The man who emerges from Sarcini's room has changed to a +4/+0/+4 headband and is not currently under Owl's Wisdom.
He hears out a quick report from Tarnish (who has nearly an elderly-halfling-like ability to lean against a wall and promptly have everyone else in the room forget she exists).
He continues on to Carissa, the casual headband-maker.
"Ri-Dul wants to talk Spellcraft with you, at some point," he says to her. "He is, on his view of himself, one of those eighth-circles who properly perfects their Spellcraft, instead of just having absorbed a lot of magic by being in a lot of fights."
"Of course, Ri-Dul would immediately terminate his employment, and possibly break his oath and try to kill me, if you told him you believed I was going to destroy the world. Which... gets us back to the problem where I got excited and didn't have you, make any promises, before you got here."