and poke around with your thick pointy stick in the ground, among the fallen log, etc. You find no string, but you do find 3 more tasty looking grubs!

Newly Acquired Items
Tasty looking grubs (3) (replacing the two you fed to the boar and leaving you one ahead).

What do you do?

[Amperzand]

Offer two grubs to the boar, then continue searching. A boar will make a wonderful friend, but we need food too!

[Nakéen]

Murder the boar. A boar will make a wonderful food, and we already have grubs for friends. Engage conversation with grubs.

[Transcendant]

Offer two grubs to the boar, then continue searching. A boar will make a wonderful friend, but we need food too!

+1

Yup, let's get some more bugs and add them to our stash for later. Let's see if we can find some way to use our excellent bug cooking skills. This way we'll have food for wherever we go and whatever we do.

Murder the boar. A boar will make a wonderful food, and we already have grubs for friends. Engage conversation with grubs.

-1

We eat bugs. we have skills like this:
Bug cooking (7)
Bug Finding (7)

and the description says we love tasty bugs.

[Gwolfski]

pick up the endtable and examine it.

[Robot Parade Leader]

You pick up your old end table. It is wooden and actually very well crafted (not by you). It is a varnished and polished Oak with a drawer you used to keep midnight snacks in. You open that up and lo and behold there are mindnight snacks in there. It consists of dried bugs of various types, enough for a while really. You count 12 bugcakes. Also the drawer are a surprisingly well maintained and engineered magnifying glass which you have considered an ant roaster. Ah, fond memories of ants lined up to be roasted in turn and scooped into a bag for later snacks. The thought of it is almost mouth watering, but then you put down the end table.

You offer the large, handsome boar 2 more grubs and he eagerly accepts. He now seems to hang out near you without any fear and even follows you a little bit, to the extent that you haven't gone anywhere really.

Your stash of bugs seems to be improving easily and it's plain to see why you used to have a home here. You find 7 more tasty grubs after rooting around for them in some of the usual hiding places. If it weren't for the elves and your small cave house being collapsed, you'd say you were fortunate.

You also find your old cooking stone. It isn't much and it never really was. You did fairly impressive things with bugs on a stone over a fire. That's where those bugcakes came from. You were quite the bug cooker.

The large boar stays close to you, improving the general area by his magnificent presence. The warts, the odor, the stiff bristle of his hairs, the sharpness of his tusks, is all so wonderful. He seems to like you.

Items you just gained
(5) tasty grubs (accounting for the 2 you fed the boar)
1 Magnifying glass ("Ant roaster")
12 bugcakes
1 endtable

What do you do?