Finished Business

This is the 17th session of the **Ghosts of Saltmarsh** campaign and overall 24th session for The Albatross Pirates.

As the party exits the chamber the doors slam closed behind them. They enter the weeping angel room. The head up the stairs and go back to where they entered. A ripple travels along the hallway to the exit and the door remains closed at the exit. Raven and Toof open the door. On the other side is multiple gory corpses of lizards. It's a massacre. The wounds seem to be as if something sucked out their insides. Raven puts her ring of invisibility on and takes lead. Bilji leads the rest using his nose to trace Raven's location.

The party heads through the lizardman base seeing more corpses. Felix notices scaley in a corner scared and huddled in fear. Raven doesn't notice and keeps moving forward. Toof goes and picks up Scaley who hugs Toof after seeing him. Raven goes to the throne room and spots a large amount of bodies. The throne room has light coming out. Allura sits on the throne holding the orb among corpses of lizards. Even through invisibility she looks directly at Raven. Raven drops her invisibility as the party arrives in the throne room.

Allura exclaims she was expecting them. She congratulates Bilji on the battle exclaiming she watched him fight.  Allura holds the orb in front of her face as it turns crimson. She says she is one step closer to her ultimatum. She asks how to approach the crew in the future and the party decides it will be a cross the bridge when we get there situation. She offers her hand and Hal takes it. He feels much better, he gains a profane bonus to AC initiative and reflex saving throws. She says goodbye to the crew as she seems to turn to dust and disappear.

Morgan questions Scaley to ask if he saw anything. Scaley exclaims he didn't see anything in a nerdy voice (Morgan can now speak lizard). The crew decides to split up to search the lair with the teams being Vasnyl and Hal, Bilji and Finch, Toof with Morgan and Scaley, and finally Raven and Felix. Morgan's team notices the nursey has been slaughtered, the hatchery however has 200 unharmed eggs. Scaley is asked if he wants to take care of the eggs or join the crew. Toof finds a secret room and busts it open with strength while raging. They find a treasure room. Toof notices a chest is trapped but using his superior engineering skills disarms it and sees many gold coins, a golden crown, and an ivory wand inlaid with gold. Toof gives Scaley the two small sacks to fund his daycare.

Raven and Felix search around their area. They find the noble/government quarters. They enter a library and find many books and a chest. The library is somebody’s sleeping quarters. There are five books on a table, The Politics of Power, The Trial of Diplomacy, The Occult Properties of Gemstones, Lizard Language and Common Tongue Grammar, and The Nature of the Sahaguin. Raven breaks open the lock on the chest. They find 2 vials and two bags. The first bag contains 5 pearl and the second contains 50 coins of electrum. The vials are perfume, and Felix instantly puts one of them on Raven. They also search a barracks to find some more items.

Hal and Vasnyl search around their area. They are in a fake church. They find instruments for shaman rituals. These include a bell and gongs inside a chest. Hal opens multiple chests and finds 17 electrum, a silver belt buckle, a coin purse with 20 silver and one with 25 silver, and a nice bird feather that’s long and brilliantly coloured. Hal and Vasnyl decide to keep the electrum to themselves.

Bilji and Finch find the queen’s sleeping quarters. They find a nice chest that Bilji goes to check. He sees no traps, and then his palms instantly get hit by needles. He feels pain and numbness. Finch uses the spell knock to open the chest. They find silver leather straps, a flask, perfume, a scarf, a purse, 50 electrum, a mirror, a bowl, and some goblets.

Everybody meets up and Morgan checks Bilji. He seems perfectly fine (nat 1 time).  Felix doubles back to check with his googles and sees nothing. Scaley stays behind. Everybody walks into the sun, and Raven burns while ducking back into darkness. She drinks her umbra (is that the name?) potion and they go to the ship. Piggy informs them Allura's ship left earlier. Toof and Vasnyl feel the sun hit him harder than normal. It wears them down. They take constitution damage. They do not realize enough to tell anyone.

On the ship the party finds that Bjorn left the ship earlier on. Piggy informs Felix, as Felix gives him a brew, that the party's crew was a bit scarred, some were brought aboard Allura's ship and all they remember is buzzing like dozens of insects, almost like a breeding ground, and pain. Felix shares what he heard with the party, taking care not to let the affected members overhear less it brings back bad memories. Raven bites and succs Bilji. Vasnyl and Toof are still affected by the zombies from before. This time they notice they may feel sick. They go to Morgan to find out they have zombie rot. Which would eventually turn them into zombies. The disease can spread via touch.  There is a potential outbreak with everybody who touched Vasnyl and Toof. This included Morgan and all she healed. They inform the Captain only. On the third day Felix cooks food and for once it turns into a great meal rather than just being better than rations. Everyone questions if he actually made it because they are not used to getting good food. Morgan contracts the disease and is the only one unable to recover when the party docks at saltmarsh.

Bilji splits the loot and Hal crafts a potion to help cure Morgan of her zombification. The potion fails and the party goes to the church to help cure Morgan. It is currently locked. Morgan manages to recover through her own strength. The party goes to present the lizard queens head to their quest giver from Saltmarsh. Bilji, Vasnyl, Hal, Raven, and Toof head off to do that towards the council hall. They are told it will take an hour to them to have their appointment. In some magazines they read about a formidable tower north of Saltmarsh surrounded by water. Fire shoots at people who come near but it has lots of loot. They meet with the representatives of Saltmarsh in the same room as before. Bilji reports everything in his own unique Bilji way. He even reveals about Allura even though he thinks she is watching. Bilji and Hal notice Allura watching the meeting and laughing to herself. Bilji warns of the Sahaguin invasion.

The party finds out about two difficult high paying tasks to be given out by Miss Enoshima. A salvaging operation and something about an abby (place of religious). The crew gets paid their 20k gold.  They depart towards Waterdeep. They debate a shortcut. Finch and Bilji get into a lovers quarrel. They decide to go the long way. Raven messes up navigation and they are forced to take the short route. The sailing goes well right until the end where Bilji scrapes the boat against the rocks. They dock in Waterdeep and a group of teenagers runs up to Bilji. They state he's legendary because of how much he travels. Toof goes to intimidate the kids out of joining because he thinks they aren’t ready. Felix also turns into Toof using the hat of disguise to help intimidation. The kids know of Bilji's previous exploits and all join. There are 6 new crew members. The crew prepares for the next part of their journey.

The MVP of this session is Hal for Robot Stuff