Goblins IX: For that, you shall DIE!

[Draconi Redfir]

I can't help but notice that the goblins are standing on the edge of a cliff...

And the ones who can't be made into Chiefs wouldn't be particularly useful to the Viper clan...

And that the Viper clan tends to dispose of people they consider useless...

And that shoving a few goblins they can't use off a cliff would serve as a powerful message to those that they can use.

Well you see there's a problem with that.


They can't really find out if their clan has a cheif or not without letting them go right? soooo yeah.

[Squark]

Well you see there's a problem with that.


They can't really find out if their clan has a cheif or not without letting them go right? soooo yeah.

No, the ritual will automatically fail if the clan already has a chief. What TheSummoner means is that if the ritual does fail (and thus, the goblin there is not the new chief), those goblins are not going to be especially useful, so considering that they're already close to a cliff... I suspect Duv will keep the actual chiefs for a while, at least. You're right, killing them immediately doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[The Linker]

They can't really find out if their clan has a cheif or not without letting them go right? soooo yeah.

You should re-read panel 9.

[Draconi Redfir]

ohhh ok. i was under the impression the goblins would be sent back to their clans to try and claim title of cheif, and if there was already a cheif, then they just wouldn't get it.

Might still keep the non-cheifs around as ambassators though.

[Euodiachloris]

I just keep looking forward to Duv's getting her comeuppance. Please, let it come. Please, let it be really, really humiliating for her.

She's a little like Kore, to my mind: both think they're doing what is right. Both are horribly, horribly wrong in how they do it.

[leakingpen]

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ALL HAIL CHIEF DIES HORRIBLY!

Or is that too predictable? Maybe I should change that to "Chief Saves a Fox."

That much is definite, because it means her father is dead, and thats how she finds OUT her father is dead....

[LoneStarNorth]

That much is definite, because it means her father is dead, and thats how she finds OUT her father is dead....

Her father was the teller, not the chief.

[Draconi Redfir]

I just keep looking forward to Duv's getting her comeuppance. Please, let it come. Please, let it be really, really humiliating for her.

She's a little like Kore, to my mind: both think they're doing what is right. Both are horribly, horribly wrong in how they do it.

Kore x Duv OTP?

[SaintRidley]

Kore x Duv OTP?

She's not good enough for him. A painful pun to write, but it had to be done.

[Sir Conkey]

She's not good enough for him.

Is anyone, really? Answer: NO

[Acanous]

Well, releasing t he Goblin slaves has always been the plan. As the queen of all goblins, it behooves her to treat them well.

As for Kore, he needs a nice dwarven woman. Like Sandwich Stoutaxe.

[Stegyre]

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And now Dies knows that Chief is dead.

[Giggling Ghast]

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Geez, Duv is really broken up over her son's death, isn't she?

[Madara]

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So where is this on the time line? And is Chief dead?(Its been so long since the main story line, and I don't want to dig around for it.)

[Draconi Redfir]

I was always more of a Kore/Miko shipper anyways. Undieing paladan babies of death.

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Wonder why Duv hasn't used the orb yet. probably wants to make a specticle of it infront of the new cheifs i guess.

[Emperordaniel]

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So where is this on the time line? And is Chief dead?(Its been so long since the main story line, and I don't want to dig around for it.)

Yup, Chief's dead.

[Miklus]

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So now Dies Horribly is cheif while Cheif died horribly...

[Marnath]

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Haha, do you need some salve on that sick burn Riss?

I wonder if that big eared goblin's name is Snarks-Inappropriately.

Duv? Really not a good time for that. You're supposed to pretend like your son meant something to you, for appearance sake if nothing else.

[Draconi Redfir]

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So now Dies Horribly is cheif while Cheif died horribly...

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Wasn't there a theory awhile back that young and beautiful had actually swapped their names to make sure the son of wearbear was the cheif?

[Seerow]

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Wasn't there a theory awhile back that young and beautiful had actually swapped their names to make sure the son of wearbear was the cheif?

No, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a theory, but something explicitly stated in the comic. And it was one of the other goblins, not Dies that got switched.

[The Linker]

Yup. See here.

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It doesn't say who the other goblin was. What if it was Dies?

That'd certainly spell civil war. Who would accept that this shaky, cowardly goblin would 'lead the clan to glory'?

Ho ho. I smell plot twist.

[Bilious]

Pretty sure it was also said explicitly it was Thac0.

Also, Dies is only shaky and, perhaps, cowardly, BECAUSE he was named Dies Horribly. A name like that given by a seer affects a guy.

[The Linker]

Pretty sure it was also said explicitly it was Thac0.

Oh crap crap crap you're right. I have failed my Goblins Lore check.

FORGIVE ME THUNT! FORGIVE MEEEEEE

[t209]

Yup. See here.

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It doesn't say who the other goblin was. What if it was Dies?

That'd certainly spell civil war. Who would accept that this shaky, cowardly goblin would 'lead the clan to glory'?

Ho ho. I smell plot twist.

I think it could be solved by a thing called "Stepping down".

[The Linker]

Well, yes, but the teller forsaw a civil war had she chose the goblin right for the job. If Dies would have just stepped down*, obviously she would have forsaw "Oh, he'd just step down right away."

Besides which -- just because he steps down doesn't necessarily prevent any sort of war. In this hypothetical, he's already been chosen by the teller. There's still going to be half a clan who supports the 'Dies should be chief' option. If Dies steps down, they're just going to say "What!? Don't step down! Our teller named you as chief! Gah! Look what you Werebear-supporters did now! You're ruining everything rabble rabble rabble!"

And then the weapons come out...

*In this crazy hypothetical world I accidentally came up with where it was Dies and not Thaco predicted to be a great chief, of course.

[Draconi Redfir]

i'm trying to think up a defense for it, such as young creating the nameplate of "becomes cheif" for dies, then swapping it with cheif's when she realizes the civil war bit. But with Cheif becoming cheif instead of thaco, who was supposed to be, she pretty much changed the future and bluh bluh bluh weird time stuff.

[TheSummoner]

Given that last panel, I think this would be a good time for Grem to reappear, having heard everything.

[Felius]

Duv: "Let's enslave, push around, bully and force them into going into a very dangerous dungeon crawl. After that, I'll pervert one of their traditions and crown their chief myself instead of allowing their clan to do so. On that, I'll then choose one of them as my number two. It can't possibly go wrong!"

[Acanous]

Oh hey, you know, This mystery person at the end with the green IME? Given this whole thing with Dies and Duv, and how the timing matches up, I think that's Dies Horribly porting in.

Just a guess.

[Draconi Redfir]

Unlikely, Dies does not call Complains of names "Names", Minmax is the only person we've seen who does that. The green IME is most likely the jade teapot being used.