Jack held up a finger and nodded pleasantly to the man who had spoken. "I do believe you and I will get along famously. Where do you propose we find said rum?"
Then, as if something had suddenly occurred to him, Jack's eyes widened and narrowed dramatically. He wandered in a wavery line toward the other man and leaned toward him with a conspiratorial expression on his face, eyeing the others around with overly suspicious squints from time to time at several of them.
"As I'm sure you saw, there are sparkling men appearing and disappearing at random. I'd be careful they don't hold to any sort of prohibition before we go on a treasure hunt of a sort."