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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 8608700" data-attributes="member: 6999616">Having dealt with the truetrolls, we carried on looking for inhabitants of the area that Landcentre (the country we're working for) is going to annex. It's 130km by 150km, so this is the fairly quick scan, finding large monsters and settlements. In dense woodlands, we spotted a cockatrice, and a little later, noticed that it was chained to the tree it was sitting in. We decided to err on the side of friendliness, and called out hellos, and fairly soon a couple of human-sized creatures in robes came along. They introduced themselves as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon" target="_blank">gorgons</a> (this is correct as per Greek mythology, "Medusa" was the personal name of one of the gorgon sisters), and admitted that they knew of Landcentre and visited its cities to trade on occasion. They're clearly capable of decent disguise, since they do have snakes for hair. We explained that Landcentre was willing to take civilised people as citizens, and the requirements are fairly simple: pay the taxes, which aren't huge, and send your young people for military training. They asked for time to think about it, and invited us to their village. They can indeed turn people to stone, which they do voluntarily, by looking at you and willing it; they're immune to their own (and each other's) gaze. They can do this permanently, or temporarily: if it's going to be temporary, there's a saving throw penalty. There are ten adult gorgons, and about twenty daughters. We did not ask how they are fertilised; by this time we were being extremely polite and wanting to get away. We think Landcentre will be happy to have them as citizens, but being in the company of so many of them is hard on the nerves.</blockquote>

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