Le Coq Supérieure - New Avalon's haughtiest French restaurant. The name literally means "The Superior Cock", evidently without irony. Gryphon doesn't actually like the place - at all - but it is on the list of places it's generally acceptable to take the particularly-on-their-dignity sort of Foreign Important People.

Order of the Red Lotus - A red lotus is a cocktail containing vodka, lychee liqueur, and cranberry juice.

strontium-90 - Like radium, strontium is in the same column of the periodic table as calcium, and can pretend to be calcium in the body's processes. Which means that if ingested, some of it ends up being integrated into the bones. Since ⁹⁰Sr is a) not calcium and b) highly radioactive, this is bad on several levels.

a stuck-up knowledge spirit - In which we learn that Wan Shi Tong has continued his tradition of being a problem for Avatars. Although, in fairness to him, that was an awfully loud noise.

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