The announcement was proud, "I am the Death Archmage! Mwahahahaha!". One of the others told him to knock it off, for indeed the old man wasn't impressing anyone. Instead he began a long rambly speech:
"As I see it, we must keep moving. If we have traitors within us, then surely they can send for help, and the less time we allow them to set up an ambush, the better. When I was but a lad, this was not how we did things. We were a more civilized people...".
The death archmage droned on for fully an hour and a half, before finally falling asleep