You can't believe that you're actually leaning towards being the "responsible" one here.

"Look, I get that this is all very exciting for you seeing as you've lived a sheltered rich life and all…"
"I am not rich or sheltered! My father has to bust his ass making my tuition payments!"
"…yeah…in any case. I've been to this town before and its reputation is well earned. There are people here that make the dregs of Klyton look like priests of Joachim and if you run afoul of them, it isn't going to be good for you."
"Pfft, I can handle trouble." Kelium says and flexes his muscles a bit and pulls a sword out of his bag.
"Yeah, maybe you could handle one person, but the problem is these sort don't travel alone, they ALWAYS travel in packs and I can honestly say that YOU are not going to handle five or even three by yourself."
"Well wouldn't you help me? I mean isn't that why you're here?"
"Your job or assignment is to get some monster crab eggs. MY job is to help you in that task. My job is NOT however looking after your ass while you look for fun or trouble. Now I suggest you get some rest which is what I'm going to do because giant snail monsters that spit poison sound like they need full attention."

You fully expect Kelium to argue some more with you, but he doesn't. You also expect him to just leave the room by himself, but he doesn't do that either thankfully. He just says he thought you were going to be fun and starts reading through some of his papers.

Feeling a little pleased with yourself, you lay down on your bed and attempt to get to sleep before Kelium genuinely starts to get tired again, because if he starts snoring there is no way you're going to get any sleep.

Much later, you groggily wake up and find that your speech was less effective than you thought.

Kelium is not in your room. In fact, it doesn't even look like his bed has been slept in. You just shake your head and groan.

"Stupid fucker probably got himself enslaved or his throat cut." you mutter, as you get yourself prepared to go look for this idiot.

The first stop you make is Yvette's room.

"Hey Yvette." You say knocking on the door.
"Um…yes?" she answers, but not opening the door.
"Is Kelium in there?"
"No, why would he be? What are you implying?"
"…what? Nothing! I'm just asking because he's gone, and it doesn't look like he's slept in his bed either. I'm guessing he took off to have fun in the middle of the night."
"Oh dear. Um…well hold on, I have to get ready. I'll be out soon." Yvette says.

You half wonder if Kelium is in there and he's climbing out of a window. If that is the case, it's going to be real obvious if he and Yvette slept together last night. You aren't sure why Yvette would bother hiding it though; it isn't like you really give a shit.

As it turns out however, that isn't the case at all and you don't even have far to go to find Kelium.

You find him just outside the Sea Dog, stripped nearly naked and lying unconscious by the street.

"Well, at least that's one less thing to worry about." You say to yourself and begin the undesirable task of dragging his ass back inside. It's sometime at this point, Kelium begins to rouse from his unconsciousness.

In between the name-calling and laughter by the locals, you manage to get him back to the room where Yvette joins you both.

Kelium has a wicked hang over, but manages to explain what he remembers. He says that after you fell asleep he went out to explore the town and soon found himself in a card game at some place that he can't remember the name of. He claims he was winning and also says that someone must have drugged his drink and robbed him of everything.

"I told you not to go out. You're just lucky that getting robbed blind was all that happened to you." You say.
"Yeah, yeah, fuck. You sound like some old bitch. Shit. My head. Alright fine. Just let me get my spare clothes, and we can go get these fucking eggs." Kelium says.
"Wait, we're going now? Are you in condition to do this? Maybe we should wait a day." Yvette asks.
"I'll be fucking fine! Besides, I just lost all my money. We can't afford to stay here another night. We need to get these eggs today and then get the fuck outta this shitty town."

You don't even ask HOW you're supposed to get back to Klyton if he's lost all his money. Though you've brought a little with you, so you suppose you'll be footing the carriage bill. Like Yvette, you aren't sure if Kelium is in the best condition to go do this, but you're certainly not going to be paying for more time at the inn either, so if he thinks he's good to go, then you are too. Besides, you're going to be happy when this is over with and you're questioning why you ever decided to do this again.

"Adventurous…I should have that drunk Virgil check me for demonic possession." You mutter.

After Kelium gets dressed and gathers his supplies (Which at least he's carrying), the three of you set off on your journey to get these eggs. Unfortunately, its not just a simple matter of sticking to the coast and finding them along the shore, Kelium says you'll probably have to go into a cave seeing as they like to lay their eggs some place dark, wet and safe.

"Um, we have to enter a cave?" Yvette asks.
"Yeah, what's the big deal?" Kelium asks.

What Yvette doesn't answer right away, you step in.

"I think Yvette is a bit uncomfortable with small spaces, especially dark ones crawling with monsters." You say.
"Huh? Well that's just tough because she signed up for this task voluntarily. Nobody held a flintlock to her head. Besides, it's most likely a big open cave given how large blueshell creptians are." Kelium remarks.
"Oh, well that changes everything."

You travel a bit longer until you start climbing up a small hill. Kelium occasionally looks at the ground and tries to find signs of creptians. He seems to know what he's doing, despite his condition, though at this point you're more on the look out of other potential bad types like say bandits or something similar. Meanwhile Yvette looks like she's expecting trouble everywhere since she's looking around constantly.

"Yvette, calm yourself. Out of the three of us, you've probably got the most power here to deal with anything." You say.
"I dunno what you think I can do. I know. I'm not some high mage like in the old stories. As I told you, I'm just starting out and I haven't even been out of the city before."
"Hm, so you can't just summon a ball of flame or shoot lighting?"
"Um…well not what you're probably thinking. I mean maybe I could conjure a small palm sized ball of flame. Not sure if that would take down a Blueshell Creptian though, and it takes all my focus just to do it."
"Better than nothing I suppose."

Suddenly you hear Kelium yelling about something. You were so busy speaking with Yvette you didn't even notice Kelium disappeared…again.

"HEY COME HELP ME! SHIT!" Kelium shouts.

You and Yvette run over to the other side of the hill you were on and see Kelium with his sword in hand and scrambling for cover behind a rock. You also see what you can only guess is a blueshell creptian. It looks exactly how you pictured. A big snail, with big crab like claws and a blue shell.

Nearby the creptian you see a large sloping hole in the ground, you can only imagine that's where it has made its home.

"HEY! MOVE IN MAN! ATTACK!" You hear Kelium shout as a glob of blueshell spit hits the rock he's hiding behind.

You pull out your flintlock and fire at the blueshell and find that the shot doesn't even penetrate its hard shell. In fact it doesn't even turn its attention to you, so far it's just slowly crawling over to Kelium's position.

"Yvette, can you cast some sort of light spell or cause something to glow?" you ask.
"Yeah, but how is that going to help?" Yvette says.
"It'll help me search that cave for the eggs while it's distracted."
"Wait, you're going in there alone? What happens if there's another one in there?"
"Well, I'll be running out of there really quick I guess. You just try to distract that blueshell and when I get the eggs we can all get the hell out of here."
"I dunno, I think maybe we should try to work together to kill the blueshell, then deal with the cave."
"And I don't think we're going to be able to, or at least not with what we got. Look, I'm going to be as quick as I can. All you have to do is stay away from that thing and find some cover. It doesn't move that fast."
"I dunno…"

Obviously Yvette has some doubt about this plan and if she does there's a chance she could panic, but you really don't have confidence in her plan either especially since it means you'd have to get closer or at least aim for a place that isn't armor plated.

You work together

Yvette could be right about another one being in the cave. Even something only half the size as the one you're seeing now wouldn't be good to run into in a cramped area. Plus you'd rather keep one of Gossey's assistant safe this time since it seems like Yvette will just run off without everyone helping.

"Alright, I'm going to try to give that overgrown snail a big hole in its body, in the meantime, you need to start trying every spell you can to kill that thing!" you say.

Still keeping a good distance, you move into a better position where you might actually be able to hit the thing in a soft fleshy area.

You get behind a tree and reload your flintlock as you hear the crackling of lightning and Kelium still shouting for assistance. You fire again at the creature, but once again fail to make any real impact, as it seems to instinctively block your shot with one of its armor plated claws.

Yvette is still casting her little fireballs at it, but that's not having much effect, you yell at her to try something else. However, you're going to have to get closer unfortunately.

You run towards a closer large tree and see Kelium stupidly getting up to move towards you.

"NO! Stay the fuck do…" you start to say and then you're suddenly hit in the side of the head with something half solid, half liquid. You were so busy paying attention to Kelium and making noise, that the creptian spit in your direction and got a solid hit.

The translucent goo now covering half your head is extremely poisonous and takes effect immediately.

You collapse to the ground and begin to feel your whole body seizing up. You attempt to grab your anti-venom in your pack, but it wouldn't do any good even if you weren't practically paralyzed since the poison has already been absorbed into your brain.

The pain is great but mercifully short before you die.