The season revolves around the introduction of world of Spyre and Elmville, the city where everything takes place in, and the main cast as they start their freshman year. The central plot is a mystery involving girls disappearing and how it connects to the accident that takes place on the kids' very first day, that actually ends up with Gorgug dying, and another one of them (Kristen).
Before that happens, Gorgug is introduced as an awkward half-orc raised by 2 gnomes in a tree house that's always felt cramped to him. It's explained that he has difficulty speaking to people and making friends, and issues with understanding his rage, especially with two sweetly cheery parents that he's never seen get upset. We witness the way his rage can fluster him, when, upon trying to make a new friend in Fabian Seacaster, he gets punched in the gut for his efforts, and retaliates by going into a rage and returning the gift--only to come out of his anger and to apologise profusely, offering Fabian the present he had been trying to give him before.
The group that makes up Gorgug's adventuring party are the Bad Kids: Gorgug, Fabian, Kristen, Fig, Adaine, and Riz. It's being stuck in detention together that makes them come together, hearing a commotion in the cafeteria that leads them into the battle that makes Gorgug and Kristen lose their lives, and then coming back once the principal sacrifices his and the school guidance counsellor's life for theirs.
They stick together for this reason (and the fact every other person has been paired into adventuring groups), as well as the mystery surrounding what happened to them, and Riz's own investigation into the missing girls. Gorgug doesn't lead any of the actions they take in their journey--sometimes, he even tries to stay out of the investigating, and still ends up somehow being accused of stealing bags and earning a bully in Ragh Barkrock for it, a half-orc that plays on the football team the Bloodrush.
The main events that happen for Gorgug through this time is the shy and awkward relationship that starts up between him and a satyr girl called Zelda that he talks to by the lockers, his inability to not question most of the adult males he meets as being dad (straight after dying), and also how Riz's mom can't be his dad. He also comes to an understanding with Ragh Barkrock after killing him and the football coach, after the latter attempted to instigate a war on the world because of his religious extremist beliefs. Gorgug finds out that Ragh also doesn't know who his dad is, and they have a moment where Ragh kisses him on the cheek. Just because.
His love interest also becomes involved with the plot involving the kidnapped girls, who turned out were being locked within crystals to keep them for a special time. The gang find out that this is the night of school prom, and the crowning of the queen and king: an event that hasn't happened until this year due to being previously removed. But such an event--along with the girls being used as sacrifices--will help break the curse on Kalvaxus, a great dragon who rampaged across Spyre until he was controlled by Principal Aguefort, and made into the school's vice principal as a far smaller version of himself while unable to have his one vice in life: gold.
While the Bad Kids don't manage to stop Kalvaxus from returning to his normal form, they do still defeat him with the help of Ragh, Fig's father, and another person they saved during a different fight called Jawbone. And during the end of this fight, once the dust has settled, Gorgug finds out that one of the band people playing that night was actually his father, Gorbag.
2. SOPHOMORE YEAR
Sophomore Year takes place a short time after Junior Year. Principal Arthur Aguefort, after coming back to life at the end of the first season, sends the group off to find the crown of the Nightmare King that went missing from his office. Around this time, Riz and Fig also go missing, and in following their trail, Gorgug forgets to tell Zelda--now his girlfriend--goodbye before leaving, and also to set up his crystal phone to a generator so they can talk long distance. This comes back through the story, where Zelda criticises Gorgug for not taking more care with his relationships as he does his one with his adventuring party.
This becomes the side plot for Gorgug as he tries to fix things, but also fumbles for quite a time in knowing how. To Gorgug, he still sees himself as the awkward kid who has trouble speaking with people, who isn't very bright. But Gorgug ends up contributing to the group when he fixes Fabian's motorcycle, the Hangman, when it gets broken, and when Fabian needs cheering up. He also brings along a van that he bought off his parents that helps the group get around, as their journey after finding Fig and Riz leads them across the ocean (and go figure, his van can turn into a boat van).
We see him speak more through this adventure than he did in the first season, though he doesn't have the means to give as much input into the main plot of the story as many of the others. Gorgug's smarts, or his lack of them, are a point, however, for Gorgug himself throughout this season: when their search to find the crown leads them directly into the lair of the Nightmare King, a forest of unreality and dreams, the members of the Bad Kids have to not only face their fears, and accept them.
For Gorgug, he remembers deeply the day he died, and if his life after the fact is real--suffering from imposter syndrome, and how he isn't very smart. His fears lead him into a cave with a sphinx that reveals a puzzle he must solve, or get eaten. As Gorgug struggles with the puzzle, he's shown how his parents cut contact with their extended family when they adopted him, thinking he'll only bring rage when he grows up. Will you? asks the sphinx.
Gorgug doesn't know, and he still feels like a loser, and not the Gorgug that's achieved the fame he has through his heroism (and also side-gig as the drummer for Fig's band). But as he struggles through the puzzle, he confronts the sphinx and admits to his fears, the reality of them too--that he takes longer than other people, but he figures things out eventually--and says it can eat him instead of solving the puzzle.
And Gorgug solves the real puzzle in doing this, managing to make the journey to meet with his friends again to face the people attempting to bring back the Nightmare King by using the crown, and to stop a catastrophe from taking place.
3. JUNIOR YEAR
This season starts at the tail end of an adventure that took place between the end of Sophomore Year and the start of Junior Year, after Riz accidently unleashes a being known as a Night Yorb by speaking its name too amny times. An adventure has occurred off-screen in chasing the Night Yorb and sealing it away, leading the gang straight into the early hours of their first day of junior year--after having never taken a break.
As such, the group are tired, and there's a level of done and over it that especially sticks with Gorgug, now finally able to attend school and not journey over Spyre on some question, has classes. His schedule is particularly packed when he decides to take artificer classes on top of his barbarian classes, a choice that his barbarian teacher, Porter, is especially against, feeling that Gorgug doesn't take being a barbarian seriously enough (on top of having been disapproving of Gorgug in the past).
His inability to truly tap into a destructive rage is a weakness in Porter's eyes, and he refuses to sign his MCAT, which means that both his teachers are in agreement of his multiclass of barbarian and artificer. Even so, Gorgug takes his artificer classes, and he takes them hard: he has to catch up to junior year by taking both freshman and sophomore levels throughout the semesters, making Gorgug especially stressed out.
There is an overarching plot to the season, involving Kristen's god dying and disappearing, and some peculiar behaviour from another adventuring party in the school called the Rat Grinders. Gorgug's main involvement with some members comes from their barbarian Mary Ann, and bard Ruben, with the latter more tangentially related due to a festival taking place outside his (Gorgug's) home. With Mary Ann, Gorgug becomes angry about her existence after she manages to tackle him hard during a Bloodrush tryout, and her curt sentences make it hard for them to talk. He carries this resent throughout the semesters, even though they don't often interact.
As for Ruben, the festival - the Frostyfaire Folk Festival - plays in around the point Gorgug is taken from. The festival happens to be located by the Thistlespring Tree home after the owners of the land of the previous location were murdered. The festival ends up in chaos as the replacement headmaster Grix, a robot made by Arthur Aguefort (currently on vacation) goes haywire while attempting to keep perfect order on all students, and causes Gorgug's parent's sex machines to start attacking everyone.
During all this, Kristen approaches a random vulture that also happens to be the Vulture King, sending the party into the Vulture Dimension for a short time. Very important.
The mess gets resolved, though the gang continue to search for clues to the mysteries of what's going on: why red stars have been appearing that cause people to hulk out and go into a rage; why the festival was moved to the Thistlespring tree, what is up with the Rat Grinders?
They continue to go to classes, with Gorgug receiving help from his friends to help him through his workload. Adaine sees a vision where Gorgug is using his artificer abilities while in a rage--a difficult, potentially impossible task due to the concentration needed to use artificer abilities that rage doesn't allow.
But Gorgug has hope, and so does Adaine, and that's the goal that Gorgug is going towards: to mastering both his classes and to show they can work together.
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