A Job Well Done!

Guess those Basilisks won't be a problem anymore!
 
Got rid of them in front of the ancient ruins, though a few of their kids got away in the process. We'll see how that goes, the good news is that the parents won't cause any problem for the local adventurers anymore. Gotta say I'm glad that I wasn't one of the poor sods that got turned to stone. Thankfully, we had a lot of Basilisk blood on hand to turn them back to flesh. The only thing I regret, is that there wasn't a single egg in sight. Would have loved to try and tame myself a Basilisk, would have been nice to protect the house when I'm not there.
 
What else? Oh yeah, after Jib carved his name into the arm of some poor bastard that had been turned to stone, we went on our merry way, this time by following the main road. Eventually we got to a small town mainly populated by hunters and woodcutters. We found a shitty inn at the edge of Mellowglade and decided to stay there for the night. It beats staying outside and having to deal with monsters, the weather and who knows what else. Since there weren't enough rooms for all of us (#1 problem when in small towns in the middle of nowhere), some of us had to bunk together. Nabintou had called dibs on a room alone since she's the only woman in the group, so that left the rest to determine our sleeping arrangements.
 
In the end I was paired with R'Egrul'Ebrel (I still am not sure if I'm writing it correctly, to be honnest) the Illithid bard.
 
I tried to keep calm about it, I mean the guy is what? 6 foot 6? He's like a fucking giant! If he wanted he could probably hurt me, or kill me. I prefer not to think about it. I just kept quiet, unfurled my bedroll in a corner of the room and tried to curl myself to sleep. R'Egrul found it weird of course and asked me about it. I panicked and told him I was normal, I think? I don't remember everything I said, I was just too focused on making sure he wouldn't make any suspicious moves. Then something really weird happened. The man simply stated "You're not afraid of what I am. You're afraid of my height?".
 
Like, that's not normal! He was clearly reading my mind! How else would he have known about this! There's just no way! And if he had since this, what else had he seen?
 
I wasn't ready to face this hornet's nest, so I simply excused myself from the room and dashed for the main hall. Found myself a nice beam, high enough that I wouldn't be bothered, and got to sleep there. Gotta admit though, it wasn't all that bad! Had worse sleeping arrangements in my time.
 
In the end, I got woken up by Jib. He was trying to steal from the Innkeeper or something? Made signs for me to steal the keys that were on the man's belt. I was too tired to argue and quickly got what the goblin wanted, then got back to sleep. The next morning, Jib gave me some gold, said it was my share or whatever. I gotta say I ain't proud of this, but what's done is done.
 
We got back to Elderfalls and to the Guild of Champions, got quite the boon from this endeavour at least. Asher thanked me for my help, said it was nice to have a veteran in the group, that I somehow had saved their asses. It... I don't know, felt good? It had been a while since someone had told me that I was wanted and useful. That I was praised for my work. After that we sat ourselves in the tavern of the guild and got to eating and drinking. We started showing off, doing backflips and shit, I don't know.
 
In fact I don't remember much after a while, I know we had quite a lot of fun. but I'm not sure how I got back home in the end. I'm not as young as I once was too, and had a massive headache the next morning. Apparently, R'Egrul was the one to bring me back, as he left a... somewhat ominous note behind? I'm not sure about it, but we'll need to talk about all this mess.
 
Had to go back to the Guild and face the rest of them anyway, we had another quest to pick if we wanted to get that Brass Bell of the Living as soon as possible.
 
Hope it's gonna go as well as this time! One can hope!