I will, to adventure!

"For too long has this monstrosity been allowed to roam these lands, I swear to help you, with all my might." I kneel in front of him, his bound form still uncomfortably taunt in front of me. "I have just arrived from another journey, please allow me time to clean myself. I shall meet you at the temple entrance in an hour."

As soon as I step out of the door I realize my mistake, I left the high priestess in there! The sound of her passionate cries, her endurance is legendary. Shaking my head at the tragedy of wasting such a beauty in that beast, I walk to my own room.

In an hour he is waiting there for me, obviously bathed. I suppose some women would find him handsome. I see in him a capable warrior, a comforting thought. We salute each other, he tells me there are horses for us. We ride.

"I have been thinking" I tell him on the road. "I don't think you told me everything". We are keeping a fast trout, but we are both skilled enough for conversation.

"There is plenty I didn't tell you, milady, some by choice, some because I simply didn't have time. But I promise to tell you everything you wish to learn."

We meet two companions on the road, Zack partners in this dangerous guest. The first is a grizzled dwarf veteran, Grunir, his unwashed dirty grey beard calling as much attention as an oversized crossbow that he carries on his back. The second is an attractive young woman dressed in a gypsie outfit, with curly black hair and eerie red eyes. The gypsie, Ruby, is a sorcerer and a fortune teller.

We ride in disciplined silence, after Ruby tells us she divined the Beholder´s last location in the Abandoned Tower of Xorn. It isn't far from where we are, Xorn used to be an evil Wight general, destroyed some years ago by a group of adventurers.