• While the stevedores were distracted trying to rescue the drover and his cargo from the water below the collapsed dock, Parva made his way to help SBD. Using his forearm-mounted, air-powered mini-harpoon gun, Parva stuck the drover, giving SBD that chance to douse him in fire oil. Unfortunately, he also doused much of the tar-soaked dock with the combustable liquid and set the waterfront ablaze.
• Parva and SBD used the distraction of the chaos they had caused - storm, collapse and fire - to slip away into the crowd.
• Cricket and Flews made their way into the ship's main hold, and after some searching found what appeared to be a warded vault door. After bypassing the lock using a special skeleton key Cricket had bought from the cantankerous locksmith Frake, they discovered a small, secure hold containing a dozen Leviathan oil casks that glowed a strange yellow rather than the typical actinic blue.
• Back on deck, Gyr dealt with another of the ships guards by impersonating the man he had just drown, passing off his dereliction of duty as a midnight assignation.
• Cricket used an axillary valve he brought for the purpose to carefully extract a sample of the strange oil. He also filled a second, secret container, double the size of the sample they had planned to take. Despite Cricket's every effort to do so clandestinely, Flew cottoned to what he was doing.
• As Cricket extracted the oil, both he and Flews noticed the tell-tale signs of a ghost manifestation as some form of bound spirit guardian formed in the vault and attacked. With great speed but little foresight, Flews blasted the spirit with electroplasmic ammo, dispersing it's essence in an explosion that shattered the local ghost field and compromised several of the volatile, yellow barrels.
• Several kegs began to leak, spraying pressurized Leviathan oil across the room. Though Cricket dodged out of the hold unscathed, Flews was not so lucky, with some of the oil landing across the nape of her neck.
• As the two of them fled the hold, they ran afoul of two gun-toting guards. In a dramatic turn, a watchful Gyr had come aboard and, impersonating a member of the Bowermore family, he was able to order the guards to join the fire brigade on the dock. The trio hastened over the side and paddled off in their getaway gondola - Cricket and Flews arguing all the way.
• As they fled and the docks burned, a massive glowing vortex of ghost field energy began to form hight over the ship, seemingly born of a baleful, yellow light that poured from every porthole and hatch cover.
• When they bumped into the body Gyr had recently made - and he decided to steal the dead man's clothes - Flews took out her emotional trauma by beating the corpse to a pulp with her bare hands. As they came ashore, frustrated with Cricket and distraught over events, Flew disappeared into the dark city streets.
• Gyr and Cricket delivered the sample to a ruined wall tower in the worst part of Charhollow. After inspecting the goods with an enigmatic stare, Bowler Man climbed silently out the window and vanished over the wall.
• Cricket delivered half of his secret oil sample to a maimed old timer in the Skovlander ghetto in hopes that he knew something about the yellow oil and could maybe sell it to help the refugees. The oldster seemed to recognize the substance and quickly hid it from prying eyes. He told Cricket he would ask around and let him know what he learned.
• Some days later, Flews accosted Cricket in the lair, threatening him with grave bodily harm if he crossed the crew again.
• A weeks later, the glowing malstrom still engulfs the ship, turning and twisting above the Duskwall waterfront like a tornado-sized spirit well. Claims from, "It will soon burn itself out," to "The end of the world is nigh," are shouted by broad sheet headlines and street-corner doomsayers respectively. The northwest docks have been quarantined and blockaded, and the Bluecoats are hunting those responsible.
• Flews discovered a bag of coin sitting in the end of their drainpipe entrance. At the same moment, halfway across town, while sleeping off his latest beating in the pleasure pits, Gyr began to dream.
