azathur listened to the proposed plan with interest. It appears the host of the evening had planned quite a ways ahead. And yet he managed to do so without the plan becoming overly rigid and uncompromising, after all, one should always assume things don't go completely to plan. This show of competence drew Azathur over a line of initial distrust, and he stood up after Blackvein and clais had finished their explenations. "My good sirs, You have convinced me to join this cause. To a certain degree of course, I'll follow your general directions, but I'll still remain the sole leader of my own retinue." I hope these demands aren't unreasonable to you two good sirs?"<br/><br/>As Azathur responded, It appeared the lady Teskaska had arrived on some sort of epiphany regarding the lifestone's nature. To his surprise, she started talking of the stone's creator. "Lady Teskaska, assuming Lucifer will be directly involved in this endeavour is quite an unreasonable stance. After all, if he was able to exert such direct presence on the world above his, why would summoning his underling demons be so difficult? The gods are too far removed from the world to directly reach into it I'm presuming, as there's little reason to believe otherwise"<br/><br/>Azathur finished his long retort to the implications behind teskaska's rather unexpected statement. "I am correct in this assumption, aren't I my fellow practitioners?"