<div class="floatright">(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h289/masta_loki/181190.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Piro<br/><strong>Class: </strong>Oracle<br/>Character Sheet (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=13873)<br/><hr/><br/>Piro would glance over at Naori as she gives her feelings on his line of questions, giving her a half-hearted smile when she finished.<strong>”Our benefactor gave us free reign to loot this place as we see fit, so long as we don’t mess with the soul-mill.  Information like this is just as valuable as treasure, so by her word it isn’t something she can condemn me for.”</strong>He wouldn’t be so foolish as to outright admit his flirtation with treachery against their mistress, but her words were enough to dissuade him from actually following through with the ritual to bind himself to the place.<br/><br/>When the crippled man went on to elaborate on the mill and how it works, Piro felt a particularly profound sense of dread at the mention of how valuable truly good souls could be.  He might have been too modest to ever admit he was pure and innocent, but he felt sure that he was perhaps among least deserving to be here with the amount of good his actions have done to protect life.  It made him wonder if Aneesha knew of the caliber of his morality, and more to the point, what sort of things she had in mind for him if she was ever made aware.  It was enough to drain some of the color from his complexion and make his situation feel all the more despairing; after all, what chance does a valuable commodity have in a den of murderous thieves?<br/><br/>That newfound information on this place cinched it for Piro.  The mill was too valuable to use as a stronghold, especially one that was bound to him.  As impressive as the wards seem to be, his best chance for the moment seemed to be relying on Aneesha’s discretion.  The likelihood of this place falling under siege with the knowledge of the wards being bound to a mortal was too great.  Piro also knew he could not keep the prisoners here bound, and from the sound of it, there are bound to be some among them that wouldn’t hesitate to stab him in the back for the sake of striking a better deal.<br/><br/>It would be easy enough to see how much that knowledge had impacted his hopes on escaping this literal hell for the worse, but it wasn’t enough to defeat him.  At least not yet.  Piro would look for a way to unlock the cage that contained the crippled man so that he could see what could be done about his injuries.  If it is within his power to heal him, he wouldn’t hesitate to do so before telling the man to leave this place and that a place called the Free City of Dis might be a place of refuge.  He would go one step further to encourage him to take one of the weapons the guardians of this place had relinquished so that he may better protect himself.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Heal check to determine the man’s injuries to see if his magic could help: d20+8=25<br/><br/>Cast Cure Moderate Wounds and/or Lesser Restoration if they would give him use of his legs once more.<br/></div></div>