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Luftschiff Vindenbourg LZ 1313 -- which I think means "sausage".

I found an instruction manual and I found the motor controls. The navigation system will be interesting... it appears to be an old ships wheel.

There's more room here than I expected. Neglecting the cargo bay, for now, we have cabins, a loung (with pianner), lavatories, dining room, kitchen, crews quarters, observation deck, bar (don't overlook that one), study (!), library (I figured you guys would get a kick of that... antique things with white paper in them and some even have pictures. Why didn't they have a coloring book lounge?). That's just pokin' around.

This is not your off-the-shelf dig... I found an armory, and several tilt-out false cabinets and fake drawers. Cutouts for handguns and some brackets for long guns. As soon as we crack the door to the armory, we'll see a little more about the owners.

Oh, Deb, don't worry about the throwy-thing... the interal casings are duralumin, with all gas bags behind bulkheads. Bag material is supposed to be a mylar/grape jelly composite. Outside skin is pretty cool. The sales brochure says that it's monocoque construction (titters of laughter from the background), with Carbon-fibre nano-organelle covering, and coated with boron fullerenes. Evidently slick as whale snot (?) and pretty dim on rader interogation. Why would they put that in a sales brochure? Are we likely to encounter whales?

Interiour lighting is from flexible, sheet-formed OLEDs... you should have controls in the passenger cabins, but just to be safe, anybody who might be able to prevent us from hitting anything should sleep in the crews quarters. You have to go through there to get to the engine mounts anyway.

Three propulsion engines, Durney-Kline models. Not fast, but good lift and damned near indestructable (a useful feature around me, I assure you) and so simple a 10 year old could understand them. If the 10 y.o. knew Heisenberg personnally. Whoever built this rig didn't rig it for speed, but for solid, heavy lifting... you'd think it was build for smuggling, heh.

Ah ha... no 'splosion danger it seems... This model isn't hydrogen gassed, it uses Flabber. It's Flabbergassed. It doesn't explode, but if you breath it, you talk funny. Like a whale I guess.

Nice decking... is that teak?

We can't leave until after dark... the captain's log (no Stardate) indicates that they had a run in with the dockmaster and inspectors. It seems that the Bastage Filters need to be cleaned before the ship can clear port. The captain's log reads "I think we're going to have problems with those dirty bastages. I've called a meeting with the dockmaster and his in-bred cronies... if they won't take a good, honest payoff, I may be force to cool them and maybe give them a nice ocean voyage."

Geoff... I wouldn't go poking into the big freezers just yet, if I were you.