Crackle Powder & Brinestar (Quarrioc III)

“Now this is a concoction of a curious sort, Aygir. You seem to have found a piece of a broken arrowhead… This particular steely specimen, however is coated with the residue of a substance known as Brinestar. Do you know what that is? I expected not. It is a foreign stuff, found, if memory serves, only in the far Southern lands of Drizmteag. What it is doing here, I do not know, but it cannot be for any good reason. Brinestar, you see, is mildly combustible in its raw form much like the Crackle Powder in that barrel you dragged forth from the same cavern. That is all well and good for lighting a hearth or minor pyrotechnics. When combined, however, the two react to produce an extremely volatile mixture so explosive that it cannot even be safely stored except in tightly-sealed, lead-lined barrels. If someone was experimenting with…shooting a Brinestar coated arrowhead at a barrel of Crackle Powder, was it?.. Yes, that can only mean they intend to devise a weapon not seen in these parts since the conquest of Barnacle. As one of the only left who knew those days of great triumph and awful suffering, I can only hope such a thing never comes to fruition. Enough of this now, let me retire. My waterpipe is empty and that Grovesheen you brought is calling my name…” -Connis Spindle, Elven Master of the Broken Tower, addressing The Vanguard