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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 1538005" data-attributes="member: 9758">Journal Entry of Seth Lochmar - August 4thAugust 4th    It has been a busy couple of days.  Geffen Sandhaven, the Laird of Clan Sandhaven, visited us.  Friendly man looking for strong allies.  Apparently history repeated itself in misfortune because, when he visited the clan for the first time with the last group, he was murdered by agents of Risenson, in an effort to frame the family.  At least the last Lochmars had the means to Raise the poor man (and I do mean raise and not animate).  No corpse, no crime.  Well.. this time, he was captured by the skulks that worked for “Honey.”  Accompanying us on our mission of rescue were two new arrivals for the family, along with Mary and Anne McSaven, redheaded twin tenants of the Sandhavens.    Cyrus Lochmar, Lamard’s brother, are complete opposites.  Where Lamard is a lover and a diplomat, Cyrus is a fighter and a jerk.  He managed to insult the McSavens several times in the course our conversation with them.  He is, however, very good with his sword.  The skulks stood no chance against his cleaving sword.    Conrad Lochmar is kind of Galibur with a work ethic.  He flees in fights a lot, but is good at finding the traps laid out by the former inhabitants.    The search for Honey’s base was mostly not fraught with peril.  However, I did think we were dead, or worse, slaves when we ran into a pair of Mind Flayers while we were dealing with some Hobgoblins.  For some reason, those of us with the gift of the gab, namely Conrad and Arvin, went off to fight the Hobgoblins, leaving myself and Fiona to talk our way out of the situation with the Mind Flayers.  Lucky for all of us, Fiona was very persuasive.The confrontation with Honey was tough going.  Between him, his hound, and one of his buyers, we had our hands full.  It seems that Geffen’s abduction was just a ploy to get me down there.  Near the beginning of the fight, I moved in to take out Honey.  Unfortunately, he was very wicked with his Urgosh.  A hit when I approached and another shortly after and I went down once again.  I woke up some time later to Cyrus pouring a bottle of healing wine down my throat.  The buzz I felt wasn’t just from its curative ability.  Stepping back, I quickly healed myself some more before rejoining the fight.  Honey was on his last legs, his pooch was dead, and the buyer was chasing Fiona around the lower half of the room.  After Honey got knocked out, I forced him to drink a vial of acid, taking him out for good.  The buyer soon followed.As expected, we were all, with the exception of Fiona, seriously hurt.  Arvin, however, laid dead on the ground.  I know that is not right to say such things, but I cannot say that I feel much remorse at his passing.  The two of us never got along and a major confrontation between us would have happened eventually.We found Geffen, along with several others that were taken as slaves, and limped our way back out.</blockquote>

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