Secret Look At The 1st Page Of The Script (Patreon)

Okay, so as a thank you, I wanted to be sneaky and show you the start of the script for the animated short. This will be about 6 minutes long and showcase the tone, theme and subject matter of the animated series. It will be pitched to various networks and once it's picked up we're off to the races. There is already interest and we expect great things.

For the animated short, we've decided to create an original story that takes place in an alternate reality. This way we can show characters working together in ways that are slightly different than we've seen in the comic. All the characters are exactly the same in personality, etc. We just wanted to be able to show them all together in an exciting way that quickly demonstrates what Goblins is and what newcomers can expect. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :)

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INT. DUNGEON CRAWL - DAY

A visually striking room sits silently. Devoid of life. On the left, a thick, wooden door with a janus face carved into it. The stone wall around the door is cracked and crumbled with age. Scattered around the door are different sized stone images of fierce monsters. A cracked, broken head of a giant snake lays on its side, with a frozen look of rage. A half shattered, muscular arm of some orcish giant sits forgotten, leaning against a wall. The eerie light of the dungeon highlights the artistic mess that thousands of years ago, sat solidly in a carefully crafted motif of dangerous beasts but is now a haunting, intricate home for cobwebs and dust.

To the right, the floor drops off into an ominus, chasm. About a half dozen, thick chains extend from one edge of the chasm to the other, hanging lazily over the darkness far below. To the right of the chasm is more of the room that can't be seen.

CAMERA ANGLE SHIFTS TO POINT DIRECTLY AT THE LEFT DOOR. THE CHASM BETWEEN THE CAMERA AND THE DOOR.

The door is across the room, some distance from us. We're slowly zooming in closer to it. As the wooden door draws closer, we begin to hear faint, distant, echoed voices cry out from far away. They could be from some battle in another room or possibly ghostly sounds from the distant past.

Distant, echoed voice 1

He's too strong!

Distant, echoed voice 2

"Thaco, lookout!"

We continue move closer and closer to the door.

Distant, echoed voice 3

"AAAAAHHH!"­

Closer still.

Distant echoed voice 4

"Go! Just run!"

We're close to the door now. We stop moving forward (zooming in) and for a moment, everything is silent. Everything is still. A small pebble falls from one of the stone cracks that hug the frame of the door, landing on the floor with a barely audible "teck".

Suddenly the door bursts open and seven characters rush into the room. As they slam the door shut and look around at their surroundings, we see that they are out of breath. Some of them are wounded. They look frightened and almost panicked.

There's BIG EARS, a GOBLIN PALADIN, COMPLAINS, a GOBLIN BARBARIAN, THACO, a GOBLIN MONK, KIN, a FEMALE NAGA SCHOLAR, MINMAX, a HUMAN FIGHTER, FORGATH, a DWARVEN CLERIC and FUMBLES, a GOBLIN jack-of-all-trades.­­­