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The party returns to the Rusty Spigot around dusk and finds a celebration in progress. Happy to revel in any setback dealt to the Polonians, the citizens of Overtown have seen the explosion at Baron's Isle, heard the subsequent alarms and responded by drinking their faces off. Happy patrons, unaware of the role that the party had in the day's events, press drinks in their hands as they enter the tavern. Finding the sole remaining empty table in the corner of the room, the party settles in to drink, eat, and participate in the merriment.
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Looking around the tavern, the party recognizes a handful of faces. Grenn the Bartender is handing out free beers from behind the bar, all traces of drowned rats hidden. The house band, Orc Vomit, is on stage playing one of the newer, popular songs, "Finger Fill the Fudge Funnel". The matronly, half-orc, daytime bartender Batilda sits at the table next to them. Standing out amongst the other regular patrons of the Rusty Spigot is a uncomfortable looking professor, dressed in a tweed coat, unsuccessfully stopping at each table with two hands full of beer flagons, unable to find a seat. The party invites him to sit.
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