Session 28-B: Sending You My Love

Key Plot Developments
After rescuing their brother and his fishy friend, the group cleans themselves up after the battle with Ilvara. They discover gold, poisons, and Ilvara's scourge on the drow corpses. Shuushar fishes devouring the drow prisoner. Trix voices his fear of Ichabod’s lawsuit to Shuushar. They fish together.

Y impulsively asks Tremble to join the Society of Brilliance; Tremble becomes a provisional member. Y wants to continue the quest to find the legendary artifacts necessary to control the faerzress. Y tells them about Blurg, an orog member of the SOB who is probably dead. He was looking for the items in the Lost Tomb of Khaem! Tremble tells him they need to make a pit stop back at Blingdenstone and find Entemoch’s Boon first. Trix tells them all that he met Grazilaxx at a bar and knows about the SOB. Y explains what the SOB was doing:


 * Grazilaxx created the SOB. Its goal was to bring together neutral representatives of various species in the Underdark.
 * Y wanted a goblin to join and found Rotgut. Rotgut was initiated.
 * Rotgut disappeared en route to find some ancient artifact.
 * Blurg was also searching for an artifact: the holy sword, Dawnbringer.
 * In the last four months, the faerzress of the Underdark was swelled exponentially.
 * Grazilaxx is researching Glyn's odd gifts and Giggles's affliction. He's found a text called Old Nick's Book of Tricks in Gravenhollow, a library beyond time and space.

Y, realizing he might have said too much, throws gravel at Tremble and calls it amnesia dust. Misu persuades him to keep sharing information. Y takes a shine to Misu.

They discuss how to get Trix's soul back. Trix deflects and focuses on how to get Glyn back. Tremble derails Trix's plan by mentioning Jimjar--he wasn't with Mistress Ilvara, so he might be back in Menzoberranzan! He also fears Jimjar might have been horrifically merged with Jorlan, but doesn't find any evidence in the yellow goo connecting Jimjar to Jorlan. Pix, however, finds a pin depicting a red, plumed hat on Ilvara's body. It's the symbol of Bregan D'aerthe! What was Ilvara doing with it?

Meanwhile, Y, Bogtooth, and Misu forage for food. Y tries to impress Misu by mentioning a labyrinth with a chronomantic machine at its center. The SOB is investigating it.

Misu, Y, and Bogtooth find a lot of bugs. Pix gives Tremble the pin, who gives it to Y--he could use it to scry on Jimjar! As Y rests and recuperates, Tremble and Misu tap into their artificer abilities to fashion the deceased drows' armor into goblin-fitting protective gear.

Trix speaks to Pix alone about Garl Glittergold. They share information about their visions. Trix, who finds it difficult to trust anybody beyond Shuushar, is inclined to trust this inscrutable (alleged) deity.

Bogtooth has a dream; he's in the tundra. The wind whips around. Lady Dulcinea answers his calls. She tells him a story about a human couple she found. They asked her to bless their child. She agreed; strong grove would be built at the end of its short, beautiful life. Then, she spirited away their child. The humans cursed her name and claimed they never wanted that to happen to their child. She couldn't abide that, so she killed the couple. She swore to protect that child and its descendants.

Bogtooth again admits to once being a really bad goblin. Lady Dulcinea acknowledges the capacity of a goblin to bring about devastation. Bogtooth tells her he thought the calamity would be caused by Pyrite, but it seems like she’s not on this plane of existence. He claims that Glyn is on a very bad path back in Gracklstugh. He tells her about his dream with Garl, and how he didn't accept Garl's offer. She smiles and says that spring will come again.

Misu dreams of Mt. Celestia. Her father appears before her and confirms her previous visions were merely dreams, not real visitations. This is really the first time she’s spoken with him. He wanted to give her a very important message: he loves her.

Y teleports everyone back to Blingdenstone! They go back to the inn and see Stool Team Five! They meet Trix. They also see Nomi; the gnome tells them about Yantha Coaxrock, her mentor (who left the city for Mantol Derith, where she could help negotiate with surface traders and resupply). Trix is blown away by Nomi's storytelling and the fact that his family is seen as heroes.

Tremble goes to find Priest Gunrik. Gunrik expresses some concerns: now that the wererats have joined, it will be harder to feed their people. There are trade caravans en route to Gauntlgrym. He wonders if similar efforts may one day work in Menzoberranzan. Tremble shows him Jimjar’s pin. The priest casts Identify; he deduces the pin is enchanted with a spell of nondetection. He will not be able to locate Jimjar.

Tremble tries to make contact with Jimjar’s mom. She possesses Squii! He tells Miss Rocktooth about the pin. She can’t talk as Squii, but she can hug. Tremble promises Squii some extra dinner tonight. He leaves with the promise of bringing Jimjar back.

Misu asks Trix to cast Sending for her. She reaches out to a member of the Harpers--Sodrif Bizz (who purportedly has tattoos all over and an odd number of fingers). The Harpers promise to come to Blingdenstone with supplies. Second, she reaches out to Tilphousia. Her mom warns her not to interfere in Gracklstugh--instead, she should just wait it out until the demons grow bored and vulnerable. The devils see things in long-term propositions.

Pix and Shuushar bond over their care for Trix. She apologizes to him about her words being violent back on the beach (before they were split up).

Trix gets responses back from his sendings. In thanks, Misu gives Trix a ring of spell renewal to borrow. Tremble asks Y to scry on Jimjar; shows him the pin, Jimjar's cards, and his appearance.

Y sees something! Jimjar is in a room filled with drow. One of them is appears to be medically operating on him. Jimjar is missing his limbs.

Memorable Quotations
Tremble: Maybe we should leave this to Miss Misu, Bogtooth. I haven't known her very long, but I trust her more than your bear.


 * Shuushar: Trix, it is good that you are speaking with your family. I wish I had spent more time with some of mine. They might have tasted better.
 * Trix: Yeah. You wanna fish with me?
 * Shuushar: I do. I hunger.

Y (to Tremble): Yours is a DIZZYING intellect! Tell you what--how would YOU like to join the Society of Brilliance?

Y: Grazilaxx is gonna say, 'Y, this is one you DIDN'T f*ck up!'"


 * Y: Ah, f*ck. Here. AMNESIA DUST!
 * Tremble: Ow! That hurt my eyes!
 * Y: Shit. That was gravel!
 * Shuushar: I am tuning him out to help with digestion.

Y: So I thought I was gonna get blazed out of my MIND at Fire Fest. And I was RIGHT! Then, I met Glyn.

Y: Man, it's a good thing I've met a group of assassins! You, like, wait for people to come by so you can beat the shit out of 'em, right?


 * Trix: I was cursed by faerzress, so I had to rhyme.
 * Y: Rhyming is NEVER an obligation. Rhyming is a CHOICE!
 * Bogtooth: Does stepping on a mushroom and turning into a kobold count as faerzress?
 * Y: That's metal as f*ck!

Pix: People need to know that Ilvara was the worst, saggy tits and all.


 * Y: You're gonna be my wingman, Bogtooth. Watch and learn, wingman!
 * Bogtooth: You want me to cast Fly on you?
 * Y: That's a great idea!

Pix: It feels like this entire time we’ve been chasing after each other and now we’re here. Everything here seems a little wrong. Someone is hurting people and taking advantage of really fragile situations. We’ve been trying to make it right!


 * Y: Would you hold it against me?
 * Misu: I would hold it the opposite of against you.
 * Y: ...are you trying to fight me?

Shuushar: Trix, you know I would never harm you. But if someone spoke about you the way you speak about yourself, I would kill them as a matter of honor.


 * Misu: Sure, as long as you don't mind me taking the scrap metal.
 * Trix: It's always a deal with Misu...

Dulcinea: The time may come that you will have to make some very difficult decisions about your friend Glyn.


 * Misu (in a dream of heaven): Oh, not this shit again! Where IS he?
 * Fior-Ghlan the Pure: Hello, my lovely daugher.
 * Misu: I will SHOOT you!
 * Fior-Ghlan: Do not shoot me! Please! There should be no weapons here to do so with.
 * Misu: Dammit! F*ck! Hell! Hells!

Fior-Ghlan: Your mother is dedicated to her craft. I did not know my eyeballs could exit my nostrils.


 * Fior-Ghlan: I have come here with an important message.
 * Misu: Yes?
 * Fior-Ghlan: I love you, my daughter.
 * Misu: ...I love you, too.
 * Fior-Ghlan: I can return to hell happy!

Nomi (smiling): It’s been very hard. I am just an apprentice and the demands of the job are those that I was not at all prepared for. I am entirely overwhelmed!

Pix: Ilvara went to open her mouth to say one more disastrous little insult knowing it would be her last...and there they came. ''PSHEW! PSHEW!'' Tremble’s shots. The light drained from her eyes.

Pix: As the dust settled, it was the goblins, the little ones, who won the day. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, DEEP GNOMES?!

Gunrik: There is always another foe to defeat. This peace is maintained by kinship born of struggle. But it is fragile. Without the supplies that we need, this city could eat itself from the inside out.


 * Pix: Shuushar, it's good to see you.
 * Shuushar: I feel like I am allowed to see you for the first time because of what your brother did for me. I gave up my ties to my land. I gave up my fighting spirit. In retrospect, it didn't make any f*cking sense! Trix gave it back to me.
 * '''Bogtooth :''' Wow, Shuushar. You got really cool.
 * Shuushar: Oh, hi, Bogtoogh.

Shuushar: Trix will never be alone. I think that he is under the watchful eye and flapping tendrils of the Sea Mother.

Tilphousia: Tell her to sit up straight.


 * Y: Here, put your hand on my back!
 * Tremble: Okay!
 * Y: Massage!

Shuushar: Oh, Sea Mother, you’ve done it again. You’ve caused excess liquid to drench my eyes. Blublublublublu! I’m sorry. I’ll contain my outbursts. Blublublublublu! I’ll go outside.


 * Tremble: Jimjar, this is Tremble, Where are you? Killed Ilvara. You not there. Have your pin! Really miss you! Please respond fast. Met your ghost mom!
 * Jimjar: Tremble? A sending spell from a man of the cloth. I am safe. Grateful to communicate like this. Miss my tongue. Will see her soon.