"Fair enough." Alvyn grabs the old bag from the chest, hops up on a table, puts the bag over the captain's head, and walks off clutching a lovely souvenir objet d'art.

(Oh, you were so close to missing it too...)

As Alvyn turns the bag over hundreds of coins pour out onto the captain's head. Two scrolls and 2 bottle of green liquid pop out too, bouncing off of the captain's head.

OoC: HAH! "I didn't say it was an empty old bag..."

As Alvyn is making his exit he hears the clatter of metal behind him, and turns around to look. "That's odd, you'd think I'dve noticed while turning it over that the bag had hundreds of coins in it... Must be magic, I suppose," he says, joining (presumably) the others in picking up the treasure.

Kosadius looks at the pirate captain and shakes his head as coins fall on to his head. After watching it all fall he nods Alvyn and starts to help him with the coins." This captain here should be put in irons and then turned over to the authorities. I am not sure what kind of laws there are in Chult but I am hoping that at least he be kept in jail for a while and perhaps tried for pirating." 

Obviously he looks to others to see if they agree to what he is saying. Though, he does not stop picking up the coins.

Grugg, wearing his most intimidating barbarian face, turns to the pirate captain and says, "What on scrolls and in bottles?" Then in his fiercest barbarian voice shouts, "NO TRICKS!!"

Alvyn looks up from coin-gathering toward Kosadius and shrugs. "If you like," he says.

OoC: Can Alvyn identify the scrolls by looking at them?

With the bejeweled scimitar in his hand, Zandak puts the edge of the blade close to the pirate captain's throat, and repeats "I ask again, do you know of the Soulmonger? What rumors have you heard of Chult, and do you have a map?"

Intimidation: 21

Grugg bears his menacing teeth at the Pirate Captain and threatens, “No lie, Pirate.”

The captain whimpers.

"Th-th-those are p-potions of healing, and your wizard should b-be able to i-identify the s-scrolls by reading them."

The scrolls are a scroll of detect magic and a scroll of disguise self.

The captain replies to Zandak.

"I don't know anything about this Soulmonger, and if I had a map of Chult, I wouldn't need to steal from others. I'd be the richest merchant-prince of them all! Merchant Prince Zaroum Al-Saryak... I wish. About Chult. Chult is full of all races, but as for natives, there are Chultans, Dwarves, albino and otherwise, Aarakockra, Goblins, also known as Batiri, Tabaxi, and Pterafolk, also known as Terror Folk. I've also heard that there are giant snapping turtles in Snapping Turtle Bay. And one of them is as big as a house. He's known as King Toba, and his shell has gemstones embedded in it. Now that I've answered your questions, how about you let me go now?"

He smiles with his crooked teeth, his gemstone eye glittering.

OoC: Obligatory treasure bookkeeping time: Alvyn can already cast detect magic; do you want that scroll, Zandak? I think Alvyn is the only one who can has Disguise Self on his list. Who wants the potions? Presumably we split the gold four(?) ways (since we haven't met our new fifth yet)? How much cash is there, DM? And did Alvyn manage to snag any portable art objects that are worth anything?

"I suppose I'm satisfied," Alvyn says, putting on a fairly ridiculous show of seeming intimidating and in charge. "How about the rest of you?"

"Grugg not need more.  Pirate know much.  Now we know much-er."  Grugg nods to Alvyn and then helps pick up the goodies that fell out of the magic bag. 

Alvyn grabbed five objects that caught his eye, an assortment of shiny things.

In total, the bag contains 80 GP, 700 SP, and 1800 CP.

ANY LAST MINUTE THINGS BEFORE WE SKIP TO PORT NYANZARU?

(Grugg is good to go - let's do it!)

(Would like to have one of the potions, just encase. Will let Alvyn split the loot equally. So other than that and taking a great axe,  Kosadius is good)

(Ready to go on my end! I've added the disguise self scroll, 20 gp, 175 sp and 450 cp to Alvyn's inventory, which is 1/4 of the total. It turns out I didn't take Detect Magic, since Eili had it as a racial ability, so if it's ok, I'd like to keep that one as well, so I can learn the spell permanently. DM, I'm not entirely clear on the rules for wizards learning spells from scrolls. I see that a DC 11 Investigation check is required, but is the 50 gp and 2 hr/level cost also required? I can't tell if scrolls are a special case that overrides the rules for copying from another spellbook, or if it's in addition. There's one more potion of healing up for grabs.)

(The rule for scribing scrolls into your spellbook is the same as anything else)

(Ok, so 50 gp, 2 hrs, and a DC 11 Arcana (sorry, not investigation) check, and presumably if the check fails, the 50gp is wasted. I take it that because of the 50 gp representing consumed material components, this isn't something he could do while on a boat waiting to get to port? That is, he'd need to be in a town where supplies can be purchased?)

(Yes, you'd have to buy supplies in town. However, you could buy majjik ink in town, and use it to scribe anywhere.)

(Cool, thanks!)

Zandak is ready to go whenever