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Downtime 2: J.J.

It turns out you aren't the only agent of the Collector in the city, and you find yourself with extra time on your hands.
JJ will contact the Collector to say hi and ask how the Collector is doing. He will also tell him all the goings on and how he's enjoyed Lily's company. While awaiting a reply, JJ will continue practicing with his rapier for a couple hours each day.
The Collector is overall pleased with J.J.'s increased prowess in such a short time, and says as much. Lily, for her part, is praised for providing you with an improved sense of decorum (J.J. gets the sense that that is also a compliment for him, despite Lily getting credit for it).  The Collector even dedicates a few minutes to comparing notes on recent events with J.J. His words somehow drag out more vivid memories than J.J. can normally call up on his own, and he get the sense that the Collector is watching those memories from the same perspective. During the recollection, he draws attention to several items J.J. encountered: the tome of the goblin spymaster, the ritual sword of one of the cultists that was found in the same pack with Lady Rowich's Egg, a charcoal left behind when the fire elemental smashed into a torch sconce, and a pair of silver-backed gloves one of the miners gifted to the party after pulling them from the will 'o wisp's cave. After your conversation and during rapier practice (guided by Lily, who is extremely frustrated that you can't fly during this process), Lily points out that for all your dedication of mind, you haven't actually taken anything to add to the Collector's collection.  ((I don't know if J.J. is aware of this in-character yet or if you even want him to be, but the Collector collects "events", or rather, symbolic items representative of events, the more world-changing the better. If J.J. ever asks Lily about it, she'll be exasperated that he doesn't already understand that but she will explain it and she has a pretty good idea of what item in a given situation would count as symbolic. If you'd rather J.J. be in the dark about this that's fine too.))
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JJ would be confused and ask Lily what she means. He was used to just retrieving an item or something for the collector, not the symbolic items/events type of thing. I imagine Lily will be shocked at how JJ has not figured this out after 20 or so years. It also fits perfectly in with JJ's character that he'd be oblivious to all this.