# Goblins incapacitate & kidnap instead of kill Hearthlings

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**Created:** [April 1, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/goblins-incapacitate-kidnap-instead-of-kill-hearthlings/21210 "2016-04-01T21:13:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/goblins-incapacitate-kidnap-instead-of-kill-hearthlings/21210/4 "2016-04-02T07:33:55Z")

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> [@Dwalus](#):
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> The goblins could hold prisoners indefinitely without killing them, but that would make the stakes too low to pose any major threat.

What if instead of killing them in the traditional manner, the goblins would instead “sell” them as slaves to eg. the orcs or a powerful magician.

Perhaps they could even sacrifice them during a ritual, where the goblin shaman would make the poor hearthling levitate for a while, then suddenly “poof”, bye bye hearthling.

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