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The napga looks stunned, takes, off, and hands the ring over. Quenstin points back down the path of the en-stoned creatures a few miles back. There is a large gray lizard in a nearby shallow ravine, with some ruins there. This basilisk turns people to stone, and is a threat to the tabi. He doesn’t want to risk his own people. That is also where the sword is as well as the book. If the three can head over and take it out, they can get their stuff.
Rolane is gung-ho, all bows locked on target and ready to go. D’ath is predictably cowardish. He suggests ways to cheat the tabi and steal what they want. Alzar refuses. They agree and head on out.
A few miles away, they come to the ravine. Alzar pauses and inspects the area from above quietly with the Carpet. The ravine is small here, and there is an old ruin of a shrine or temple of some sort, in front of a cave. In the ruins is the lair of the basilisk.
Alzar will wait up here as the others move down, and then cast Light at the eyes of the lizard. Hopefully they’ll blind it, which prevents it from gazing at people (it can’t get the eyes to connect with people if the spell keeps it from doing so)
They move in, Alzar casts the spell as the lizard hears them…
9 - it fails. The Light is on after it failed the save. It is blinded! Longbow arrows snap into the creature from Rolan, and Sling Stones from D’ath. Alzar’s Trombash of Returning flies out and hits it a few times too. It can’t move around, and they all fly, so they are safe from melee and can’t be petrified. They win - it dies.
After killing it, they land and begin to check it out. They find the book, weapon, and a few other things as well:
85 pp, 580 gpo, 275 sp, etc. Alzar lets Rolane and D’ath split it, if Alzar can borrow the book for one day, and he has his Magist use Alzar’s Bookcopy on it.
Rare Book - Traladarin History: King Halav’s Early Life and Battles - 750 gp
Alzar spends some time cutting and hacking off pieces of the Basilisk. Skin, blood, teeth, and eyes. Alzar checks out the cave, and it goes in pretty far.
They return and deliver good news. Because he didn’t need anything, Alzar is offered his choice of items from a dead adventurer that the Basilisk killed -
Plate Mail +1
Shield +1
Long Bow +2
Rolane’s recovered sword is a +2 one.
They rest up, and then Alzar wants to head back to the cave and check it out real quick while he’s here….
End of Tabi Hunt?
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