Green Death

Green Death is the name given to a deadly gas held in a thin glass ampoule, which guarded the vault of Willow house in Aquila in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World").^{1 2}

The trap at the vault

Before the break-in, Travis told the band what he had heard of the vault: when its door opened, a lamp would fall from the ceiling and release a gas that paralysed, by some accounts, or killed outright, by others. For that reason he wanted someone quick enough to catch a falling thing.^{3 4}

When the vault opened, a thin glass case full of gas flew out at Bruno, who caught it without breaking it. The band then spent an hour outside the treasure chamber making a padded, strapped bed for the ampoule, and carried it away in a small bag; it could still break under a hard blow.^{1 5 6}

Into Travis's hands

When the spoils were shared, Travis asked for the gas. The band argued over it: some feared it in a stranger's hands, others feared a broken ampoule or a fire in their own house, and they wondered whether it could poison a whole room. Bruno studied Travis as he asked and saw neither greed nor any plain wish to attack; why he wanted it stayed hidden.^{2 7 8}

In the final bargain Travis took the gas and seven gold bars and gave up his other claims. He had a large box brought by a guild man, lined with sea sponge, settled the ampoule in it with more sponge and locked it; the box was lead, perhaps to hide it from divination. Where and against whom he meant to use it is not known.^{9 10}