Red in Tooth and Claw | Glowfic Constellation

Mar 14, 2025 2:52 PM

The universe, as he understands it, is mostly round, somewhat oblong, and filled with food.

As time passes and he eats the food, he grows bigger. He understands this is the fundamental point, of himself and of food and of the universe.

But eventually, inevitably, it means he is the same size as the universe, and now there is no food.

This is a great injustice and a terrible thing. The universe is not allowed to not have food. This is definitely the worst thing that has happened, literally ever.

In anger, he attacks the universe.

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Gubbirk, Goblin Chief

Beware-an-Old-Goblin

Eva_

Then he will keep running, not even bothering to throw an axe.

Dergaix

All-Alone

Eva_

I'm not getting into range for you to Full Attack first.

If you're not going to fight me, I can fire breath every 2.5 rounds, half of which hit, dealing 2d10 - 10 or an average of 2.2 damage per attack.

It'd take me 9 hits spread over about 5 minutes to kill you, but I'll kill you long before the energy resist runs out.

Gubbirk, Goblin Chief

Beware-an-Old-Goblin

Eva_

He doesn't need 5 minutes to reach a thick group of bushes, and disappear behind them into a tunnel.

Dergaix

All-Alone

Eva_

Crap.

He doesn't appear to be coming back out, or even cornered.

Dergaix will return and, lie to everyone that Gubbirk is dead?
No, that is a bad idea, easily disproven by Gubbirk existing.

He will explain that he has chased Gubbirk away, and that Gubbirk is banished from the village, and if anyone sees him tell him not to come back.

Trekzilk, Goblin Priest

Rules-for-Thee

Eva_

Great, now Trekzilk has to figure out if it's a good idea, in terms of his ~~species~~ ~~tribes~~ own personal survival chances, for that to happen.

If tomorrow they are both at full strength, and Gubbirk returns to fight, either he will succeed at chasing Dergaix away who will then return to do this all over again ... or he'll die and maybe get a lot of other Goblins killed with him, or he'll start a war that gets everyone killed.

As soon as Dergaix isn't looking, Trekzilk will grab a good tracker, go into the forest, and ~~finish the job~~ persuade his old friend who is still after all a fellow Goblin to consider seeking fortunes elsewhere.

So that in the future he can beat Sense Motives about whether he's helping plan an insurrection by having it be true that he's not. It's not even disobeying instructions. He was practically told to do that.

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