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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 1548611" data-attributes="member: 9758">Journal of Seth Lochmar - September 13thSeptember 13th, 1002    Yesterday would have been Arvin’s birthday.  Kind of fitting it rained all day.  Almost as if the weather knew just how much he cursed the rain here.  We started out for Loch Mar yesterday.  Fiona had a feeling she needed to go up there.  I’m interested in exploring more of our lands, so I didn’t have a problem with taking the trip.  Simon, Padraic, Tellsford and Lumin also went along on this trip.    On the way up, we were attack by some Bugbears along the trail and, when we had camped for the night, a Dire Lion decided we’d make a good meal.  When we got to the end of the trail, we found a large rock wall with a crack in it large enough to walk through.  Simon decided to try and show off by taking a running leap over the rock wall.  He got about halfway up before he smacked face first into it.  Padraic decided to show him how it was done by pulling out his new cloak and flying up to look around above.  While Padraic was up there, Fiona noticed an Elven figure within the crack in the wall, beckoning her to enter.  When we got closer, we could see that the figure wasn’t quite solid.  He led us up a set of stairs through the rock face into an area with a lake and an A-Frame cabin.  A short while later, Padraic joined us on the other side.  He acted surprised to see all of this, claiming to have just see rock from above.    We explored the A-Frame first.  It was just a simple cabin with another door at the other end of it.  When Tellsford opened it, all he found was water.  It didn’t come flowing out.  It just stayed there where the door had been, as if held back by some force.  Simon decided to poke the water a couple of times. I think that man needs to learn something about tempting fate.  Sure enough, as you’d expect from disturbed waters, something noticed.  Just after I had told him that wasn’t wise, a tentacle came out of the doorway and grabbed hold of Simon.  Padraic acted quickly and moved to shut the door on the tentacle.  Whatever it was, it didn’t seem to like having it’s tentacle crushed by a closing door, because it dropped Simon and retreated back into the water.  It did immediately try and force the door back open, though.  It took four of us on the door to make sure it didn’t reopen.    When we stopped feeling resistance, we quickly moved out of the cabin and towards the water’s edge.  There was a large rock on the beach which Fiona took to stand on while the rest of us stood back.  We were pretty sure we needed to summon whatever was this Lochmar dragon we had read of in Donnel’s diary, but we weren’t sure how.  Tellsford, decided to try his new horn, which I’m guessing he got from Mentahl’s church basement.  As he blew the horn, the noise reverberated off the rock walls surrounding the Loch.  I think they could have heard that all the way down in Caledon Vale.    Everything was still for a few minutes afterwards, as we waited.  Then we started to feel a rumbling in the ground.  As the water stirred, a head emerged.   It certainly didn’t look like a dragon.  A large reptile, definitely, but its skin was smooth and had a long, thin neck, its body was massive, but it had no wings that I could see.  He asked which of us was to be initiated further into the Lochmar clan.  When Fiona said that she was, he asked for a story and a memento to remember the story by.  The creature then bent down so that he and Fiona converse more quietly.  I do not know what went on between the two of them, but Fiona came away from the conversation deep in thought.We’re staying in the A-Frame tonight, posting watches to keep an eye on the door.</blockquote>

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