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>Goblin King's Blessing! Discovery of Lucrative Possession II (Knowing only one thing, a struggle to claim, instilled with the inanimate)
Currently Haunted By: Twiddle Twins, Dee and Dum (Haunting has deepened)
Quiet's Status: Uninjured, can take 3 wounds
Spoils:
Assorted food supplies
Small amount of shinies
Some bolts of silk and rough cloth
Russet Pelts
Shoddy Goblin Hooded Poncho
Assurance of Little Sisterhood (From the Twiddle Twins)
King's Trial: Complete a quest to ascend Quiet
Quest 1: Seek the Paling Doppleganger (easier)
Quest 2: Bring an end to the Ritual of Unspeakable Wealth (harder)
>Sneak, sneak
>Dead Smithy

There's any number of stories without the hero or heroine wielding a weapon, Quiet though the subject of the goblin king's trial, could not be said to be a heroine. It wasn't as if she entered into the smithy looking for a weapon either.

Though lit by dim moss, there was a deep gloom to the smithy. Quiet almost had the impression that it was darker inside the smithy than outside. A goblin's vision in night isn't that bad, but it doesn't rise that far above being able to make out vague shapes.

What stood out most in the smithy were two things. An anvil sundered into two rusty and dark eroded jagged halves, odd that nobody had looted it, but perhaps it was just a bit cumbersome for what it was worth, and the worth of it went down as time ravaged it. Only if time ravaged further, if dark eroded further would the scrap have worth perhaps.

"A focus of life shattered" Dum, unseen whispered in Quiet's ear.

The other large point of interest was the forge itself, a reflection of the village itself... though where the village looked gutted from without, the cold forge looked like something had burst out from within. Bits of rubble still lay scattered across the ground.

"Torch of generations snuffed out" Dee ominously stated.

Even as scant in wits as Quiet was, she sensed something amiss with how... unaltered the scene was. Certainly time had done a good job, but apart from those marks of age, the smithy have the impression of being untouched from the moments of its end.

Like a corpse flies refused to lay their eggs in.

This impression grew worse when Quiet found what she considered loot.

"Did we leave it all, place it all, place some, or was it all here from the beginning, poor little sister, you shan't know, we shan't tell!" The Twins giggled.

Finished tools, unfinished tools, cutlery, a kettle shaped somewhat like a bird and even bolts and screws. A pitchfork, daggers, a sword, a mace of metal, a mace of rootwood and metal.

>A weak black glow washed over the kettlebird, a blessing of the king
Sensing the will of the goblin king, Quiet quickly stowed the kettle away.
>Kettle in Form of Bird acquired (An artful, charming, but mundane kettle)

It was far too much for her to steal it all. Just as she wondered why there was, in her mind, still good stuff around, she nearly made a sound.
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