In case you were wondering Arslan made me pork cutlets with rice - they were quite delicious. I made him a chess burger but it was pipping hot and the bread was slightly toasted he even had a jalapeño to munch on to give it that extra savory tinge. Oh and did I forget the French fries? Because there were French fries.
Nevertheless we packed our things, there was one more thing I needed to do before going deeper into the miasma at the center of the city.
Emergency services had already informed us that the part of the monster that had sliced off and gone into the under-dark, was quite of substancio us size.
We needed to be careful if we wanted to actually take this thing on.
With our things in hand - we headed for the center of the inn - where the power crystal was still running.
"What do you want to do?" asked Arslan.
"I need a chunk to take with us," I said. The crystal was actually massive - it probably stood near my hips.
"Okay - " Arslan searched about and found a tool and a hammer he could use, it was like a screw driver. Then metiocusly he searched around the crystal looking at it intently. Until finally he seemed to find the right spot.
Was it about finding the right corner?
"On the count of 3," he said. And placed the screwdriver just right so it was standing in front of the corner. One push would be enough to break the corner and allow us to take that piece.
"One - Two - Three!" We said at the same time and with one full swing Arslan pushed the screwdriver through the corner and a clean chunk flew right off.
It was like a miracal. Just like that I had a clean chunk front the crystal.
"We shouldn't take too much - when things die down the innkeeper gonna want to recharge it,"
"Sure! This should be enough," I notated. A big glowing rock now stood in my hands. This was easier than I thought - but I don't think we are going to be able to come across many of these in our travels. This was a rare ocurrance.
So I pocketed it into our inventory, I know it's going to become useful later. This was just to be safe rather than sorry.
With that we picked our things and headed towards the inner sanctums of the city.