Back to the Hababe... baby!

Returning the following day we found there was one more room we had not explored. Inside, we found a table with some insects in jars alongside some tools. There was also a book shelf along one side of the room. We found some magic, some acids, and tools meant for working with gems. Laraena and Orkbolt were able to identify some of the vials as Formic Acid. We collected what we had found & headed back to Teacher Janatimo's office. He was once again back to his cheerful demeanor! We reported what we had found, speaking about the jars of insects, acids and gemstones. He could not make head nor tails of this, asking us to continue searching out more information about the Griffins that had attacked. We asked if he could facilitate getting the Anadi students back to the Hababe building & see if they still felt drawn to it. We left, heading towards town to see what information we could dig up regarding specific breeds of Griffins and who might be breeding them. After looking around for 4 days we narrowed down the search to Oba's Wonderous Creatures, on the south side of town. We headed to speak with Oba, first thing the next morning!
Arriving at the shop we found a woman behind the counter who was immediately irate with us. She knew who we were & was very upset we had killed her Griffins. She eventually revealed she fed the Griffins sacks full of spiders as their main diet. She was not surprised to hear that they had gone after some Anadi. In conversation she revealed that someone known as "Froglegs" had been wanting to buy these Griffins. He was a shady character who eluded to the Griffins disappearing. She refused to give us any more information about this person, not even a physical description or race. Imryll finally got fed up and headed out back to the animal enclosure area. Orkbolt followed him. Laraena chose to try to diffuse the situation with Oba before following them. She was mostly successful, but it was clear that Oba really had never met this "Froglegs" person. They had used an intermediary to send messages and veiled threats. She said if she thought of anything else that might help she would contact the Magaambya. The rest of the group then hurried to catch up with Imryll and Orkbolt. Soon after we entered the animal enclosure we were attacked by 2 Tigers. After a brief, but vicious, encounter we healed up and then began exploring more of the area. We found that someone had tried to make it look like the tigers had slashed up their food tent, but Laraena could tell they had been made by a blade, sometime in the last 24 hours. Orkbolt examined the lock on the Tiger enclosure, finding minute scratches that indicated the lock had been picked within the last day or so. Orkbolt then found 3 distinct sets of Tiger tracks. He followed the 3rd set to where we found a Tiger stalking something. We were still some distance away, but Gazzean took his clan pistol out, sighted and shot the creature! However, we were all somewhat surprised to see the cat did not even react to this! As Gazzean moved closer to see what had happened he could see that it was made of stone! As we moved closer we saw that there was a trampled sign under the rear paws of the stone Tiger... Basilisk - 1. We then became aware of the hissing to our east. Several of us recognized the name and quickly made others aware of what to expect from such a creature, such as avoiding it's gaze. Orkbolt went to inform Oba about the stone Tiger and the Basilisk, hoping that she would be able to offer some help with re-capturing it. While the others waited, Argent found an oddly made lock pick in the mud of the Griffin cage. Laraena took it to Gazzean, who could tell it was made for a Grippli.
Oba did not have any way to re-capture the Basilisk safely. Orkbolt returned to tell us the bad news, but also that Oba had kept a hood on it's head. This made us wonder if we could manage to get something over it's head to stop it's gaze attack. Amara volunteered to try to get the bag over it's head, while the rest of us tried to knock it unconscious. Imryll used his superior hearing to try to pinpoint where the Basilisk was. He soon heard something moving just out of site. Orkbolt snuck over and risked a peek. He found some sort of odd creature with the hind quarters of an alligator & the fore quarters of a goat with lightning arcing between it's horns! Orkbolt turned to go ask Oba what this odd creature was. Just as he left, the Basilisk revealed itself near the Tiger statue! We managed to defeat it without too much trouble, other than turning Amara to stone of course! After we defeated it we spoke with Oba about how to remove the stoned condition. She offered up some special healing potions to cure the condition for Amara and the Tiger. We chose to do this next time... and also search the rest of the storage huts for anything interesting!
Oba also told us about the Goat/Alligator creature. It was a creature that lived in the clouds called a Mpeshi.