[It's going to be a struggle to convince van Zieks to relax his stiff Victorian layers. You want him to bare skin like some sort of commoner????

Anyway he's looking at Kaspar like he's an idiot.]

Have you been approaching our situation with such a lackadaisical attitude it failed to pass your notice that we've all been abducted and forcibly held here indefinitely? Or is such levels of ignorance typical for you?