[Just wait until he gets some awful-looking nightmare staff back from the void with tokens, then it'll be real wacky wizard hours in here!! For now it's broken pins and frozen fingertips, which he is half tempted to just stick in his mouth. He resists, for the sake of his remaining dignity.]

Learning what, exactly?

[Like, he can tell when he's being teased, but learning what... It occurs to him with abruptness that he has not been keeping track of who all knows he's a mage in this place, and maybe he ought to start doing that - he can't honestly remember if it came up before. Urk...

Well, sword time, anyway. How fortunate that they were both here to ransack this couple's place with such efficiency. He shuffles back over to peer down at the chest, what could it be...]

If there is, I'm setting it on fire this time. Anything worthwhile in there? What is that— ropes?

["why would ropes be in a chest in someone's room" it's a fantasy rpg, of course there's random sundry in people's rooms, duh]