Session 44-B: The Good Place

## Key Plot Developments

Pix, Glyn, and Grazilaxx teleport away from Orcus. Glyn and Pix are screaming and crying about Misu’s loss. Grazilaxx is uncharacteristically panicked about their intervention—he was the one who opened the portal’s gate for the other mind flayers. He coordinated with them to take back the den before Orcus arrived. Glyn’s decision to remove him from the battlefield means the mind flayers don’t have access to his teleportation gate, which means they have no place to go if Orcus overwhelms them. He breaks free of Glyn’s grasp and teleports back to Cyrog’s lair.

Pix and Glyn are joined by Y. Y, who deeply admired Misu, is stunned when he learns of her death. He explains that the Society of Brilliance is limited in their number of daily teleportations, but recovering their long-lost member, Rotgut (who also happens to be the only other known survivor from Clan Cragmaw), would grant them access to easier movement as they deal with the ever-more-aggressive demon lords. Rotgut should have used his teleport to rejoin the group, but he didn’t. Glyn had sent magical messages to Rotgut before and remembers that Rotgut seemed to have memory issues. The group collectively theorizes that Rotgut has fallen afoul of chronomancy.

Pix takes a moment to think about Trix, Tremble, and Bogtooth. She hopes they haven’t encountered as much tragedy. Skriss comforts her with some high-grade Underdark drugs.

Glyn tells Y what he knows about Rotgut: Rotgut was with something called Persemone in a crystalline cave. Without Grazilaxx, Y declares himself the acting leader of the Society of Brilliance, and gives the group resources (advice, ‘amnesia dust’, and directions to the general area Glyn described). Pix and Glyn want to save their uncle and get access to more regular travel.

They take off—without healing.

Soon, they encounter a roving drider and his pet spiders. They’re ambushed, covered in webbing, pelted with arrows, targeted with faerie fire, and jabbed with poison. Pix tries to fight in Glyn’s defense—but it’s no use. After killing an elder brain and encountering a demon lord, they don’t have enough left to survive.

As she fades, Pix communicates with Trix. She’s unable to answer his panicked questions. She’s happy to hear his voice.

Pix and Glyn die. They go to very different places.

**GLYN’S STORY:**

Glyn hears enticing music, smells enchanting aromas, and encounters the same impossibly handsome and seductive demon lord he met in the library: Graz’zt. Graz’zt is pleased that Glyn’s desire for power and vengeance led him to what he calls the Triple Realm. He compliments Glyn’s physicality, magically gives him new chest piercings, and says that it’s time for Glyn to get to do whatever he wants.

Glyn, overwhelmed, thinks about the people responsible for splitting apart his family in the first place. He remembers the Knitting-Club Heroes. He remembers Grampus, the gnome who calls himself the goblin slayer, and blurts out that he hates gnomes.

Graz’zt, perhaps intentionally mishearing, remarks that he shares Glyn’s hatred for gnolls. He offers Glyn all the resources he needs to go the layer of hell with gnolls and commit a genocide—except against Yeenoghu, lord of the gnolls, of whom Graz’zt is fond. Once he returns, Graz’zt promises, Glyn can be an orgy master, war commander, or anything else he desires.

Glyn, so prone to the seduction of demon lords, so desperate for autonomy, and so tragically malleable, agrees.

Time passes differently in the Triple Realm. Glyn is trained for battle. He’s taught the ways of torture. He internalizes Graz’zt’s key maxim: anyone who gets in the way of what you want deserves to suffer.

Glyn is introduced to succubi, mariliths, and other members of Graz’zt’s court. He watches excessive amounts of copulation and debauchery. Notably, he’s introduced to a wizened-looking cambion named Rule-of-Three. Rule-of-Three (ROT) explains his job is to serve as Graz’zt’s envoy between the devils, demons, and yugoloths.

Finally, Glyn introduces Long-Ears to Graz’zt. Long-Ears laments his human teeth. Graz’zt grants Long-Ears a wish: his teeth become sharp and feral.

**PIX’S STORY:**

Pix, feeling at peace and bathing in a sense of oneness with the world, floats up to Elysium. The river’s flow washes away her troubles. She sees goodly beasts, including hollyphants and moon dogs, before encountering a dashing gnome underneath a tree: Garl Glittergold.

Garl thanks her for her hard work. He knows she doesn’t want to be dead and submits she won’t be dead forever. This is time she can take to finally relax—not give in to rest, but reflect on her journey.

Garl shares some divine lore, including bets he’s taken against Kurtulmak, the kobold god. He implies that Finn Dubh Cata is an aspect of his divinity and is there to watch over Trix. Pix begins to ease up.

The goblin child wanders to the free-flowing river. She takes a deep breath and considers all the possibilities in the afterlife. She thinks about a book—and it appears. She ponders a pen—and there’s one in her hands.

Pix begins to write her former life story.

## Memorable Quotations

* **Y:** SO WHERE THE FUCK IS MISU, HUH?
* **Pix**: Orcus got her.
* **Y:** WHAT DO YOU MEAN, GOT HER? LIKE, SHE GOT CAPTURED?

* **Y:** WHAT THE FUCK--NO! COME ON! LET ME IN THERE! I CAN HELP! I CAN DO SOMETHING!
* **Glyn:** No, Y--it’s too much.
* **Y:** WHAT DO YA MEAN, IT’S TOO MUCH? I’M A WIZARD! I GOT AMNESIA DUST!
* **Glyn:** This is different, Y!
* **Y:** IT’S NOT DIFFERENT! WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT IT!
* **Glyn:** Orcus is too much for us!
* **Y:** GAH! FUCK! FUCK!

* **Skriss:** Heeey. Ya know, a lot of people are panicking, but we just gotta stay mellow, gotta stay frosty. That’s how things get done. Want a hit?
* **Pix:** What is it?
* **Skriss:** Eh, fuck if I know.

**Y:** LISTEN, GLYN, DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING A DEMON SAYS, EVER. THEY’RE ALL LIARS. IT’S ALL BULLSHIT. THEY’RE NOT BOUND BY ANY RULE, BY ANY LAW, BY ANYTHING AND THEY JUST WANNA SEE PEOPLE SUFFER. DARK PRINCE, WHATEVER, DON’T BUY ANY OF IT! IF THERE’S ONE THING I LEARNED FROM MISU, IT;S THAT DEVILS ARE OKAY BUT DEMONS SUCK!

* **Y:** HERE! IN CASE YOU GET INTO TROUBLE!
* **Glyn:** What is it?
* **Y:** ITS AMNESIA DUST!
* **Glyn:** What’s it do?
* **Y:** IT GIVES YOU AMNESIA!

* **Trix** (in a sending): Hey, Pix. It’s Trix. Just checking in. We’re past the wormwrithings. All good. Saved some people. Is everything good with you?
* **Pix**: Killed brain. Orcus showed up. Misu gone. We’re unconscious. Drider has captured us. Heading toward Anna’s grove. I love you and Tremble so much. \*

**Pix:** What does this all mean if we’re really gonna die here?

**Graz’zt:** Glyn, what’s going on? Look at you! You got strong!

* **Graz’zt:** Did it hurt?
* **Glyn**: Yeah…
* **Graz’zt:** Good! Sometimes, a little pain makes the pleasure better.

* **Graz’zt**: Are we just waiting around for them to resurrect you, or are we down here to have some fun?
* **Glyn:** Well, I gotta do the ritual, right?
* **Graz’zt**: Hmmm…their version is so boring, though! Do we have to do it their way? Let’s just have some real FUN! Let’s go on a real campaign! Let’s crack some skulls open! What do you hate most? Gnolls? Kua-toan?
* **Glyn**: Uh…well. Nicholas Ice Cream and gnomes.
* **Graz’zt:** Ugh, fuck that guy! Yeah, that guy fucking sucks! I hate Nicholas Ice Cream! Weren’t you looking into him?
* **Glyn:** Well, yeah!
* **Graz’zt:** WELL, THEY BETTER FUCKING RESURRECT YOU, THEN! I COULD KILL EVERY GNOLL!

* **Glyn:** Yeenoghu’s a demon lord, right?
* **Graz’zt:** Yeah, but he’s such a good boy. I can’t hate Yeenoghu. He’s the goodest boy.

* **Graz’zt:** Say, Glyn! How old are you now?
* **Glyn:** Um Almost 7. About 6 and a half.
* **Graz’zt:** Huh! Goblins. You can never tell! You know, once we’ve finished off EVERY gnoll, we’ll revisit. Come on!

**Hollyphant**: Hi der! Howzzit goin’?

* **Pix**: Garl! Hi, are you Garl?
* **Garl:** Why hello there, Pix. Yes, I’m Garl.
* **Pix:** Hey!….am I dead?
* **Garl:** That’s right, for now.

* **Pix:** I can’t be dead yet! My brothers are down there!
* G**arl:** Oh, don’t worry. I’ve got an eye on them!
* **Pix:** What do you mean by—what?
* **Garl:** Well, I wasn’t exactly subtle, was I? I mean, it’s like the same voice and the same height. And every time Trix prays, I turn around and I’m like, “Hi! How’s it going?” But for some reason, he doesn’t know that it’s me! It’s kinda crazy!

* **Pix:** Wait, wait, Garl! I’m not supposed be here yet! I have so many things to do, I never got to share my poetry with then surface world like I wanted to, and….. I don’t wanna be DEAD!
* **Garl:** Look. Right now, every day, you’re fighting tooth and nail to make sure that everybody is okay. This is your first chance to take a breather in a really, really long time. You’ve been suffering. I know that.

**Hollyphant Conductor:** Pppph, Pppphh! Ok, we’re gonna take it from the top! Ppppphhhh. Okay, let’s try again later, I wanna eat some creme brulee.

**Garl:** Listen! I’m very happy that you’re here! It means that I’m on my way to winning a very important bet!

**Garl:** I have faith in all creatures—whether they’re in the Underdark, or up on the surface…I have faith that they can change. That they can be open to new ways of living, of prayer. And, uh, turns out that I’m right! I mean, look at Trix! How many folks has he prayed to now?

* **Garl:** If this is your WORST case scenario…being in heaven…that’s not so bad.
* **Pix:** Heaven is great. It’s not that great if you don’t wanna die.

* **Glyn:** This is Long-Ears! He’s my loyal servant and friend and everyone is really scared of him for some reason.
* **Graz’zt:** Who’d be scared of you?
* **Long Ears:** NO ONE! I’M SO FRIENDLY!
* **Graz’zt:** Welcome the new Master of the Orgy Pits AND killer of EVERY. SINGLE. GNOLL! GLYN!
* **Glyn:** YEAH! ORGY PIT!