Editing Campaign Miscellanea (section)

== Interview with the Goblin ==

Esme has little difficulty keeping Shomlie disguised as a particularly hideous and deformed child, one so unruly as to need to be kept on a leash. While it is very difficult to prevent him from sneaking out in the night (he likes to construct clever traps from oddments, so as to more easily devour the local alleycats and city rats), he is exceedingly willing to please his new Mistress by answering all questions put to him. In fact, Esme gets the sense that Goblins are beings naturally suited to mental subjugation by the psionic powers of the Flesh Hive, which makes Shomlie much more completely in thrall of the Charm spell than would be a member of any race with more individual identity.

1. What do the goblins know about us? What do they think about us?

"Goblins know someone is killing us! Not much about who...goblins who see the deathmakers not coming back so often..."

2. What are the goblins planning to do about us?

"We makes the traps. Lots of traps being made. Mother makes stronger brothers to fight. We also try and help the other creatures of the underlands, we hope someone bigger and stronger fights them. Shomlie sees he was wrong now."

3. Where are they getting the walking skeletons? Do they arise on their own or are they created?

"They come from deeper into the underlands. The Horned One makes them, so it is said. He and his chosen ones command them."

4. Who rules the goblins? Where is the ruler located? Who protects him?

"Goblins serve the Mother. She makes us, and unmakes us, and rules us through our hearts. All Goblins know their Mother, and she gives us purpose. She is past the Two Lakes, and through the Mushroom Forest. Very hard to reach, for you. They not let past anyone without the Horned One saying 'let this one pass.' Goblins have permission, Mother got it for us."

5. If the ruler is not the Hive Mother, where is the Hive Mother? What protects her? Does she bite? Is she dangerous?

"Mother is very dangerous. She has all the goblins in the underland to protect her. She is very strong, very great."

6. Tell us about the Horned One. What does he look like? What is his relationship to the goblin ruler and the Hive Mother? Is he allied to either, or subordinate, or their enemy?

"Goblin ruler IS the Hive Mother. None of us have ever seen the Horned One. He lives deep down. Bigger monsters are like his eyes and hands. He reaches up through the tunnels."

7. Where is the goblins' treasure?

"I know not. We have shamans who serve Mother directly. They take the treasures. Every goblin gets a few golds for themselves, as birthday present. But all the treasure we get goes to the Shamans, or gets stolen by the Horned One."

8. What traps have the goblins laid for us?

"It has been a while...I don't really know what they might have built. Is new plan...There are tripwires. Rockfalls. Oiled Chutes, false floors, broken glass and iron spikes. Very bad."

9. Tell us about the Worm. How big is it? Does it control the goblins or do the goblins merely fear it? What are its weaknesses?

"Worm is not smart. Worm does not control anything. It just eats people when it can sneak up on them. It is big. Big as four or five mans. Its weaknesses are being chopped up with sharp things, and being stupid. Goblins stay away, but we taste bad anyway."

10. How many goblins are left? How many new goblins are made each day by the Mother?

"I am not being able to count so high...Usually only a few new goblins each day, if we need a lot. Less if we don't need more. We feed Mother much! Goblin traps are clever, we are catching all the animals.