On the deck of the Second Shank...
Sigmund, realizing that killing time is no fun unless you do magic, writes a sentence on his bewitched piece of paper that orders the universe to rearrange so that Sigmund can blast air from his index finger. The paper hums a moment, then promptly goes silent. Figuring that's good news, Sigmund goes up to whatever side of the ship is the one that has the sea visible and points his index finger triumphantly outward.
Nothing happens, however. Sigmund ponders the strangeness of such a happening for a moment, but his thoughts are interrupted by a disturbing sound that he finds rather familiar. Looking to see who it is, he notices Mark leaping and cartwheeling down the streets of Shriekpot, expertly navigating past several confused sailors and somersaulting over a carriage. He then leaps over to the ship's gangway, rolling up it and gracefully jumping to a spot right next to Sigmund, at which point he sits down, his joints bending at highly unnatural angles as he does so.
Hm. Guess that means he's fixed, then.
In the kitchen of the Second Shank...
Scott, having plundered sufficient sailcloth in his downtime to sate his every need, makes tea bags out of his available supplies. They're a bit large and unwieldy, but perhaps it's best to consider these a proof of concept, really.
Morton, meanwhile, looks at his pot. It had a good life, certainly, and it has been party to a great many boilings of wonderful water. Sadly, it has lost both its wonderful proportions and its relative purity - it is filled with bits of slag and ash now, and most of it's melted to the walls. It has become a mere shadow of its former self, and it would be best to put it down now to end its suffering.
Morton holds a moment of silence as befits an occasion when a dear friend departs from this world in an untimely fashion. Truly, a great ally to the cause of butling has been lost.
In a house of hands...
Darren wonders if there's any chance this will ever be easy for him.
"How do the chances that I just float by look? They have magic?"
"Not very good, considering that they all live there, and yes. They were engineers, after all! If they didn't have magic, they'd be craftsmen of the lowest order. Nevertheless, they're not bad people, really. Most of them are simply crazy. There's a few malevolent ones as well, like Dr. Shooke, but he's really more of an outlier."