>>6115510<span class="mu-g">You</span> and your ‘older sister’ Zith-Zi pore over the resumes before you, in the traditional goblin fashion… Which is to say, you let each of the greenskins in attendance step forth, puff out their chests and turn up their chins, and tell bald-faced lies about their proficiencies which you and all their rivals heckle them mercilessly for. Everyone knows a goblin can’t be trusted to tell the truth when personal benefit or reputation is on the line, but nor would any other gob—or nilbog, rod demogoblin—begrudge them. Frankly, you’d be insulted if they DIDN’T spin a yarn or two about shooting an arrow straight through a sparrow’s eye or cleaving a roving orc’s skull and helmet in twain with a sword-blow or something along hose lines.
“It’s cultural,” you’ve heard ZZ defend the practice.
‘Cultural’ it may well be, but for you, it’s simply FUN! Unable to feed your lust, and lately less able to endure the judgement of others, indulging in such a ritual of focused attention and abuse allows you to sate yet more of your <WANT>, even as it makes you paradoxically long for the respect which some of the goblins manage to accrue.
Yeb-Uit earns himself a spot when the old, gristly and grizzled male steps forward and holds aloft his arrow—his sole remaining arrow, as he says.
“The only one I’ll need,” he elaborates.
It might not be a sparrow’s eye, but when he convinces a cowering gobling to hold up a worm-eaten apple and manages to hit the arrow and NOT the child, it at least attests to SOME truth behind his manufactured ‘legend’. It’s more than any other’s manage, at least.
“Get this gob a quiver!” ZZ bellows, to a cacophony of cheers and jeers alike.
Of course, with so many braggarts about, it makes it all the more remarkable when one of the locals DOESN’T follow the ignoble tradition of your ilk. At least, it sure gets your attention when An-Yii steps out from the morass of mean little greenies and quietly clears her throat, waiting patiently until the boos and hisses accompanying her ‘boring’ performance die down.
