The Airship Eleanor's Log

Well, we landed yesterday (found no need for a station in the end, though we will have to stop there on the way back to pick up more fuel for the furnace)
We managed to... hem... 'acquire'... a fair bit of gold, and some interesting exotic things, that I'm sure will sell for extortionate prices back home. But another, far more interesting, thing happened in Africa too.
There we were, innocently pillaging and plundering away, when we heard the most tremendous explosion. We had no idea what it could have been, a rival or some sort of law enforcement, so we hid, weapons at the ready, and observed for a while.
The next thing we know, some wench comes stumbling out of one of the huts. Face all black with soot, lab coat covered in coloured residue of some sort. She was shouting something or other about an experiment succeeding, she seemed a bit hysteric to be honest.
We took her on to the ship to calm hr down, and after a good cup of tea made by the droid, she told us that she was an inventor, primarily concerned with military-strength explosives, though apparently she also dabbled in steamdroid construction, medical technology and cookery.
Needless to say she's been press ganged into the crew.
We're running out of space on this ship, so her labs situated in the galley. I hope we don't accidentally get bromine for supper one night.

Miss V, Nav
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