[color=silver]"Well, it seems like everyone's starting to figure their own things out, after all?"[/color] Halflight mentioned, facing the armed man, as he picked up his new makeshift cloak, wrapping it around himself once again, like a cape. [color=orangered]"If I find whoever did this,"[/color] Uregaunt growls, [color=orangered]"I swear I'll tear their throat out and feed it to their kin."[/color] He scowls to no one in particular. [color=silver]"You shoudn't let anger guide you while you're cutting tubes connected to your body. Would you like a hand with taking them off?"[/color] Uregaunt looks at the person for a moment, biting his tongue. Best not bite the hand that feeds. [color=orangered]"Sure, if you wouldn't mind,"[/color] he says in a defeated sigh. Halflight grinned as he submitted to his help. The Knight figured befriending the only man with a weapon was the wise thing to do, in a situation like this. [b]"Hey!"[/b] Thanath called back into the hole [b]"I think I've found a way out!"[/b] Halflight approached Uregaunt as he aided him in removing all the pesky tubing out of the way. [color=silver]"We'll be with you, shortly, friend!"[/color] Halflight called back to Thanath, while he proceeded with things. [color=orangered]"I can't believe I've been had,"[/color] Uregaunt mumbles under his breath, letting the man help remove his tubings. He still sounds angry, but his rage seems more subdued than before, leaving him content to glare straight ahead. [color=silver]"Relax, friend. We have all been tricked out of our things, it seems. Doesn't seem like your average highway bandit has done this, however..."[/color] [color=orangered]"True,"[/color] Uregaunt continued to mumble. [color=orangered]"It seems there is more to this situation than what first impressions may reveal..."[/color] He gives a dry chuckle. [color=orangered]"What would anybody want with me, let alone the others currently here? I can't say I recall meeting any of you before."[/color] [color=silver]"I've met all sorts of colorful people in my adventures as a knight, but there are still things that I haven't seen before until now, like that peculiar looking golem who was laying in the center of the room."[/color] After Halflight took out the tubing, his hand begins to glow again, this time with some sort of... black, glowing light. [color=silver]"I'm going to heal you, now."[/color] [color=orangered]"Awfully kind of you,"[/color] Uregaunt noticed. [color=orangered]"Healing someone you've just met."[/color] His voice harbors mild curiosity as he speaks. [color=silver]"Better to make friends than foes, especially in a time like this."[/color] Halflight mentioned, before he channeled his divine energy into Uregaunt. The healing is rather minute, but it seems to do the job well enough. [color=silver]"My apologies, but I am no man of the cloth. I won't be able to heal you as well as a priest without expending all my power... and I believe I will need it, until I, myself, am able to find a weapon."[/color] Uregaunt takes a deep breath, his stance still cautious as he lowers his blade. [color=orangered]"That is quite a problem,"[/color] Uregaunt says. His angry demeanor has lessened greatly, but he still sounds rather dissapointed that someone "had" him. [color=orangered]"I would lend you mine, but I'm afraid it would service you little. I do appreciate what you have done, however, and promise to pay you back in full when I can."[/color] He bows his head slightly, a sign of gratitude. [color=orangered]"Thank you."[/color] Halflight steps back, with a nod and a smile. [color=silver]"If you wish to pay me back, then follow me, into the pillar where the golem had disappeared into."[/color] Halflight pointed towards the illusory wall, grabbing part of the discarded tubing and throwing it into the wall in an effort to show Uregaunt the peculiarity of the pseudo wall. [color=orangered]"Hm?"[/color] Uregaunt looks at the wall and starts to shake his head in doubt, but halts as he watches the tubing. His eyebrows shoot up. [color=orangered]"How... curious,"[/color] he says, keeping his voice down. His eyes jump back and forth between the hole in the wall and the false wall. After a moment of consideration, he nods. [color=orangered]"Very well,"[/color] he says. [color=orangered]"Something tells me going through a feature of the room we're in will get us closer to escaping than smashing down the wall and trying to escape that way."[/color] He scoffs under his breath at the idea of the latter, although something still seems to bother him. [color=silver]"Indeed... in truth, it was one of the first things I noticed when I had awakened. In truth, I had wished to find out if there happened to be anyone as cunning as I, if not moreso... and so far, as you can see, my results happened to be sorely lacking."[/color] [color=orangered]"Clearly whoever captured us wasn't looking for the sharpest people they could find,"[/color] Uregaunt offhandedly remarks. [color=orangered]"That does make me wonder, however, what exactly it was they were planning to do with us..."[/color] [color=silver]"It must have something to do with this..."[/color] Halflight prods the gem in his right forearm. Uregaunt takes a look at Halflight's gem, comparing it to your own. [color=orangered]"How odd,"[/color] he mutters under his breath. [color=silver]"Might I ask, by the way, but which arm would be your dominant?"[/color] [color=orangered]"My right one,"[/color] he says, gesturing with the arm with which he is holding the strange blade. [color=silver]"Hm... I see. As a Knight, I had trained in fighting with both arms, hence I became ambidextrous as a result. I still, however, would prefer fighting with my left hand over my right, which would, under normal circumstances, be my dominant arm." "With the fact that most of us captured happen to be warriors under consideration, it may seem that whoever embedded these stones within us didn't want to risk hindering our fighting capabilities."[/color] [color=orangered]"Indeed. I wonder what their purpose is, though,"[/color] Uregaunt muses. [color=orangered]"Do they perhaps denote something about us? Is it a symbol of some sort? It seems rather odd that they would insert the gems without any purpose..."[/color] [color=silver]"The colors may have a significance as well. I find it rather peculiar that we both share a shade of red as ours."[/color] [color=orangered]"It is rather odd,"[/color] Uregaunt notes, frowning as he takes another look at his own gem before lowering his arm.