"A fuse?" Peridot scampers over to look, but finds... nothing? The material for it must have decayed in the salt water environment that they pulled this thing from.
She leans back from the cannon and grumbles, tapping her foot thoughtfully. "There's nowhere to load it from back here... Which leads me to conclude that it needs to be loaded from the front end. HOWEVER... The muzzle on it is much too long. We'll need some sort of tool to push the ammunition into place with."
I actually had to google how cannons work for this tag fuck me
She leans back from the cannon and grumbles, tapping her foot thoughtfully. "There's nowhere to load it from back here... Which leads me to conclude that it needs to be loaded from the front end. HOWEVER... The muzzle on it is much too long. We'll need some sort of tool to push the ammunition into place with."