The Gorgon thanked Hazard and listened carefully as his guide described the amazing rooms they walked through on the way to his quarters. He very much wanted to touch the massive painting in the entry hall, hearing that it was an oil painting made him overjoyed. Oil painters typically use heavy amounts of paint, leaving an almost texture imprint of what they've created on the canvas. This allowed for the blind to almost see the painting with their fingers, short of color.<br/><br/>As they finally made their way up the elevator and onto the floor with the living quarters, Princess Glory's location became apparent again. The Gorgon smelled her as soon as the elevator doors opened. She was standing out in the hallway in front of her suite, her arms crossed over her ample breasts and one leg propped up against the wall.  "Her pheromones are up, she's obviously in heat." The Gorgon said in a barely audible whispered tone. He had a feeling Hazard's electrically enhanced hearing was almost as good as his own, and didn't doubt that his fellow hero had heard the quip as he felt the man's cybernetic body jiggle with a short laugh.<br/><br/>They man there way past Glory without a word, she only scoffed and pretended to be looking at her manicured fingernails. Hazard showed the Gorgon into the unused suite that he'd be using. The Gorgon released his guide's arm and began to slowly make his way around the room, counting his steps as he went. He felt the soft sheets of the bed, and the cold glass in the window, then made his way to the other side of the room. He located his bathroom and then came back out, hearing that Hazard had seated himself in one of the comfy barcaloungers. The Gorgon then found what he'd been searching for. "Oh thank Mount Olympus, they have a bar!" He said with a deep sigh of relief.<br/><br/>The Gorgon, felt around underneath of the liquor  shelf and came up with three or four different random bottles. To anyone that drank, his combination of these mismatched boozes would have been awful, but that didn't stop him. He reached down and found a large brandy sifter glass and poured them all together, finally taking a big haul off of his nasty looking concoction. "I know, looks gross right? But I can only taste the most extreme things." He said, and to emphasize the point he pulled back his hood and stuck out his tongue, showing Hazard that it too appeared to be made of living stone.<br/><br/>"I suppose since you obliged me with your back story, I too should do the same for you. Where to begin....." He said, pausing briefly to offer Hazard a drink as well. He had a feeling that Hazard would decline, but it was rude not to offer.  "I wasn't always blind, So that's why when you describe colors I can comprehend what your talking about. You see, I was born Jason Vassilakis a regular young Greek kid, I was obsessed with the mythology of my peoples. Every chance I got I was flying over to Greece and going on explorations with my father. He was an archeologist and he specialized in proving that they weren't myths. He actually believed many of the stories weren't just fiction, but actually happened. I too believed it and on our last adventure together, I proved he was correct, but at a terrible cost. I stumbled on to this..." The Gorgon said, and pulled down the neckline of his cloak to reveal a stone snake necklace, it's clasp was the snakes head eating it's own tail.<br/><br/>"You see, I should have just left it be, gone and told my father, but curiosity was always my downfall, and so I picked it up and placed it over my head. Nothing happened, so I skipped back to the camp carefree. It wasn't until I encountered the poor workers stationed in our camp that the horrifying truth of the curse I'd brought upon myself was finally revealed. The men looked up to greet the son of their employer and suddenly were  frozen into statues, just like in the myth of Medusa. I had not idea what was happening, I was only 14 at the time, and so I fled for my father's tent, terrified and hoping he could help. My father heard my frightened calls and sat up to look his poor terrified son's face. I turned my own father into stone, sitting there on his cot. The image with never leave my mind, and I will always carry it with me." The Gorgon said, his voice choked with emotion, he took a brief pause and took another big drink off the his sour drink.<br/><br/>"You could understand how distraught I was, I now understood what Midas must have felt like. I was desperate to get this cursed item off of me, and so I began trying to jerk it off of my head, but the necklace had some how grown tighter since I'd placed it over my head. I looked for a mirror so I could get a better view of it's ominous clasp. It was then that I blinded myself and forever sealed my fate. Now the necklace is forever part of my stone form." He said, showing Hazard that the item was indeed bonded to his stone skin.<br/><br/>"I wandered for a long while, terrified that I might turn someone else to stone. I couldn't return home and tell my mother what I'd done to her loving husband, So I set off in search for a cure. The blindfold seemed to work well enough, as long as no one peered into my milky gaze they were safe. So I attended a school for the blind and learned the ways of my disability. It was there that I found that this vile curse could be used for other purposes. Terrorists, on the run from local authorities, rushed the school one day and took us hostage. They were executing us at one an hour unless the police backed off and got them a helicopter. I had no choice and so I removed my blindfold and set out turning them to stone. It was also at this time I learned that my stone form was bulletproof as one of the terrorists got the drop on me and oped fire. The bullets bounced off me harmlessly and soon he was stone as well. With the revelation of that days events, I decided that my curse could infact be used to help people, and hopefully in some way make amends for what I'd done to my father. I set out on a quest to train my new stone body into a crime fighting machine. Martial Arts training came next, as I found that my stone hands and feet could be quite devastating when used properly.<br/>I even tried out for the Teen Justifiers at one point, but to no avail. I wonder if Princess Glory even remembers me?" He said with a laugh, and then gulped down the rest of his drink.<br/><br/>"Well my internal clock, is telling me that dinner should be soon....Maybe it's time you headed back to your quarter to get dressed, today's events have left me a bit exhausted and I want to get a bit of rest before we convene for the induction ceremonies. Thank you Hazard, thank you for listening, I am glad to have met you and I hope we can become good friends." He finished and listened as Hazard said his farewells and then left for his own quarters.<br/><br/>Little did Hazard know, that someone was waiting for him in his quarters. Princess Glory had snuck in while the two men had been talking. She was laying on Hazard's bed, with only the silken sheets to cover her form. When the door opened she wiggled her finger seductively. "I've had a change of heart seeing how generous you are with the handicapped, Now let me see what you're working with under all that metal, stud!" She cooed.