Campaign 3, Episode 7: Ma Goblin's Mob Goblin (The Mothership Saga)

Art by charlilil.

**Ma Goblin's Mob Goblin** is the seventh episode in campaign 3, and the seventh episode in The Mothership Saga.

Duck Team officially joins Mob Goblin and hatches a plan to take down Mothership! Calder feuds with Albin, Sol feuds with everyone else, and Callie reveals why she's on the run from her family.

## Plot Synopsis

Upon dropping to safety in Ma Goblin’s subterranean lab vehicle, the Blue Crew, Albin, and Krugan are spirited away through the sewers, tunneling beneath and out of the bubble of Ezry, and away from the Launchpad Academy. After getting Krugan settled in the very bird-like gunner’s nest to recover, they are brought to Mob Goblin’s “safe house,” an underground war camp, where they are invited to pick up some supplies and rest.

The Crew loses a lottery for a Superior Potion of Healing, but are each given a free regular healing potion as warriors in the resistance. They spend some of their 1,000 gold from their earlier job for Ma Goblin and buy a *Potion of Fire Breathing* for Calder, and a *Potion of Invisibility* to support any future stealth missions. They also update their wardrobes with new dusters and headbands.

After recovering with a nap, Krugan pulls Callie aside to talk. He tells her that when Professor Lizer was poking around inside his mind, looking for them, he found out why Callie was running from her family. Callie had been acting as a courier for her family and was delivering what she believed to be a dragon egg. But when she saw the way that their client was treating the dragons in their care, keeping them caged and beaten, Callie ran with the egg in an unprecedented moment of moral courage. She then gave it to the dragon elves, believing they could care for it. When Lizer saw that piece of information, he had thought “oh no, the elves have one,” which didn’t make any sense, since the dragon elves already had dragons and dragon eggs.

Callie decides to share this story with Calder and Sol, explaining why her family put a bounty out on her head. She then goes on to explain that while she was on the run, the egg began to grow bigger and bigger. The dragon elves were incredibly excited for it, more excited than they probably should have been about a dragon egg, since they already had dragons. Callie then explains that Glen had gotten romantically involved with her in a bid to get the egg, and had told her that he had a girlfriend once she relented and gave it to the dragon elves, providing her squadmates with a more complex understanding of her hangup about Glen.

Throughout these explanations, Foster gets more and more agitated, puffing up in size, his eyes going red, and taking a defensive stance next to Callie. He only calms down when Callie says the word “dragon,” much to their collective confusion.

Finally, they receive a rundown and a mission from Ma Goblin. Mob Goblin wants to follow in Beatrix Netherin’s destructive wake as she goes on to try and tear down Mothership, with the intention of using Ma Goblin’s jammer wand to shut down the Alexandrite AI at its core, destroying all files and formulas related to creating S-Class Knights. However, to do so, the resistance needs an airship, which the Blue Crew volunteers to steal. Ma Goblin also shows them footage of the A-Class synths Mothership sent after them, a squad that goes by the name Go! Go! Team 'Tection, composed of humanoid twins, Jazzler and Stardunk, and a giant moose man named Todd. The party agrees to take a long rest at the war camp and steal the ship the next day, so they can be ready for Team 'Tection.

Despite Albin and Calder being in a fight, Albin accompanies the Blue Crew to the airship docks inside the bubble, and the group attempts to board a freighter-style ship bound for Irondeep. With a clutch *Pass Without Trace* spell from Callie, the group makes it below decks before hearing Team 'Tection arrive on the scene, and demand to check every outgoing ship for the fugitives. The group remain hidden from Todd when he comes below deck to investigate, but hear him hand a scroll to one of the ship’s crew, saying that if they saw the fugitives, they could use that scroll and summon Team 'Tection to their location.

However, when they sneak up to attempt to steal the scroll from the deck hand, they hear him tell another member of the crew that he had immediately handed the scroll off to someone else, because he didn’t want the responsibility.

## Music and Sound Effects

* "A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford.
* "Mothership" by Emily Axford.
* "Zelbuldar" by Emily Axford.
* "Sea Beast" by Emily Axford.
* "Blackthorn Hall" by Emily Axford.
* "Crash Landing" by Emily Axford.
* "Mothership" by Emily Axford.
* "Mee Maw's Burden" by Emily Axford.
* "Microbrews Cruise" by Emily Axford.
* "Bonkginya, Fia Bonkginya" by Emily Axford.
* "Soul Coins" by Emily Axford.
* "The Frog" by Emily Axford.
* "Spooky Shafts" by Emily Axford.

## External Links

* Headgum
* Spotify
* NADDPOD Subreddit Thread