The Slay Ride

It’s chaos in the streets and quiet in the barn, as the reindeer are cut free. They bleat and run off, alerting the villagers to your presence. Your minions fasten themselves excitedly to the sleigh cackling and sneering as they do.

Gobone: Wait til they see what we’ve taken!

Gobto: Yeah! That red fat one will be sobbing like a donkey!

The third one, who was dropped on their head as a snotling, speaks up.

Gobtree: duuuuuhhh…. Yuh huh…mmm yup…. Ahaaa ahaaa ahaaa

Gobto smacks him upside the head.

Gobto: You should never have fallen out of that tree Gob dummy! You don’t even know why we’re laughing!

Gobone: Yeah shut up ‘GobDumb’! You’ll just drive us off the road! Get in the sleigh and throw bombs at the villagers instead!

Gobdumb being a nickname the goblin tribe had for him due to his lack of coherence and intelligence after his injury.

Gobtree: duuuuh….yep yep…. You right guys….

Gobdumb smiles, then scratches his head and bumbles his way into the sleigh, he falls out one time before his fat clumsy form finds it’s way solidly back into the sleigh.

The 6 goblins pulling your sleigh are led by Gobone on the left, and the ones on the right are led by Gobto. They may seem small and frail, but surely they can run almost as fast as any stupid reindeer, right? They ready themselves to pull the sleigh for escape as the villagers carry torches and pitchforks towards the barn.

Gabone: Ready HobLord?

Gobto: Leave nothing for the humies!!!

The villagers burst into the barn led by none other than Helen, the beautiful (for a human) Defender of Gandha who draws her sword.

Helen: Despicable rodents!!! Drop those presents and relinquish Santa’s sleigh at once!

Gobtree throws a bomb as Gobto and Gobone launch the sleigh out of the barn at running speed, cheering and laughing maniacally as they do.

Helen: A bomb! Flee!!!

The villagers scramble as the bomb explodes with a fiery blast that blows the barn to pieces and sets its structure ablaze. Meanwhile, Santas Sleigh slips silently into the woods into the moonlit night.

Other goblin mob sleighs meet up with yours in the woods just as an arrow grazes Gobtos head. He looks back to see Helen cresting a hill in a sleigh, this one pulled by reindeer. Her silver sword gleaming in the moonlight.

Helen: You’ll not see another day! Slay them all, Gandhans!

Several sleighs emerge over the wooded hill and a warcry erupts through the trees. It seems they brought all their defenders to bear to bring back Santas Sleigh... Gobto looks at you, while holding his bleeding face.

Gobto: W-What now, HobLord?