I finally stop gazing at the mountain, and start heading into its cave, but, before I could take my first step, I hear someone shouting "HEY! RED GUY!" a goblin quickly runs up to me, and stops me in my tracks, adding "I think ya left these back in camp," he then hands me that weird potion from the knight, as well as the bag of holding that R'lyeh used to have. I decided against telling him that these weren't exactly my items, as they were useful, and I'm sure neither of us wanted to go into the sea to look for one specific sahagin, no, instead I took the items, putting the potion in the bag of holding, as well as my old rapier, which was only going to weigh me down, anyways. The princess then decides to start talking again, unfortunately for everyone, and she ends up saying "So, you're just stealing those items from your friend, then? And here I was thinking that the goblin was the thief," I ignored her and just continued towards the cave in the mountain, with her incessantly talking about how we should go find R'lyeh, and how we should try to convince him to rejoin us, all of this before we actually got to enter the cave. By that point, everyone was complaining about the princess constantly talking about this and that, changing the subject on a whim, and never really saying anything positive about anything. The cave, itself was damp, somewhat colder than the outside, which had warmed up a bit since we got here, and it smelled like mold. Oddly, Backstabs seemed to be at home, though I couldn't even think about living in a place like this, she was just wandering around, and for the first time in a while, she was smiling, and she looked refreshed, as if this was some sort of paradise, rather than the cave that it was.

The civilians started talking again until we started to hear some heavy, metallic footsteps up ahead. They went quiet that exact moment until one of them, an ogre, whispered "Humans... armored humans... this can't be good," everyone started picking hiding spots, as well as telling myself and my party to 'go on ahead' or to 'show our strength! FIGHT!'... leaving me, as well as those unlucky enough to be traveling with me as allies without a place to hide from them. All we could do was wait as the footsteps approached us, coming closer and closer. Soon enough, we could overhear some chatter about how the dragon was too tough for them to beat, and how they were lucky to get away, and find shelter in this exact cave. I looked around, and the princess was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps she didn't really consider herself a member of our party? Of course, I would prefer it that way, but she seemed to enjoy following us around like a lost puppy... and annoying us twice as much as one. I braced myself as the footsteps grew closer, and honestly hoped that everyone else in my party was ready for an attack in basically a hallway as the footsteps continued to approach us, eventually revealing four humans. A fighter, wearing what appeared to be steel armor, a white mage, a black mage, and a ranger, all of whom stopped as soon as they saw us. "Hey, free experience!" one of them, particularly, the fighter called out to his friends, possibly noticing that I was already shaking from fear, and didn't exactly look capable of doing anything to them.