Session 63: Save the Date

## Key Plot Developments

The team is teleported back to the Underdark, close to Vizeran’s tower. Bogtooth despairs; he failed to save his patron. He puts his hood up, opening and closing his hand—the hand that failed to grasp Dulcinea’s before she was destroyed by a wave of the Demogorgon’s madness.

Then, they smell a scent unusual in the Underdark: that of Dulcinea’s grove. Dulcinea used her powers as an archfey to teleport the surviving denizens of her den—pixies, centaurs, sprites, and Glyn’s henchmen (including One Ear). This snaps Bogtooth out of his stupor. He inspires the group with a rousing speech.

There are now fewer than seven days before the wedding begins. Trix asks Lemon about his dad, Juiblex (the demon lord of oozes). Lemon doesn’t want to fight his dad but recognizes the threat his cousins (the other oozes) pose to his loved ones. He hopes both sides can come to an agreement.

Bogtooth prepares the fey for life in the Underdark: he has Tremble create luminescent, portable light sources (in essence, mushroom flashlights). It takes him a day to make one, but it’s easier once he develops a blueprint.

When they approach Vizeran’s tower, Glyn experiences searing pain; as a demon, the tower’s powerful wards prevent him from entering. Vizeran, paranoid and spiteful, magically communicates with Trix, chiding him for bringing a demon so close.

Pyrite cuts off her hair, readying herself for the final battles. Pix tries, unsuccessfully, to repair their relationship with Vizeran. Vizeran correctly deduces that the group is keeping Finn from him and brushes off Pix’s attempts at dialogue.

Vizeran gives the group the remaining information they need (concerning where to get the final ingredients for the ritual) and dismisses them without exiting his tower.

The group has a campfire meeting, where they argue with Pyrite about the value of helping the myconids. They speak with Nomi, strategize, change their appearances, go fishing, and (in Glyn’s case) have an orgy with centaurs.

The next day, they speak with the surface dwarves about getting an audience with King Bruenor Stormbringer, whose soldiers have been saved by the goblins multiple times (both from Yeenoghu’s gnolls and the troglodytes). He realizes he has an opportunity to confront Murky Waters, one of King Bruenor’s clerics and a former member of the Knitting Club Heroes.

Bogtooth goes to Blingdenstone to get support from earth elementals. He inspires the pixies to join them in the fight against Zuggtmoy. Finally, he spends some time alone to grieve Dulcinea’s loss. When he attempts to use his magic in her absence, nothing happens. He tries a second time—again, nothing. On his third attempt, he feels something in his gut—tugs on it—and realizes there’s a store of power within him that he never accessed before. When he fires an eldritch blast, he feels a few seconds older. He can still cast magic, but he must spend his life force to do so.

Trix tries to see if the Demogorgon has reached Elysium yet; as far as he can tell, its extraplanar gates have not yet been breached. He speaks with Pix about her time in Elysium. When he scries to the upper plane, he sees Misu! Misu, a devil, is going through her own fiendish purgatory by being forced to serve alongside angels.

Pyrite attempts to trick Glyn into being polymorphed and dominated mid-battle; Glyn is too clever. Glyn has a private meeting with Eldgrim, who gifts him a psychic blade for his work in the mind flayer lair. He suggests Eldgrim’s boss (Tobulux) could work with Graz’zt.

Tremble, working on his fungal flashlights, finds Nomi in Blindenstone. Nomi informs him about a new drow refugee: Wilenet K’Gaust. Tremble, enraged, runs to Jimjar for guidance. After calming down, he sees Wilenet. Wilenet was orphaned by the Baenres, who used the K’Gausts as scapegoats for the goblins’ theft of Gromph’s grimoire.

Wilenet is self-deprived and becoming revenge-obsessed, just like Sarith and Vizeran before her. Unlike them, however, she was a discipline of Lolth, so he prays to Lolth to enact her vengeance. Tremble, cold-blooded and resolute, tells her he won’t need Lolth to do it—he’ll take care of it himself.

Tremble used to worry about the human cost of performing the ritual in Menzoberranzan, just like Vizeran wanted. Now, he needs it to happen there.

## Memorable Quotes

* **Bogtooth:** I’m fine. We are going to win. There’s no other option.
* **Tremble:** You’re throwing up. When you say you’re fine, that leads me to believe you’re not fine.

* **Glyn:** Death isn’t the end, Bogtooth.
* **Bogtooth:** Yeah, I know she’ll be a tree or whatever.

* **Bogtooth:** Hey! Over here!
* **Twinkleface:** AaAh! Bogtooth! Huzzah! We’ve made it!

* **Bogtooth:** Hey! All of you! Listen up! We’re not done here yet. Just cause Dulcinea’s gone on to be a tree. Orange flower, or a bush….just cause we lost today…doesn’t mean it’s over! She spent everything she had to send us here. Know why? Cause WE’RE the grove! We’re everything there is! Nothing’s gonna stop us. We’re gonna send those demons back to where they came from. Like Dulcinea told us to do.
* **The Littlest Pixie:** But how? They are so great, and we are so few!
* **Bogtooth:** Yeah, well, ever heard a story—about a couple little goblins that lost everything. captured by some of the worst drow out there--lost and alone, crying in the scariest place imaginable. They got stronger louder, trickier! And all those same goblins are gonna send all those demons back to hell! Alright?

* **Trix:** Hey Lemon, what were you talking about before about your dad? That he was mad?
* **Lemon:** I think maybe I’ve been a bad son. It wasn’t nice of me to say that he wasn’t my real dad. Cause apparently every slime is a part of him, including me, so he is my dad.
* **Trix:** Who told you that?
* **Lemon:** My brothers and sisters and cousins. I thought that I was the only one who could talk like this, but it turns out there’s innumerable legions of slimes who can talk.
* **Trix:** I don’t think you should think too much about him. He didn’t even know you existed before—
* **Lemon:** He DID know that I existed! And he said that I should join, cause it would be a real nice thing, and we were gonna crash a wedding, and then I yelled at him. So I think if I apologize to him, everything can be okay!
* **Trix:** He left you in a dungeon!
* **Lemon:** You leave me all the time places and I still love you! And maybe Glyn killed your girlfriend and I dunno what else but you’re talking to him again! I was in a bag for a long time, and I pretended to be a bat! So why the fuck is it okay for you to do it and not him?
* **Trix:** Well, maybe we can work it out with your dad…
* **Lemon:** Dad said we have to be early to the wedding or else we’ll miss the treats.
* **Trix:** What treats?
* **Lemon:** You get to eat the biggest things! I’m sorry for yelling, Trix. I know I won’t get the blood or the freezies cause I’ve been bad.
* **Trix:** Lemon, I just think that your dad might be a bad guy….
* **Lemon:** Trix, I’ve been your friend for a long time. I have played the quiet game (and I am still undefeated). I’ve learned that it’s not how you play the game but make sure that everyone is having fun. I want you to have fun. And I want dad to have fun.
* **Trix:** Well, maybe we can make sure your dad is playing the right game. We’ll do this cool ritual.
* **Lemon**: Oh. Maybe I misunderstood the ritual.
* **Trix:** We’re gonna send him back to the Abyss so he can play his own game.
* **Lemon:**  Then I understood the ritual perfectly. This is gonna be tough with you and dad. I’m going to try and script out our conversation so that when we see him, I can have a mental map.
* **Trix:** Let me know if you want ANYTHING!
* **Lemon:** The freezies…and some blood please.
* **Trix**: Okay! Let’s do that now!
* **Lemon:** After we’re done, we can start the process of recon-cilia-sia-tion.

**Centaurs:** ZOUNDS!

* **Misu (in flashback):** You know, Tremble, you’re making a pretty good artificer these days. You’re still an amateur, but you’re doin’ okay. It took me a while to get used to it, too. But you’re good at improvising, you’re good at innovation. You got nimble fingers.
* **Tremble:** Right! Improvise!

* **Bogtooth:** Here, try this!
* **Centaur:** What is this strange magic?
* **Bogtooth:** It’s science! Tremble whipped it up!
* **Tremble:** The magic of science!
* **Centaur:** Hmmmmmm…SHYence?

* **Vizeran:** You’re needed back at the tower. I think there’s demons outside.
* **Trix:** What? We’re back at the tower. I don’t see any demons around.
* **Vizeran:** Get away as fast as you can! There are demons among you! Don’t drag them back to me!
* **Trix:** Oh, that might be Glyn.
* **Vizeren:** WHAT?
* **Trix:** He’s…different.

* **Glyn:** I’m by the tower.
* **Trix:** Did you see any demons there?
* **Glyn:** ….no.
* **Trix:** Well, Vizeran says there’s demons here.
* **Glyn:** Trix, we need to talk….but we can’t do it out in the open.
* **Trix:** We can’t go into Vizeran’s tower. Can we?
* **Glyn:** Caaaaan you?
* **Trix:** You said you went as far as you could go towards the tower, Glyn?
* **Glyn**: Trix, are you an idiot? Cause I don’t think you are. Who’s Glyn?
* **Trix:** Oh, we’re still doing the Merlot thing?
* **Glyn:** Young Trix, I am a demon.
* **Trix:** I’ll see if I can fix it…thank you for saying that.

* **Centaurs:** Look here, Merlot! We have a light of flesh! A fleshlight!
* **Pyrite:** Hey you all. You know magic right?
* **Pixies:** Mhm!
* **Pyrite:** Can you teach me? I want to know more magic. Can I learn from you?
* **Pixies:** We’re happy to be useful!

**Pix:** Can I go to Vizeran’s? Is he gonna be angry? Is he gonna do therapy again? What do ya think is gonna happen?

**Pix:** In the words of someone I hope we kill soon: It’s time for some strategy.

* **Vizeran:** Who is that?
* **Pix:** Pix.
* **Vizeran:** Are you sure you’re not Jeremy Rocky Road?
* **Pix:** Who the fuck is that?
* **Vizeran:** Hmmm, okay… “Pix.” I shall perform a spell to ensure you are who you say. Detect… MAGIC! Okay, Pix, come on in.
* **Pix:** So there are things I wanna learn. You seem like a moderately intelligent individual…
* **Vizeran:** I have dedicated centuries to studying the arcane arts. Are you negging me? Because that is a common tactic. And don’t say you weren’t, because that’s gaslighting. Where is Finn?
* **Pix:** Ummmm, he’s hanging out with some Kua-toan!
* **Vizeran:** Why?
* **Pix:** Seemed like a good idea at the time?
* **Vizeran**: I’ve done you a favor. Do one for me. What are you planning with Finn?
* **Pix:** Planning?
* **Vizeran:** I’m a master of psychology.
* **Pix**: I’m gonna be real honest with you, Mr. Psychology, I can’t really plan much for the coming week, let alone some sort of deceptive thing with your assistant who I care for. Things have been really crazy, and if I can live through the next month that would be GREAT! You know what I mean?
* **Vizeran:** Ah yes, you are a child. I’m glad I never had children. Goodbye for now.

* **Tremble:** Stool was my friend!
* **Pyrite:** I’m sorry you think that.
* **Trix:** Pyrite, what the fuck is wrong with you?
* **Bogtooth:** We met the others and they’re people!
* **Pyrite:** All of you are compromised!
* **Bogtooth:** Due to what?
* **Pyrite:** The spores you inhaled? Am I not clear?
* **Tremble:** You’re clear, you just sound stupid! It sounds like you don’t know ANYthing about myconids at all! You can’t just treat people like they’re weird just cause you don’t know them!
* **Pyrite: I** can treat them like a threat!
* **Tremble:** That’s. So. Ignorant!

**Tremble:** Go ahead, burn the spores out of me! Pyrite, if you keep talking, I will hit you.

* **Pyrite:** We can all talk telepathically.
* **Glyn:** That would be helpful.
* **Pyrite:** You’re not allowed in— well, actually, yeah, you should be…..that was instinctual…

* **Glyn:** The best strategy doing into this wedding is to finish off the winner.
* **Pyrite:** One’s defeat doesn’t mean the full victory of the other.
* **Lemon:** Trix, if Pyrite kills Stool, can I be Stool?
* **Trix**: I think that’s one name you shouldn’t take, just a word of advice.
* **Lemon:** Huh. I’m open to the possibility of not taking it.

* **Pyrite:** Thank you….. Merlot, I may have treated you too harshly, and tomorrow, I wanna make that up to you. You reminded me of someone who betrayed me and hurt me so deeply, so there were some mixed emotions.
* **Glyn:** I'm soooo sorry to hear that.

**Zero Prime:** WHAT IS LOVE?

* **Tremble:** It’s all my fault! All my fault!
* **Jimjar:** I know it may seem like that. But I think right now is not the best time to see Wilenet.
* **Tremble:** What do you mean? Why wouldn’t I see her?
* **Jimjar:** Because right now she’s in a great state of turmoil. You’re a strong man, one of the strongest I know. I don’t know if this is part of her design. You must clear your head.

**Jimjar:** Tappy will offer you the alcohol from the surface. Do not drink it--it will impact your thinking. But you should have some of his dirt. It is quite good.

**Jimjar:** Tremble…you might not believe me when I say this, but no matter how much you think it is your fault--you did not do this. Bad people get away with bad things because good people take the blame.

* **Jimjar**: I have had many conversations with my mother. The fallen guardians of Blingdenstone will follow you. In your time of need, we will be there.
* **Tremble:** Thanks, Mr. Jimjar.
* **Jimjar:** Thanks, Mr. Tremble.

* **Pix:** So…yeah, I died. You’ll know, wine boy. Fruit juice? I dunno. It felt like my insides were put on the outside and then shoved back into me again. Well, I wake up and Garl’s there in this gorgeous, sparkling place. I could just wish for something, and it would appear and Garl told me I was dead and it was rare for a goblin to end up there. And Elysium was a place for heroes! I got to go on the back of an elephant and it all felt like a fever dream. Elysium is made up of many layers. While beautiful it’s also tumultuous in many ways. I ran into Pelek! A little ghosty.
* **Trix**: I knew a ghost named Pelek, and he died….wait! Was he from….did he know me?
* **Pix:** He talked about some friends of his who left him…was that you?
* **Trix:** We were in a teleportation mishap…

**Pyrite:** I am offering a gift for a bridge that I burnt recently. I am trying to rebuild that with you! Don’t you understand goblins? Like, we don’t give things away! We hoard stuff!

* **Eldgrim:** Oh, ain’t you becomin’ a tall glass of water!
* **Glyn:** I do like being called that.
* **Eldgrim:** Buddy, I brought the psychic blade for ya, but it’d be like a dagger in those paws, right?
* **Glyn:** Got anything bigger?
* **Eldgrim:** That’s the thing about psychic blades. You just believe in yourself….and the blade’s as long as you need.

* **Glyn:** I am of Graz’zt’s blood. The Dark Prince.
* **Eldgrim:** Whoohoho, buddy! Hey, if he’s hiring, I mean…I got a lot of blades looking to stick somewhere. Our scabbards always empty.
* **Glyn:** Are you particularly attached to this plane?
* **Eldgrim:** I have felt the need for a vacation.
* **Glyn:** I’m sure someone could be in touch.
* **Eldgrim:** Alright, alright, alright. Well… it’s what they say: location, location, location. I been thinking of getting some property. My boss is not so keen on demons after what happened. But, hey, it wasn’t Graz’zt’s elder brain! Maybe our bosses could work together.
* **Glyn:** Oh, I think sparks…would fly.
* **Eldgrim: A**re you suggesting…? Well, to each their own!

* **Wilenet:** Tremble…they’re gone. They’re ALL gone!
* **Tremble:** I never really knew my parents. I can’t say that I know exactly what you’re going through, but we have to keep moving forwards and relying on the people around us to help us. I don’t know if that makes you feel any better.
* **Wilenet:** No, Tremble, you’re right. We have to keep moving forward. We need to wait until I’m strong and then they’ll pay.
* **Tremble:** Oh, I don’t think you need to worry about that, Wilenet. I’ll take care of it.