<div class="floatright">(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h289/masta_loki/Hugin.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">ISOKE FOXFYR</span></strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Class:</strong> <span class="bbc_u">Hexcrafter (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=13652)</span></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Location:</strong>The Slaughtered Prince (main room)</span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Tagging:</strong> Group</span><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/>A sardonic smirk tugged at the edges of Isoke’s lips.  “It’s particularly bad to be hanging by the neck at an end of a noose; at least then you know what fate is about to befall you and that it’ll be relatively quick.  Owing Septimus Finn is like tightrope walking barefoot on piano wire during a hurricane where beneath you the devil himself awaits to redefine what we know as agony.  At least that seems to be the general consensus of the rumors that trickle down the grapevine.  You are right with your assumption that coin won’t get us out of this mess; were that the case he likely would have had lackeys take payment through pulverizing our kneecaps or taking a few fingers.  From the sounds of it, we inconvenienced him in some way, so we are about to be inconvenienced a million fold.  Give or take several thousand.”<br/><br/>Isoke made his way to the cask of mead, filled up one of the glasses that were provided, and downed it in a single pull finding its flavor much more preferable to the swill now that there was an option.  “Keeping an eye on Ailis is a good idea until we figure out her role in this mess.  Granted, I imagine trust will be at a premium from this point out for all of us, but at least we seem to all be in the same hole so it is clearly in our best interest to work together to dig ourselves out.”  He filled up his mug once more before raising it slightly.  “Here’s to making it out alive; or at least being in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.”