Heh, yeah. I wanted to do two things with this part - have Matiph overcome his fear to be able to tell their story to "the bad guys", and to show that the Olsraugh goblins aren't cartoonishly bad nor cartoonishly stupid. One of my favorite movie scenes is in Titan AE, when the heroes try to pretend to be slavers in robes made out of bedsheets, to get to a prisoner, and the guard doesn't fall for it for one minute.
These two bards might come back later on! I didn't have plans for it, but I like them.