I have another thing to point out. For those of us who play actual human characters the atmosphere that they are currently in in the execution thread is hardly survivable. You said the cufflinks are drilled into their bones and nonorganic material, which would cause blood loss, possibly traumatic blood loss, which would then lower the body's temperature and cause hypothermia (even more so with it being Skyrim climate) AND shock. I can see several characters dying at the very start of this game if not just my own for simply being human. Frostbite is another possibility.