Having boarded the ship you find the captain's cabin. As you enter a skeletal figure jerks to life and stands.

     "I am but an apparition, doomed to my fate by Dragoul's tiny minion!" it wails. Let me show you how to find the Wither Ring, a magic that will protect your mind from his mind control powers! You must throw the potion on my desk into the frothy sea! Then you will know the way!