Session 49-B: Circular Motion

## Key Plot Developments

Glyn’s body twists and reforms, being unmade and remade, as he’s summoned to the material plane. There, he sees an exhausted-looking elderly mage with a ring of blood around his feet. A well-dressed noble looms besides. They are in a dungeon or cell of some kind.

The mage speaks first and asks Glyn to give him secrets about the Vanthampur family, a group of rival nobles. Glyn deduces that the mage has summoned a demon to learn about and massacre his employer’s rivals. When the incompetent mage lets his guard down, Glyn kills him. The noble, a disgraced lord named Norold Dlusker, promises Glyn riches if he decides to kill the Vanthampurs. He describes the political tension in Baldur’s gate and murmurings of demons rising up along the coastline. As they talk, Glyn’s summoning spell wears off; he’s sucked back into Graz’zt’s den. Now used to the process, he decides to listen to another call for demonic assistance in the summoning room.

Glyn hears a familiar voice: Grampus the gnome, one of the Knitting Club Heroes.

Glyn heeds the call. He’s transported to the peak of a mountain, where Grampus has prepared a bountiful feast in his honor. Grampus is attended to by a macerated, enfeebled Spindlelegs, the Cragmaw goblin who shepherded the kids away from the Sunless Citadel.

Glyn stalls Grampus until the extraplanar binding spell wears off and he’s able to leave the summoning circle unencumbered. Then, persuading Grampus he’ll spread tales of the gnome’s heroism throughout the land, Grampus leads Glyn to a gnomish hamlet named Grampuston.

Grampus has fashioned himself into a Gilderoy Lockheart-esque folk hero; he’s called Grampus Goblin-Stroyer. He entertains the gnomish children and parades Spindlelegs across the town. Finally, he arrives at his mansion—a tacky and luxurious villa. He offers Glyn some of his magical items in exchange for Glyn’s servitude and protection.

As soon as Glyn and Spindlelegs are alone, the mentally broken goblin confides that Grampus has no true strength; he hides behind the magical items he’s collected in exchange for hunting down and killing weak goblins. Grampus is a genocidal fraud.

After Grampus orders Spindlelegs to fetch him a glass of warm milk before bed, the gnome sleeps. Glyn summons monsters from his bag of tricks, whispers a vow of enmity, and attempts to slay Grampus in his sleep. With his last breath, Grampus breaks one of his items—a staff of power. It creates an interdimensional explosion. The gnome’s body is scattered across the multiverse. Spindlelegs is immolated. Glyn’s revenge against the gnome that wronged him, however, is just beginning.

Glyn emerges from the smoldering wreckage of Grampus’s mansion. The rest of the villagers—gnomish parents and children—emerge, confused. Glyn brutally slaughters every gnome in the village, screaming at them for harboring a monster like Grampus. In the wake of this destruction and the smell of burning flesh, Glyn is proud of himself. One of the adventurers who murdered his family is dead—and other one of Annarei’s prophecies (“the banquet, the mountain, the sickness; the eldest will weep for the sins of his kin”) has been fulfilled.

Glyn misses one thing: a group of six gnomish orphans escape his slaughter.

The cycle of vengeance continues.

## New NPCs

1. Norold Dlusker, Baldurian noble
2. Donald, the Dlusker’s mage
3. Grampus Twizzlebotten, Gnome Fraud
4. Spindlelegs, Glyn’s old caretaker

## Memorable Quotes

* **Donald:** I have called you, and now you are bound to me! I command you to tell me…has the Vanthampur family been calling on the powers of Heeeeelllll?
* **Glyn:** ………….Yes.
* **Dlusker:** HUMPH! I knew it! I knew that’s how they climbed their way up!

* **Donald: O**h, great disturber of the hearth, destroyer of all that is cozy!! HOW….do they do it?
* **Glyn:** ….the very same as you…

**Dlusker:** Wait a minute…wait a minute, I think you just coerced him into saying that!

**Glyn:** Your will is my command.

**Donald:** Okay, uh, what you’re gonna do…is you’re gonna go to them and massacre them in broad daylight. And you’re gonna say, uh, “I was summoned by the Vanthampur family, I- they were doing it, yeah, but they were bad at it so I’m going to kill everyone!”

**Dlusker:** FOOL! Give this rather dashing fiend a destination!

**Donald:** You’re going to do great.You’ve destroyed many hearths, that’s why we summoned you.

**Donald:** GAH! WHAT NO! My magic is perfect! Who could have seen this coming?!

**Dlusker:** Here, I’ll get another Donald, they’re a dime a dozen in this town

* **Glyn**: Okay, listen, friend….what do you want here?
* **Dlusker:** What do you all like? What’s a demon party like? I dunno.
* **Glyn**: Hehehe…you like to party, huh?
* **Dlusker:** Well, I’d like to party on the graves of my enemies.\*
* **Glyn:** You’re getting it!

**Rule-of-Three:** Lord Glyn, I know that we are work friends, but I’ve got to say: Cock and ball torture is where it’s at.

**Grampus::** Oh terrible demon of great strength and cunning, I summon your nastiness and seek to make a deal! You who understand suffering and prey upon those below you, I welcome you! I, Grampus Goblin-Stroyer, summon you!

* **Grampus:** Great demon! You grace me with your presence! I have a deal for you! Look at the bounty I’ve prepared, look at the servants I can provide. If only you and I can come to an accord. What say you?
* **Glyn:** Yes. Tell me your request.
* G**rampus:** This Demogorgon thing! NOT for me! Not for me at all!
* **Glyn:** So to be clear, you want me, a demon, to tell you how to kill demons?

* **Glyn:** Fuck the Demogorgon.
* **Grampus:** Eh, fuck the Demogorgon.

* **Grampus:** Hey twig feet speak up! If you’re gonna say something, say it!
* **Spindlelegs:** If you eat me…does that me I’ll go to where the demons is?
* **Glyn:** Probably not?
* **Spindlelegs:** Soz, if you eat me maybe I’ll get to see my family?
* **Grampus:** Yeah, cause they’re all DEAD.
* **Glyn:** Oh, his family’s all dead? How’d that happen?
* **Grampus:** I got rid of nearly ALL the goblins! They were some of my first! And that’s when I knew! I know what I had to do! I’m a hero! And with your help, I’ll be MORE of a hero!

* **Glyn:** A hero’s not a hero if they’re dead, right?
* **Grampus:** Spindle, write this down!
* **Spindlelegs:** Sir, I don’t have any utensils.
* **Grampus:** Eh, useless…

* **Glyn:** Maybe you saw Juiblex.
* **Grampus:** Yeah! Maybe! So I just turned around and went home. He was probably scared of me!

**Grampus:** Hey! You’re not allowed to be crazy anymore! It bums me out!

**Grampus: Y**ou know, goblins…it’s a solved puzzle. They’re all the same!

* **Spindlelegs:** Sooo maybe he eats me now?
* **Glyn:** Look, I’m talking right now.
* **Grampus:** Yeah, shut up!

**Grampus:** They call me the wizard hero of all the free cities!

**Grampus:** You and me, we’re the same! Goblin-Stroyer, Hearth-Stroyer! So how do we wrap this up? Ya wanna eat don’t ya? Ya gotta eat! What do you eat down there? Other demons? They don’t taste very good I bet!

* **Glyn**: I guess the same old jokes can get tiring. You wouldn’t make me carry stuff up a mountain, would you?
* **Grampus:** Yeah I got spells for that? It’s just for HIM I gotta give him something to do or he’ll keep asking about if he can die now, when he’s gonna see his family, it’s BORING…
* **Glyn:** You wanna kill demons.
* **Grampus:** Yeah! Demons have been killing fairies! And fairies are good, I know that!

* **Glyn:** Now listen Grampus, I hate to be rude, I ate JUST before I came so I’m not very hungry. You seem like a wealthy influential guy.
* **Grampus:** Yeah, you picked up on that fast! You sure you don’t wanna eat? You look skinny!

* **Grampus: I** set a room aside for ya!
* **Glyn**: How kind of you!
* **Grampus:** I’d offer you Spindle, but you don’t want that.

* **Grampus:** I got a new guy, he calls me master, he’s gonna make sure the Demogorgon doesn’t get us!
* **Gnomish kids:** Yaaaay Master Grampus! Yaaaay!

* **Glyn:** This is the kind of welcome a demon deserves!
* **Grampus:** Ooh, don’t say that out loud… anyway I got a hot tub, ya ever heard of it? It’s just HOT all the time!
* **Glyn: I** HAVE heard of a hot tub. You ever put some lobsters in it?

**Grampus:** Okay here’s where I keep all the gold, I don’t like to spend it I just like to look at it but sometimes I gotta cause I need to commission more statues.

* **Glyn**: I killed a dragon once! I’m sure you have too, right?
* **Grampus:** Uh…yeah! There was this big white one! Big frosty back, very mature one! And uh it was chasing me around and I killed it and everyone said good job!!

* **Grampus:** Mostly I just point this thing and they get gone…or dead.
* **Glyn:** Yeah...you don’t have another one of those laying around?

**Grampus:** *The time I killed the really big dragon*, by Grampus.

* **Spindlelegs:** So maybe if you just eat me now, he won’t notice that I’m gone.
* **Glyn:** Yeah I could do that. I have a couple questions for you first….

* **Spindlelegs:** Do you want to kill him?
* **Glyn:** Kill my new master? Why would I wanna do thaaaat?
* **Spindlelegs:** If you’re gonna kill everyone here, then I ask that you kill me last so I can watch ya do it?
* **Glyn:** If I were to do something like that…I’m sure I could make that happen.

**Spindlelegs**: I dunno what demon morality is or anything like that…but that gnome is sick. There’s a sickness. I’ve known some adventurers in my day, most of them were incompetent or they meant well in their own ways….but they did a lot of harm. But Grampus is something else…he’s in a league of his own.

* **Glyn:** I can imagine, having your family taken away like that is probably pretty painful….
* **Spindlelegs:** ….Could ya?
* **Glyn:** I could…

* **Spindlelegs:** You know, you’re very nice for a demon I suppose….but maybe that’s how ya get em.
* **Glyn:** Heh. Maybe.

* **Glyn:** You can rest easy.
* **Grampus:** You say that but then you talk about the Demogorgon before bed, I might need a warm glass of milk to calm me down… SPINDLE!

**Glyn:** I will take everything from you.

**Grampus:** HEROES NEVER DIE!

**Glyn:** He was your hero, huh? You loved him.

**Glyn:** HAHAHAHA! Look at all of you! Where’s your hero?! Where is he? You know he killed a dragon, right? HAHAHAHA! The goblins, right? Fuck the goblins, right? Those insignificant goblins! Oh no, did that hurt? Aw I guess we shouldn’t throw rocks at people, should we?