(orig. published Jun. 18, 2024)

Contraption is a goblin city on wheels, a hulking steel behemoth that roams the plains of Lyrea. Garp Garp grew up there, riding around and raiding the outskirts of Crestfall for food, until one day he ran away to become a bard.

This was no small decision. He knew if he left his clan, he would be shunned as an exile.

Years later, Garp Garp returned with his new friends, only to find that Contraption was under attack! And the threat was coming from within!

Scraps of metal from Contraption itself had started coming to life and attacking the goblin families who lived there! While Garp Garp’s father, Blargg Blargg, wasn’t eager to welcome him back after all this time, he reluctantly asked our heroes for help. At this rate, Contraption would soon be destroyed unless someone could get to the bottom of the mystery!

As the party navigated grimy corridors and precariously stacked homes in search of clues, the scrap monsters they encountered got bigger and more elaborate – from formless balls of shrapnel, to fierce serpents that grew as they churned through steel walls, to the absolutely massive scrap baby which thrashed the city’s engine room!

In their fight against the scrap baby, they finally discovered the true source of the attacks. The scrap monsters were being animated by a vengeful spirit, the ghost of a young girl who had been captured and eaten by the goblins!

Gin, the party’s monk, spent his turns dodging the baby’s attacks and calmly talking to the ghost. After considerable persuasion, she calmed down enough to lead the party to the goblins’ storeroom, where they found a few other shivering kids.

Garp Garp negotiated with Contraption’s elder, Queen Gnarlnash, to prevent future hauntings. She agreed that the goblins would no longer take townsfolk for food – the city would instead transition to a pescatarian diet thanks to the abundance of nearby rivers and lakes. Gin was especially happy to hear this, as the news of missing children in Crestfall had weighed on him for some time. He ensured the surviving children were returned to their homes, and just like that, Contraption wheeled off into the sunset!