Session 24-B: Just Desserts

## Key Plot Developments

Senni and Pix notice the slowly incoming wave of oozes at the northern edge of Blingdenstone. Senni summons Nomi, who is asked to use the earth elementals of the Stoneheart Enclave to create trenches and create refuse barriers to slow the oozes as they're peppered by distant arrows. The earth elementals, even those on the far end of the city, are not compliant. Pix intuits that the corruption in the Rockblight is lashing out as a result of their purification of its inner temple and Tremble's assault on its hiding place. She rushes back to get Tremble.

Across the town, Bogtooth speaks with the wererats and chief Dorbo. There is some ethnic tension, but both sides put their differences aside to survive an ooze-induced genocide. The wererats are assigned to destroy houses and throw that rubble in the oozes' way as the gnomes attack from afar.

Bogtooth runs towards the city's center, where he meets Nomi and Senni. They confirm the perilous state of affairs. Bogtooth, however, is exhausted and needs a short rest. He finds a safe place and has a vision of Dulcinea, his patron. Dulcinea emphasizes his heroic qualities in an inspiring conversation. She also admits that she has a particular interest in his family. She's familiar with an ancient prophecy about a goblin of chaos and destruction, and strongly wishes to prevent its apotheosis. She asks Bogtooth if he knows any goblin that seems poised to sow the seeds of devastation. Bogtooth, temporarily forgetting his family's names, confidently says that Pix will bring about devastation.

Pix rushes into the Rockblight to pull Tremble out. Tremble, exhausted, has loosed arrow after arrow into drow statues. He, while very wounded, has destroyed over a dozen of them single-handedly. Pix helps her brother escape from a sentient cloud of extradimensional stone and storm (which she calls the Rockblight itself).

Tremble takes no time to rest. When he returns to inner Blingdenstone and sees it in the midst of war, he enters the catacombs of the church and finds Ms. Rocktooth. He asks for her aid in rallying the ghosts of the city to their cause and emphasizes how wererat and gnome are coming together. The ghosts of scores of slain Svirfnelbin emerge from the catacombs and begin attacking the oozes. They are not invincible; some ghosts are removed from the material plane entirely as ooze pseudopods tear into them, melting ectoplasm.

The oozes are temporarily hindered but not defeated by these delaying tactics. Some wererats are dissolved, some gnomes give their lives to hold them back, and many ghosts die a second and final time. The heroes take a necessary short rest, wracked with pain and the guilt of inaction.

Finally, they enter the Rockblight for the final time (accompanied by Nomi) and go straight to the source of corruption. If they banish it, the gnomes can use their earth elementals without interference. They see a swirling void of dust and the limbs of drow statues. Bogtooth banishes it to another plane of existence.

Nomi has access to earth elementals again! She's told to return to Blingdenstone and use them against the oozes. As she leaves, the party returns to the purified menhirs in the Rockblight. Pix previously noticed a path to the North. She now realizes this path could lead her to the same room of oozes on the outskirts of Blingdenstone (where Bogtooth nearly died before). The group hears the mad gibbering of the Pudding King and sneaks through. Tremble uses his sharpshooting ability to destroy oozes in his way without even clearly seeing them first.

They arrive in the Pudding King's court, full of oozes and mushrooms. Their mad opponent sics two empowered oozes on them. Then, he disintegrates Tremble. Tremble's equipment is shredded, his clothes are turned to ash, and he nearly dies instantaneously. The little goblin barely hangs on.

The deranged gnome throws spells, acid, and insults at the party as he offers prayers to the Faceless Lord. Tremble and Pix are surrounded and about to be consumed. Bogtooth, in a last ditch effort, calls on the power of the spell gem the Diggermattocks gave him. It will require all of his power--and more--to access its might. On a critical success, Bogtooth unleashes a *sunbeam* spell, which blasts across the Pudding King's court, through his throne, and into his heart. The gnome dies, praising Juiblex and promising his lord's ascendance, as he dissolves into goo.

## New NPCs

1. Paul the Pecan, a nut in Dulcinea's grove

## Memorable Quotations

* **Dorbo:** Chipgrin, can your wererats break down houses?
* **Chipgrin:** That's not what you should be calling us.
* **Dorbo**: What should I call you?
* **Chipgrin:** We're f\*cking gnomes.
* **Dorbo:** Can your gnomes break down houses?

**Bogtooth:** It won't be like it was with the drow!

* **Dorbo:** Nobody can stab my kidneys with a gnome like Chipgrin at my back!
* **Chipgrin:** We might have had you wrong all alone.
* **Dorbo:** I see now that we have always been brothers.

**Paul the Pecan:** Bogtooth! I heard so much about you! Lady Dulcinea told me you're the nicest, coolest guy around!

**Feywild Clouds:** In rain or shine, yours or mine, we'll be hear. Never fear!

**Bogtooth:** If any of us ending up destroying something...it'd probably be Pix.

**Tremble:** If the whole city gets destroyed, Jimjar will never get to see you again!

* **Reina Rocktooth:** The wererats and gnomes are fighting together?
* **Tremble:** In a situation like this, they realized everything they were fighting about was dumb and they're not even that different!

**Reina Rocktooth:** No one I have ever met--alive or dead--has a bigger heart than Jimin. He would be so f\*cking proud of you.

**Pudding King:** Forgive them, my lord. They don't understand. They WILL understand! Glory to the Faceless Lord!

**Bogtooth:** Get the F\*CK off my PLANE OF EXISTENCE!

**Bogtooth:** You f\*cked with everyone here. You f\*cked with the gnomes. You f\*cked with the wererats. You f\*cked with my mind. F\*CK OFF!

* **Pix:** Did we just win a war?
* **Bogtooth:** And THAT'S why they call me the chief!