<strong>Xullim</strong><br/><br/>Business? What business? Oh that was rich.<strong>"I asked you a question, not for lip. Do you always speak this way to your betters, or do you simply think that all of us are as unwitting and unworthy as these past 'sacrifices'? When I ask, answer, or I will banish you to the Abyss to be devoured by Lolth. Even still, I could unmake you and absorb your essence."</strong>The words hissed and echoed around the room, filled with the threats and imbued with the fact that he could deliver, or at least seemed very likely that he could. As if in time with his words, shadows wove through his fingers, the better to enforce his point.<strong>"He might put up with insubordinate lesser beings, but you do not seem useful enough to allow such offense."</strong>He stood, and thankfully his clothing made him appear less frail than he was, he'd made sure of that. His armor was hidden slightly by the clothing he used though it still weighed on him. Arcane energy coursed about him and through him. He prepared to smite the creature should it make an ill-advised move.<br/><br/>He looked around at the others, sitting quietly as if in awe of the creature before them. What simpletons. It was nothing to call forth demons, the trick was in the negotiation and you could never even let them think that they had currency or especially not the upper hand. It was only an option that you were in charge, you held the power. Of course, such was the same in drow society. It was another thing entirely though, when someone talked back. You had to make a show of force or they would always think they could walk all over you, and there was no way Xullim was letting some uppity devil get the better of him.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Intimidate: 29 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=56940) Or it could be a bluff with the same pool. Either way, 29.</div></div>