{"id":848,"date":"2000-07-23T02:55:36","date_gmt":"2000-07-23T09:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=848"},"modified":"2000-07-23T02:55:36","modified_gmt":"2000-07-23T09:55:36","slug":"remembering-lorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2000\/07\/remembering-lorian\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Lorian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font><br \/>\nDay 253, Year 538 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>Exploring Fire Island alone is very dangerous.  Actually, exploring <i>anywhere<\/i><br \/>\nalone is dangerous for Mystics, but I somehow find myself doing it<br \/>\nanyway. And so it was that I was exploring the Fire Island, and as it<br \/>\nwere, alone. The southern forests of Fire Island were looking quite<br \/>\nlike they usually did: exciting, breath-taking, beautiful, and 100%<br \/>\nfatal. Needless to say, I soon found myself lying flat on my back,<br \/>\ncounting the clouds in the sky.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>Luckily for me, my clan mate Stryfe was in the<br \/>\nlands, and he soon managed to locate, and raise me. He then gave me a<br \/>\nfew sharp words on how a Mystic shouldn&#8217;t be travelling on his own, and<br \/>\nI nodded obligatorily, and we went our separate ways. I fell again,<br \/>\nshortly thereafter. Once more Stryfe came to my rescue, and once more<br \/>\nhe lectured to me about travelling alone, and once more we went our<br \/>\nseparate ways. Once more, I fell. At this point, Stryfe realized that<br \/>\nthis was not working out, and decided to tag along with me, so he could<br \/>\nheal me as soon as I fell, instead of having to paddle all the way from<br \/>\nPuddleby.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/fifallen.gif\" alt=\"I owe you one, Stryfe\" width=\"286\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>From the southern forests we travelled slowly<br \/>\nnorth-wards, taking in all of the many interesting sights. There were<br \/>\nnarrow mountain passes, barren plains of ash, mysterious craters, and<br \/>\ncountless caves, caverns, and crevices. We passed through all this,<br \/>\nencountering little resistance, but our luck changed when we discovered<br \/>\na cave to the north, filled with bats and snakes. We quickly fled the<br \/>\nbeasts, but they pursued us, even outside the safety of their caves,<br \/>\nand soon, Stryfe and I lay strewn about the rock floor, in the middle<br \/>\nof nowhere. Luckily for us, though, the halfling Iho was in the area,<br \/>\nand he had us back on our feet in no time. And so ended our exploration<br \/>\nof the Fire Island.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/ihoresc.gif\" alt=\"Iho to the rescue\" width=\"192\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 253, Year 538 of the Ascendancy Exploring Fire Island alone is very dangerous. Actually, exploring anywhere alone is dangerous for Mystics, but I somehow find myself doing it anyway. And so it was that I was exploring the Fire Island, and as it were, alone. The southern forests of Fire Island were looking quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}