Peterson

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Peterson is a Goblin shaman and is part of the treasure hunting team known as Team 8 as a hired hand to help out the team. He is played by Adam.

## Background

Peterson grew up in Dawn, the monster capital of Ome in the Eastern Spear Goblin Tribe. After his tribe was wiped out, Peterson decided to head to the mainland in search of the second grand treasure also known as the great library in search for knowledge. Peterson hopes to restore his tribe and create a place where goblins would live fee and thrive.

### Appearance

Peterson is a small goblin with green skin and tattoos. He is always seen with a wooden mask covered in painted eyes that allows Peterson to look into the ethereal plane.

### Personality

Peterson comes across as a blunt and goal driven goblin. He has a lot of respect for those around him and develops close and meaningful bonds with those who treat him as an equal. Peterson progresses into a caring and passionate character, choosing to protect those he cares about over himself.

## Prologue: Peterson

### **Episode Synopsis**

Just off the coast of the mainland, between the monster capital Dawn and the town of Lundy, there are a series of islands connected by draw bridges. The islands and their connections are a part of Dawn. Dawn is home to monster races including bugbears, arachne people and other goblins. Peterson finds himself on the heavy forested island just before the mainland where there is one more bridge to crossed that will lead him to the mainland. It's raining and thundering as he makes his way alone to the draw bridge. All of a sudden, he starts to step in something sticky on the ground. When he looks, there is spiderwebs all over the ground. Peterson looks around for spiders and pulls down his mask to look into the ethereal plane. He sees the webs have a slight blue glow to them. Peterson looks up to the left and he sees an arachne person, half human body and half spider. They wear a helmet covering their face except their mouth and he sees the arachne person's large mouth. The arachne person drops down next to Peterson, telling him they have not seen a goblin for a long time.

Peterson recalls some information about the arachne people who can eat smaller monsters and humans but he knows in this area, this spider is most likely a gate keeper between Dawn and the mainland. Peterson introduces himself and asks if he could pass through to the mainland. The spider asks what Peterson's purpose is which he explains is three. One is to seek a place where he is not the lowest species, the spider laughs about how this will be hard for him. Secondly is to bring honour to his tribe which has come to a sudden and unfortunate end. He wants to potentially find a way to restore his tribe. Finally, he wants to escape something that endlessly pursues him. Peterson relaxes a bit and asked for the arachnid's name which is Lesob.

Peterson says his goodbyes to Lesob and goes to make his way to the bridge. Lesob tells Peterson they've grown to like him so they ask to see his feet. Peterson hesitates for a moment but complies and Lesob spits on his feet which burns away the webs. Lesob offers to come with Peterson to the bridge so they head there together. They get to the beginning of the bridge that is extremely long and hanging over a raging sea. At the other end is a stone gateway and large wooden doors. There are torches lighting the area and Peterson can see people moving at the bridge. Peterson estimates it will take at least 45 minutes to get there and it looks dangerous with the wild weather. Lesob asks if Peterson will he will go but Peterson is a little hesitant. After thinking on it for a while, Peterson decides he will go across and asks if Lesob will join. Lesob tells him they cannot as they are a guardian of Dawn. They explain to Peterson that monsters like them usually cannot cross as on the other side is the Church of Friel. Lesob tells him that Friel is the goddess of logic and a sworn foe of Genala, the god of beasts, their god. Lesob tells Peterson he is quite pretty and they have grown to like him. If Peterson wants an alternate path, Lesob can take him an alternate way which may be better. Peterson agrees to go with Lesob.

They make their way back into the forest and make their way to an entrance of a cave. Peterson is again hesitant and puts a lot of trust in Lesob. They wander in, Peterson now with his mask pulled down. He sees webs everywhere as they go down many different pathways. They get to a pit that is filled with webs and is a 30 foot drop. Lesob attaches to the ceiling and creates a long web down for Peterson to climb down. Peterson climbs down and reaches the bottom. When he gets there, he lands on a raised mound covered in webs. He looks around and can see many glowing eyes of arachne people. Lesob joins him at the bottom and asks is Peterson would like to stay for dinner. Peterson tells Lesob he is all full from orc hide and reckons he should be leaving promptly. A large arachne person with flowing black hair crawls from behind and addresses Lesob as honey and asks why he brings guests here that probably cannot eat guts. Lesob speaks to Gregory, the large arachne person, saying she was helping to guide Peterson through and wanted to offer him some food. Peterson introduces himself to Gregory and apologises for presuming they were out to harm him.

Gergory explains he works in construction and helped to make the tunnels. Peterson asks how these tunnels will get him to the mainland and Gregory tells him that the tunnels go under the ocean and past the church of Friel. As Peterson stands there, a spider sack slumps on the table and another arachne person comes down and tells everyone he just got some McDons. A bunch of arachne kids scatter in and start chowing down on the guts of Don. Lesob leads Peterson from their home down some more tunnels.

They reach Arania and due to the structure, Lesob webs Peterson and straps him to her front as they need to crawl upside down to continue on. Peterson sees the cave opens up with web bridges everywhere. Lesob crawls upside down and Peterson can see a giant cocoon in the center of the nest. Lesob reaches the very bottom of the cave were they see it is a breeding ground with many eggs and arachne nurses. They continue on down a tunnel and they reach a web sign saying 'mainland exit'. Peterson and Lesob part ways and Lesob explains that he will need to travel for about a day and he will reach a ladder which will go to a forest.

Peterson travels down the quiet, narrow pathway with the occasional ominous noises of water crashing above him. After a day, he reaches the end of the tunnel and sees a wooden ladder on the side of a wall. He looks up and sees the ladder go up extremely high, so high he can't see the top. Peterson takes a quick rest and starts climbing the rickety ladder. All of a sudden, he hears wood crack when the ladder breaks but Peterson is able to jump up and continue on the ladder. Eventually he hits a rock ceiling which opens up. The light of the morning shines down and Peterson peaks out to see bee hives and realises he is not in a forest but is in a bee keepers farm. Peterson hops out and scurries behind a boulder to see if anyone is around. Peterson see multiple bee hives, a cottage house and a wooden shed. Peterson sees someone coming out of the shed wearing full bee keeper's gears who starts tending to the bee hives.

The person spots Peterson and calls out to him. Peterson introduces himself and the person asks if Peterson is one of from Mirage. Peterson tells the person he is not and is a foreigner who will be leaving the property as soon as he can. The person is more than happy to welcome Peterson in now he knows he is not a Mirage boy. The person flips up their bee keeper helmet and introduces themselves as T-Bone Nightrunner, a tabaxi with orange hair. Peterson is taken aback a bit as he has not met a tabaxi before nor met anyone so nice.

T-Bone asks if he is there for honey and Peterson tells him he has not ever had honey before. T-Bone takes Peterson to the shed to a honey processing plant. T-Bone directs Peterson to try some of his honey, which he does. His history of eating meat and wild berries does not prepare him for the overwhelming taste of the sweet honey. The warm weather, friendly person and the honey brings Peterson to tears which he quickly wipes away and thanks T-Bone. T-Bone asks what Peterson is here for to which Peterson explains he is looking for the great library of Ome where he can find endless knowledge. T-Bone asks if Peterson is a Greeder but he doesn’t even know what that it. T-Bone is a little suspicious of where he even came from seen as Peterson does not seem to know much. Peterson tells him he is from a small village that didn't go out much. He asks for directions to the great library but T-Bone offers Peterson some food before he gives him any information.

They head inside the country style home where he meets a female tabaxi with white fur names Pym Nightrunner. They have a seat and T-Bone explains that the second grand treasure is off north in the desert and he may struggle to find someone in Lundy to get him all the way there. T-Bone offers to take Peterson into Lundy to find someone to help Peterson in exchange he asks Peterson to do some work around the farm. As Pym cooks a meal, T-Bone and Peterson have small talk with Peterson deflecting any questions ones that would elude to Peterson being from Dawn, in case T-Bone is not happy about him being from the monster capital.

T-Bone and Peterson head outside to bottle up some honey for the market the next day. Peterson is surprisingly good at the bottling and he asks about the Mirages who T-Bone has mentioned a couple times. T-Bone tells him it's the Mirage Money Honey Farm who rivals T-Bone's family farm. The Mirages are quickly taking over business and due to their strangely sweet honey. The farm is very close and occasionally the Mirage people would come to T-Bone's farm and rough stuff up.

Peterson heads out and thinks about how he could contact Lesob. He uses conjure animal to create a falcon and gets a parchment and quill to write to Lesob, asking her to meet him at the bottom of the stairwell that night as he has a favour to ask of her. He sends the falcon across the water to deliver the message to Lesob. The sun sets and they have another meal. Afterwards, T-Bone shows Peterson a room with a comfortable bed. Peterson asks if he could sleep outside where he feels most comfortable.

As soon as the lights go off in the house, Peterson heads to the ladder and climbs down and calls out to Lesob. There is no response. Peterson conjures a bat and asks for it to look a spider. Peterson waits for a while and suddenly he hears movement from above. Peterson climbs back up the ladder quickly and listens for footsteps. He pulls his mask down as a force of habit. He hears some voices talking about getting hives and he hears spraying. As quietly as possible, Peterson tries to open the hatch but it creeks loudly.

Peterson can see 3 people with blue bee keeper suits with black gloves. They each have spray bottles and as soon as they hear the noise, they all run towards where T-Bone told them Mirage farm was. Peterson once again uses conjure animals and summons 4 wargs. Peterson hops on one and runs to the people who were just at the farm. One person trips on a log and a warg starts clawing and biting at their back, killing them. He sees that the person the warg killed was also a tabaxi. There are 2 more bee keepers one warg attacks, injuring the tabaxi. Another warg attacks, completely side swiping the last beekeeper and kills them. One beekeeper remains, calling out for help. Peterson calls out for the wargs to stop and Peterson approaches the final beekeeper. Peterson asks for the beekeeper to tell him where their chieftain is. The beekeeper tell him Malory is the leader of the farm and is at the house. Peterson jumps on the warg and runs towards the Mirage farm.

He rides up to a very tall stone wall. Peterson follows the wall to find a gate and eventually makes his way to a gate to find two sword wielding tabaxi's looking pretty bored. Peterson commands the wargs to split up with two attacking each tabaxi guard. The left tabaxi guard gets hit by one warg, injuring them but they remain standing. The guard on the right dodges the warg but is unable to dodge the claws that Peterson swings at him with, slitting their throat and killing them instantly. The left tabaxi tries to attack the warg but they miss and the warg slams them into the wall. Peterson casts toll the dead and despite ringing close to the tabaxi, they don't seem affected however, it seems to alert people in the mansion. One warg bites onto the tabaxi's ankle and it throws the them into a tree, snapping their spine and killing them instantly.

Peterson commands a warg to fetch the dead body and he casts shatter on the gate. It bursts open and as the dust settles, Peterson can see a female tabaxi, presumably Malory, standing on the porch of the estate surrounded by six well-armed tabaxis. The woman calls out and asks who he is. Peterson yells out in the deepest voice he can summon, for everyone on Mirage to leave and never return or he will return and reek more damage than he has this night. Peterson raises his hand and aims a fireball at Malory. The fire ball shoots out and the front of the house explodes into shrapnel. Two very injured guards run over and find Malory's body. From all the noise, 15 more Mirage family members come around the front of the burning house, yelling out that Mirage farm won't go down today.

Peterson looks behind him, praying that there are arachni people there but there is no one. Peterson is alone. He backs up slowly with the wargs and casts toll the dead as a warning, telling the people in the estate this is their final warning to leave the Mirage farms. Peterson orders three wargs to go into the estate and kill as many tabaxis as possible while Peterson runs off towards Lundy on his warg. The Mirage tabaxis are not frightened by Peterson's speech as the tabaxis and his wargs fight. As he runs, he starts to hear the sounds on arachne person running in. An arachne person jumps down and powerfully slams their spear into the ground and Peterson can see it's Lesob.

The people in the estate are taken aback and are afraid of Lesob. She charges into the estate and slams her spear into the ground, scaring all of the Mirage people. They can sense the absolute power gap between them and Lesob. Peterson looks at the roaring fire and Lesob in front of him. He comes up to Lesob along with his now named wargs; Maw, Paw, Claw and Braw, and thanks Lesob for responding to the message. Lesob admits she ate the bird Peterson sent but did read the message. Peterson believes he did do a good thing for the people on the other farm and Lesob agrees there must be good mainlanders.

Lesob says she needs to head back to Dawn but wants some mainland honey. Peterson takes her, along with his wargs, back to T-Bones house and gets a jar of honey form the warehouse. Peterson pulls out a black opal stone and explains it is a magical stone that has capacity to grow into a village when enchanted properly. Since he lost his goblin tribe, he has aspirations to plant this an grow a new place where goblins can thrive. Peterson tells Lesob that there will always be a place for her and her kin if they ever need. Arachni people tend not to show emotion but Peterson can see Lesob's lip quiver and she thanks Peterson and leaves. Peterson sits against the warehouse and watches the fire in the distance as he falls asleep.

Peterson is woken by T-Bone calling him for breakfast. He heads in to eat the breakfast as T-Bone heads out to check on the bees. T-Bone comes in frantically and asks what happened to the bees as many of the hives are dead. Peterson runs out and sees that there are dead bees surrounding some of the hives. Peterson apologises and tells T-Bone he got cold during the night and went into the barn to sleep so he didn't see what happened. T-Bone seems unconvinced as Peterson was the only one out there that night. T-Bone asks Peterson to leave. Peterson tries to hide his emotions as he nods, pulls his mask down and starts running away from T-Bone's farm. He jumps and casts conjure animals creating an eagle to fly to Lundy. Peterson sees the burnt down estate of Mirage Money Honey Farms.

Peterson reaches Lundy pretty quickly and lands about 10 minutes away from the gates. He hears whispers of people talking about Mirage farms as he walks into the Lundy markets. He gets pulled over by one guy asking is he wants some pills while another person suggests Peterson buy some clothes. Many vendors are trying to persuade him to buy their wares. Peterson is still in a bit of shock but he goes into a clothing store, Fur Balls Fur and Accessories to find some clothing to help him fit into the mainland.

### **Quotations**

* Lesob "*Which tribe was it again?*"
* Peterson "*The Eastern Spear Goblin Tribe.*"
* Lesob "*Never heard of them.*"
* Peterson "*Well don't worry because they're dead!*"

* Adam "*What have I done Seth?*"
* Seth "*You've ruined a bee company!*"

* Adam "*I am very sad. Peterson's very sad, I mean … and this doesn't affect me at all on any emotional level…*"

### **Featured Characters**

#### **New Characters**

* Lesob
* Gregory
* T-Bone Nightrunner
* Pym Nightrunner
* Malory

### **Locations**

* Dawn
* Arania (arachni village)
* T-Bone's Farm
* Mirage Money Honey Farm
* Fur Balls Fur and Accessories