Rolled 16, 4, 5, 7 = 32 (4d20)
>>5151948>>5151326>>5151309>Appeal to their community spirit, and attempt to guilt trip them into helping“My… financial benefactor isss out of the picture,” you say, and truthfully it is the case.
Not that the goblins believe that.
“Oh come on!” the young male groans—Got-Gi was it? Or Qee-Kil?
“You expect us to buy that?” his sister—Qee-Kil? Got-Gi? Which oen was which?—protests.
“Ssearch me if you want,” you say, “but it doesssn’t really matter, doess it? If I can’t pay you, or won’t, will you jusst let a demon roam your sstreetss, eating your neighbourss… Your children?”
“Not our problem,” scoffs the younger male.
“Isssn’t it?” you press. “I’ve sseen firssst-hand the way you goblinsss live… You work to sserve the collective good, even as you bicker amongst yoursselfs. You share resssponsibilitiess, and dutiess, and even windfallsss.”
In some ways, you reflect, the goblins are not so different from Reptilians. For all that humans look down on them—and you can see why, since they and all their possessions ARE covered in a thin layer of dirt, aside from their rough-and-tumble attitudes and obsession with financial gain—they actually seem in some ways MORE organized and civilized. Perhaps it’s the effect of being adjacent to human civilization so long, or perhaps they’ve been forced by circumstance into their communalism… But you’ve seen firsthand how it helps them get things done swiftly and efficiently, if not always tidily. It’s why you came to them.
Now, you just need to win them over.
