Chillin' in my apartment when a little girl (who I thought was selling cookies) asked me if I wanted to "risk my life fore superpowers". Of course I agreed and the next thing I knew I woke up on my back outdoors somewhere. There was a GORGEOUS naked girl there who told me, this steam punk dude Hugo, and some guy who I think was named Thirston or something to capture two unusual animals, even though there were three of us, so it seems someone would go unrewarded.
We headed south towards an outpost and Hugo lent me a "lightning pistol". I never got to use it, though. We bought some rope and a couple hamocks to use as nets. Then we heard a gunshot, Hugo sighed and I asked if it was that one guy and should we go help him, but Hugo reminded me we didn't need to make it known we knew who he was. I thought that was smart thinking.
We headed into the woods and heard something coughing. We went to investigate but the clearing we found was empty. Then we heard some chickens and went to go find them. As SOON as we entered the clearing I scanned the flock and locked eyes with what else but a real, live cokatrice! On the one hand, this is awesome because it means mythological and supernatural shit like this is actually real and I've got first-hand experience. On the other, cockatrices petrify predators by looking at them in the eye. Now my ear is marble and I have weird veins of stone crawling towards my forehead.
We chased after it, I used my cell phone's camera as Perseus' shield and managed to corner it. However, it freaked out and started clawing at my face. Hugo subdued it and wrapped it in a hammock and we headed back towards the other guy. He was WAY injured and Hugo went to patch him up a little, he was sitting on a trunk by this bound lion/hyena thing and the ground was littered with corpses. Strangely, not the weirdest thing I'd seen that day.
We went back to rendezvous with the girl and Hugo offered to let me take the reward for capturing the cockatrice and now it seems I emanate some sort of anti-magic field.
Dope.