"Excellent."

Jack holds out his katana for inspection.

"Do you think you could improve on this? Oh, and I'd be more than willing to party up with you. It's always good to have a decent smith handy. If the Monk and the Thief were to join us -" here, he glances towards them inquiringly - "that would give a pretty rounded party, since I have a decent healing spell as well as offensive abilities."

He looks back and forward idly, waiting for an answer.