Session 48-A: Into the Labyrinth

## Key Plot Developments

Tremble, who meditated his way into the goblin afterlife and received a desperate warning from Pyrite, runs from Jimjar to see his family. He explains his disturbing vision (Pyrite, badly injured by Glyn and on the run from Miss Anna). The group is paralyzed by this idea—Glyn, back under Anna’s control—and debates who to contact (Pyrite? Glyn? Miss Anna? Misu’s mom?). Tremble is upset that they’re not trying to help the goblins under attack in the afterlife and Trix is at a loss, but Rotgut encourages him to move forward and fix something that IS under his control: preventing the demon lords from accessing the maze engine in the Labyrinth.

Thanks to Rotgut’s chronomantic intuition, the group successfully teleports to the labyrinth’s entrance. Rotgut guides them through the tunnels until they hear loud grunts and banging sounds. Rotgut is polymorphed into a fish to keep him safe when minotaurs of Baphomet, marching through the labyrinth, appear.

When they ambush the monsters, they realize the chaotic energy of the demon lords makes magic even more wild and volatile in the maze. Bogtooth lowers his guard to contemplate how this impacts his strategy; the minotaurs grab him and begin to drag him away. The group kills them before they can get too far; Tremble sends a recreated Ralph the dog to bloodily end one minotaur while a sneak-attacking Rotgut rips out the final one’s throat.

Rotgut helps heal Bogtooth. Trix cooks up some mushrooms. When the group proceeds, they see a familiar sight from the outer tunnels of Blingdenstone: a lone marching modron, a clockwork creature.

Pix magically speaks with the being, whose alien speech is stilted, and robotic eyes are reddened. It seeks to end Primus (a being of pure order). Trix removes its madness, shifting its eyes to green. It explains that it was separated from its group and infected with chaos, so it must restore the broken ‘Orderer’ (which the group takes to mean the malfunctioning maze engine). Tremble is grateful that Ralph, his own mechanical creation, has a semblance of consciousness.

Tremble, Bogtooth, and Pix tell the others they saw the larger group of marching modrons outside of Entemoch’s boon. They follow the modron. Soon, they find a tower in the middle of the maze—clearly a magical item. Tremble identifies the fortress as something that can expand or shrink with magical trigger words. (Lemon tries to say the words, but he’s telepathic, so it doesn’t work.)

When they group enters the tower, trying to pass through to reach the Orderer, they see several vrocks—made of Ice Cream. Nicholas Ice Cream, the lord of deception and destroyer of Gracklstugh, is aware of the time machine—and now, of their presence.

## Memorable Quotes

* **Tremble: I**’m sorry Mr. Jimjar….I…I think I have to go! I have to find my family!
* **Jimjar:** One step at a time…

* **Tremble:** Didn’t someone say that goblins go somewhere when they die? Where everyone’s fighting all the time? If they’re killing all the goblins we have to help them, right?
* **Bogtooth:** Trix, you know the most about this stuff! What do we DO?
* **Trix:** Uh…I guess we gotta get Glyn back quickly?
* **Y:** WHOA, WELL HOLD ON! YOU THINK THIS MIGHT BE A TRICK FROM NICKY ICEY?

**Briar:** Is there anyone you know who’s NOT dead?

* **Tremble:** I know you’re not really on the best terms, but maybe you can try reaching out to Miss Anna?
* **Briar:** Didn’t you all kill her?
* **Y:** LOOK I’M GONNA TELL YOU THE LAST THING I SAID TO GLYN. I GRABBED HIM BY THE SHOULDERS AND TOLD HIM “YA CAN’T TRUST DEMONS!”
* **Tremble:** Well, we all kinda told him that. A lot.

**Y:** ICE AND OIL??? OH! LIKE A TOMATO AND LIGHTNING BOLT!

* **Rotgut:** You worship PELOR?
* **Y:** I JUST REALIZED I MISSPOKE! ROTGUT BROUGHT YOU HERE, SO I HAVE ONE MORE TELEPORT LEFT. IMPORTANT FOR CONTINUITY, YOU KNOW?
* **Bogtooth:** Continuity is important for going into a time labyrinth.

**Rotgut:** Listen, I don’t fully understand how you can kill a goblin that’s already dead. And I don’t know about any Nicholas Ice Cream, that’s a silly name..

* **Trix:** Where’d he get that tobacco? Is it goblin tobacco?
* **Rotgut:** …..we just call it tobacco… (He stole it.)

* **Trix:** You’re not gonna help us with the labyrinth?
* **Y:** OH I’D DIE!

**Minotaurs:** Within every soul, the demon sleeps.

**Minotaur:** Horned King, reveal to us the true meaning of mortality!!

**Rotgut:** You stay away from my nephew!

**Monodrone:** We are on the march! We are on the march! We are on the march! We are on the march! Down with Primus! Down with Primus!

**Monodrone:** Must find the pod. Where am I? Where am I? Where am I?

**Monodrone:** Follow….we are on the march.

**Briar:** These gargoyles are….gargoyles….

**Rotgut:** You don’t know how many goblins have fallen to that exact mistake.

* **Lemon-Finn:** Oh, code words? So like, mimsy and brillig?
* **Trix:** SILENCE! (Lemon is a telepathic ooze.)

**Bogtooth:** It sounds to me like it’s a home that’s mobile. A mobile home. But that can also be used as a bomb! Just like…throw it at people!

**Vrock:** Got a special delivery for ya!