The downed man glared at Piro but looked a bit intimidated by Naori's approach and more than a little concerned about her words, though watching Piro warily at his words. "I'll talk, I'll try and tell you what you need to know at least but don't you let her start cutting me up, I get enough of that crap already!" He cast a look around, noticing the others but swallowing quickly again. "You are all looking way too lively, its unnerving. This is Hell, only fiends and the damned souls should be here but I think you are neither." He swallowed a bit wary look on his face while gazing at all of them. His gaze turning from Piro and Naori over to Jia and Baudhiel, and back again as he spoke. "Look I don't know what you are after here, but you are better off running away and trying to find a way out of this place. Uhm."<br/><br/>He rubbed his head a moment and then snapped his fingers as he smirked faintly. "Dis! You should go to the Free City of Dis. They've got a lot to offer, uhm, and travelers under heavy cloaks are more the norm than anywhere else. Uh, as long as you don't cause them trouble they're usually fine, but dont commit crimes if you are damned or they'll bleed you for Iliaster, or if you are a fiend they might just whip you up in bad state. Worst come to worst, they'll breach the fiend and suck the last drops of iliaster from their bodies leaving dry husks behind. Either way, its probably the closest you get to a neutral place around here." The old man nod his head seriously.<br/><br/>As Jia and Baudhiel stood near the cauldron, the clouds above parted slightly as a fiery descent began high above, a lone figure seeming to be burning on the way down from the heights. As the figure fell it passed a thin layer of green smoke, transparent as it was the rush through seemed to cause the figure to shake and tremble amidst its fall, but it wasn't falling right where they were. It seemed to curve further away from the place they'd woken up in, but heading somewhere to the ashen plains.<br/><br/>The bubbling green fluid slowly rose as green smoke and merely standing near the cauldron was enough to start making most folks a little dizzy, a lengthy exposure or being in contact with the smoke or worse inhaling them might well be rather dangerous if even being close to the smoke column could have an effect, mild as it might be. Yet as Baudhiel had sought to gather a sample, she'd see some old dusty bottles nearby, some of them entirely empty, others holding just the faintest bit of silvery-white fluid seeming to give a faint bit of light to the glass and illuminating it amidst the trash. No seals to cap the bottle were anywhere in sight though, and to get a sample of the waters in the cauldron would mean putting one's own body at a risk of exposure.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Going to leave it open to Ixy if Baudhiel wants to try and get a sample for herself, if she tries I'd like to see a reflex &amp; fortitude saves just in case.</div></div>