Taking her badge and dancing around until she sees a little bug wich she will pound mercilessly with her club.
Poog puts the hot stone in his mouth, and after all the other punishment he has sustained today, perhaps he is numb to it. It doesn't seem to burn him much. He even has some clever-or at least he thinks them fairly clever-quips at the tip of his burning tongue, but he can't quite make the goblins laugh.
Finally, after mumbling some interesting insights, he says to Chuffy"Ugh what is that all over your face? Oh... that just your face."
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Loptop points and laughs at Chuffy and hands over a badge to Poog.
Loptop leads the whelps to the next challenge, at a particularly gooey, icky, sticky patch of mud.
"Licktoad goblins have big teeth! But also have nimble teeth! Can grab with teeth even if hands full! So you show here you can use teeth and tongue to grab worm! Squirmtongue challenge! You take mouthful of mud, swallow it down, but not swallow worm in mud! Show us worm after you swallow mud and you win!"
On his first attempt, Chuffy finds a worm, but the slippery little bugger ends up down his throat, rather than spat out.
Chuffy doesn't find any worms in his second mouthful.
Finally, starting to feel quite full, Chuffy spits the worm into his hand, and waves it around triumphantly.
"Chuffy found it!"
Goog is unable to find the worm in his first mouthful.
He finds the worm int the second mouthful of mud, but it wriggles right down his gullet.
On his third try, he confidently spits out a worm.
Grabbing some Mud Greta shovels it into her mouth
and with her clever tongue finds a worm but she is not fast enough and all is down her tummy. "BAAA, worm fast"And she grabs another hand of mud... but again she finds a worm but the worm escapes. Furious she grabs another handful.. and this time she is lucky, presenting a worm
Poog eats mud. Plenty of it. Just when he is about to give up, he thinks he finds a worm, but it slithers down his throat...just.
Mogmurch dives right in, swallowing two handfuls of mud before realizing he should've found a worm first, then on his third try, discovers a worm and presents it.
Mic looks at the mud and smile. "Me like worms. They taste yummy."
Mic pulls out the worm and shows everyone around. "See Worm, It wiggles."
He does it once more, taking the worm out of the mud. "This is fun." he says before swallowing both worms.
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"Hah! You all got badges for something! Good, good, maybe you not useless whelps after all."
Loptop hands out the final badges to all the whelps except Poog.
"Alright! You free of whelping cages, you can sleep in village tonight! BUT! You not Licktoads yet! Licktoads gotta have a toad! Tomorrow you go to Tadpole Bog and get a toad of you very own! Then you take it to Cave of Darkfear and present toad to the spirits of Darkfear."
As you watch, Kettlehead and his lackeys head out, having passed their badge challenges yesterday, and being favored by Chief Gutwad, they even have some armor and weapons. You're not so lucky -- you'll have to make do with the filthy rags, rocks, and sticks you were given in the whelping cages, unless you can find something else in the village to use.
Mic doesn't see the dragon as it approaches the village to eat the Goblin. Nope, he surely doesn't see that.
Mogmurch makes sure to at least have a whackin' stick.
Grabbing the case before some random goblin can fetch it. Swinging her club menacingly she hisses "Mine!". Opening it she finds the darts and the cover. Taking 3 darts and dropping the others to the ground she straps the shield around her arm.
Poog sees the useful items, but not before the others are in action.
"Meh."
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The whelps get to rest and recover from the challenges. After you're thoroughly rested , Loptop gathers you together at the edge of the village.
“You maybe think you be tough because you got out of your baby cage, whelps? Psht! You no be goblins. The only real goblins are Licktoads, and a Licktoad without a toad is just... lick. So. If you want be Licktoads, you need to catch a toad at Tadpole Bog and also not die. Then you take the toad to Cave of Darkfear and also not die. Then you show your toad to the Darkfear spirit, and maybe if you really are a goblin, then you also not die. Get toad. Show spirit. Kill anything that wants to stop you. Don’t die.
“That last part is very important.”
Loptop draws a crude map in the dirt, showing the locations of the Tadpole bog, the village, and the cave of Darkfear, which form a roughly equilateral triangle. Then she shoos you on your way.
"Okay!"
Chuffy heads off to the Bog!
Smiling greta hops up and down. Soon she will be licktoad. And with speed she runs toward the bog.
"Not die..." Poog repeats, just to be sure he has it. He then chases after the others.
"Get toad... Why toad and not frog?" Mic wonders out loud.
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Loptop throws a big wad of mud at Mic, but it hits the ground next to him. "Get toads if you want to be Licktoads, you big dumb baby!" she screams at him, grabbing another handful of mud and this time hitting him in the face with it.
The occasional lazy bubble breaks the surface of this shallow, stinky pond, and a haze of insects clouds the air in every direction. Only the occasional gurp-chirp of toad-song breaks through the drone of bugs. The water is only a foot deep, and the layer of peat underneath is soft and mushy, but supports your weight well enough.
Thoroughly excited, Chuffy tries to grab the first toad that he sees!
Mic will trip Chuffy
But fails. He then goes and tries to catch a toad.
Then curses as it hops away.
Tries again for the 2nd one he sees.
Almost catching it. He chases it.
And chases.
And doesn't give up.
Trying her best to sneak up on a toad greta chooses a juice fat one and jumps it.
but fails
and fails as sneaky waydoes not work she jumps it
and holds her frog in hand.
"you be squelyfrog"
Goog will try to sneak up on a frog and grab him.
Poog had a very specific toad in mind...one that would sit on his head all day. Maybe having a toad on his head could be "his thing."
He waits until he finds one that is particularly large, and watches to make sure it doesn't poo all that much, being on his head and all.
Once he finds the best toad of all, he sneaks up behind it and simply grabs it.
Mogmurch goes all sneaky-like behind a toad and just picks it up, "No jump away? You my toad and we gonna be Licktoads!"
Goog tries again.
And again.
And AGAIN.
And ONCE MORE.
UGH.
He finally, BARELY catches a toad.
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Just after Greta catches her toad, but before Goog and Mic are able to, Chuffy catches sight of a dogslicer sticking out of the bog. He pulls it out and a skeletal, goblin arm is still stuck to the hilt! Further examination shows that there are two goblin corpses in a deep pocket of the peat, pickled from the acidic water, with several useful items on them.
Total items: two dogslicers, a javelin, a grappling hook, two unholy symbols of Zarongel, two wooden spoons, two dead moles, and a jar of pickled fish heads.
Greta looks at the dogslicers and quickly grabs one. "ME greta, me big warrior!"
Mic jumps onto and grabs the other one. "This one's mine." He picks up the jar of pickled fish heads and tosses it at Chuffy "You can have that."
Chuffy tosses it straight back at Mic.
"Chuffy no need old fish!"
Poog has always thought Zarongel sounded like a cool dude, and picks up one of the holy symbols, not catching the fact that Zarongel did nothing to protect the two wearers.
He also takes a wooden spoon, and starts snacking on a dead mole.
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Mic and Goog finally catch their toads after much failure, and after dividing the spoils of their find, the six start along the path towards the legendary Cave of Darkfear.
The horrible morning sunshine slowly gives way to a refreshing, dank drizzle as the goblins cross the marsh. Before they reach their destination, though, they come upon a rudely-shaped fallen log blocking the path.
A weasely, green-gray figure climbs astride it—Kettlehead the goblin, his polished pot still perched upon his puckered puss. He cries, “Stupid baby wannabe goblins!” as a pair of other whelps from the cage—Culgick and Rempty—scramble up beside him. Kettlehead continues, waving a mean-looking dogslicer over his head. “You took toads from Kettlehead’s special pond, and now you have to pay my price. Give me all your toads! And say you be stupid!”
Goog shrugs, moves forward, and casts burning hands on the moronic goblins.
Poog isn't about to give up his toad, having already licked it. He has to grow up at some point, and that time is now.
Looking at the fire washing over the goblin Greta Carefully equipps dogslicer and shield.
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Goog moves forward, casting a spell to produce flames that wash over the three goblins. Only Rempty is able to duck partly out of the way.
Kettlehead angrily steps forward, and slashes with his dogslicer at Goog in retaliation, but just barely misses.
Greta gets ready for trouble. Culgick and Rempty fire their bows at Chuffy and Poog, respectively. Chuffy is hit!
Poog then steps up and sends another wave of flame at them, this time only hitting Kettlehead and Rempty, both of whom take the flames fully in the face. Kettlehead collapses to the ground, sizzling.
Culgick gulps and says, "I no like them anyway! You gobs strong! You best new goblins in tribe!"
Rempty agrees, coughing and groaning in pain from his burns. "No more fight! You win!"
Init order:
Goog: Moves forward and casts Burning Hands
Kettlehead (red)
Greta: readies her weapon and shield
Culgick (blue)
Rempty (aqua)
Poog
Chuffy
Mic
Mogmurch
"Give us all your stuff!"
Chuffy then moves forward to loot kettlehead (starting with his helmet!).
Mogmurch waves his club threateningly at Rempty, "No more biting or teasing Mogmurch, am greatest gob. See great gob team? Gonna get greater after cave!"
Poog jumps around excitedly. "Yes, give us all stuff or Poog sizzle with more fire!" he says.
"And NEVER say we not real goblins again!!!"