Aria's head ached, and her body groaned....but mostly, her pride stung. How could she'd let herself get tangled up - literally! - with thugs like these? Sure, she'd begun sneaking out at night to learn the ways of the world as an all-too-cliche act of teenage rebellion, and picked up a few skills usually associated with the thieverous sort, but she was certainly no card cheat. And if she had sought to earn a living cheating at cards, she'd have gone after softer marks, like paunchy noblemen looking to impression their peers around the gentlemen's gaming table, not gangsters who employed trolls!<br/><br/>But somehow, she'd earned the apparent consequences of such things, without the fun or profit of having actually merited the accusations! Perhaps a case of mistaken identity, or perhaps it was this gang's way of indebting or enslaving people, via random false accusations.<br/><br/>Likely it mattered little; Aria couldn't imagine reasoning with these people, she'd just have to figure out a way. She'd tried struggling with her bindings some, trying not to think about the humiliating of having been stripped and bound like some plucked dinner-chicken or a dark cult's sex-slave.<br/><br/>This nudity made it all too easy to notice the natural allure of the other female bound in the cage with her, but she hardly had the luxury of dwelling on such things now. The other girl seemed a rather fit physical specimen, and that was what mattered now -<em>think tactically</em>, Aria reminded herself, a mantra of her goddess.<br/><br/>She struggled with her ropes for a bit, then inched toward the other girl as best she could. "Maybe we can help each other somehow, reach each other's bindings with fingers or even teeth?" she asked, trying not to show stress and strain in her voice. It was a surreal way to first greet someone, but then again, these were surreal circumstances.<br/><br/>When a third girl made her way into the room, and Aria thought she noticed some of her own things in the lady's possession, her heart leaped further still. "Over here!" she whispered hopefully.<br/><br/>Escape Artist checks to free herself, and checks to free Keela, from their bindings. Modifier +5 (0 ranks + 5 Dex). Presuming can take 20 as she seems to have the time for arbitrarily many retries.