[Jeramiahh]<br/><br/>There are no obvious threats in the room, save for the horrific sight that lies before Charles.  The room stinks with the stench of fear and agony, and the coppery smell of blood pervades the room.  The room itself was once a gallery of fine statues, and the statues are still there.  But five of the dozen statues are now wearing the curing skins of various humanoids...including that of a familiar half-elf.  And in the center of the room was a huge steel device, and in it was the grotesque source of the screams.<br/><br/>A male...figure was there, without hair or skin, and silvery probes held him into the device, and from it came tubes of glass that flowed with a dark red substance, clearly not blood, that was slowly collecting in a vial at a spout on the side of the machine.  Save for the figure, there are none in the room.<br/><br/>((DC 15 Perception check to recognize the figure as Thomas))