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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reddist" data-source="post: 2357552" data-attributes="member: 5212">The pot is of a reddish-brown clay.  It is about two hands wide and two tall, but only two fingers thick.  The opening appears to be plugged with a cork and then covered with a thick heavy brown wax.  One of the flat sides of the pot is covered with a waxy paper, which when peeled back leaves a sticky, tacky gum-like substance.  You think if you peeled the paper off and then pressed the sticky side to some surface, it'd probably stick pretty well.You don't see any obvious detonation devices on the pot.  You do know, however, that the chemicals inside catch fire as soon as they are exposed to air, and the tarry goo sticks and spreads very easily, and that the goo itself burns with enough heat that water has little effect unless it is totally immersed, cutting of the air supply.Even cracking the pot would no doubt allow enough air in, causing the goo to ignite with enough force to blow the rest of the pot apart, spreading the goo in a wide area.  They must have planned on striking the pot with something, a crossbow bolt or slingstone, or smacking it with a long pole, or otherwise physically damaging the pot in order to set them off.  At the hieght the saboteurs were placing the pots, the Belle would be at risk just leaving her berth, possibly bashing one of the pots against the docks as she moved out.Perhaps the sabotuers planned some sort of coordinated attack, setting all three ships ablaze at the same time?</blockquote>

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