Session 64: Wedding Crashers (Act I: RSVP)

## Key Plot Developments

The team purchases supplies and exchanges a lot of information with each other. They all go to sleep around 4 PM at Tappy’s before traveling. Glyn flirts with everyone and gets his own room for his own activities. He wonders what Miss Anna is doing and Verin crosses his mind. Pyrite knocks herself out with a spell. She dreams of Glyn murdering everyone in the infinite battlefield. Her last thought is, "He's gone. He's truly just gone."

Trix tries to enjoy his time with everyone in the tavern but leaves to be alone with his thoughts for a while. He thinks of his own big interaction with Murky Waters on the surface (explored in Back in a Flash). His last thought is "Maybe one day this will end."

Tremble is in his own room with Ralph. His head is empty. He cleans his gear, wiping the grease off his face. He takes his glasses off and sees a glass of dirt. His last thought is, "Sorry I've taken so long, old friend.” He readies himself to help Stool.

Bogtooth enjoys a night with the fey at Tappy's, getting to know them. No matter what happens, if they're together, the grove is strong, and they'll know what to do. It's somber. He goes off to Pix before bed and tells her that when he does spells, he dies a little. His last thought is, "Oh, I can't wait to just blow a hole through that fucking asshole's face. Fuck Sarith."

Pix goes to the same place Garl came to her in her dream and reflects on the great evils they must face tomorrow. She turns and sees Stool Team Five silently staring at her. They tell her Mr. Stool has a message for her and has sent her some spores. Pix baptizes herself in the name of Mr. Stool and experiences a spore-induced vision.

She sees a soft light in a vast cavern and hears Mr. Stool. He tells her the Lady of Rot has led her followers into the Araumycos and will bind herself to Stool in a demonic ceremony. She has been releasing spores and kept Stool asleep while he grows into the largest organism on the planet. They can't fight it alone, but there is hope. Her friendship with him can create a rapport and awaken him. She sees 10,000 myconids marching to join this wedding.

They all sleep. Next morning, Bogtooth, an inspiring speaker, leads them as they begin to move with the ghosts of Blingdenstone (led by Jimjar’s mother), earth elementals, and their gathered allies.

The party find themselves with a bunch of myconids, who are holding out their hands to give them the rapport spores. Everyone tries to convince Trix, Pyrite, and Glyn to ingest the spores. They discuss the potential issues of sinking into the ground and becoming food for the Araumycos. They all decide to fight together, but then they hear a buzzing sound they haven't heard since they first came to the Underdark—chasme demons, like the ones who attacked them back in Velkynvelve!

Bogtooth and Pyrite are quickly taken down! Mr. Stool sends out some spores that paralyze one of the enemies. Pix heals Pyrite. Trix goes down, but Lemon wakes him up. Long Ears and One Ear help by attacking and restraining some of the creatures. Ralph and Glyn work together to make a springboard, launching Ralph and killing another enemy. By the time they rout the demons, several of the myconids have perished. Mr. Stool surveys the damage.

They walk toward the wedding and hear Sarith’s fiendish, fungal voice echo across a huge parade. Glyn bumps into a large creature that he mistook for a fungal tree—Zuggtmoy’s handmaidens. The wedding must be stopped, and they’ve already expended some key resources before getting there. The situation is dire.

## Memorable Quotes

* **Bogtooth:** I want some dirt--some cupcakes or whatever.
* **Pyrite:** Why are you eating dirt?
* **Pix:** I have a cupcake that I stuck in my pocket months ago. It's just been rotting there.

* **Bogtooth:** Tappy's menu goes so hard!
* **Trix:** Are you sure you want me to order that? Okay... I'll have a cup of blood?

**Pyrite's last thought:** He's gone. He's truly just gone.

**Trix's last thought:** Maybe one day this will end.

**Tremble's last thought:** Sorry I've taken so long, old friend.

**Bogtooth's last thought:** Oh, I can't wait to just blow a hole through that fucking asshole's face. Fuck Sarith.

**Pix's last thought:** [The beginning notes of the victory song she will compose after this battle.]

* **Pix:** Hey Bogtooth. Sup?
* **Bogtooth:** Sup Pix?
* **Pix:** Got some good dirt?
* **Bogtooth**: Yeah, the dirt gets better and better every time I come here.
* **Pix:** Are we gonna be okay?
* **Bogtooth:** Yeah, we'll be fine. Hey, Pix, did you know Dulinea's gone?
* **Pix:** Yeah, I've been meaning to ask, how are you doing?
* **Bogtooth**: I'm still magic, but I think when I use my magic now it makes me older. I think the more spells I use, I guess I'm dying when I use magic? Or aging I guess.
* **Pix:** Oh. Well. Um. You sure?
* **Bogtooth:** Yeah, pretty sure. It's why I haven't been using spells these days. Saving them up for fighting the demon lords.
* **Pix:** What do you mean dying? How much?
* **Bogtooth:** Not sure? A few seconds? I'm alright with it.
* **Pix:** You are?
* **Bogtooth: Y**eah! It's like a flower or a plant. Remember Trix said being a plant felt pretty good? Happens to everyone. Seasons change and all, so like a flower…
* **Pix:** They always grow back in the spring.
* **Bogtooth:** Yeah!
* **Pix:** Well, you know I can’t help but be nervous and have you disappear into fancy pixie dust. I like having you around. So you think you can….not….die before we kill all the demon lords?
* **Bogtooth:** I'm not dying until they're all gone. I got 4 spells a day, I'll be fine.
* **Pix:** Square root of 4 plus seven goblins…yeah! But Bogtooth, you gotta promise me this. When we’re done with all these crazy darkness demons oozes, magic ideas, we’re going to a nice hot spring.
* **Bogtooth: S**ounds like a good time.

* **Stool Team Five:** Hello!
* **Pix:** Hi.
* **Stool Team Five:** We have heard what it is that you do. You wish to set right what is now wrong. You have our support and we have contacted Mr. Stool. He wishes to help.
* **Pix:** Oh wow, that's very generous! I hope Mr. Stool and your family are okay!
* **Stool Team Five:** We have been told they are not far from where you are taking your many numbers! We would like to give you Mr. Stool now. He has a message for you!
* **Pix:** Oh! Okay....sure....what do I do with these spores?
* **Stool Team Five:** Dunk!
* **Pix:** Dunk?

* **Mr. Stool:** They're calling my boy the Araumycos. They say now he is the largest and greatest being of our world. But at the core, it is my Stool.
* **Pix:** I'm so sorry. Are you okay?
* **Mr. Stool:** We are very few in number now.... Stool Team Five has made your exploits known to us. We think you can be the ones to stop the Lady of Rot.

* **Mr. Stool:** If there's no other choice, then you must kill him before she can claim him as her own.
* **Pix**: I'll do everything I can to get him back. We're gonna get Stool.
* **Mr. Stool:** I hear him cry out. I know he's in there. But I know it's not just him. Someone else is in there. The drow who destroyed it all. I worry they are one in the same.
* **Pix:** Not if I have anything to say about it. Tactics, Mr. Stool. Tactics.

* **Stool Team Five:** Good. You are still alive.
* **Pix:** Oh, that was a worry you had? Okay...
* **Stool Team Five:** We never know with mouths. If Mr. Stool falls, and you fall, then we will be all that is left of the Neverlight Grove.
* **Pix:** If that happens, Stool Team Five, you are some of the finest fighters here in the Underdark. And it is an honor to be in your company. And if you wanna make any friends, there are a few fey who just lost their homes.
* **Stool Team Five:** We are shy.

**Bogtooth:** Alright, everybody listen up. We got a wedding to crash. Might be the biggest wedding in the Underdark. Might be the biggest wedding in forever, actually. And when we're done with it, it's gonna be the worst wedding in history 'cause it won't have gone through! This is it, though. We're gonna go in there, get that ichor, fight off those demons and myconids! That son of a bitch Sarith thought he played us like fiddles. But we'll prove him wrong. He did terrible things to our friend, and we're gonna free him. And make sure Stool never suffers again! We're gonna show that sick son of a bitch Sarith some real fucking strategy. And blow his face in! Alright, let's get moving!

* **Pyrite:** Why the hell would I infect myself with spores?
* **Tremble:** Don't you know how immunity works?
* **Pix:** Pyrite, I swear to God, you nearly killed me once. You owe me!
* **Lemon:** Hey, are we supposed to have these spores? I get a weird feeling about them.
* **Trix:** You don't think we should have them?
* **Lemon:** I don't like the vibe of these spores.
* **Pyrite:** Fine, but Dawnbringer is gonna restore me after this.
* **Dawnbringer:** I’m happy to be useful!

**Sarith’s Song:** From rocky bed the toadstool rose, from chaos dark, her love she shows. Wish! Yearn! Laugh! The Lady will be wed! Crave! Hunger! Dance! Her joyous spores will spread!  Youth is gone, beauty rots, Araumycos and Zuggtmoy! Joined together, heart to heart. Becoming one 'til death do part! Hail! Hail! Hail!

**Lemon:** None of this is right. We have to stop this.

**Pyrite:** I hate demons, I hate demons, I hate demons, I hate demons, I hate demons.

**Bogtooth:** Let’s crash their wretched wedding.