"That would be most agreeable Captain. I'm sorry if my appearance here caught you off guard. That was not my intent. I have been hearing some very strange rumors and I thought it best that I see your ship myself. I have never been one to merely sit behind a desk. I see it as my job to go where ever I must to do the Empire's work." Almost immediately, a sailor carries in a small tray loaded with some particularly fine aged cheeses and an assortment of the rock hard herbed crackers favored Dwarves and a pork summer sausage neatly cut into slices. A second man follows with a bottle of Riesling in a bucket of ice and crystal goblets. "I say lad is that Stilton with candied ginger?" asks Lord Stonebender of the sailor. "I believe that is what Grumbar said M'Lord. This other is a two year old Gouda and that last is a blue veined cheese from Crosscroft." The dwarf looks up, "Ah one of my favorites, I must commend your hospitality Captain."
Lord Stonebender loads a cracker with the gingered Stilton while the wine is poured. "Excellent, really quite nice," he comments as he tastes the cheese. Once the sailors have left and Lord Stonebender has sampled each of the items he returns to the Stilton and comments, "I saw you effecting some repairs as well as some men convalescing from their wounds, tell me what exactly happened to your ship Captain."
Despite his affable enjoyment of your hospitality, it is clear this is not a man to be trifled with.