The "Drag" event took place on Mudwick Isle, and the secret turned out to be a marketing ploy by the Goblin Gaming Group for a new product: lotus cigarettes. The title referred to taking a "drag" from a paper tube filled with dried lotus plant fiber.
Fashion fans and motorsport fans were both confused and outraged at first. The event delivered both anyway: a drag race and a drag show, with goblins in outrageous costumes racing souped-up shopping carts down a makeshift runway.
The spectacle, fueled by fermented mushroom cocktails and the lure of the forbidden, captured the Goblin Nation. Within hours lotus cigarettes were the hottest trend, smoked by goblins of every age and class, who found them fragrant and mildly hallucinogenic.
"It's like a party in your mouth and your brain," said one enthusiast, exhaling lotus smoke. "I feel relaxed, euphoric and a bit confused. It's the perfect escape from daily stress."
The Council of Elders, skeptical at first, has embraced the craze as a boost to the economy and a distraction from its own leadership.
"We may have lost the war with Rigatonia," said Elder Gnarltooth, taking a long drag, "but we've won the battle for goblin hearts and lungs. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go find my inhaler."
As the Goblin Nation sinks into a haze of lotus-induced euphoria, the Group's marketing has again shown it can profit from chaos, controversy and the goblin appetite for questionable vices.
