#gromph

My first night in camp was... oddly nostalgic. In my dreams, a figure bearing Rai’gy’s face approached me. I can tell it was not truly him. He would never wear the armor of an iblith. That dream visitor attempts to fool me, and I’m determined to learn the truth.

The second day was a fever dream. Gromph struggled to get going at first. Likely the result of delaying his natural end through an amulet. Later, he willingly took lute lessons from a tiefling. Perhaps the parasite is affecting him more than I anticipated...

Not that he seemed to enjoy it, though. “I am only doing this for the proficiency”, he explained. His face was one of discomfort. 

While Gromph amused himself in the Emerald Grove, I did some lucrative networking for Bregan D’aerthe. I invested in a group of criminal tiefling children and graciously ignored their blatant attempts to steal from me. Gromph claims I am going soft. I politely disagree.

To demonstrate this, I later initiated the massacre of a small group of particularly rude ibliths. Gromph participated enthusiastically.

After that, we visited a hag. Gromph was delighted. She offered him a hag’s eye in exchange for removing the parasite. An arrangement he considered a win-win. He accepted it with the words “I have two eyes anyway.”

In my opinion, he is becoming far too accustomed to eye transplants. Well, the hag failed to remove the parasite. It is Netherese. Now even I am mildly concerned.

After freeing a svirfneblin behind Gromph’s back (which I did not do out of softness) we took a long rest. Turns out, my vampire iblith believes I failed to notice his fangs and red eyes upon first meeting him. The fool even attempted to feed on me.

Fortunately for him, I found myself curious enough to grant him this one-time opportunity. After all, I had used him repeatedly the day before to trigger traps in advance. It is only reasonable to keep one’s tools motivated.

Tomorrow, our journey continues. Maybe I will be lucky and I will finally be able to consume the mind flayer parasite specimen I secured along the way... With kind regards, Kimmuriel Oblodra

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