The captain will escort them down, leaving the coxswain temporarily in charge, to open the rear area that holds the currently sedated girallon in its cage.

"I don't want to even know how you knew about this place," says the Captain to Galakhar, "but it sounds to me like you know where the hatch to the bilge pump room is."

And with that, the Captain walks back to oversee the upriver hauling of his keelboat.

Galakhar opens a very well-concealed hatch, and the four of you head down, with Galakhar asking Abenor in the back to shut that hatch.

It's dark down here. Abenor draws his katana with its blue glow, but with the elf and dwarf staying behind so Galakhar can do a safety search covered by Gharmez, the older man asks her, "Any chance we could get a little holy light on the situation, my dear?"