(well... obviously not anymore. :D In that case he would have drained the ooze from it, and then brought them up into his lab to finish drying and to reverse the warping.)<br/><br/>He grinned, ignoring the way she only loosely tied the robe shut, still allowing him a good view of her chest. "Of course you do. It is just that most might not find the alternative very attractive. It has two obvious choices, and maybe a couple not so obvious choices. One is work for me, the other is firmly deny my offer which means you have no further use to me as a person, and instead become a mere source of information, like a chest I need to open. The third option is to stall until you know how the skirmish for the town will turn out, and then choose if you want to work for me, and a fourth possibility is to try and seduce me, increasing your apparent value to me while not really committing yourself."<br/><br/>He snapped his fingers, a bottle of wine appearing on the table, and he slid it across to her, his smile still in place. "Problem is, the third and fourth option require me not being aware of what you are doing to work, and while there are other options, again, they are variants or what I listed before."<br/><br/>He pulled an orange out of the air, and began peeling it, before looking up at her. "We are the adventuring group that took Vraath Castle, killed the green dragon and the group at the bridge, did that impressive 'You shall not pass' at Skull Gorge, killed the black dragon and its goblinoid rider, dispersing the lizardfolk throughout the swamp, allowing the elves to support the town, and now have captured you and killed the lich for good, destroying his phylactery with him."<br/><br/>He punctuated each sentence by eating a slice of the orange, and looked at the last two slices before peeling them from each other and looked up at her, his slightly vacant smile suddenly becoming a bit more viscous. "So, the only questions now are... what to do with you? How quickly should we get around to destroy that Red Hand army? And where is the last dragon of the evil dragon goddess' roulette? She normally does things in five, but a white dragon would be to stupid to be helpful in this campaign, plus the heat would make it even dumber. So where is the blue dragon?"