The Festival Part 2

This is the 10th session of the **Ghosts of Saltmarsh** campaign and overall 17th session for The Albatross Pirates.

The final combat event was here. Bilji, Vasnyl, Felix, Toof, and Raven decided they would participate. The tournament will be first only fist fighting then anything goes. Toof, Raven, and Bilji intimidated the number of challengers from 50 other contestants to 3. Eliander was disappointed in those who left and looks upon the arena in a prominent chair. The first round was Raven versus Toof. Raven surrendered and Toof won. Next round was Vasnyl versus Albert. Vasnyl won. Bilji's opponent left. Felix versus Elise was next where she hiddenly poisoned Felix. Felix still won and knocked her out but remained affected.  Next round was Toof versus Vasnyl. Toof won. Next was Bilji versus Felix. Felix keeps on pinning Bilji until he let Bilji go to perform a flurry of blows. Right after Bilji cleaves him with his great sword and kills Felix on the spot. Felix is dead for 6 seconds and a druid rushes in to revive him. Felix revisits the chains. The finale was Bilji versus Toof. Bilji wins. He announced the group as the Albatross Sailors. Eliander wanted to now meet with not just the champion, but the entire crew.

Eliander suggested maybe now was not the time to face him. The fight should be postponed to another day because he did not think any of the crew were ready. He even said if the whole crew attacked him, they would not win. However, he had an ulterior motive and wished the crew was strong enough to accept his challenge/quest. Eliander is leader of the loyalist faction and the captain of the entire coast. The loyalist faction also had a quest for the group. Captain Bilji and 1-3 of the crew are to head to the council meeting at dawn to learn of the quest. Hal modified the skull to be able to swim through water by installing a propeller.

 The meeting began and Finch, Biilji, Morgan were up and front. The members already present consisted of Eliander Fireborn alongside his cooperator (his Finch) Manistrad Copperlocks. At the head of the table was a single lady known as Eda Oweland alongside her consort Gellen Primewater. Anders Solmor, representing the Scarlet Brotherhood, was also here. A man whom looks kind and welcoming. He was accompanied by Skerrin Wavechaser. There are only two available seats and so Finch was left standing at the meeting. They told the group they had a job for them which will involve an initial payment of 10,000 gp and 20k gp on completion.  The job is to investigate a ship known as the Sea Ghost. Bilji attempted to barter for ship upgrades and the response from the council was to just use the down payment funds if needed. The crew was also to deal with any aftermath of the job. Eliander noted that two individuals had volunteered to assist the crew.  The job was sealed with a contract and Bilji signs.

 On the ship Bilji divided up the payment while keeping some for upgrading the ship. Felix feeling obligated due to his revival kept only a portion of his own money while the rest went back to the crew. Raven refused the money from Felix. Hal gave some of his portion directly to Piggy. Bilji wanted to have the ballista fixed. A discussion was held about what secret language the gang will use.  The gang went into downtime for four days before they head out. Hal wanted to work on his homunculus but stopped due to the huge gold cost. The group noticed they have an awesome heavy trebuchet.  Bilji had the ship's Ballista and Trebuchet fixed and Felix got his drain cured by paying the church. Finch let the crew know about Xendros, another captain. Morgan made a grenade.  Hal made a lot of potions. He attempted to sell the Cure Light Wounds potions from the previous session to the guard.  16 potions sold for 500gp. Hal studied the philosopher stone and when he knocked wood against it, the wood turned to gold. He left to look at his homunculus to find the philosopher in the creations lap. The session ends as the crew prepares to depart.

Bilji wins MVP for "Jesus christ, you killed him dude"