Session 66: Wedding Crashers (Act III: Here Comes the Bride)

## Key Plot Developments

Verin teleports close to the mountainous Stool’s core in pursuit of Pyrite. She is frozen in fear, not wanting to abandon her clan to Zuggtmoy and Juiblex’s demons, but deeply wishing to run away. Verin tells Glyn she belongs to him. Pyrite’s dog starts barking…because Billy-Geo-Rocky-Kill-Crusher is here!

Pyrite’s wand and dagger come out. Verin smiles at this. His face splits open, Jack Skellington style. Glyn asks if their father sent him, and Verin does not like this. Glyn puts on a show of telling Verin not to kill Pyrite, hoping to play both sides. Verin explodes angel wings from his back; goo explodes everywhere. He attacks Pyrite. Pyrite turns into an angel. Verin keeps whispering come-on lines to pyrite as he tries to non-lethally eviscerate her. Pyrite tries to slash at him but can’t. She flies up above the ground. Billy-Geo tries to defend her. Glyn shoots an arrow at Verin and intentionally misses him. Verin puts the touch of madness on Billy. Verin disconnects his head to get a better look at the scarring he caused on Pyrite; he’s horrific.

Sarith tells Tremble he’s too young to take his place as the destroyer of Menzoberranzan. He engages in a battle of wills on the Astral Plane, trying to break their resolve by using Stool’s voice to cry out whenever he’s damaged. Pix sees through this attempt at deception. Bogtooth blasts him with high-tier spells, Tremble peppers him with arrows, and Trix tries to handle a pair of fungal treants in his employ. Long-Ears takes Lemon away from the fray; they glide through the astral plane.

As the astral goblins take damage, Pyrite and Glyn notice their material plane bodies rocking back and forth. Verin destroys Billie-Geo, the earth elemental. This gentle giant, born out of Pix’s imagination—a tiny rock who evolved into an entire being with a soul, humors, a sense of duty, humor, and loyalty—falls to the ground. He returns to the earth from whence he came.

Pyrite, focused on Verin, attacks him. Glyn tries to speak to Verin in Abyssal about his pretense of attacking him (intentionally missing shots), but Verin loses his temper over Pyrite’s unexpected show of resistance. As Verin whips her to the brink of death, she dimension doors away from Stool’s core. Verin, trembling with rage, demands the rest of the (sleeping) goblins—starting with Pix.

Sarith taunts the goblins on the astral plane and Pix realizes all damage Sarith should be suffering is being transferred to the treants instead—they’re functioning as one organism. Finally, Tremble dashes away from the fray into one of the astral skull’s gaping eyes. As he descends into Stool’s consciousness, plunging through the Araumycos, Sarith cries for him to stop. Tremble ignores him. He focuses on finding a sliver of Stool’s sleeping consciousness, buried in the cancerous mountain of fungus.

Sarith, furious at being ignored, tries to sick his treants on the goblins more aggressively. Pix is bloodied. Trix runs low on spells. Tremble uses his shield spell (for the first time) to dismiss Sarith’s attempts to hinder him as he lets go of his hatred towards the drow and concentrates instead on his love towards his friend.

Bogtooth realizes that he, too, must abandon his rage towards Sarith—hurting Sarith doesn’t matter as much as helping Stool. Pix follows suit. All three leave Sarith, a drow who was so twisted by vengeance towards Menzoberranzan that he willingly forged a pact with a demon lord of fungus, crawling like a fiendish caterpillar on the astral skull.

Sarith tries to use Stool’s voice again to delay the gobs, but they go past his threats and pleas to the pathetic, shriveled, mistreated little boy he’s always been—trapped in his brother’s shadow, abandoned, and disrespected by his fellow drow, and now transformed into Zuggtmoy’s puppet. He wants to kill them, wants them to kill him, and wants them to be his friends in equal measure. He loses his mind in desperate rage, attacking Trix on the astral plane. The treants and Sarith lay into Trix, killing him.

Glyn faces down Verin. When Verin ignores him and goes for the sleeping Pix, Glyn instinctively protects his former friend, cutting off Verin’s arm in a surprise attack. He banishes Verin, who balks at the site of an enraged Glyn empowered by Graz’zt. As he fades into the Abyss, he doesn’t only see Glyn-- he sees the Dark Prince, his father.

Pyrite is at the wedding procession, outside of Stool’s core. She sees Zuggtmoy’s hideous form wrapping around Stool’s core to bind herself to a creature the side of a continent. As Zuggtmoy’s sporous handmaidens converge, she teleports back to Glyn. Furious and traumatized, she transforms into a t-rex and tries to kill Glyn. Glyn tries to talk her down and notices Zuggtmoy’s presence—a swarm of fungus full of twisted eyes has trapped them inside Stool’s core.

Tremble, Pix, and Bogtooth hurtle through the astral skull, following a trail of mushrooms until they finally find Stool’s core. Stool was pumped full of fiendish spores by Sarith, killed by the Demogorgon, and transformed into a cancerous mountain—but there’s a shred of that little mushroom at its base. Tremble grasps that shred and finally awakens Stool. There’s no time to celebrate, though—because this form of Stool, attuned to all parts of his physical form, realizes Zuggtmoy is here.

## Memorable Quotes

**Verin:** Hello darling. We just keep running into each other, don’t we? Merlot….she’s mine.

**Verin**: I’m gonna show you a great time. I have a sensational spot. Whaddaya say?

**Verin:** Just like I remember you. Merlot, don’t get involved. Let’s dance.

* **Glyn:** Verin, did father send you?
* **Verin:** What did you say?
* **Glyn:** Verin, we’re brothers. I’m asking if father sent you.
* **Verin:** Merlot, what does father describe as the only true sin?
* **Glyn:** When someone prevents someone else from getting what they want.
* **Verin**: So, are we gonna have a problem?
* **Glyn:** I can’t just let you kill this companion of mine!
* **Verin:** Well, if you’re going to get in my way…..

**Verin:** Oh. Much stronger than before…. Come closer…

**Verin:** She can take it….she can take it.

**Verin:** That’s a neat trick. Where’d you learn that one?

* **Sarith:** Tremble, I sense you have a hate for Menzoberranzan. But you are hundreds of years too young to take my place. Here, let me show you.
* **Pix:** Keep your cooties!
* **Sarith:** What was that! AGH! Pix! Of course! I knew you’d be a thorn in my side!
* **Bogtooth:** FUCK YOU!
* **Sarith:** Come, Bogtooth! You said I was a true goblin! Is this how you treat your own clan?? Ah, what was that again? “The clan’s blood is my blood.”
* **Bogtooth:** Not gonna lie, that was a pretty good one.
* **Sarith:** Thank you! Thank you, Bogtooth!
* **Pix:** Myeeeeh, wasn’t that good!

* **Sarith:** Here, the power of arcane intellect gives us power. You’ll never win here!!
* **Tremble:** What? No one— shut up!
* **Sarith:** Gibbering child!

**Lemon:** I really hate this guy! He’s just running his mouth! Shut up!

**Sarith:** Decent shooting from the boy. And powerful magic from you, Pix. But it won’t be enough. I have POWER, you see?

* **Sarith:** You think you’re harming ME, you fools! I’m one with our dear friend Stool! You’re nearly harming him!
* **Pix:** What? It doesn’t seem like—

* **Pix:** You can’t really be friends with someone that you’re actively hurting! We’re gonna turn you into a pile of ashes!
* **Sarith:** I’ve received POWER! The power I need to beat the spider bitch! Future generations will call me a hero!
* **Bogtooth:** Future generations won’t even know your name!!
* **Sarith:** As I say, what’s a wedding without a funeral! See what happens to your precious sister!
* **Tremble:** Don’t do anything to Pix! I’ll kill you if you do anything to Pix!
* **Sarith:** I’d like to see you try, child!
* **Tremble:** That—that’s what I’m doing right now!
* **Sarith:** ARE you?
* **Tremble:** YES!

* **Long Ears:** Don’t forget about me, the most trusted servant of Lord Glyyyyyyn! Wait, I mean Merlot!
* **Trix:** Long Ears, get Lemon away from here!
* **Sarith:** Ah, hello there...Pyrite?
* **Trix:** Uh...yeah, sure, I'm Pyrite...
* **Sarith:** Ah yes, Pyrite! You thought so little of me when we fought the gnolls! NOW see my power!

* **Lemon:** I. Don’t. Like. YOUR FAAAAACE!!
* **Sarith:** What the fuck? What IS that?
* **Lemon:** Huh! You think that that hurts ME? I’m Bag, the Bat!

* **Glyn:** You can't have THESE.
* **Verin:** Don't tell me what I can't have.

* **Verin:** Die.
* **Pyrite:** You know who is helping me and helping me keep all my magical items and is not doing anything to help you? That guy over there! I’m not going anywhere! I can’t!
* **Verin:** She’s right about one thing. I want them...
* **Glyn:** You can have them after the ritual.

* **Sarith:** As I said, time for my TRUE POWER!
* **Trix:** Why did you say that twice?
* **Tremble:** Yeah, you already said that!
* **Sarith:** I felt like you weren't paying attention!
* **Tremble:** You're attacking us with magic! Of course, we're paying attention!
* **Sarith:** Well, pay attention to THIS! If attacking your sister won't make a difference, perhaps attacking Pyrite WILL!
* **Tremble:** Pyrite’s not HERE!
* **Sarith:** But you said... you FOOL!

**Sarith:** This is the force of will that you need to change the world for the better.

* **Sarith: No**! Face me!!
* **Tremble:** You know what sets me and you apart is that I can’t set stupid vindictive thoughts aside to help my friend, IDIOT!!

* **Tremble:** Stool, are you in there? Or is that you?!
* **Stool's Voice:** Sarith, make them go away!
* **Sarith:** Get OUT of there!!

* **Long Ears:** Wait, could I move here…with the power of my MIND???
* **Lemon:** Put me down, ya big beluga!

* **Sarith:** TREMBLE! FACE ME!! I will not be pitied! I will not be ignored! Do you hear me?!
* **Bogtooth: H**ehe, there he goes again. Always fighting the way through. Alright. I guess I see it now. Like always, you were always a distraction.
* **Stool's Voice:** No, get out! Don’t come in here!
* **Sarith:** NO, TREMBLE, STAY! YOU HAVE TO KILL ME! TREMBLE, IF YOU DON’T KILL ME I’LL KILL THEM ALL! I’LL START WITH PYRITE!!

* **Verin:** Now.
* **Glyn**: Verin, if you wait just a little bit you can have them. This is what Graz’zt wants.
* **Verin:** You sniveling little goblin. You think you’re special because I had to babysit you?! You think you’re special because father came down to the slums to play with you?
* **Glyn:** No.
* **Verin: I**’m going to take one of them and you’re not going to stop me.
* **Glyn:** You can take Pyrite.
* **Verin:** Tell me, what is father the demon lord of… goblin?
* **Glyn:** Hedonism.
* **Verin:** Wrong… excess.

**Verin:** Father, no.

**Zuggtmoy:** Nothing can stop our love. Roses are red, violets are blue, we're getting married, and I love you! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you.

* **Pyrite:** You killed him?
* **Glyn:** Of course, Pyrite.
* **Pyrite:** You fucking idiot, why did you kill him? If you kill him, he gets to go back. If you DON'T kill him, you get to keep him in a state of fucking pain.
* **Glyn:** Do you want me to bring him back?
* **Pyrite:** No, the damage is already done!
* **Glyn:** What the fuck were you doing?
* **Pyrite:** RAAAARW!
* **Glyn:** Drop that stupid form and come protect the gobs.
* **Pyrite:** RAArrrAAARraAARR!

**Stool's Voice:** No, you can't go in there! You have to prove your mettle! You have to fight! You have to… you foolish goblins! You can see your friends have abandoned you!

**Pix:** Stool, are you there? Stool! Stool?

* **Sarith:** This is what happens when I am ignored.
* **Bogtooth:** Sarith, you're a child. A child yelling out at the whole entire world. I know exactly how that feels. But I'm not gonna end up like you.
* **Sarith:** Shut up, brother!

* **Pix:** Stool! Stool! We're here to get you back! We made Mr. Stool a promise and we're gonna bring you back!
* **Tremble:** Stool! Can you hear us? It’s your friends! Pix and Tremble!
* **Pix:** Stool?
* **Stool:** Pix...
* **Tremble:** Stool?
* **Stool:** Tremble!
* **Tremble:** Stool, it’s you!
* **Stool:** Where am I?
* **Tremble:** I don’t know how to explain that, but it's not a good place.
* **Stool:** What happened to Bogtooth, Trix, Glyn, and your mute friend?
* **Tremble:** They’re safe... well, safe as they can be right now! We were coming to get you back!
* **Stool:** What happened to Sarith?
* **Tremble:** Well, a lot of bad things happened to Sarith. I don't think things are going to be okay for him if I’m being honest.
* **Stool:** I release uncountable enemies with each passing moment. I can taste the soil. I am everywhere and all things... Can I have a hug?
* **Tremble:** Of course! You learned a lot of new words, buddy!
* **Stool:** I have the consciousness of a continent.

* **Stool:** She’s coming.
* **Pix:** The demon lady?
* **Tremble:** She’s terrifying. That’s what we wanted to save you from, Stool!
* **Stool:** No, I mean she’s coming in HERE!