Tell you what, instead of "stuffy old scholar", make me the "local stuffy old astrologer".
Without
Menel, that kind of drops us down a tad.
And now for a crazy idea:
If you really want the numbers up, maybe you'd be willing to mess around with a really obfuscatingly complicating situation, and have some of us play multiple characters. I'm sure I could be persuaded to have
Falco Boffin be the resident Hobbit while my astrologer could be some guy named
Elempí of Umbar. Of course, this idea could create way more problems than it solves, so maybe you might just want to forget it.
Edit: Of course, if Elempí is a werewolf and Falco Boffin is a seer, it could raise interesting problems now, couldn't it?