As reported by GGN Goblin Gossip Network Despite the difficulty and the danger involved, the GGN is still dedicated to bringing you the only RELIABLE NEWS SOURCE in all of Sincadere! Hard hitting journalism, honest and accurate! In order to ensure journalistic integrity, we immortalized the exchange in the form of descriptive writing, beautifully captured by Snetch Junior's assistant! This time around both our reporter, Snetch Jr, and his assistant were brutally hexed by none other than Dani the Silver Terror of Cabbala! As you will see, she is plotting world domination and all of us are in danger! . . . The two goblins made their way toward the Cabbala intending to find another vict-, candidate for celebrity interviews. The LAST time any goblins from the Goblin Gossip Network travelled to the Cabbala, the reporter was slain brutally by the Crimelord. To say these two were nervous was an understatement. As they got closer to the swamp their steps got slower... until they came to a halt outside the entrance. Maybe they'd get lucky and their intended target would walk out of the Cabbala and they could conduct the interview here! Snetch Jr adjusted his stained and unwashed tunic and ran a hand through his greased back hair before nodding to his assistant to indicate she should start documenting everything. The assistant, dressed in a pencil skirt, began scribbling furiously on her handy parchment.
Meanwhile, Trinket the succubus was preparing to head up to the surface to hunt some mischief, or a soul to drain. Pausing by the glowing warning obelisks, the crimson fiend begins to shimmer and flow, shapeshifting into a more innocuous form. Assuming the identity of a svelte savanna faun, she recites a familiar incantation and glamours herself in some suitable clothing to fit the role and heads up out of the concealed tunnel entrance. Slipping past the swamp troll and goblin that perpetually guard the entry, the 'faun' is drawn up short by a pair of unfamiliar goblins posted up on the wooden dock just outside. "Oh, hello there!" She trills in a melodic voice "Heading into the Cabbala? Today's your lucky day, admission is half price." She posits with a roguish grin. Snetch Jr looked up at the faun and grins. "PERFECT!" he exclaims, nudging his assistant. "Dani the Silver Terror," this faun looked nothing like Dani, but Snetch didn't know what Dani looked like! "Just in time for your interview. Now I don't have to pay admission and you get to have your 15 minutes of fame!" He takes a deep breath, straightens his greasy tunic and dives right in. "I'm Snetch Junior reporting for the Goblin Gossip Network. Today we're asking the hard hitting questions of the Cabbala's second in command. Tell me Dani... IS IT TRUE... that you got in bed with Helheim's King in order to collaborate with him to ruin the reputation of Daichi Akio of the Jade Lotus Empire?! I have it on GOOD AUTHORITY that you did this. Colluding with one enemy to take down another one socially!!" Fyerna the 'faun' was actually taken aback for a moment; of all the responses she'd ever had to a shakedown attempt, that had to be the most unexpected. Then she gives him a quirked, squinty 'wtf?' manner of stare, before glancing down at her tawny tan and black coloration - nothing about her was remotely silver, even her antlers were completely different; she looked nothing like the noted Cabbalan faun. She ALMOST said "What, do you think all fauns look alike?" but after the briefest pause what actually comes out of the disguised demon's mouth is "...Of course it's true!" in a cursing snarl as if angry her secret deeds had just been exposed to the bright light of day. From one of the sheathes strapped to a thigh, the faun drew a long thin double sided dagger to toy with casually as she advanced upon the pair of goblins. "Not just Tyr of course, but all of them! My squad of succubus infiltrators has gotten into bed with everyone from Helheim to the Empire - Daichi, the Empress - all of the leadership." She leans forward, looming over them "All of them" she illustrates, poking with the needle point of the dagger. Letting the assertation settle in before twisting the metaphorical knife "How else could I spread the poison so efficiently? What do you think that rash amongst the leadership is everyone is talking about? Ahahaha! Haha!" she cackles gleefully "Oh they all think its a venereal disease, that's what it's supposed to look like - at first - but just you wait! In a couple weeks the SPORES will start hatching! AHAHA!" Snetch Jr was taken aback by the answer he got. Not only did she admit it, but she gave him MORE juicy goss- news to track down and report. "I KNEW IT," he exclaimed when he had recovered enough. "Now let's talk about your ambition. YOU once sat on the throne of Cabbala and then, what, just handed it over to Hound?" he shuddered when he said that name.. and who could blame him! The former Snetch was eaten alive during her interview! "NOW I hear... from RELIABLE SOURCES... that you are in cahoots with Grand Marshal Eli in a plot to take over Helheim!! When do you set your sights on Jade Lotus Empire? Is it your goal to rule all of SINCADERE?!" He paused for only one heartbeat and then screamed, "TELL ME THE TRUTH! I CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!" Fyerna snickers evilly at the question of the throne, giving her dagger a toss in the air and catching it deftly. "Do you really think I would just give up the throne? I needed a figurehead to take all the blame while I wield the true power behind the Cabbala!" She paces side to side, cloven hooves making the rotted boards of the dock creak and groan. Sneering at mention of the Grand Marshal she launches into a cackling diatribe "Hah! Eligorv... another puppet in my machinations! He has already outlived his usefulness to me, I have had a new captain of the guard installed that will serve my purposes better!" Casting the dagger down to stick in the wooden dock, she subtly alters her glamour to create a set of metal claw rings on her fingers, to loom menacingly with over the pair of goblins. "The Empire, hmpf! Silk spinners and rice farmers - I have already been crowned Queen of the Unseelie Court and ruler of all Fae - The Empire and indeed all of Sincadere will soon be but a footnote in my reign as no plane of existence shall be safe from the Silver Terror!" All the violent posturing was getting to Snetch Jr and his Assistant but somehow the goblin held his ground and asked, "and why... pray tell, do they call you the Silver Terror? Dani, second in command of the Cabbala, I see nothing silver about you! Maybe if you were a white faun and not tan and black, I could see it. Just what about you makes you the SILVER terror?!" Fyerna scoffs at the question, seeming insulted by it, and withdrawing a pace. "Because of all the silver I hoard!" She answers. "Mountains of it! Coins and bars, and bullion, I have caves and caves full of it. And a pair of silver dragons to guard all of it!" Pausing in her rant, the faun regards the two goblins with a mischievous grin "A better question might have been 'why have I told you all these secrets.'" she notes, grin growing wider. She begins to move metal clawed hands in arcane-looking but ultimately meaningless gestures, while using a simple cantrip to make her fingers glow with a malignant red energy. "I curse you both, a hex upon you! You shall be doomed to know the truth but NONE SHALL BELIEVE YOU! A curse, I bind to you, a hex to follow you both to the end of your days! Fated to watch my evil plans come to fruition but powerless to stop them! A curse of the Liar's Tongue! Forever shall you be disbelieved!" Cackling, she uses a further cantrip a make a peal of thunder rumble down from the sky "Now FLEE! Before I change my mind!" Snetch and his assistant were SHOOK, right down to the core. Neither had to be told twice... as soon as Fyerna told them to flee, they bolted for the Great Forest, likely intending to seek refuge in the Black Tusk camp. As they reached the tree line a shout echoed back toward fake-Dani, "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE-NE-NE-NE!" Whatever THAT meant. It would seem the interview was over... and Snetch Jr survived. This time. Comments are closed.
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