For the better part of two decades, Lidrian's Barge was the notorious gathering place for the community of rogues, pirates and undesirables, the "foreign powers" and the watchmen who watch them
"My very dear," said the corpulent, indolent voice, "I shall call you Pandora, and you can address me as Mr Monkfish, and then we will both be quite clear that neither of us is who we say we are."