Goblins XIX: New Year, New Updates

[Silly Name]

Im guessing the goal is to get the axe as deep into the abyss or whatever, as they possibly can. The deeper it is, the less likely the demon inside can get back to the material plane when it escapes. Im pretty sure they all know, even if they havent said it, that its a suicide mission. Its not like there really is an end point where they can dust off their hands, say, good enough, and try walking back out of hell. So keep going till they get dragged down and hope its enough. Eternal torment sure, but at least they saved the world.

I get that. It's just that, from a narrative standpoint, it would be yet another derailment.

Remember, this whole story started as "the goblins become adventurers to become stronger and better defend their village from player character adventurers". Then Fumbles got into Brassmoon, the other goblins had to rescue him, there was the whole ordeal with Goblin Slayer and freeing the other monsters, and then the goblins got "out of focus" in favor of Minmax, Forgath and Kin, who went through the Maze of Many. Minmax and Kin fell in love, but Minmax touched Kin's leash and broke her trust and so she didn't follow Minmax and Forgath to confront the goblins.

And then Kore popped up, killed Chief and almost killed Forgath, the Axe of Prissan broke and started the apocalypse, Forgath got found by the Kliks and turned into a weird stone thing. Minmax got separated from the goblins and reunited with Kin. Forgath had his little adventure to kill another evil Klik along with the Cursed Duo, and last we saw them, they met up with Kin and Minmax.

And in the meanwhile we had Dies Horribly's entire subplot, completely divorced from the rest of the narrative, and which has apparently been completely abandoned.

If the story for the main group of Goblins ends with "and then they all jumped into hell to bury the Prissan as deep as they could", it'd be a terrible ending.