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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 7938319" data-attributes="member: 59816">Two days passed. With the help of the Sticks, progress was made quickly. The crew recovered, for the most part, from the worst of their ordeal. Chrysagon managed to turn away any hungry ghouls that came underneath the trees, before any got the idea to climb up. Canvas, wood, and nails were salvaged from the worst damaged parts of the ship, with much abandoned, while the bow-section (which was in the best condition) was converted into a smaller, triangular craft. As Ra-nas grew stronger, he took more of an active role in the new craft's design (his father was a sky-shipbuilder.) Nhar and Veliod spent their time sewing the scraps of canvas into a new, spherical shape. &quot;We will need the control rod to be removed from the stern-section.&quot; Captain Bravewing informed the Sticks, early in the process, &quot;It was connected to the wheel, and is pinned under the broken hull where it rests against the bough of the tree. I am afraid, if we remove too much of the hull to get at it, that the whole stern-section will fall. The rod contains the magic we need to inflate the balloon, and to coordinate the sweeps.&quot;(By &quot;sweeps&quot;, she indicated four large flag-like &quot;oars&quot;. They were made of long poles with canvas wings, and were designed to swivel about on the sides of the ship. The original ones were most vulnerable, and had been destroyed in the crash. The swivel-mounts had been removed from the mid-section and added to the bow, and Ralx had constructed new ones, with Harb's help in finding good, slim straight trees to replace the poles.)[ooc]Small skill challenge: Anyone who wants to be involved, give me two checks that you imagine will be useful in getting a two-foot silver rod out from under heavy, but removable wood without knocking a precarious structure over. Feel free to ask questions in the OOC.[/ooc]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 7938319, member: 59816"] Two days passed. With the help of the Sticks, progress was made quickly. The crew recovered, for the most part, from the worst of their ordeal. Chrysagon managed to turn away any hungry ghouls that came underneath the trees, before any got the idea to climb up. Canvas, wood, and nails were salvaged from the worst damaged parts of the ship, with much abandoned, while the bow-section (which was in the best condition) was converted into a smaller, triangular craft. As Ra-nas grew stronger, he took more of an active role in the new craft's design (his father was a sky-shipbuilder.) Nhar and Veliod spent their time sewing the scraps of canvas into a new, spherical shape. [b]"We will need the control rod to be removed from the stern-section."[/b] Captain Bravewing informed the Sticks, early in the process, [b]"It was connected to the wheel, and is pinned under the broken hull where it rests against the bough of the tree. I am afraid, if we remove too much of the hull to get at it, that the whole stern-section will fall. The rod contains the magic we need to inflate the balloon, and to coordinate the sweeps."[/b] (By "sweeps", she indicated four large flag-like "oars". They were made of long poles with canvas wings, and were designed to swivel about on the sides of the ship. The original ones were most vulnerable, and had been destroyed in the crash. The swivel-mounts had been removed from the mid-section and added to the bow, and Ralx had constructed new ones, with Harb's help in finding good, slim straight trees to replace the poles.) [ooc]Small skill challenge: Anyone who wants to be involved, give me two checks that you imagine will be useful in getting a two-foot silver rod out from under heavy, but removable wood without knocking a precarious structure over. Feel free to ask questions in the OOC.[/ooc] [/QUOTE]

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