[In the evening, Bolton has swathed himself in a bedsheet and is presiding over the tables that he has pushed together with a whisk in one hand and a crown of spoons bent and interlaced together on his head.]

WELCOME, ADVENTURERS. You have your roles... Now let us play.

First, all of us will introduce our characters. I'll start. As your dungeon master, I'll be playing a variety of characters, but my avatar within your game itself will be Temerity the tiefling. She's going to be traveling with you guys as your primary NPC. She's an assassin with a rapier, and her most notable feature is the red poppy stitched onto the back of her long black coat.