Sammy’s Reviews > The Swords of Lankhmar > Status Update

Absolutely baffling decisions going on right now. Why did Leiber introduce a character from the real world for 5 pages as some sort of Deus ex Machina only for him to vanish? Why did, every time that character spoke, he describe how the other characters couldn't understand him, write out what he said in German, and then translate to English for the reader? How did this guy have a German-Lankmarian pocket dictionary?