Special Delivery

## Premise

Admiral Abbigull is in need of some temporary crew to help make a special delivery!

## Plot Summary

Sebby, Lotusss, and Benedetti answer an ad calling for extra crew aboard the Salty Squabble. Meeting Admiral Abbigull at the gangplank, she greets and welcomes them aboard. The party is briefly introduced to the first mate, Drogue, an unimpressed-sounding frilled lizard.

Bilgerat is called down from working aloft to give the party a tour of the Squabble, who takes them below to the hold and introducing them to the cargo they are to keep an eye on for the voyage. The party prepares to take over for the last crewmember aboard, Hawser, and Benedetti shares his rather extensive knowledge of pixie dust, the substance contained within the very large box marked for special delivery. The dust is volatile in multiple senses, reacting to both rough handling and strong emotions. With this in mind, the box is already heavily lashed and secured to the floor, to both avoid jostling and keep in place should it begin to float about the place as objects and person affected by active pixie dust are wont to do.

The ship gets underway and the party promptly discovers guard duty is Very Boring. Sebby sings sea shanties to pass the time, while Lotusss recounts successful hunts. Benedetti examines the hold with an artists eye, the film director ~~snooping~~ noting the various types of cargo Abbigull is delivering. Despite this, it is Lotusss who notices sounds of movement within the hold and gathers Sebby and Benedetti to corner a stowaway gecko.

Bringing the gecko on deck for interrogation and answers, Bilgerat convinces everyone to hold on accusations and asks the gecko is they know how they came to be aboard. The gecko takes this for the out it is but the sympathetic rat unfortunately rolls a nat20 on insight and entirely steps back to let the party and Abbigull have at them. In perhaps the smartest move for them yet, the gecko opts to literally zipper their mouth shut.

Intimidation checks ensue, and Sebby and Lotusss work together to unzipper the gecko's loose lips while Benedetti films the excitement. This is interrupted when Hawser rings the emergency bell, pulling attention to a ship that has altered course to head straight for the Squabble. At the same time, the Squabble's engines sputter to a halt, leaving the sailing vessel near dead in the water.

Sebby and Bilgerat lock the stowaway in the brig, stuffing him into a jar for good measure. The party and Hawser quickly decide they all want to stay on deck to meet the incoming attack head-on. Bilgerat scarpers aloft to provide coverfire, while Abbigull and Drogue station themselves aft to steer the ship safe while the threat is dealt with.

Several geckos board the Salty Squabble. Two immediately book it below deck, and Lotusss follows after them. Sebby and Hawser start wrecking shop, while Benedetti records the action with a camera manned by himself, a second camera manned by use of Unseen Servant, and accompanying documentary narration of the fight. He gains a very nice perch when a gecko falls prone near him and fails to shift Benedetti off of sitting on them.

Meanwhile, Lotusss hounds the geckos below deck, who succeed in opening the hold bay doors and quickly work to unlash the crate of pixie dust from it's spot. In attacking the geckos with her yklwa, she misses and accidentally strikes the crate. She and the geckos freeze as the box shakes and shifts dangerously, before coming to a stable standstill.

On deck, Abbigull gybes the ship, sending the foresail boom sweeping dangerously across deck. Sebby, Bilgerat, and Hawser avoid the heavy wooden spar, but Benedetti and several geckos fail the check. Benedetti is knocked from his gecko perch, and one unlucky gecko is launched entirely off the ship into the sea.

With the fight no longer going so well for his hired minions, Drogue decides to make his move and calls a stop to the combat by holding a sword to Abbigull. Sebby attempts to goad Drogue into a duel, while Lotusss decides to make herself a petty nuisance by sitting herself lotus-position atop the surpringly heavy crate the geckos are now moving out of the hold. Bendetti continues his film and commentary, much to Drogue's intense displeasure.

As the crate makes it to deck, Drogue offers the party and crew of the Squabble extra pay to defect to his leadership aboard the Shellback. Lotusss, taking offense to this, stands up and stabs her yklwa directly into the crate of pixie dust. Panic ensues as the box explodes, coating everyone and everything in a sparkling substance.

Benedetti's cool head is the one to notice that not only is nobody floating helplessly into the air, the substance is not in fact pixie dust- it is an obscene amount of glitter. Drogue attempts to escape back to his own ship, but is Commanded to stop and he and the remaining geckos are rounded up and placed in the brig.

Engines fixed, the Salty Squabble continues on her way, towing the empty Shellback after her. Upon docking, Abbigull beckons the party over to the back of the ship, where she reveals where the *real* pixie dust was stored. Delivery made and local authorities called, the party is rewarded with 30 gold and glitter bomb jars. Sebby and Lotusss decide to take command of the abandonned Shellback ship, while Benedetti wishes them luck, going his own way ton continue his documntary.

## Cast

* Kraken (DM)
* Benedetti Carzo (Kanpukugo)
* Lotusss Many-Huntsss (SithlordBman)
* Sebastien (Sebby) Fitzgerald (Hazard)

## Notable NPCs

* Admiral Abbigull
* Drogue
* Bilgerat
* Hawser

## External links

Session recording here

Session transcript here

SV Salty SquabbleSquabble MapBendetti, having a fantastic timeLotusss on the huntSebby menacing a gecko