Akmenos walks into the bar, with Charleston the protean imp sitting invisibly on his shoulder, chittering quietly in Infernal. Thanks to the blessing of the Great Old One, Akmenos can communicate telepathically with any creature he can see. Charleston uses this to judge and scrutinize and catalog all the tavern's inhabitants, filling Akmenos's head with paranoia and suspicions. Charleston is always on edge in new environments and around strangers and can't help but get carried away. Akmenos know his only option is to wait, ignore the vast majority of it and wait until Charleston has calmed down. Once Charleston has settled into the new place, full of unknown dangers and hostile strangers, then Akemenos will send Charleston to investigate further, to eavesdrop on conversations or peek behind closed doors. But for now, he'll have to sip his ale and pick at the food he's ordered and occasionally admire his brand new magical slippers of spider climbing.