"Ah, that explains why several of the captives that I recovered last night were in the process of getting limbs removed or raped, by your tame bandits. Apparently, there is a disconnect somewhere between you and the troops. They seemed to think the captives were for personal amusement until handed over."<br/><br/>He sat down, and stared at the mage, considering for a moment, before pulling out a piece of chalk, and drawing a basic circle. "Here is why priest. Let me know when you want me to stop."<br/><br/>He then began drawing an increasingly complex circle, putting several runes in it, his movements deft and sure, making the same circle that he had seen when he had prevented Tiamat from trying the same trick Cyris apparently was, though he was changing runes out on the fly, the ones for collecting turn undead power being converted to store blood sacrifice power. He didn't add the last layer of runes, which would have made it a functional portal if he added the destination and protection runes to prevent the being pulled through from taking his head off. "So, how close am I? The reason I said you are a moron is because a sacrifice that has been traumatized already will yield considerably inferior results to an sacrifice that has been through a minimum of trauma. The difference is nearly 200 to 400% power difference between an unraped, still intact villager, and one that has been raped a couple times, and had a few limbs or digits removed. Even worse if you plan to hold all the sacrifices in the room where they will be sacrificed. In that case, make that four to over nine thousand difference in power."