Actually, not so scary. No muggers or pros at that time of
thie morning, just some homeless who actually got me to the right
place for some cigarettes. Sort of a Frick and Frack thing though,
"sorry have to buy the whole faucet for a replacement", "maa'm the
faucet is cemented into a brick wall on the side of my house", "not
my problem, would you like to talk to a manager", "unless he's a mason
I don't see how that would help", and it went downhill from there.

Yes, I think as well, this is something that was hidden under the dwarfishness.
The basepose problem came out clearly about the feet but with the larger
than normal skeletons something else is happening and I don't know what it
is. If worst comes to worst we can post to the powers that be (Caliban) and
see if that elicits some aid.

Alletun's experiment with a smaller goblin might help with quantifying the
problem size with the skeleton size.

KE