Session 59-B: All Parts of the Goblin

## Key Plot Developments

Glyn is on his way to the Dawnshard Grove where Lady Dulcinea lives. He’s guided by Wendy the Weed and accompanied by Twinkleface the Unicorn, One Ear, Sleack the Sleezey, and Bralg the Bold. He wants to prove to everyone that he is "good" by helping the fey, so he can gain access to the other gobs team. He knows that Dulcinea is Bogtooth's patron. On the way, Glyn discusses the intricacies of sheep entrail orgies. That's the story he's been leading them on, that they will have a huge orgy in a fey grove. He asks Twinkleface about Unicorn sexuality to keep up the facade. New unicorns are not made in a conventional way; it's more magical than that. Glyn tries to find out if Twinkleface has genitals, but he sees nothing down there, only a smooth unicorn coat that resembles a Ken Doll.

Then Glyn receives a message from Trix. As they speak, Glyn feigns ignorance about anything that's been going on since he died. He asks about the ritual. This bolsters Glyn's resolve to go around and "do good things" so he can truthfully tell Trix that he's been doing good things. He needs to gain access to that ritual for Graz'zt. So far, he can boast about saving a unicorn and trying to defend a fey grove

After more than a day of travel, the landscape has changed significantly. No longer a desolate wasteland, the place seems more lush and alive. Glyn hasn't needed to obtain food for himself in a long time, thanks to the Gluttony Palace in Azzagrat, where he can eat as much as he wants, UCLA dining hall-style, but with a fiendish twist. (Welcome to Devil-Neve!). But now, he's feeling a bit peckish. Glyn and the goblins take a little hunting trip. One Ear comes back having caught some crabs. They're all going by wine-inspired code names while they're on the surface, so for now, Glyn wants to be referred to as Merlot. Glyn and his goblin half find joy in the fact that he doesn't have to settle for small game anymore. He can hunt for bigger things all by himself. So he hunts an ape, just because he can. He sees the ape, initially thinks it's a bandit, and stalks it. He goes to talk to it when it starts chittering and leaps away. Then the chase is on; he uses his mage hand to pluck it from the air, throws it on the ground, and cracks it open. He and the gobs skin it and dig in. Glyn opens the skull and slurps out the brain in traditional goblin fashion. Through this, he learns that Twinkleface does not actually need to eat. She gains sustenance from the sun. She sort of... photosynthesizes?

They walk for another half day. The space keeps changing. The rivers are crystalline. There seems to be a ship made out of plants that he thinks might be an embankment. Grass paths skirt around aspen trees. The goblin part of Glyn feels a sense of calm. The fiend part of Glyn feels a bit heavier like he’s walking at high altitudes, but it can still feel the thrum of chaotic potential that creatures in the Feywild can possess. He sees this world through a demonic filter. That steam could be sludgier. That thing could have less flesh on it. That thing could have more flesh on it.

He speaks to Twinkleface again, who has not been to the Dawnshard Grove in many moons. He comments on how Lady Dulcinea finds some unconventional friends like kobolds and gnomes! They go through a grove of petrified trees and rocks. Twinkleface says this place is pleased by moonlight where shapechangers gather for noisy celebrations. It wasn’t really his thing but to each their own. However, as everyone is engaged in conversation, something is tracking them.

They surprise the group and attack! One of them is dressed in the exact same cloak with markings of a two-headed symbol that Glyn remembers the Derro wearing back in Gracklstugh. The other two are more reminiscent of Gra’z’zt’s horns with leathery wings. They also have vestigial heads. They cast feeblemind at Glyn twice but he’s too mentally strong. One Ear is very strong and fights ferociously for his lord. These demonic cambions speak in an old-timey, kid-friendly programming way. Twinkleface entangles them with vines and roots. One of the cambions realizes that he’s some Graz’zt guy. He runs away to tell his boss. Commands and fingers of death are thrown out all over the place. The final fiend tries to pray to his master before his bloody end by Glyn’s glaive.

They go to warn Dulcinea about what just happened. As they move, the other goblins are awed by what they see. There’s a powerful river flowing up a tree into a mountain of green stone. Color-shifting moss clings to its surface. They go past a circle of pink berries to a circle of cracked stone. They go past large leaves floating on a calm lake. Frogs of many sizes watch them as they pass bye. They see a series of centaurs who call to them to halt. The party tells them their false names, including a new name for Glyn, Moonlight Sparkle, and offers their protection from demonic inclusion.

The centaurs are worried. The goblin champion that Lady Dulcinea called for has not yet arrived to help them. This probably means Bogtooth. And they fear the Demogorgon can arrive at any moment. They let the party to the archfey. There are many fountains around the place. A felled oak tree has many others growing on top of it. Swarms of fireflies make the area glitter. Finally, they reach a rainbow bridge coming from beneath a tree and thrusting into the sky. The branches end in mists and sparkles that lead to faraway destinations. Glyn compliments the beauty of the centaurs and one of them returns the compliment and even gives him a standing invitation to their orgies once all this demon business is over.

Finally, they are led to Lady Dulcinea. They go through the rainbow bridge and into the great tree. Glyn notices that all forms of the seasons are demonstrated within this tree, but the most prominent season is Winter. There stands Lady Dulcinea, very petite, green skin that looks like bark, autumn red hair that swirls around her, and she is suspended perfectly in mid-air. She asks why a half-fiend has taken an interest in her grove. Glyn offers them protection from the Demogorgon in exchange for access to Bogtooth and his companions and help with the demon lord ritual. This is the first time Twinkleface is hearing about this and is shocked. Dulcinea breathes a cloud of Euphoria Breath at Twinkleface to calm him down during their conversation. She asks Glyn to step forward. He does and he is now in a zone of truth.

She asks him if any of his ulterior motives (because she knows he has them) will harm her grove of her champion. Glyn answers truthfully that it might. It’s a battle of demon lords.

Lady Dulcinea appreciates that their interests are temporarily aligned. She suggests bonding Glyn to a word of recall. When the ritual is cast, she’s going to bring him back to this grove. So that if anything happens there, he’ll be caught in the middle of it. Glyn agrees. In the meantime, she tells him that there is a member of the council that is actively working to ensure the Demogorgon is not stopped. She casts an illusion to show Glyn what this council member looks like. It is Hyrsam, the Prince of Fools.

Hyrsam does not like the fact that Lady Dulcinea deals with other creatures who are not of the Feywild or that she keeps a bridge between the Feywild and somewhere else (Elysium) and wants to allow the Demogorgon to destroy this grove for that reason. He will have free access to the Feywild and do unspeakable things to people she cares about. So, there is a second caveat. After the ritual is cast, Glyn will be freed from her service when he kills Hyrsam. He doesn't need to do it alone.

She won't risk her champion, but she can improve the three goblins who are with him. She bids them to step forward, their hair all stands up and their bodies start twisting. Their transformation is hideous as their spines are cracked, as an overflow of verdigris erupts from their eyes, as the four seasons dance within them, and the three goblins that he brought can, in no way, be considered goblins any longer. Glyn is reminded of his own transformation from a goblin to… whatever he can be considered now.

## Memorable Quotes

* **Glyn:** So, Twinkleface. What do unicorns do for fun?
* **Twinkleface:** Oh, we tend to cavort. You know, sashay around?
* **Glyn:** With other unicorns?
* T**winkleface:** Yeah, with unicorns, fairies, pixies…plants! We just like galloping.
* **Glyn: Y**ou ever do anything…else?
* **Twinkleface:** Sometimes we rush across mountain tops and then we’ll dash really quickly to see if we can hit stars!
* **Glyn:** Oh. wow. Do you ever hit them?
* **Twinkleface:** No, but that doesn’t stop us from believing!

* **Glyn:** Twinkleface, how are new unicorns made?
* **Twinkleface:** Well, an explosion of star stuff. The woods themselves bend to the will of creation! And emerging like a font of inspiration, a unicorn, fully grown, horn gleaming, is there! Ready to take its place as a divine guardian of the forest lords!
* **Glyn:** …interesting.
* **Twinkleface:** It’s just biology!

* **Trix’s Sending:** Glyn! Are you okay?! Everyone says hi. We love you! Are you on the Material Plane?
* **Glyn’s Reply:** Trix? Is that really you? It’s been so, so long! How are you doing this? Did Pix make it out?
* **Trix’s Sending:** It’s me! It hasn’t been long for us. Couple weeks. Are you alive? Pix is alive. With us. What have you been doing?
* **Glyn’s Reply:** WEEKS? But wait…that means…the ritual! Have you completed the ritual? Did you get the demon lords?

* **Twinkleface:** We wish to use every part of the creations here on this world.
* **Glyn:** Yeah! Oh yeah! The whole thing!
* **Twinkleface:** We’re the good guys!
* **Glyn:** Oh, Twinkleface, did you want some?
* **Twinkleface:** Oh, no! I don’t need to eat?
* **Glyn:** Do you just absorb, like, starlight?
* **Twinkleface:** Unicorns are not just the protectors of the woods. In some ways, we are the woods!
* **Glyn**: So the sustenance you require is what the woods require?
* **Twinkleface:** You can’t spell sustenance without S.U.N.

* **Twinkleface:** The Archfey, Lady Dulcinea…she’s unlike the others on the fey council. A lot of the time, the fey stick to themselves, but she appears to be more open to different friends! One time she brought this little gnome guy and this little kobold guy to the council and there was this big to-do about the whole thing!
* **Glyn:** Twinkleface, I learned a lesson down in the Underdark. While you might have certain perceptions of a kind of creature, you can see a whole new side of them and learn to appreciate them for what they can do and who they truly are!

* **Cambion:** Oh! Wow, you all got some fight in ya! What are you all doin’ here, huh?
* **Glyn:** We’re here to have quite the orgy. And you’re interrupting it.
* **Twinkleface:** You shall NOT do any more HARM to these WOODS!...... aaaaaAAAHHH!

* **Cambion:** So you’re like a Graz’zt guy, right?
* **Glyn:** Huh, my reputation precedes me.
* **Cambion:** Well, alright, I uh, think I gotta tell the boss about this one You guys handle this, okay?
* **Glyn:** (command) WAIT!
* **Cambion:** Mind your own beeswax, bub!

**Fiend:** Looks like it’s up to me to turn the tables!

**Fiend:** Not bad, not bad! Looks like you let the cat outta the bag!

**Fiend:** The dual-lived, dual-willed prince of the Abyss! Master of the Mysterious! King of the Devious! DEMO--

* **Glyn:** Good job protecting the Grove, Twinkleface!
* **Twinkleface:** Thanks to you, Lord Merlot! And to…I don’t know your names…
* **One Ear:** I’m….Chianti.
* **Sleack the Sleezey:** Right, right, right, he’s Chianti and I’m….Wine!
* **Bralg the Bold:** And I’m Bralg the Bold.

* **Centaurs:** HALT! Reveal yourself to the ceenCHaurs!
* **Glyn:** Hello! My name is Merlot and I have come to convene with Dulcinea. But I am known by another name: Moonlight Sparkle. Here is my companion, Twinkleface! We have come on behalf of Crystal Lake Grove to warn you and offer our protection.
* **Twinkleface:** We have come to protect you from demonic inclusion to ensure that what happened to our grove and to so many others, what happened to my horn DOES NOT happen here!

* **Glyn:** Noble cenCHaurs, I have not seen your kind before, but I am struck by your beauty!
* **Centaur**: Though you lack some of our features, you too possess a certain grace! Once the Dawnshard Grove is cleared of all threats, we ask you to join us in our orgies!
* **Glyn:** I will gladly accept!!

* **Lady Dulcinea:** Well met. Come…what have we done to gain the favor of the half-fiend?
* **Glyn:** I come here on behalf of the Dark Prince, who is not fond of the Demogorgon. I know that in the past there have been alliances between my kind and yours and we wish to offer aid.
* **Lady Dulcinea:** Will any of your ulterior motives directly or indirectly harm my grove?
* **Glyn:** Of course, so many demon lords in one place might cause some impact. I cannot tell the future, I’m not gifted with the power of divination. But I can say that against the Demogorgon's crusade against the fey groves, we would directly help to protect and defend your grove.
* **Lady Dulcinea:** Will any of your ulterior motives directly or indirectly harm my champion?
* **Glyn:** It is a possibility. Your champion may be harmed in the battle of the demon lords. But he was gonna do that anyway, wasn’t he?
* **Lady Dulcinea:** I’m going to bind you to a word of recall. Once the ritual is cast, it will bring you back here. So if something does happen to this grove…it will also happen to you.

* **Lady Dulcinea:** I will not risk my champion. However, you need not do it alone. I can improve them. Give them.
* **One Ear:** My lord! Is this--?
* **Glyn:** It’s okay, just breathe.
* **Twinkleface:** Huh, yeah! You gotta use all parts of the goblin!