Happy April Fools' Day, everyone.
Since there was interest/hope for another poem for the next holiday, and that holiday is today, I got to thinking that it had been a while since there had been any new goblin songs. Which is sad, because the goblins will be coming shortly, and while I don't have any more info than that, I though a goblin song for the Licktoad Goblins would be a fun idea.
Then of course I complicated things by realizing that the verse forms of the goblins would work really well for a pantoum.
What is a pantoum, pray tell? What's its CR? Does it have turn resistance?
Um...a pantoum is a verse form the English got from the French, and the French got from the Malays. So it's only appropriate that it now be appropriated by Golarion's goblins.
I'll let them show you what one is.
Happy Veneralia!
Kevin Andrew Murphy
“The Licktoad Pantoum”
A Goblin Song for April Fools’ Day 2011
By Kevin Andrew Murphy
Catch the piggy, Squealy Nord!
Licktoad Goblins prove we brave!
Gobble bull slug from a gourd!
Dance on Auntie Una’s grave!
Licktoad Goblins prove we brave!
Goblins take on any dare!
Dance on Auntie Una’s grave!
With a baby buggy bear!
Goblins take on any dare!
Sneak into a humie hall!
With a baby buggy bear!
Swap it for a goo-goo doll!
Sneak into a humie hall!
Find a baby humie boy!
Swap it for a goo-goo doll!
Goblins play with tasty toy!
Find a baby humie boy!
Teach it goblin peek-a-boo!
Goblins play with tasty toy!
Suppertime, toss brat in stew!
Teach it goblin peek-a-boo!
Face be piggy? Face be orc?
Suppertime, toss brat in stew!
Orc ’n humie taste like pork!
Face be piggy? Face be orc?
Poke with doggie-slicer blade!
Orc ’n humie taste like pork!
Bull slug slimy merry-nade!
Poke with doggie-slicer blade!
Orckie-porky-humie meal!
Bull slug slimy merry-nade!
Goblins laugh when piggy squeal!
Orckie-porky-humie meal!
Gobble bull slug from a gourd!
Goblins laugh when piggy squeal!
Catch the piggy, Squealy Nord!
Gobtastic:)
This is awesome. I wouldn't want to meet the goblin who composed it though; clearly his/her attention span would allow for some serious planning--and we all know that the only reason the goblins don't overrun civilisation as we know it is because they can't plan!
