Well, it is a bit off the beaten path but I have a fondness for it. It is definitely the best source of the current news on matters that interest me most. All the mariners come to drink here and no small number of Wilders.

[Iskandar is less surprised than Judar by Lorentz unfamiliarity with the place. He personally likes it. It's cosy if a bit rowdy. Yet he's aware of the establishment's reputation. What he wasn't aware of though is that the faun ban is real.]

They really did?! It can't be! I heard rumours but I dismissed them as pure conjecture. I thought it can't possibly be true.

[The craziest and fiercest part of any competition like that is not the drinking but the betting! And for drinking contests, fauns are competitors hardest to predict. Hence making the gamble most fun. The owners of the establishment no doubt took their cut of all the bets.

Iskandar whistles.]

I can only imagine what must have happened to force them into such a decision!