An old man stands the Lantern Lodge, writing feverishly as Venture-Captain Li speaks. He mumbles aloud as he speaks: Tian Xia...Minkai...Hinojai...haunting...Nagura...
Suddenly, he looks about the room and stammers out quickly, Eh, um, Viscount Rosham Bowe, Magus of Taldor, is, eh, delayed at the moment; I am taking copious notes for him to review when he arrives. Which I expect to be soon, of course; he is delayed only temporarily. I expect. Heh.
He looks quickly about the room again, and begins writing again: ...Weiman Callbazzern-Walk, halfling archaeologist...Dora D. Asplora, halfling herald— here he nods happily in recognition to Dora ...and Jarvis Engelier, human Eagle Knight. Right! He turns back to the Venture-Captain. A thousand pardons for the interruption; please cont—