The Madness of Zuggtmoy

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The Madness of Zuggtmoy is one of the adventures in the campaign A Grand Tour of the Sword Coast.

	Collect a bunch of mushrooms while traversing a verdant fungal forest.
Requirement(s)	Must have completed "The Oozing Hunger"
Objective(s)	Complete Area 450
Restriction(s)	No restrictions
Rewards(?)	×900 ×???	Formation

Variants

It's So Pretty

	Slowly collect a bunch of mushrooms while traversing a verdant fungal forest.
Requirement(s)	Must have completed "The Madness of Zuggtmoy"
Objective(s)	Complete Area 475
Restriction(s)	You can only use Champions with a DEX of 13 or lower. You can't use Champions with the Speed tag.
Rewards(?)	×950 ×???	Formation
Patron: Mirt	Complete Area 575	×3.76e06 ×10,500
Patron: Vajra	Complete Area 600	×5.96e06 ×12,900
Patron: Strahd	Complete Area 625	×9.42e06 ×15,800
Patron: Zariel	Complete Area 650	×1.49e07 ×19,400

Waves

Type	Waves	Bosses	Favored By
aberration	22	3	Imoen, Lae'zel, Zorbu
armor-based	0	4	Binwin, Ezmerelda, Gazrick, Grimm, Hew Maan, Lucius, Selise, Windfall, Wulfgar
beast	25	2	Imoen, Jaheira, Minsc, Zorbu
demon	5	1
drow	4	0
dwarf	8	0
elf	4	0
elemental	4	1
fey	0	1	Minsc
fiend	5	2	Brother Uriah, Ezmerelda, Farideh, Havilar, Jaheira, Reya, Turiel, Wyll
goblin	3	0
goblinoid	3	0
hit-based	18	0	Binwin, Ezmerelda, Grimm, Hew Maan, Windfall
humanoid	12	1	Dynaheir, Ezmerelda, Jaheira, Kalix, Minsc, Zorbu
melee	47	9
monstrosity	10	2	Ezmerelda, Imoen, Minsc
ooze	20	0	Kalix
plant	9	2
ranged	14	4
static	7	0

Please add all the missing waves definition (with "0 & 0" or no values in case you don’t know them…) based on in-game’s "ENEMY TYPES" data mentionned on adventure’s starting/choice screen, place them between the header & the footer lines (which should remain untouched), and keep the monster-type lines sorted alphabetically. Thanks! (click this link for more info)

Wave	Tags	Monsters	Monster Tags	Image
1	underground	Giant Spider, Ochre Jelly	beast hit-based ooze melee
2	underground	Giant Spider, Slime Covered Goblin	beast goblin goblinoid humanoid melee
3	underground	Slime Covered Goblin	goblin goblinoid humanoid melee
4	underground	Ochre Jelly, Slime Covered Goblin	hit-based goblin goblinoid humanoid ooze melee
5	underground	Giant Spider, Ochre Jelly	beast hit-based ooze melee
Boss	underground	Poison-Spitting Spider	beast boss ranged
6	underground	Ochre Jelly, Quasit	demon fiend hit-based ooze melee
7	underground	Ochre Jelly, Quasit	demon fiend hit-based ooze melee
8	underground	Darkmantle, Timmask	hit-based monstrosity static melee
9	underground	Giant Spider, Ochre Jelly	beast hit-based ooze melee
10	underground	Giant Spider, Quasit	beast demon fiend melee
Boss	underground	Myconid Adult	boss humanoid plant melee
11	underground	Darkmantle, Duergar Fighter, Quasit	demon dwarf fiend humanoid monstrosity melee
12	underground	Duergar Fighter	dwarf humanoid melee
13	underground	Darkmantle, Timmask	hit-based monstrosity static melee
14	underground	Darkmantle, Duergar Fighter, Quasit	demon dwarf fiend humanoid monstrosity melee
15	underground	Darkmantle, Duergar Fighter	dwarf humanoid monstrosity melee
Boss	underground	Xorn	boss melee
16	underground	Darkmantle, Ochre Jelly	hit-based monstrosity ooze melee
17	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel	beast ooze melee
18	underground	Darkmantle, Timmask	hit-based monstrosity static melee
19	underground	Darkmantle, Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Intellect Devourer	aberration beast monstrosity ooze melee
20	underground	Darkmantle, Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel	beast monstrosity ooze melee
Boss	underground	Pixie Riding an Intellect Devourer	aberration boss fey melee
21	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration beast ooze melee
22	underground	Gazer, Lesser Gibbering Mother	aberration melee ranged
23	underground	Gazer, Timmask	aberration hit-based static ranged
24	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Gazer, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration beast ooze melee ranged
25	underground	Gazer, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration melee ranged
Boss	underground	Fungal Aboleth	aberration boss plant melee
26	underground	Fire Snake, Gazer	aberration elemental melee ranged
27	underground	Fluffy Shambling Mound Pangolin, Gazer	aberration beast plant melee ranged
28	underground	Gazer, Timmask	aberration hit-based static ranged
29	underground	Fire Snake, Fluffy Shamblin Mound Pangolin, Gazer	aberration beast elemental plant melee ranged
30	underground	Fire Snake, Fluffy Shambling Mound Pangolin	beast elemental plant melee
Boss	underground	Kamadan	boss monstrosity melee
31	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Gazer	aberration beast ooze melee ranged
32	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Fluffy Shambling Mound Pangolin	beast ooze plant melee
33	underground	Gazer, Illusory Fancy Red Panda, Timmask	aberration beast hit-based static melee ranged
34	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Illusory Fancy Red Panda	beast ooze melee
35	underground	Gazer, Illusory Fancy Red Panda	aberration beast melee ranged
Boss	underground	Xanathar Clown	aberration armor-based boss melee ranged
36	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration beast ooze melee
37	underground	Giant Spider, Illusory Fancy Red Panda	beast melee
38	underground	Gazer, Timmask	aberration hit-based static ranged
39	underground	Darkmantle, Fire Snake, Intellect Devourer	aberration elemental monstrosity melee
40	underground	Intellect Devourer, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration melee
Boss	underground	Nebula Pig Xorn	armor-based beast boss elemental melee
41	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration beast ooze melee
42	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Gazer, Lesesr Gibbering Mouther	aberration beast ooze melee ranged
43	underground	Fluffy Shambling Mound Pangolin, Lesser Gibbering Mouther	aberration beast plant melee
44	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Lesser Gibbering Mouther, Ochre Jelly, Underdark Spore Servant	aberration beast drow dwarf elf hit-based humanoid ooze melee
45	underground	Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel, Gazer, Underdark Spore Servant	aberration beast humanoid ooze melee ranged
Boss	underground	Tiawut	armor-based boss fiend monstrosity melee ranged
46	underground	Gas Spore, Myconid Sprout, Underdark Spore Servant	drow dwarf elf hit-based humanoid plant melee
47	underground	Myconid Sprout, Underdark Spore Servant	drow dwarf elf humanoid plant melee
48	underground	Gas Spore, Myconid Sprout	hit-based plant melee
49	underground	Underdark Spore Servant	drow dwarf elf humanoid melee
50	underground	Gas Spore, Myconid Sprout	hit-based plant melee
Boss	underground	Zuggtmoy	armor-based boss demon fiend melee ranged

Transcript

The Madness of Zuggtmoy
Collect a bunch of mushrooms while traversing a verdant fungal forest.
Area	Goal		Quests & Cinematics
Celeste:	We've got one more ingredient to track down for Vizeran's ritual to send the demon lords back to the Abyss. Well...thirteen more. We need thirteen timmasks. Hopefully there are enough mushrooms in the vicinity of Puff's colony that we can count on finding this variety.
Bruenor:	They call this region Araumycos. 'Tis a huge fungus itself, and there are a lot o' mushrooms that grow alongside it. I dinna think we'll have any trouble trackin' down timmasks. The cart's gonna get a lot heavier though -- timmasks are as big as a halflin'. We're gonna be strappin' them all 'round this purple worm egg.
Jarlaxle:	Are we all prepared for the eventuality that Vizeran turns on us like Xetzirbor and Izhkin did? These things always happen in threes.
Nayeli:	If we stopped casually allying with clearly evil actors, maybe it wouldn't happen at all.
Baeloth:	Now, now, let's not be hasty!
Minsc:	Yes! We should stop asking evil for help and start smashing it! I will begin with those ochre jellies!
1	Defeat 25 Enemies		The oozes of Juiblex pursue you down the passages of the Underdark! Fight as if your lives depend on it!
Celeste:	Krach, how far do we need to get to evade Juiblex?
Krach:	Were you not listening before? He can control oozes anywhere on any plane. And this is a lot of oozes. He's still chasing us.
Celeste:	Well we can't lead them all to the myconid colony.
Mot:	I don't know if that's such a bad idea. Puff makes it sound like they've got demon lord problems too.
Krach:	Yeah: People acting strange, mushrooms that might be demons, demons that might be mushrooms. That all sounds very much like Zuggtmoy, the Demon Queen of Fungus.
Celeste:	Zuggtmoy? So you're saying there's a fifth demon lord down here? Zuggtmoy, Demogorgon, Orcus, Graz'zt, Juiblex --
Krach:	Who hates Zuggtmoy. Juiblex and Zuggtmoy are constantly at war. I bet if you lured these oozes that way, they'd end up attacking her forces instead.
Mot:	All right, wait, now you're offering them tactical advice. I don't think that's in your contract -- we should negotiate this too.
Krach:	Ohhhh...yeah, hey Celeste? We'd -- the familiars, I mean -- like to call a --
Celeste:	Hold that thought, there's more of Juiblex's minions attacking!
2	Defeat 25 Enemies		Those slime-covered goblins seem to have no wills of their own! The spiders are sure they want to eat you though!
Bruenor:	Them timmasks are thick around as a halflin'! That'll dull our weapons quick.
Jarlaxle:	Well, those slime-covered goblins have axes. We could just...take them...
3	Collect 25 Axes		You'll need stout axes to cut the stalks of the timmasks -- those thralls of Juiblex won't need them anymore!
4	Defeat 25 Enemies		If you're going to save Puff's colony, you'll need to escape these oozes! Cut a path!
Minsc:	More spiders! And this one is larger than all the rest!
Boo:	Squeak!
Jarlaxle:	Yeah it's almost as if the Underdark is dangerous, even if demon lords don't get involved.
Krach:	Speaking of dangers, hazard pay is an important part --
Baeloth:	Krach, not now! We're busy!
5	Defeat the Poison-Spitting Spider		A huge poison-spitting spider takes advantage of the oozes distracting you to drop into your path! Stay clear of its fangs!
Mot:	We have to get this proposal together and demand contract negotiations before we're in the middle of another crisis and they tell us there's no room to discuss.
Krach:	Right, right. It sounds like most of the other familiars don't have any kind of formal agreement. Some of them...well, some of them I don't think they understood what we meant. Which is fair, I only sort of get this and I have the ability to talk.
Mot:	Puff, what about you? Did you get a list of demands together? ...Puff? PUFF?
Krach:	Why is he staring at the wall like that? Hey! Mushroom-Boy! Snap out of it!
Puff:	What? Huh! Sorry! Did you need me? Oh! Is it about those other quasits swooping toward the heroes? Should we help?
6	Defeat 25 Enemies		More quasits signal another demon lord's presence! Time to fight!
Mot:	Puff, are you all right? You just stopped responding. Were you getting a message in your brain from a terrible power threatening to...can you disembowel myconids?
Krach:	You can disembowel anything if you try!
Puff:	I don't know what you guys are talking about! I guess I was just daydreaming.
7	Defeat 25 Enemies		The quasits and jellies make the passage treacherous! Press past toward those timmasks!
Minsc:	This place is like a forest! A forest of mushrooms! So vibrant! So colorful! Don't you feel alive here!
Nayeli:	Look! Are those the giant mushrooms we're supposed to seek out?
Bruenor:	Aye, that's a pair o' timmasks all right!
Celeste:	They're enormous! And we need thirteen of them? Good thing we have the cart!
Jarlaxle:	Well, start chopping because there are more demons and spiders on the way!
8	Defeat 2 Timmasks		There's some timmasks! They're huge! Get chopping and hold off the attackers!
Celeste:	That's two down, eleven to go. Strap them down with the rest of that purple worm rope.
Jarlaxle:	The disgusting dried saliva strands?
Celeste:	Yes. Those.
9	Defeat 25 Enemies		You must press on to more timmasks and Puff's colony! Get those oozes and spiders out of the way!
Nayeli:	Hey look a myconid! Someone from Puff's colony? Well met! Do you need help?
Celeste:	Puff, do you know this person?
Myconid:	All is devoured! All is devoured! And you are the vultures here to pick clean the remains of Araumycos, with your endless maws, your lashing tentacles! You cannot pass me! Vile enemies! Vile enemies!
Puff:	Ahhh! I don't know her! I don't know her! Help!
10	Defeat the Myconid Adult		Wait, who is this? This isn't one of Puff's family! Battle the myconid attacking you!
Bruenor:	That was very strange. What was she sayin'?
Jarlaxle:	Something about us being vile enemies? And having endless maws and lashing tentacles?
Minsc:	But we do not have these things. I think she meant someone else.
Nayeli:	Now that you mention it Minsc...I do feel more...awake doesn't feel like the right word. Aware? Like I'm ready for any threat! Let's go rescue Puff's colony!
Bruenor:	Aye, this way! Celeste...Celeste are you all right?
Jarlaxle:	Celeste?
Celeste:	Huh? Sorry. I...I must have dozed off. It's been a while since we've rested.
Jarlaxle:	We can rest when we're not being pursued by oozes!
Bruenor:	Looks like tha oozes ain't tha problem now! We've got underdark dangers incomin'!
11	Defeat 25 Enemies		It's as if the whole Underdark is gathering to fight you! Don't let them push you back!
12	Defeat 25 Enemies		Duergar fighters! Where did they come from? Hold the line!
Jarlaxle:	Where are these duergar coming from? There's no duergar city nearby.
Bruenor:	Seems like a sign that it's all gettin' more chaotic in tha Underdark. Probably some demon lord displaced them and they're fightin' their way across tha Underdark!
Nayeli:	Well I'm...
Bruenor:	...yer what?
Jarlaxle:	Nayeli! Snap out of it!
Nayeli:	Get your hands off me! I was just thinking for a moment. Honestly, you're so jumpy.
Celeste:	There's more timmasks! Let's get chopping! Jarlaxle, you're not getting out of this by pretending to be engrossed in the lake water. Jarlaxle!
Minsc:	Leave him. His scrawny arms are very bad at chopping down tree-mushrooms anyway. And I will take care of these monsters attacking!
13	Defeat 2 Timmasks		More timmasks! You're on your way to thirteen! Take your axes to them!
14	Defeat 25 Enemies		More enemies descend from the shadows! Show them why you're called the Champions!
Baeloth:	Sweet darkling matrons, is that a xorn? I've never seen one so large!
Krach:	Is that...what you call that?
Havilar:	Let's go! Let's fight it!
Nayeli:	Celeste, is this not weird for a xorn? I thought they ate jewels. This one's coming right at us!...Celeste? Celeste!
Bruenor:	Whether it's supposed ta or not, it's comin' right fer us!
15	Defeat the Xorn		A xorn! All they usually want are gems, but this one's hunting you!
Celeste:	Sorry, I must be more tired than I thought.
Nayeli:	What was going on with that xorn? I've never heard of one attacking so fiercely.
Havilar:	I mean they're generally very weird and confusing. This felt weird and confusing.
Mot:	It was a big mushroom? Is that confusing?
Krach:	Yeah, I'm...confused. That didn't seem that weird.
Havilar:	You're used to the Abyss. Trust me, xorns are WEIRD.
Mot:	Can we stop and talk about what's going on for a moment?
Celeste:	Mot, I know you're suddenly very invested in making sure the familiars are taken care of--
Mot:	No, this is about the mushrooms.
Strange Woman:	The mushrooms ARE very important. That's your quest, isn't it? But surely you see the hand of Juiblex here. You have to continue. You have to keep fighting.
Minsc:	This strange lady makes a lot of sense! Thank you, strange lady! I will take care of these darkmantles now!
Celeste:	Who are you?
Mot:	WHO are you talking to?
16	Defeat 25 Enemies		This strange lady has a point: You have to keep fighting or else Juiblex wins!
Strange Woman:	You are very brave, Champions. But the forces of Juiblex still pursue you. You should hurry on to the heart of Araumycos. Surely that is where the sprout's colony has retreated.
Celeste:	That's a good point. Although I worry about how many monsters we're trailing.
Strange Woman:	What are the forces of Juiblex before you? And as you said, those that follow may make a suitable offering to Zuggtmoy, so to speak.
Celeste:	Well, I'd rather nobody get hurt, but that's a good point. If we're overwhelmed, the enemy of my enemy, and all that.
Mot:	SERIOUSLY WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
Jarlaxle:	Uhhhh, Celeste? Do you have some...knowledge to share about these...things?
Nayeli:	Is it a squirrel? Or...some new kind of ooze?
Celeste:	It looks like Juiblex is mutating the animals around here.
Strange Woman:	What a cruel fate. You need to chase them all down. Make sure they're all dealt with.
17	Defeat 25 Enemies		That dastardly Juiblex is gooping poor squirrels now! They're too far gone! Fight them off!
Krach:	This is the crisis isn't it! This is the crisis!
Mot:	I have no idea what this is! They're talking to the air, they're getting really worked up about fighting darkmantles and mushrooms. Puff, is this how things usually are around here? Is there some kind of poison gas leak? Puff? PUFF!
Puff:	...Hmmm?
Krach:	THIS IS THE CRISIS!
Strange Woman:	Look: there are your timmasks. Isn't that what you were looking for?
Celeste:	Yes! Thank you so much for showing us where to find them! That will bring us to four out of the thirteen.
Jarlaxle:	Curses! More of those slimy squirrels!
Minsc:	They are terrible! They are almost as terrible as that pixie leader!
Jarlaxle:	Small favor of the Underdark -- no pixie leaders.
18	Defeat 2 Timmasks		Does anyone feel...funny? Hey! More timmasks to chop!
19	Defeat 25 Enemies		These swarms of enemies are no match for you, brave Champions! Fight back those darkmantles and intellect devourers and their little gelatinous squirrels too!
Nayeli:	The forest is getting thicker, but I think I see a path this way.
Bruenor:	Aye and more o' them squirrels and other beasties.
Pixie Leader:	And me! Blah! Doom!
Jarlaxle:	Minsc! What did you do!
Pixie Leader:	That's right! I'm here! You're seeing me! Let's go, Champions!
Havilar:	Is she riding an intellect devourer?
Baeloth:	I think one's already attacked her.
Pixie Leader:	Let's go, let's go! Doom time!
20	Defeat the Pixie Riding an Intellect Devourer		The pixie leader seems...less articulate somehow. But far more furious! Fight her off!
Celeste:	Well that takes care of THAT.
Mot:	What takes care of what? What is happening? Krach, Puff, we need a plan.
Krach:	What about running away?
Mot:	I mean, you can, although you'll have to deal with whatever's making everyone act like zombies on your own. I'm stuck here.
Puff:	Also they're our friends. Why ARE they acting weird? Are we sure there's no poison gas?
Mot:	Let's test it. Assuming there's poison gas, we should get them off this trail. Hey! Hey, lady! I saw some oozes go down toward that lake!
Havilar:	Wow there's even MORE colorful fungi here! It's like a garden. A mushroom garden!
Mot:	Yeah, take a deep breath of that...mildewy cave air. Do you see anything weird?
Havilar:	You mean besides the really pretty mushrooms?
Mot:	Yeah, like are any of them monsters?
Havilar:	Of course not.
Mot:	Phew.
Havilar:	Now unless you're going to help, get out of the way. I have to go deal with those gibbering mouthers and goopy-squirrels!
21	Defeat 25 Enemies		The babbling of gibbering mouthers causes confusion and paralysis! Attack before they start gibbering!
22	Defeat 25 Enemies		Gibbering mouthers and gazers are more at home in the Far Realm than the Underdark...or are you IN the Far Realm now?
Havilar:	This is a lot of unexpectedly weird monsters!
Jarlaxle:	What if...what if, like, Araumycos is actually a Far Realm god -- hear me out! What if, like, the fungus opened a portal and that's why it's all...
Bruenor:	...
Jarlaxle:	..
Celeste:	...I never thought of that.
Mot:	ALL OF YOU SNAP OUT OF IT!
Bruenor:	Look! More timmasks! They're bigger than ever!
Nayeli:	DO we need more? I thought we already got these?
Jarlaxle:	We have to get...more...I don't remember how many.
Mot:	Thirteen! It's thirteen!
Jarlaxle:	Right! Thirteen MORE timmasks!
Bruenor:	I dinna even mind choppin' these down anymore. 'Tis refreshin'. And tha smell is so nice!
23	Defeat 2 Timmasks		Two more timmasks! How many is that? How many fingers is this? Fourteen?
Strange Woman:	Your quest is proceeding nicely. You're making excellent time. Just a little farther. A few more timmasks.
Celeste:	I'm so glad you're helping us.
Minsc:	I might just lie down on the cart here for a bit...
Nayeli:	Me too...
24	Defeat 25 Enemies		More enemies descend from the shadows! Show them...wait...did I say that already?
Havilar:	This lake smells weird. Can we find more timmasks to chop? Those smell better.
Strange Woman:	On the other side of the lake, of course.
Jarlaxle:	...uh, folks? Remember my theory about Far Realm gods? I think I just got confirmation!
Celeste:	Is that an aboleth? Flying? And covered in mushrooms?
Strange Woman:	You don't have to fight it. You could just...let it take you...
Celeste:	Don't worry, we'll get it!
25	Defeat the Fungal Aboleth		A flying aboleth covered in mushrooms rises out of the lake, intent on devouring you all! Make a stand!
Havilar:	Wow this is beautiful! It's a jungle! A fungal jungle! Hey, I rhymed!
Krach:	Uhh...where?
Havilar:	All around! Look at that fuschia stalky thing! Look at those turquoise...ruffly bits!
Strange Woman:	Those are gills. It's beautiful, isn't it? Couldn't you just imagine everywhere being this beautiful?
Havilar:	Well except those gazers have followed us. And now fire snakes! Which ARE a little pretty. Until they bite you.
Strange Woman:	Oh chase them down, brave heroes...
26	Defeat 25 Enemies		The path becomes a fungal jungle! Fire snakes and gazers -- oh my!
Boo:	Squeak!
Minsc:	What is it? That creature? It is very cute. It reminds me of the pangolins in Chult--almost like armored miniature giant space hamsters.
Jarlaxle:	Huh. But this one's...fluffy? And covered in vines and mushrooms.
Bruenor:	And it's attackin' us! Watch out fer those claws!
27	Defeat 25 Enemies		A fluffy shambling mound pangolin! It's so cute! And so deadly! Fight them off!
Havilar:	This jungle is so weird! I've never seen a mushroom jungle!
Mot:	This is the same kind of spidery tunnel we've been through a dozen times! What is she talking about? Krach, are you seeing any of this?
Krach:	I just assumed that a 'jungle' was a different thing on this plane. Like when they say 'a lake,' you don't ask if it's an acid lake or a lava lake or a lake of soul-sucking ooze --
Mot:	What about you, Puff? Does this look like a jungle?
Puff:	No! It looks even worse than when I left it! It's as if something is sucking all the life out of Araumycos!
Strange Woman:	More timmasks for your collection. What are these for, my dears?
Jarlaxle:	Oh we have a ritual to complete. Need to send some demon lords back to the Abyss where they'll stop bothering everyone.
Strange Woman:	How very interesting. Well I'll leave you to your tasks. Nice big swings now. Gets the blood pumping.
28	Defeat 2 Timmasks		Timmashes, tummaskes...timmmmmmaskasks. Heh. What were we doing?
29	Defeat 25 Enemies		All the monsters of this strange patch of the Underdark swarm out of the verdant growths! Fight your way through!
Mot:	Okay let's just circle up, recap where we're at: We're walking down a desiccated and shadowy path of tunnels full of shriveled up mushrooms everyone keeps gawking at the beauty of.
Puff:	Check!
Mot:	Our intrepid heroes keep freezing up and then talking to no one.
Krach:	Big check!
Mot:	And then fighting mushrooms or little monsters COVERED in mushrooms and talking about things like aboleths and duergar.
Krach:	We are all on the same page. Except your Chosen just screamed 'Snakealeopard!' and is attacking the shadows again.
30	Defeat the Kamadan		It's a leopard! It's snakes! It's a snakealeopard! No! It's a kamadan -- haven't seen one of these since Chult, but you remember how it's done!
Krach:	Are we SURE it's not poison gas? I mean, I can't get poisoned and you can't get poisoned --
Mot:	Yeah, but Puff can be.
Puff:	True!
Krach:	He's freezing up too though! Puff! Shake it off!
Puff:	I can see the jungle now! Sort of. I can see the dried out tunnel too. It keeps flickering like I'm blinking really fast!
Mot:	Drat. What's like a poison but not a poison that affects people right away, myconids slowly and fiends even less?
31	Defeat 25 Enemies		We're nearing the colony, but there's still traces of Juiblex! Fight the squirrels!
32	Defeat 25 Enemies		Have you ever really LOOKED at a pangolin? They're very weird. The plant matter and mushrooms are almost sensible. Mushrooms really are very sensible...
Mot:	Oh, flaming mud pits! It's spores! That's what's doing this!
Puff:	Ohhh! Is that what that is? I keep thinking someone's whispering to me, but there aren't any other myconids around!
Krach:	Ohhhhh of course!....what are spores?
Puff:	They're sort of like seeds and they're sort of like dust. We can use them to talk to each other. Give an alarm call or ask for something, or reinforce what we're saying! But if you don't speak spore, I guess you...don't...ohhh...
Krach:	Puff! Puff!
Mot:	He's passed out! Looks like it might be you and me, you little maniac.
Minsc:	Look Timmasks! Why are we doing this?
Jarlaxle:	This is who we are now. The Timmask choppers. Maybe we should change our name. Timmask Choppers of the Forgotten Realms!
Havilar:	Ooh! Look! Those red pandas on unicycles came to watch us chop!
33	Defeat 2 Timmasks		Do you still need these timmasks? What were they for again? A ritual? For what? OH RIGHT!
Mot:	Hey! Champions! This path over here has a lot more timmasks! And it leads upward! We could move away from, you know, the gaping maw of darkness and monsters?
Celeste:	What are you talking about? There's nothing there but a cliff!
Havilar:	GASP! Are you trying to KILL us?
Mot:	Did you just SAY 'gasp'? Of course, I'm not trying to kill you, I would be in SO MUCH TROUBLE if I killed you -- Where are you going?
Havilar:	To find more timmasks, of course. We need thirteen. Or thirty.
Jarlaxle:	Thirty sounds right.
34	Defeat 25 Enemies		It's a circus when those red pandas show up! Wait...are they related to pandas? Do we have pandas in the Forgotten Realms?
Havilar:	This is the best Underdark circus I've ever seen! Oops! Sorry Baeloth!
Baeloth:	No! No apologies needed! This is the greatest show I've ever witnessed.
Mot:	STOP BREATHING THE SPORES!
Havilar:	Shh, Mot! There's a clown! A clown we can fight!
Baeloth:	Hey I think I know that clown!
Strange Woman:	Go this way. This way is more timmasks
Mot:	WHY ARE YOU WALKING DEEPER INTO THE CAVERNS?!
35	Defeat the Xanathar Clown		Xanathar the Clown is no laughing matter! Well...it's okay if you laugh a little, but don't ignore its eyestalks!
36	Defeat 25 Enemies		You must press on! Fight through these gooey squirrels and gibbering mouthers!
Mot:	Lady! Stop! You're being some kind of mind-controlled or drugged by Zuggtmoy!
Havilar:	What? I think I'd know if I were being mushroom controlled. What is your problem, Mot?
Mot:	MIND controlled.
Jarlaxle:	That's what she said! I'll tell you what his problem is -- he's trying to stop us from collecting all the timmasks. You're trying to sabotage the ritual!
Mot:	Why would I sabotage a ritual to get rid of demon lords? That's literally the entire point of my existence!
Jarlaxle:	What demon lords? What are you talking about? Nevermind, we have more important things to do. Come on, Havilar.
37	Defeat 25 Enemies		Don't listen to those familiars! There are mushrooms at stake! Deeper into the Underdark!
38	Defeat 2 Timmasks		We have always been chopping timmasks...we will always BE chopping timmasks...breathe them in deep...isn't that nice?
Mot:	Every time they stop to chop timmasks, more of them lie down on the cart all catatonic! Puff's not even waking up now.
Krach:	Oh! OH! I think the spores are coming off the timmasks! I think the timmasks are confusing everyone! Can they do that? Is that a thing here?
Mot:	Ohhh...that would certainly explain a lot. So we just have to...counteract the timmasks. With...how do you do that?
Krach:	We could tear all their noses off.
Mot:	...how have we never defeated you in all the years of the Blood War?
39	Defeat 25 Enemies		You're so close to the mushrooms. Just mushroom these threats! It's so mushroom!
Celeste:	Oh no! That xorn is back!
Nayeli:	That's...no xorn. It's full of stars! And mushrooms!
Minsc:	It's so...hypnotic. So mushroom!
Havilar:	I...understand everything now. Also: dibs! Dibs, dibs, dibs!
Minsc:	No! I will cut the secret of the universe from the star monster!
40	Defeat the Nebula Pig Xorn		Deep in the eyes of the nebula pig xorn, you see the truth, and the truth is fungus. You must free it!
Mot:	All right, simplest solution: When you have an overwhelming problem and there's no one else to blame it on so you can get out without being in trouble--
Krach:	I feel like that's still on the table.
Mot:	For YOU maybe! If I leave her down here to turn into a mushroom servitor, I'm definitely getting demoted. Do you know what they demote imps into? It's not great. Anyway, we can't blame someone else, we need to use the person who has the skills to solve this fastest, preferably without stealing the glory.
Krach:	Is that ME?
Mot:	No! We need to wake up Puff! He knows about spores, he can probably tell us if there's some sort of antidote! Quick! Tell them those rotting brown mushrooms are goop squirrels or something and I'll grab him off the cart.
Krach:	Hey! Hey! Champions! More of those goopy squirrels! And...mouthers! Help! Help!
41	Defeat 25 Enemies		Do you really need to fight these monsters? What if you just MERGED with the monsters? Wouldn't that be nice?
Mot:	Puff! Wake up!
Krach:	Try blowing the spore-dust stuff off him with your wings!
Mot:	Good idea! Here goes!
Krach:	Ack! It's in my eyes!...Oh weird...Oh I saw the jungle for a second. And the goop squirrels! I was right!
Puff:	...Huh...What?...Oh hey guys! Did I take a little nap?
Mot:	Nevermind that now. The champions are all confused because Zuggtmoy's made the timmask spores more dangerous and they're all hallucinating weird monsters and I think they're being lured to their deaths. Now what counteracts timmask spores?!
Puff:	Uh...well, you could get a cleric --
Celeste:	Mushroom! There's more mushrooms! To arms!
Mot:	THAT's your top cleric. Clerics are all fighting 'goop squirrels' and forgetting what 'mushroom' actually means. Nobody is casting restorations. What's the myconid answer?
Puff:	Well...if it's regular timmasks...or if it works like regular timmasks...hmm..
Krach:	STAY AWAKE! STAY AWAKE! STAY AWAKE!
Puff:	Ah! Let me think! Let me think!
42	Defeat 25 Enemies		You could just...lie down...embrace the fungal forest. Do you WANT to fight these gazers and squirrels and gibbering mouthers?
Puff:	All right, all right! I know the answer! You see those little mushrooms tucked in between the stalagmites? The ones with the dark red spots on their caps?
Mot:	Yes! What do they do?
Puff:	They're what we use when someone gets sick and is flinging their spores everywhere. It should stop the timmasks' spores from affecting the champions. I think.
Mot:	You THINK?
Krach:	Let's try it! Hey Champions! These red spotted mushrooms are a great snack and also the pangolins want them!
Celeste:	We can't have that! Come on everyone! Mushrooms are at mushroom!
43	Collect 25 Unaffected Fungi		The familiars want you to eat these mushrooms. That seems reasonable! Mushrooms! Mushrooms! Mushrooms!
Mot:	Great! That's great. Everybody enjoy their mushrooms! You too Puff!
Krach:	Do WE have to eat them? I didn't get to play with a goop squirrel.
Mot:	Go home and suggest Zuggtmoy make goop squirrels for real. I'm not babysitting you through a weird demonic mushroom vision in the Underdark.
Celeste:	What's...happening? Why is everything...flickering?
Havilar:	Ow! Ow! I hate it! Ugh make it stop!
Mot:	You got poisoned by demonic spores. The mushrooms are the antidote. You're coming down from the hallucinations.
Celeste:	So...are those monsters real?
Mot:	Uhhh...some of them at least? You should definitely hit everything. Just everything.
44	Defeat 25 Enemies		Oh boy. Things might have gotten a little out of hand. You're coming down! Are these real? Are they illusions? No time to be sure! Fight!
Jarlaxle:	What is the booming sound? Is the booming sound real?
Baeloth:	That sounds like...like an enormous dragon coming this way!
Strange Woman:	Let's play a guessing game, Champions. Are your eyes still deceiving you?
Zuggtmoy:	OR ARE YOU IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING TOO GREAT TO NAME?
45	Defeat the Tiawut		Your eyes cannot encompass the beauty, the monstrosity of the creature approaching. Is it five gargantuan beasts? No! Is it the Queen of Dragons? NO! Stand firm against TIAWUT!
Zuggtmoy:	YOU HAVE COME INTO MY LAIR, MY DEEPEST ROOTS. I HAVE TAKEN OVER ARAUMYCOS DOWN TO ITS FINEST FILAMENTS AND MADE IT PART OF ME. YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE. MY ENDLESS REACH SHALL CRAWL ACROSS YOUR BONES.
Jarlaxle:	Believe it or not, that isn't the first time I've heard that threat.
Bruenor:	Spore servants! Gas spores! Myconid sprouts! I think we've found our real duergar, gazers, and pangolins!
46	Defeat 25 Enemies		Your senses have been compromised, but you've gotten your wits together! Fight the servants of Zuggtmoy!
47	Defeat 25 Enemies		The spores of these strange fungi threaten to suck you back into that confused state! You need to get out of here! Fight the corrupted colony!
Celeste:	She's throwing out more spores! Don't breathe them in!
Jarlaxle:	We ate the mushrooms! That's supposed to be enough!
Celeste:	Next time a terrifying fungal demon lord asks me to help her decide how she ought to fairly distribute her madness-inducing spores, I'll mention that. But for now, I can feel them taking root again. We need to stop breathing them in!
Jarlaxle:	Well...we're not the first people she's led here by the looks of things. Let's grab those strips of cloth and cover our faces. That should buy us some protection.
Celeste:	Excellent idea!
48	Collect 25 Scraps of Cloth		We'll need more than an antidote -- we need some prevention! Cover your faces with those scraps of cloth!
49	Defeat 25 Enemies		Zuggtmoy's merging with the fungus Araumycos has increased the Demon Queen of Fungus's power beyond measure! Battle her minions and free yourselves!
Zuggtmoy:	YOUR PATH ENDS HERE, CHAMPIONS. LIE DOWN AND WITNESS THE STRENGTH AND ENDLESS ROOTS OF THE DEMON QUEEN OF FUNGI! EMBRACE THE INEVITABILITY OF DECAY!
Celeste:	Not a chance!
Minsc:	We are here to defeat evil! You are evil! So the only end to this is defeating you!
Krach:	Yeah!
Zuggtmoy:	LITTLE TRAITOR, YOU WILL BE THE LAST TO DIE AND THE SLOWEST TO DECAY.
50	Defeat the Zuggtmoy		Zuggtmoy herself rises up before you, seeping and terrible, and furious you've shaken off her madness!
Bruenor:	Oi! She's seepin' back inta tha rocks!
Jarlaxle:	Good thing we've got all the ingredients for Vizeran's ritual. That ought to get her right out of here.
Minsc:	Are we going to talk about the tiny evil fiends shouting fighting words and why I have not been allowed to attack them yet?
Havilar:	Minsc, don't you dare! Mot's MY imp and...Baeloth's quasit, but I say you can't chop him either. They were heroic and they saved us, including you!
Celeste:	Mot, Krach, Puff -- I don't know what to say. If it weren't for the three of you, we might have fallen to Zuggtmoy's illusions completely, and never gotten back to Vizeran with the ingredients to finish the ritual and clear the demon lords from the Underdark.
Mot:	THANK YOU. And I think that's an excellent place for us to begin our negotiations on behalf of the familiars. You DEFINITELY don't pay enough for this kind of thing.
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Trivia

Some of the hallucinatory fungal creatures featured in this adventure were created on CNE's Sketching Hour streaming show.

• Episode 14 - Disheveled Gelatinous Cube Squirrel
• Episode 22 - Fluffy Shambling Mound Pangolin
• Episode 30 - Nebula Pig Xorn
• Episode 19 - Tiawut