Synopsis Part IV

The Captain declared general quarters, but did not tell anyone why. After a brief investigation on his own part, he found that the only persons who physically never had the opportunity to do anything were Castille and Kaspar, so he brought them in. Kaspar assisted him in examining Vollo's cabin, given the half-orc's familiarity with traps and devices.

Kaspar found an artificer-created anti-personnel mine, one left over from the Last War, pressure-rigged to launch shrapnel, acid flasks, or other flasks, or in this case, an unknown and deadly poisonous cloud of powder. (Within a few rounds of exposure to air the poison was rendered inert, but by then it had been on Vollo's skin, and it was a contact poison with a very high Fort DC.)

The Captain brought Castille and Kaspar to the crew area of the ship, where they discovered the ship's secret. The engineer of the airship The High Stakes was a warforged artificer named Scotty (original, yes) who had been adopted into House Lyrandar.

To be continued...