Goblins of IO Episode 2

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***Goblins of Io* Episode 14** was streamed on BrettUltimus' Twitch channel on the 4th of November 2020 , and premiered on the World of Io's YouTube channel on the 9th of February 2020.

To conceal that the creature they just killed wasn't really a human, the party sets the bodies on fire and convinces everyone that the human self-destructed and with him the contents of all the chests they'd just looted. The elder of the village whose "vault" the "human" had plundered dies of a heart attack when he hears that all the wealth of his village is lost. Cheezle, taking the staff of the elder and attaching it to his own, is immediately named the new elder of the village and commands the villagers to raise their children as warriors, so he can build an army. Happy the ringmaster takes this as their cue to pack up the circus and move on. Arriving at the nearest goblin village, they find its population massacred by a band of kobolds, who immediately attack the circus. Most of them fall victim to a sleep spell from Klernt and then get executed in their sleep by Mottle.

## Summary

The goblins continue to loot the vault, finding a variety of trash, wealth, and a few weapons. Cheezle fixates on an old block of stinky cheese and attempts to deodorize it by urinating on it and lathering it up with a bar of soap. The group grabs some useful items: a longbow, a hunter's trap, and a bag of caltrops. After looting, the ringleader comes into the vault, and the group quickly decides to burn the bodies of the two goblins they killed. While Skagzag burns the bodies, Klernt lies to Happy, telling him that humans self-destruct on death and that all the treasure burned up. Klernt finally asks the ringleader for his name, as the group never learned what he's called. The ringleader reveals his name is Happy and takes on an unearned familiarity with Klernt that makes him feel uneasy.

The village elder arrives to assess the situation and asks the group about the human that was supposedly there. The group tells the elder that they killed the human, so he thanks and congratulates them. The elder requests that Klernt plays him a song, and Klernt begrudgingly obliges. They then lie to the elder that the treasure in the vault has all been destroyed, and the elder freaks out. As Peekel asks him if he's going to cry, the elder dies of a heart attack from the guilt of the village being bankrupt. Cheezle loots a cane from the elder and combines it with his staff to make an even larger staff. As Cheezle holds his new staff aloft, he is declared the new goblin elder by the villagers. Klernt advertises his bardic talents to the villagers as Cheezle demands the village to make many children and prepare for war.

A passing villager mentions Klernt should try playing at the orphanage. Upon hearing the orphanage has money, Happy encourages the group to go perform there. Cheezle agrees to go, as he wants to recruit the orphans into an army. Happy tells the group they're going to perform in a village on the way to earn some money. As they travel, Happy notices that the gold he had on Dungo was stolen. Happy asks the group where his money went, and Mottle, the one who stole the gold, hides. Happy then inspects Dungo’s pockets and mistakenly thinks the money simply fell out.

The group comes across a pair of goblins, a man and woman, in distress. Klernt approaches them and asks if he can cheer them up. However, the woman pulls a gun on Klernt, intending to rob the group. Cheezle misinterprets the situation as the two goblins fighting and attacks the goblin man, thinking he's attacking the woman. Peekel immediately kills the woman with a Guiding Bolt. The man begins to run away as the group tries to shoot him with arrows and spells but continuously fail. Cheezle throws his staff at the man, missing and breaking his staff. Peekel then burns the man to death using Sacred Flame.

As the group arrives at the village Happy mentioned, they notice the village has been burned out. Mottle immediately begins looting, but he’s interrupted by a group of kobolds, all in different colored helmets. Klernt immediately opens the fight by casting sleep on them, making four of the five kobolds fall asleep. The last kobold is killed by Mottle while Skagzag summons a fog. They loot the sleeping kobolds, taking some of their weapons and supplies. Cheezle takes the opportunity to fix up and add to his staff, enhancing it with a pair of daggers. Mottle then begins to brutally murder the sleeping kobolds, showing both surprising proficiency in, and disturbing enthusiasm for, executing sleeping enemies.

## References

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