Resolutions and Salutations!

Iluminus decides to take a short break in the deep drake's lair... Figuring most things won't disturb a drake in it's lair it would be safe there... Needing the rest to shake off the effects of wounds and refresh mystical prowess... As Hallorin strings out a spell of magical detection Ulfgar and Reed scoop coin and valuables into various sacks to be put into Reed's bag of holding... I stew in a seething rage over my un-glorious ineptitude during the drake fight...
 
Eventually we pack up and head on... Further into the caves we encounter Underdark vermin know as grick .. The glorified serpents with extra fangs fall easily to our might... Just beyond the grick, a colony of grimlocks layered... Strong yet short and blind grimlocks do possess keen hearing, smell, and tremorsense... A cruel and barbarous species, they are often used as slave labor by other Underdark denizens... They heard our fight against the grick and we're ready for us... We charge, they charge... We first fell the biggest brutes then hack through the remaining warriors... Hearing more deeper on, Big Red stalked ahead... We give him a moment then slink forward...
 
He then comes running back screaming, "Gorgon!"... Hearing the hoots of more grimlocks scrambling towards us As he rushes past I set to receive the charge of the iron skinned bull monster and hold my breath to protect myself from the gorgon's poison breath... When to my surprise I see a scantily clad and busty lass round the corner into the chamber... Unfortunately the sexy woman also a face of pure hatred with yellow red snake eyes and instead of hair a host of serpents writhe and hiss... The Medusa's eyes meet mine... She hisses and I feel her malice and madness pour into her gaze and I feel my soul start to stiffen... There amidst a battle line with my companions and her grimlocks, I roar out, "Tempus" and open up my heart and let the rage out and defy her petrification! I invoke a vow of enmity on the Medusa and in a surge of action, rain a series of blows ending in divine smites upon the monster! Most of my companions avert their gaze and land strikes upon the grimlocks felling them left and right... But not our most famous hin... Goodbarrel also finds a way to get past the monster's gaze and charges it, landing series of karate strikes on the nearly defeated Medusa knocking out what life was left in the monster... After defeating the remaining grimlocks the complex is our!
 
As we investigate the Medusa's room we find another secret door to the Underdark waterway we found earlier... Nick takes the Medusa's head and Ulfgar and I take the drake's head... We call out to the guards on the winch... Between the drake and medusa heads coupled with copious bragging the guards are amazed eagerly start heading our plans for defending the Undermines... We meet Lt Ryden and even Commander Dun at the Dourstone complex and makes some basic plans for the future of the mines... It's seems our immediate circumstances are victorious and glorious! I head out from the meeting to get this dream head stuffed and get a bath and massage...