Noob Q's on Blood Sacrifice

[Hellboy]

I've never played Mictlan before, and now I'm just messing around w/ it, and I'm a little confused by the interface for blood sacrifice.

1) If I give the order to "perform blood sacrifice" it seems to leave the number of blood slaves in the possession of that particular priest constant. Does this mean that, in effect, the blood slaves being consumed are being pulled from the general pool?

2) If so, am I correct in concluding that priests will always sacrifice up to their maximum capacity (according to priest level & jade knife, subject to restriction of availability of slaves)?

3) Does the existence/non-existence of a lab affect how this interface works? In other words, I could imagine that the interface is actually designed such that slaves are pulled from the priests, but then autoreplenished - is something like this the case?


TIA,

Hellboy