In Break-In At Bleak End, the Whistledrop Crew found Ipgrix as the compound's newest inmate and learned a bit of his escapades through the Bleak End Records of Imprisonment. However, the thieves did not care much about the goblin, and did not intervene in his imprisonment before they escaped.
Ipgrix was a Goblin born to a small, nomadic tribe that roamed and hid along the broken coast and flatlands of Scyseti's Reach. The clan survived by avoiding notice, preying on stranded travelers, and watching the sea from cover. This caution failed when the tribe attempted to ambush a lone ship docked along the coast, believing it to be an easy target. The vessel, in truth, belonged to pirates of the Siren's Isles, who were surveying the shoreline for future raids. The encounter ended in a massacre, and most of the Goblinoids were killed in the fighting or hunted down afterward.
Ipgrix survived by surrendering and debasing himself before the pirates, who chose to keep the humorous goblin alive as a slave rather than waste the effort of killing him. He spent years swabbing decks, hauling cargo, and performing menial labor aboard pirate vessels. During this time, he observed their dealings closely, learning how they moved goods, bribed officials, concealed cargo, and spoke to merchants and fences in port towns. Through the pirates, he gained his first real exposure to structured trade, coin, and the workings of coastal civilization.
Ipgrix made a friend in the Halfling Eliwyse Widdershins, another mistreated slave who had learned skills as a navigator. He learned how to speak in broken Common from her while teaching her Goblin, and the two eventually devised an escape plan together. They stole a small dinghy and vanished along the coast, with Eliwyse guiding them southward to her home city of Cliffsunder. Ipgrix attempted to imitate what he had seen, styling himself a smuggler and coming up with schemes for the pair. They made repeated, dangerous trips between the Scycaen Imperium and the Common League, offering contraband directly on the docks.
Over time, Captain Ipgrix began to recruit other goblinoids from the Murkmire Marshlands, including the goblin Yuzzik and Bobgoblin Slonk, who respectively became his first mate and bosun. Together with their quartermaster Eliwyse, the four lead the Go-Getter Goblins, making a name for themselves on Cliffsunder's southern shores. Ipgrix adopted grandiose aliases such as "Iprix the Go-Getter", “Great-Pirate Ipgrix”, and “The Golden Goblin,” attempting to project importance, and expanded his fleet from one dinghy to three aged sloops, hugging the coastline for all their journeys.
Now in possession of a twenty-man crew and gaining wealthy quickly, Ipgrix got ahead of himself; after a span of a half-year, the Go-Getter's were found in Fang's End. There, most of the crew were arrested in a string operation, in possession of several illicit luxury goods and multiple minor Wondrous Items. Ipgrix was convicted of smuggling contraband from Scycae, transported to Bleak End, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment as prisoner 299. However, Eliwyse, Slonk, and Yuzzik managed to escape, sailing northwest with their captain firmly on their minds.