...and our adventure returns to the adventurers playing White Elephant. Pappy receives magical saddle bags for his camel. Mara got a miniature white elephant! Delle receives a grooming multitool with the words, “Stay Groovy” inscribed on it. Furn got a pack of swamp biscuits! Baja received a small donut shaped rock, with his own face scratched in as an effigy of himself.
After their gift-swapping game, the gang finally turns in the Alligator Knives after prying them from Pappy’s (who had fallen unconscious, overcome with delight at the sight of the groovy multitool) soggy waistband. The leader of the Focus Group grants them magical items as payment along with 800 gold coins!
The Focussed Group retired to their apartments afterwards, hoping to get some more rest and relaxation. Their days were immediately interrupted by a series of knocks at the door. Baja and Pappy opened the door while Mara and Furn climbed out of the windows, eager to see their visitor, who turned out to be a tiny goblin child, dressed in thick winter clothing. The child, who called himself Boblin, explained how he had traveled all the way from Arbor to meet the Focussed Group, the heroes who liberated his kingdom. He begged for their help, explaining his entire family and hundreds of other goblins had been enslaved in the city. The party instantly agreed to help him but realized Delle was still in her room, not wanting to be bothered.
Mara and Baja eventually convinced the streamer to come out of her room and agree to help Boblin. Fully prepared, the Focussed Group decided not to tell the Queen about their mission and instead headed straight to Sparrow, who could teleport them, and Driver Gosling, who was undoubtedly doing something effortlessly cool and swoonworthy (as Delle found out). Driver agreed to help the adventurers and their new goblin child, being the casually antiauthoritarian kind of guy he is, and with Sparrow's help the party arrived back in the Kingdom of Wood via teleportation cannon. The city itself was somehow in even worse condition than the Focussed Group had left it in!
As the party explored the derelict city, Boblin explained how his family, along with a large swath of the city's population, had been enslaved and put to work in a sawmill on the outskirts of town. Is that what happened? They were enslaved? I'm not just making that up?