Reta's first two shots land with applause from the crowd, while the last one... seems to miss in a poor fashion, earning jeers and boos from the crowd!
Mogmurch takes his turn arrogantly.
Unfortunately his aim doesn't live up to his bragging.
Mogmurch's first shot looks to hit, but in his haste, he loaded the arrow backwards. While he did hit the gull, it just seems to have goosed it!
His second shot hits a goblin in the stands, earning him cheers and appreciative laughter, while his third one comes very close to hitting Mummy Sprattleharsh, causing her to swear quite colorfully!
Last call for Poog!
Poog's first two shots get applause, but his last one misses spectacularly, eliciting boos and hisses from the crowd.
Your blindfolds are removed and you are swept along by the crowd and the insistent cane of Mummy Sprattleharsh to the second dare: the Slippery Stirge Stomp! The second dare takes the contestants and the crowd to the west, where a particularly low valley has subsided into a permanent swamp of nasty standing water. A failed attempt by the Birdcrunchers to build a bunch of huts on stilts left behind a haphazard arrangement of wobbly posts protruding from the boggy ground. The goblins have laid wooden planks across several of these posts, creating narrow bridges that stand 10 feet off the ground.
In this dare, the contestants all begin on the southern shore of the bog and are fitted with wide, clumsy, human boots. A single stirge on a 5-foot-long tether is tied to each of the red posts. The goal of this game is to kill as many stirges as possible (preferably by stomping, which qualifies as an unarmed strike, but any method of stirge killing is allowed) without falling into the swamp below.
"Mogmurch smash the stirges!" he shrieks as he waves his club around recklessly. He runs down the rickety bridge towards the nearest target.
Reta and Mogmurch hop onto the boards and try to squash a stirge, but fail!
Chuffy tries to stomp the stirge, who looks at him like he's mad. And then Poog causes it to explode, spraying Chuffy with burning guts and eliciting cheers from the crowd!
Mogmurch howls in displeasure when his target is slain, so he scurries to the next one and tries to smash it.
Reta's stirge explodes as she sticks it with an arrow, while Poog incinerates another one! Chuffy's shot misses, while Mogmurch smashes his! The crowd is on its feet, cheering and hooting as the shots fly!
Reta and Chuffy miss, while Poog continues his streak of burning stirges!
Mogmurch jumps to the next small plank and smashes at the two stirges tied there.
Mogmurch manages to squash a stirge, but misses his next swing, while Poog blindly blasts another stirge to cheers and applause!
This time Reta nails a bug, causing it to explode!
Chuffy's stirge explodes! The crowd roars but begins chanting "Knock them down! Knock them down!"
Another bug explodes as Reta fires! Only 1 bug remains! The crowd keeps chanting "Knock them down! Knock them down!"
Mogmurch chases the last stirge, swinging madly.
Mogmurch whomps the last stirge, causing it to explode!
Mummy Sprattleharsh nods. "Now last one standing on the beams wins."
Mogmurch has been dancing all over these planks. He feels very confident. Perhaps too much so.
Reta trips a few seconds into the ordeal, as goblins begin to shake and thump the boards. She falls with an OOMPH into the water! Mogmurch follows her a moment later, but Chuffy remains rooted to the board like a champ. Wise Mammy Sprattleharsh holds up her hand, declaring Chuffy the last goblin standing!
Finally, for the last dare, Wise Mummy Sprattleharsh leads the chieftains-in-waiting back toward the Birdcruncher cave—as they approach, the stink of rotten meat and spoiled milk grows. The scent comes from a horrific “pie” that’s been created in a 10-foot-diameter bowl-shaped depression in the rock—the bowl is only 18 inches deep, but filled with a nasty, not-quite-boiling-hot slurry of spoiled milk, mud, swamp water, mashed-up grass, and dead birds. The top is covered over with an incongruously delicious- and flakylooking pie crust. Several cauldrons of boiling pie filling sit nearby, along with a number of large, dented metal funnels.
Wise Mummy Sprattleharsh explains that the giant birdmeat pie is still baking, and the chieftains-in-waiting will all be tied up and placed in the pie to cook. Each goblin is allowed to carry and wear all of his gear and equipment in this dare.
"All you must do is escape the pie. Except, we am forgetting to kill the birds baked into the pie first. And they am very angry. If you kill one, we gives you more points!" She cackles and the Birdcrunchers cheer!
With the rules explained, the contestants are lined up around the edge of the pie and have their wrists and ankles tied together. As Wise Mummy uses her last thunderstone, all contestants are pushed into the pie and must roll Initiative to determine their order in the dare.
Round 1:
Chuffy
Poog and Eagles!
Reta
Mogmurch
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Chuffy struts to the next challenge like the obvious victor he is. "Poog cheat and STILL lost! Be more like us and you be better than just Poog."
Reaching the kettles of 'pie' Chuffy listens to the rules and smiles Hrm.. we kill eagles or just eat pie... not real sure! As the bonds are tied to his hands and feet he does his best to give himself some extra wiggle room, holding his hands and feet just right to get some extra slack in the ropes, not to mention doing his best to provide erroneous information to the doer of the deed. "You aren't doing that right, you gotta go around the tree twice before you go into the hole!"
As he's tossed in he twists and turns in the air to try working his hands free in the rope, but the first thing he does instead is suck up a huge mouthful of steaming hot slurry, burning the roof of his mouth like a fresh slice of pizza. "HOT HOT HOT!" He mumbles.
Chuffy's first attempts at escape are not going well...
Poog - 14
Mogmurch - 7
Reta - 12
Chuffy - 12
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Poog realizes he is pretty well stuck
But he manages to avoid getting burnt too too badly, and attempts to wriggle his hands just enough to burn everyone in the pie.
Hey Ugly Chuffy, it's not cheating if Zarongel LOVES you!
Poog manages to move his hands just enough to blast a big bunch of fire directly into the pie
Three of the eagles manage to avoid most of the blast, but one goes up in flames!
The remaining three eagles attack!
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Chuffy sees the gout of flame erupt from Poog and quickly rolls himself beneath an eagle, quickly surfacing behind the charred remains and giving Poog the 'raspberry' while sniffing the air and trying again to work his hands free. "Smells Great Poog! Do it again!"
To his chagrin the blast of fire seems to have roasted the rope too! He holds up his now free hands with a big smile on his face and draws out his dogslicer. "STABBY TIME WOOOO!"
Reta struggles, but cannot get out. Chuffy breaks free!
Mogmurch reels from the wounds he suffers, then throws a bomb right into the center of the pie! He carefully excludes himself from the damage.
Mogmurch's bomb goes wild, but still splashes the lot of you!
Almost by accident another eagle dies! Two eagles remain!
Chuffy broke free! The two eagles attack!
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One eagle dies of its burns, earning no points. The last one remains!
The goblins cheer as the eagles die, two at Poog's hand and one at Mogmurch's! Wise Mummy Sprattleharsh clears her throat. "Now you just gotta get out!"