A large meteor-like something blows the head door off its hinges and buries itself in an oaken knee-brace, knocking it askew and bending the entire cabin slightly out of shape – wreaking some sort of parallelogram effect on Daniel's Frame o' Reference, so it appears that Dappa's now standing up at an angle – or perhaps the ship's beginning to heel over. 'Some of the cannon are, of course, real,' Dappa admits before Daniel can score any points there.