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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 1535987" data-attributes="member: 9758">Journal Entry of Seth Lochmar - July 26thJuly 26th      We had a run in with a giant poisonous snake.  It took me a couple of days to recover from its venom.  From what the others have told me, we apparently have had more devils living in our manor house.  Padraic, Fiona, & Arvin took on a winged lady who beguiled Fiona.  She seems a bit shaken up from the experience.  The winged lady & her honey have been enslaving people from the free village, it seems.  From what Arvin has told me of her honey, I’m seriously afraid.But anyway, it seems Padraic has done a fair amount of work repairing the damage done with the Druid Sunny.  She sent a messenger to get us.  She had an important mission for us, as she put it.  The Oracle of the White Pines, whatever that is, pretty much told her she shouldn’t do this one herself.  Apparently one of her dryad friends had some friends stolen (rose bushes) and ran off to find them.  Sunny needed us to return the dryad before sundown or she’d die.  Of course, being all city folk, none of us could track.  Sunny lead us to the edge of the forest, the border with Caledon Vale, while her messenger retrieved Kelwyn and our horses.We found out that the Sheriff has an unofficial bounty on Lochmars; two hundred gold a piece.  Oh, how I want to catch him in that.  An ogre that seemed to be trying to take us alive ambushed us.  Could he possibly work with Honey?  Got a nice Greatsword off of him.We ended up at the house of the Huntslord of Caledon Vale, though we didn’t know it. With all the plants around, I think he was either a druid or a ranger, though I can’t be sure which.  His little Goblinoid things affected the minds of everyone but Padraic and myself.  I’m not sure what they did, but my family members were acting very strangely.  While searching around, the Huntslord came down from upstairs, ready for battle.  He was very furry; a werewolf.  He had on some weird, horned hide armor and wielded a longspear.  Seeing Nio-lu near where Lorna the Dryad was being kept, he charged the unaware man, skewering him and nailing him to the wall.  He never even had a chance to look his killer in the eye.  The man’s pet, a wolverine, came at me while Padraic tumbled in to trade blows with this Marcus Caledon.  While I probably should have stayed and dealt with the wolverine, I figured it was a very bad idea to hit it, since those things get REALLY angry if attacked, I’m told.I charged in to try and knock out Marcus, but he skewered me like a pig on a spit and everything went black.  The next thing I saw was Arvin was standing over me while Fiona was talking to Marcus.  Padraic used the last of his healing magic upon me, so that I would remain conscious when Arvin’s temporary healing wore off.  Padraic made his way out to the horses and collapsed back into unconsciousness.  Thankfully, he had thought to make sure he wouldn’t die from his wounds before hand.  Looking around, I could see Lamard was also dead, over where myself, Fiona, himself, and the wolverine had been.  Fiona later told me that Lamard sacrificed himself to protect her, stepping between the wolverine and herself.  He is a true gentleman.  I could tell that Arvin was twitching to take down this Huntslord, so we had to get him out of the house quick.  If he had attacked, we surely would have all died.  I’m not sure that was effectively holding him back.  Given a few more seconds, I’m sure he would have attacked Marcus anyway.Fiona seemed to have Marcus well under her spell and was able to get Lorna and her friends back from him.  Lorna was to be used in a meal, though I do not know who was going to partake in the feast.  For some reason, I hope it would have just been the goblins, but I’m not sure.With speed being the issue, I took Lorna and one of the horses and rode hard back to the dryad’s tree.  After she was back in her tree, I told Sunny of what had transpired in our journey.  The others arrived a while later, slowed down by four rose bushes, two corpses, and not enough horses for the lot of them.It’s kind of weird to see Lamard as a Centaur now, but we are all very grateful that Sunny reincarnated him.  He has decided to stick around with Sunny for a while, to get used to his new body.  Perhaps she can teach him a little about the forest while he’s there.</blockquote>

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