An unopened treasure chest is something like a red wrag to a bull you find, utterly irresistable.

Putting the tea and biscuites down you wander over to the cash box and push up the lid (does nobody! lock these?).

Sure enough, inside are flipping great wodges of treasure! gold and jewels, diamonds, rubies, and lots of other stones who's name you don't know, but they look extremely glittery and expensive!

Well, everyone knows goblin gold really doesn't belong to them but to whoever removes it from them. Working on this principle, you begin shoveling the stuff into your pockits, totally forgetting where you are, your head full of visions of limos, five star hotels, world travel, meals at the finest restaurants and actually being able to afford all those games you've wanted to play for ages!

this happy prospect however is quickly and abruptly cut short when the greeneyed goblin, --- and several of his pals, push through the tent flapp and catch you quite literally in the act.

You really are a litle stuck at this point, even protesting your inicence seems a bit futile when you've been caught with your hands and indeed pockits full of other people's gold.

the goblins quickly get over their initial shock, and within seconds you find yourself held by a bunch of very strong, hairy litle hands as all the gold is removed from you.

Your then dragged outside the tent where the goblin with the green eyes (who seems to be at least the most assertive if not formally the boss). Calls all the other goblins together for a meeting where he explains that you prayed upon their good nature in order to get in and steal their cash.

some of them are in favour of good old fashioned family tortures, --- and indeed sing some traditional goblin folk songs as examples.

these include "here we go splattering gnomes in may", "Are you going to scalp an elf bare" and "what shal we do with a sober goblin" (a most interesting song with 97 verses, all of which seem to involve doing unpleasant things to internal organs and parts of the anatomy with a variety of implements from guarden rakes to coffee spoons).

Others however are more in favour of a civilized punishment, sinse afterall they are modern, enlightened goblins and should act in a reasonable and rational manner leaving beside the barbarism of the past.

This faction advocates chopping off one of your hands, which is held to bbe the most common punishment for a thief in most civilizations.

Green eyes however, points out that sinse you were caught, no harm was done, so really the only reparation needed is to teach you a lesson, ---- besides it's your first offense.

It is therefore decided that you will perform community service by helping the goblins with their ore mining for a month or so.

You are then lead off and quickly find yourself pushing a mine cart loaded with loose rock and rubble up and down a set of tracks from the rock face to the dumping ground.

try to escape.

serve your sentence.

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