Arden Vul - Dungeon World - Session 6

 Arden Vul Session 06

Goblins!

Date: May 4, 2026

Party: Florian (bard), Lorez (wizard), Cedric (Fighter), Johannes (cleric), Runner (Ranger)

See the whole thing on my Arden Vul campaign page.

The heroes rested, tended their wounds, and took stock of their situation with the calm deliberation of seasoned adventurers. They had purpose. They had a plan. They had a small door that probably led to goblins.

It led to goblins.

Two big ones arguing, ten small ones cowering, and then Cedric hit the big one with the spear so hard it stopped being a problem, and Runner shot both leaders at once because he can do that now, and Lorez finished the second one off with a magic missile, and it was all very efficient and professional and over quickly.

Then Phlorian started talking to the small ones.

One speaks Common, he reported back, as though this were useful information and not a harbinger of everything that followed. The goblins were hungry. The goblins were scared. The goblins knew a secret. The goblins ate three of Phlorian's rations and became, in some sense that has not yet been legally established, the party's goblins.

Ten goblins. Then Lorez threw a fireball into the room where the horrible invisible thing lives.

It survived. It screamed. The goblins lost their minds.

RUN RUN QUICK QUICK COME COME FAST FAST

Through the fear room, hugging the walls, the thing circling at seven feet, nine goblins and five heroes moving very fast toward the big doors with the ibis and the feather carved on them, which were already half-burnt and stuck open, which is fine, this is fine, horns are sounding behind them somewhere in the dark

QUICK QUICK TO THE DOORS

and through, and north, and running, and an arrow came out of the wall and went through Squibble's head (the goblins' names are not known but he was probably called something like Squibble) and the other eight didn't even slow down, they just left him there, they kept running, because that is what goblins do, because goblins are very wise about some things

through a room with a rotting halfling's head on a pole, over a barricade, and then the barricade had a spear in it that fired and took Gnorbik (probably) right through the middle and the other seven didn't even look back, didn't even flinch, just ran harder, because they had seen this before, because this is just Tuesday in the halls beneath Arden Vul

down a long corridor and through a door and into a hallway with two stone faces carved in the wall that opened their mouths and one of them said something in a language nobody understood and the other one said, in plain Archontian, that all the secrets of the Ibis were lost and dead and gone and nobody should go looking and beware.

Eight goblins ran northeast without breaking stride.