Session 46-B: Found Family

## Key Plot Developments

**GLYN’S STORY:**

Glyn, Rule-of-Three (ROT), and Verin continues through Yeenoghu’s realm—the Death Dells. They traverse the bad grass, brackish water, and dead trees. Soon, they reach a well-stocked fortress of gnoll hunters called the howling harbingers. Glyn checks for traps before sending Verin to make a distraction. Verin destroys the front entrance, drawing the gnolls’ attention. The gnolls, chanting “Yeenoghu,” move to strike as Glyn sneaks around the back.

Verin displays his wicked power, forcibly controlling the gnolls to kill each other. When he gets surrounded, he casts fireball on himself, incinerating his pursuers. Glyn destroys bridges, sending gnolls plummeting to their deaths. ROT and Verin mock each other’s prowess in battle but share a mutual appreciation for bloodlust. Glyn, shoving screaming gnolls into fire, fits in perfectly.

The trio, proud of their progress in slaying gnolls, take a moment to recuperate. ROT passes Glyn a complimentary note in Abyssal. Glyn can’t read it. ROT suggests a simple way to read the language without having to study.

ROT and Glyn take a brief detour from their murder spree to return to Graz’zt (who is mid-orgy). Graz’zt considers Glyn’s accomplishments on the battlefield and desire to learn Abyssal. He proposes a solution: turn Glyn into a fiend.

Glyn the goblin, completely enamored of the lord of seduction, accepts.

**PIX’S STORY:**

Pix continues with Pelek on their journey to help Pelek feel like a hero by helping Bop the soot sprite. As they travel, Pelek becomes less of a ghost and more of a deep gnome.

When a light rain falls, the soot sprites worry—they don’t like water. Pix gives the sprites her armor, but they can’t move with it on, so she decides to tell them a story about indecisiveness and friendship until the rain stops. When the sun comes out, the sprites give them another dance of delight.

Pelek, who always responded with insecurity and anxiety, reacts in a more sincere and natural way to Pix’s tale. Pix is proud of him and reflects on their mutual journey. Finally, they reach a new home in the woods.

The cinderlings give Pix some candy for her troubles. Pelek thanks her for leading him to creatures he could genuinely help—and Pix realizes that Pelek is looking past her. For the first time, he is truly content. He feels worthy. He feels valued. He wanted people to think he was worth something when he was tragically killed—and now, he doesn’t need affirmation to know that he has meaning.

Pix thanks him for the time they spent together. Pelek thanks her back. He follows the cinderlings into the house, the door closes behind him, and he is gone.

Pix, alone, feels sad about Pelek’s transcendence. But in the distance—she sees another goblin! She picks up on his mannerisms--there’s a little Bogtooth, a little Pyrite—and remembers stories about her Grandpappy Droop!

Droop meets his granddaughter for the first time. He shares stories about the Knights of Ignatius, his old traveling buddies, including Aastrid and Jaime (who joined him in Elysium before, to Droop’s knowledge, they both suddenly disappeared—perhaps to go plane-hopping).

Pix and Droop share magic tricks; she shows him prestidigitation, while he pulls rocks and earwax from his ears. Droop does impressions of halflings. They share stories of missing people. They have found each other.

## Memorable Quotes

* **Rule-of-Three:** You are familiar with Orcus, yes?
* **Glyn:** Yeah, fuck Orcus!
* **Rule-of-Three:** Fuck Orcus.
* **Verin:** Fuck Orcus…

**Verin:** Alright, wonder boy. What’s the plan?

* **Cinderling:** Hedo! Hadigo?
* **Pix:** Let’s go?
* **Cinderling:** Ok!

* **Pelek:** Oh! This is the most precarious position I’ve ever been placed in! I need to shelter my new friends, but I’ve lost most of my cloak! I feel like I messed it up again, Pix.
* **Pix:** No, you didn’t! You’re finding solutions!
* **Pelek**: How is it that you always know what to do?
* **Pix:** I just think of a thing to do and you don’t know if it’s right and wrong, you just do it. There’s this story of an old man and a dragon. At the end of the story the old man knows this - the only bad decision to make is no decision at all.

**Sprite**: Escume? Do-do, da story! We like-we like da-do da more story!

* **Pix:** One foot in front of the other, and we’ll go far.
* **Pelek:** Here, my friends, we go forward.
* **Bop: Y**eah you did it! You da hero! You did the thing, you did the thing!

* **Pelek:** Thank you for leading me to these friends. I mean…people have been helping me for a very long time. Your brothers helped me. I thought Bupido was helping me, but he just led me to my untimely death. But because of you, I am able to help somebody else. I think now they need me. They relied on me, for a change.
* **Pix:** I’ve had to rely on people. A lot. I think we all have at some point, we don’t get anywhere without our friends. Don’t ever feel sad if you need help and always be ready to lend a hand.

* **Pix:** Pelek!
* **Pelek:** Yes?
* **Pix:** Thank you!
* **Pelek:** Thank you. You are a very good friend.

**Pix:** Weeeeell. Another day in….the…pretty place!

* **Verin:** Asshole! I had a plan.
* **ROT:** Butterfingers!
* **Verin:** Fuck off!
* **ROT:** You win some, you lose some.

* **Droop:** EH! Do I know you?
* **Pix:** Do I know youuuu?
* **Droop:** I haven’t seen a goblin here before! Thought I was the only one!
* **Pix:** Grandpaaaa?

**Droop:** There was a group that I sorta looked after for a bit.

**Droop:** People look strangely at goblins, I found! I have a friend, he’s human. He’s sorta looking after his lost love…but she’s somewhere else, and I’ve just kinda been by myself!

**Droop:** Is that miiine--is that my lantern there, granddaughter? Oy, you can do magics?

* **Droop:** The fact that my progeny had progeny! That’s prodigiously amazing, innit!
* **Pix:** We have more goblin siblings! There’s Glyn, and Bogtooth, and there was Pyrite, who’s probably someone where-is. And we’ve been going around and helping people and there was like a prophecy…yeah!
* **Droop:** Pyrite? That doesn’t sound like a proper goblin name to me, it sounds like a rock!

**Droop:** One of the goblins was there, he grabbed the goblin at the top of the waterfalls, yells out wanna see something fucking crazy? And used him as a surfboard and drowned him immediately. And I thought he would kill me, but he never stopped being really nice to me!

**Droop:** I can do a really good halfling impression, wanna see? “Izzat miiiine?”

* **Droop:** I dunno why I came here. I guess it’s because I was nice and their patron lifted me up? I wonder what would have happened if I never met them. Maybe I’d be at the eternal battlefield.
* **Pix:** We’re really shaped by the people that we meet.

* **Pix:** Now there’s two of us, so they’re gonna have to work extra hard to point fingers.
* **Droop:** Or they could just point with two fingers.

* **Verin:** Can’t read Abyssal?
* **ROT:** Would you like to? Tell me, Lord Glyn--you are not like any goblin I’ve seen. You are something greater, are you not?
* **Glyn:** I guess so.
* **ROT:** I will put in the recommendation immediately with our lord.
* **Glyn**: Oh, cool. To teach me Abyssal?
* **Verin:** ….something like that.

* **Graz’zt:** You’d be less like you and more like me. Simply put, you’d still be a little bit of a goblin, but only a little bit.
* **Glyn:** Forgive me for being presumptuous, but I think the reason you like me is because I’m not like everyone else.
* **Graz’zt:** Yes! We’d have to preserve that part of you.
* **Glyn:** You can do that?
* **Graz’zt:** I think Miss Anna would be over the moon.
* **Glyn:** Would it interfere with me going back?
* **Graz’zt:** I think it would make it easier. And of course, Lord Glyn. I am not Nicholas fucking Ice Cream. This is entirely YOUR choice.
* **Glyn:** …yes.
* **Graz’zt:** Glyn, I’d say let’s shake on it, but who the fuck needs that? Welcome to the goddamn FAMILY, my dude!