Session 50-A: A Dog's Life

## Key Plot Developments

Gash the gnoll, Rotgut, and the modron lead the group through the maze. They encounter a gang of bloodlusted gnolls. Gash is afraid that what he’s done—being forced to work for a group of Baphomet’s minotaurs (who he calls ‘the Tall’ instead of ‘masters’)—has made him an outcast among fellow gnolls. The group tries to hide, but the terrified Gash yips and draws their attention. The team decides they need to kill these gnolls, regardless of their affiliation with Gash.

Briar sneak attacks the gnolls, screaming with ethereal fury. Bogtooth and Pix hit them with eldritch blasts. Rotgut and Tremble pepper them with arrows. The gnolls terrify Gash into submission, surround Pix, and hack her to the brink of death. Trix intervenes, but is poisoned for his troubles. Even Gash tries to (ineffectively) fight back by throwing his spear. The arcane casters of the party great wild magic surges every time they invoke spells—the chaos of the labyrinth, demon lords, and maze engine are reacting unpredictably.

The group take a short rest. Lemon takes Gash’s name (and reclaims Glyn’s); now he’s Almond-Finn-Glyn-Lemon-Finn-Glyn-Nort-Bogtooth-Duergar-Hat-Gash).

After two more days of travel (day 10—30 days until the wedding), they make it closer to the chronomantic magic. They hear some guttural voices—minotaurs and powerful glabrezu demons!

The group isn’t fighting on favorable terrain. They’re surrounded by demons and in each other’s line of fire. Bogtooth, Pix, and Trix all cast banishment spells to keep demons at bay, but the wild magic takes its toll: Bogtooth’s eyes become to bleed the four colors of the seasons (his irises become copper), Pix transforms into an inanimate stuffed doll.

Some of the more powerful demons, toying with the party, suggest that battle-ready goblins are being treated as hot commodities in the Abyss (alluding to Glyn’s work with Graz’zt). The goblins indignantly reject their offers and continue to battle. The vicious battle ends, but not before one of the more powerful monsters easily kills Gash out of spite.

Finally, Bogtooth blasts the final demon back to hell and restores Pix. When Trix revivifies Gash, he’s terrified: in the gnoll afterlife, his fellow gnolls were being overrun by an army of goblins, wearing the banner of the Green Hand of Vengeance.

The group travels until day 17. 23 days until the wedding…

## Memorable Quotes

**Pix:** Another corridor full of dead things that are being weird! Oh, boy just another day on the job.

* **Gash:** What does Gash call them if not…masters?
* **Bogtooth:** Whatever you think of them! What words come to mind?
* **Gash:** Tall! Very tall! Okay, I will call them the Tall. Let’s go.

**Gash:** Can’t be seen with them! I have betrayed to the Tall! They can’t see me!

* **Gnoll:** Yeenoghu! Yeenoghu! Yeenoghu!
* **Briar:** Come at me you little…hounds!

**Rotgut:** Ain’t no one beats goblins when it comes to hiding, right?

* **Bogtooth:** Get away from my clan or I’ll rip ya to shreds!
* **Rotgut:** Wow… that’s what I call a true goblin.

**Rotgut:** You know, it’s really all about action economy! (Arrows miss gnolls.) I guess it’s also about hitting ‘em….

**Briar:** But Labyrinths have minotaurs! Not gnolls! That’s what the stories told me!

**Bogtooth:** I’m so upset at you that I can’t even figure out anything funny to say about you!

* **Bogtooth:** Glad to see you’re finally hitting your, mark uncle!
* **Rotgut:** Well, ya know, I think for a while I was forgetting what it means to be a goblin. You don’t have to engage with everything!

* **Rotgut:** It’s got be the wild magic here.
* **Briar:** Did he eat some kind of wrong mushroom?
* **Rotgut:** No no, over here, we gotta be careful with our use of magic. If we don’t need to use it, we should, right?

* **Gash:** Gash…Gash is useless….
* **Everyone:** Nooo! You’re fine! We all did it together!
* **Lemon:** I think you’re ooookaaay!

**Lemon:** I’m not Lemon…I’m Gash.

* **Gash:** Eh, eh, Spiral of the Horned-ed King. Spiral and filthriddens….can’t go back there. Not for me…but Yeenoghu in here! Hunting!
* **Bogtooth:** What do you know about Yeenoghu?
* **Gash:** God. Yeenoghu is God! Gash is heretic now! Yeenoghu is best boi! Who is bestest boi? Yeenoghu. Yeenoghu. Yeenoghu!
* **Lemon:** I used to think that about Dad. But I realized you can move on from that. And besides, I’m bestest boi.

* **Lemon:** Hey, I wonder happened to Finn….and I wonder what happened to Nort…. and I wonder what happened to Hat…. and I wonder what happened to Almond…... and I wonder what happened to Lemon. I want all the names back. You can have yours.
* **Briar:** How many names have you stolen?

* **Briar**: If your brother asks you to get me to perform anything, don’t listen to him.
* **Pix:** Hey Bogtooth…what’s the thing that Briar can perform?

* **Bogtooth:** Why do they wanna kick goblins out? Do they not match the aesthetic or something?
* **Pix:** Cause everybody HATES us! I’m worried about Grandpappy Droop.
* **Bogtooth:** If they kicked him out what will he DO?

* **Trix:** Hey Briar…I’m really happy you’ve been traveling with us.
* **Briar:** Oh…why?
* **Trix:** Well, you’re really helpful in battle and you’ve been taking care of my family. I dunno, you’re pretty nice.
* **Briar:** Ah…thank you… um. Thank you!
* **Lemon:** You know, you’re pretty good at that!
* **Trix:** Thanks, Almond-Finn-Glyn-Lemon-Finn-Glyn-Nort-Bogtooth-Duergar-Hat-Gash!

* **Demon:** What is a little pixie doing here?
* **Briar:** Fucking your shit!
* **Demon:** That’s the spirit.

* **Demon:** Goblins…goblins here. We will talk.
* **Briar:** You should not have ignored me.
* **Demon:** Kill the pixie.

* **Bogtooth:** Fuck!
* **Demon:** Distasteful but very talented goblins.
* **Pix:** Well thank you.

**Demon:** You are not with the Green Hand of Vengeance? Lord Baphomet could use goblins like you. What do you say? You are with us now?

* **Briar:** Hey, please come here!
* **Demon:** That’s what I plan to do.
* **Briar:** Your boss told me to—
* **Demon: T**hat may be the dumbest thing you could have said. We’re work buddies.

* **Demon:** Very talented goblins. Now as I was saying, join with me or I’ll kill all your sleeping friends.
* **Trix:** We can work something out!
* **Demon:** Oh, this is good news. Hop in.
* **Trix:** Hop in? You wanna turn me into a soul coin?
* **Demon:** I’ll do the work, you just have to say it’s okay.
* **Trix:** What? No, what idiot would do that?
* **Demon:** Hey! Your friend here doesn’t wanna get into a soul coin, and because of that you’re dying. (He kills Gash.)

**Demon:** Alright…blood oath to kill you. I’ll find you again for sure. Definitely gonna do that.

* **Bogtooth:** You are NOT gonna touch Trix! In fact, you’re never gonna touch ANY of us!
* **Demon:** Oh…too late.

**Gash:** AHH! AHHH AAHHAAHH!!!!! AAAHH AH AH!!! Goblin! Goblins!! It was like I was there. With all the gnolls. We were together. And they were with the goblins! They were coming at us! They were hunting us! So many goblins! Afterlife is so much worse than here! Never wanna die! Too many goblins!