Post's here. tl;dr Sidwell smells fire from below and tips over an old barrel conveniently still full of liquid to try and put it out. Pray that whatever was in the barrel wasn't particularly flammable.
<Snipped quote by Antarctic Termite>
That's quite a persuasive argument -- ok then, it stays! Perhaps will mean something later on as the story progresses.
When I get bored I start messing with things and having ideas. ;)
I DREW A THING!
It's wobbly and uber-simple, but I finally drew out the diagram of the ship. Now that I've actually put it down on paper, things turned out a bit different than they might have been described, but essentially it's just as depicted.
Post's here. tl;dr Sidwell smells fire from below and tips over an old barrel conveniently still full of liquid to try and put it out. Pray that whatever was in the barrel wasn't particularly flammable.