Poke 3
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Ben and DeeDee and meet a contact in the Warrens. It is a dangerous place to be, physically and emotionally especially relationship-wise.
Plot[edit]
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The couple is traveling in the warren's when Dee stops and pulls ben into a side passage by the most precious parts of him warning him to keep vigilant as they almost stumbled on one of the Worst Ones in the warrens. After some convincing they set off again heading into the bacchanalia that is a goblin gathering. With some random boogeymen and other humans.
They're there to meet an itinerant goblin queen with information, Mags Holt. They're greeted by one of Dee's closest friends, who immediately tries to maime her. The get into a typically goblin tussle with blood drawn and horrible injuries. Ben helps out a bit to inconvenience the apparently nameless goblin.
He sits down and finally talks with Mags getting the pleasantries out of the way.
Dee wins her scuffle with the nameless goblin and sends her off to some errand. She saunters over and introduces Ben to her friends including the blood and milk obsessed boogeyman.
Ben is distracted by the far too human screams he hears but Mags warns him that the victims are a karmatic trap, meant to hurt those who supposedly deserve it to draw in those who definitely don't.
Deedee gives her information; how a girl called gabrielle in Detroit got mixed up with goblins and in time became one herself. Her army and allies and what she does. Mags isn't happy to hear that three of Gerhilds allies outweigh the Hyena. Deedee doesn't like her own ignorance of the hyena
[...]
Cockgnash gives a fascinating description featuring necrophilic bestiality when describing the truly horrible goblins out there.
[...]
At her command he abstracts and thinks of these monsters shtupping his mother... then he stops and realizes this is all an elaborate trap that Deedee had set with the assistance of every goblin there.
Fresh off her victory, their relationship still intact, Ben decides to turn the tables of Dee. Pointing out that she's probably going to meet his mother very soon.
Characters[edit]
- Benjamin Trover & Deedee
- Mags Holt
- Sir Turdswallow
- The Milkmaid
- "golden retrievers" (mentioned)
- Cockgnash
Trivia[edit]
- An audiobook reading of the chapter has been made.
- This chapter introduces the Warrens and Sir Turdswallow, both revisited in Pale. Mags, last seen in Pact, makes a return as does unexpectedly the Milkmaid (previously seen in several Word of God posts).