Session 49-A: We All Scream

## Key Plot Developments

The party has stumbled into Nicholas Ice Cream’s lair within the labyrinth. Nicholas’s vrocks taunt the party and, joined by gargoyles, they initiate combat. The extradimensional space warps as soft-serve monsters and shadow demons emerge from doors within the fortress. While the party does an admirable job keeping the demons at bay, ice cream facsimiles of the heroes begin to take shape—a frozen Bogtooth blasts them with high-level warlock magic. Rotgut protects the modron as the party engages with their fiendish doubles.

A brutal fight follows. Tremble is almost killed outright by a single attack from the creamy Bogtooth. Before they have time to adapt, more of Nicholas’s servants—the Sorrowsworn—emerge from other doors in the lair.

The final gargoyle falls to Briar, who captures its soul in one of his trinkets. The party defeats the second Sorrowsworn (the Angry) but struggles to figure out how to leave. As more demons ambush the group, they realize they may have been trapped by a maze within a maze by the lord of deception.

They decide the worst thing they can do is get separated in one of Nicholas’s lairs, so they hold hands and trust in Rotgut’s chronomantic detection abilities to find the proper door to leave. After some trial and error, they escape from the fortress. Rather than bring the tower with them, they (correctly) believe it to be cursed and proceed without it.

The group rests. We draw even closer to the day of Zuggtmoy’s wedding.

After sleeping in the Labyrinth, they proceed to an area reeking with the stench of dead gnolls. Knowing what they do about demonic lore, they surmise they’re drawing close to Baphomet, who hates Yeenoghu’s gnolls. Tremble follows some tracks—both enormous, gorilla-like ones and small, mechanical ones.

A single creature with a missing eye approaches—it’s the gnoll Tremble shot outside of Blingdenstone. The party hides as he speaks with Briar in Abyssal. After they determine he’s not a threat, they ambush him. His name is Gash. He’s wounded, alone, and hopes to find packmates. Briar creates a flower for him using druidcraft, which causes Gash to burst into tears. Accompanied by Gash and the modron, the group continues.

## Memorable Quotations

* **Vrock:** Hey! How’re you feeling?
* **Trix:** Bad! Fuck you!
* **Vrock:** Why so angry?

* **Vrock:** Hey! How’re you feeling?
* **Bogtooth:** Peachy!

**Tremble:** Ugh…I need an adult!

**Ice Cream Bogtooth:** You shouldn’t have done that!

* **Vrock:** Hiya! Which one of ‘em do you like most?
* **Trix:** Fuck you!
* **Vrock:** Why so angry? Everyone’s here, right? The whole gang?

**Bogtooth:** Get the hell away from my friends!

**Pix:** Hasta la vista, a la mode.

* **The Angry:** You know we have her (Drigglezub), right? It’s why Glyn was with us. It’s why you’re gonna come with us, too.
* **Trix**: IT’S ALL LIES!

* **The Angry:** Wait, weren’t you supposed to be friends with him (Ice Cream Bogtooth)?
* **Tremble:** Bro says everything you say is a lie!

**Ice Cream Trix:** I choose who I heal based on how much I like them!

* **Briar:** You made a mistake, my friend.
* **Gargoyle:** I’m…so…sorry….
* **Trixx:** I didn’t even know that I loved him until he was gone.
* **Bogtooth:** He was truly a worth adversary!

* **Rotgut:** We sure that’s safe?
* **Trix:** No--we’re not sure that anything’s safe!
* **Bogtooth:** But that’s how we roll!

* **Briar:** Share your woes…and if you do it right, a tear drop will fall from the sky. Sometimes you have to sprinkle that little silver on the ground beforehand.
* **Trix:** That smells holy, right?

* **Briar:** What was that gnoll doing outside of Blingdenstone?
* **Trix:** It was going to attack the city.
* **Briar:** Oh. Then that’s not an ally then, right?
* **Bogtooth:** Well, people CHANGE, Briar!
* **Briar:** Are gnolls people?
* **Bogtooth:** Of course gnolls are—am I people to you. Briar?

* **Briar:** Hellooo, we are here to question you.
* **Gash:** Powerful master! You honor us with your presence. Seek you passage through the maze? The spiral of the great horned king?
* **Briar:** ……………YESSSSS.
* **Gash**: Oh, I can help you with that! I can see you through the maze! Trust Gash! Yes he will!

**Spirit of the gargoyle from beyond the grave:** A comforting raaaawr.

**Gash:** We have to turn back, to flee and never return. My masters are vile minotaurs. They spare gash’s life by leading travelers though the maze! Gash has no friends! Gash betrays them — leads them to be killed in from of gash!

* **Gash:** Tastes so pretty!
* **Briar:** I can make more if you like.
* **Gash:** If I’m good, I get flowers?
* **Briar:** No. If you are my friend, you get flowers.
* **Gash:** You are the only one who understands!