How It All Goes Down
- Several days before Ankh-Morpork's misfortune, a ship comes up the Ankh carrying a man.
- The man steps onto the quay, and Blind Hugh's body senses the presence of gold in the air.
- Hugh makes his way to the man, beggar cup in hand, when he notices that the stranger has four eyes rather than the customary two (read: he wears glasses).
- The man consults a small book and then asks to be directed to a "hotel, tavern, lodging house, inn, hospice, caravanserai" (1.2.13).
- Blind Hugh wonders if a good tavern will do and has the stranger follow him to the Broken Drum, thinking Ymor will probably reward him.
- The wooden chest follows; Blind Hugh peeks under it and spies hundreds of little legs.