The Festival

This is the 9th session of the **Ghosts of Saltmarsh** campaign and overall 16th session for The Albatross Pirates.

Soon after making a deal with the loyalists the crew of the Albatross started to discuss the revival of their comrade Felix. The problem was the price, nearing 5000 gold pieces. They went to the church or Procan, god of pirates (CN). The church was near empty with only a few people present. A few wounded, some playing cards, and a priest of the church. A priest who looked closer to an outlaw than a man of god.  The man held a great fish and Bilji talked with the priest about reviving Felix. The priest must see the body to properly appraise the preparations for resurrection.  The group decided to bring Felix to the church. The body was set down in the church and the priest looked it over and confirmed he could be revived. The cost would be 5000gp. Vasnyl donated 500gp of his own gold and all of Felix's personal funds, totalling 417gp, were used. Three people were to be selected to assist in the ritual with Felix coming back. Those selected were Morgan, Bilji, Toof. The ritual began and the sky outside darkens with rain starting to fall. Bilji brought out rations to appeal to the cook in Felix. He held the ration and tried to channel gnomish magic into the ration to entice him back.  He enhanced it and placed it near the body, but I mean it's a ration. Morgan aided his physical body with a healing kit to assist with the burns and prepare for the revival. Toof got in close to Felix's face and grabbed onto the body and threatened Felix to come back or he would "Krump him himself". The ritual began and the priest took his holy symbol of Procan (a trident of waves) and places it down onto Felix's chest. In this moment the water that was raining starts to seep through the cracks snaking its way along the floor towards the altar and into Felix's body as it began to glow slightly. The water flows through him and silence is held. After a few moments Felix awoke and exclaimed about chains. Felix now owed the crew 5,000 (Technically 4600 since 417 of his own was used) gold pieces and was weaker with an energy drain of -2. Felix collapsed into bed back on the ship but not before requesting some new pants considering he was now naked. There were 4 days before the day of the Festival, and this was spent in downtime.

Morgan attended to Felix to help him to recover for the full four days. The energy drain lessened but the effect remained. Bilji, Vasnyl, and Toof hunted some orcs. Hal went and made an animated object out of the golden skull. The skull rolled around on the ground after it was animated and will now follow Hal's command. ~~Hal also started his book "Why Organics Must be Destroyed"~~. Hal goes to the market and begins discussing with various individuals about potion vendors and sellers. He wishes to sell his own potions, but the individuals are slightly scared of Hal and the quality of his potions raises an issue of price. He debated just selling the potions himself and made 16 cure light wounds potions to sell in the future.  Raven worked on her scythe and created new reaper trophies.

As the day of the festival approached the atmosphere seemed to shift in the entire town of saltmarsh. Everything seemed happier and greener, even Toof, and everyone headed out, except Raven, to the festival. Felix was able to come thanks to Morgans care helping him recover. A huge fighting tourney would be held in the evening and in the morning there were events to win tokens which if you have the most it can be used for a cool tattoo. The morning events included a karaoke battle, test of strength, a race, an arm-wrestling competition, a fire juggling competition, and "what's that smell".  Another big event is a petting zoo.

Everybody entered the race and Toof and Felix got Morgans blue paint. Morgan wins the entire competition by becoming a god at climbing, earning a token. Seriously she was insane, I mean like she overtook everyone.... easily. They went to the "what's that smell" event next. Bilji, Morgan, Felix, and Hal are to participate. Raven is sighted looked sad in the ship since this takes place near the docks. Felix goes to the final rounds against Eliander Fireborn and loses because APPARENTLY IT WAS ORANGE JUICE AND SAYING ORANGE ISNT GOOD ENOUGH! Eliander even after winning gives Felix the token and says he looks forward to seeing Toof again for a rematch. Next the crew goes to karaoke and everybody, minus Raven, participated. Toof's bongos are so loud that nobody can hear Hal. This goes horribly, I mean horribly, like Bilji carries with his lute and Vasnyl does well with the piano but pray for everybody else. God this reminds me of choir.... help... The Canklelady rocks out with gnomes and wins. But goddamn the crew sucked, like you're pirates not musicians.

Then the crew does the test of strength. Toof does well and wins the competition, Bilji can't pick up the hammer.... at all. He teeter totters it and does the worst out of anyone the whole day. Poor small guy. Felix and Vas kinda of suck and Hal and Finch do really well. Morgan does slightly better than Bilji. After this finished, the crew hears an ominous scream and "Oh no did that really just happen?!" "Yeah it really did just happen!".  An alchemist cart was knocked over and went into the petting zoo water supply. The animals broke out and a two token reward would go to anyone who could capture the most. The sun goes away and Raven can come out. Raven instantly is able to find tracks and leads the group towards some animals. The tracks lead to a small area with a large frog that is running at superspeed (200ft movement) around a central square. It's panicking and leaping from wall to wall and spazzing out. Morgan freezes him into a cube, and he slides towards her as she picks him up. Toof grabs the frog amd runs towards the pen placing the frog inside. Now Morgan and Raven head a hunt for more animals to capture where the party finds a slime trial and a chicken print leading to an orca that's entire body is ooze and a chicken running around laying eggs super fast respectively. Eggs of cure light wounds to be exact. Hal starts grabbing these eggs immediately as he notices their properties. Bilji starts talking to animals and as he does, he hears the orca scream in pain saying "help me!". Diplomacy between the captain and the orca fails horribly with even a little help from the power of heroes (Hero Point) not changing the results. Toof attempts to grab the orca but his hands realize that the ooze is acidic instead hurting him. Finch dispelled the slime on the orca but the group can't carry it back in time. Vas decides to mercy kill it, executing it. Hal instantly harvests parts. Hal accidentally puntures the eye and decides the entire whale is a waste. The chicken is captured and returned to the pen. Raven chases a teleporting cat for a while who keeps on juking her. Toof and Bilji chase a dalmatian whose tongue is slobbering fire everywhere. Bilji is able to grapple the dog and keep his mouth shut but not before getting burnt. Morgan colour sprays the cat unconscious and Raven runs it back. The group collected 4 animals. The group wins 2 tokens for collecting the most animals.

The events are now over, minus the final combat event. Morgan get the whole crews token and wins the tattoo and some meetings with the council members. A bugbear on a small tool does the tattoo and sings beautifully while doing it. She gets a magic tattoo on her upper thigh that lets her become an animal. She gains a fifth level druid shapeshifting ability. The combat even will only be fistfighting and future rounds will be decided if it will be fists only. The winners gets the honour of fighting Eliander one on one. Upon hearing about a fistfight Felix gets excited to participate and as if having an anime powerup moment he instantly gains more power and the energy drain level is removed.

For this session Captain Bilji wins MVP for his impressive luckiness or rather unluckiness.