I've decided to start keeping a journal since in my current situation I don't know if I'll still be alive in an hour.I don't know how long it's been since the tentacle faces brain-sucked the Captain and the crew.Don't even know if anyone other than me managed to escape.Hells, I don't know how I escaped.All I know is that I was waiting to be brain-sucked and then all of a sudden Roger goes crazy and throws a torch at a keg of alchemist's fire.Everything goes black and I wake up lying in a small stream.Now I find myself wandering through some caves.Gods damn,if I don't find some sort of settlement where I can stock up on food or maybe find work I'm as good as dead.Yeah,with my luck the settlement I find will probably be crawling with tentacle faces.*Mal packs up his stuff and mutters something about needing a smoke*

Well I've come across a small city called Sanctuary.The inhabitants are all really busy or really lazy because I've managed to make quite a bit of coin as a delivery boy around town.First thing I'm going to buy is a new axe.I wonder what I'll name her.

I've gotten myself a regular paying job.I'm the bodyguard of a family of nobles.The Fire-somethings.Looks like I'm going to be here quite some time.Damn, can't get my revenge on those tentacle faces if I'm busy guarding these people.Revenge will have to wait,not like I'm going anywhere.

Sanctuary is a mess.Crazy cults,arrogant "peace keeping" wizards,giant metal...things.Who blows up a mausoleum?Honestly that is just stupid.With the exception of the huge market and mass wealth this place turns a bit more like Athkatla every day.Magic is banned except in what they call "warded areas".There is little if any law in their slums."Lower" it is called here.I miss Ari and Karen,my dear sisters.Madison as well.I probably should have been a better uncle to her while I was still in Amn.

So after coming along another of Lady Verisa's Undead Hunts I was promoted to Captain of the Fireguard.My old lieutenant always told me that a soldier should never be honored or thanked for doing what is expected, down here I get promoted.Doesn't really matter anyways, seeing as how I'm the only Fireguard.It's so cold down here...waters are dark and probably full of the things that lurked in my nightmares when I was a child.How many weeks has it been since I've been on a ship anyways?I'll have to travel to the island of the kua toan's one of these days and see if they would consider selling me one of their boats.Theres a big lake down here, who knows how many islands, maybe on one theres a way to get back to the surface.That would be nice, I miss the sun.