Booyahg Piddle's mysterious death

[Carynara]

So I'm in the goblin camp, murdering away, as you do, when I run into Booyahg Piddle, standing alone on a higher platform. I have Shadowheart toss a Guiding Bolt on him, she misses (kek), but wait!

Booyahg Piddle STILL drops dead on the spot. 'tis all the combat log's telling me:

Shadowheart cast Guiding Bolt on Booyagh Piddle.
Shadowheart missed Booyahg Piddle.
Booyahg Piddle dropped 1 On Goblins: My Life Amony the Conquering Host.
Shadowheart is pointing at something!

That's it. No damage anywhere, no heart attack, no running into open fire. She just missed, and he dropped a book.

Interesting.

[Pyromaiden]

that goblin must be bugged

i sneak attacked him and he didn't die, but instead of turning hostile he just ran off to one of those small race holes, burrowed down to the bottom floor, ran off toward the merchant goblin's area then just completely disappeared

[Orion Invictus]

Did you try talking to him before? It hints at why he decided to run, rather than fight.

[Pyromaiden]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Did you try talking to him before? It hints at why he decided to run, rather than fight.

i talked to him in a different playthrough and all i got was some mumbo jumbo about the Absolute and Volo

i didn't see any hints that he would run away

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Pyromania™:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Did you try talking to him before? It hints at why he decided to run, rather than fight.

i talked to him in a different playthrough and all i got was some mumbo jumbo about the Absolute and Volo

i didn't see any hints that he would run away

He's not like the other Goblins. He's actually intelligent (for a Goblin) and curious about the world.

[Carynara]

Originally posted by Pyromania™:

i sneak attacked him and he didn't die, but instead of turning hostile he just ran off to one of those small race holes, burrowed down to the bottom floor, ran off toward the merchant goblin's area then just completely disappeared

Oooh this is interesting. So maybe he didn't die in my case, either, but disappeared/ran away and dropped the book while running. Hmmmm I wonder where he went and if it's possible to meet him again? There was a small shrine below the camp, near the river under the main bridge, I wonder if that has anything to do with him... although you say he was headed towards the central area, rather than down below. (Besides, the notes in that camp were a lot less eloquent than what this mysterious goblin's intelligence would warrant).
Now I'm more intrigued than ever!

[Scheneighnay]

Coincidentally I had one instance where I was testing out an absolutely busted build where I threw a trident at him, missed, and he still died.

However that bug was normal for that particular build because the trident would fall on top of targets and deal fall damage to them, even upon missing. Not specifically with him.

[RhiTheWitch]

In one of my multiplayers we tried to sneak up on him and he literally disappeared into thin air and found a book about magic in the spot he was standing - thought maybe he just *poofed* away lmao