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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 1545017" data-attributes="member: 9758">Journal Entry of Seth Lochmar - September 5September 5th    Yet another eventful couple of days.  A servant of Arvin’s family arrived with a letter for Arvin and a foal for breeding.  The servant seemed most upset to learn that Arvin was deceased, especially since they had received a letter from him saying he was fine.  Apparently his mother is the worrisome type, to the point of making herself deathly sick.  This is not going to go over well when we get the news to them that Arvin is dead.  Father Clancy believes that a letter in Arvin’s own handwritting would suffice to quell her fears.    There is too much around to fuel my paranoia.  We were attacked in the middle of the night by an Ogre Mage assassin.  He targetted Miriam, and it was only her bracelet from Sandhaven that kept her alive.  Tellsford also almost died in conflict with this creature.  It fled after Fiona started casting spells at it, and we could find no trace of it once it left the manor.  Since then, we’ve taken to sleeping in Galibur’s and Padraic’s rooms with alarm spells up to ward us.    The next day, two carriages and two riders arrived on the land, and were attacked by Hill Giants illusioned to look like Trees.  The driver of one of the carriages got squished by a rock, leaving that carriage unmanned and the horses panicking.  The riders, Mary and Anne McSaven, went off to fight another of the Tree Giants while we worked on taking out another.  Conrad was most gallant, running up, jumping on the runaway carriage, stopping it, then taking down the Tree Giant that was about to kill Mary and Anne.  Of course, that Giant had a rather large hole in it, due to a disintegrate spell cast by one of the passangers in the second carriage.  The first Tree Giant almost took me out before I was able to fell it.  Luckily, Father Clancy had gotten out of the first carriage and moved up to heal me just before it could take another swing on me and drop me.    Geffen Sandhaven and James Bearsden had come to discuss the issue of the frigates.  Big Jim, as he prefered to be called, is a very ostentatious man.  He wears ritzy clothing and a huge diamond ring.  His family, of course, owns the only diamond mine in the area.  He seems far to interested in his own wealth and power.  He also seems to be a man that holds grudges and not someone you should cross lightly.  The two of us didn’t really get along and he had the “it’s my way or the highway” attitude.  I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the one that staged the assassination attempts to try and show that the other side was not playing fair.  Obviously, I do not like the guy.    After they left, and Father Clancy stayed, we dug up Arvin’s body, only to find it missing.  Checking the others, Dancin, Lamard, & Lou’s bodies were also gone.  We have since found out that their corpses were stolen and turned into a hideous type of creature.  What puzzles me is that these creatures are created from extreme torture of the person before death.  If they were all dead, and one must be willing to return, how could this have been done to them.  We are told that some of Troy’s apprentices may still be on the grounds.  They are most likely to blame for this.    We have met the Laird of Highwatch.  An interesting man, and seems trustworthy.  This came about when we were exploring some tunnels that we had found underneath our lands.  Fiona had brought up once seeing something within a hole in the Gardener’s Shed.  We figured they were connected to the meenlocks, so we investigated.  The tunnels are quite small and and winding.    It is very tiring and hard to crawl around in full plate, especially since once you pick a tunnel, there is not enough room to turn around in it.  Anyway, we found a secret burial chamber underneath the shed that was guarded by some strange snakes.  I recognized them as creatures used to guard the graves of nobles and, sure enough, there were some Lochmar corpses further on.  We also ran into a couple of Meenlocks, who attacked us.  When one of them dropped and the rest were injured, the lot of them disappeared the next chance they could.  It was odd, because one of the Meenlocks was missing his left hand.  In a secret compartment along the wall, we found a rather extravagantly decorated sceptor.After visiting the lantern archon for healing I had a short chat with him.  I explained that we had more tunnels to explore to try and find the missing family members.  He explained that, after gaining so many of our memories, it made him want to go out and explore.  He said that he needed a name.  His kind don’t usually have them, but now he wanted one for some reason.  I think some of our humanity rubbed off on him.  He seemed to like the name Lumin, when I suggested it to him.    So Fiona, myself, Constantine, Padraic, and Lumin picked another tunnel, which turned out to be very long.  We crawled for hours, all the way under the Mountain.  It was nighttime before we reached the end of the tunnel.  We were all dirty, standing in the middle of a forest, unsure of exactly where we were.  Lumin made for a nice beacon for a Hippogriff rider to spot us.  He led us back to the Highwatch Manor, where we cleaned up and met Laird Leslie.  He actually seemed glad there was a tunnel between our lands, claiming that building one had been an old plan between the clans.  He gave us lodging for the evening.</blockquote>

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