Lucian Negotiation: 2 (Critical Success) --- This was certainly a pleasant surprise. "Hmm, instead of attacking the criminal indirectly responsible for the death of one of your friends, you instead decide to sit and chat with him". Ren's eyes widened as this was said, and the Blank Mage clearly took notice as he raised his hand over his mouth in a sarcastic manner. "Oops, did I say that? Yea, that one girl... Erica was it? She's dead, done in by those tainted spirits I had set up as traps. Shame that the body just... disappeared though, it would have been excellent experimental material". The man gave a smirk, lowering his own hands for now. He was clearly amused by Lucian's attempts at negotiating, so he decided to humor Lucian and 'negotiate'. "What, you're Enforcer friends didn't tell you? Guess they didn't think you could handle the truth, the truth that you all have no power". The man waved his hand, a chair appearing out of nowhere as he sat upon it, three chairs appearing for the Gamers as well. "But I digress. In truth, your feeble and naive attempts at negotiating amuse me to no end, so I think i'll humor them and let you buy all of the time you need". This man was no idiot by any means, and had clearly seen through part of Lucian's ruse. "The truth is, i'm not entirely all that interested in you Gamers. While yes, you'd all make nice little prizes as experimental material... right now you all are too weak to mean anything. you have an interesting power and a few unique connections for ones as weak as all of you". He made sure to put an emphasis on 'weak' there. "If I truly had wanted you, I would have sent better men then those two idiotic small fry after you". Ren clenched his fist, but remained calm. So those two Hunters were small fry after all. That was a pleasing thought, to be nearly killed by small fry twice, despite having them outnumbered. "But I digress, once again. As I mentioned before, i'm not after you three. This place is merely a base to take down a much... bigger prize, but since you are up for negotiating, lets talk business, shall we?" He gave a pleasant, yet not so pleasant smile that would send chills up anyone's spine. It was a smile that was disguised to be pleasant, but hid obvious nefarious intent. "If there's anything I would want from you all... its your bodies, plain and simple. Normally I would just..." he suddenly vanished, reappearing right in Lucian's face, his own face inches away from his as in a tone oozing with slime he whispered 'kill you..." before vanishing and reappearing back in his own seat. "But it appears from your dearly departed Erica, that killing you makes your body go 'poof'", and to demonstrate a point he made the common hand gesture appropriate with said expression. "So i'll strike you a deal. Ill let you live, and promise to make your experiments as painless as possible... if you join me and serve me. Its as simple as that". He suddenly snapped his fingers, three pieces of paper appearing before the three Gamers. "All you have to do is sign there... and ill spare your lives. Easy enough, right?" He now sat back, and awaited their individual responses. Ren simply said nothing. He already knew his response, but wondered how Mike and Lucian were going to respond, because he really didn't want to have to fight both of them if their responses were different.