What does this all mean?

After you close the the popup, you just sit there underwater for a minute, thinking.

The gods have always been fickle, changing your strengths and weaknesses, or altering your form as they have seen fit for as long as anyone or thing can remember. You even remember when, for a short time, your kind would propagate by budding, that was an experience. Still this is the first time a message came from the gods declaring to you your ability to respawn was gone.

In addition to them declaring the fucking end of this world was inevitable!

And the only way for you to avoid that end is attached to a giant please come kill me sign. A please come kill me sign that you will have to fight tooth, claw, blade, and bow to get.

At least the Player Characters have the same limitation.

You decide to check your inventory, unsure if you are hoping to be chosen or not.

Inventory
Shard of Arkus: qty 1(equipped)
Inventory(host)
pack of poor rations: qty 3
venom(spider): 5 doses, DPS 5, resisted duration 5 seconds, un-resisted duration 1 minute
hide armor(goblin): damage threshold 3(equipped)
dagger(goblin): damage 5/ critical damage 10(equipped)
short bow(goblin): range 80 ft short/320 ft long(equipped)
arrows(goblin): qty 30, damage 6/ critical damage 12

As you open your inventory the Shard sitting in it auto equips, just as the message said they would, and you curse out a bubble of air. Well, you are 1 percent of the way to living through the end, but in a week's time that 1 percent will be working against you. Hopefully something else gets that first spot, but you have never relied on your luck. Coming up with a plan to stay alive is your only option. So first things first, you want to figure out who you are replacing here.

(The brother of the head goblin. Not the strongest or smartest, but willing to do whatever it takes to survive. No strong ties to the tribe outside of his brother and the tribe shaman. Tends to **** the others.)

In summary, an asshole, so the typical goblin, and one that is probably going to get stabbed in the back sooner rather than later. Fortunately this particular goblin is about to have a change in attitude. You have always chosen the honey approach over the vinegar one, when available of course. Fewer arrows get fired at you that way. You get to start that attitude adjustment with the two goblins he brought with him into the cave.

After them, well, you will do what you do every other time you respawn, though normally you would have more room for error. You will take over a group, forge an alliance with a stronger group and take over whoever leads them. You will get yourself into a position to take on all comers, and when you get the chance and strength, find the biggest scariest monster you can burrow into and dare them all to challenge you. Maybe a dragon, or a giant, or a great wurm. Lets see the PCs get to you a mile under ground. The only problem with your plan are the dozens of respawns any one of those actions normally take. Shit.

No time like the present to get started.

You pull one of the arrows out of your quiver and charm a few cave fish to skewer with it. These seem to count as one of those renewing resources at least, and they should make a good peace offering to your host's first two former victims.

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