The First Tribulation

This is the 14th session of the Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign and overall 21st session for The Albatross Pirates.

Inside the beginning of the trials the group moves forward. Morgan makes two potions of life (revivify). She holds one potion and gives the other potion to Felix. The crew goes ahead and up stairs into a new set of double doors similar to those in the throne room. Raven and Toof open the door and it leads into another room with another door. Raven notices thin woven threads of web hanging everywhere as if meant to trap everyone. She stops the group from going forward. Toof throws a rock into the webbing and battle begins. 4 large spiders are killed and Vasnyl destroys the spider mother with his last blow. Hal harvests the corpses. Scaley regains his senses and runs in fear.

Entering the next room mist swirls and combat begins as the mist forms into a creature to attack then dissipate after. An invisible enemy attacks through the mist and lightning comes from down the hallway. The lightning comes in regular intervals through pulses. Felix runs downs the stairs to get whatever is causing the lightning and Toof uses his grapple gun to grab it. Toof pulls and rips the shard that was sending the pulses in half. The other half Felix reaches as he goes down the stairs. Finch during this time gets knocked unconscious by the lightning. He almost dies but luckily Toof disabled the machine in time. Felix, Finch, and Morgan are unable to properly sleep as the rest of the party, excluding Raven and Hal, rest in the crystal room.

The same type of double stone door is present. This time there is writing on it in abyssal. The writing says "First Tribulation". As the door opens Raven sees hordes of undead. Captain Bilji uses dancing lights to scout the room. As the party enters the room the doors close and multiple figures start coming out of pits as combat begins. So many zombies, so many attacks. Some of them drop golden hearts. Morgan webs a large area and many saving throws are made. Felix takes the "feast on every heart" too seriously. He is nauseated as he bites into a golden heart, it loses colour and he has blood on him. IMMEDIATELY AFTER Raven finds black flames with a demon head which is probably what should be feasting on the golden hearts. God then realises that a roll should've been made for the webbing and all of Morgans actions are undone. Raven begins to toss hearts into each of the demon heads. When the last heart is given to the demon head the undead turn to dust.

The MVP of this session is Raven for her great discovery in the first trial