My campaigns are the same, lol. It's fairly serious imo, the characters are trying to survive and get by, and have somewhat conflicting goals. i.e. one character just wants to keep a low profile and get another character to get rid of her pact, while that character wants to stay a warlock.
I mean this is a bit of humour, but it is through the characters joking with another rather than a ridiculous event.
I feel like removing Quark would increase the efficiency. Miles has more to fix while he's around.