Sky Pirate Beach Day

The Sky Pirate Beach Day oneshot is the spin-off oneshot for Arc 6. It aired on Sunday, March 6th, on Twitch, and is available as a VOD on YouTube.

Canonically, it takes place right after the first successful mission Kipp is on with the party, about 5 months before the events of Arc 6.

## Characters and Players

**DM** - Gus (He/Him)

**Beryl Hatebad** (She/Her) (played by Julia - She/Her), a level 8 Dwarf Battlemaster Fighter. She is the quartermaster of the group, and also the mom friend, and many times the only reason the group gets anything done or organised.

**Kipp Tupper** (He/They) (played by Amelia - They/She), a level 3 Satyr Shadow Magic Sorcerer. They are the intern of the group and new in the crew. As a student of Anthropology at the Arcane Academy, they want to write their thesis on sky piracy during their internship. The other crew members, especially Remeny, often give them the tasks they don't want to do, but he is still happy to help.

**Kix** (Any/All) (played by Abbey - She/They), a level 5 Warforged Battle Smith Artificer. They are the oldest of the crew by far, but are more of an aunt / uncle for most of the group than a parental figure, often joining their friends on their weird shenanigans, or even starting them himself. Her craft is the art of textiles, be it weaving or embroidery.

**Lottie Leremy** (She/Her) (played by Haley - She/Her), a level 6 Variant Human College of Spirits Bard. She has been together with the group for longer than Kipp, even though they are around the same age, and is a bit of the baby of the crew. She is always accompanied by her ghosts, and everything about her, including her hair and skin, is in greyscales.

**Remeny Gratz** (She/Her) (played by Jenny - She/Her), a level 9 Human Oath of Treachery Paladin. She is the captain of the crew, mostly because she doesn't like anyone telling her what to do. She loves her freedom, and wine, but also deeply cares for her sky pirate family.

## Plot

The crew celebrates Kipp's first mission together with them by having a day together on the beach of Qto, one of Hyranor's tourism hotspots. During their mission, they had wanted to steal wine, but when they opened the barrels there was actually gold inside them, which upsets Remeny, who wanted some alcohol.

The party lands their Eirden Airyc and Kix plays some music to announce their arrival. The people at the beach don't like it, though, and one of them throws sand at Kix before Remeny goes up to him to intimidate him to make him stop. Kipp then interviews the now scared man about his experience to gain more data for their thesis paper. Lottie spends this time hiding behind Airyc as to not draw attention to herself.

Beryl sets up everyone's things, laying out towels, and making sure Lottie puts on sunscreen. Once everything is fine, Beryl and Remeny run into the ocean to splash and play. Kix enters the ocean together with their legs which they use as a carrying tray.

While the others are in the water, Kipp and Lottie have some one on one time and chat, and afterwards they decide to go for a walk, sneaking away from the watchful eye of Beryl, who gets distracted by Kix and Remeny: in the water, they all play chicken wars together (objective: push the other person down from their high point into the water), Beryl on Kix's legs, and Remeny on Kix's torso. Beryl wins 4 rounds and Remeny wins 2.

On their walk Lottie and Kipp find a pirate ship and a cool rock. They go for the rock and climb onto it, sit down, and drink some Dream Lily together. It tasted like ones favorite drink, for Lottie it's tap water, and hibiscus tea for Kipp. The rock turns out to be a Truth Rock, requiring a Charisma saving throw with increasing DC after each minute in order not to be affected by the Zone of Truth spell.

After their games Beryl and Remeny leave the water to go grab powdered silver and at the sound of drinks, Kix joins. Upon noticing that Lottie and Kipp are missing, Remeny tries Locate Object on Lottie's parasol but cannot find them. She gets upset and convinces Beryl to go find them, with Kix following the two behind at a distance. After a bit of walking, Remeny's Locate Object pings and they find the two laying on a rock. However, their focus is on the pirate ship initially. Remeny decides to haze Kipp when looking at the ship and Beryl agrees, because she's "taking the day off".

The group joins back up, with Lottie and Kipp now under the Zone of Truth spell. Remeny goes onto the rock to discuss her plan for Kipp. Kipp is to go onto the pirate ship by themselves and retrieve wine. With some persuasion from Kix and Beryl, Remeny switches it to captain for a day.

Kipp decides that Lottie and them will be going onto the ship to go get wine while the others watch from a distance. Beryl, Remeny and Kix plan on distracting people if necessary, considering using the bomb Beryl always has on her, or an octopus she finds in the water. Kix disguises themselves as Remeny, and the real Remeny turns Lottie and Kipp invisible so that they can sneak around the ship more easily.

After the break, they all get on the ship together. While Kipp and Lottie start sneaking around, the rest of the crew try to cause some sort of destruction. While looking for anything interesting on the ship, Kipp and Lottie have a conversation about her ghosts. In the meantime, Beryl and Remeny go to the wheel of the ship and make fun of sea pirates. Kix starts cutting up parts of the sails to use the fabric for their craft. Remeny carves things into the wood of ship.

Kipp and Lottie enter a room stern side, ending up under the wheel where Beryl and Remeny are. they decide to go down deeper into the ship. Once they get down the pair finds a room full of cauldrons, barrels and bottles along with a bunch of gold and copper. Kipp grab a bunch of bottles of wine and Lottie grabs some gold and then a few bottles of wine.

Getting back upstairs, Lottie runs at disguised Kix, thinking they were Remeny, forgetting that she's invisible. A loud noise sounds from the crash, which alerts a Kobold who comes out to take a look. Kipp casts Magic Missile at the Kobold, murdering him, which they did not plan to do. Remeny uses a diamond to Revivify the Kobold, who turns out to be the sea pirate's intern. Beryl throws the octopus at him before they run away.

Back at the beach, Kix turns back to her normal form, and Lottie gives Beryl the gold she took. Kipp is then given a gentle scolding from Beryl about thinking before acting.

Kipp and Lottie decide they're gonna build a sand castle and Lottie convinces Remeny to join them. Remeny brings some wine and decides the wine is only fine, not really worth the price of having to Revivify the Kobold. Beryl and Kix go to play Orbyball, where they meet Bengy and Gust, but are quickly kicked off the team by Bengy, who deeply annoys them with his behaviour.

Lottie and Remeny use Kipp's shovel to partially bury them while building a sandcastle around them. A drow woman named Lilililililily comes up to the trio and invites them to join a sandcastle competition, and they accept. Remeny takes her captain's hat back from Kipp and the whole crew joins the sandcastle competition. The third place winner gets the chance to ask the moon a question, the second place winner additionally gets a coupon for Souper Soup's Suds and Goop, and the first place winner gets to write something in the sky.

The competition is judged on creation, presentation, and creativity of the sandcastle. Kix helps with presentation, Remeny helps with creativity, Kipp helps with presentation, Beryl helps with creation, Lottie help with creativity, and Lottie's ghosts help with creation. The party discusses what to design before settling on an Airyc with Kipp on top.

The party get's second place and Kipp asks the big moon's moon, Liam, what it's favorite flower is. It's a Lily. Meanwhile, the winning team, a group of children, including their "leader" Gruggy, decide to write "Gruggy was here" in the sky.

The group takes their soup coupon and goes to get soup. The soup restaurant is full of sea pirates, singing shanties about soup. Kipp and Beryl order the house soup, Lottie is cautious of the "Souper Soup". Remeny and Lottie order the most expensive soup they can make in an hour and Kix orders some grease.

The sea pirates are singing about how much they love soup and so the party decides to sing louder than the sea pirates. A pirate jokes about sky pirates being extinct and Remeny pulls out her great axe, ready to challenge the sea pirates to a fight. Kipp uses their bagpipes to summon Airyc, who smashes the store front. Beryl calls Remeny to Airyc and Remeny goes and the party takes off, having ruined Souper Soup's day.

Airyc is directed to the pirate ship and Beryl cuts the rope holding the ship to the docks. Kipp casts a spell on Airyc, who then breathes fire and sets the ship on fire. Kix ritual casts a spell so that "sky pirates forever" is written in the sky.

Remeny casts ceremony on Kipp to officially add him to the crew.

## Trivia

* This is the first livestream that was DMed by Gus.
* For the livestream, Gus gives Amelia DM inspiration, which they did not get for the Arc 6 finale. This builds up on a joke from Arc 3, where Amelia got the first DM inspiration on podcast from Haley for being so bold to ask for it.
* As Kipp is promoted to "Captain for a day", Amelia steps away for a bit to get her pirate captain's hat.