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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4713908" data-attributes="member: 54846">The goblin's opinion of their dead fellows can be summed up easily: Better You than Me. One day's meat, three day's stinkWhen one of their own dies, goblins usually chuck the corpse into the den of the nearest predatory monster. The goblin way of thinking is that if they feed the monster, it won't eat them. In many cases, this has backfired; the monster gets accustomed to dead goblin, and will now hunt living ones. Goblin shamans came up with a way to combat this, brewing a concoction of mushrooms and rotten eggs, that makes the imbiber stink and taste terrible (so says the shaman), so that the predator will avoid them.I always hated you.While a dead man can't pay debts, a dead goblin can still give you vengeance. The dead goblin is often strung up on a tree, and anyone who has grievances will take it out on the corpse, usually with a stout stick. Dead goblins often double as target practice for ranged attackers, or practice dummies to show where to stick a knife in good. Still part of the gangThere's safety in numbers. And threat in numbers, too! Making your numbers bigger than they are is a useful trick. Some goblin shamans practice a crude form of taxidermy, stuffing a corpse. The corpses are then set up in typical archer perches, and given a broken bow. Anyone that spots a goblin archer will see more than one, even though only a few are of the living. Other uses involve the dummy goblin being used as bait for a trap, or boobytrapped to begin with.RepopulationWhile goblins aren't too smart, and are ever the "take take take" when it comes to food, there are a few things they understand. One is that there's only so much food to go around. Overpopulating is a problem. But, goblins breed like rats, so it's easy to overpopulate. But when a goblin dies, that means one less mouth, and more room. So the death of a goblin means impregnate the nearest girl goblin, to renew the ranks fast!</blockquote>

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