As Malakaus was looking for the right scroll to help him move the loot he heard the dunmer from before offering to use his magic to take the chest out. Malakaus had his doubts that the dunmer's telekinesis could carry out a full chest of ingots, but if he succeeds than that's one less thing Malakaus would need to worry about. [b]"Heh, if you think you can the handle it, I'll let you take the loot back to the ship. Hmm... Just let me take a quick count of how many ingots we have..."[/b] Malakaus began to take out and count the amount of ingots the chest held. To his disappointment there was only 60 moonstone and 40 Malachite, with no quicksilver. Added the weight of the chest, Malakaus really had doubts that Sarel's magic could pull the whole chest out. Still if the dunmer could pull it off Malakaus wouldn't have any complaints. Gave him more time to figure out what to do with all the ingots. There wasn't enough to put any meaningful reinforcement on the ship, and Malakaus would rather not waste the metal trying to make balista heads out of them. He considered trying to make weapons from them, however he also remembered that armor made from lighter elven metals would be statistically better than heavier metals. He'd have to use a little bit extra to further improve the individual armor, not to mention what he'd do if he wanted to make more than one set.

Malakaus took out his notebook and began to scribble down ideas and numbers, mumbling about a queue. After he finished what he was writing with he closed the chest and locked it with the key. [b]"Alright Sarel, it's all yours. I'm going to look around some more to gather any more notable loot. With any luck skooma and ingots won't be the only treasures."[/b] Though Sharee already did her own search for miscellaneous treasure Malakaus was looking for raw materials. Taking an empty barrel he gathered up the bandit's weapons so that he could recycle them for newer, better things. He also stripped the dead of their armor and loot and threw the bodies somewhere out of the way, where their soon-to-be rotting corpses won't stick up the entire cave. He found a nice bit of gold from the bandit's personal chests and coin purses, about 1000 total, along with some precious gems of varying quality. Malakaus helped himself to a bite of salted fish and wine as well before he found what he was looking for. The orc just about giggled like a little girl when he found it. [b]"Ah, now if I can just get my hands on some skooma, this would be perfect..."[/b] Malakaus took his treasure outside in the light to get a better view of it. It was a skooma pipe, also known as a bong or a hookah. He probably shouldn't use this one, but he was going to break it down back at the ship and figure out how to make one himself.

After securing the Skooma Pipe and some skooma for it (Which he found outside of the create Noelle had found) Malakaus went to the boat that Sharee had commandeered. Sharee sat near the front making it obvious that she didn't plan to row. Malakaus was only a bit sore from the fighting so he figured he could handle the rowing duties. It'll be good practice if he does somehow convince Sharee of adding oars to the ship. But before he'd do that, there was other ideas that he wanted to talk to Sharee about. Since it was just the two of them Malakaus figured now was as good of a time to ask as any. [b]"Captain, when we returned to the ship I'd like to ask you something about your bombs and alchemy, if you have the time."[/b]